Youtube comments of (@titteryenot4524).

  1. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  2. Yeah, but Russia repeatedly said it wouldn’t invade Ukraine in the first place, so not sure how much we can believe that one. 😐
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  3. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  4. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The wider political class will ignore this issue at their peril.
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  5. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The wider political class will ignore this issue at their peril.
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  6. The explanation is that many ordinary European people have had enough of uncontrolled mass immigration.
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  7. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  8. 1:45 The guy with the ‘fastest hands in the world’ also has the deadliest thousand-yard stare in the world! 👁 👁
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  9. Finland: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland: “We want to join NATO even more.”
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  10. What’s been bizarre throughout this whole war is how Russia complains every time Ukraine counter-attacks. It’s a war; your opponent isn’t just going to sit there and take it. In a boxing match, last time I checked, both parties are allowed to throw punches.
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  11. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  12. Prigozhin’s even crazier than I thought. There’s only one thing even more suicidal than marching on Moscow and that’s turning back.
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  13. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ to criticise Islam. Ever. Islam is a bunch of ideas, like any other manmade philosophy. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticising these peoples’ race. That would be stupid. No one chooses their race. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that.
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  14. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  15. These North Korean troops are just utterly Seoulless.
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  16. She’s clearly inSeine.
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  17. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. Specifically, the Tory Party! 🎉
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  18. Sounds sensible. After all, no one has ever lain on their deathbed saying: “Man, I regret that extra 8 hours I didn’t put in at the office.”
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  19. Sensible decision. Allowing trans women to compete in biologically female categories is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league.
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  20. My take on all this is rather simple: if you’re an illegal, you can go; if you’re a genuine refugee, you can stay; if you’re any one of these and complaining about the accommodation, as long as you are safe, have food, and have a bed, I have no sympathy.
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  21. Oh. I get it. They were going to call this one ‘Disease Twitter’ but had a last-minute change of mind. 👍
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  22. Perfectly understandable. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  23. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  24. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  25. 2:00 Rumour has it that shoe has just been sold for $10,000,000 👞
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  26. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig)
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  27. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  28. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory.
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  29. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory.
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  30. They could pay me $1,000,000 and that still wouldn’t motivate me to fight for Putin.
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  31. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory.
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  32. 1 year anniversary, huh? This 3-day war must be the longest 3-day war in military history!
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  33. Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more !”
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  34. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The end.
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  35. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  36. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  37. This must be a devastating loss for the Russian space program. Apparently, Putin had serious plans to build a fully manned base on the moon. The idea was that astronauts would live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said: “No. That's why we want to go to the moon." 🌚
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  38. I’m pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country and obviously pro accepting genuine asylum seekers/refugees. However, the chaos we have seen these past 5 years (at least) whereby millions of (mainly economic) migrants try to essentially ‘break into’ Europe is unacceptable to the vast majority of Europeans. If the powers that be don’t get a proper grip of this issue, it’s no exaggeration to say that a substantial proportion of Europeans will be not just voting for vaguely right of centre parties, but fully right of centre parties.
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  39. This happens in all the big touristy places: Venice; Barcelona; Paris; Edinburgh etc. Not just a Majorcan thing. It’s just about creating housing laws in each place where the permanent local is put before the passing tourist.
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  40. Allowing trans women to compete in women’s sporting categories is like allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  41. These accusations by Canada could very well be “absurd” as the Indians say, but on the other hand they could be Trudeau.
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  42. To be fair, at this point, Biden ‘reacting’ to anything is a bit of a stretch.
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  43. Breaking News: “World’s second most powerful army takes 15 months to capture small mining town of no strategic importance.” At this rate, they should have Kiev by at least 2089.
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  44. Frankly, Israel should be surprised by none of this. I don’t particularly support any side here, but what can be observed is a 75-year-long ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year on year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket, old boy! Last time I checked, in a boxing match both sides were allowed to throw punches. In these kinds of seemingly intractable situations, I always flip it: how would the Israelis feel if the boot were on the other foot and it was they who were living in the conditions the average Palestinian is (and has been for decades) living in? They’d be fighting back. Fighting for dignity and freedom. A 2-state solution is the only way here. Of course, with this, the nitty-gritty will be who gets custody of the car and who gets custody of the cat.
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  45. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  46. Interesting thing is that Labour have literally had to do nothing in all this. The Tory turmoil is totally self-inflicted.
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  47. “I wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes.” Er, that’s exactly what you were trying to do given you lied about it for 3 years. 👍
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  48. For the life of me, I’ve never understood why the State, or anyone else for that matter, should be interfering with what 2 consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own space. Utterly bizarre.
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  49. I love how out of all the organised religions, Islam seems to demand the most respect for its values on the one hand (on pain of possible death for not doing so), yet is the least likely to give respect for others’ values on the other hand.
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  50. Officially declared a ‘white Christmas’ for whom? The lone nutter who decided to scale Ben Nevis today and saw 3 flakes of snow? Ok. Gotcha! 👌
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  51. Russia: “I reserve the right to hit anywhere in Ukraine I want.” Also Russia: “If you hit me I will tell my mummy on you.” 🤷‍♂️
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  52. Breaking News: Harry and Meghan are in early negotiations with Netflix on a modern update of that old Steve McQueen car-chase classic, Bullitt. This one’s to be called Bullshitt. 🚗
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  53. This whole thing is a bit like watching a guy in the school playground you’re neither here nor there about, getting a kicking by the school bully who mostly everyone hates; but because you are not in the friendship group of the victim you are happy to stand and watch, and occasionally try to trip up the bully if he comes near you.
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  54. I’m pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country and obviously pro accepting genuine asylum seekers/refugees. However, the chaos we have seen these past 5 years (at least) whereby millions of (mainly economic) migrants try to essentially ‘break into’ Europe is unacceptable to the vast majority of Europeans. If the powers that be don’t get a proper grip of this issue, it’s no exaggeration to say that a substantial proportion of Europeans will be not just voting for vaguely right of centre parties, but fully right of centre parties.
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  55. “Welcome to the US: we are seriously considering arming our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police!” 👮‍♀️
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  56. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  57. 0:10 Incontinental Airlines? 😮
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  58. So the Bushes, Clintons and Tony Blair knock on Putin’s door. “Hey, Vlad, we’re here to perform a citizen’s arrest for war crimes.” Putin: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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  59. What’s been bizarre throughout this whole war is how Russia complains every time Ukraine counter-attacks. It’s a war; your opponent isn’t just going to sit there and take it. In a boxing match, last time I checked, both parties are allowed to throw punches.
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  60. Even in Italy they don’t rotate Prime Ministers as quickly as this! 😂
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  61. To be fair to Liz, she lasted 44 days more than I expected her to.
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  62. I’d be delighted and excited if Trump were cited and indicted, for he’s like the benighted guest at the party no one invited, so let the indictment be expedited.
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  63. Never mind having 100 backers; Sunak, or anyone else wanting to be PM, needs several million backers. These Tories really need to get the message. Everyone, but them, is demanding an election, and now!
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  64. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  65. Welcome to Rishi’s Brave New World of “integrity, professionalism, and accountability at every level.” 🤦‍♂️
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  66. Well, tbf, you can’t really cut taxes and raise services, but you can cut services and still raise taxes. It’s called ‘corruption’.
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  67. There was a point passed weeks ago when ‘Israeli self-defence’ began to look like all-out offence on the Palestinian people. No one is fooled by this. There are people who agree with it and there are people who disagree with it, but no one is fooled by it.
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  68. Imagine letting just about anyone who wants a gun have a gun… 🤦‍♂️
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  69. Finland: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland: “We want to join NATO even more !” 😱
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  70. If I were a teacher and wanted to show my students a perfect demonstration of pure, undiluted self-righteous condescension and patronising attitude it would be Tessa Dunlop here. Her unmistakable underlying tone is the oh-so-common sinister tone taken by so many of her ilk these days: ‘I am right, you are wrong. Agree with me or else.’
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  71. ‘Life sentences’ is always a misnomer. If something’s called a ‘life sentence’, you should be in prison until you die.
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  72. I’ve heard of shoplifters, but this is an actual case of shoplifting!
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  73. Lol. The interpreter was really getting into character there.
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  74. Her title has just changed. Suella Braverman is now officially the ‘Go Home Secretary’.
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  75. Yeah, the French are quite strict about this stuff and maintaining secularism in public spaces. When I was living there, I briefly converted to Sithism and they threw me out of public school because I insisted on turning up in my Darth Vader outfit.
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  76. Russia: “We want Crimea and the Donbas permanently.” Ukraine: “Ok, if you give us Moscow and St Petersburg, we’ll think about it.”
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  77. It’s just a tit-for-tat balloon thing. It’s important not to blow things out of all proportion here. 🎈
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  78. Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more !”
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  79. It was Lucretius who said: “To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.” Regarding this, I am in full agreement with him. What he forgot to address was what humans fear most: not that we die, but how we die.
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  80. Never mind having 100 backers; Sunak, or anyone else wanting to be PM, needs several million backers. These Tories really need to get the message. Everyone, but them, is demanding an election, and now!
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  81. Europe should really be doing this with illegals who come here. I’m all for supporting/providing safety for genuine refugees fleeing war/persecution, but illegal economic migrants chancing their arm should get the message that if they don’t go through the proper legal channels with the correct documentation they will be arrested and deported.
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  82. “When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman ... then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.” (JK Rowling)
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  83. Expand military operations? To where? The sea? The sky? Last time I checked Israel had hit just about everything on the ground in Gaza.
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  84. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)
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  85. Nothing to do with ‘zero Covid’; everything to do with control.
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  86. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  87. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  88. Why is it that everything has to be remade in the image of a small minority these days? Back in the day, if something offended you, you turned it off, or walked out, or stopped reading it. When are we going to stop pandering to those who appear to think they can set the terms and conditions for everybody else?
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  89. ‘Total victory’? Netanyahu is severely deluded if he thinks this. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can physically get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the metaphysical ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  90. Harry epitomises the saying, ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ He’s been ruined by not actually having to work for a living.
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  91. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  92. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The wider political class will ignore this issue at their peril.
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  93. The world has always been a ‘scary place’. No one gets outta here alive. 👍
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  94. @0:01-0:22 This nonsense epitomises Thomas Jefferson’s observation: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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  95. Jesus, can you imagine the stuff that must have gone on before body-cams?! 🙄
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  96. Well, of course. After all, imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ✌️
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  97. Investigating whether Johnson misled Parliament is like investigating whether Jimmy Savile had ‘childcare issues’.
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  98. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  99. Interesting thing is that Labour have literally had to do nothing in all this. The Tory turmoil is totally self-inflicted.
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  100. Given that the average number of commercial flights per day is 97,439, it’s quite remarkable these types of incident are vanishingly rare.
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  101. What I’ve always found odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ Given these rather basic needs, why are we still here killing each other over nothing? 🤦‍♂️
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  102. “When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman ... then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.” (JK Rowling)
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  103. When they get round to burying him, never will the epitaph ring so true: Here LIES Boris Johnson 🪦
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  104. Euston, we have a problem. 🚂
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  105. This must be one of the fakest-looking YouTube videos that isn’t actually a fake. The way he looks at the camera filming before placing his phone. The stilted, actorish way the woman filming him speaks. The only thing that really convinced me this was actually real was checking out the details to see if this dude actually existed and did what he did. It appears he does and did.
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  106. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  107. Thing about Islam is that the 2 main branches, Sunni and Shia, hate each other, so why do we expect them to live in Europe and not hate Europeans, too? 🤷‍♂️
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  108. Sensible decision. Allowing trans women to compete in biologically female categories is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league.
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  109. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  110. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  111. This type of thing has become so normalised in the USA it seems, that I’m vaguely shocked when one of these mass gatherings happens without a shooting of some kind.
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  112. That’s ok, Boris. Most of the rest of us abandoned your bid to return as Prime Minister some time ago!😂
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  113. “The company has had to consider a range of different options to drastically reduce costs.” ~ Willing to bet this guy won’t be taking any pay cuts to ‘drastically reduce costs.’
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  114. The many forklift drivers around the world must be feeling this is unpalletable.
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  115. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  116. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  117. Welcome to Rishi’s Brave New World of “integrity, professionalism, and accountability at every level.” 🤦‍♂️
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  118. “People’s tax affairs are ‘private matters’.” Except when they aren’t!🤣
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  119. Miles Routledge? Just amazed that in this day and age he hasn’t gone metric.
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  120. Al Jazeera was just telling Netanyahu what he didn’t want to hear, and like a child he puts his fingers in his ears by censoring the channel. If he really thought they were talking crap, he’d have no problem. The fact he shuts them down betrays that he feels they are talking some truth. As Orwell said: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’
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  121. To be fair to Liz, she lasted 44 days more than I expected her to.
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  122. What often gets lost in this debate over anti-Semitism is the important distinction between not digging the State of Israel and certain of its policies, and not having any particular issue whatsoever with Jews and Judaism itself. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been called an anti-Semite for simply voicing an opinion against Israel’s behaviour in certain regards. However, what Abbott wrote was, at best, insensitive and at worst deeply offensive.
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  123. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  124. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  125. If these are eventually handed back then, if we’re being consistent, every ‘looted’ object in every museum on the planet needs to be returned to where it was looted from.
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  126. The only ‘awkward moment’ is Sky deciding to post this as ‘news’.
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  127. Well, on the bright side for Ukraine, this should make the Russian tanks more visible at night as they’ll all be glowing in the dark!
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  128. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  129. Here’s the deal with the UK, and I say this a Brit: if we had the weather, more effort would be made with places like Clacton. That said, I’ve been to literally hundreds of small-town places on the Spanish/French/Italian coast and when the sun ain’t shining, they are just as depressing as Clacton!
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  130. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or ‘hate-speech’ to criticise Islam. Ever. Islam is a bunch of ideas, like any other manmade philosophy. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races, white, black, brown and everything in between. No one is criticising these peoples’ race. That would be stupid. No one chooses their race. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that.
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  131. Why shouldn’t Ukraine be allowed to directly hit Moscow? Russia has been directly hitting Kyiv since day 1 of this war. What’s always been a bit mystifying in this conflict is how Putin/Russia get all hoity toity when they experience a direct hit on their land, yet they are seemingly allowed to hit Ukraine with impunity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both fighters are allowed to throw punches.
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  132. So the Bushes, Clintons and Tony Blair knock on Putin’s door. “Hey, Vlad, we’re here to perform a citizen’s arrest for war crimes.” Putin: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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  133. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race, religion and language, with some key add-ons. Serbia and Russia have a long history of close ties due to their shared Slavic and Orthodox heritage. The Serbian language is also closely connected to Russian. You could argue this is fairly similar to the Russian/Ukraine situation but what makes Serbia different is how the West/Nato is seen by the respective players. The most recent political alliance between Serbia and Russia is founded on a deep sense of resentment toward Nato for its role in the establishment of new republics that were a part of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, namely Kosovo and Ukraine. Putin and Vučić argue that Serbia and Russia have been wrongly portrayed as aggressors when they are only trying to protect their ethnic brothers. Trouble is, that in the case of Ukraine, unlike Serbia, the vast majority of the populace look west, not east for their political/cultural cues. Putin’s fatal mistake from day 1 of this conflict was to seriously overestimate just how much his ‘Ukrainian Slavic cousins’ would be receptive to his aggressive intrusion. I have dozens of cousins and a fair few of them I don’t get on with.
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  134. This thing isn’t necessarily about immigration per se: it’s about Islamic immigration.
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  135. Genuinely feel like I’m on the wrong planet when fellow human beings hate/abuse on someone in a wheelchair, or someone with a white stick, or someone with only one arm and a leg. Why? What’s the problem? Why do you feel the need to be nasty? Are you so weak yourself that you need to pick on someone with a perceived visible weakness? Really? Just don’t get it. It’s just the school bullying thing carried on into the adult world.
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  136. Always found it crazy that those, arguably, most invested in the existence of Israel don’t have to defend it. If anything, they should be on the frontline before anyone else.
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  137. 6 times?! Braverman should be made the ‘Sent Home With a P45 Secretary’.
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  138. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  139. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  140. Lol. I wasn’t aware the ‘magic’ was ever there !🤣
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  141. Until the UK and Ireland say to people arriving on their shores, “you will be deported, unless you can categorically prove you are a genuine asylum seeker”, then this stuff will just continue. It’s not rocket science: if I can walk into your house, and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then what do you expect?
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  142. I’m indifferent to Harry. Instinct tells me he’s better off out of the Royal Family. However, just wish he’d get a proper job and stop living off the name of his (disowned) accident of birth. You either accept your accident of birth and play the game, or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways. Harry’s issue is that he’s trying to have it both ways. It won’t wash.
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  143. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox: the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde)
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  144. I’m not for the nanny state in general, but I’m 100% for banning phones in schools during lessons. It’s just a no-brainer. Why it’s even a debate is a mystery.
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  145. If there were such a thing as a bye-bye-election, I’d vote for Boris every day of the week! 👋
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  146. Europe’s a soft touch. The reason these (economic) migrants wouldn’t dare do this in loads of other countries, is they know they’d be turfed out immediately. I have no issue with intaking genuine refugees/asylum seekers; what is intolerable is the chaotic free-for-all that Europe has been experiencing for the past 5 years, at least.
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  147. Well, on the bright side, Morrison could have a career in playing rugby in the local under-12s league.
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  148. One day we’ll get to a point where the gender of an elected president anywhere just won’t be news.
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  149. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  150. Hope Odesa doesn’t get completely mashed. One of the tragedies of war, aside from the obvious human cost, is the loss of beautiful old cities and towns, which once gone, are never to return and are invariably replaced with horrendous modern architectural monstrosities (eg. Marseille, Le Havre, Hamburg, Portsmouth etc.). Odesa is one of Ukraine’s gems. Please let the war gods spare it.
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  151. The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde)
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  152. What amazed me most about this story is how (as someone with mild claustrophobia who is in a slight panic every time I step into an elevator) people can not only agree to be bolted into what is essentially a tiny cabin, but to then descend 3,800m under the sea with all the obvious danger that entails. It’s similar going up, too; I’m in awe of those astronauts who strap themselves into a rocket to spend 6 months at a Space Station where at any moment, something catastrophic could go wrong. RIP.
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  153. This whole ‘Partygate’ thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  154. Is this how Musk heils a cab from his preferred car hire: Uber Über Alles? 🚖
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  155. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  156. What’s always been a bit mystifying in this conflict is how Putin/Russia get all hoity toity when they experience a direct hit on their land, yet they are seemingly allowed to hit Ukraine with impunity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both fighters are allowed to throw punches.
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  157. Imagine someone invading your home, occupying it, while you do your best to contain the invader for the best part of a year within your 4 walls, not retaliating like for like by directly attacking the home of your invaders. At this point, a severely weakened Russia needs a good taste of its own medicine. Bullies, in my experience, more often than not back down when they are properly stood up to. Taking them on on their own territory reinforces this message. Ukraine should be upping their offensive directly on Russian soil.
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  158. Sue Gray writing a report on this Tory government is a bit like a defendant colluding with the judge before the verdict is passed.
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  159. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. (W Wordsworth)
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  160. “Will Boris Johnson be next PM?” Well, if he is, the Tories will be even more hammered in the next GE. Not sure they realise just how much anger and resentment they have created in the electorate. I say that as a non-Labour supporter.
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  161. Remember: whatever Johnson says, the opposite is true.
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  162. Frankly, Israel should be surprised by none of this. I don’t particularly support any side here, but what can be observed is a 75-year-long ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year on year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket, old boy! Last time I checked, in a boxing match both sides were allowed to throw punches. In these kinds of seemingly intractable situations, I always flip it: how would the Israelis feel if the boot were on the other foot and it was they who were living in the conditions the average Palestinian is (and has been for decades) living in? They’d be fighting back. Fighting for dignity and freedom. A 2-state solution is the only way here. Of course, with this, the nitty-gritty will be who gets custody of the car and who gets custody of the cat.
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  163. Until the UK and Ireland say to people arriving on their shores, “you will be deported, unless you can categorically prove you are a genuine asylum seeker”, then this stuff will just continue. It’s not rocket science: if I can walk into your house, and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then what do you expect?
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  164. Perhaps Russia’s biggest mistake in this whole sorry conflict, was to totally underestimate the power of home advantage. The Russians may have the big guns, but the Ukrainians seem to have the bigger, braver hearts.
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  165. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  166. “The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.” (Aldous Huxley ~ Brave New World)
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  167. Dude was apparently from Cologne. He spoke with a distinctive axescent.
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  168. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  169. Well, suddenly Blaise Pascal’s words seem spot-on: “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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  170. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. (Mark Twain)
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  171. Newman: ‘So you’re saying that …’ Peterson: ‘No. You’re saying that I’m saying that.’
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  172. What, £730 million Rishi? That Rishi? Yeah, he’s totally in touch with ‘ordinary people’. This is a man whose swimming pools cost more to heat per year than the average salary.
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  173. That’s the difference between Germany and America: man receives 217 Covid shots vs man gives 217 gunshots.
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  174. Hate to say this, but with dairy/nut allergies, if you consume anything that is made on the premises and not labelled you’re essentially playing Russian roulette with your life. If I had this condition I would never consume any product in such a manner. If I had a dairy allergy, every time I bought a coffee I would either have it black or make damn sure I actually see the barista adding soy/oat milk, not actual milk, before I drank it, and even then there’s a risk with dairy traces on cups.
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  175. Kelin looks like he’s been killin’ the Smirnoff, and let’s face it, if you were Putin’s spokesperson, you’d be necking the vodka, too!
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  176. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  177. It was always gonna be a Rocky marriage.
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  178. No royalist but feel a bit for Wills. As Shakespeare said: When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
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  179. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “Of course. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them!” 🥾
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  180. Just watched a report on the BBC where the reporter was wringing his hands asking “What could have caused this?” Well, how about following a medieval book, the Quran, which has 123 verses that call for fighting and killing anyone who does not agree with the statement, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” Jews and Christians are specifically included among such “infidels.” The Quran’s Sura 5:33 says about infidels, “They shall be slain or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off.” Sura 9:5 says, “Slay the infidels wherever you find them ... and lie in wait for them ... and establish every stratagem (of war against them).” Sura 47:4-9 promises paradise to whoever cuts off the head of an infidel. Here’s the difference: back in the day Christians followed the Bible to the letter, more or less. However, Europe underwent an Enlightenment 250 years ago and literal readings of Biblical scripture gave way to more nuanced interpretations. That hasn’t happened with Islam. No Reformation. No Enlightenment. Just a billion people willing to take a primitive, manmade text at face value and to the letter.
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  181. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The wider political class will ignore this issue at their peril.
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  182. If people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. 🤦‍♂️
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  183. He’s a man worth £730 million, making him wealthier than King Charlie, and is on record as saying he’s keen on siphoning money away from poorer areas to wealthier areas. I’m sure he’ll be just fine for the ordinary person.👍
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  184. ‘Even more hellish’?! Can this possibly get any worse? As Aldous Huxley said: Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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  185. This form of censorship, unchecked, leads ineluctably to the the ultimate form of censorship, where you not only do away with the book you disagree with, but you do away with the writer of the book you disagree with.
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  186. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  187. These accusations by Canada could very well be “absurd” as the Indians say, but on the other hand they could be Trudeau.
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  188. Way this world is going lately, China may soon be sending its own pilots to the UK to teach us all a lesson.
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  189. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  190. Given that the average number of commercial flights per day is 97,439, it’s quite remarkable these types of incident are vanishingly rare.
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  191. If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it forever. There’s something to be said for gradualism.
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  192. Only about 5 months too late.
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  193. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig)
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  194. He makes Liz Truss look like the most dynamic, charismatic public speaker in history!
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  195. 🛸 If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  196. Well, folks, it’s been nice knowing ya! 👍😩
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  197. Perhaps Russia’s biggest mistake in this whole sorry conflict, was to totally underestimate the power of home advantage. The Russians may have the big guns, but the Ukrainians seem to have the bigger, braver hearts.
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  198. Allowing trans-women to compete in biological women’s events is a bit like letting an adult football team compete in an Under-14’s League.
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  199. Of course, it’s never been an even playing field financially, but the disparities between the richest and poorest teams are starker than ever, and if you look at the stats for who comes where in the Premier League, it’s consistently the wealthiest who fill the top spots, with teams like Leicester being very rare anomalies. Money’s rules and money rules.
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  200. As someone neutral here, what Hamas did was heinous, barbaric and brutal but what Israel is doing to tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians is also heinous, barbaric and brutal. What seems a little bizarre throughout is the fact Israel appears to see itself as wholly innocent here and not culpable in any way at all. Nothing justifies what Hamas did but given 56 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory it was hardly unpredictable.
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  201. Humans are very often sickening. This is why I never wear an expensive watch and carry an alarm clock everywhere I go. That way, if the thieves want my clock, I can sound the alarm! ⏰
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  202. They told me 🇪🇸 Spanish was going to be easier than 🇫🇷 French for a native English-speaker, and in many ways it is (‘say what you see’; easier pronunciation etc), but the one thing they didn’t tell me was the wider use of the subjunctive! This took me a goodly while to master.
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  203. Tbh, there was always something fishy about Sturgeon.
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  204. Issue here is potentially pumping salty seawater into a manmade freshwater lake. What’s more important: preserving ecosystem of manmade lake or preserving smooth flow of world trade? However, the real thing that complicates this issue is that the lake contributes a good percentage of Panama’s clean drinking water. Tricky.
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  205. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  206. 1:03 Lol. Before his head fell off I actually thought this was a real person! 😂 🎅
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  207. Russia’s reaction to this is odd; it’s as if in a boxing match only one guy is allowed to throw the front-foot punches past the other guy’s defences; that’s not a fair match; that’s being voluntarily used as a punchbag.
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  208. Here’s the difference, as it stands: if I were a famous public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Krishna, or Buddha, or Moses, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, very likely nothing would happen to me. However, if I publicly lambasted Muhammad, I’d be very likely forced to watch my back for the rest of my life. Just ask Salman Rushdie (and this teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture!) Islam’s intolerance to criticism is anathema. As an agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  209. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  210. There are about hundred more things since October 7th that Netanyahu might describe as a ‘tragic mistake’. How many more ‘tragic mistakes’ is too many ‘tragic mistakes’?
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  211. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation.
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  212. At this point, not sure why they haven’t fitted a revolving front door to Number 10.
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  213. ‘Total victory’? Get a grip, Benji. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  214. With each passing day, Israel’s claim that this is just about ‘self-defence’ looks increasingly tenuous. Thousands of people starved, maimed and killed: trouble is, they are the wrong people. If my next-door neighbour attacked my family while I wasn’t looking, my instinct would be to go after him, but I certainly wouldn’t attack his totally innocent wife and children, even if he were hiding behind them.
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  215. Alabama Supreme Court: “Embryos are children.” Alabama Hospitals: “Come collect your children, this is not daycare!”
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  216. A 2-hour car chase in Manhattan with top speeds reaching 3mph! By the end of it they just reached the Bronx! 🚗 🐌
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  217. @1:55 “This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.” 🤣
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  218. Looks like that “world’s best sonar tech” may need an upgrade. Unless, of course, some wicked individual dumped her body after the search. What I don’t get is that this body was found 1 mile from the bench where Nicola’s phone was found. Mr Faulding, the sonar guy, told us: “It can generally cover about 10 miles of river a day” . I know the search was fairly close to the bench, but given they can cover 10 miles in a day and they searched for 3 full days, it would be the height of negligence not to have covered the area the body was found.
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  219. All this Trump talk of taking Greenland (and Canada) not only freaks out Canadians and Greenlanders, it freaks out so many Americans themselves as they are forced to confront their greatest ever adversary: Geography! 🗺
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  220. Welcome to the US: “We are seriously considering arming our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK: “We don’t even arm most of our police!” 👮‍♂️
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  221. They should be confident. After all, imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ✌️
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  222. I don’t smoke; never smoked, but if part of the argument here is the costs of fixing the health fallout from smoking, then I can genuinely foresee a time when the next thing they’ll be banning will be alcohol on the same basis. 🍷
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  223. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  224. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  225. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  226. For me, so far the Russians seem to have been fighting with medieval weaponry; they have the arsenal to step it up as and when they please (chemical, biological, nuclear), so I would be quite surprised they’d be leaning on China for military support at this relatively early stage. Does make you think, though: if this war were to be guaranteed to be limited to conventional weapons (an impossibility, of course), then NATO/USA could probably quite literally take Russia out in a day or two. Now if only we clever humans hadn’t been so bright as to invent something as dastardly as the nuclear bomb … 🤔
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  227. The explanation for this is that many ordinary European people have had enough of mass immigration.
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  228. “Will Boris Johnson stand for Prime Minister again?” Of course. However, most of the rest of the country won’t stand for Boris Johnson as Prime Minister again.
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  229. Truth is, most regular people do value other people. It’s the system that doesn’t value people.
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  230. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the one I currently have the least time for is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the only one that demands most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  231. As a centrist liberal I’m constantly mystified at how polarising this issue is. Reading the comments here, it seems you’re either pro-open borders or no immigrants whatsoever. How about the basic idea that the first duty of any government in a democratic country is to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens. Take this to the city/town level: if I knew my hometown was being flooded by illegal immigrants (yesterday, it was widely reported that 1 in 12 people living in London are illegal immigrants) I would want my government to get a strong grip on that situation. Nothing racist about this. I’m pro-immigration. But pro legal, controlled immigration.
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  232. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  233. @0:10 “A static fierce fight.” “An operational silence.” Sounds like me and my wife! May have to take a referendum on our marriage.🙄
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  234. Lol. At this point, Britain is shuffling Prime Ministers faster than Italy! 🤣
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  235. ‘Human wave’ troops? Are they called ‘Tshumanis’? 🌊
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  236. One is loath to give a public oath to a private oaf.
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  237. Not sure about ‘wokest’, but looking at Sturgeon could be the ‘blokest’.
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  238. Asking me to apologise and pay reparations for something my distant ancestors did, is a bit like asking me to apologise and pay reparations to the families of the victims of my mass-murdering grandfather. Both had nothing to do with me!
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  239. 1:18 I love how some random check-shirted dude infiltrated the conference! 🤣 As to trans stuff, for me it’s rather simple: call yourself what you want, dress how you want, but if you were born with XY chromosomes you really do need to stay out of biological women’s private spaces and that includes the space on the sports field!
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  240. The last time I saw this much blank paper was at the end of that particularly difficult Mathematics exam I took back in 1989. 📝
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  241. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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  242. 🇹🇼 Surely, as with every place and people in the world, this thing between China and Taiwan is all about self-determination. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. As with a goodly majority of Ukrainians who want absolutely nothing to do with Russia, it seems an equally substantial majority of Taiwanese want the Chinese to stay the hell out of their business. 🇨🇳
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  243. There is more spontaneous life in that Union Flag than in him.
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  244. The truth is that, as a lifelong football fan, women’s football just doesn’t grab me emotionally and also in terms of the actual skill-levels in the same way that men’s football does. Not sexist to say this, as other women’s sports I enjoy equally as much as men’s (eg. tennis). The other thing I’m always curious about is the demand for equal pay in women’s football. Surely this is about demand and supply and if that’s the case, the massively higher demand for men’s football should correlate with higher pay for the men. Again, this is not sexist. I’m all for equal pay for an equal job done in a free market; but in this footballing free market, the demand for the men’s game is far higher than the demand for the women’s.
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  245. This tragic story feels odd. We’re told that Dr. Taleb Al Abdulmohsen was apparently not satisfied with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany. All very well, but why take this out on innocent civilians who have precisely nothing to do with this ‘grievance’? And if he is really an ‘Islamophobe’ then why not go for a mosque/Muslim market instead of a Christmas market? 🤔
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  246. These footballers need to be careful. Any of that kissing and cuddling nonsense after scoring a goal, and they’re risking a stoning at the end of the game.
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  247. Russia: “We want Luhansk, Donetsk, Mariupol, Melitopol, Kherson, Odessa and Crimea permanently.” Ukraine: “Ok, you give us Moscow and St Petersburg and we’ll think about it.”
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  248. Woman’s body; woman’s choice. Well done, Mexico! 🇲🇽
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  249. At this point, not sure who or what to believe in this whole farrago. To paraphrase Mark Twain, it’s all “lies, damned lies, and ballistics.”
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  250. All this stuff should be done on a case by case basis. If Hermoso were ok with this, there’d be no real issue. The fact she wasn’t makes it an issue. I can imagine a similar situation where the 2 parties know each other well enough to make what Rubiales did ok. Fact is, he didn’t read the room here and just blundered in like an entitled man.
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  251.  @charlesK12960  And you are free to disagree, Charlie boy. I, personally, have no problem with Asian/African immigrants with this proviso: they are legal and they bring with them high-quality skills and are not just unskilled, cheap labour. No, my main issue is the mass importation of a philosophy that just can’t get on with a free, liberal, secular, democratic society.
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  252. First anniversary? Jesus. This has to be the longest 3-day war in military history!
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  253. I love how when some semi-articulate English dude just tells us what happened in words of more than one syllable, the Americans freak out and think he’s Shakespeare! 🤣
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  254. Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more !”
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  255. Let’s face it; none of this will matter in a few years, as Ireland clearly looks like it’s on the path to being what it rightfully should be: one sovereign nation encompassing Northern Ireland (finally free from direct British meddling.)
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  256.  @shoelessjoe428  I’d call the 685,000 (and that’s only net; in gross numbers it was 1.2 million) into the UK last year, pretty ‘uncontrolled’ and pretty ‘mass’.
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  257. ‘Tougher knife laws’? Yeah, right. Like that’s gonna work given every household in the land has a hoard of kitchen knives. 🤦‍♂️ Given that, since 2004, there have been well over 100 major Islamic attacks on European soil, at this point I would seriously consider a moratorium on all Muslim immigration. Take a leaf out of Poland and Hungary’s book on this matter as they never seem to see this sh*t. Why? Poland has a 0.1% Muslim population and Hungary has a 0.05% Muslim population. Compare that with the West where it’s approaching 10% on average and, astonishingly, Sweden is predicted to be fully 30% Muslim in 20 years.
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  258. Huge sinkhole opens up in Surrey - the authorities are looking into it.
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  259. 5:45 That’s a screenshot right there.
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  260. When you create an artificial state by stealing land from others and thereby dispossessing them and then proceed to oppress them for decades on end, do you really expect no blowback? It was inevitable Israel’s neighbours were going to have a problem with its 1948 creation. It’s a bit like some random pitching up in my back garden one day and then proceeding to take over the whole house! Isaac Asimov nailed this: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
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  261. You can be 100% sure that if the dude was an immigrant, the ‘mental health’ card will be Taylor Swiftly played.
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  262. Imagine fighting for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  263. If this had occurred in some US backwater town I wouldn’t have been remotely surprised. That it happened in Prague somehow makes it all the more shocking.
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  264. 🎶 “Monday Become the PM on Tuesday And I was in trouble by Wednesday And on Thursday and Friday and Saturday I was sacked on Sunday” 🎵
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  265. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  266. Yes, Liz’s reign was rather brief at just 45 days, but to be fair to her, that was 44 days more than I expected her to last.
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  267. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  268. These are truly Boris’ bye-bye-by-elections. 👋
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  269. As an agnostic, I consider all religion manmade baloney but the one I currently least trust is Islam. Why? It’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values but is least likely to show that same respect for others’ values. In this particular case, it seems no child was permitted to pray in the school; it wasn’t just a Muslim thing. It cannot be too often stated that calling out something like Islam is not inherently racist. Criticising a bunch of ideas is not racist.
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  270. Dr. Taleb Al Abdulmohsen was apparently not satisfied with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany. All very well, but why take this out on innocent civilians who have precisely nothing to do with this ‘grievance’? And if he is really an ‘Islamophobe’ then why not go for a mosque instead of a Christmas market? 🤔
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  271. The US isn’t ‘outraged’. If the the US were really outraged by Israel’s actions these past 6 months, they would’ve pulled the financial plug long before now. As John Sheehan said: “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
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  272. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  273. Well, on the bright side, Morrison could have a career playing rugby in the local under-12s league.
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  274. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  275. COVID, Monkeypox and now Polio: I’m smelling something fishy in the state of the N.W.O..
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  276. When you create an artificial state by stealing land from others and thereby dispossessing them and then proceed to oppress them for decades on end, do you really expect no blowback? It was inevitable Israel’s neighbours were going to have a problem with its 1948 creation. It’s a bit like some random pitching up in my back garden one day and then proceeding to take over the whole house! Isaac Asimov nailed this: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
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  277. Investigating whether Johnson misled Parliament is like investigating whether Jimmy Savile had ‘childcare issues’.
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  278. ‘Immigration’ isn’t necessarily the issue. Islam’s the issue.
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  279. I have my own personal ‘micro-cinema’. It’s called ‘the lounge’.
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  280. Because they’re sitting ducks. This dude’s not gonna challenge anyone who can fight back. He’s weak.
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  281. @2:02 Reporter: “Are we preparing for war with Russia?” Bozo: “I don’t think it’ll come to that.” Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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  282. Back in the day, if you were ‘confused’, you were invariably gay. That’s fine. Homosexuality is fine by me. It’s only in the last 10/20 years that being confused about your sexuality has transmogrified into being confused about your sex, thereby leading to butchering the bits nature gave you, and also leading to the persecution of anyone who dares to suggest what everyone can see.
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  283. Russia: “We want Donbas and Crimea as permanent acquisitions.” Ukraine: “Ok, give us Moscow and St Petersburg and we’ll think about it.”
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  284. This is getting very silly now. This Cabinet has had more shuffles than my iPod at this point!
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  285. “Come to America: we arm our teachers.” “Come to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”
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  286. Yes, it looks very cold in Ukraine at this time of the year, but the Syrians should be ok with this as the weather there can also be unpredictable: sometimes it’s Sunni, other times it’s Shiite. ☀️ 🌧
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  287. It says something about Italy that even when it’s half-submerged under water it’s still more beautiful than most other countries on Earth.
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  288. Breaking News: After a year and a half of war, Russia manages to capture its largest city to date: the Russian city of Rostov!
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  289. Why doesn’t she just ask her dad to write another card? 🤷‍♂️
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  290. It’s not really ‘random’, though. Please be honest here. Did McDonald’s cause his liver problems or did beer cause his liver problems? My vaguely educated guess would be that the latter caused more damage than the former.
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  291. This makes utterly no sense. Only on YouTube could such an illiterate post get dozens of upvotes. Editor needed! ✍️
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  292. I’d rather live in Ukraine than live in Putin’s Russia. Case closed.
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  293. Sounds like Wallace knows something the rest of us don’t. Never mind a ‘hot war’; he might have a hotline to Klaus Schwab. 📞
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  294. It had warnings and that’s why the airline didn’t seat any passengers right next to the dodgy door, for they knew there was a risk. If this is the case, Alaska Airlines should be sued for gross negligence in the pursuit of filthy lucre.
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  295. Aside from the human cost of war, the loss of beautiful old towns and cities is one of the most depressing sights in all this nonsense.
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  296. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years, just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable, given the history. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end. This is just obvious to anyone without intrinsic skin in this game. Of course, even in a 2-state solution, there will still be Hamasesque groups wanting the destruction of Israel, but that doesn’t invalidate the basic principle for the vast majority of ordinary Palestinians.
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  297. Why is it happening? Well, Einstein just about had it covered: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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  298. Ukraine should be doing more of this. Not purposefully targeting civilians but hitting spaces in Russia which will plant a few seeds of doubt in the Russian populace vis-a-vis their apparent unswerving (mainly) support for the Russian cause. After all, why shouldn’t Ukraine be allowed to directly hit Moscow? Russia has been directly hitting Kyiv since day 1 of this war. What’s always been a bit mystifying in this conflict is how Putin/Russia get all hoity toity when they experience a direct hit on their land, yet they are seemingly allowed to hit Ukraine with impunity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both fighters are allowed to throw punches.
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  299. “I can confirm we have received 1 valid nomination.” ~ democracy in action. Or, better still, democracy ‘inaction’.
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  300. If you want to be reminded of just how depressingly primitive and unevolved human beings are, watch this and weep. The only real way to solve this seems to be an enlightened non-partisan education. When you have one country (India) steeped in one religious tradition and another (Pakistan) created on the basis that it was going to live out another religion, this is the logical consequence. On seeing this nonsense one is reminded of the words of Steven Weinberg: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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  301. No idea what he’s like on a personal level, but my instinct tells me his principle aim is not helping ordinary people in inner-cities, but rather helping his people in the City.
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  302. The irony of this is that Putin is the greatest Russian relic that no one wants!🤣
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  303. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most of these people are simply economic migrants, and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to the economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  304. I love the sight of NATO giving warning.
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  305. What I don’t quite get about all this, is that Germany has been supplying Ukraine with munitions since the beginning of this proxy war farrago; therefore, a tank or two is surely just a slight upgrade, but the principle is the same: military support for Ukraine.
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  306. The most amazing thing about this fight was that one judge actually gave the fight to Fury! 🤦‍♂️ Apparently, the dude was called John Fury.
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  307. As an agnostic, I consider all religion manmade baloney but the one I currently least trust is Islam. Why? It’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values but is least likely to show that same respect for others’ values. In this particular case, it seems no child was permitted to pray in the school; it wasn’t just a Muslim thing. It cannot be too often stated that calling out something like Islam is not inherently racist. Criticising a bunch of ideas is not racist.
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  308.  @ajcook7777  If Israel stopped oppressing and occupying Palestinians for 75 years there might be no war.
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  309. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” (George Orwell)
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  310. Here’s the difference: Sunak has to do absolutely anything to win this Election. Starmer need do precisely nothing!
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  311. If some skinny off-grid hermit from the woods were preaching this stuff, I might give them the time of day. When you have a plane globetrotting hypocrite who has a mansion that uses the energy of about 10 average homes, not so much.
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  312. First a 72 year old, now a 67 year old: these guys are meant to be drawing their pensions, not semi-automatic hand-guns!
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  313. If this had occurred in some Midwestern town in the US I wouldn’t have been remotely surprised. That it happened in Prague somehow makes it all the more shocking.
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  314. Whenever I hear about a religion story, any organised religion story, I’m comforted by the words of George Carlin: “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” 🤣
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  315. Truth is, regardless of the specifics of this given case, the Southport riots were a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  316. Let’s face it, this whole thing was always a Stormy in a D cup.
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  317. I hold no candle for Rooney, however, she was clearly the wronged, not the wronger here. The biggest mystery of this whole farrago is why Vardy sought to contest it in the first place. Deluded.
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  318. This was Putin’s Special Maternal Operation.
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  319. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese, non-Islamic Africans etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. It’s also just about the very basic idea that when someone knocks on my door, I like to vet them before they’re admitted into my house. The end.
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  320. This would be understandable if Medvedvev was reloading Russian rocket-launchers on the front-line on his day off; as it is, it just smacks of cringey virtue-signalling and is wholly unjust for the players involved.
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  321. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” (Isaac Newton) Yes, Newton was talking about physics here, but this quote may be applied perfectly to the current uprising in Iran. This is simply the people’s ‘reaction’ to 43 years of benighted, primitive, theocratic ‘action’.
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  322. 🇹🇼 Surely, as with every place and people in the world, this thing between China and Taiwan is all about self-determination. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. As with a goodly majority of Ukrainians who want absolutely nothing to do with Russia, it seems an equally substantial majority of Taiwanese want the Chinese to stay the hell out of their business. 🇨🇳
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  323. My predictions: 1. I give Yousaf less than a year. 2. Forbes will be voted in as the next First Minister. 3. She will last longer. 4. Scotland still won’t achieve independence anytime soon. 5. The end.
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  324. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. It is a question of priorities, which most of his colleagues have no difficulty in sorting out. Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else .” (My emphasis) Martin Hammond, Master in College, Eton All the signs were there. 🙄
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  325. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or this teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  326. Alabama Supreme Court: “Frozen embryos are children.” Alabama Hospitals: “Come collect your children. What do you think we are? Daycare?”
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  327. Lavrov, clearly a master of doublespeak. “We haven’t invaded Ukraine.” = “We most certainly have invaded Ukraine.”
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  328. I hold no candle for Rooney, however, she was clearly the wronged, not the wronger here. The biggest mystery of this whole farrago is why Vardy sought to contest it in the first place. Deluded.
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  329. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  330. Oh, the tragic irony of a delivery guy delivering food all day, yet he himself can’t afford to eat! 🏍
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  331. I’ve got a pal who does a cracking seagull impression. He can’t do the noise, he just nicks your chips and sh*ts on your car.
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  332. Blaming contemporary people for slavery is a bit like blaming me because my grandfather was a mass-murderer.
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  333. @0:15 Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “Of course. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  334. Jeez, every time they go to Number 10 these days we hear nothing but bad news. It should be renamed ‘Downer Street’.
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  335. Upjoke! 👍
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  336. These resignations are all very well but the most important question that needs to be answered is why does the winner of Miss Universe always come from Earth?
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  337. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. It is a question of priorities, which most of his colleagues have no difficulty in sorting out. Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else .” (My emphasis) - Martin Hammond: Eton Master All the signs were there with this particular mop-top fop. 🙄
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  338. It is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are very probably repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. 🥸
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  339. “Welcome to the US: we are seriously considering arming our teachers.” “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police!”
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  340. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  341. This is the summer equivalent of the ‘yellow snow alert’ in winter. 🐕
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  342. Don’t think I’ll beheading to India anytime soon! 😰
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  343. Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! (Rabbie Burns)
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  344. Hate to say this, but with dairy/nut allergies, if you consume anything that is made on the premises and not labelled you’re essentially playing Russian roulette with your life. If I had this condition I would never consume any product in such a manner.
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  345. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  346. Let it never be forgotten that in all the talk of brutality around the world in terms of war, it is America and America only who has used these barbaric atomic weapons in anger. And what makes their hideous crime against humanity even more egregious? They didn’t have to! RIP.
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  347. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  348. “Come to America: we arm our teachers.” “Come to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”
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  349. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most of these people are simply economic migrants (one lady explicitly admitted she has little money), and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to the economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  350. Personally, I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; however, you don’t need to be Nostradamus to see that it was obvious that it would be more or less permanently targeted from day 1 after its 1948 creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. Isaac Asimov nailed this: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
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  351. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig)
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  352.  @banger2998  No they haven’t.
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  353. This particular Abbott clearly needs to take a vow of silence. 🤫
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  354. Not sure Ann Widdecombe ever ‘faced wandering hands’; I think even Boris drew the line there.
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  355. Here’s the difference: a dog would never abandon its owner.
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  356. “It’s now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so f*cking what?” (Stephen Fry) In other words, no one (including trigger-sensitive Muslims if someone suggests their religion might be a pile of crap) has the right not to be offended.
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  357. How about the idea of just not reading them if they’re going to potentially offend you? This is actually worse than those trigger-warnings as it’s outright censorship done to someone’s agenda. Sinister stuff.
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  358. Got goosebumps witnessing the bravery of these guys trying to take this psycho out. Huge respect.👍 The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of random gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  359. That’s because Poland has 0.1% Muslim population while Hungary has 0.05%. If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour the whole bottle of dye in it instantly changes the colour of the water forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism.
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  360. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  361. The biggest issue I would have with Musk is rather simple: If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  362. Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, most other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.
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  363. Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic; believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  364. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  365. “A proxy war to defend the embattled values of the West.” That, and a poxy war to defend, maintain and bolster the profits of the military-industrial complex.
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  366. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher still in hiding 3 years after showing a caricature! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  367. Whenever you have a monarchy saying you can’t ‘insult’ it, you know you’re living in a tyranny, devoid of real free-speech. No one on this planet is above criticism. It’s only those who feel they are untouchable (eg. through power attained via random accidents of birth) who can insist on this nonsense. If someone feels the monarchy (any monarchy) is a pile of crap, then they should be free to say this. No one or nothing on this Earth should be above criticism.
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  368. “Welcome to Qatar: you can’t get drunk here, but you can definitely get stoned!”
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  369. Expecting a bunch of rich, entitled toffs to solve the ‘cost of living crisis’ is a bit like expecting a bunch of oil oligarchs to solve the ‘global warming crisis’.
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  370. With each passing day, Israel’s claim that this is just about ‘self-defence’ looks increasingly tenuous. Thousands of people starved, maimed and killed: trouble is, they are the wrong people. If my next-door neighbour attacked my family while I wasn’t looking, my instinct would be to go after him, but I certainly wouldn’t attack his totally innocent wife and children, even if he were hiding behind them.
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  371. Sadiq Khan must be fuming. These horses are clearly doing more than 20mph in a Ulez area.
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  372. Never really understood why diamonds are so expensive. After all, they all look more or less the same. That said, they are carbon copies of each other. 💎
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  373. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  374. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (majority South Slavic Serbs v majority Kosovan Albanians), religion (majority Eastern Orthodox Christianity v majority Muslim) and language (majority Serbian v majority Albanian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  375. Welcome to America 🇺🇸 : We are seriously considering arming our teachers. 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK 🇬🇧 : We don’t even arm most of our police! 👮‍♂️
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  376. This is simply about 2 humongous egos in the same room. It was obvious it was never going to work.
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  377. Apparently, Zahawi’s financial advisor was Jimmy Carr.
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  378. E.U. Commissioner 1: “Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” E.U. Commissioner 2: “I’d say. About 3 million barrels per day!”
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  379. @0:30 Lol. “The Russians blame the West for continuing to arm Ukraine”. What planet are they on? It’s like a thief blaming a shopkeeper for having stock to steal and then blaming the shopkeeper's suppliers for helping them to re-stock!
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  380. “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice.” (George Carlin)
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  381. Huh? Didn’t they try that back in February? Look how that went. As Einstein said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.”
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  382. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” (Isaac Newton) Yes, Newton was talking about physics here, but this quote may be applied perfectly to the geopolitics of Iran. This is simply the ‘reaction’ to 43 years of benighted, primitive, theocratic ‘action’.
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  383. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig) Sums up the Taliban perfectly.
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  384. Love how throughout this war Moscow is allowed with seeming impunity to hit any targets it wants in Ukraine, but when Ukraine has the temerity to strike back in kind, that’s somehow “not on, dear boy.” Without potential nuclear conflagration hanging over this whole thing, Russia would’ve been crushed long ago.
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  385. It’s a bit mean that the French police were teargassing the Liverpool supporters; as if they wouldn’t have been crying enough last night. 😢
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  386. I’m not a vegetarian, but have never eaten octopus. Other fish, yes, but something instinctively told me I shouldn’t really be eating octopus. Then I watched one of the best docs I have ever seen called My Octopus Teacher and my instinct was proved correct. Octopuses are truly, truly stunningly beautiful, wise amazing creatures. 🐙
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  387. “Jimmy Carr tells ‘offensive’ gag shocker” - right up there with ‘the sun will rise tomorrow’ and ‘Kate Smurthwaite will take offence on behalf of perceived target’.😳
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  388. Never mind having 100 backers; Johnson, or anyone else wanting to be PM, needs several million backers. These Tories really need to get the message. Everyone, but them, is demanding an election, and now!
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  389. 2024 and we’re still doing this stuff. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  390. They say use of nukes is ‘out of the question’, but if they do use them, then use of nukes by others will be very much ‘in the answer’.
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  391. General: “Can I have a quiet word in your ear, Sir?” Putin: “No. Sit over there 👉 and tell me I am winning.”
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  392. @1:58 “I’ve always declared my taxes. I’ve paid my taxes in the UK.” Lol. The bare naked lies of these corrupt shysters are hilarious!🤣
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  393. Well deserved! Not a City fan, but Guardiola, for me, is the greatest manager who has ever lived, not necessarily for his trophy haul (yet), although, at 51, that is already impressive enough. No, for me it’s the absolute attacking panache, class and flair with which he sets up his teams and plays football.
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  394. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  395. If the ‘Yesers’ win this one, do the ‘Noers’ get another shot, in a best-out-of-3 game? Seems only fair.😳
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  396. You know the world’s a random place when the world’s happiest country, Dominican Republic, lives right next to one of the most constantly unhappy.
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  397. Miles Routledge? Just amazed that in this day and age he hasn’t gone metric.
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  398. To be fair, up here in Scotland this is nothing as we’ll batter anything: fish, chicken, deep-fried Mars bars, anyone who looks at us the wrong way …
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  399. @0:35 “He’ll have his mug shot taken.” My deepest, sincerest condolences to the camera in advance. 💐
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  400. I don’t particularly support any side here, but what can be observed is a 75 year ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year on year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both sides were allowed to throw punches. 2-state solution is the only way here.
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  401. Why are they picking on Denmark? Doesn’t every country? Instinct tells me that the main issue with immigration in Europe isn’t immigration per se; it’s Islamic immigration.
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  402. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  403. That’s clearly assault and buttery. 🍰
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  404. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  405. As an agnostic, I fear Musk wasn’t too far wrong with his suggestion the UK was heading for some kind of Civil War. 🤦‍♂️
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  406. Good Lord’s! This surely isn’t about cricket. A bit stumped and bowled over by it all. Howzat possible? Feels like a declaration of hostilities. Strike rate could be high. Scratching my Headingley. Certainly, it’s a kick in the bails for multiculturalism but we shouldn’t duck the issue. I wanted some umpirical evidence so I maiden attempt to research it, and googlyed it and what caught the eye was seamingly average young lads, possibly a few wide byes, at sixes and sevens, out in the pitch dark arguing the full toss. Could use a few bouncers, extra reinforcements to sort them out. It’s swings and roundabouts. They’re on a sticky wicket, though, and I’m not batting an eye, even if they end up as ashes. Time for lunch and some Ovaltine. 🏏
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  407. What this country needs now, is proportional representation. If the constant choice is a to and fro between bread and slightly staler bread, then it’s long before time for real democracy. It needs to be changed to truly represent the voting choices of the people.
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  408. Dr. Taleb Al Abdulmohsen was apparently not satisfied with the treatment of Saudi refugees in Germany. All very well, but why take this out on innocent civilians who have precisely nothing to do with this ‘grievance’? And if he is really an ‘Islamophobe’ then why not go for a mosque/Muslim market instead of a Christmas market? 🤔
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  409. What’s going on in China/Hong Kong and Iran currently just epitomises Jefferson’s pithy observation: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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  410. It’s ridiculous. I trained my pet dolphin to also respond to a call: ‘Adolphin!’ I hope they don’t prosecute. 🤦‍♂️
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  411. ‘Woke policing’? Lol. The main issue these past 30 years is that the police have been asleep ! 👮‍♀️
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  412. Title’s off. Dude doesn’t say ‘multiculturalism has failed’. He just says there are problematic elements to it. He’s right; there are. And those elements can be more or less summed up in one word: Islam.
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  413. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as ‘women’, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  414. It won’t be long before they are slapping ‘trigger warnings’ on Only Fools and Horses!
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  415. Whenever one sees this stuff, be it political or religious (in this case religiously political), I’m reminded of these words from Robert M Pirsig: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” Amen.
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  416. 1:26 That’s a trapdoor right there. 😂
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  417. Ah, the new Home Secretary. Well, presumably his first task will be helping Liz Truss find a new home. 🏠
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  418. Isn’t it funny how things change? Labour, seen as nigh-on unelectable for years now, yet here we are. If we had a General Election tomorrow they may have the biggest majority in British history. And all this without them having to lift a finger!
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  419. Sharron is just speaking common sense which, as we know, isn’t so common these days. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all, and is essentially down to feelings: you can be biologically male and identify as (or feel) “female” and vice-versa, but you cannot actually biologically flip from one to the other. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This latter, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as “male”, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  420. If you’re an illegal economic migrant, you can go; if you’re a genuine refugee, you can stay; if you’re any one of these and complaining about the accommodation, as long as you are safe, have food, and have a bed, I have no sympathy. As Ann says, a sure way to tell the real refugees from those just here for economic reasons, is the real asylum seekers would accept a warm bed, food, shelter and safety without complaint if they were genuinely fleeing life-threatening persecution/war.
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  421. Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  422. If this gets much worse they may have to alter some of the State names accordingly: Could soon be seeing ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  423. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 5 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  424. @0:25 Lovely to see Wayne Rooney getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Fair play. 👍
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  425. Zero COVID = “you know who’s in charge.”
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  426. At this rate, it won’t be long before Putin’s calling up his ‘Elite Babushka Unit’!
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  427. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. It is a question of priorities, which most of his colleagues have no difficulty in sorting out. Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else .” (My emphasis) Martin Hammond, Master in College, Eton All the signs were there. 🙄
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  428. She’s essentially a younger, prettier, slightly more centrist Marine Le Pen.
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  429. Given Rochdale is 36% Muslim, it was more or less inevitable Galloway would win. Galloway is a friend to Islam. He’s had 3 Islamic wives at this point. But not necessarily at the same time. This is not a Labour v Galloway thing. The real issue here is Islam. If you’re not a friend to Islam, and you make it public, this can cause you trouble. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  430. A Boeing spacecraft?! Hope they checked the door hinges! 😬
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  431. @3:00 Lovely to see Alan Carr getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Fair play. 👍🤓
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  432. I love how out of all the organised religions, Islam seems to demand the most respect for its values on the one hand (on pain of possible death for not doing so), yet is the least likely to give respect for others’ values on the other hand.
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  433. Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." At this point, Daniel Khalife has been famous for 3 days but it feels like 3 years!
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  434. Translation: she disagrees with me.
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  435. Well, to be fair, this makes a refreshing change, as it’s usually men buying women in this world. Fair play. ✊
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  436. Never signed up for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. Best move I never made.
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  437. Not sure of the Sino-Russian ‘strategy’. However, that China and Russia are cosying up, appearing to provide a balance to the West is inevitable. The only way we know and define ourselves is by recognising what we are not . As William Blake wisely put it: “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
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  438. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  439. Warburton’s resignation goes to show that the Tories are increasingly toast. 🍞
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  440. Nice to see Julian Assange has a new role. Long before time, Sir. 👍 🧔‍♀️
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  441. To a mother? It’s despicable doing it to anyone! 🤦‍♂️
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  442. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  443. Tbh, what’s been confusing from day 1 of this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  444. The main issue here isn’t the banning of alcohol per se, it’s the sly, last-minute way it has been done. If I’m invited to a party on the understanding you can BYOB and dress how you want, only to turn up and the host telling me it’s a ‘dry’ party and there is a strict dress code, then I’m naturally going to be a bit miffed. Live and let live. If you don’t want a beer, fine. Just don’t take my hard-earned money and then change the rules to suit yourself after the event. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth. And that bad taste isn’t Budweiser! 🍻
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  445. Nice to see Denis Nordern’s still with us.
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  446. Just stop being open doors for anyone who wants to arrive here. It’s that simple. Any government that doesn’t get a grip on this can expect far worse down the line.
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  447. What doesn’t add up about this (aside from the fact it involves Harry and Meghan, so believing anything involving them is tough at this point) is that their official spokesperson said: "This relentless pursuit, lasting over 2 hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and 2 NYPD officers." Now in what Universe do you carry on a needless car chase for 2 hours endangering the lives of not only yourselves but of several other bystanders? Surely, Harry’s car stops, they get out and have a quiet word with the Paparazzi along the lines of: “Look lads, you had your photo op. at the event. Just back off and leave us alone now.” Something smells mighty fishy and publicity-seeking here.
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  448. Wearing a rainbow shirt in Qatar is always risky. You could easily get thrown in prism.
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  449. 0:16 That’s literally a ‘double whammy’! 🤣
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  450. Lovely to hear Uncle Fester’s opinions on these important matters. 👍
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  451. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin)
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  452. 🎶 Trudeau, leave them kids alone! 🎵
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  453. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell) Far too often, these days, people seem willing to shut down free-speech because they are ‘offended’. I don’t care if you are offended. I’m ‘offended’ by countless things people say, but I wouldn’t dream of banning them saying them.
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  454. My predictions: 1. I give Yousaf less than a year. 2. Forbes will be voted in as the next First Minister. 3. She will last longer. 4. Scotland still won’t achieve independence anytime soon. 5. The end.
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  455. Russia: “You started all this you know.” Ukraine: “No we didn’t.” Russia: “Yes you did. You let us invade you!”
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  456. Say what you like about Europe, but the continent has easily the highest concentration of beautiful cities on this planet, and Paris is up there with the best of them.
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  457. Newman: ‘So you’re saying that …’ Peterson: ‘No. You’re saying that I’m saying that.’
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  458. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  459. “Could Boris Johnson return to Number 10?” Well, if they are foolish enough to go for Bozo, the Tories will be even more hammered in the next GE. Not sure they realise just how much anger and resentment they have created in the electorate. I say that as a non-Labour supporter.
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  460. @0:20 Let it never be forgotten that in all the talk of brutality around the world in terms of war, it is America and America only who has used these barbaric atomic weapons in anger. And what makes their hideous crime against humanity even more egregious? They didn’t have to! RIP.
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  461. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice-versa. These latter cases of gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. For me, where the issue arises is when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I have no problem with it; it’s when these same people claim patently unfair rights to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females, that my hackles are raised.
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  462.  @jamboDH12345  It didn’t go with the West German furniture so they took it down.
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  463. A proper democracy would have a better choice than the constant to and fro between the Tories and Labour. That’s just a Hobson’s choice.
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  464. @3:22 Fella says this was a Hamas rocket which “fell short”. Why is it that whenever we see a Hamas rocket that has “fallen short” in Israel, it’s invariably a small hole in the ground that hardly seems capable of massacring 5 people, let alone 500? 🤔
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  465. Putin should be focusing on his country’s ‘brain drain’ at this point, not ‘grain drains’.
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  466. Putin: “I’ll back down if you give me back Crimea and Donbas permanently.” Ukraine: “Ok, if you give us Moscow and St Petersburg, we’ll think about it.”
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  467. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The end.
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  468. Asking Netanyahu to ‘mediate’ something is a bit like asking Elmer Fudd to ‘mediate’ in a conflict between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck!
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  469. Isn’t it funny how things change? Labour, seen as nigh-on unelectable for years now (including on Starmer’s watch), yet here we are. If we had a General Election tomorrow they may have the biggest majority in British history. And all this without them having to lift a finger!
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  470. We can’t tell jokes.
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  471. S’ok. Dude went down in a Virgin helicopter. He’s being consoled on the other side by 72 helicopters. 🚁
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  472. This whole thing smells. I’d put good money on it Labour MPs had told Hoyle they would bring him down as Speaker after the general election if he did not select the party’s motion. If this is the case, and Hoyle acted on this, he needs to go.
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  473.  @shonwamcfeckerty7363 So let the ‘someone’ mourn the ratbag. Leave the rest of us out of it.
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  474. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  475. Well, we now know that if they ever have an Olympic queuing event, GB will come first, and for anyone to gainsay this is out of line.🤓
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  476. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  477. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  478. Looks like that “world’s best sonar tech” may need an upgrade. Unless, of course, some wicked individual dumped her body after the search. What I don’t get is that this body was found 1 mile from the bench where Nicola’s phone was found. Mr Faulding, the sonar guy, told us: “It can generally cover about 10 miles of river a day” . I know the search was fairly close to the bench, but given they can cover 10 miles in a day and they searched for 3 full days, it would be the height of negligence not to have covered the area the body was found.
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  479. As this nightmare continues well into a 2nd month (and who knows how many more months after that), Israel should be surprised by none of what happened on October 7th, in much the same way Palestinians should be surprised by none of Israel’s response. Of course, what Hamas did was the definition of evil but it was hardly unpredictable. I genuinely don’t particularly support any side here (lapsed Catholic agnostic), but what can be observed (by any impartial neutral) is a 75-year-long ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year on year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket, old boy! Last time I checked, in a boxing match both sides are allowed to throw punches. In these kinds of seemingly intractable situations, I always flip it: how would the Israelis feel if the boot were on the other foot and it was they who were living in the conditions the average Palestinian is (and has been for decades) living in? They’d be fighting back. Fighting for dignity and freedom. A 2-state solution is the only way here. Of course, with this, the nitty-gritty will be who gets custody of the car and who gets custody of the cat.
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  480. Thanks, Jesus. I’ll pass that advice on to Mohammed, Buddha and Krishna.👍
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  481. “Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.”
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  482. What to expect? I expect the Tories to get f*cking hammered. 😊
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  483. I resent being made to care about these individuals. They both mean precisely zero to me. Next.
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  484. “Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” (Edward Snowden)
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  485. If it were made a non-negotiable condition that you serve in the front line every day for the war you declare, then I’m willing to bet that the phenomenon of war could be abolished rather swiftly.
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  486. What’s always been confusing about the death penalty in the US is that the vast majority of those supporting it also follow Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite explicit about stuff like this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Matthew 5:38-39) Personally, I’m against the death penalty for one main reason: risk involved in executing innocent people. If I were on a jury where the possibility of the death penalty were involved, I’d be mighty reluctant to convict as there could always be the possibility of a mistake. 12 Angry Men is essential viewing here.
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  487. Of course it should be legalised. Are we still doing this in 2023? 🤷‍♂️ Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  488.  @h.alshidhani8971 Yet, you follow a dude called Mohammed who was quite happy to marry a 6 year old and consummate the marriage when she was 9 when he was in his mid-50s. Where I come from, we call that something.🤫
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  489. *your 👈 Attention headline writer! As one of those rare Brits who speaks more than English (+French, Spanish, Italian and German - in that order) bilingualism/multilingualism certainly helps keep the brain flexible and supple and in good nick. What always astonishes me about the culture we have created is that we place so much emphasis on exercising the physical body, but we neglect the key part of that physical body (along with the heart): the brain! So many keep their abs trim but they let their brain go flabby. Learning another language(s) is easily one of the best ways of giving your brain regular and sustained work-outs.
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  490. Ah, the G7 meeting, when all the world really needs is a B9 meeting.
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  491. Lol. @0:28-0:31 She goes all ‘gangsta’ at this point: “I know how complicated people’s lives are gettin’; how stressful they’re gettin’, innit.”😂 Penny from the Block!
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  492. If we hadn’t split the atom, NATO probably would’ve aggressively dealt with Russia long before now. It’s all Einstein’s fault!
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  493. “Who could be the next Prime Minister?” Well, if they are foolish enough to go for Bozo, the Tories will be even more hammered in the next GE. Not sure they realise just how much anger and resentment they have created in the electorate. I say that as a non-Labour supporter.
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  494. What is a woman? That’s an xx-rated question for some people, it seems.
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  495. @2:25 Uh huh. So there you have it. Being chased by the cops and not stopping. They didn’t deserve to die, but if you don’t obey the laws of the land …
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  496. ‘Mr Read wanted to resign because he was unhappy with his pay.’ Nick Read earns a basic salary of £415,000 (plus any bonuses, which will take it to well over half a million quid.) The average UK salary is £33,000. Nick Read earns well over 10x what the average worker earns. These people need to realise how financially privileged they actually are. Their ridiculous entitlement is an embarrassment to themselves.
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  497. On the bright side, if sea-levels rise enough they may cover Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
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  498. Hugo’s just thanking his lucky stars the missiles aren’t flying over his head again.
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  499. Interesting that in less-heated times back in 2018, while he was at an international forum in Sochi, which depicted Russia as a supposed victim of a theoretical nuclear exchange, Putin said: "In such a situation, we expect to be struck by nuclear weapons, but we will not use them first.” He added: "The aggressor will have to understand that retaliation is inevitable, that it will be destroyed and that we, as victims of aggression, as martyrs, will go to heaven.” It seems that when it comes to nukes Russia doesn’t have a first-strike policy. In fact, Russia and China have an agreed NFS policy. On the other hand, France, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States all maintain policies that permit the first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict.
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  500. Scene: in an alternate reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  501. Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more.”
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  502. @1:12 “He’s facing rising unemployment, daily power cuts and allegations of corruption.” Yes, but enough about Rishi Sunak. Tell us about South Africa.
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  503. Never mind announcing a new PM; they should be announcing a new GE!
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  504. A sure way to tell the real refugees from those just here for economic reasons, is the real asylum seekers would accept a warm bed, food, shelter and safety without complaint if they were genuinely fleeing life-threatening persecution/war. If you’re an illegal economic migrant, you can go; if you’re a genuine refugee, you can stay; if you’re any one of these and complaining about the accommodation, as long as you are safe, have food, and have a bed, I have no sympathy.
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  505.  @z6445  Er, not sure about that one, mate. You never heard of the Battle of Britain or D-Day?
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  506. Kinda hope they don’t blitz the lovely old core of Odesa but this seems inevitable at this point. Losing precious cities like these, architectural palimpsests of history is a tragedy second only to that of loss of human life.
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  507. I’ve always found it interesting when Brits who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to these islands and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand; for by their logic no-one who arrived post 1620 into America, no-one who arrived after 1606 in Australia and no-one who arrived in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it.
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  508. To be fair, I do think the Royal Mail needs to address this situation, and stamp down on unfair pay, so that its workers are not treated as second-class citizens. ✉️
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  509. We can only hope innocents get the food, water and medicines they desperately need. As someone neutral here, what Hamas did was heinous, barbaric and brutal but what Israel is doing to tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians is also heinous, barbaric and brutal. What seems a little bizarre throughout is the fact Israel appears to see itself as wholly innocent here and not culpable in any way at all. Nothing justifies what Hamas did but given 56 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory it was hardly unpredictable.
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  510. Support legal immigration here, as do the vast majority of people I’m aware of. However, for any given country there is clearly an optimum number. The UK optimum would probably be about 25-50,000 per year. If 750,000 legal immigrants arrive in the UK year-on-year (this figure taking absolutely no account of the tens of thousands of economic illegals who will be on the Channel boats), it won’t be long be long before the British electorate, rightly or wrongly, will be going the way of the Dutch and electing strongly rightest anti-immigration parties.
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  511. I imagine that if it ever got to the stage where NATO actually threw a punch, it would knock-out Russia in the First Round.
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  512. If this gets much worse they may have to alter some of the State names accordingly: Could soon be seeing ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  513. @Pierre In 👍Yeah, I’ve noticed that a good proportion of the homophobes follow an invisible daddy in the sky. What I don’t get though is what exactly is it that offends them? For the life of me, I don’t see it. Weird.
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  514. 🎶 99 red balloons 🎈 Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky 🎈The 99 red balloons go by 🎵 Who knew Nena was a seer? 🔮
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  515. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  516. Stealing from anyone is ‘low’! Don’t make this about age. If you do that you kinda suggest it’s ok to steal from a 21 year old.
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  517. The no.1 issue causing both the “house storming” and the football hooligans is simple: lack of a fear of consequences.
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  518. The irony of someone like Sunak bringing back National Service. He’s literally that dude you picked last when you had to pick a sports team at school! 👍🤣
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  519. NATO: “No. You cannot join our gang. Yet. whispers Just wait till this jealous, possessive control freak is off the scene then we may reconsider.” Zelensky: “Hmm …🤔”
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  520. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  521. More like Morrissey to me, m8.👍
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  522. What I’ve never quite understood about this whole farrago, is how Russia is apparently allowed to hit, at will, civilian Ukrainian targets, but if the boot’s on the other foot, this is seemingly not permitted. If we hadn’t invented nuclear weapons, a bully like Putin would’ve been knocked out long before now.
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  523. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  524. Well, it is the obvious answer to a stupid question. Whenever I’m asked, “can men get pregnant?”, I always reply, “no, hun.”
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  525. Harry’s main problem can be summed up in the old proverb: “the 👿 will find work for idle 🙌 !”
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  526. Well this is silly but just a sign of the ongoing culture wars. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  527. I’m glad this report delivered the truth. 👶
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  528. The people are revolting but the most revolting people in Iran are the rulers.
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  529. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” (Martin Hammond - Eton Housemaster) All the signs were there.
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  530. “Welcome to Qatar: we won’t get you drunk but we will definitely get you stoned.”
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  531. While what he said to Feltz was crass and unfunny, it wasn’t criminal. He may have offended her (and others) but no harm was done here. All I’m interested in here is simple: has Brand committed any crimes? On that, the jury is still out. Just for the record: one of her daughters was born in 1986 and the other, 1989. That would make them 19/20 and 16/17 at time of recording.
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  532. This is bloody ridiculous! But to be fair to Woods, he’s lived through quite a period of trouble recently.
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  533. @5:52 If you’re using the lack of youth clubs argument in the fight against youth crime, then you’re at the thin end of the wedge. You’re almost saying: lack of youth club = knife crime. If you’re going down that road, we can just about justify anything another human being does: “They stabbed someone.” “Yeah, man, lack of youth clubs.” No. It’s not ‘lack of youth clubs’; it’s just a lack of basic humanity; and that’s mostly down to those raising the stabbers.
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  534. “I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” (George Carlin)
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  535. Just stop being open doors for anyone who wants to arrive here. It’s that simple. Any government that doesn’t get a grip on this can expect far worse down the line.
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  536.  @Greylobster  “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” (George Orwell)
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  537. Ah, nice to see the Watergate fellas. 👍 When this is all done, perhaps this will go down in history as Trump’s ‘Departuregate’.
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  538. This is only going to go 1 of 2 ways: the police gather enough evidence to take this to a criminal trial; no trial takes place and Brand sues for defamation.
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  539. Willing to bet my last Rolo that if this guy had been a dying Westerner all hands on deck would have been deployed and all world records abandoned.
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  540. 🎶 “Monday Become the PM on Tuesday And I was in trouble by Wednesday And on Thursday and Friday and Saturday I was sacked on Sunday” 🎵
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  541. The irony: The greatest act of rebellion in today’s world is not to have a tattoo!
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  542.  @muonneutrino  Last vote was 2006. 52% of Gazans are 21 and under. They never voted for Hamas.
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  543. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can physically get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the metaphysical ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  544. @0:30 “Let’s be absolutely blunt.” Yes, let’s. In 2014 pro-independence campaigners lost a self-proclaimed ‘once in a lifetime’ referendum. Now, I’m not sure what Sturgeon and her acolytes’ definition of a ‘lifetime’ is, but given that the current UK life expectancy is about 80, 8 years doesn’t strike one as a ‘lifetime’.
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  545. Can we once and for all get this right? It’s not ‘racist’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a bunch of ideas. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticising these peoples’ race. That would be stupid. No one chooses their race. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that.
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  546. Tbf, Brand did win the Sun’s Top Shagger of the Year award 3 years consecutively from 2006-08. Some guys have all the luck, eh? I once won Top Bagger of the Year in 2009 when I worked at my local supermarket. 🛒
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  547. A 2-hour car chase in Manhattan?! Lol. They’ll have to call this one “The Not So Fast and the Furious”!
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  548. Interesting that openly drinking alcohol in public is outlawed in most of America, yet openly carrying a loaded gun is tickety-boo! Looks like they have this the wrong way round. 🥴
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  549. What I don’t quite get about all this, is that Germany has been supplying Ukraine with munitions since the beginning of this proxy war farrago; therefore, a tank or two is surely just a slight upgrade, but the principle is the same: military support for Ukraine.
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  550. Let’s not forget that a couple of years ago Patel publicly admitted that her own parents may not have been allowed into Britain under her own government’s rules; and yet here she is, making horrendously expensive, morally dubious, some might say heartless rules for others simply seeking to do what her parents did.
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  551. 🇹🇼 Surely, as with every place and people in the world, this thing between China and Taiwan is all about self-determination. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. As with a goodly majority of Ukrainians who want absolutely nothing to do with Russia, it seems an equally substantial majority of Taiwanese want the Chinese to stay the hell out of their business. 🇨🇳
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  552. Wonder if the thieves take them down to Catalytic Converters.
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  553. Just get on with it and knock down Old Trafford (it was an underwhelming stadium even before the recent leaks etc.) and build a stadium to rival the Camp Nou, the Bernabeu, the New White Hart Lane or the San Siro. (Yes, yes, I know the San Siro is going to be decommissioned, but it’s still one of the greatest amphitheatres in world football.)
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  554. Here’s hoping that Russia isn’t pulling forces out of western Ukraine, as a preparation for a wicked attack involving unthinkable weapons.
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  555. A clear case of having your cake and Tweeting it.
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  556. Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  557. Tbf, another 10 states could block Trump and he’d still beat Biden. I support neither, but the easiest way Trump will get another 4-year run in the White House is to put him up against Biden. It’s astonishing America (a country of 332 million) cannot do better than these 2 at this point.
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  558. Archaeology. Brings to mind Agatha Christie’s witty quip: “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
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  559. That only started post 9/11. I travelled to the US regularly before then and not once was I fingerprinted. I was fingered multiple times but never fingerprinted.
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  560. A ‘crime’?! Lol. Last time I checked, crimes involve victims. I see no victims here. 😝
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  561. Perhaps Russia’s biggest mistake in this whole sorry conflict, was to totally underestimate the power of home advantage. The Russians may have the big guns, but the Ukrainians seem to have the bigger, braver hearts.
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  562. Now if only the British hadn’t aggressively meddled and ‘planted’ its own people in Ulster back in the day, then we would have none of this nonsense. Moral of story: keep your nose out of other people’s business.
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  563.  Srt  Sometimes a little black humour alleviates some of the pain.
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  564. Blair “doesn’t think so” cos he’s in cahoots with the self-appointed WEF nutters led by Klaus. “U vill eat ze bugs.” 🐛 🐜 🕷
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  565. Yes, we all know the Sturgeon/Jimmy Krankie jibes, but for at least 3 minutes I’ve been trying to recall just who Peter Murrell reminds me of … then it came to me: Thomas Hamilton! Eureka!
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  566. Headline correction: “Über Bloke, Nicola Sturgeon.”
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  567. Allowing trans women to compete in women’s sporting categories is like allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  568. Indeed. Looks like that “world’s best sonar tech” may need an upgrade. Unless, of course, some wicked individual dumped her body after the search.
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  569. The clue was always in the name with this fella.
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  570. While the choice of words by the cop in this case was unfortunate, if we’re honest, we all know what he meant. If this dude hadn’t been wearing his kippah the copper wouldn’t have made the comment or even noticed him. In a way, the copper was actually trying to protect the dude from what he saw (rightly or wrongly) as potential aggression/violence towards him. The threat to arrest was totally out of order but my instinct is that this copper wasn’t being consciously (or even unconsciously) antisemitic.
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  571. The Taliban is categorically no different from any controlling spouse the world over. Difference here, is that the Taliban are doing this through the wider mechanisms of State, filtered through their barbaric, primitive, evil version of Islam. In both cases, it’s small, fearful men dictating the terms and conditions for others, as has been the case more or less since the year dot.
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  572. “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” (Mark Twain)
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  573. In a way, he’s a victim here, too; a victim of humanity’s war machine. The key issue here is whether he was ‘following orders’ or not. If he wasn’t, he deserves what’s coming to him; if he was, then the one whose orders he was following is the guilty party here. Kafka would’ve had a field-day with this stuff.
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  574. “How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?” (George Carlin)
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  575.  @CalamityCeleste Tbf, to bummonkey, Europeans did kinda take over New Zealand. He’s half-right.
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  576. “Welcome to the U.S.: we arm our teachers.” “Welcome to the U.K.: we don’t even arm most of our police!”
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  577. “Welcome to the US: we arm our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police!” 👮‍♀️
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  578. Whilst I fully sympathise with the loss of these poor souls, willing to bet that this story would not have got even a tenth of the frenzied media coverage it has received if the wreck they were descending to had not been the Titanic (probably the world’s most famous ship) but had been some nondescript, unknown ship like most of the 3 million lost sunken ships/boats under the sea. That, and some billionaire guy was on board.
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  579. 🎶 We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone 🎵 Never more than now have Pink Floyd’s lyrics been more appropriate.
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  580. Back in the day, if you were confused, you were invariably gay. That’s fine. Homosexuality is fine by me. It’s only in the last 10/20 years that being confused about your sexuality has transmogrified into being confused about your sex, thereby leading to butchering the bits nature gave you.
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  581. 0:20 Ffs. 🤦‍♂️ Even the aid that is supposed to help these poor people is sinisterly killing them. For those of us with no skin in this game, it’s just having a sense of basic humanity that wants to see innocent people fed and watered in a nightmarish circumstance. Too often in this thing, people are one thing or another. It’s easy to see that what happened on October 7th was a horrendous crime against humanity; but by the same token, the subsequent 5 months look much like a crime against humanity.
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  582. Well, on the bright side, Morrison could have a career playing rugby in the local under-12s league.
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  583. What I’ve always found odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ Given these rather basic needs, why are we still here killing each other over nothing? 🤦‍♂️
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  584. Absolutely untrue. You just want to believe this. You need to look more closely. While India undoubtedly has a massive problem with male chauvinism generally, it’s interesting to note that on nearly all of the stats you check, it hovers around 2 per 100,000 of the population for reported rapes; compare that to, say, Iceland, which is regularly above 60 per 100,000, France, above 50 per 100,000 and in 2022, England and Wales, astonishingly, had a figure of 117 per 100,000 for reported rapes. Even if you factor in the unreported stuff in India (bearing in mind there will also be unreported stuff elsewhere), the stats seem to suggest that India actually has one of the lowest rape rates on the planet.
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  585. Yup. And after 4 years ppl will be pissed off with Labour and there will be clamouring for change. Of course, in a first past the post system, that change can only be Tory. We live with a Hobson’s choice.
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  586. If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had £44 billion, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  587. Xi: “But I clearly asked for a white wine spritzer.” Trudeau: “I’m sorry, Sir, but this is my first day working here.”
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  588. Events of the past few days just go to show how vulnerable Putin’s position really is. Every dictator has to be seen as 100% invulnerable by the wider populace and if any cracks appear in that carapace then history shows they don’t have much longer in the hot seat. I’m no theist, but Jesus got this one right when he said: “And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
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  589. This has more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This thing clearly exists, but the overreaction here in Shanghai smells mighty sinister, notwithstanding the regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  590. Have to say, if I were Baldwin and were told the gun was ‘cold’ then I would feel a total injustice here to be charged with manslaughter. It’s surely the movie’s armorer who is directly responsible here by making the error of handing him a ‘hot’ gun, however unwillingly and mistakenly. There has to be something more here that’ll probably come out in a full trial.
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  591. “Welcome to America: we arm our teachers.” “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”
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  592. Russia, ultimately, has no chance in this war. After all, imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against something you don’t hate.
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  593. “The Ukraine is a proxy battleground for murky Western interests” - This may be the truest thing Sky has reported in 8 weeks of this thing.
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  594. Quite right, too. As someone from Edinburgh where all this was taking place, it was a comedy of errors, delays, obfuscation and utter farce. Until now. Let him face the justice he deserves.
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  595.  @alexanderstefanov6474 No. This is mainly about uncontrolled mass immigration.
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  596. That may be so. We’ll see how long Syrian women continue to be ‘free’ under his Islamist regime.
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  597.  @Nun195 So, stating facts is being a ‘bigot’ now, is it? 🤔 If every other manmade organised religion is open to criticism (and it is) then why should Islam get a free pass here?
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  598. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  599. He’s an actor fronting a proxy war on behalf of the West.
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  600. Jesus. Here we are in 2024 debating numbers killed in another pointless war. What’s eternally odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of warmth, a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ (But not necessarily in that order.) Rather basic needs, yet here we are still killing each other over nothing. 🤦‍♂️
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  601. “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” (Henry David Thoreau)
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  602. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human.🤧
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  603. Remember, politicians are essentially self-interested and looking out for themselves and their party. This fella has resigned, and on the face of it, it looks like the honourable thing to do. However, he’s simply made the calculation that Johnson could be a grave liability for Tory re-election at the next Election, and he would be right to make that calculation.
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  604. ‘Shady’? Was this meeting done in the dark to test Cummings’ eyesight? 👁
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  605. Russia War Aim 1: Take Kiev (lol) Russia War Aim 2: Take Donbas (lmao) Russia War Aim 3: Hold Moscow (pmsl)
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  606. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  607. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  608.  @sheilamacdougal4874  75%? Utter garbage. In 2006, 44% voted for them. Nice try though, Sheila.👍
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  609. ‘Moscow says it will continue until all of its objectives have been met’; or until Putin pops his clogs. Sooner the better.
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  610. These religions can’t even agree amongst themselves! 🤦‍♂️ This has a background of Sunni vs Shia. I despair at humankind and their tribal invisible sky daddies. It’s no more advanced than when you’re at school: “My daddy is better than your daddy!” It’s on that level. All invented. All based on unverified and unverifiable stuff. The trouble organised religion causes, causes countless millions to mourn. As Steven Weinberg aptly put it: With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
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  611. These types of situations are always confusing. If we accept the premise that Israel has a right to exist (and majority opinion in the world says it does) then unless Hezbollah acquires a nuke, there is absolutely no way on Allah’s Earth they will defeat a state backed to the absolute hilt militarily by the USA. If Hezbollah had anything about them (they don’t) they would focus more on the disastrous economic basket case state that is Lebanon, rather than sparring with Israel. It’s in relatively recent historical memory that Beirut was (with some justification) known as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’. What once was, can be again. They can’t win. Israel, short of an all-out nuclear WW3 will continue to exist no matter what Hezbollah/Hamas do. The sooner these groups (and those who think like them), wake up to this realisation the better for us all. Including, in the long run, themselves.
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  612.  @wamnicho  There’s probably something in that. However, if the ‘elites’ can’t see that importing en masse an ideology that is at odds with secular liberal democracy, then the result may end up drastically reducing all those extra births produced by the incomers.
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  613. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and ballistics.”
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  614. There is no Allah. Deal with it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  615. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig)
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  616. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Thomas Jefferson) Go Iran! Take note, Russia.
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  617. The moon’s essentially just a barren, atmosphere-free rock. However, my favourite thing about it has always been how in a solar eclipse it fits exactly over the sun (from Earth’s perspective) as if one were placing a 10p on a 10p. Why? It’s all thanks to a striking coincidence. The sun is about 400 times as wide as the moon, but it is also 400 times further away. If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think someone, or something, had planned it that way. 🤔 🌝
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  618. @0:05 “This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.” 🤣
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  619. Clarkey must be having a day off. Fair play. Probably at home on manoeuvres with his toy soldiers.
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  620. Putin was spotted surreptitiously slinking through the airport today. Customs Officer asked him: “Occupation?” He said: “No. Just visiting.” 😳
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  621. Russia’s Phase 1: Take Kiev. (Lol) Russia’s Phase 2: Take Donbas. (Lmao) Russia’s Phase 3: Hold onto Moscow. (Rofl)
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  622. Never mind the weather hampering the Russian offensive; it’s just a case of Ukraining on the Russians’ air-raids.
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  623. If the ‘Yesers’ win this one, do the ‘Noers’ get another shot, in a best-out-of-3 game? Seems only fair.😳
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  624. Starmer should simply harness the natural gas emitted by Boris at the despatch box in parliament, and our energy crisis could be solved overnight.
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  625. That ‘TL’ on his lapel stands for ‘total liar’.
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  626. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher still in hiding 3 years after showing a cartoon! I repeat: a f*cking cartoon! I don’t want to live in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  627. When it comes to religion, Islam is currently the only one I’d be wary of publicly criticising simply for fear of violent repercussions. I’m agnostic, with little time for any organised religion, but out of all of them it’s Islam that seems to demand the most respect for its values on the one hand (on pain of possible death for not doing so), yet is the least likely to give respect for others’ values on the other hand.
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  628. According to official government stats, the top 5 nationalities arriving illegally into the UK via Channel boats from July 2021-June 2023 are Iran, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. What do these countries have in common? Every single one has a massive Muslim majority population. Even Albania, which I was surprised to discover is nearly 60% Muslim. In principle, I have no intrinsic issue with immigration, provided it is legal and strictly controlled. What we have here is a free for all. A free for all led by Islam. As a secular agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion, but the one I most mistrust, in the world currently as it stands, is Islam. Wherever it goes and wherever it rubs up against antithetical cultures it seems there is trouble. The UK currently has a 7% Muslim population. Current projections predict it will be 17% by 2050. By 2050 Sweden is predicted to have a 30% Muslim population; a third of Sweden will be Islamic. Interesting times. ​​⁠If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism.
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  629.  @Whatever4690  That doesn’t work, as the US has a higher rate of knife crime.
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  630. Just stop being open doors for anyone who wants to arrive here. It’s that simple. Any government that doesn’t get a grip on this can expect far worse down the line.
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  631. Al Gore preaching to me about the dangers of climate change is a bit like Jimmy Savile preaching to me about the dangers of paedophilia! ⚠️
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  632. First a Chinese guy; now a Vietnamese immigrant - well, you can’t say these guys haven’t fully integrated into American culture!
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  633. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” (George Orwell)
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  634. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of random gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  635.  @tatteredquilt  I refer you to the response I gave elsewhere about the possible provenance of the attacker. Given that, since 2004, there have been well over 100 major Islamic attacks on European soil (that’s 3/4 attacks per year on average), I’m leaning towards the position that this is just another one of those religiously-motivated attacks. I would like to be proved wrong but don’t think I will be, alas.
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  636. My dear old mum always used to say never trust in Tristans and never accept candy from Andys.
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  637. Deeply insulting to every cold bowl of porridge everywhere.
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  638. Love the West’s double-standards: not ok for Russia to illegally occupy Ukraine; ok for Israel to illegally occupy Palestinian territory. 👍
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  639. “Come to America: we arm our teachers.” “Come to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”
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  640. Now if only the British hadn’t aggressively meddled and ‘planted’ its own people in Ulster back in the day, then we would have none of this nonsense. Moral of story: keep your nose out of other people’s business.
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  641. No problem with people having the freedom to worship any invisible sky daddy they care to invent. Just do it in your own time and in your own privacy. The end.
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  642. A big part of the problem with Islam is that, unlike current Christianity (and other faiths), it’s aggressive. If it embeds itself somewhere, it will want to call the shots. As an agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently, is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  643. Asking Joe Biden to ‘take action’ is a bit like asking Boris Johnson to resign.
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  644. Asking me to apologise for something my ancestors did, is a bit like asking me to apologise to the families of the victims of my mass-murdering grandfather. Both had nothing to do with me!
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  645.  @DR3ADER1 Dude, you still have time to delete all your posts and slink away gracefully. 👍😉
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  646. Uh huh. And remind me who was it that invaded Ukraine? 🤔
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  647. Leaving aside the human cost which, God knows, is bad enough, one of my greatest sadnesses in wars is the loss of beautiful old towns and cities; almost like losing an old friend who makes the world a better place to be.
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  648. Part of the issue here, and part of the issue in all places with miscegenation is the subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiracialism’. For societies to function optimally, you need folks pulling in more or less the same direction. With multiculturalism you tend to have this individual culture and that individual culture operating in their own little milieu within the greater milieu. Obviously, this isn’t optimal for social cohesion. Multiracialism, however, allows for a Chinese, a French, a Nigerian, a Brazilian, an American, an Australian and a penguin to live in harmony, without the imposition of one’s cultural heritage on a host society. The other thing to note here is organised religion. We in the relatively secular West completely mistrust organised religion. As long as folks just do their thing without imposing it on others, then this gig will swing along just fine.
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  649. This fricking fracking ain’t got my backing, and this backtracking Tory government needs sacking and sent packing.
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  650. Right decision. This is just another case of Islam’s supreme sense of self-entitlement. For some reason, it seems to think it stands apart from all the other religions when it comes to rights and privileges. There should be no overt religious practice in any publicly-funded state school. Religion is a private matter and should remain that way. As a lifelong agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  651. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  652. Benjamin Butterworth? I wouldn’t buy margarine off this fella!
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  653. Ah, Rolfy was keen on the old didgeridoo, but the tragedy was he never knew when to didgeridon’t! A right boomerwrong’un, if ever there was one.
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  654. @1:52 Lovely to see Paul O’Grady still making his presence felt from beyond the grave. Fair play. 👍
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  655. Thing people often get mistaken is that the SNP is synonymous with Scottish independence; it is not. Yes, their raison d'être as a Party is independence, but even if the SNP vanished tomorrow, there would still be a steady 40-49% of Scots in favour of independence. I say this as a Scot who is an independence “agnostic” and undecided one way or t’other on the issue. My feeling is, however, that Scottish independence, like a united Ireland, is only a matter of time. It will happen, but perhaps not in the short/medium-term.
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  656. Russia may be about to ‘run out of steam’; however, it’s not about to run out of coal, gas and oil anytime soon, and therein lies the issue.
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  657. @4:00 “The PM is detained on urgent business.” Lol. Yes, she’s viewing new houses for her imminent departure from number 10!
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  658.  @banger2998  America, with a homicide rate consistently 4x that of the UK, suggests the UK is doing rather well, relatively speaking. Moreover, America has more knife crime than the UK. Taking this knife crime alone (leaving aside firearms), the US suffers far more. Latest figures show 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in America for every million of the population in 2016. In Britain the figure was 3.26.
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  659. Yeah, but that could be because anyone who is not a Muslim doesn’t trust Islam. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  660. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does imo), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged and properly implemented, there will be no end to this.
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  661. Man crosses Atlantic on jet to have chat about others taking jets to cross Atlantic to have chats. 🤦‍♂️If Kerry really believed this stuff, he’d have Zoomed Christian, missus!
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  662. Not quite true. Every refugee boat which sinks gets extensive coverage at the time. Difference with this case is that it’s a live ongoing saga until the oxygen runs out. There’s also the “Titanic factor” here.
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  663. That’s not an argument; just a personal statement based on prejudiced feeling.
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  664.  @صيفي-ل3س  I didn’t enter anyone’s home and don’t owe anyone anything. 😏😏😏
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  665. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)
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  666. But that’s the thing. Europeans were never consulted on this mass immigration of the past 50 years.
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  667. Lol. He’s been ‘accepting cash’ since the day he was born; cash from the hard-working British taxpayer!
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  668. You’re not a Palestinian. In another post you addressed them: “we stand with you” etc. Don’t lie.
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  669. 6:15 When you see this, it’s a pure miracle anyone survived. RIP.
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  670. Most people are. In their head. This dude is just vocalising what the vast majority of humanity thinks. You’re an outlier here.👍
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  671. Let’s hope by the time all the votes are in, it’s Erdogone.
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  672. One of my all-time favourite quotes is the following written by Robert M Pirsig: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. In religious terms, the Taliban are just the most extreme, most egregious example of this mentality that we have on the planet right now. They know they can’t get the vast majority of people to willingly buy into their primitive, stupid, barbaric nonsense, so they have to apply the heavy hand to institute it. They themselves aren’t sure of what to believe and in their desperation they’ll force others to follow them down the barrel of a gun. Why? Because they can.
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  673. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  674. “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” (Woody Allen)
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  675. Don’t really get it. Why not just move Wagner men to Belarus without all the faff?
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  676. Hope Odesa doesn’t get completely mashed. One of the tragedies of war, aside from the obvious human cost, is the loss of beautiful old cities and towns, which once gone, are never to return and are invariably replaced with horrendous modern architectural monstrosities (eg. Marseille, Le Havre, Hamburg, Portsmouth etc.). Odesa is one of Ukraine’s gems. Please let the war gods spare it.
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  677. Tbh, at this point I have far more respect for leopards 🐆 than I do for humans. 👨 👩 Leopards just do their thing. We humans, however, do our ‘thing’ and then some.
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  678. Whenever reports like this pop up, Thoreau’s wise words always spring to mind: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” 🤓
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  679. Well, if he was an illegal migrant, it’s right he be deported. This is rather simple. Immigration, done right, works. Britain simply needs to get control of its front door. We should assess what kind of skills we need to import and these people should be the first pick. Genuine asylum seekers should also be justly heard. The trouble at the moment is that Britain has left its front door unlocked while it popped to the shops for a pint of milk, and some unwanted squatters have moved in.
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  680. I love how from day 1 of this crap it’s been you are either pro-Russia or anti-Russia or pro-Ukraine (and by extension NATO) or anti-Ukraine. It’s confused me from the off how people can be so determinedly black or white. I cared not a jot about Ukraine or Russia the day before this farrago began and I only care about them now because they are quite close neighbours and their dispute might spill over into my backyard. However, when all is said and done my bottom line from day 1 has been quite simple: self-determination. Surely, as with every place and people in the world where there is disputed territory, this thing between Russia and Ukraine is all about self-determination. It seems that an overwhelming majority of Ukrainians want to exist in an independent, sovereign, self governing nation, and if that’s the case that’s good enough for me. This goes for the China/Taiwan thing, too. Taiwanese overwhelmingly want nothing to do with China. In all cases, these majority voices should be honoured.
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  681. Caves get me more than vents. As long as I live I will never understand the mentality of those who enjoy caving.
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  682. Yes. He had all the numbers. He had the numbers of Susie, Jane, Emily, Jemima, Laura, Charlotte, Sophia etc etc etc etc. All the numbers.
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  683. COVID-19 cases are rising, because it suits those who want to see cases rising.😳
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  684. Ahaha! The mighty Belarus has us all quaking in our boots! 🥾
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  685. Starmer dodged a bullet there. Standing in front of artworks like that, he could’ve easily had a Victoria sponge pushed into his face. 🍰
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  686. @1:33 “I think it’s a bit too early for Boris to make a return.” Lol. It’s always going to be ‘too early’ for Bozo to make a return. He’s done for, politically. His coffin has been signed, sealed and delivered by the British public.
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  687. Much like ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who were fairly happily co-existing with non-Russian ethnic Ukrainians in a sovereign Ukraine before Putin’s mucky paws entered the fray; I’ve never quite understood (beyond the nonsense of organised religion and all the made-up tribal Catholic/Protestant baloney) just why Ireland can’t be one country; a bit like Belgium, say, where the Walloons and Flemish seem to be able to rub along together. After all, I’m sure the UK mainland would be more than willing to accept the Unionist malcontents (that were artificially ‘planted’ there by the British state) for whom a united Ireland would be anathema. Surely, it’s time to right the stark injustice that was done to the island of Ireland back in the day, and let it become what it clearly should be (without British meddling): one united country.
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  688. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  689. Sharron is just speaking common sense which, as we know, isn’t so common these days. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all, and is essentially down to feelings: you can be biologically male and identify as (or feel) ‘female’ and vice-versa, but you cannot actually biologically flip from one to the other. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This latter, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as ‘female’, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as ‘male’, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  690. What this country needs now, is proportional representation. If the constant choice is a to and fro between bread and slightly staler bread, then it’s long before time for real democracy. It needs to be changed to truly represent the voting choices of the people.
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  691. Right decision. This is just another case of Islam’s supreme sense of self-entitlement. For some reason, it seems to think it stands apart from all the other religions when it comes to rights and privileges. As a lifelong agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  692. Even if I were a trans woman who was an athlete, I wouldn’t want to compete in biological women’s events. Why can’t they see how unfair this is? It’s as unfair as allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  693. The last time I saw this much ‘white paper’ was at the end of that particularly difficult Mathematics exam I took back in 1989. 📝
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  694. Imagine letting just about anyone who wants a gun have a gun... 🤦‍♂️
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  695. This 6-day ‘Special Military Operation’ is turning out to be the longest 6-day Special Military Operation in history!
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  696.  @shonwamcfeckerty7363 Yeah, just like the dude was ‘incompassionate’ (sic) when he was part of a gang who attacked another dude with a machete.
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  697. Wow! Uganda sees a bit of sense. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law (as here in Uganda recently, before they ‘watered-down’ this law) what another (to be precise: 2 consenting adults ) must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: how would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  698. With a name like ‘Combs’, let’s face it, we always knew we might have a groomer on our hands here.
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  699. This reminds me of one of my favourite jokes: What do Jesus and a Michelin Star chef have in common? They can both feed 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish! 🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🐟 🐟
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  700. EasyJet and Tui nicely enforcing their own no fly zones.
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  701. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  702. As my dear departed granny used to say: “Money’s like muck; no use unless it’s spread.”
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  703. Well, suddenly Blaise Pascal’s words seem spot-on: “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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  704. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” (Martin Hammond - Eton Housemaster) All the signs were there.
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  705. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human.🤧
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  706. This Tory Cabinet has had more re-shuffles than my iPod! 📱
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  707. ‘It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.’ (Nelson Mandela) It’s true. Yes, prison should be a punishment (mainly being the taking away of freedom, but it should also be no holiday camp), but if a nation doesn’t have a strong focus on the rehabilitation of those who can be rehabilitated, then that nation is just doomed to send repeat offenders back to prison.
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  708. It’s an eternal mystery why what 2 consenting adults get up to is anyone else’s business.
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  709.  @roadtohope Yeah, ‘like the West’. Are you seriously suggesting Iranian women have more freedom than western women? 😮
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  710. As a great fan of Westerns since about the age of 7, I always instinctively sided with the Indians. That instinct was correct.
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  711. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  712. @1:25 “How can you not understand? This is a war between Russia and the USA on the territory of Ukraine. You can see they’re just puppets in Kyiv. Who is Zelensky? A clown.” This lady needs her own show! 🤣
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  713.  @DarthNationalist  ‘They’? That’ll be Hamas then. Last time I checked about 750,000 Gazans were under 16. ‘They’ didn’t start this. Moreover, there hasn’t been a fair and free election in Gaza for 17 years.
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  714. Russia holds referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine. How about Ukraine initiates referendums about returning Kaliningrad to Germany, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Japan, Kazan to Tatar, Karelia to Finland, Siberia to Yakuts, Transnistria to Moldova, and everything situated east of the Ural mountains to the indigenous peoples.
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  715. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years, just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. Until the 2-state solution is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  716. Well, this is a double victory for Macron: not only has he been re-elected as French President, but he’s just found out that Elizabeth II is recently single! 🇫🇷 👑 🇬🇧
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  717. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  718. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human.🤧
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  719. Stop insulting cold damp toast.
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  720. @1:58 “Will he meet the threshold of 100 MPs?” Never mind 100 MPs; Bozo, or anyone else wanting to be PM, needs to meet the threshold of several million voters. These Tories really need to get the message. Everyone, but them, is demanding an election, and now!
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  721. Remember, politicians are essentially self-interested and looking out for themselves and their party. This fella apparently calls for Bozo’s resignation, and on the face of it, it looks like the honourable thing to do. However, he’s simply made the calculation that Johnson could be a grave liability for Tory re-election at the next Election, and he would be right to make that calculation.
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  722. Weird game. For first 20 minutes England looked like the tournament winners. For the next 70 they looked distinctly average and could quite easily have drawn that game, or worse.
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  723. I never understood this phrase ‘war crimes’. Isn’t all war, by definition, a ‘crime’?
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  724. 🥱 How many more times. 🤦‍♂️
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  725. Looks like this could be Boris’ bye-bye-by election.👋
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  726. 🛸 If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  727. Dear God, no! Not another Schofield piece. This has to be the greatest overkill over nothing in history. Older guy has consensual affair with younger guy and lies about it. With all the nonsense going on in the world, I’m utterly baffled at the extensive, almost hysterical coverage given to this. Millions of people all over the world have affairs every day and lie about it. Last time I checked, Schofield has committed no crime. This overkill coverage is soooooo boring.
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  728.  @mcstyle24  Yes, my copy and paste.😉
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  729. Wow! Putin’s green screen is even more impressive than Zelensky’s!
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  730. It’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. The vast majority of people in my orbit have no issue with controlled legal immigration. Where the issue arises is the suspicion many (the majority?) of these individuals are simply economic migrants. If these people are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem accepting them as refugees into Europe, and I personally would have no problem with a barge full of genuine refugees in my backyard. However, more widely, Europe in toto needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  731. “In Scotland, people think that NATO is just a nickname you give to a guy who lost a foot to diabetes.” (Frankie Boyle)
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  732. Fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan is like fighting against rats in the sewers of New York. You might trap a few, but they are going to dodge you for the most part, due to home advantage in a very intricate territory. Former USSR knows all about this terrain to its cost.
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  733. You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years (B Russell)
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  734. According to the dictionary definition, “art” is: “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” The key word for me in that definition is “human”. For all its possible technical accomplishment, AI art lacks the human and is, in that sense, not creating art but replicating art. For these reasons, AI art will never have the emotive power of human art.
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  735. Allowing the sitting prime minister to have the final say as to whom becomes the BBC chairman is fundamentally unsustainable for an organisation that putatively prides itself on impartiality before anything else.
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  736. These local ‘authorities’ in Brussels need to do 2 things: 1. Not take their ‘authority’ as a synonym for ‘authoritarianism’. 2. Read and absorb the following from George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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  737. Pandas are glorious: they teach us that you can eat all day and sleep the rest of the day and there is no guilt involved. Human beings could learn much from the average panda. 🐼
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  738. In Scotland, a ‘NATO summit’ is a meeting of those who have lost a foot due to diabetes. 🦶
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  739. Why is anyone surprised at this? Here in the UK, as far as I’m aware we all drink ‘treated’ (i.e. sewage) water every time we have a glass of tap (faucet for the Yankee Doodles amongst us) water. It’s nothing new.
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  740. If he’s elected by his party, fine. That’s democracy. But how a man with a £730 million personal fortune can have any real insight into the lived lives of Joe and Jill Bloggs is a bit baffling. Not only that, he openly admits he ‘doesn’t have working-class friends’. Doesn’t bode well for Tory chances at the next GE.
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  741. “And the Best Actor Oscar goes to Ghulam Ghaus for The Tear Hunter .”
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  742. ‘Missing in action’? Not sure they ever turned up for action in the first place.
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  743. With a name like Cooper, she was always going to have Priti Patel over a barrel on this one.
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  744. “Tory right-wing has ‘taken a dent’”. Yes, and they must release Susie immediately! Dictionary corner needs her.
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  745. Russia has clearly been taking lessons from the American political playbook.
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  746. ‘This is not where Russia planned to be’ This is also not where Ukraine planned Russia would be.
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  747. The vast majority of folks in my orbit have zero problem with legal immigration. Even the most liberal people I’m aware of would not be pro-open borders. The main issue here for any UK government is quite simply to get a grip of those people coming into this country. What always astonishes me about this debate, is France has a land border with 8 countries and the UK has 20 miles of water separating it from 1 country (due respect to the UK-Holland/Belgium routes) yet still can’t control this thing. Weird.
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  748. Have to say, if I were Baldwin and were told the gun was ‘cold’ then I would feel a total injustice here to be charged with manslaughter. It’s surely the movie’s armorer who is directly responsible by making the error of handing him a ‘hot’ gun, however unwillingly and mistakenly. There has to be something more here that’ll probably come out in a full trial.
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  749. Sean’s just glad that, for once, he doesn’t have to pronounce Donetsk-Makiivka, Zaporizhzhia, Horlivka and Kamianske, and Kryvyi Rih.
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  750. Organised religion is easily one the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent.
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  751. I disagree with Farage about lots of things, but he’s spot on about this stuff. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  752. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin)
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  753. Not normally for banning stuff, but this makes sense as civil servants are supposed to be seen to be impartial, so if you have parliament staffers wearing overtly political stuff this essentially breaks that rule. The MSPs have obviously nailed their colours to a certain mast so we know their political stance anyway, obviously.
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  754. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years, just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then do you think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. If Israel doesn’t address this history, then this nightmare will just be repeated in a loop ad infinitum.
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  755. If it’s gonna kick off (and it probably will, at this rate), it will kick off in a place like Bradford. Why the UK is creating whole cities at this point dedicated to 1 religion is a bit of a mystery. Bradford is currently 30% Muslim and projected to be well over 50% in 20 years. Why are we doing this? If the West is going to import en masse a philosophy wholly at odds with free, liberal democracy then at least spread it around, ffs! I recently visited Bradford and was genuinely alarmed at just how ghettoised things are. What are we doing? There has to be integration, otherwise we are just creating our future civil wars in the here and now. 🤦‍♂️
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  756. Looks like Neil’s political career is imminently parishable.
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  757. This is rather simple. Immigration, done right, works. Britain simply needs to get control of its front door. We should assess what kind of skills we need to import and these people should be the first pick. Genuine asylum seekers should also be justly heard. The trouble at the moment, is that Britain has left its front door unlocked while it popped to the shops for a pint of milk, and some unwanted squatters have moved in.
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  758. Woman’s body; woman’s right to choose. Simply no one else’s business. 👍
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  759. Instinct tells me his principle aim is not helping ordinary people in inner-cities, but rather helping his people in the City. The Tories are merely shuffling deckchairs while the Titanic sinks. They are as good as dead in the water. They’re going to have to rename it, ‘Drowning Street’.
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  760. I liked O’Grady. Real, honest, funny, whether as Lily or himself. Whenever homophobic, anti-drag morons bang on about how ‘wrong’ homosexuality and drag culture is, I often think of this guy, who was one of the best arguments against said homophobic anti-drag morons. RIP.
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  761. Chris ‘Pincher’: nominative determinism in action, people.😳
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  762. If this gets much worse they may have to alter some of the State names accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  763. “You veel eat ze bugs!” 🐛 🐜 🕷 Meanwhile, Klaus and his mates will be chowing down ze veal! 🐄
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  764. My private jet was once tracked by Taylor Swift but luckily I managed to shake it off.
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  765. G7? I counted 9. Looks like we have 2 infiltrators.😳
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  766. 1. Trump backs Putin. 2. Harris backs neither. 3. Putin backs Harris. 4. I think that’s what you call a lose-lose for Trump.
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  767. Let the Taiwanese decide this for themselves.
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  768. Lol. He’s been ‘accepting cash’ since the day he was born; cash from the hard-working British taxpayer!
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  769. Vladimir Putin: The butcher of Bucha.
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  770. Google News18. The close-up image they have is 100% not her. Something a little fishy going on here. Odd thing is that that does seem to be William. If it isn’t, it’s an excellent lookalike.
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  771. If ‘security’ with balaclavas and hand-cuffs are ‘escorting’ staff off the ship, can we not get the S.A.S. to escort management from their premises?
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  772. I can’t stand Paltrow, tbh. She comes across as an arrogant entitled so and so. But, by the same token, I can’t stand Sanderson. Come on, man. You are a retired ‘optometrist’, who’s average salary, according to Forbes, is $120,000. You are 76. If you had ‘crashed’ into some financial non-entity, this would never have come to Court.
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  773. This is, in part, linked to the way boys as young as 7/8 are regularly accessing hardcore porn depicting terrible objectification of women purely for men’s sexual gratification. A whole generation has been brought up on this stuff, linked to when everyone got a smartphone about 20 years ago. It’s not the only factor, to be sure, but it’s a big factor. Back in the day, the only porn available to us as boys were the used, sticky copies of Razzle or Fiesta you’d find in the bushes on the way home from school.
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  774. I recall, as a kid, visiting London lots of times in the 1980s on family holidays and we always used to visit Downing Street. My abiding memory of it was how utterly relaxed security was. You could wander right up the street to directly face Number 10 and take photos and stuff. No barriers. No gates. No checks. Nothing. Just the famous Bobby standing outside like a friendly village policeman. All this at the height of the IRA Troubles, too! I think what changed all this was the IRA attack on Downing Street in 1991.
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  775. I’m struck by how the Russia/Ukraine thing is so desperate and pointless, given the shared cultural/linguistic heritage between the two. It’s akin to England bombing Scotland for the latter having the temerity to vote for self-determination and existence as a sovereign state. That stupid. That pointless. That mad. But then I, an agnostic, think of the Bible. The first murder? Cain and Abel. Brothers. It’s an old, sad, sorry song. Also, If you look at a map of Europe, and you look at the extent of the NATO countries to 1997, they extend as far east as Germany. After 1997, NATO expanded like a cancerous growth (as Putin sees it), to encompass 14 other nations, geographically extending as far east as Estonia and Latvia (crucially, from Putin’s point of view, ex-USSR components.) Now look at Ukraine on this map. A further incursion east, by a state with a majority looking west, not east. A further former ex-USSR component eating into (as Putin sees it) the motherland Russia. Now, I’m no supporter of Putin. He’s wrong to aggressively invade a sovereign, self-governing territory, in my opinion. However, this notwithstanding, I can fully see how, just by looking at a map and the physical geography, Putin might feel threatened and a little boxed in. It’s akin to Canada and Mexico joining a Russia-led alliance and not expecting the USA to take aggressive action. But then the double-standards modus operandi of the west was always hiding in plain sight. Does any of this justify his behaviour? Not a jot.
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  776. Presumably, these houses won’t be mansions, but ‘nonbinarygenderneutralsions’. 🏠 🌈
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  777. Latest reports suggest Khalife was working with cheese in the prison kitchen just before he fled. Looks like a case of the grater escapes. 🧀
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  778.  @PrivateWalker  Clinton has an appalling record in Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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  779. A bit like many of us over here feel about Trudeau.
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  780. Wish her all the best. 👍No royalist but feel a bit for Wills. As Shakespeare said: When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
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  781. Greece, as a country, really does seem to have come off the rails these past decades.
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  782. Had a mahoosive crush on Daniela Denby-Ashe back in the day. So cute.
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  783. It’s not immigration per se, necessarily; it’s Islamic immigration that is the main issue here.
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  784. Whilst I fully sympathise with the loss of these poor souls, willing to bet that this story would not have got even a tenth of the frenzied media coverage it has received if the wreck they were descending to had not been the Titanic (probably the world’s most famous ship) but had been some nondescript, unknown ship like most of the 3 million lost sunken ships/boats under the sea. That, and some billionaire guy was on board.
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  785.  @valentinakuleshova5978  Ukrainian and Russian share about 60% of the same vocabulary. I’d call that pretty close cousins, linguistically.👍
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  786.  @opiopaul6519  Is it? Modern medicine. Modern technology. Relative freedom (in some places). Man City winning the Title again. All sounds good to me.🥸
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  787. Elon Musk has that hooded-eyed look that would make an excellent Bond villain. Cold, dead eyes. Given the speed he is sacking his staff, we could call him ‘Elon Brusque’.
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  788. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  789. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  790. @1:40 “Only something done to women candidates.” I’m no Trump fan but to suggest Trump only roasts women is just an outright lie. I don’t doubt he’s more chauvinistic than the average man, but do we really expect anything else from Trump at this point?
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  791. “Vladimir Putin looks sympathetic …” Now there’s a line I never thought I’d read in my lifetime.
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  792. There’s a difference between criticising an Israeli foreign policy and being antisemitic. Just because I loathe Hamas doesn’t mean I loathe Palestinians.
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  793. Willing to bet my last piece of Kendal mint cake that if this guy had been a dying Westerner all hands on deck would have been deployed and all world records abandoned.
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  794. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. It is a question of priorities, which most of his colleagues have no difficulty in sorting out. Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else .” (My emphasis) - Martin Hammond: Eton Master All the signs were there with this particular mop-top fop. 🙄
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  795. Ah, the seemingly never-ending shuffling of the Tory pack. Truss as PM meets the Queen, before Queen shuffles off this mortal coil. Truss is pushed out of the Club, as she had incompetence in Spades. Now Rishi. Does he have a Heart? Richer than the King. Worth more than Diamonds, but does he give a Jackshit about the ordinary person? Will he have an Ace up his sleeve for the country? Ultimately, for me they are all just a bunch of Jokers. Breaking News: Larry the cat has just been appointed Deputy Purreign Secretary. 🐱
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  796. Kudos to that human statue standing behind Beth; he didn’t flicker an inch in 5 minutes!
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  797. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “Of course. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them!” 🥾 🥾
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  798. @0:40 Crowd was apparently “bussed in” specially for the rally. Those who didn’t show the requisite amount of enthusiasm were “hearsed out” in a coffin. ⚰️
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  799. I quite like the show but here’s the thing: I never trusted the over the top ‘nicey niceyness’ of it where they always push hard the impression that everybody loves everybody else on the show. That bit always feels very forced. (Edit: just googled this. Apparently, it happened in 2009 and Du Beke used the term ‘P*ki’ to describe Rouass after a spray tan. This made the news at the time. Google it. Du Beke apologised and she accepted the apology. Not sure why it’s being dragged up again 15 years later. 🤔)
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  800. It is funny how for some, the likes of Saka, Bellingham and Mainoo etc. are ‘English’ when they are winning, but when they are losing, they suddenly aren’t. The racists can’t have it both ways: you can’t support the team (black players et al) when they’re winning but not support them when they’re losing. You’re either in or you’re out. Picking and choosing on a skin colour when it suits you to do so doesn’t work.
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  801.  @bryanjackson8917 Hamas were elected in 2006. 52% of Gazans are under 21. The vast majority of Gazans never voted for Hamas.
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  802. Just another reason never to vote Reform.
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  803. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone eating a donut because you’re on a diet.
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  804. It’s an interesting philosophical question: if all the images are AI generated and no human beings are involved and therefore there are no victims, is it still technically ‘paedophilia’? 🤔
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  805. How do you know they didn’t?
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  806. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  807. Well, tbf, it’s rather refreshing Israeli security forces are teargassing, stun-grenading and firing sponge-tipped bullets against Eritreans and not Palestinians for once. 👍
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  808. Putin’s going to respond by activating his ‘Elite Garden Shovel Unit’. 🤣
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  809. Henry Ford: “The customer can have any colour they want as long as it’s black.” Vladimir Putin: “The Russian people can have any leader they want as long as it’s me!”
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  810. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  811. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” (Martin Hammond - Eton Housemaster) All the signs were there.
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  812. Some of the people I least trust are Roman Catholics, and I say that as a Roman Catholic.
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  813. I hate to say this, but it wouldn’t surprise me if a supposed ‘rogue’ Russian missile finds its way into NATO territory, at some point. At that point: seek your nearest nuclear bunker. ☢️ I, for one, won’t. I’d rather go in the conflagration if surviving meant living in a nuclear winter.
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  814. She’s essentially a younger, prettier, slightly more centrist Marine Le Pen.
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  815.  @Sam-zu5mr  Uh huh. And what’s that got to do with the fact you can’t alter XX and XY chromosomes that are biologically given at birth? Look, here’s the deal: Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as ‘women’, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m ‘anti-trans’; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic; believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  816. Slightly ironic that the Biblical Exodus liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and here we are with the Palestinians fleeing the slavery of repression, oppression and occupation for decades and they can’t get into Egypt!
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  817. I f*cking love Andrew Tate. ❤️ He makes me realise he’s the last person on this planet I’d wanna be. 💪
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  818. Yes we do. He was a nutter.
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  819. Imagine leaving your own country because of an oppressive religion/culture only to arrive somewhere else with that same religion/culture and change that new place to the place you wanted to escape from! Europeans are quite sick of being forced to accept those whose culture/religion is wholly at odds with the European Enlightenment.🤦‍♂️Europe needs to put up a sign in the window: No Vacancies. Fully Occupied.
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  820. Well, as my dear departed granny always used to say, “Never trust in Tristans and never accept candy from Andys.” 🍭
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  821. My granny had a washing machine for 50 years that never broke down. My other granny had a fridge for a similar amount of time. In 25 years, I’m on my 4th washing machine and 3rd fridge. It’s called planned obsolescence and the pursuit of the profit motive. 👵
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  822. Apparently, it’s illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the monarch of Thailand (king, queen, heir-apparent, heir-presumptive, or regent). Modern Thai lèse-majesté law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only constitutional monarchy to have strengthened its lèse-majesté law since World War II. What a nonsense! Everything and everyone on this planet should be open to criticism without fear or favour. If any regime, monarchical or otherwise, is imprisoning someone for simply exercising their human right to free-speech, you can be sure that regime is insecure about its position.
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  823. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Those who bore on about the ‘rights of the unborn’ seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  824. This was a timely report by the BBC.👍
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  825. I’m all for legitimate asylum seekers to be heard and given sanctuary if needed; however, one thing I’ve never got is why living in a hotel should be so stressful. After all, most of us choose to go to a hotel to ‘destress’ for 2 weeks every year. Given that hundreds of thousands in this country live in often squalid, damp, mouldy accommodation, would’ve thought being put up in a warm, safe, comfortable hotel would be the least of these asylum seekers’ problems. It’s not as if they’re being put up in Fawlty Towers, ffs! 🏨 Mrs Richards: “When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that.” Fawlty: “Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain?” 🤣
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  826. Except beating Japan. 🇯🇵
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  827. ‘Port-a-potty’? Is that what you Yanks call them? Just plain old portaloo where I’m at. 🚽
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  828. What’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  829. What amazed me most about this story is how (as someone with mild claustrophobia who is in a slight panic every time I step into an elevator) people can not only agree to be bolted into what is essentially a tiny cabin, but to then descend 3,800m under the sea with all the obvious danger that entails. It’s similar going up, too; I’m in awe of those astronauts who strap themselves into a rocket to spend 6 months at a Space Station where at any moment, something catastrophic could go wrong. RIP.
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  830. Apparently, Rod is going to re-record his biggest hit in recognition of the NHS crisis. It’s a remix called “Ailing”.
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  831. At this point they really should consider updating the terms here. To be more inclusive, and avoid insulting women and non-binary people, ‘manslaughter’ should become ‘genderneutralpersonslaughter’.
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  832. “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” (Oscar Wilde)
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  833. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of a sovereign, self-governing territory just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  834. Harry epitomises the saying, ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ He’s been ruined by not actually having to work for a living.
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  835. Tbh, there was something fishy about Sturgeon from the beginning.
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  836. I love how Israel says it’s taking the utmost care not to harm innocent civilians in all this, but are we honestly expected to believe that if Hamas had holed themselves up in Israeli hospitals that the IDF would’ve been so apparently reckless with ordinary people’s lives? Of course they wouldn’t. There is no doubt in my mind that Netanyahu feels he has a bit of a free pass here (diplomatically and militarily supported by the west) to do more or less wtf he wants in Palestine.
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  837. Regardless of whether you accord with Baddiel’s politics, he is always worth listening to. It’s always about politics: if you’re pro-Israel, you’re automatically right-wing and if you’re pro-Palestine you’re automatically left-wing. It doesn’t work like that. People are complicated. I can’t stand Israel’s current foreign policy but I have zero problem with Jews. Simultaneously, I have zero issue with Palestinians but loathe militant Islam. It’s too easy to conflate stuff and condemn people without properly looking into their ideas and motivations.
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  838. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  839. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  840. The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde)
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  841. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  842. The issue for many people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s Islamic immigration. I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political. It wants control of the reins. The sooner those of us who aren’t fascists wake up to this, the better.
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  843. It’s got zero to do with ‘denying climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ since there has been a climate! The issue is ‘global warming’, and if global warming is a thing, just how much is humanity contributing to this?
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  844. ‘Zero Covid’, or in other words, ‘you know who’s in control.’
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  845. The really scary thing about these crash test dummies is that they have more spontaneous life in them than Rishi Sunak!
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  846. Watching the Major General talking took me back to my misspent youth watching all those badly dubbed European ‘art-house’ movies where the moving lips don’t match up with the words. Ah, nostalgia.
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  847. “Welcome to the US: we are thinking of arming our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police!” 👮‍♂️
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  848. I’d be delighted and excited if Trump were cited and indicted, for he’s like the benighted guest at the party no one invited, so let the indictment be expedited.
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  849. And just about every other nation/empire on this planet hasn’t gone to other places and ‘stolen their stuff’, I suppose.
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  850. As a Brit, it’s truly wonderful to see Paul O’Grady getting some extra work stateside presenting for CNN. 👍
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  851. Russia: “You started all this you know.” Ukraine: “No we didn’t.” Russia: “Yes you did. You let us invade you!”
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  852. Elon Musk, with his hooded, cold, dead eyes has the distinct look of a Bond villain. Given the swiftness with which he fires staff we could call him ‘Elon Brusque’. 🐈
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  853. Old dude was the victim of a scammer. Uber lady was the victim of a murderer. Even if the old guy thought she might be a threat to him, why didn’t he just call the cops? If he hadn’t had had easy access to a gun, he wouldn’t have played the vigilante.
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  854. Triggered, much?🤣
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  855.  @multipl3  Honest joke. Like all the best jokes.😉
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  856. “Child Asylum Seekers”? - I hope the children find the asylum seekers they are looking for.👍
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  857. Why is it not surprising that some random quoting the Bible at me is from Nigeria?🇳🇬👍
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  858.  @longlegs7881  No they’re not. That’s like saying every Israeli is Netanyahu. It’s not true.
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  859. We heard a lot at the start of this about October 7th being ‘Israel’s 9/11’ and how, in fact, it was 10x worse when adjusted for population. By the same logic, when adjusted for population, the equivalent of 50,000 Israelis have been killed in Palestine these past 7 weeks. Kinda puts Israel’s ‘9/11’ into the shade somewhat.
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  860. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  861. Breaking News: Harry is in early talks with Netflix over a remake of that old classic, The Bodyguard. This one’s to be called The No Bodyguard!
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  862. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Those who bore on about the ‘rights of the unborn’ seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we know as humans), the vast majority of of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  863. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory party, mainly.
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  864. In a dark world, it's lovely to see people just looking for their Seoulmate.
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  865. Lovely to see Charlie coming home and practising his mother tongue. Fair play.👍
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  866. Al Gore? Remind me again. Was he the guy that bought an ocean view villa right after he told us the sea level could rise as much as 20ft? That Al Gore? K. Gotcha! 👍
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  867. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  868. Poor thing was looking for his Seoulmate. 🦓
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  869.  @Bungle-UK Er, I have both. It was just a piece of subliterate crap. Not even that funny. Bad luck. 😭
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  870. The truth about this whole thing is that Laurence Fox clearly does want to sleep with Ava Evans. As Shaky said: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
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  871. It’s a bit mean that the French police were teargassing the Liverpool supporters; as if they wouldn’t have been crying enough last night. 😢
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  872. One of the intriguing things about this is how most of the interviewees seemed to have basic, even negligible, French skills and yet how close they are to the French border. One would think that as with, say Nice, where Italian proximity seems to make most of the French inhabitants there seem bilingual in French and Italian, that a similar phenomenon would obtain here in Barcelona. But no. It seems to work a bit better on the other side of the Pyrenees, where in San Sebastián I encountered many trilingual people (Basque, Spanish, French), old and young, and actually this phenomenon lingered as far west as Bilbao, to a certain extent. I suppose what I’m saying is that I expected that far more French-speaking Barcelonais would be randomly found on the streets of Barcelona than is the case in this sample. 🇪🇸
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  873. Bottom line here is simple: Assuming some wicked person didn’t dump her body after the sonar/diver search, the facts are Nicola was missing 24 days. Her body was found 1 mile from where she vanished. This smacks of serious incompetence on the part of Lancashire Police. No wonder they are in ‘special measures’. RIP Nicola.
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  874. What often gets lost in this debate over anti-Semitism is the important distinction between not digging the State of Israel and certain of its policies, and not having any particular issue whatsoever with Jews and Judaism itself. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been called an anti-Semite for simply voicing an opinion against Israel’s behaviour in certain regards. However, what Abbott wrote was, at best, insensitive and at worst deeply offensive.
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  875. I’m all for people’s rights to be who they want to be; but my strong suspicion about the vast majority of “trans” people, is that they are simply homosexual and confusing this with wanting to “change sex”, which we all know, is not actually possible.
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  876. Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. (Christopher Hitchens) Islam is the only one currently regularly behaving ‘barbarically’.
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  877. More than the whiff of the glory-hunter about these fellas; why would anyone volunteer for another’s national fight? Sounds like they just want an anecdote to tell the grandkids; if they make it that far.
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  878. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. It is a question of priorities, which most of his colleagues have no difficulty in sorting out. Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else .” (My emphasis) - Martin Hammond: Eton Master Why should we be surprised by any of this? All the signs were there with this particular mop-top fop. 🙄
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  879. Lovely ‘Indian’ name there, ‘jeffjohns’.👍🙃
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  880. One of my very favourite facts is that there are 2.3 million stone blocks in Giza’s Great Pyramid: 2.3 million ! It’s almost up there with the idea/fact that there are more suns in the Universe than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world combined! 🏝
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  881. To this onlooker, many male attitudes in India towards women do seem more than a little warped and unreconstructed; no doubt this is due in large part to tribal/caste structures which still obtain in the country. According to the World Population Review, India ranks as the 9th most dangerous country on this planet for women. In terms of intimate partner violence, it ranks 5th and a real clue as to why there might be something rotten in the state of India is that in the gender inequality index, India ranks first. About 45% of Indian women surveyed agreed that a husband or partner is justified in beating their wife or partner under certain circumstances. Just for the record, the countries ahead of India in terms of danger for women are, in descending order: 8. Morocco 7. Egypt 6. Dominican Republic 5. Iran 4. Mexico 3. Russia 2. Brazil #1 South Africa Interestingly, in the same survey the top 20 safest places for women are all in Europe (with the exception of Singapore, Japan, Canada) with Spain at no.1.
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  882.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Lol. Aye right, John. 👍 You people always state this kinda crap but you always say it when you are not actually living in the country you so apparently adore. In this case, Afghanistan. Rearrange these words: mouth, put, money, where, your, is, your.
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  883. Saudi ‘culture’ or not, it’s an eternal mystery why some people consider it their business what other consenting adults choose to do.
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  884.  @cz2301  That might be why the average stressed Asian boss hits their deathbed before everyone else!
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  885. That took me back. Sean’s tie is exactly the same pattern as the curtains of my dear departed great granny.
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  886. Usually it’s something like 60 is the new 40, or 70 is the new 50. In Biden’s case, 80 is the new 969!
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  887. To me, this whole thing is just a Stormy in a D Cup.
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  888.  @EazyZed Huh? Last time I checked there were no ‘Japanese Muslims’. 🥴
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  889. @1:36 “Our country, too, has different weapons of destruction. In some cases they are more modern than those of NATO.” Yeah, but to be fair, NATO has more modern phones.
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  890. “Welcome to America: we arm our teachers.” “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”
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  891. I f*cking love Andrew Tate. ❤️ He makes me realise he’s the last person on this planet I’d wanna be. 🙏
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  892. Putin: “But, brother, we are fellow Slavs, speak the same language, you must be with me, no?” Ukrainian: “‘Brother’ is overstating it. Cousins, at best, is how I would put it. Yes, I speak your language, but you don’t speak mine, and no, I must go where my conscience dictates, not where you dictate. Understand this and we can get along.”
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  893. Uh huh. So you’re not Palestinian. Don’t lie.👍
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  894. In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes a Brit and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet a Brit, and nothing but a Brit ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is a Brit, but something else also, isn't a Brit at all. We have room for but one flag, the British flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the British people. (Theodore Roosevelt) N.B. All that’s been changed here is ‘British’ has replaced ‘American’. This speech could be used for every sovereign self-governing territory on Earth. The only other thing I would say concerns the language question: I don’t care if you speak 1 language or 5 languages, but whether it’s 1 or more, you should speak English fluently if you are living in Britain, French fluently in France etc.
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  895. This is another of those ‘harm’ versus ‘offence’ debates. The guy might have been offended, but he took offence. No one harmed him. If we’re going to go down this insane road of policing everyone’s speech to this extent we are on a very slippery route to no freedom at all.
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  896. If you suddenly create a Jewish state out of nothing, in a sea of Muslim states, what could possibly go wrong?
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  897. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it probably does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  898. Looks like we might have an imminent ‘hostage currency’ situation. In 2011, Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinians in exchange for 1 Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. A few days ago Hamas were demanding the release of 6,000 Palestinians detained in Israel’s jails for the release of the 150 or so Israeli captives. At the 2011 hostage currency rate 150 Israelis would be equal to 900,000 Palestinians! Judging by the past exchanges, if I were Israel, at this point, I might be liable to take the 6,000 for 150 offer, as comparatively it seems like a good deal.
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  899. War, poverty, persecution, chance of a better life etc.
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  900. Funnily enough, I once went out with a girl called ‘Mauna Loa’. Didn’t really lava her, though. She was so annoying I caldera all sorts of names. Too fiery; erupted at the slightest provocation. 🌋
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  901. And North Korea will be supplying 2 potatoes and a turnip to help Russia’s war effort.
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  902. I don’t want to live in a world where the state ( any state) is prescribing or proscribing what people can and cannot wear. Banning what people can and cannot wear in the name of secularism is just as fascistic as enforcing what someone can and cannot wear in the name of religion. 2 sides of the same coin.
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  903. If you are chased by the cops: stop. Anything that happens after that is not your fault.
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  904. Both of them running would be my sole motivation not to vote.
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  905. Arguably, the bigger ‘disaster’ was invading Afghanistan in the first place.
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  906. Scene: Vladimir Putin is going through customs at the airport. Customs Officer: “Occupation?” Putin: “No. Just visiting.”
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  907. Trump has posted a bond. He’s shaken and stirred.
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  908. A perfect example of 2 people with too much money, too much time on their hands and nothing to do. So they do this to pass the time before they die.
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  909. Have to say, if I were Baldwin and were told the gun was ‘cold’ then I would feel a total injustice here to be charged with manslaughter. It’s surely the movie’s armorer who is directly responsible by making the error of handing him a ‘hot’ gun, however unwillingly and mistakenly. There has to be something more here that’ll probably come out in a full trial.
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  910. 22 years? The thief was just waiting for evolution to run its course before naturally selecting to return them.
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  911. The Despicable 10 - coming to a cinema near you. The much-awaited sequel in the trilogy including The Magnificent 7 and The Hateful 8 .
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  912. Rumour has it, Diddy had been involved in grooming. A clear case of nominative determinism for Mr Combs.
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  913. Wot no Clarkey today? Fair play. Must be enjoying a Sunday off on manoeuvres with his toy soldiers.
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  914. This has more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This thing clearly exists, but the overreaction here in Shanghai smells mighty sinister, notwithstanding the regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  915. Surprised it wasn’t an open-top tractor! 🚜
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  916. Xi Jinping: “People of China, I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank me for re-electing me. Thank me and good night.” mic drop 🎤
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  917. Everything apart from his mind.
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  918. Lovely reporting there from Ronnie Barker. Fair play.👍
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  919. P&O boss paid £160 p/h. His staff paid £1.80 p/h. What an unjust world we have conspired to create.
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  920. If, for example, certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. If certain other people are so ‘offended’ by someone suggesting they might not be biologically what they claim they are, it’s time to question the belief, not the questioner. This goes for everything. ‘Offence’ is taken, never given. You can’t be offended against your will. Stephen Fry summed this up for me when he said: “It’s now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so f*cking what?” In other words, no one has the right not to be offended.
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  921. Just because you’re changing the packaging doesn’t mean you’re changing the contents. In point of biological fact, you can’t change the contents.
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  922. Tricky one. One the one hand it’s highly credible, given his well-documented reputation and past vices (all documented by Brand himself), that he may be guilty here; on the other hand, it’s equally credible (actually probably factual) that certain sections of the media want to actively silence Brand’s voice. It could actually be that both things are true here.
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  923. Yeah, they need to hop off! 🐸 Harry epitomises the saying, ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ He’s been ruined by not actually having to work for a living.
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  924. Proud Boys sounds like that boy band Simon Cowell rejected because they couldn’t get it up.
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  925. 0:01 Lovely to see Paul McKenna lending his support to the Assange cause. Fair play. 👍
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  926. It’s quite often the self-confessed holy rollers who are at it. Whenever you get anyone preaching to you from this or that ‘holy’ stance, be on your guard.
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  927. Because we’re better than him? 🤔
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  928. Grown men in dresses attended to by boys in their own dresses: what could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♂️
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  929. Fully with Rowling on this matter. Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied by biological men. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (i.e. with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as ‘women’, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m ‘anti-trans’; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic; believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans women, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  930. Spain is regularly the world’s second most visited country, behind France. Tourism is 12% of its economy. If it wants to take the economic hit, let it go ahead. That said, I understand the complainers’ issue. It’s the same here in the centre of Edinburgh, particularly during Festival season. There needs to be a balance between the passing tourist and the permanent local; at the moment, in too many places, the passing tourist is clearly favoured. On the wider point, it is a shame that so many places (particularly in Europe) are more open-air museums/theme parks than living, breathing, working, organic cities.
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  931.  @studyguy.7660  Yeah, well by that logic America, and her allies, should have been banned from every international sports tournament for at least the past 75 years.
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  932.  @diegoflores9237 Huh? Since when did gay men use women’s bathrooms? 🤔
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  933. Anyone without skin in this game can see the game. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  934. There are certain strains of Islam that appear unwilling to make the effort virtually every other ‘culture’ I can think of does. That’s my experience, anyway. I’m not anti-Islam per se, I’m anti all organised religion, particularly when their business necessarily becomes mine against my will.
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  935. What I always find curious about these situations is the idea that I should kill a fellow human being on the basis that the territory I was randomly, arbitrarily born in happens to be different to some other randomly, arbitrarily demarcated territory some other person was born in. This is so primitive. Deeply primitive. So primitive, I sometimes think I’m an 👽 sent to Earth to tell the humanoids how primitive this really is.
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  936. Putin: “I used to live here until 1989. I’m back to reclaim it. Please step aside.” Mariupol: “Get real, mate. We’ve been paying the mortgage on this place for 30 years. Do one.”
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  937. In terms of the wider immigration debate, most people I know are pro legal immigration, but pro legal controlled immigration, and not pro intaking 750,000 new people per year as if we were a landmass the size of America. The other elephant in the room here that needs to be openly discussed without fear or favour is Islam. As a secular agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion, but the one I most mistrust, in the world currently as it stands, is Islam. Wherever it goes and wherever it rubs up against antithetical cultures it seems there is trouble. If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism. (Edit: UK currently has 7% Muslim population. Current projections predict it will be 17% by 2050. By 2050 Sweden is predicted to have a 30% Muslim population; a third of Sweden will be Islamic. Interesting times.)
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  938. @2:20 Seeing Rishi Sunak in a canteen is apt, as he’s a complete spoon.
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  939. No! Not again ! How many times? 🤦‍♂️
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  940. Israel bangs on about its hostages, as if it’s a totally innocent party here. 🤦‍♂️ If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (i.e. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  941. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  942. I asked my regular London cabbie, Tel Aviv, about all this and he quoted me something very wise apropos what’s happening in Israel: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” It’s vital that powerful checks and balances are in place to maintain a government’s sense of balance in the power it wields. This goes for Israel here.
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  943. Look, can we all just be honest for one second here? Good. If anyone thinks that Ukraine is also not committing its own infringements of international wartime law then they are living in cloud-cuckoo land. As with the Russians, Ukrainians will be overstepping the bounds of law. Those of us who can see both sides here, can see this much at least.
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  944. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  945. @0:15 As someone who lives quite near Dalkeith, that house is in one of the priciest parts of the town and can go for up to £500,000. Some of these SNPers sure do seem to have some ready cash to splash! Crowdfunded cash? 🤔 💰
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  946. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St., Aldershot and now Sunderland is a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. To call it ‘far-right’ is mighty dangerous as most of the protesters are just ordinary citizens. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  947. Asking people living today to apologise for slavery is a bit like asking me to apologise for my mass-murdering grandfather. Both things had precisely zero to do with me.
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  948. Another one of the ‘harm’ versus ‘offence’ debates. If you’re called a “grumpy old man”, and you’re offended, you choose to be offended. No one is harmed here. If we go down this insane route of policing every single thing we say to this degree, we are on a very slippery slope to no freedom at all.
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  949. This gun thing is simpler than people might imagine: why is anyone legally selling high-powered armaments to anyone else, no questions asked? It’s as dangerous as giving your child a loaded gun, but with this difference: your child won’t pull that trigger with malice aforethought, while anyone 18 or over may very well do.
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  950. It’s not quite gorilla-warfare, but it’s close. 🦍
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  951. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  952. These local ‘authorities’ in Brussels need to do 2 things: 1. Not take their ‘authority’ as a synonym for ‘authoritarianism’. 2. Read and absorb the following from George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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  953. ‘US urges Israel to reduce intensity of war …’ The US is urging this about 2 months too late. 🤦‍♂️
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  954. Why do we continue to do this to each other? We breathe the same air, eat the same food and are warmed by the same sun. The aliens must look at us and weep for us. 👽
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  955. The current ridiculous price of the basics is no loafing matter! 🍞
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  956. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (majority South Slavic Serbs v majority Kosovan Albanians) religion (majority Eastern Orthodox Christianity v majority Muslim) and language (majority Serbian v majority Albanian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity, but as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  957.  @Bungle-UK Says the person that can’t use a full-stop.
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  958. I quite like Quentin, but you just know that as someone from Glasgow called ‘Quentin’, he was always gonna have to prove his cojones! Quite surprised he got out of Glasgow alive with a name like that! Fair play.👍
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  959. And so the nonsense emanating from organised religion goes on. When will humans realise that there might be a God, there might not be a God; what there most certainly isn’t is some guy in the sky backing your choices based on primitive books written thousands of years ago. Organised religion, in my experience, is just an excuse for men to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else.
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  960. … with my latent homosexuality?
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  961.  @dntakemesrs  Slightly different: killing for food; torturing and killing for sick entertainment. Nice try, though.👍
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  962. Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, most other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.
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  963. Said by someone who clearly has no experience of a real totalitarian regime.
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  964. About as popular as a fart in a spacesuit round my way.
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  965. Life on Mars? Cool. May take a long vacation there one day. Just need to planet.
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  966. COVID, Monkeypox and now Polio: I’m smelling something fishy in the state of the N.W.O.. Has Klaus Schwab been schlepping around the sewers of London, or something? 😳
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  967. Was it a mint one? I prefer the mint ones.
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  968. Bet these householders are regretting that decision not to get a Doberman Pinscher.
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  969. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human pox.🤧
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  970. ❄️ ⛄️ Crazy stuff! If this gets much worse they may have to alter the State names accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Blew Jersey’, ‘Thawaii’, ‘Georjackfrost’, ‘Pennsylweathervania’, ‘Kansice’, ‘Massachillsetts’, ‘Califognia’, ‘New Hampshiver’, ‘Wicesconsin’, ‘Texice’, ‘Mittensota’, ‘Windiana’, ‘Buryland’, ‘Frozen Riverginia’, ‘Godforsakentucky’, ‘Connecticold’, ‘Flurryda’, ‘Slideaho’, ‘Snowshoe York’, ‘Iowhiteout’, ‘Michighandwarmers’, ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Mainedeer’, ‘North/South Dacoata’, ‘Coolorado’, ‘Rawest Virginia’, ‘Wysnowing’, ‘Uthaw’, ‘North/South Barrelina’, ‘Arizsnowa’, ‘Nevada’ - no change needed as already means ‘snowy mountains’, ‘Montanavalanche’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Missfury’, ‘Delaglare’, ‘Starkansas’, ‘Thawregon’, ‘Oklabomba’, ‘Washingtoboggan’, ‘Squallabama’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  971. Michael Clarke’s understudy may need some ‘private lessons’ from Mr Clarke.
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  972. It’s strange that Russia, the biggest country by landmass, twice the size of the second biggest, should want more land. If anything, it should be donating land to those who are lacking this.
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  973. “RIP, mummy. No sweat.”
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  974. So, NATO force’s aren’t allowed to peacefully enter Ukraine, yet Russia can quite happily aggressively invade Ukraine?! What planet is Putin on? 🤦‍♂️
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  975. What’s continually surprised me about this war since day 1 is just how ultimately crap the world’s 2nd most powerful military is. The day before this started, I genuinely thought they’d take Ukraine in about a week. At this rate, it looks like they can’t take Ukraine in a millennium!
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  976. He’s on borrowed time. If the next Election doesn’t boot him out, his Party will do that for him. However, Labour isn’t necessarily any different from the Tories. We live in a ‘democracy’ where the ball is passed from one team to a more or less identical team.
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  977. If there was such a thing as the World Rioting Championships, the French would win it every year! 🥇
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  978. Celibate men in dresses with easy access to young boys; what can possibly go wrong? 🤓
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  979. @0:53 “Xi Jingping is looking after his client.” Lol. Quite. Putin may be a year older but we all know who is the real daddy in this particular relationship.
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  980. @3:40 A 90% destroyed Mariupol is still 100% more lovely than a fully-standing Milton Keynes! 🤣
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  981.  @z6445  Man, you need to realise that NATO/US firepower, leaving aside the nuclear options, is about 10-20 times greater than that of Russia’s.
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  982. The explanation for this looting is simple: a lack of fear of consequences; whether from the parents or the State.
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  983. “It’s now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so f*cking what?” (Stephen Fry) In other words, no one (including trigger-sensitive Muslims if someone suggests their religion might be a pile of crap or trans individuals if someone suggests they might not be biologically what they claim they are) has the right not to be offended.
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  984. Why should anyone be surprised by this? Given Rochdale is 36% Muslim, it was more or less inevitable Galloway would win. Galloway is a friend to Islam. He’s had 3 Islamic wives at this point. But not necessarily at the same time. This is not a Labour v Galloway thing. The real issue here is Islam. If you’re not a friend to Islam, and you make it public, this can cause you trouble. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  985. Whole thing feels fixed. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  986. Reminds me of the alleged exchange between Nancy Astor and Churchill: Astor: “If I were your wife I’d put poison in your tea!” Churchill: “If I were your husband I’d drink it!”
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  987. What’s always been more than a little confusing about the death penalty in the US is that the vast majority of those supporting it also follow Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite explicit about stuff like this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Matthew 5:38-39) Personally, I’m against the death penalty for one main reason: risk involved in executing innocent people. If I were on a jury where the possibility of the death penalty were involved, I’d be mighty reluctant to convict as there could always be the possibility of a mistake. 12 Angry Men is essential viewing here.
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  988. Swinney’s interim. He’s not gonna lead Scotland to independence. It’s close, but if Sturgeon/Salmond can’t do it, then there’s no way Swinney’s gonna do it. He has all the charisma of a soggy haggis.
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  989. As this nightmare continues well into a 2nd month (and who knows how many more months after that), Israel should be surprised by none of what happened on October 7th, in much the same way Palestinians should be surprised by none of Israel’s response. Of course, what Hamas did was the definition of evil but it was hardly unpredictable. I genuinely don’t particularly support any side here (lapsed Catholic agnostic), but what can be observed (by any impartial neutral) is a 75-year-long ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year-on-year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to genuinely strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket, old boy! Last time I checked, in a fist-fight both sides are allowed to throw punches. In these kinds of seemingly intractable situations, I always flip it: how would the Israelis feel if the boot were on the other foot and it was they who were living in the conditions the average Palestinian is (and has been for decades) living in? They’d be fighting back. Fighting for dignity and freedom. A 2-state solution is the only way here. Of course, with this, the nitty-gritty will be who gets custody of the car and who gets custody of the cat.
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  990. In this debate I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible! ⛽️
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  991. Well, suddenly Blaise Pascal’s words seem spot-on: “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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  992. While this is clearly a human tragedy and desperate for all those involved it’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. If these people are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem accepting them as refugees into Europe. However, Europe needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  993. Why do we do this? Why do we have ‘regional security meetings’? Why aren’t we evolved enough to just get on?
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  994. “Saturday marks 2 years since Putin invaded Ukraine.” *Saturday marks 10 years since Putin invaded Ukraine/Crimea.
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  995. Nice to see some respect for Harry Potter in Ukraine. 👍
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  996.  @vinny.morales  How am I “biased”? I’ve equally condemned both sides for being exactly the same: “heinous, barbaric and brutal”. 👍
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  997. Apparently the X-planes are to be reserved for the mile-high clubbers; the rest of us will have to make do with 12A, PG and U-planes.
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  998. This is devastating. I’m gonna miss him deeply. I can almost guarantee that any opinion Tucker Carlson holds will be the one I least want to hold.
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  999. To be fair, Macron has form when it comes to pensioners: the older the better! 👵
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  1000. Quite possibly. Apparently, a leaked internal memo has proposed that Serco undergo a radical rebranding. The new mooted name is ‘Sirgo’.
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  1001. It should not be underestimated just how deeply the USA/NATO/EU distrust China and Russia. The polarisation is palpable and if WW3 ever did break-out we can expect these two sides to be the major players. It’s unfortunately no exaggeration to suggest that if Putin succeeds in subjugating Ukraine, he will head North making a beeline for the former USSR Baltic states. The one saving grace here for the rest of us, but not for the Ukrainians, might be an internal putsch, or Russia getting so bogged down in a protracted guerrilla-style war, that Putin pops his clogs. Here’s hoping. 🤞
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  1002. Everything should be ok if they get enough fans into the stadiums.
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  1003. Building a ‘port’ is all very well; however, America should be focusing its efforts on building a peace! After all, it’s the military paymaster here.
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  1004. @2:10 When Deputy Treasury Secretaries start looking this young, you know you’re getting old. He literally looks about 9!😂
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  1005. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Simply no one else’s business (aside from the father in the given case.) Those who bore on about the “rights of the unborn” seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you asked 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of them would decline the offer. Invariably, it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Preventing legal access to abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening, it just prevents safe abortions as women will seek dangerous underground methods if the legal option is denied them. Another thing that’s always confused me in this debate is how the pro-lifers in the US are oh so keen to “protect the life of the unborn” by denying legal access to abortion, but are quite free and easy with the lives of the born, and are all for any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry buying a gun like they’re buying candy from a store and going out and shooting up a school every other week. Seems like there’s a contradiction there. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn fetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  1006. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  1007. @The Slip I can’t. I’m roasting a chicken for my dinner tonight.
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  1008. Ah, now if only the British hadn’t meddled in Ireland back in the day, and not aggressively planted its own people, this issue wouldn’t exist!
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  1009. Ah, it’s ‘Welcome to Science-Fiction Hour’, with your regular host: Michael ‘Clarkey Baby’ Clarke!
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  1010. Lol@‘British values’! What does that even mean? I’m born and bred British, but this is just an accident of birth, and I claim no more ‘British values’ than I do ‘French values’ or ‘Italian values’ … surely, the thing we should be all be aiming for is simple: human values.
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  1011. They’re singing the wrong song. They should be singing a Beatles remix: Not When I'm Sixty-Four! 🎶
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  1012. @3:37 “You know, I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper-class, I have friends who are working-class … well, not working-class .” (My emphasis) And that, dear Reader, is why if Sunak becomes PM, he stands not a chance of holding those working-class northern seats the Tories won under Bozo; as, for all Johnson’s posho privilege, he had a disjointed, buffoonish charisma that cut through to ex-Labour voters, that Sunak can only dream of having. Labour, for all their current lacklustre lack of identity and policy, must be genuinely looking on and thinking … “yep, we just might.”
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  1013.  @Sam-zu5mr  Er, that could be because trans-men tend not to be sex pests. 😙
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  1014. I think you’ll find that knife crime in the UK is far lower than the US.
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  1015. So the Bushes, Clintons and Tony Blair knock on Putin’s door. “Hey, Vlad, we’re here to perform a citizen’s arrest for war crimes.” Putin: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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  1016. They may be about to imprison the wrong Boris.
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  1017. Well, this is a double victory for Macron: not only has he been re-elected as French President, but he’s just found out that Elizabeth II is recently single! 🇫🇷 👑 🇬🇧
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  1018. ‘Hurricane Milton’, eh? This could be paradise lost for Florida! 😮
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  1019. These 3 by-election results look like the forerunner of the big one for the Tories: the bye-bye-election! 👋
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  1020. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  1021. Surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic; believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  1022. Russia, the biggest country by landmass, twice the size of Canada, the second biggest; given this, why can’t those ‘Russians’ in Ukraine just move to Russia, if they are unhappy? Ukraine is a sovereign territory. Has been since 1991. Up until 2014, it seems ethnic Russians were ok with living in Ukraine, co-existing with non-ethnic Russian Ukrainians, much like the Flemish share what we call Belgium with the Walloons. My feeling about all this, and it’s just a guess, is that even the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would be quite happy to live in a sovereign, self-governing Ukraine. My strong feeling about all this, is that since at least 2014, Russia (Putin, mainly) has stirred the pot and played on potential ethnic tensions that actually weren’t really that strong. Again, I have no proof, but my instinct, having closely observed this for nine weeks, is that this is actually about one man more than anything. Putin just couldn’t get over the ‘greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th Century’ (his words), that is, the dissolution of the USSR, and as he is about to pop his clogs, he was impelled to take his revenge for this before he does shuffle off this mortal coil. We should not underestimate just how much this really is one man’s war, and on that score, it just bespeaks how primitive we still are as a species, when we don’t have mechanisms in place to deal with these outlying, power-tripping fuckwits.
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  1023. I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1024. Cases like this are the main reason I’m against the death-penalty. Not saying she’s innocent, but she might very well be. There’s a long-standing case closer to me where a dude called Luke Mitchell was imprisoned 2 decades ago for the murder of his then girlfriend. Another case that has strong intimations that it could be a miscarriage of justice. In both cases, everything is circumstantial. I’m not a betting man, but if I had to put money on Lucy Letby and Luke Mitchell being innocent, I would wager a pretty good amount in each case.
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  1025. Wow! Curiouser and curiouser. I never knew Elon Musk had a trans daughter. Fascinating. This will no doubt feed into his feelings/opinions. I’ve just read that he was not happy with her for being too ‘feminine’ as a kid. So what? I don’t have a son, but if I did and he were overtly ‘feminine’ it wouldn’t bother me one iota. Why do certain people get so anzty about the most trivial things? 🤷‍♂️
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  1026. I’m just worried for the residents of ‘Nuclear Avenue’.
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  1027.  @BillyJames-l6x Yeah, but can I have that in English please, Billy?
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  1028. Let’s face it, anything AI can do certainly won’t be any worse than what humans have done these past 500,000 years.
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  1029. Respect for the bravery of these bystanders. Maybe the police in Uvalde should hire more gays. 😏
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  1030. This is a lesson to those who don’t live between the equator and the 30th parallel, north and south. In my experience, those who deny climate change, specifically global warming, are those who live in places where the severe effects of climate change are not obvious. The only real issue is just how much mankind is implicated in this warming trend.
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  1031. It could be just because they can’t find their Seoulmate.
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  1032. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  1033. “How Qatar got to host the World Cup.” Qatar: “Would you like several big bags of money?” 💰💰 💰 FIFA: “Yes, please!” Case closed.
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  1034. Indeed. When we’re not blowing each other to smithereens we’re bashing subatomic particles together faster than Boris Johnson dodges a question.
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  1035. For better or worse, we have set up our world with national borders. Now, if we lived in a borderless world (something I don’t advocate in the world as we have constructed it), there’d be no problem with this. However, we have borders, and notwithstanding the desperate straits certain of these migrants will be in, these borders need to be recognised. However, migrants will inevitably pour up from the south if they have few economic opportunities where they are. It’s the exact mirror image across the Atlantic where those with few economic options see a better future in Europe. I don’t blame them. If I were a Colombian/Venezuelan/Mexican (delete as applicable) or a Senegalese/Malian/Gambian (delete as applicable), I’d probably be doing the exact same thing and heading north, whether from South America to North America or from Africa to Europe simply in search of a better life and to escape the lottery of a geographical accident of birth and a life of almost certain desperate penury.
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  1036. I don’t want to live in a world where the state ( any state) is prescribing or proscribing what people can and cannot wear. Banning what people can and cannot wear in the name of secularism is just as fascistic as enforcing what someone can and cannot wear in the name of religion. 2 sides of the same coin.
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  1037. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  1038. A Boeing spacecraft?! Hope they checked the door hinges! 😬
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  1039. As with Shanghai’s extraordinarily draconian lockdown, this has more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This thing clearly exists, but the overreaction here in Shanghai and Beijing smells mighty sinister, even considering the repressive regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  1040. Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, most other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.
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  1041. Good. Now that Murrell has come out of his Party role, can he just come out? 🤓 That goes for Sturgeon, too. Just admit your truth as it’s painful to watch.
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  1042. Gove’s a braver man than most, defending such a dodgy worker. Someone should sue Suella for breach of contract. She’s one ‘ellava liability.
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  1043. When one sees stuff like this, it could be that Huxley nailed it when he said: “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
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  1044. Can’t be much worse than being born in Liverpool, surely.😳
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  1045. Thing people often get mistaken is that the SNP is synonymous with Scottish independence; it is not. Yes, their raison d'être as a Party is independence, but even if the SNP vanished tomorrow, there would still be a steady 40-49% of Scots in favour of independence. I say this as a Scot who is an independence “agnostic” and undecided one way or t’other on the issue. My feeling is, however, that Scottish independence, like a united Ireland, is only a matter of time. It will happen, but perhaps not in the short/medium-term.
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  1046. Don’t get this at all. If Russian athletes are actually manning the front-line on their day off, there might be a case, but banning Russians on a pure accident of birth without establishing any kind of stance they may hold vis-a-vis the war just smacks of virtue signalling.
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  1047.  @saiyedakhtar3931  Well, tbf m8, we don’t ban certain things: homosexuality, for example.👍
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  1048.  @nuriben7910  Lol.
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  1049. Poor thing was looking for its Seoulmate.
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  1050. Slight insult to Venezuela methinks.
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  1051. I once dropped a copy of the Bible. Thankfully, Jesus intervened and resurrected it.
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  1052. Not defending any of this, of course, but it’s hardly surprising. For a good 5 years now the UK has seen year on year increasing arrivals across the Channel with the government seemingly powerless to do anything about it. The type of people working in these detention centres will be low-skilled, poorly-educated minimum wagers. It only takes a couple (according to the given pecking order) to set the tone and peer-pressure dictates that this tone becomes the norm.
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  1053.  @ryand141  That was 4 white guys and a black. What’s particularly chilling about this one is 5 blacks on a black! Actually, retract that. What’s truly chilling about this is just how 5 human beings could treat another human being so abominably. 😔
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  1054. Personally, no problem with a fella in a frock around my kids. If they are in a school in stripper heels, swinging from a rope, I would not be for this. Those who are doing that are 0.0001% of drags so ultimately, it isn’t an issue. In my experience, those who are most against drags are men who secretly quite like them. Of course, telling the wifey this may cause problems, but given the threats we face in the world in 2023, a bloke in a dress has to be one of the tamest.
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  1055.  @em2906ethis  Nah, I don’t need to ‘think again’. Sheehan kinda nailed it. It could be you who needs to ‘think again’. ✌️😉
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  1056. Never got the “hate another human being based on their skin colour” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing gays. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid, as no one chooses their sexuality, just as no one chooses their skin colour. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better.
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  1057. As the Joker remarked: This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
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  1058. Cringe.
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  1059. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, the way they treat others, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  1060. But he wouldn’t. Gross exaggeration. There is no doubt that Islam seems to be treated a bit differently, but if this had happened in England he would have been prosecuted and sent to jail for a very long time.
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  1061. @3:40 Interesting that Modi is the only guy in traditional dress, while the rest are in Western power suits. Would’ve been nice to see Lula in his bombachas swinging his maracas; Winnie in a changshang plucking his guzheng; Ramaphosa in a grass skirt banging his bongos; and Lavrov in a Kosovorotka strumming his balalaika. 🪘
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  1062. Something odd about this one. She appears trauma-free. There’s little sense, as with Terry Waite and John McCarthy, that she’s been through an ‘ordeal’. Something doesn’t quite add up for me.
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  1063. Amazed BBC has left comments on for this one. I live in Edinburgh and have followed this case from the beginning and as far as I can tell a large part of the motivation for this was, yes, jealousy, but also the honour-based codes of Islam, which can so easily be used and abused to feed and justify one man’s need to control. I’m not specifically having a go at Islam here as I’m agnostic and mistrust all organised religion, but Hitchens had it right when he said quite simply: “religion poisons everything”.
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  1064. Not a fan of Paltrow, tbh. She comes across as an arrogant, entitled so and so. But, by the same token, to Sanderson: Come on, man. You are a retired ‘optometrist’, whose average salary, according to Forbes, is $120,000. You are 76. If some financial non-entity had ‘crashed’ into you, this would never have come to Court.
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  1065. 🛸 If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  1066. When I look at these guys, I can’t help but recall that greatest of philosophers, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us.
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  1067. ❄️ ⛄️ Crazy stuff! If this gets much worse they may have to alter the State names accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Blew Jersey’, ‘Thawaii’, ‘Georjackfrost’, ‘Pennsylweathervania’, ‘Kansice’, ‘Massachillsetts’, ‘Califognia’, ‘New Hampshiver’, ‘Wicesconsin’, ‘Texice’, ‘Mittensota’, ‘Windiana’, ‘Buryland’, ‘Frozen Riverginia’, ‘Godforsakentucky’, ‘Connecticold’, ‘Flurryda’, ‘Slideaho’, ‘Snowshoe York’, ‘Iowhiteout’, ‘Michighandwarmers’, ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Mainedeer’, ‘North/South Dacoata’, ‘Coolorado’, ‘Rawest Virginia’, ‘Wysnowing’, ‘Uthaw’, ‘North/South Barrelina’, ‘Arizsnowa’, ‘Nevada’ - no change needed as already means ‘snowy mountains’, ‘Montanavalanche’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Missfury’, ‘Delaglare’, ‘Starkansas’, ‘Thawregon’, ‘Oklabomba’, ‘Washingtoboggan’, ‘Squallabama’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  1068. Yup. Mike certainly has mastered the art of the ‘pregnant pause’; trouble is, his pregnant pauses seem to last way longer than 9 months!
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  1069. Not only do you have to mind your P&Os, but you need to mind your Qs too! 🇫🇷 ⛴ 🚛 🚗 🇬🇧
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  1070. 1:47 “The people of Rochdale voted for me.” Indeed, 39% Islamic Rochdale voted for that well-known friend to Islam, George Galloway. But here’s the deal with Islam: if I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher still in hiding 3 years after showing a cartoon! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it. We live in that society. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  1071. Wow! That shark appeared to be going for the boat’s onboard computer. Makes sense, I suppose: they both have megabites! 🦈
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  1072. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  1073. SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 behind the sofa. To lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  1074. Until the bodycam footage is made public, on the fence about this. If he did drive his car at police, then there is an argument that the officer was acting in self-defence. However, if he was, albeit wrongly, just driving away from the police to escape them, then obviously this doesn’t warrant a bullet. Sooner they release this footage the better.
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  1075. Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  1076. Somewhere along the line, we seem to have forgotten we are one, single human race. 🙄
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  1077. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  1078. Reform are just speaking to those who think immigration is out of control. When you get Labour and the Tories admitting immigration is out of control you can be sure immigration is out of control. The ‘gay’ thing always bemuses me. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  1079. A deep insult to malfunctioning robots everywhere.
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  1080. Russia appears to think that in a boxing match only one guy is allowed to throw aggressive punches past the other guy’s defensive borders; that’s not a fair fight; that’s voluntarily being used as a punchbag.
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  1081. And none of this would be necessary if the British had just kept their noses out of Ireland back in the 16th century. Reason 10,001 why I’m an anti-imperialist.
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  1082.  @motivated_center  Sorry, m8, but any country which is brutally repressing more than half the population the way the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan is most certainly not “doing better than it ever had.” I noticed you didn’t stay in Afghanistan. Why was that? 🤔
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  1083. She’s the definition of ‘saving your own skin.’
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  1084. Never in the field of television journalism has so little information been given by 2 people to so many.
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  1085. She needs to take her own advice and shake it off.
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  1086. Arguably, the UK invasion of Afghanistan in the first place, was the biggest ‘disaster’.
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  1087. The people are revolting, but the most revolting people in Iran are the rulers.
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  1088. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  1089. Ryanair and EasyJet having no issues operating their respective no-fly zones. 😳
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  1090.  @reginageorge4  Where’s your argument it’s “evil”? Just another personal statement devoid of argument.
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  1091. This is really a question of priorities. People use the argument that France shouldn’t have given so much aid to Ukraine, but to date, that has been about $300 million - a drop in the ocean, when compared to the billions pensions cost per year. The other thing to factor in here is that France is 3rd in a list of OECD countries in terms of the proportion of its GDP pensions take up, at 14%. For comparison, the UK is 5%. Pushing back the retirement age by two years and extending the pay-in period would yield an additional 17.7 billion euros ($19.0 billion) in annual pension contributions, allowing the system to break even by 2027. Economically, Macron’s measure makes sense, but the way it has been done is awful and undemocratic, and the only reason he bypassed a vote was he knew it would be voted down. After Denmark, France is the second highest taxed country in Europe, but this notwithstanding, my own proposal would be to raise the tax threshold for the top band earners in France, and let the middle and lower income workers retire at 62 after a life of work. After all, the rich can retire at any point they want! The less rich don’t have the luxury of that choice.
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  1092.  @Dubjaxfilms So they aren’t refugees. Economic migrants.
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  1093. It’s the BIG ONE. It’s Hurricane Milton. This could be paradise lost for Florida! 😮
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  1094.  @FrolkaG  Does that make it any less insane? 🤔
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  1095. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  1096. Didn’t you just know it? At the time the Taliban was all butter wouldn’t melt and “yes, Sir. We will certainly let girls continue with their education, Sir. Three bags full, Sir”, and as soon as the our collective backs are turned they, of course, return to type and their medieval ways that should have been dispensed with at least 15 centuries ago. The usual story: men in the box-seat wielding the primitive text and deigning to pronounce on the destiny of others. Usually women. Very depressing.
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  1097. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  1098.  @warh1story563  I don’t have a ‘religious belief’, so you have nothing of mine to ‘disrespect’ on that score.😉
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  1099. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero personal threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly lambasted Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  1100. The Buddha famously said, “life is suffering.” The older I get, the more this appears true. Watching these scenes of unavoidable human suffering always bring to mind Aldous Huxley’s observation: “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” He just might be right.
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  1101. It’s actually not that difficult. The key to being multilingual is start early ! If you catch ‘em young, you can get ‘em conversing in 3/4 languages fluently. Think Switzerland. Think Federer, for example. It also gets easier with each language. As someone who is fluent in 4 languages, it took me years to master my second language (I wasn’t brought up in a multilingual household), but my 3rd language was much quicker to grasp, while the 4th even quicker. The more you delve into languages, you develop a kind of grammar radar, and this serves one well.
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  1102. All that matters here is has Brand committed a crime? He may have ‘offended’ some people, been ‘inappropriate’ in his behaviour with others, but that’s not a criminal offence. All I’m interested in here is simple: has Brand broken the law? Personally, my own hunch is that he possibly has overstepped the mark when it comes to gaining full consent, but surely all this should be tried in the context of a court of law and not the court of social media, not least because if it ever does come to a criminal trial, there will be serious questions as to whether it could ever be fair, given the saturated media coverage.
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  1103. I can’t quite work out if that is Caprice wearing a dress or a dress wearing Caprice … 🤔
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  1104. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but imo no dog is ugly. Only human beings have that honour. 🐕
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  1105. This was won ‘ugly’. But in every tournament, the eventual winners need an ugly win. Not saying England will win it (see Japan), but for sheer grit and will to win when they were played off the park by the Nigerians, kudos.👍
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  1106. Vladimir Putin is at an airport and is going through customs . Customs officer: “Occupation?” Putin: “No, just visiting.”
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  1107. I had a windrush just last night after 6 cans of Stella and a dodgy vindaloo! 🍛 🍻 💨
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  1108. While not a fan of the Tories, Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  1109.  Comment buster  Well, he isn’t a ‘fraudster’. That’s tax evasion. Carr was (legally) tax avoiding. But hey! why let facts get in the way of a good story, eh? 😳
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  1110. It’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. The vast majority of people in my orbit have no issue with controlled legal immigration. Where the issue arises is the suspicion many (the majority?) of these individuals are simply economic migrants. If these people are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem accepting them as refugees into Europe, and I personally would have no problem with a barge full of genuine refugees in my backyard. However, more widely, Europe in toto needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the currently incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house. If liberals won’t enforce borders, fascists will.
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  1111. Banning Russian and Belarusian players is a nonsense. These players have f*ck-all to do with the respective regimes in their countries. If these banned players were re-loading Russian rocket launchers on their day off, Wimbledon may have a point. As it is, this just smacks of egregious virtue-signalling.
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  1112. Meanwhile, Putin’s normal army, after taking some Ukraine, is suffering serious withdrawal symptoms.
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  1113. Well, Russia is making excellent ‘progress’ in alienating most of the world to its cause. That’s progress, of a sort.
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  1114. After this debate they need to do a ‘Cost of Leaving ‘ one. The 2 are linked.
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  1115. It’s not any better in Germany, m8. 👍 This is a Western Europe thing: there does seem to be a concerted effort to introduce as many people as possible with values diametrically opposed to the host community. Ie. Islam versus the rest.
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  1116. Critiquing Islam, critiquing any idea, is not bigotry. “Islamophobia” is a troubled and inherently unhelpful term. Yes, hatred of Muslims by neo-Nazi-style groups does exist, and it is a form of cultural intolerance, but that must never be conflated with the free-speech right to critique Islam. Islam is, after all, an idea; we cannot expect its merits or demerits to be accepted if we cannot openly debate it. (Sam Harris)
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  1117. As an agnostic, I have very little time for all organised religion, but the one I have the least time for is Islam as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  1118. I smell an asylum amnesty coming down the line.
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  1119. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values. (As an aside, can we stop saying that mistrusting Islam is ‘racist’. It’s not. Criticising a bunch of ideas held by literally dozens of ‘races’ doesn’t make you racist.)
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  1120. It’s absolutely no accident this law is being introduced on a Muslim’s watch. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. (Similarly, if certain other people are so ‘offended’ by someone suggesting they might not be biologically what they claim they are, it’s time to question the belief, not the questioner). It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a bunch of ideas. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticizing these peoples’ race, or age, or disability, or sexual orientation. That would be stupid. No one chooses these categories. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that. Equally, it’s not necessarily stupid to suggest that a person claiming to be a ‘woman’ is actually a biological man and vice-versa. Why? Because they are.
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  1121. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  1122. Sounds like it was a native Swede unhappy with mass immigration. Many of us are unhappy with mass immigration but we wouldn’t descend to this level. However, Western Europe needs to get a grip on mass (legal and illegal) immigration. A little bit of immigration is no big problem for most people. When, for example, you are importing 1%+ of the existing population (as the UK has been doing for the past few years) then this feels like a problem to most people. It’s not racist to say this. There’s a lot to be said for just having strictly controlled, legal immigration.
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  1123. You should be writing Hollywood scripts, m8! ✍️
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  1124. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! (Rabbie Burns)
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  1125. Being offered ‘military training’ by Boris Johnson is a bit like being offered ‘integrity training’ by Boris Johnson.
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  1126. As an Everton fan, I just hope they can also ‘U-turn’ on their ‘net zero policy’. 🙄
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  1127. It’s not just an English thing. I live in Edinburgh on a street which has a whole block set aside for the elderly and opposite a care home for the elderly. Every day I pass care workers going to and fro and in several years I quite literally have not seen a white face doing the job of being a carer. Invariably they are black African or Far East Asian/Indian. The reason? For natives in the UK (not just England) a care job is generally seen as a whole lotta work for very little minimum wage reward. Also, the benefits system in the UK is rather generous and encourages a certain laziness.
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  1128. There can be no doubt that if the Palestinians had even half the military support from elsewhere that Israel has had these past 75 years from the US, there is absolutely no way Netanyahu would’ve been as recklessly trigger happy as he has been.
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  1129. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  1130. Aside from being a simple battle for national self-determination in the face of an autocratic aggressor (notwithstanding the very real intra-Ukrainian tensions), this whole war has been a very real question to every single one of us. It’s directly asking us to make a choice about whether we uphold basic non-negotiable liberal values such as individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), pluralistic liberal democracy, secularism, the rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion or, alternatively, we uphold illiberal values such as violation of individual rights (including violation of civil and human rights), illiberal autocracy, abuse of the law, economic and political servitude beholden to dictatorship, little to no freedom of speech, censorship of the press and media more widely, and lack of freedom to worship the Gods of your choice or no God at all. Given this choice I, for one, know which side I’m backing.
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  1131. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Those who bore on about the ‘rights of the unborn’ seem to be overestimating human life. The Buddha didn’t say ‘life is suffering’ for nothing. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to invisible, unverified and unverifiable sky daddies and primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  1132. “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” (Steven Weinberg)
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  1133. @0:36-0:46 General: “Can I have a quiet word in your ear, Sir?” Putin: “No. Sit over there 👉 and tell me I am winning.”
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  1134. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Simply no one else’s business. Those who bore on about the “rights of the unborn” seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of them would decline the offer. Invariably, it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Preventing legal access to abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening, it just prevents safe abortions as women will seek dangerous underground methods if the legal option is denied them. Another thing that’s always confused me in this debate is how the pro-lifers in the US are oh so keen to “protect the life of the unborn” by denying legal access to abortion, but are quite free and easy with the lives of the born, and are all for any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry buying a gun like they’re buying candy from a store and going out and shooting up a school every other week. Seems like there’s a contradiction there. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  1135.  @A.A1891  No one needs Islam. 🤦‍♂️
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  1136. What I always find curious about these situations is the idea that I should kill a fellow human being on the basis that the territory I was randomly, arbitrarily born in happens to be different to some other randomly, arbitrarily demarcated territory some other person was born in. This is so primitive. Deeply primitive. So primitive, I sometimes think I’m an 👽 sent to Earth to tell the humanoids how primitive this really is.
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  1137. In the midst of all this, it should be borne in mind that only 44% of Palestinians voted for Hamas. Moreover, given that this was 2006, and 52% of Gazans are 21 or under, the vast majority of current Palestinians did not vote for Hamas.
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  1138. Part of the problem here is Rubiales’s inability (more likely unwillingness) to see this from Hermoso’s point of view and the point of view of women in general. Getting a free unsolicited kiss on the lips from a woman wouldn’t bother most men, and indeed many would welcome it! But given that sexual violence between the sexes is almost wholly one way, it’s very bad form to presume you can just plant a smacker on the lips of any woman you happen to come across.
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  1139. This exodus was inevitable. In their shoes, I’d do exactly the same. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ✌️
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  1140. If they ever make another Addams Family movie, Stephanie Grisham is a shoo-in as Morticia. 🦇
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  1141. My favourite Kanye West joke: Q. How did Kanye West ask Kim Kardashian to marry him? A. “Will I marry you?” That, folks, sums ‘Ye’ up to a T.
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  1142. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese, non-Islamic Africans etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. It’s also just about the very basic idea that when someone knocks on my door, I like to vet them before they’re admitted into my house. The end.
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  1143. Anyone with half a brain could see from the outset how this whole farrago was going to go. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ✌️
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  1144. What’s always been more than a little confusing about the death penalty in the US is that the vast majority of those supporting it also follow Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite explicit about stuff like this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Matthew 5:38-39) Personally, I’m against the death penalty for one main reason: risk involved in executing innocent people. If I were on a jury where the possibility of the death penalty were involved, I’d be mighty reluctant to convict as there could always be the possibility of a mistake. 12 Angry Men is essential viewing here.
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  1145. Aww, bless ‘im. King Charlie comes home. 👍
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  1146. Outrageous! Heads need to roll at this sewage treatment works. They’ve clearly just been going through the motions. 💩
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  1147. Given how much disdain she is generating, along with the pensions, she’d better make sure her house is triple locked, too! 🔐
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  1148. And so the random homicidal madness will go on. “The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein) America’s ‘experiment’ with guns needs more than a few tweaks.
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  1149. Stolen comment.
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  1150. Hmm … they may have to rename it the ‘Incensenedd’ after this. 😡
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  1151. That ‘TL’ on his lapel stands for ‘total liar’.
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  1152. To be fair, if we’re importing more nets then that means more fish for all! 🐠
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  1153. Who said humans weren’t stoopid?
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  1154. Yeah, and the rest of us should’ve terminated him.
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  1155. @0:00 “Somewhere in a corner of South Wales is a place that feels like it’s from another planet.” Yes, it’s called ‘Swansea’. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  1156.  @Alfalfa88888  Yeah, but we don’t choose our skin colour just as we don’t choose our disability.
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  1157. People need to always bear in mind that what is ‘far-right’ or ‘far-left’ usually always depends on the perspective of the onlooker. Leaving aside objectively far-right fascists like, say, Hitler or Mussolini and objectively far-left communists like, say, Mao or Stalin, there is a huge middle-ground spectrum where most people sit and what appears more ‘far-right’ or ‘far-left’ isn’t. It’s just left or right. Farage and his mates are right. The Brussels local authority in this case are left. Because the latter want to demonise the former, they’ll paint them worse than they actually are. It’s just human nature really.
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  1158. 1:05 Ffs. Miss Piggy’s let herself go. 🐽
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  1159. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  1160. No. The explanation is that many ordinary European people have had enough of uncontrolled mass immigration.
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  1161. Good. Now that Murrell has come out of his Party role, can he just come out? 🤓 That goes for Sturgeon, too. Just admit your truth as it’s painful to watch.
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  1162. This is what happens when human beings place their core identity in a random accident of birth.
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  1163. With a fella like Putin, the UN voting for a peace resolution is a bit like a zebra voting for a “peace resolution” with a lion!
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  1164.  @Hibuy-  No it doesn’t. They just Taser him.
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  1165. A ‘double womb’ is what Jonathan Ross and his wife book when they go on holiday.
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  1166. As a retired optometrist, you’d think Sanderson would’ve seen Paltrow coming. ⛷
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  1167. Are we still doing this? Russia, the largest territory on this planet by a country mile and it still wants more territory?! 🤦‍♂️
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  1168.  @commanderdueler6256  Plane looked full to me, m8. Aside from the 2/3 seats directly next to this door. Also, no long-haul flights over water. Why? Cuz they knew it was possibly structurally unsound, and an emergency landing may need to be performed. If this is the case, that plane should not have been flying. Why was it flying? 💰!
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  1169. Religion should always be a private matter. The trouble with Islam is that it wants its political say. It wants to butt-in where it has no place. Worship any invented, invisible sky daddy you want, but just do it in your own space and your own time and keep it out of others’ lives. It’s that simple. Organised religion needs to be kept strictly separate from politics. Wherever it meddles, it invariably causes trouble.
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  1170. @0:55 Ironic that he was “spotted” at the Wandsworth Roundabout as all he’s been doing since he fled has been leading the cops around in circles!
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  1171. “Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Well, Fred, thanks for asking, and having looked closely at the evidence for at least the past 3,000 years, it’s a clear open and shut case of the latter.
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  1172. That poor kid in the thumbnail looks like ET he’s so wizened. No child anywhere on this planet should have to go hungry at any point. There is more than enough food to go around. All that’s lacking is the collective human will to get it into the needy mouths. I pray that he (and others in his desperate plight) gets food and I say that as an agnostic believing all organised religion to be manmade baloney and a big part of the trouble we humans cause each other, as here in Afghanistan.
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  1173.  @АннаИванык  Let them have a legally-binding referendum on the issue then, overseen by impartial, independent observers.
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  1174. “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” (Albert Einstein)
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  1175. It’s notable the 2 survivors out of 181 were staff. I bet they’re glad they went to that training day! RIP to the rest. 😞
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  1176. I’m always amazed at how Russia has been pounding Ukraine, in Ukraine, for well over 2 years now and when Ukraine has the temerity to get hold of some decent military hardware and shoot back into Russia, Russia gets all uppity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. 🥊
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  1177. Here in Edinburgh we have something called the Heart of Midlothian on the Royal Mile and it’s tradition for locals (and tourists!) to spit on it for good luck it as they walk past. Perhaps Trump’s star can be used in a similar manner. ❤️ ⭐️
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  1178. The irony of Putin wanting to put together a new USSR when the Russia he oversees is falling apart. He can’t even manage a corner shop properly and he’s looking to create a supermarket empire.
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  1179. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the one I currently have the least time for is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the only one that demands most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  1180. Here’s the difference, as it stands: if I were a famous public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Krishna, or Buddha, or Moses, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, very likely nothing would happen to me. However, if I publicly lambasted Muhammad, I’d be very likely forced to watch my back for the rest of my life. Just ask Salman Rushdie (and this teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture!) Islam’s intolerance to criticism is anathema. As an agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  1181. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  1182. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  1183. ‘Stone hedge’?! Wtf. 🥴
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  1184. ‘Murderer’?! Lol. Wtf. That suggests intent. At the very most it’s manslaughter. He didn’t intend to kill anyone, which is what murder is. You need educating.
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  1185. I hate to say this, and I say it having never voted Tory, but when they are replaced by Labour, I’ve been around long enough to know it won’t be long before folks will be getting impatient with them and so the pendulum will swing once again. As mentioned, I’m no fan of the Tories, but Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  1186. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”(Thomas Jefferson)
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  1187. Rishi Sunak couldn’t beat an egg. 🍳
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  1188. Breaking News: Harry and Meghan are in early negotiations with Netflix on a modern update of that old Steve McQueen car-chase classic, Bullitt. This one’s to be called Bullshitt. 🚗
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  1189. Ffs. Harry left that ceremony faster than his barnet is leaving his head! 👨‍🦲
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  1190. Lovely to see Ronnie Barker still with us: and it’s goodnight from me, and it’s goodnight from him. 🤓
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  1191. Hope they find them alive.👍 What’s quite interesting here is that apparently the Earth’s oceans have an average depth of 3,800m and the Titanic lies at exactly a depth of 3,800m!
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  1192. Santos looks like the lovechild of Jeff Goldblum and Alan Carr.🤓
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  1193. So it’s ok for you to be a foreigner in a foreign land but not for others to be foreigners in your own land? Round my way we call that rank hypocrisy. “Do as I say, not as I do.”
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  1194. Slight difference: Israel is defending itself from aggression. The Nazis began the aggression.
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  1195. “I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” (George Carlin)
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  1196. Prison should be hard. It should be punishment first and foremost. If I did wrong as a child, my parents punished me. They then explained how it might go better if you do this or this. The problem in the UK is there’s too little emphasis on rehabilitation. If you imprison people and do 0 to rehabilitate them then it’s just a revolving door. The biggest mistake we are making with our justice system is not placing nearly enough emphasis on rehabilitation.
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  1197. “Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” (Winston Churchill) Tell me about it.
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  1198. This whole ‘Partygate’ thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  1199. In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates (Genesis 15:18) Never in the field of invisible sky daddies has one passage been so destructive to so many by so few. 🤦‍♂️
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  1200. Ukraine should be doing more of this. Not purposefully targeting civilians but hitting spaces in Russia which will plant a few seeds of doubt in the Russian populace vis-a-vis their apparent unswerving (mainly) support for the Russian cause. After all, why shouldn’t Ukraine be allowed to directly hit Moscow? Russia has been directly hitting Kyiv since day 1 of this war. What’s always been a bit mystifying in this conflict is how Putin/Russia get all hoity toity when they experience a direct hit on their land, yet they are seemingly allowed to hit Ukraine with impunity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both fighters are allowed to throw punches.
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  1201. Truth is that millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia (which I do regularly); Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
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  1202. 1 year anniversary, huh? This 3-day war must be the longest 3-day war in military history!
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  1203. Teargassing those Liverpool fans was downright cruel; after all, they’d just dried their eyes after finding out the final score.
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  1204.  @julia2k8  Triggered much? 👍😂
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  1205. Human beings could learn a lot from pandas: they eat all day and sleep the rest of the day. If human beings committed to this, there would be far less human-caused trouble in this world. 🐼
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  1206. I hope they aren’t cricket balls, otherwise the crickets might get angry. 🦗
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  1207.  @angriffslusticherWildoger  Sweden and France, too! Everywhere in Europe is about 300x safer than the US.
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  1208. Well done those German cops. Ever since they changed their diet to carat cake, they are seeing results. Fair play.👍
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  1209. So Sunak likes a Twix. Well, although he’s a flake, that should give him a boost and send two fingers to Truss, although neither of them are real smarties. Snickers
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  1210. It’s absolutely no accident this law is being introduced on a Muslim’s watch. A big part of this is about not criticising Islam. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. (Similarly, if certain other people are so ‘offended’ by someone suggesting they might not be biologically what they claim they are, it’s time to question the belief, not the questioner). It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam; it’s just some manmade ideas. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticizing these peoples’ race, or age, or disability, or sexual orientation. That would be stupid. No one chooses these categories. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that. Equally (as JK Rowling rightly points out), it’s not necessarily stupid to suggest that a person claiming to be a ‘woman’ is actually a biological man and vice-versa. Why? Because they are.
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  1211. @Mark S Red herring. America has more per capita knife crime, too! Nice try, though.👍
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  1212. Power.😉
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  1213. She’ll be bilingual in a matter of weeks, unlike many adults who move to live abroad and even after years are struggling with the indigenous language.
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  1214. 🍓
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  1215. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  1216.  @chap9253 Oh, c’mon man. If the dad has any decency he’d just replace the lost money.
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  1217. So it was ok for America to ‘liberate’ Iraq, but it’s not ok for Russia to ‘liberate’ Ukraine. Go figure. 👌
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  1218. “We’ve seriously come off the rails.” Yeah, but the train is still going to hit the Tories at the next GE.
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  1219. Uplifting news. It must’ve been no funicular up there. 👌
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  1220. Er, probably someone who holds an Irish and an Israeli passport. This really isn’t that difficult.👍
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  1221. This will drag on and on and on. It’s in Putin’s interest that it does. It’s in Zelensky’s personal interest it does. But most of all, it’s in the West’s 💰 interest.
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  1222. EasyJet has no problem operating a no-fly zone. ✈️ Maybe we should give Zelensky their number.
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  1223. I hold no candle for Rooney, however, she was clearly the wronged, not the wronger here. The biggest mystery of this whole farrago is why Vardy sought to contest it in the first place. Deluded.
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  1224. I once had my flat taken over by a rug dealer. Turkish. I had to Kilim.
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  1225. The drinks are on me, and for Trump subpoena colada. 🍹
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  1226. Nobody in Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, North/South America, Indonesia etc was asked whether they wanted European migration/colonisation.
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  1227. Both adorable! Those floppy dog ears are soooooooo cute! 🐕
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  1228. “So many tears I've cried So much pain inside But baby, it ain't over till it's Dover” 🎶
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  1229. Germany: “Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Rest of EU: “We’ll say; about 2 million barrels per day!”
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  1230. No one cares. And if you do, you’re insane.
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  1231. No fan of the rotten Tories - can’t abide them, in fact - but this has more than a whiff of the good old witch-hunt. Rather than focusing on the ‘woke’ angle, however, and at the risk of sounding ageist, I’m willing to bet that those doing the complaining are 35 or under. Could be wrong, but as someone who’s completed the half century, what I’ve noticed these past couple of decades at least, is a kind of trigger-sensitivity in certain younger folk, such that they are ready to be offended by absolutely bloody anything. More than that, some of them seem to see it as their absolute duty to be mortally offended by A N Other! Raab no doubt has a robust ‘office manner’ (he’s a lawyer, after all), but certain folk of a certain age in our society just need to toughen up a little and not seemingly go out of their way to seek offence in every interaction.
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  1232. Part of the issue that is too often overlooked in this debate, and part of the issue in all places with miscegenation and mixed ethnicities is the subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiracialism’/‘multiethnicism’. For societies to function optimally, you need folks pulling in more or less the same direction. With multiculturalism you tend to have this individual culture and that individual culture operating in their own little milieu within the greater milieu. Obviously, this isn’t optimal for social cohesion, if these smaller milieus are seen as more important than the overarching greater milieu. Multiracialism/ethnicism, however, allows for a Chinese, a French, a Nigerian, a Brazilian, an American, an Australian and a penguin to live in harmony, without the imposition of one’s cultural heritage on a host society, and this is particularly the case when one group doesn’t outweigh the others in terms of numbers. The other thing to note here is organised religion. We in the relatively secular West, largely completely mistrust organised religion. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion for obvious historical reasons, and the only issue I have with immigration into the UK today is a certain cohort of Muslims who seem unwilling to fully integrate.
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  1233. Letting aid in is the only humane thing to do. There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who don’t support Hamas and certainly wouldn’t have supported their barbaric terrorist attack on Israel (leaving aside the wholly innocent children). To want to starve to death thousands of innocents in the name of the horrific actions of the few is not something I support.
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  1234. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  1235. As ever, with these things, this is really a question of priorities. People use the argument that France shouldn’t have given so much aid to Ukraine, but to date, that has been about $300 million - a drop in the ocean, when compared to the billions pensions cost per year. The other thing to factor in here is that France is 3rd in a list of OECD countries in terms of the proportion of its GDP pensions take up, at 14%. For comparison, the UK is 5%. Pushing back the retirement age by two years and extending the pay-in period would yield an additional 17.7 billion euros ($19.0 billion) in annual pension contributions, allowing the system to break even by 2027. Economically, Macron’s measure makes sense, but the way it has been done is awful and undemocratic, and the only reason he bypassed a vote was he knew it would be voted down. After Denmark, France is the second highest taxed country in Europe, but my own proposal would be to raise the tax threshold for the top band earners in France, and let the middle and lower income workers retire at 62 after a life of work. After all, the rich can retire at any point they want! The less rich don’t have the luxury of that choice.
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  1236. 🎶 And things can only get worse Can only get worse now I found you (Things can only get, can only get) Things can only get worse Can only get worse now I found you 🎵
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  1237. What? I don’t get this. Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom are strategic allies. There are more than 200 joint ventures between British and Saudi Companies, worth $17.5 billion, and some 30,000 British nationals are living and working in Saudi Arabia as well as nearly 100,000 Saudi nationals living in the UK. Yes, human rights are severely constricted in Saudi, but the hypocrisy here is astonishing. If it’s not right for the Saudi state to meddle with Newcastle FC, why is the UK having any dealings with the benighted place?
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  1238.  @sohailrazaque9785  Yes, you could be.
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  1239. There’s no love like Christian hate. 👍
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  1240. Whenever I hear of little geopolitical spats like this I have a wee test; which country would I prefer to live in: Biden’s America or Xi’s China? For me, the answer is unquestionably the former (for all its faults).
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  1241. 4. Putin Vladimir 5. Vladimir shadow Putin of 6. Of Putin reflection Vladimir
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  1242. Just glad I was born and raised and educated not to place so much emphasis on my ethnicity. I give not a toss about another’s ethnicity and what their DNA is. It constantly amazes me how so many humans do.
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  1243. Zelensky’s attempt to grab a grammy!
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  1244. Right decision. Didn’t get the previous policy at all. If Russian/Belarusian athletes were actually manning the front-line on their day off, there might have been a case, but banning them on a pure accident of birth without establishing any kind of stance they may hold vis-a-vis the war just smacked of virtue signalling. Common sense has prevailed. New balls, please! 🎾
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  1245. This is shocking in this day and age. It’s long before time mangoes were renamed genderneutralgoes.
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  1246. Bottom line here is simple: Nicola was missing 24 days. Her body was found 1 mile from where she vanished. This smacks of serious incompetence on the part of Lancashire Police. No wonder they are in ‘special measures’. RIP Nicola.
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  1247. Organised religion and nationalism are possibly the two greatest disasters humankind has had the misfortune to invent.
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  1248. Hmmm … Hindu wins PM post on main day of Diwali. Coincidence?🥸
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  1249. ‘Wife’?! Lol. She has my deepest sympathies! 👍🤣
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  1250. This story just highlights the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings.
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  1251. As a Brit, here’s what I tink: While our economy tanks we send tanks, along with the Yanks, to tonk and spank the Russki planks. No thanks!
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  1252. Yeah, but to be fair, your country has a homicide rate of 25.3 and the UK has a rate of 1.2 per 100,000.
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  1253. Don’t knock Classics, mate. After all, Latin is the one of the only languages about which you can say to the learner, “your skill is declining,” and mean it as a compliment! 🧐
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  1254.  @sirensynapse5603  It says that most (all? Quite possibly) other countries on this planet cannot hold a candle to the staggering urban beauty Italy presents to the world! And that’s to not even mention the natural beauty it also evinces, from 4000m Alpine glory in the north, more stunning Apennine mountain sublimity in the middle, and to tail it the world’s most impressive-looking active volcano in Sicily, along with a coastline that seems to go on forever that most other places would kill for. Put them both together: manmade glory and natural glory and you have, for me, probably the most beautiful place on this planet, and I’ve been to most of them. Ta da! 🎉
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  1255. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of random gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  1256. South Africa’s an interesting case. It’s only 8% white yet the legacy of the racism and segregation of apartheid still hangs heavy in the air. Can you imagine the outcry amongst certain people in the UK if 8% of the population who happened to be non-white, instituted policies maintaining segregation and racism against whites? Whenever you hear these same people clamouring for non-whites to get out, you never hear them also clamouring for the immigrant whites in South Africa (or anywhere else where they immigrated: i.e. North/South America; Australasia) to get out.
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  1257. Gale speaks sense here, calling for the winds of change in the Tory Party.
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  1258. Makes sense, I suppose. A climate change protester protesting at what our planet might be if we’re not careful: ashes.
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  1259. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post-1519 in Mexico, post-1524 in Peru, post-1500 in Brazil, post-1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines, or those who were inhabiting these lands for thousands of years before Europeans aggressively pitched up. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and belligerently imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  1260. Good. Now that Murrell has come out of his Party role, can he just come out? 🤓 That goes for Sturgeon, too. Just admit your truth as it’s painful to watch.
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  1261. @2:03 “We have to get the limpet off the rock.” Is he suggesting the UK should hand back Gibraltar to its rightful owner, Spain?
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  1262. Looks like this is more than just a Stormy in a D cup for ole Donny. ☕️ 💰
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  1263. Literally counted 5 women out of about 200 heads here. A little, telling insight into China there.
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  1264. If the ‘Yesers’ win this one, do the ‘Noers’ get another shot, in a best-out-of-3 game? Seems only fair.😳
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  1265. This guy is on £160 p/h assuming a 40-hour week. And he sits there trying to defend, among other things, paying his staff £5.50 p/h. He’s got some brass neck to go along with his brass.
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  1266. @1:02 “…calling for a GE now.” The Tories are not going to call a GE now for the same reason they’re doing their utmost to block a Scottish Independence referendum: they know they will lose both heavily. Thing is, the longer they put both things off, the even more heavily they will lose them.
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  1267. As with Shanghai’s extraordinarily draconian lockdown, this has more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This thing clearly exists, but the overreaction here in Shanghai and Beijing smells mighty sinister, even considering the repressive regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  1268. I always get hypnotised by that weird goldfishy lower-jaw thing he does when he takes a breath. 🐠
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  1269.  @riklangham6739  And in English, ‘Rik’ means ‘very easily triggered’.
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  1270. Not his greatest fan. But to be fair to the lad, he’s pretty good for 65. 👍
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  1271. “I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.” (Kwasi Kwarteng) Liar!
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  1272. Lol. Seems a GBNews journalist didn’t get the memo about biological sex being unalterable.
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  1273. All these ‘incidents’. Not interested in anecdotal tittle-tattle. No idea if Brand is guilty or guilty innocent; all that matters is did he commit a crime?
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  1274. What’s hilarious here is the exaggerated terms of the argument. If you are not for Sturgeon, you are automatically a right-wing, Scottish (but really British) freak, and if you are for Sturgeon you are a Socialist, state-controlled automaton. How about the notion that you can see the pros and the cons of independence and staying in the Union, without all this polarised tribal bollocks? If there’s one thing I’ve learned about politics over the years, it’s never to trust those who are winging it; whether on the right or the left. Why? Because most people are complicated and have a maelstrom of ideas from the right, the middle and the left. Never understood this thing whereby we have to reduce the terms of debate such that they are constrained within this or that party, for every party I look at has ideas I agree with and ideas I disagree with.
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  1275. It’s a pity Rowan Williams is no longer the Archbishop of Canterbury, for if he were, we could have asked what would Rwanda done?🤡
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  1276. Russia wants to ‘minimise civilian damage’?! Tell that to 400,000 citizens of Mariupol.
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  1277. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human.🤧
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  1278. Nobody in Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, North/South America, Indonesia etc “invited” the Europeans when they colonised them.
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  1279. Yes, Israeli actions had ‘consequences’.
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  1280. Paul agrees! 👍 🍻
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  1281. Scene: Fawlty Towers revisited in an imagined future. Wintry scene - it’s July Fawlty: “Is there something wrong?” Putin: “Will you stop talking about the war?” Fawlty: “Me? You started it.” Putin: “I did not start it.” Fawlty: “Yes you did - you invaded Ukraine.”
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  1282.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No I’m not. Johnny baby, you’re making the deeply silly mistake of confusing a Brit with that Brit’s government’s actions. Now go away and think a little. If you’re up to it. Don’t forget to book that ticket to Kabul, son!👍 ✈️
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  1283. Planet’s definitely warming. Even anecdotally, without stats, those of us old enough know this. We had regular snow lying for weeks on end every winter a few decades ago; in the past 30 years I can count on the fingers of one hand how many “proper” snowy winters we’ve had. In 1981 I was gifted a sledge in the full confidence it would get lengthy use every winter and it did. I live 5° North from where I lived then and purchasing a sledge would be pretty much a waste of time these days as it would only be used about 5 days per winter, if that. The only question to be settled here is just how much are humans complicit in this warming with their fossil-fuel burning activity? 🛷
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  1284.  @agg25gga Oooh! Someone just got triggered. 👍😉
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  1285. Oh, even meaner; poor Biden! I adore Biden because he’s so old and wise and speaks so clearly and eloquently, never seeming like a doddery old fool who doesn’t know what day of the week it is. Always pays his son on time. Always puts his family first before the petty concerns of the US. You wouldn’t have to ask Biden to do his Military Service; he’s there, Sir! He’s extremely friendly to his friends in Ukraine, as they are to him. To hear his voice recalls the heralding seraphim and cherubim, so inspirational to listen to, making one feel safe in the hands of this 80 year old wunderkind.
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  1286.  @DavidJones-hi3xp  What is so good about humans anyway? 🤔
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  1287. Lol. I didn’t see any blanket bans for British tennis players back in 2003 after Britain’s illegal invasion of Iraq! 🤣
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  1288. I can just about get my head around getting on a driverless bus; but if “automated” means no humans in the cockpit, I’m never flying again.
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  1289.  @aliceinwonderland6198  ‘Accidental’😉
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  1290. Welcome to the US: “We are seriously considering arming our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK: “We don’t even arm most of our police !”👮‍♂️
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  1291. Well, this wasn’t predictable. 2 militaries in Sudan vying for power: What could possibly go wrong? Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  1292. Don’t horses live in fields? 🤔
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  1293. Really? At this point thought he’d be announcing his bid for resurrection !
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  1294. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  1295.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  1296. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  1297. It’s a fallacy that somehow the older something is the less relevant it is. The problem with Chaucer today is not his ideas but his way of expressing them in Middle English. If ideas are good, they will always be relevant. Witness the fact that we still borrow heavily to this day from the Greeks and the Romans and they preceded Chaucer by at least a millennium!
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  1298. Why does America consistently have a homicide rate 4x that of comparable countries? Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  1299. It’s usually “herson” but some opt for “hisdaughter”.
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  1300. Remember when Russia said it would take Kiev in 3 days in a ‘special military operation’?
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  1301. Having watched Clarkey’s contributions to this farrago from the beginning, he is the definition of a man making it up as he goes along! Constantly contradicting previous statements; constantly revising dates; constantly stating things which never come to pass … in other words, he is the unreliable narrator par excellence!
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  1302. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  1303. What I’ve always found interesting and perplexing is that human beings essentially just need food and a bit of love. And here we are. Hating each other to the point we’ll kill each other. Why? What’s it all about? Almost every human being I’ve ever met just wants a quiet life. It seems it takes a mere minority to upset the apple cart and cause utter chaos for everyone else.
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  1304. Jeez. I’ve been jabbed so many times these past 2 years I feel I’ve gone 12 Rounds with Tyson Fury!
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  1305. Building standards seem to be nigh-on non-existent in many cases, making far too many building fallards.
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  1306. Not sure about ‘security measures’, but at this point the Monarchy is long overdue being put into special measures.
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  1307. # What's the difference between Qatar and Abu Dhabi? # People in Qatar don't watch The Flintstones, but the people in Abu Dhabi do.
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  1308. And so the nonsense emanating from organised religion goes on. When will humans realise that there might be a God, there might not be a God; what there most certainly isn’t is some guy in the sky backing your choices based on primitive books written thousands of years ago. Organised religion, in my experience, is just an excuse for men to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else.
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  1309. The extinction of humans might not be a bad thing for this planet.
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  1310. Let’s all hope we don’t see war in Warsaw. 😟
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  1311. It found that there is something rotten in the heart of Downing Street.
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  1312. One of my main issues with this whole debate is that I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1313. Hardly ‘unprovoked’, but nice try.👍
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  1314. Refreshing to see an American government official successfully negotiate a flight of plane steps for once. 👍
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  1315. “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Well, Freddie, thanks for asking and having looked at the last 2000 years of human history, I’m more inclined to think the latter. 🙄
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  1316. There are certain strains of Islam that appear unwilling to make the effort virtually every other ‘culture’ I can think of does. That’s my experience, anyway. I’m not anti-Islam, I’m anti all organised religion, particularly when their business necessarily becomes mine against my will.
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  1317. Starkey would be wonderful for a cameo in The League of Gentlemen.
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  1318. Starkey would be a shoo-in for a cameo appearance in The League of Gentlemen.
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  1319.  @yesbwana  He did. But tbf, he apologised and admitted he was wrong.
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  1320. I kinda agree in principle, but I’m willing to bet all I have that these same people wouldn’t be saying “stay in the first safe country” if the first safe country was theirs!
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  1321. Lol. Poor old Jacob is mixing up ‘offence’ versus ‘harm’. Just because he himself is ‘morally outraged’ by Brand’s behaviour is neither here nor there. You cannot be offended against your will. Mogg has chosen to be morally repulsed. That’s his issue. All that matters is did Brand break the law?
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  1322. There’s a difference: I feel no threat from Jews or Judaism. As an agnostic, I feel quite a big threat from Islam. You would do well to consider this.
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  1323. If I never hear Elon Musk’s name mentioned ever again it will be too soon. Jesus. Enough already.
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  1324. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  1325. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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  1326. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. The wider political class will ignore this issue at their peril.
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  1327. If it were made a non-negotiable condition that you serve in the front line every day for the war you declare, then I’m willing to bet that the phenomenon of war could be abolished. Just a thought.
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  1328. Breaking News: “World’s second most powerful army takes 15 months to capture small mining town of little strategic importance.” At this rate, they should have Kyiv by at least 2089.
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  1329. My, my, isn’t the SNP in a pickle. The Party first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 down the sofa. To paraphrase the great Oscar: to lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  1330. Breaking News: Zahawi has just sacked Jimmy Carr as his Chief Financial Advisor.
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  1331. It’s interesting that the strictest Orthodox Jews (15% of Israel’s population), who are Netanyahu’s most ardent supporters, don’t actually serve in the military, yet pacifists and those citizens who oppose his foreign policy must. Words are cheap when your own neck isn’t on the line.
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  1332. So vote them out then. You’re lucky you live in a country where you can do this.
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  1333. The Sun deserves our respect. George Carlin nailed this: I’ve begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate. 🌞
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  1334. Kudos to the artistic sensibility of the thumbnail person. This could be a painting, it’s so well balanced, with the conflagration on the left beautifully counterbalanced by the 3 firefighters on the right (notice how they are all looking in different directions, providing variation and interest) and the cause of all the trouble centre stage. It’s reminiscent of the way the Old Masters would, almost geometrically, arrange and balance their works. Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa always springs to mind in this context. 🖼
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  1335. Fact check: according to Accuweather the daily June average high in Mecca is 45°C. So far, this June has exceeded 45°C twice and only by 1°C on both occasions. Not sure where the Beeb is getting 51°C from.
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  1336.  @Inbria  ‘Allah’?! Lol. I’m more liable to listen to the word of ‘Allan’; at least I know he actually exists! 😂
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  1337. Italy is officially the most beautiful country on this planet in terms of urban spaces. North to South, East to West, virtually every single city/town/village you come across is achingly beautiful. Volterra is no exception. Spain runs it a close 2nd, with France 3rd. 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷
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  1338. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  1339. Surprised she made it as far as Russia, given that basketball players aren’t allowed to travel. 🏀
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  1340. … And a full year and a half into Putin’s 6-day Special Military Operation. If we are all operating on Putin time, they should have this thing done and dusted by about 2569! 👍
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  1341.  @spudspuddy  Disagree. If you’re a genuine refugee (no matter what your religion), you should be accepted and given sanctuary. In the same way, if I were being persecuted or experiencing war, I would expect to be accepted and given refuge somewhere. If you ditch that basic human principle, you ditch your essential humanity.
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  1342. Allowing trans women to compete in women’s sporting categories is like allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  1343. @6:08 Zelensky: “And here I have a very special gift for you, Joe. It’s a second-hand laptop I managed to source from a reputable Delaware computer store.” 😉
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  1344. Apt it’s Warsaw as they have definitely seen war! As has Warsaw!
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  1345. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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  1346. *5 horses
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  1347. This gun thing is simpler than people might imagine: why is anyone legally selling high-powered armaments to anyone else, no questions asked? It’s as dangerous as giving your child a loaded gun, but with this difference: your child won’t pull that trigger with malice aforethought, while anyone 18 or over may very well do.
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  1348. @1:25 “The five police officers are also black. Campaigners say that shows how deeply embedded racism is in police culture where black policemen are more likely to assault black victims and get away with it.” It sure is some kind of twisted, self-loathing ‘racism’ when 5 blacks guys are torturing and murdering another black guy. My instinct here is this is quite simply about power and race is irrelevant here. These cops were acting under the jurisdiction summed up in: ‘Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ In this tragic case, these cops were ruined by their own sense of untouchable ‘absolute power’. There will probably be some personal beef involved here between one or more of the officers and Tyre. They deserve what’s coming to them, frankly.
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  1349. Yeah, but there is a very serious question to be asked: what’s worse? Putin’s Empire or McDonald’s Empire?🤓
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  1350. Xi Jingping: “We’ve been expecting you Meester Hu.” Hu Jintao: “Do you expect me to talk?” Xi Jingping: “No, Meester Hu, I expect you to die!”🐈
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  1351. Personally, I don’t have any control over the diamond trade, but I do control De Beers! 🍻 🥴
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  1352. While I’m not a particular fan of Musk, I agree with him on two things: 1) Immigration is way too high in (Western) Europe. 2) Free-speech should mean free-speech, even if that free-speech offends.
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  1353. In my experience every culture I can think of in the UK integrates fine. Elements of Islam buck this trend, but the rest are fine.
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  1354.  @Canada_Dominium  No, I think it’s in the 90s% for those of us who want to live and die in peace. Maybe not 99%.
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  1355. 57 inches!? Man, that’s big. Mine’s 4 inches, tops.
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  1356. Must be tough for Donald. As a homeless person, I feel for him. I was once ordered to pay £15 because I inflated the price of my tent, but they gave me a reduction. That was the winter of my discount tent.⛺️
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  1357. A ‘year’?! You ppl can’t go a week without a shooting at this point!
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  1358. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  1359. Surely, wise societies have elected people as their figureheads. To have some random crap involving a flappy-eared old bloke and his hangers on bespeaks a society lost to itself and to everyone else.
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  1360.  Charlestwrry2726  He is being useful: he’s pointing out that Israel is, essentially, trying to take out a people in its putative quest for ‘self-defence’.
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  1361. Reporter: “How does NATO defend itself against a nuclear attack?” NATO: “It hides under the nearest bed.”
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  1362. There might be a ‘rot’ in Number 10; what isn’t in question is that there is a rotten rotter in Number 10.
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  1363. There’s nothing like watching a couple earning £2,673 per minute, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all. 👍
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  1364. If they are about to remake Dracula, this newsreader is a shoo-in! 🧛‍♂️
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  1365. Here’s hoping that Russia isn’t pulling forces out of western Ukraine, as a preparation for a wicked attack involving unthinkable weapons.
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  1366. The downturn in Sterling is indeed pretty alarming, but if Southgate sticks with him he should be ok. 👌
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  1367. The dingos ate them all.
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  1368. So much white powder! Volodymyr Zelenskyy just adores this stuff.
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  1369. Russia appears to think that in a boxing match only one guy is allowed to throw aggressive punches past the other guy’s defensive borders; that’s not a fair fight; that’s voluntarily being used as a punchbag.
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  1370. So this is what they do for their hourly rate of £2,547. Beats actually working for a living, I suppose.
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  1371. SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (a full 30% of membership). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 behind the sofa. To lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  1372. Inevitable. He can’t accept he’s past it at the top level, and can no longer have a team revolving around him, rather than him fitting himself into the team. Who knows? He might move to America. Might have to change his name to Ronaldo McDonaldo! ⚽️
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  1373. Statistically, your odds of being in an accident during a flight is one in 1.2 million, and the chance of that being fatal is one in 11 million. Comparatively, your chances of dying in a car crash are over 200,000 times higher, averaging around one in 5,000. 🚘 v ✈️ 🤷‍♂️
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  1374. If there was ever more proof of just how primitive we are as a species is the fact that 300,000 years after we appeared on the scene we cannot simply stop one unhinged, weird creep from quite possibly taking us into mutual nuclear annihilation. 😔
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  1375. Another great impression from Philip there. With glasses, he does a cracking Ronnie Barker; here, without glasses, he gives us his Eamonn Holmes!👍
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  1376. Quite a diLima all this. Obviously, these Peruvian demonstrators are very well organised and are operating together. They are clearly Inca hoots. 🤓
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  1377. Lol. Russia isn’t seeking ‘regime change’ in Kyiv because it quite clearly is unable to do it!🤣
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  1378. Kinda go with the theory that the 1.3°C warming of past 200 years is, at least partly, manmade. What galls slightly about the Greta Gang, is that they are very good at demonstrating in countries whose carbon emissions have been, and continue to be, drastically reduced, but terrible at demonstrating in places like China where they aren’t. I know she can’t fly there, but she could hop on the Trans Siberian Express and be at the Chinese border in a few days!
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  1379. Breaking News: Boris Johnson heads back to the UK to face the biggest defeat in electoral history if he has the balls to call an actual election, should he be elected as Tory leader.
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  1380. Of course, unnecessary premature death is always tragic and I sympathise with these souls here. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most of these young men are simply economic migrants, and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to the economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  1381. I’m sensing a slight intolerance to Islam. 🧕
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  1382. I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1383. Rayner and Starmer were just testing their eyesight after a few beers with Dominic Cummings in Durham.
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  1384. GB News editor on trial for piss-poor spelling of ‘Finish’ (sic).
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  1385. Never mind Birmingham: you can always still wallow in the fact you have more miles of canals than Venice.👌
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  1386.  @Cosmic-lover293 It’s not ‘odd’ at all. Islamism is so toxic, even sensible Islamic countries don’t want it. What’s ‘odd’ is why any secular liberal democracy is permitting the importation of so many people with values wholly at odds with the existing values. That’s odd. Unless of course, it’s all planned… 🤔
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  1387. If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s something to be said for gradualism.
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  1388. Lovely to see Pee Mack, Steve Poogan and Paul Shitehouse doing their bit. 👍
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  1389. Mistrusting Islam is not ‘religious hate’ any more than thinking that fairies don’t live at the bottom of my garden is ‘fairy hate’. You can think something is a pile of sh*t without hating it. We need to be able to openly and frankly discuss this stuff, otherwise we may sleepwalk into something we might regret.
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  1390. These types of situations are always confusing. If we accept the premise that Israel has a right to exist (and majority opinion in the world says it does) then unless Hezbollah acquires a nuke, there is absolutely no way on Allah’s Earth they will defeat a state backed to the absolute hilt militarily by the USA. If Hezbollah had anything about them (they don’t) they would focus more on the disastrous economic basket case state that is Lebanon, rather than sparring with Israel. It’s in relatively recent historical memory that Beirut was (with some justification) known as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’. What once was, can be again. They can’t win. Israel, short of an all-out nuclear WW3 will continue to exist no matter what Hezbollah/Hamas do. The sooner these groups (and those who think like them), wake up to this realisation the better for us all. Including, in the long run, themselves.
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  1391. Russia holds referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine. How about Ukraine initiates referendums about returning Kaliningrad to Germany, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Japan, Kazan to Tatar, Karelia to Finland, Siberia to Yakuts, Transnistria to Moldova, and everything situated east of the Ural mountains to the indigenous peoples.
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  1392.  @onlineonlineaccount2368 That may be so, I was just pointing out why NR got 33% of the vote. Uncontrolled mass immigration.
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  1393. “Rishi Sunak stands for PM as Johnson seeks support.” All very well, but most of the rest of the country won’t stand for either of them as PM.
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  1394.  @rickmartin4886  Oh God! 🤦‍♂️
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  1395. Fact check: You cannot be sent to prison for failing to pay a TV licence fee, only for failing to pay a fine in connection with a conviction for not paying the fee. Big difference but nice try, though. It sounded good.
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  1396.  @em2906ethis  No hate here, love. The only issue here is you struggling to cope with a different opinion. You might wanna get help for that. 👍
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  1397. The sooner Erdoğan is Erdogone, the better.
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  1398. I once lived for a year in America, and one the things I found most alarming was just how religious so many are and it’s all invented, suggested manmade baloney (ie. organised religion), yet so many were holy rollers of the Christian persuasion and, as a lifelong agnostic, I often felt distinctly uncomfortable in mixed company if I suggested Christianity was just another manmade thing with no divinity behind it all. It constantly surprises me that the majority of humans aren’t agnostic as no one knows. But then you realise it’s all indoctrination from an early age, in large part. Aristotle nailed this: Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the adult.
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  1399.  @triola3983  Er, how can I have an ‘Islamist agenda’? I’m agnostic and consider all organised religion one of the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent. Nice try, though.👍
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  1400. NATO: “Hey Ukraine, have some of these 💣 💣 💣. Carry on. You are doing a great job so that we don’t have to.” 😉
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  1401. Any Afghani who helped the UK in Afghanistan deserves every welcome to these shores. 👍
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  1402. Yep, seasons are changing and winter 🥶 is coming, weather ⛅️ one likes this or not. However, given the way the war has gone thus far, while summer ☀️ saying Russia might win, Ukraine will have a spring 🌳 in its step, and I predict a fall 🍂 for Russia before too much longer.
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  1403. Go Jenny, go Jenny, go Jenny!
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  1404. Pantos are great fun! Tbh, though, like dogs, pantos aren’t just for Christmas. There is a year-round pantomime in the Houses of Parliament: it’s a variation of that old classic, ‘Dick Whittington’ called ‘Dickheads Witteringon’! 😏 🐈‍⬛ 🐀
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  1405. Tbf, another 10 states could block Trump and he’d still beat Biden. I support neither, but the easiest way Trump will get another 4-year run in the White House is to put him up against Biden. It’s astonishing America (a country of 332 million) cannot do better than these 2 at this point.
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  1406. This rips me apart. As Aldous Huxley said: “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” It appears that everything is an accident of birth.
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  1407. What’s a bit mystifying in this conflict is how people (depending on which side of the fence you stand) are quick to conflate Hamas with Palestinians, and how this results in hate for ordinary Palestinians. It’s the other side of the same coin whereby Jews are conflated with the state of Israel and that state’s geopolitical manoeuvrings. Anyone non-tendentious with eyes to see and even just a scintilla of impartiality can see that the only realistic way this whole thing will be resolved is 2 states (Israel and Palestine) side by side. Militarily getting rid of Hamas won’t get rid of the idea that gave birth to Hamas. They are the symptom here, not the disease (albeit, a particular nasty, vicious symptom.) This hell will continue ad infinitum into the future if a just political solution isn’t found; a solution that, crucially, grants the same rights and freedoms to Palestinians as Israel has.
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  1408. Willing to bet you live in a temperate climate, Whiteley. If you were living between the equator and 35 degrees north or south, you’d realise we have already entered that rather dangerous stage where this planet is overheating. Count yourself lucky you’re not in some place that scorches to 45 degrees plus day on day. Your small-minded arrogance is a large part of this issue, son.
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  1409. With each passing day, Israel’s claim that this is just about ‘self-defence’ looks increasingly tenuous. Thousands of people starved, maimed and killed: trouble is, they are the wrong people. If my next-door neighbour attacked my family while I wasn’t looking, my instinct would be to go after him, but I certainly wouldn’t attack his totally innocent wife and children, even if he were hiding behind them.
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  1410. Welcome to America 🇺🇸 : We are seriously considering arming our teachers. 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK 🇬🇧 : We don’t even arm most of our police! 👮‍♂️
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  1411.  @kimmarievan-ever6599  Don’t care. If you’re 16 or older and consenting, I don’t care. Too much is made of this. At 16 I knew what I was doing. If a weird 50-something guy wanted me, I’d either tell him no or tell him yes. This ain’t rocket science. A large part of this is just anti-gay sh*t. Loads of people just love the fact Schofield is homosexual as they hate the idea of homosexuality, so they can jump on this bandwagon.
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  1412.  @i_kissed_a_pixie1537  And? Your point is? These things are malleable, depending on where you are. If Schofield’s young plaything was over 16 here in the UK, and consenting, I have zero problem with it.
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  1413. A chaffeur-driven Bentley, I should imagine.
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  1414. Or why not just play it out on fifa 23?
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  1415. To be fair, Joe Biden also said: “Let me sniff your hair.”
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  1416. He’s an actor fronting a proxy war on behalf of the West.
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  1417. As ever, this is all relative. -20 is a relatively balmy winter’s day in Calgary, Winnipeg or Edmonton. -15 in Denver would be ‘warm’ to the average Canadian. I once spent a winter in New Orleans and everyone literally freaked out if the temperature dropped below about +15, almost as if we were entering a new Ice Age overnight!🤣
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  1418. Interestingly, the BBC reported today that, since 1988, there have been 50,000 ‘heat-related’ deaths in England and Wales. It was honest enough in the same report to admit there were more than 200,000 ‘cold-related’ deaths. If these 2 figures were swapped I might sit up and take notice. Now, I happen to think the planet is warming. What has always been my main query in this whole debate from day 1 is just how much is human activity complicit in this warming? If at all.
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  1419. Yes, they just followed the toilet-paper trail.😳
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  1420. Nice to see Blue’s Lee Ryan getting some extra work.
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  1421. @1:15 “Moldovia”?! Jesus. What confidence can one have in a Defence Secretary when they can’t even get the basic names of countries right?
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  1422. British tanks are always good: one can never have too many Tommy Tanks.🤓
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  1423. My sincere condolences to the duct tape. 🐊
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  1424. Prigozhin’s death at the hands of Putin was as inevitable as Russia’s eventual defeat in this war.
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  1425.  @deejay7648  The Tories don’t seem to realise they will be even more hammered in a GE the longer they hold off. They need to put country before naked self-interest, given their disastrous mishandling of affairs.
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  1426. Lol. If Tracy from Walmart had crashed into this fella we wouldn’t be here.🤣
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  1427. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  1428. ‘Less than edifying’?! That has to be the understatement of the year! The SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 down the sofa. To paraphrase the great Oscar: to lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  1429. Ah, another entitled, sanctimonious, virtue-signalling hypocrite preaching to all the rest of us about climate change just as he’s about to embark on a World Tour flying here, there and everywhere. The day I’ll listen to these people is the day they practice what they preach.
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  1430. Keegan scores another own goal.
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  1431. This is not a war against Hamas; this is obviously a war against the Palestinians.
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  1432. Never mind articles 4 and 5; the only number weighing heavily right now is 3: right after the words ‘World War’.
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  1433. Says the guy with the Irish name! 🤣
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  1434. Ukraine to Russia: “So let me get this straight: you are able to aggressively invade a sovereign, self-governing nation on the pretext we are a ‘threat’ to you, yet you, with 4,000 nuclear weapons, deny us the right to invade you for the very same reason? Really?”
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  1435. Even if he resigns, the SNP may have trouble getting re-elected at the next Scottish elections. However, if the SNP vanished tomorrow, there would still be a steady 40-50% support for independence, and another independence Party would step forward to fill the role the SNP is currently fulfilling.
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  1436. “In Scotland, people think that NATO is just a nickname you give to a guy who lost a foot to diabetes.” (Frankie Boyle)
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  1437. Support legal immigration here, as do the vast majority of people I’m aware of. However, for any given country there is clearly an optimum number. The UK optimum would probably be about 25-50,000 per year. If 750,000 legal immigrants arrive in the UK year-on-year (this figure taking absolutely no account of the tens of thousands of economic illegals who will be on the Channel boats), it won’t be long be long before the British electorate, rightly or wrongly, will be going the way of the Dutch and electing strongly rightest anti-immigration parties.
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  1438. By moving his legs.
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  1439. What’s always annoyed me in this debate is that women never put the toilet seat up after they’ve used it. 🚽
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  1440. “Boris Johnson: What’s next?” - How about the truth followed by a swift resignation.
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  1441. I’d have had zero problem with the way he acted if he hadn’t grabbed her neck. If anything, he appeared remarkably restrained as she was battering him. He should’ve just used the arm lock, called the cops and waited until hell froze over before they arrived. Why this has been made a race issue by the black community is an utter mystery as I suspect the guy would’ve acted the same with such an aggressive person regardless of their skin colour.
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  1442. We shouldn’t really joke about this. Period.
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  1443. So we have a systemic, viremic epidemic that becomes a pandemic that some use as a polemic, but that’s all academic if there is no endemic.
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  1444. I’ve had a theory about Gascoigne more or less since the late 80s/early 90s, which may go some way to explaining his drink/mental health issues: he’s an unacknowledged homosexual. And because male footballers (bizarrely to this day!) do not feel they can be openly gay, like every other gay footballer (and given 5-10% of the population are gay, there will be at least one in every squad, if not team), he’s repressed this. Added to this, the fact he comes from a tough Northern city where men must be seen to be men (“Or else, man!”) has made it difficult for him. Never got this thing about so much of humanity dissing homosexuality. Always found it irrational and pointless and always will.
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  1445. Lol. Love how the correspondent on a migration issue is called Mark White ! 🤣
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  1446. This could get confusing. However, a teacher friend told me a good way they spotted a trans boy in an all-girls school was at lunch. All he ate was salad because he was a herbefore! 🥗
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  1447. Not on the lips, though. That’s the issue here. If he had done the kissy cheek thing the Continentals are so fond of, there’d be no problem here.
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  1448. Any party involving Sue Gray and Boris Johnson has my gate firmly closed.
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  1449. Wow! Fascist much? 🤦‍♂️
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  1450.  @Metaworldwide  Yup. It all smelt fishy from the first minute. Tousi TV’s video is powerful stuff and needs to be seen by as many as possible. 👍
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  1451.  @Metaworldwide  I’ve got it! Watching it now. Ty.👍
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  1452. Matthew Perry’s a shoo-in for the biopic.
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  1453. Ah, Jimbo, I hope you’re going to be consistent here, for if you’re asking immigrants to leave Britain you have to apply the same rules the other way and demand the immediate repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living abroad. 👍😉
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  1454. Ronnie Biggs did it with 3 others.
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  1455. Much like ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who were fairly happily co-existing with non-Russian ethnic Ukrainians in a sovereign Ukraine before Putin’s mucky paws entered the fray; I’ve never quite understood (beyond the nonsense of organised religion and all the made-up tribal Catholic/Protestant baloney) just why Ireland can’t be one country; a bit like Belgium, say, where the Walloons and Flemish seem to be able to rub along together. After all, I’m sure the UK mainland would be more than willing to accept the Unionist malcontents (that were artificially ‘planted’ there by the British state) for whom a united Ireland would be anathema. Surely, it’s time to right the stark injustice that was done to the island of Ireland back in the day, and let it become what it clearly should be (without British meddling): one united country.
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  1456. Nah. Truss, Johnson and Sunak got there first.👍😉
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  1457. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
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  1458. She’s essentially a younger, prettier, slightly more centrist Marine Le Pen.
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  1459. With all those orangey, flashy bits this suit is certainly Artemis.
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  1460. Ah, Islam spreading its peace, love, tolerance and the brotherhood of man once again. ☪️
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  1461.  @AccountFour-w2o  Er, what’s wrong with ‘discussing sexuality in public’? 🥴
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  1462. “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or is God merely a mistake of man’s?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) More inclined to believe the latter, myself.
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  1463. @4:42 “The lads will run about a bit there. Lose a bit of weight. It will be fine” … says the overweight woman who doesn’t have to put her arse on the line.🙄
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  1464.  @bean_burrito0  If someone came and occupied your house and refused to leave, and indeed started taking more rooms as time went on, would you violently resist or would you just sit back and accept it? I know which one I would do.
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  1465. RIP all the dead fish. 🐠
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  1466. Yet here you are.
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  1467. Presumably they went to Uranus to measure this methane.
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  1468. We know that, Jimbo. The point about increased wildfires is a dryer landscape producing more of them. No one’s claiming these fires just spontaneously combusted, dumbo. 🤪
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  1469. I sympathise. But the idea that not a single Ukrainian soldier has tortured a Russian soldier is for the birds. This isn’t devils versus angels; it’s human beings versus human beings.
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  1470. Result just reflects more or less what’s going on politically in most other places; at least in Western countries. As someone neither particularly left nor particularly right, I despair at the 2 entrenched camps (rigid lefty socialists versus rigid righty conservatives) constantly chucking brickbats at each other and never the twain shall meet. Or get on. In my orbit, the vast majority of folk are in neither of these camps. As ever, as with most things in life, the truth lies between the extremes.
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  1471.  @billyb7465  Why should “ceasing to exist” be frightening? You weren’t “frightened” when you didn’t exist because you didn’t exist and you won’t be “frightened” when you are dead because you will be dead. For most people on this planet, death will be a release! The Buddha said “life is suffering”; the Buddha was correct.
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  1472.  @Genessyss By that bizarre logic, anyone who voted for Brexit can’t go on holiday in, say, France, Spain or Italy. 🥴
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  1473. It’s a constant mystery why we still do this sh*t. What’s eternally odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of warmth, a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ (But not necessarily in that order.) Rather basic needs, yet here we are still killing each other over nothing. 🤦‍♂️
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  1474. Pleading ‘not guilty’ here is a bit like me pleading ‘not guilty’ to the wife when she caught me in bed with the au pair! It’s an open and shut case.
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  1475. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Simply no one else’s business. Those who bore on about the “rights of the unborn” seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Preventing legal access to abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening, it just prevents safe abortions as women will seek dangerous underground methods if the legal option is denied them. Another thing that’s always confused me in this debate is how the pro-lifers in the US are oh so keen to “protect the life of the unborn” by denying legal access to abortion, but are quite free and easy with the lives of the born, and are all for any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry buying a gun like they’re buying candy from a store and going out and shooting up a school every other week. Seems like there’s a contradiction there. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  1476. What I’ve always found odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ (But not necessarily in that order.) Given these rather basic needs, why are we still here killing each other over nothing? 🤦‍♂️
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  1477. Personally I’m a big fan of Title 42. Particularly loved Running in the Family, It’s Over and Lessons in Love. 👌
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  1478. This has to be the quickest 1k upvotes in YouTube history! I smell a durty rat. 🐀
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  1479. NATO stepping in means the planet checking out . Be careful what you wish for.
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  1480.  @rtorres4132  Disagree. If you come to my house and try to occupy it, you will have no chance.
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  1481.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Triggered, much?🤓
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  1482. Ffs. this partygate crap has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  1483. Apparently, Zahawi’s financial advisor was Jimmy Carr.
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  1484. In 1500, there were over 25 million elephants in Africa. By 1900 this had fallen to around 10 million, and by 1979 it was down to 1.3 million. There was a rapid decline in population size over the 1970s and 1980s such that by the mid-1990s numbers had fallen below 300,000. So, tell me, who exactly is the problem here: the elephant or the human? 🤔
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  1485. To be fair, that’s called ‘democracy’.😉
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  1486. As my dear, departed granny used to say: “Money’s like muck; no use unless it’s spread.”
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  1487. If Angela Rayner is practising for her upcoming Basic Instinct 3 audition, Boris has been playing the lead in Liar, Liar his whole life.
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  1488. @0:01-0:19 This wasn’t a plane taking off, this was strictly come dancing! 10!😂 💃 🕺
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  1489. Yes, India never had an abusive, controlling partner in Russia, like she did with Britain, so is it any surprise she prefers cosying up to Russia?
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  1490. Er, like, they do.
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  1491. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelenskyy to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 🧐
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  1492. Chris ‘Pincher’: nominative determinism in action.😳
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  1493. Looks like the whole Russia-Ukraine thing might have been the hors d'oeuvre for this little main course. Strap yourselves in, boys and girls. 🎢
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  1494. Why does this ‘cultural enrichment’ never work the other way? I was curious. How many whiteys are there in Uganda? Answer: 20,000. Ugandan population? 47 million. That makes 0.04% of Uganda white. According to the 2021 census, 18% of Britain is black, Asian or mixed ethnic. This is up from 13% a decade before. It’s projected to be a full quarter (25%) of the population by 2031. I’m not anti-immigration per se. I’m just against mass immigration imposed from above without consulting the populace. But what I’m dead against is mass Muslim immigration. It’s an eternal mystery to me why a secular liberal democracy is so apparently keen to import large numbers of those with values diametrically opposed to the host culture. It’s a sure fire recipe for future disaster. Unless, of course, it’s all planned… 🤔
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  1495. This whole thing is far too tribal and politicised. If you’re part of Tribe Brand (essentially mistrustful of anything MSM says) you say he’s innocent. Those not of the Brand cult, strongly gravitate to guilty. It’s far too binary and polarised and, frankly, off-putting for those of us who are not Brand fanboys/girls but are also not ensconced in the MSM camp either.
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  1496. With a name like ‘Schofield’ we’ll need to watch Kinsey when she comes over for the Coronation: potential queue jumper. 😐
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  1497.  @mr-biz  They add to any problems that might be there. Why add to a weak teacher’s problems by giving every kid a phone? Makes no sense.
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  1498. I wouldn’t have risked my life for any country I was randomly born in. A cause? Yes. But to defend arbitrary manmade borders? Nah.
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  1499. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all, and is essentially down to feelings: you can be biologically male and identify as (or feel) ‘female’ and vice-versa, but you cannot actually biologically flip from one to the other. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This latter, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as ‘female’, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as ‘male’, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  1500. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  1501. Lol. Just like the “peoples of Europe” have gone since about 1492: the whole world! 🤣
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  1502. Power, dear boy. Power.
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  1503. Personally, no trouble with anyone’s skin colour. Islam is the issue for me. When a critical mass is reached in this country (and anywhere else) there will be calls for Sharia Law and if Islam is in the driving seat at that point, it will be enforced. Or else. We are sleepwalking into a not-too-distant disaster.
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  1504. This seems to be a bit of a British thing within much of Europe. Yes, the Scandis are off the charts when it comes to high prices, but if you head south in Europe you see something a little more akin to Canadian prices.
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  1505. Yes. Let’s . Thank . Richard Tice,.. for All his .,.,., hard. Work. 👍
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  1506. Xi: “Show me the honey.” 🍯
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  1507. To be fair, the French police were only using pepper spray for fear of a salt.
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  1508.  @Jackie-wn5hx  Translation: he disagrees with me. 👍
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  1509. Imo Musk wasn’t far wrong with the UK ‘heading for Civil war’ comment if it doesn’t get a grip on Muslim immigration and the political class will ignore this one at their peril. The key issue for many European people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s mass Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. Just a couple of weeks ago, we had an Islamic dude wanting a Scottish island all to himself and his followers as an ‘Islamic caliphate’. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when stories like this would’ve been an April Fool’s joke! As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic by 2050. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  1510. We have ‘smartphones’, ‘smart cars’, ‘smart drugs’, ‘smart books’ and ‘smart bombs’; unfortunately we still have too many dumb people. 📱
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  1511. Why? Alcohol is completely legal in Syria.🤷‍♂️
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  1512. Easy to forget that the temperature at the centre of the Earth is 6000°C – a temperature about 9% higher than what exists on the surface of the Sun. Combine that with a frequently flaky crust et voilà! 🌋
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  1513.  @chefhamidul3680 Don’t be silly. Your mindset is what is wrong with the world. No one wins in scenarios like this. It’s just mess on all sides. If only this planet could see both sides we might have a chance.
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  1514.  @studyguy.7660  Yeah, and you’re going to ban totally innocent people from earning their living are you? Fool.
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  1515. Yes, but that’s disingenuous, because if you’re vaccinated your chances of dying are drastically reduced. I think that’s more what he was getting at.
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  1516. I more hate human beings who harm animals than human beings who harm other human beings.
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  1517.  @pessi6185  Er, that’s not a full-scale military invasion. Nice try, though. 👍
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  1518.  @winterrising8738  Huh? 🤔 Are you seriously putting paedophilia in the same moral category as a “man dressing as a woman”? Wtf.
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  1519. From whom? 20,000 dead (and counting) unarmed men, women and children?
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  1520. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. (Henry Thomas Buckle)
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  1521. @1:30 Nice to see the South African President has chosen to wear the Southampton 125th anniversary kit for the occasion. Fair play. 👍 ⚽️
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  1522.  @SenorSol I’d rather live in a place where I feel free to divorce if I’m unhappy than in a place that places so much social stigma on dissolving an arranged marriage that no one dares do it for fear of social ostracism. It’s fear (along with severe financial implications for the woman) in many (most?) cases which keeps the Indian divorce rates so low.
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  1523. Indeed. All about controlling women. Nothing to do with protecting children.
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  1524. Send in Columbo. “Oh, I didn't come to ask any more questions. I came to arrest you."
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  1525. I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1526. 0:03 Tbf, she said right at the start it was ‘mock’ surprise. You might have conveniently missed this bit to suit an agenda, Linda.👍
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  1527. Poor fella was just looking for his Seoulmate but took a wrong turn. 🗺
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  1528. Watching the news media these days gives you the distinct impression the world truly has gone nuts. It’s in times like these that Walt Whitman’s comforting, insightful words come in handy: There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
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  1529. At what point did ‘art’ change from artists with technical skill honed over decades, producing masterpieces like Chartres Cathedral, or the Sistine Chapel ceiling to someone lining up a bunch of concrete blocks and pushing them over?
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  1530.  @selinabegum9656 Too easy. Too glib. Also, I dare say that with a name like ‘Begum’ you are hardly going to be impartial when it comes to Islam.
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  1531. “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” (Mark Twain)
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  1532. Yeah, climate change is one of those theories I’m slowly warming to.
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  1533. Like, the dude was like that and the people were like ok, like. Like, I can’t believe how irritating the overuse of the word “like” in modern society is.
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  1534. As an onlooking Brit, you Yanks seem to have a very similar issue to us: a lack of real choice. Why is it that we (Americans and Brits) essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system in the UK needs a radical overhaul. In the US it needs to be less tied to how much money you can raise to actually run for President. When I go to the grocery store, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  1535. All this ‘recession’ talk is often meaningless. For as Alan Watts said: “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” In other words, if you are fed, watered and loved, what more do you need?
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  1536. Yes, I will remember all that sh*t in a blind panic when I’m drowning. 🤦‍♂️
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  1537. Someone has said this before, but his lack of eye-contact is significant.
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  1538. 4:20 The spookiest thing about this is how much he looks like former English footballer, Paul Gascoigne! Gazza! Is that you? 😮 ⚽️
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  1539. 2:56 “I’m not a cat” sounds exactly like something a cat would say. 🐱
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  1540. 🎶 “I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey) Well I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey)” 🎵
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  1541.  @jhtrq1465  Whatever it is, Russia has got a brass neck if it thinks Ukraine isn’t entitled to throw a few punches back through Russia’s border defences.
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  1542. To be fair, there’s ‘tornadoes’ and there’s tornadoes . A German twister compared to a US twister 🌪 is a bit like comparing a Scottish ‘heatwave’ to an Egyptian heatwave . ☀️
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  1543. One way of solving this thing in a relatively calm way that saves most of the rest of us some trouble and strife would be to have a ‘WWE Friday Night Smackdown’ with ‘Sleepy Joe’ pitted against ‘Vlad the Mad’ as the main event and ‘BoJo the Clown’ squaring up against ‘Lavrov the Liar’ on the undercard. I’d get the popcorn in for that one. 🥤 🍿
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  1544. One man can throw $44 billion at a here today, gone tomorrow bagatelle, while some of us can’t afford to run a basic health system. Primitive. Very primitive. Somewhere along the line, human beings have got their priorities very wrong.
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  1545. Human beings; what are we like, eh? All we need is a bit of love, a bit of food and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’, but not necessarily in that order. Yet here we are, killing each other over nothing.
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  1546. Someone needs to put a petrol cap on immigration. Who’s going to carry the can for this?
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  1547. Starmer focuses on cost of living; meanwhile Bozo needs to focus on the cost of living it up! 🥂
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  1548. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play. One could almost call it a little bit of ‘geopolitical karma’. 🤓
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  1549. Get real. It was an Islamist Party targeted. This wasn’t little girls playing in the park who had a tiff.
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  1550. What I always find a bit odd about situations like this, is that many people will share the opinion of the bloke who shouted. I don’t. But here’s the deal: I don’t deny others the right to shout out what they think. For me, it’s just as fascist to shut down a fascist opinion as it is to express a fascist opinion.
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  1551. Yep, undoubtedly this planet is getting warmer; and rather alarmingly quickly, too. The only real issue to establish here is just how much humankind is complicit in this warming.
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  1552. No dog, properly trained, is ever a threat to a human. However, in my experience, even the best trained dogs can be a threat to a non-human. We’ve bred dogs to adore us (mostly) but we certainly haven’t necessarily bred out the instinct where a dog goes for another non-human animal.
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  1553. Nice to see Camilla with her hose trying to put a stop to this madness. At last, she’s useful for something.
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  1554. The Tories are merely shuffling deckchairs while the Titanic sinks. They are as good as dead in the water. They’re going to have to rename it, ‘Drowning Street’.
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  1555. While the choice of words by this cop was unfortunate, if we’re honest, we all know what he meant. If this dude hadn’t been wearing his kippah the copper wouldn’t have made the comment or even noticed him. In a way, the copper was actually trying to protect the dude from what he saw (rightly or wrongly) as potential aggression/violence towards him. The threat to arrest was totally out of order but my instinct is that this copper wasn’t being consciously (or even unconsciously) antisemitic.
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  1556. Well, looks like this could be Boris’ bye-bye-by-election.👋
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  1557. It’s a pity Rowan Williams is no longer the Archbishop of Canterbury, for if he were, we could have asked what would Rwanda done?🤡
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  1558. There’s a lot of ‘wind’ blowing about here, but I’m not falling for it.
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  1559. Not the biggest Suede fan but I do recall hearing ‘Trash’ for the first time and getting shivers when it hit the chorus.
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  1560. *I’d *I *were *.
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  1561. Oh, he is, though. Nothing can hide the fact that he’s a deeply dull individual, which is probably just what this country needs right now.
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  1562.  @hannacastMAKEUP  Up until today I was convinced Johnny had this. My opinion of him has complete flipped and now I’m inclined to believe that Heard’s more the victim here. Depp came off as childish, violent, petulant, needy and very, very dark and not in a good way. He’s in a single day absolutely ruined this view I had of him as a gentle, harmless, kind Edward Scissorhands figure in real life. I actually pity him after today. Still a way to go, but as it stands Heard is clearly ahead on points here.
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  1563. She’s wilting faster than that lettuce, that’s for sure. Her salad days are over, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, as really the Tories themselves are shredded at this point.
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  1564. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  1565. If this planet could close the route to Vladimir Putin’s gob, we might have a chance.😳
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  1566. Will human beings ever stop fighting each other? 🤦‍♂️
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  1567.  @Thinkforyourselves64  Doubt it. Baltic states, perhaps, which will draw US in, but I imagine the last thing Putin wants is a direct military confrontation with NATO/US. However, my instinct tells me NATO/US will be drawn into this at some point. It almost feels ‘destined’ to happen in some way.
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  1568. I was never a massive Friends fan (although the slick writing was often undoubtedly hilarious), but it’s a shame he’s gone at only 54. However, he was wealthy beyond anyone’s dreams, and any person with addiction issues who simultaneously doesn’t need to work another day in their lives, is always going to be very vulnerable. All that time on one’s hands + loads of money + addiction = high risk.
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  1569. “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Jesus) Good Christian?! 👍😂
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  1570. I see “offensive shirts” every day. Crimes against fashion. To be serious, we have to properly distinguish between offence and harm. You cannot be offended against your will, but you can be harmed against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. Offence is offered; in this case, a twat with a tasteless t-shirt; you must then decide whether to accept the insult or not. No one can be offended without their own consent. This t-shirt caused precisely zero harm, and those who were offended, chose to be offended.
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  1571. I’m offended by the idea of someone being offended on my behalf and deciding to limit my choices. How about the idea of just not reading them if they’re going to potentially offend you? This is actually worse than those trigger-warnings as it’s outright censorship done to someone’s agenda. Sinister stuff.
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  1572. Nuclear weapons just prove the difference between knowledge and wisdom. We are clever enough to invent them, but don’t seem to have the wisdom not to use them.
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  1573. The 3 main threats to Britain right now? 1. The Tories 2. The Tories 3. The Tories
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  1574. Personally, not for forcing castrations on these people, but I would be for much tougher sentences. Glitter out after 8 years for what he did just seems wrong.
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  1575. Yousaf’s personal position may be in doubt but people too often conflate the SNP with Scottish independence and vice-versa. The SNP just happens to be the political party vehicle carrying the hopes of independence, but if the SNP vanished tomorrow there would still be a steady 40-50% support for Scottish independence and another party would emerge to fill the void vacated by the SNP.
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  1576. And yet you are here. 🤣👍
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  1577. It’s hilarious how Brits are saying to the Irish: “you can’t send these people back to us!”, yet, these same Brits are all for sending similar people back to France! Hypocrisy much?
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  1578. Uh huh. And do Europeans “belong” in all the places on this planet they have colonised since 1492? 🤔
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  1579.  @israelphhhh  Uh huh. And Netanyahu went carefully in and dealt with Hamas, did he? No, he didn’t. He went in and happily massacred thousands because he could.
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  1580. Er, wot?🤓
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  1581.  @luxid413  Were you required?
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  1582. > Help! Carpenter wanted. Cabinet is falling apart. > Address: 10 Downing Street. > Don’t bring spanners as we have enough of those already. 🔧 > Contact: Larry the cat. 🐈‍⬛
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  1583. If these are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem here and would have no problem with this if the base were right next to me. However, we (and Europe more generally) needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  1584. If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  1585. As we would say in Scotland, it’s a shame that some folk don’t give a hee-haw about the nee-naws! 🚑
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  1586. As my dear departed granny always used to say: “If you have to shove it my face, it ain’t all that.” 👵
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  1587.  @americanparser  44%. Uh huh. Not even an arithmetical majority. And even then it’s only adults. What about all the maimed and massacred kids who had no say in this? 🤔
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  1588. Boris Johnson is the “great mistake”.
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  1589. Boris Johnson just moves his lips.
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  1590. Vaping, smoking, dirty stained fingers, mouldy teeth, are all deal breakers for me. There is nothing worse in this world, apart from mass hunger and war and disease, than seeing a chef standing outside his restaurant puffing away on a roll-up with stained whites and stained fingers, knowing he’s going to be fingering my meal. Ugh. 🤮
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  1591. It’s unfortunate that France has to bear the burden of their Empire after all these years, isn’t it? If they didn’t want so many players of African heritage in their team, then perhaps they should have kept their nose out of African business in the first place.
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  1592. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and Le Pen and her ilk have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  1593.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Who said anything about art being “magically soulful”? (Incidentally, the best art is magic and soulful.) I simply said AI “art” will never trump human art, quite simply because AI “art” isn’t itself genuinely creative and is simply parasitical, feeding off what has been created by humans. Seethe.
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  1594. Given Biden’s recent Colombia/Cambodia confusion, he probably thinks Romania fired the missile and it landed in Portugal.
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  1595.  @its_firas.  Some might say so. It’s just some harmless wordplay; nothing to get worried about.
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  1596. Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨🙄
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  1597. What I always find curious about these situations is the idea that I should kill a fellow human being on the basis that the territory I was randomly, arbitrarily born in happens to be different to some other randomly, arbitrarily demarcated territory some other person was born in. This is so primitive. Deeply primitive. So primitive, I sometimes think I’m an 👽 sent to Earth to tell the humanoids how primitive this really is.
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  1598.  @henryzhao4622  Tbf, not sure we actively, consciously choose our sexual urges and whom we fancy. Obviously, paedophilia is a bad thing, but it’s not like I, a heterosexual, can just suddenly decide to fancy men. I had no real say in the matter of my heterosexuality.
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  1599.  @kevinb9830  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert!🚨
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  1600.  @skullsaintdead  Great points, well made. You’re right about Christianity in certain places (most obviously, the US). I overlooked that. However, the thing with Islam is that I fear its aggressiveness in the sense that if I don’t toe its line, there will be consequences. Quite possibly violent consequences. As I outlined in my OP. Even a damn caricature and certain Muslims are up in arms! It’s ridiculous, notwithstanding I’m aware that representing Muhammad pictorially is forbidden. I don’t care if it’s forbidden. I’m not a Muslim and if I wanted to show a picture of Muhammad, Islam should be able to cope with this. It just comes across as immature and so unsure of itself, in this regard. The literalist thing is deeply off-putting, too. That’s a big difference with much of modern-day Christianity: Muslims, by and large, take their ‘holy’ text quite literally. At least a good bulk of contemporary Christians have ditched the literalist thing when it comes to the Bible. (Leaving aside the US Bible Belt cranks!)
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  1601. Frankly, I wouldn’t vote for either of them.
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  1602. Funnily enough, this also happened in a hotel right next to the Scottish Parliament: Sturgeon was saved, though. 🐠
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  1603. It was gas you turnip.
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  1604.  @A.A1891  No we won’t. Cope.👍
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  1605. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms. Melenchon’s core base appears to be a curious mixture of the two: ‘Somewheres’ and ‘Anywheres’; traditional left-leaning working-class folk rooted in their specific communities, and a more metropolitan strain, found in the big cities, and while left-leaning, also more likely to fall into the ‘Anywhere’ tribe, principally due to a higher-level of education.
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  1606. “Lethal force”? I wouldn’t go that far. Wtf. I’d just turf them out. They don’t need killing at this point. 🤦‍♂️
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  1607.  @warh1story563  Not disrespecting anything, mate. I’m calling it as I see it. Just as you are. Where’s the issue?
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  1608. While I admire Zelensky standing up and being counted (if we can believe what we see on tv - always debateable), he’s no saint. He’s repressed freedom of speech in the recent past. People need to be careful about beatifying him.👀
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  1609.  @thorax9997  Yes, but can we have that in English, please?
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  1610. Hallelujah! My life is now complete. I now know the story behind ‘All About That Bass’. 🙏
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  1611. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  1612. Scene: in an alternate reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  1613. Most crop circles are unimpressive nothings, which could (and probably were) be made by a group of pranksters. What gets me about this phenomenon are the intricate, amazing-looking ones that, if you asked me, couldn’t be made by humans in a week, let alone a night. My only doubt about the really impressive ones is: were they were genuinely made ‘overnight’. The one I always cite is the 2001 Milk 🥛 Hill circle. Now, if you tell me that a bunch of, say, 25 people have a week to create this masterpiece (for that’s what it is), then I might believe you, but even then with difficulty, given it’s scale and precision. If you tell me that on a Monday this thing wasn’t there, and by a Tuesday morning it was … then, there is either an army of very skilful, speedy artists out there, or something very strange is going on. It all hinges on whether these things are created overnight, something which cannot be verified, alas.
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  1614.  @ricpla6930 Er, but there was no one sitting on him, somewhat scuppering your little fantasy. 🤦‍♂️
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  1615. In 1500, there were over 25 million elephants in Africa. By 1900 this had fallen to around 10 million, and by 1979 it was down to 1.3 million. There was a rapid decline in population size over the 1970s and 1980s such that by the mid-1990s numbers had fallen below 300,000. So, tell me, who exactly is the problem here: the elephant or the human? 🤔
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  1616.  @mrakronyahoo If we want a bankrupt country, vote Green!
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  1617.  @huathai8204  Lmfao@rottenologist 🤣
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  1618. Yeah, but Hitler loved animals. Vegetarian.
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  1619. Seethe.
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  1620. If he were really a man of integrity, he would hand back the land of Australia to those who were there long, long before him and his antecedents.
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  1621. Coronations have never been up my street.
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  1622. Extreme heat indeed. They may have to rename some European cities: Lisbrown; Madred; Charcelona; Malager; Parisol; Nicecream; Ashens; Venicecube; Nipples; Romg!
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  1623. Hip, hip, hooKlaus!
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  1624.  @marcelogomes36  Er, it’s a joke. The joke being they didn’t actually take Kiev. Do keep up at the back.
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  1625. It’s also a weapon in domestic ‘civil wars’; the vast majority of rapists are the partners of their victims.
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  1626. So, 1,124 cases out of a population of 67,000,000; that makes 0.00000003% of the population affected by this. With the best will in the world, is this an issue worthy of national ‘exposure’ as it were?
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  1627. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  1628. Regardless of the colour of the victim here, the notion the State enforcers can put a bullet in your head for merely resisting arrest is a chilling one indeed.
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  1629. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  1630.  @Jonathan_Doe_  Er, not quite. They rebuilt a small part of the core of old Warsaw but lost much of the beauty that was once there.
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  1631. Hamas - backed by Iran. Houthis - backed by Iran. Hezbollah - backed by Iran. These 3 are essentially Iranian proxies fighting on behalf of Iran in the same way Ukraine is a proxy fighting Russia on behalf of the West. In both cases, if there is ever direct confrontation (Israel v Iran/West v Russia) then all bets are truly off for everyone.
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  1632. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  1633. I like the reasoned tone of this guy. Like him, I’m not against a little immigration/diversity but, for example, when the UK net imports 600,000+ year on year (that’s more than 1% of the total population - it should really be about 10x less than this), then integration will be inevitably be tricky and pressure on services will be immense. It does feel like much of this is planned and the only way to stop it is to vote for an anti mass immigration party in places like the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Btw, that doesn’t necessarily mean a right-wing, fascist party (although, I detect an increasing clamour in some quarters for this); it just means a party that treats mass immigration in Western Europe as a number 1 priority and pledges to drastically reduce it. (Edit: 11:40 this lady who was pissed off at the filming thing is a small example of the macrocosm. Imagine just walking down a Paris street in 2024, where everyone has a camera phone and being told you can’t film. That’s cultural clash, right there.)
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  1634. Johnny did not look good today so I’m not sure which trial you are watching.
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  1635. He quite likes the younger boy. I think we can agree on that. Moreover, he himself pleaded guilty on 3 counts. What more do you need? He knowingly accepted images of young boys being abused because he’s quite seedy like that, innit. Just for the record; he won’t go to jail, so simmer down. It will be a tap on the wrist. 👍 😉
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  1636.  @BrilliantIdeasFromABrokenBrain  Yah, the ‘taboo’ against sexually abusing non-consenting children is ‘very unhealthy’. U r right. 👍
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  1637. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  1638. It’s quite clearly a lookalike. Why we’re persisting with the idea that this is really Kate is a mystery.
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  1639. There’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side.
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  1640. This is clearly no laughing matter.
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  1641.  @nutcracker2916  “Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.” (Christopher Hitchens) 👍 My emphasis.
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  1642. Oh ffs! Are we still doing this? This has to be the greatest overkill over nothing in history. Older guy has consensual affair with younger guy and lies about it. With all the nonsense going on in the world, I’m utterly baffled at the extensive, almost hysterical coverage given to this. Millions of people all over the world have affairs every day and lie about them. This really isn’t that important. In fact, it’s not important at all, beyond those who are directly involved.
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  1643.  @yesbwana  Huh? He still publicly apologised. Not many do that these days. Moreover, he did it sincerely. I disavow your woke suggestion.
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  1644. ‘Kellogg’s sexualising products’? They may have to rename a few in that case: Horn Flakes; Vice Krispies; but they won’t have to rename Pop Tarts! 🥣
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  1645. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  1646. That ‘steal my land’ bit is the root of the issue. Many Israelis (including Netanyahu) don’t see it as Gazan/Palestinian land; they see it as potential Israeli land.
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  1647. The SNP may have trouble getting re-elected at the next Scottish elections. However, if the SNP vanished tomorrow, there would still be a steady 40-50% support for independence, and another independence Party would step forward to fill the role the SNP is currently fulfilling.
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  1648. “Welcome to Qatar: you can’t get drunk here, but you can definitely get stoned!”
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  1649. I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1650. Not celebrating their deaths, but if you ride away from the cops at speed you kinda get what’s coming to you.
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  1651. Huh? Grown men teach children every day. 🥴
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  1652.  @lindaschutze7929  Israel wasn’t a country before 1948. 👍
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  1653.  @SuedeNymme  He searched both ways apparently, downstream and upstream, but the basic point stands: if you have the means to cover 10 miles p/day and you search 3 days it begs the question: just wtf were they looking at for 3 days?!
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  1654. And Britain is being devastated by occasional sunny spells with frequent showers. ☂
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  1655. The headline doesn’t fit the report.🥴
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  1656. No! Not another ‘it’s a blah, blah, blah, operation’ joke!
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  1657. First a 72 year old, now a 67 year old: these guys are meant to be drawing their pensions, not semi-automatic hand-guns! This stuff could get very confusing if there’s ever an incident in a Catholic church in Massachusetts: it would be a Mass Mass mass shooting!
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  1658. Why is a Frenchie telling Brits what’s good for them?
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  1659. And with a name like ‘Bayzid Ahammed’ you are in no way biased, of course. I assume if you’d been called ‘Joshua Cohen’ you’d be saying something slightly different. It’s amazing what an accident of birth does to a dude! 👍
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  1660. Reform are just speaking to those who think immigration is out of control. When you get Labour and the Tories admitting immigration is out of control you can be sure immigration is out of control. The ‘gay’ thing always bemuses me. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  1661. And so the nonsense emanating from organised religion goes on. When will humans realise that there might be a God, there might not be a God; what there most certainly isn’t is some guy in the sky backing your choices based on primitive books written thousands of years ago. Organised religion, in my experience, is just an excuse for men to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else.
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  1662. I couldn’t trust this man to run a bath.
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  1663. Truth is, if Prigozhin had pushed on to Moscow in his coup attempt, we’d just have been replacing one dictator with a potentially even worse dictator.
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  1664. Can you imagine the outcry here amongst some of the anti-immigration natives if the boot were on the other foot? Rwanda has an illegal migration problem and decides to ship them to the UK, where they can apply for asylum here, and if their application is successful, they remain here. No, somehow it’s ok that these UK-bound ‘illegals’ can be sent away to somewhere else, while this would not be countenanced the other way round. Double-standards and hypocrisy doesn’t begin to cover it. The UK should be dealing with these people itself, and not farming them out to random places.
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  1665.  @manishgurav2369 Correction: Comparatively, Indian rape stats are very low. 117 per 100,000 in England/Wales in 2022; less than 2 per 100,000 in India.
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  1666.  @CapybaraHunter187  I’m coping fine here. I have zero skin in this game. Just taking an impartial look at the stats. Could be you who’s struggling a bit here, shweetie.🤫😉👍
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  1667. There is actually quite a well-documented phenomenon termed “genetic sexual attraction” to describe the intense physical and emotional feelings that some people experience following restored contact between an adopted person and a close member of his or her birth family. Some people believe genetic attraction to be a delayed by-product of “missed bonding”. Not sure how evolution selects for this, but it’s curious (and simultaneously alarming) to note.🤔
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  1668. Country?
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  1669. 47°C happened though, Jimbo. Let’s not split hairs, sweetie. 😉
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  1670. There is no Allah. Deal with it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  1671. Bot. Seen this a million times already.
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  1672. At this point, America may have to rename some of its senators: seniletors!
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  1673. The tragedy of Harry is he’s never had to work a day in his life. Given this, the devil finds work… 👿
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  1674. Been going on since time immemorial. Don’t make out this is unique to now. It isn’t.
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  1675.  @pankaja7974  Just ask Mohammed.😳
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  1676. Let’s hope it goes the right way. Woman’s body; woman’s choice. No one else’s business.
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  1677. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  1678. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Those who bore on about the ‘rights of the unborn’ seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  1679. As a 20 IQ citizen, u r talkin bollix, m8.
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  1680. You’re just disappointed they weren’t, Paul, because then you could really have had a go, eh?😉
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  1681. Poor sods. Some of us are lucky enough to drink bitter! And watching dreadful England tonight, I’m on my 6th pint already! 🍺 🥴
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  1682. Given the choice of Viktor Orban, I’ll plump for Orban; preferably for life.
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  1683. While 6 years is a bit harsh, it should not be forgotten that Boris Johnson in parliament admitted she had broken the law in Iran.
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  1684.  @reginageorge4  Using “groomer” in every sentence isn’t an argument. It’s just a tic you seemingly can’t control. Those of us with brains need more, love.😉👨👨👩👩
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  1685.  @-mathijs  Shorts, maybe. Never watch them. You get some brilliant long-form stuff on YT.
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  1686. By fools.
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  1687. This has turned into a literal trial by fire.
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  1688. This war just goes to show, yet again, that nationalism and organised religion are the two greatest banes humanity ever had the misfortune to invent. 😞
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  1689. Because he’s as bent as a nine-bob note and got caught with his hands in the till.
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  1690. Well, looks like Twitter could be sinking faster than the Titanic did! On a wider point, this is just a manchild with his expensive (broken) toy. If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on a here today gone tomorrow bagatelle and something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years (or 25 weeks at this point!), while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive.
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  1691. “I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” (Malala Yousafzai) Amen. 🙏
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  1692. How ironic that we’re dealing with The WHO. I won’t get fooled again.😳
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  1693.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  1694. Poor fella. And I thought listening to too much Iron Maiden was bad for one’s health, but this takes it to a whole new level.
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  1695.  @ChosenOne6666  *don’t
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  1696. Most Crop Circles are unimpressive nothings. What gets me about this phenomenon are the intricate, amazing-looking ones that, if you asked me, couldn’t be made by humans in a week, let alone a night. My only doubt about the really impressive ones is: were they were genuinely made ‘overnight’. The one I always cite is the 2001 Milk Hill circle. Now, if you tell me that a bunch of, say, 25 people have a week to create this masterpiece (for that’s what it is), then I might believe you, but even then with difficulty, given it’s scale and precision. If you tell me that on a Monday this thing wasn’t there, and by a Tuesday morning it was … then, there is either an army of very skilful, speedy artists out there, or something very strange is going on. It all hinges on whether these things are created overnight, something which cannot be verified, alas.
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  1697. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  1698.  @faraboverubieskerry Yep. Must be a nightmare for food allergy people as the possibility of cross-contamination in the factory is ever-present as well as basic errors like this at a Costa coffee.
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  1699.  @rtorres4132  The Ukrainians are defending their home. You underestimate this at your peril.
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  1700. Those ‘veterans and pensioners’ Putin is asking private companies to help, will soon be needed on the frontline the way things are going for him.
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  1701. She’s 58, but has incredible skin. She could be 40.
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  1702. 🎶 99 red balloons 🎈 Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky 🎈The 99 red balloons go by 🎵 Who knew Nena was a seer? 🔮
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  1703. 7:45 This guy just got lucky. 🍩 Some random guy was giving out lettuce leaves 🥬 near me the other day. 😞
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  1704. Back where? Southampton?😳
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  1705.  @skipst23firekicks3  Says the person unable to deploy a comma and a full-stop. 🤓
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  1706. Much like ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who were fairly happily co-existing with non-Russian ethnic Ukrainians in a sovereign Ukraine before Putin’s mucky paws entered the fray; I’ve never quite understood (beyond the nonsense of organised religion and all the made-up tribal Catholic/Protestant baloney) just why Ireland can’t be one country; a bit like Belgium, say, where the Walloons and Flemish seem to be able to rub along together. After all, I’m sure the UK mainland would be more than willing to accept the Unionist malcontents (that were artificially ‘planted’ there by the British state) for whom a united Ireland would be anathema. Surely, it’s time to right the stark injustice that was done to the island of Ireland back in the day, and let it become what it clearly should be (without British meddling): one united country.
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  1707. If it’s a party involving the likes of Sue Gray and Boris Johnson, then my gate is firmly closed.
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  1708. 2 militaries in Sudan vying for power. What could possibly go wrong? Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  1709. This is outrageous! Why aren’t these people at work ffs! I’m utterly incensed.
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  1710. This is a natural consequence of leaving a gang. The UK betrayed the EU gang. If the UK really thought it was gonna get away with this, well, then this is your answer. It’s incumbent on the EU to take its revenge on the UK, for if it doesn’t, the EU will simply disintegrate, as other countries follow the UK’s lead. 🇪🇺
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  1711. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  1712.  @smitus_hell7564  They will lose even more the longer they hold off.
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  1713. Er, it’s not. France has had months of football unrest virtually every week, recently.
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  1714. Never signed up for Facebook; never signed up for Twitter: best things I never did!
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  1715. If I were a ‘political comedian’ at the Edinburgh Fringe, I’d address why so many Brits are discontented with the insane mass immigration replacement the UK is currently witnessing. There’s immigration and there’s immigration and this is immigration with balls on! Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool, Downing St., Aldershot, Sunderland et al. is a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. To call it ‘far-right’ is mighty dangerous, arrogant and complacent as most of the protesters are just ordinary citizens. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  1716. ‘As good as it gets’? Jack Nicholson agrees.
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  1717.  @martamilutinovic6172  It’s “live” backwards.
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  1718. Odd comment. When I first saw these 2 I assumed they were father/daughter. Turns out she’s 46 (but looks 35) and he’s 49! (But looks 65.) If anything, she’ll be ‘upgrading’ to a younger-looking model. Just a thought.
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  1719. In this whole debate, I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1720. Xi: “Show me the honey.” 🍯
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  1721. PM may have ‘implemented changes’ but he hasn’t implemented the change that justice demands: his own resignation.
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  1722. I don’t want my jab administered by Mondy. I want either Mork or Mindy.
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  1723. In all this polarised debate about Zelensky being a NATO/EU/US stooge and Putin being a new Napoleon trying to bring Ukraine back into the mother Russia fold, one can quite lose one’s bearings. One ends up, as ever in these situations, in believing half of it is true for both sides. Putin is not all devil and Zelensky isn’t all angel.
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  1724. Great report from Harry Potter’s dad, there. 👍🤓
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  1725. If only my wife said that to me more often.🥸
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  1726. Well, to be fair, at least we know the Monarchy’s there. Just sayin’.🤓
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  1727. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  1728. You have to be very careful with glue. Last Christmas, because I foolishly wrapped the presents in the dark during a power-cut, I accidentally gave my wife a glue stick instead of ChapStick. She hasn’t spoken to me since. 💄
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  1729. And of course there will be another referendum within 10 years. And if the SNP lose that one, too, I guarantee it won’t be long before they start asking for a 3rd referendum… and a 4th etc. Of course, the unionists don’t have this luxury. If they lose, they’ve lost. Case closed.
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  1730. I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  1731. Putin’s one of these guys that looks more sinister when they try to smile. He’s like a Russian Gordon Brown in that respect.
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  1732. I normally don’t agree with this conspiracy stuff, but in the Letby case, you may have a case. 👍
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  1733. Breaking News: Harry is in early talks with Netflix over a remake of that old classic, The Bodyguard. This one’s to be called The No Bodyguard!
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  1734. 0:47 Dude’s talking about ‘genocidal ventures’ as if the last 3 months haven’t happened. 🤦‍♂️
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  1735. Don’t have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people? So what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are ‘offended’. Again, so what? This is all about free speech. No harm involved here. Nothing to see.
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  1736.  @Sam-zu5mr  Huh? I affirm it on both sides. I was just making the point that trans men tend not to be sex pests. 🤦‍♂️
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  1737. Tbf, Brand did win the Sun’s Top Shagger of the Year award 3 years consecutively from 2006-08. Some guys have all the luck, eh? I once won Top Bagger of the Year in 2009 when I worked at my local supermarket. 🛒
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  1738. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  1739. I f*cking love Andrew Tate. He makes me realise he’s the last person on the planet I’d wanna be. 👍
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  1740. Can you imagine if the allegations which are swirling around Dan Wootton (sorry, Martin Branning) were swirling around Harry, for example, that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing him to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee but not for me.” His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  1741. That’s ok then! The whiteys can sit back and get the popcorn out! 🍿 🥤 😁
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  1742. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin)
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  1743. Truth is, that the vast majority of people (gay, straight, anywhere in between) will be against this. As with the aggressive trans movement, it’s always important to bear in mind it’s a minuscule proportion of the whole who are doing this clearly politically-motivated stuff. I personally don’t particularly have much of a problem with this (I would have zero problem with it if there were no bondage theme and it was just about a gay grandad.) There are far more important things to worry about, but would certainly agree that having a cartoon book with a side-dish of bondage in the junior library probably isn’t the best thing.
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  1744. I’m not a veggie, or an animal activist, but having looked at both sides of this, there is really no way horse racing can be morally justified in an enlightened society. On average 200 horses die unnecessarily each year on the justification of ‘entertainment’. There is a reason why bullfighting is dwindling and why we no longer bait bears or run after foxes like the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. 🐎
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  1745. The apology is for the family directly benefitting from their antecedent’s slavery links and their profiting thereby. There’s nothing “narcissistic” and “self-indulgent” about it. If anything, it’s an act of self-awareness and humility.
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  1746. All this stuff should be done on a case by case basis. If Hermoso were ok with this, there’d be no real issue. The fact she wasn’t makes it an issue. I can imagine a similar situation where the 2 parties know each other well enough to make what Rubiales did ok. Fact is, he didn’t read the room here and just blundered in like an entitled man.
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  1747.  @timonsolus  Yes, but the basic point is this: the ‘Unionists’ should never have been there in the first place.
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  1748. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  1749.  @raahinyapratapsingh1629  Huh? I think may have missed my previous point, so here it is again: 52% of Gazans are under 21. The vast majority of current Gazans never voted for Hamas. Moreover, in 2006, 44% of all Palestinians voted for Hamas. Nice try, though.👍
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  1750.  @nosmallfeat311 You’re missing the point. An increasingly substantial proportion of Europeans are fed up with mass immigration. Period. The ‘uncontrolled’ bit is actually irrelevant here. It’s the importation (controlled and uncontrolled) of very large numbers of immigrants they don’t like. The ‘legality’ or ‘documented-status’ of these migrants is neither here nor there for these people.
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  1751. Much like Galloway. 👍
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  1752.  @TheAArmstrong  Yes. If you are fined and you have limited funds you can pay in tiny instalments. You are made aware of possible prison time if you don’t do this. It’s your own fault if you don’t. That said, I do think Edwards should have done time for his crime.
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  1753. @1:02 That ‘Venture’ cologne the Russians were using is misnamed. It should be called ‘Misadventure’.
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  1754.  @celtspeaksgoth7251  ‘Smarter’?! Lol. You equate earning a few bob with being clever? How primitive.
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  1755. I like Greta. Yes, she’s not perfect (who is?), but her message is essentially sound.
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  1756.  @dukesb  If better pay and conditions were offered to British-born and trained doctors and nurses, half of them wouldn’t leave to go work abroad once they’ve trained.
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  1757. I know it’s by the by but my God, does Assange constantly bat above his average like no man I know. Respect. ✊
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  1758. The irony of Nigel Farage is that his surname is most prevalent in The Gambia! That must hurt.🤣
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  1759. Tbh, Jimbo, I never thought you’d reach the point in your life where you could spell ‘ideological’ or ‘financial’ or even your name correctly! Spellcheck is marvellous, ain’t it! 👍😉
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  1760. What I don’t quite get about all this, is that Germany has been supplying Ukraine with munitions since the beginning of this proxy war farrago; therefore, a tank or two is surely just a slight upgrade, but the principle is the same: military support for Ukraine.
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  1761. It was Lucretius who said: “To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.” Regarding this, I am in full agreement with him. What he forgot to address was what humans fear most: not that we die, but how we die. Or, as Woody Allen put it: “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
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  1762. Yup. Hard times indeed. With the cost of living crisis, this year I’m not going to be able to buy the kids a train set for Christmas. They’re getting a bus replacement service set instead. 🚌
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  1763.  @leonchen8317  Huh? That makes no sense. China was following a “zero Covid” policy and was more or less fully locked down for 3 years. America also had restrictions but they were far less repressive than China’s.
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  1764. Variation of the old joke: Q. How do you know a politician is lying? A. Their lips move.
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  1765.  @AccountFour-w2o  Again, I don’t see any real issue with consenting adults discussing sexuality. You ppl are all very strange. 🥴
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  1766.  janetlamb6812 No ‘antisemite’ here, Jan, so take your unfounded libel elsewhere. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  1767. As a Remainer, and democrat, I fully accept the result. Just a little bummed that it was on Boris’ watch that we exited: the E.U. is the only thing Bozo has pulled out of in his entire life!
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  1768. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  1769. Sweet innocence amongst the bitter experience.
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  1770. Yes, Jimbo, it has made you constantly triggered!👍🤣 Constantly triggered I sssssssssaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤡
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  1771. The key point for me in this whole debate is rather simple: the planet has warmed 1.3°C in the past 150/200 years. This correlates quite clearly with fossil fuel emissions. While correlation isn’t necessarily direct causation, the evidence is good enough for me to more than suggest human activity through fossil fuel burning is playing a part (perhaps the largest part) in this warming. On this trajectory, for me it makes utter sense to gradually phase out fossil fuels and transition to renewables. The end.
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  1772.  @naif8493  Lol. You seem to be under the delusion sexuality is a choice. 🤣
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  1773. From godfather to God the Father …?
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  1774. As someone who supports legal immigration controlled by the host country, the huge irony here is how Europeans can moan about immigration into Europe, when all Europeans have done since about 1492 is migrate to other places! This is a two-way street. If you don’t want non-European immigrants immigrating into Europe, then you have to be 100% consistent and call for any European who is not currently living in Europe to leave wherever that may be immediately.
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  1775. I’m just worried that these pro-lifers are going to take this thing to its logical conclusion, and call for an outright ban on masturbation!😳
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  1776. Nice to see actor Zelensky back where he rightly belongs: in front of his green screen! 🤣
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  1777.  @rasichap  Leaving the vacated seats aside, this plane was not allowed long-haul cross-water flying. That alone is enough of a red flag for me.
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  1778. Bot.
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  1779. Humans have a death wish. Freud was right about this. Our situation is too much to cope with, and incinerating our planet to a crisp (which we can now do) seems the easiest way out.
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  1780. What? ‘Proud’ of an accident of birth you had precisely zero say in? How primitive.
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  1781.  @Papanza295  Escalation? Hmm. Just seems like a bunch of more munitions to me and mere semantics to quibble about the type of munition. Essentially, Ukraine has been fighting a proxy war on behalf of NATO for a year, and NATO has been supplying Ukraine with weapons for that year. All weapons are designed to maim and kill, so for me, the only difference is the slight upgrade. The principal remains the same: military backing for Ukraine.
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  1782.  @MrLoobu  Indeed. But we know it will, based on the past 4 billion years.😉
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  1783.  @skullsaintdead  Yeah, the thing about organised religion is that quite obviously it should be a private matter and not intrude the lives of those of us who find it anathema. Too often, Islam does this. It intrudes. I get that from no other organised religion: just Islam. 👍
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  1784. Lol. ‘My most humble condolences’?! What is this? A Jane Austen adaptation? 🤣
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  1785. This was America doing what America does since about 1776. At the time justified as being all about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies; the real reason the Bush administration invaded Iraq was the same reason Truman dropped (unnecessarily) the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima: its demonstration effect. As with this latter barbaric, immoral atrocity, which was intended to send a post-WW2 message to the rest of the world (particularly the USSR) of “don’t mess with us, or else”, a quick and decisive victory in the heart of the Arab world would send a message to all countries, especially to recalcitrant regimes such as Syria, Libya, Iran, or North Korea, that American hegemony was here to stay.
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  1786. Still doesn’t give you, or anyone else, the right to interfere with what another woman does with her own body.
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  1787.  @soreeyez  Because she’s implying all homosexuals are ‘culture-less groomers’. I’ll throw it back to you: how’s it not prejudice? 🤔
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  1788. Easy to forget there were 23,000+ cases in Europe during the 2022/23 outbreak. Only 1 death. I suppose the difference here is this strain appears a bit more virulent. Back then, it was more difficult to contract the milder strain. This strain appears to be very easily transmissible. 😮 🐒
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  1789. @Mark S Lol. When was the last time you heard of a ‘mass knife killer’? 🤣 Besides, unlike guns, knives aren’t designed solely to kill and maim.😉
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  1790. Can you imagine how this world would go if everyone who achieved results were then instantly sacked? 🥴 Now, I know this guy wasn’t popular amongst the Spanish women, but his coaching/management just won them a World Cup! That surely has to count for something. Of course, this will all be connected to the Rubiales thing, but frankly, I wouldn’t have sacked Rubiales himself for that inappropriate kiss. Just re-educated him a little. Can men (particularly) just get this once and for all, as it’s not even a woman thing, it’s a human thing: don’t kiss other people on their mouth without prior consent, unless they are close family or your lover. It’s that simple.
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  1791. The only real question here in the face of brave civil disobedience, is which regime topples first: Iran or Russia?
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  1792. It’s interesting that the BBC (and other MSM) always report the heat but when the UK experiences its coldest beginning to June in decades this doesn’t get the same attention. 🤔
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  1793. For better or worse, we have set up our world with national borders. Now, if we lived in a border-less world, there’d be no problem with this. However, we have borders, and notwithstanding the desperate straits certain of these migrants will be in, these borders need to be recognised. The day we all decide to abolish nation states is the day I will have zero problem with migrants entering another national territory; quite simply because it will no longer be a national territory! Until then, national borders should recognised.
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  1794. Fella was just looking for his Seoulmate but took a wrong turn. 🗺
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  1795.  @alexjohnson9200  I disagree. They are just seeking a better life. If they are illegal, deport. I’m not into killing them even if you are.
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  1796.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I have zero problem with homosexuality, Jimbo. Wtf would I? 🤷‍♂️
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  1797.  @YI-iq5rt  Yeah, but when someone says ‘I don’t have working-class friends’, a red flag is raised.
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  1798. Don’t worry, mate. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe.
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  1799. All this talk of a possible no-fly zone in Ukraine. How about a no-fly zone over the whole planet?
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  1800. He’s a comedian fronting a proxy war for the West.
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  1801. @0:10 As a Brit, not totally sure Santos isn’t Alan Carr’s bastard half-brother.🤓
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  1802. Wasn’t it Dolly who said “if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”? You can’t know happiness without knowing unhappiness. Or as one of my all-time favourites, William Blake, put it: “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
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  1803. He’s a politician. That’s what they do.
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  1804. Immigration isn’t that difficult: just accept those who are needed. What I find remarkable (even as someone generally pro legal targeted immigration) is that we seem to accept every man, woman and their dog at this point. When people said to me that was the plan I thought they were paranoid. I think I’m becoming paranoid.
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  1805. Ah, the G7 Summit; a colder, emptier, more desolate place it would be hard to imagine; except perhaps the summit of K2. 😳
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  1806. Yeah, but ‘integrating’ is very often a sleight of language and what’s really meant by ‘integration’ is ‘agrees with me’. In a secular multicultural democracy you’re just going to have to accept that there will be others with ‘funny’ habits and customs. As long as no one is breaking the law (and 99.9% aren’t) then that’s just something you’ll have to deal with. Unless, that is, you want to impose the autocratic state of Sean Paul.🧐
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  1807. Never played Angry Birds; never been to a gym. Next …
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  1808. This must be a record!
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  1809. Yes, but has Amber heard Johnny’s deposition yet?
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  1810. Whenever I see Salmond he makes me think of 🐸.
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  1811. It’s the 545th day of Putin’s 6-day Special Military Operation.
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  1812. Says a person who has never had to give birth sans pain relief.
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  1813. Lol. The irony of your grammatically disastrous post.🤣
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  1814. Meanwhile, back at £300,000,000 Clarence House …
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  1815. @0:18 Poor guy looked like a young(ish) Roy Keane.
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  1816.  @GM-oi4vg  Yeah, but the Swiss have strict rules for who can get a gun, and take firearm training very seriously. America has none of this; hence these ridiculously easy mass homicides.
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  1817.  @maggiereeves2534  Biden couldn’t split a banana, never mind the atom!
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  1818. “Rishi Sunak enters race to be next Prime Minister” - given how often these Tories are firing their PMs at this point that’ll be the ‘sack race’.
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  1819. This could be quite progressive, as the community seems to be more or less balanced 50/50ish Catholic/Protestant. We could even see Protestants attending Mass and Catholics attending Protestant services. We could call them the ‘bisectuals’. ⛪️
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  1820. F*ck me! Thought that was Jimmy Savile in the thumbnail for a second there.
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  1821. As we would say in Scotland, it’s a shame that some folk don’t give a hee-haw about the nee-naws! 🚑
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  1822. “French protests over Bill raising retirement age to 64” - who does this Bill think he is? Bloody cheek of the fella!
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  1823. By that logic, they can’t teach English literature anymore! 🥴
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  1824. Lviv looks like the Krakow of Ukraine. Please let them spare it. When beautiful old towns and cities die it’s only marginally less depressing than when human beings die.
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  1825. Jeez. On the way to the nuclear power station? Hope Homer survived.
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  1826. We are expecting Boris Johnson to perhaps lead us into war and he can’t even comb his hair?! Really?
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  1827. This particular Abbott clearly needs to take a vow of silence. 🤫
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  1828. There’s nothing like watching a bunch of randoms earning £2,564 per hour, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all.
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  1829. Fighting a bunch of unmotivated, poorly-trained Russian conscripts means it’s only a matter of time before Putin’s final curtain call.
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  1830.  @cliveengel5744  Uh huh. Ok, well on that basis, Russia needs to hand back all the Asian territory it stole under the Romanovs between 1613-1917 if we’re playing that game. It works both ways.
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  1831.  @ThatCarGuy1983  Yes, all very well. But my curiosity is piqued. Why is it always those with the poorest vocabulary and grammar skills who seem to be most vociferously against immigrants? There seems to be a theme here. Don’t take that wrong.
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  1832. Lmao.
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  1833. The full title is the “Windsor Economic Framework”. Aka, the WEF. 🙊
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  1834. Cameras in courts? I shutter at the thought of it.
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  1835. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  1836. Lovely to see Nicholas Witchell getting some extra appearance work from Sky in these hard times for us all. Top up the old pension. Fair play.👍
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  1837.  @campbella2796 Totally disagree. Pornography fosters aggression by normalizing and depicting verbal and physical violence as enjoyable. In a study of 271 battered women, it was found that 30% of the abusers reportedly used pornography. The study concluded that the majority of women (58%) whose abusers used pornography acknowledged that the pornography had affected their abuse. I’m not saying it’s the only cause; I’m just saying it feeds into the average man-on-woman domestic violence scenario.
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  1838. If they ever have an Olympic queuing event, GB will come first, and for anyone to gainsay this is out of line.🤓
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  1839. Cringe.
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  1840. ABBA? ‘Forgettable’?! ‘Talentless’?! ‘Hacks’?! How very dare you! 😡
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  1841. Until the UK and Ireland say to people arriving on their shores, “you will be deported, unless you can categorically prove you are a genuine asylum seeker”, then this stuff will just continue. It’s not rocket science: if I can walk into your house, and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then what do you expect?
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  1842. They need to invent more letters of the alphabet for this sub Z-lister ‘star’. I wouldn’t hire him to open an envelope.
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  1843. Surely the key thing in this debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic. Believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  1844. Bisexuality? Don’t knock it: instantly doubles your chances of scoring on a Saturday night! 🤓
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  1845. Looks like that “world’s best sonar tech” may need an upgrade. Oops!
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  1846. I’m not offended by anything PG Wodehouse wrote; I’m offended by the idea someone is judging on my behalf his works need to be bowdlerised without so much as asking me!
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  1847. What’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  1848. @lifesbutastumble I live in Scotland. Legislation has just been introduced that if someone at a comedy club is ‘offended’ by something and they make a formal complaint, the police may investigate. Wake up! We live in a culture where a small minority want to cancel the rest of us. Nice try. 👍
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  1849. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  1850.  @GTA5Player1  Uh huh. And you never have tribal (some might say, ‘racist’) thoughts. K.👍
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  1851. Wow! Are you really doing this Kurt? A white South African guy? 🤦‍♂️
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  1852. Whenever these barbaric events happen, I’m always instantly reminded of the wise words of Robert M Pirsig: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Or, as Keats had it when he was writing about Shakespeare and attributed to him what he termed “negative capability” and the ability to accept ”uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
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  1853. Personally, I’ve been jabbed so much these past 2 years that I feel as if I’ve gone 12 rounds with Tyson Fury!
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  1854. Yeah, but tbf, I’d rather have this than Iran or Afghanistan. The ‘religion of peace’ (pmsl) ain’t cutting it for me, sweetie.👍
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  1855. 750,000 at last count for the year. That’s 1% of the total UK population in a year. And all legal. Add to that the tens of thousands of illegal economic migrants seeking to stay and you clearly have unsustainable levels of immigration. I say all this as someone pro-legal immigration, but not pro-legal immigration when it runs at 750,000 per year.
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  1856. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  1857. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  1858. Dude’s hands are so big, when he waves he causes a solar eclipse.
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  1859.  @Anon-lz1qy  That’s fine. You can disagree. That’s called freedom of speech. I stand by my OP. The other thing here that seems odd is 1. Why are you taking your dairy-allergic 13 year old to a place where dairy is omnipresent? 2. Where was the EpiPen? Either the poor girl herself was taking her allergy lightly or the mother was. Or both. I’m not necessarily blaming the mother here, as at 13, I had a good bit of volition, but she was a child in the care of her mother… 🤔
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  1860. It’s a bit of a mystery why Putin seems to want to put the ‘USSR’ back together when he can’t even seem to keep RUSSia warm in winter.
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  1861.  @Decision_Justice  Get real. We’re dealing with humans here. What’s happened these past 3 months will be a traumatic collective Palestinian memory for decades, and has just sown the karmic seeds down the line.
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  1862. If they ever make a biopic of her life (they won’t), then Marion Cotillard is a shoo-in for the lead.
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  1863. People will say this was a ‘mental health episode’ and it probably was. But let’s face it, anyone who is claiming an imaginary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy for one’s actions could also, arguably, be said to be having a ‘mental health episode’. RIP to the dead lad involved and condolences to his family.
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  1864. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  1865. Must be tough for Pip. A major broadcaster dropping him like a stone after 20 years will be hard to take. On the bright side, there’ll be several “minor” Channels clamouring for his services. Hang in there, Phil: CBeebies and Disney Junior will be in touch. 👍
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  1866. As they would say in Scotland: this Government appears to care hee-haw about the nee-naws. 🚑
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  1867. Yeah, but let’s be fair, Trump would tell his wife he loves her.
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  1868. Given Rochdale is 36% Muslim, it was inevitable Galloway would win. The real issue here is Islam. Galloway is a friend to Islam. 3:24 Look at the people surrounding him here. If you’re not a friend to Islam, and you make it public, this can cause you trouble. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  1869. Well, of Corsa this is bad news for the car manufacturers and they won’t be having a Fiesta and they may have to consider Minimising production. Could be that with the current economy, folks just can’t afFord cars at the moment. But on the bright side, the workers will have a little more free-time for a round of Golf!
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  1870.  @bigbang7897  It’s just about Islam, m8 (along with a little colour discrimination.) You need to come clean about this. It’s religion. If the Polish were Muslims you’d have an issue. Although, I’d add the caveat, that a good proportion of people have little tolerance of those who don’t look like them skin-wise, regardless of their religion. So, it’s complicated and everything is often predicated on accidents of birth no one has any say in. So, it’s all very primitive and tribal and inbred. But hey, that’s humans for ya! 👌 🤠
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  1871. This is heartbreaking. Hope Odesa doesn’t get completely mashed. One of the tragedies of war, aside from the obvious human cost, is the loss of beautiful old cities and towns, which once gone, are never to return and are invariably replaced with horrendous modern architectural monstrosities (eg. Marseille, Le Havre, Hamburg, Portsmouth, Rotterdam, Berlin, etc.). Odesa is one of Ukraine’s gems. Please let the war gods spare it.
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  1872. @orinscrivello1976 You know nothing, son. Like everyone else, on this topic, you are guessing. 😭
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  1873.  @julia2k8 Says the arch narcissist herself, who forces her own personal invented invisible sky daddy on the rest of us. Hypocrisy! 👍🤣
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  1874.  @smungek Nah, it’s not as simple as that. I watch Al Jazeera quite regularly and it’s not a ‘mouthpiece for Hamas’, IMO. It’s a mouthpiece for ordinary Palestinians caught by a rather heavy-handed Israel following October 7th.
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  1875. ‘Fired’? This is to be desired and was required. It’s a wonder these cops were ever hired in the first place. I’m tired of cop brutality. RIP Tyre.
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  1876.  @abuhurairah9977  Your fatal flaw in that little desperate rant is that you appear to spectacularly have failed in asking the actual women themselves (whose lives you are so alarmingly willingly keen to control) what they want. How would you feel if the tables were turned and your life was severely proscribed by a bunch of women? You’d hate it and you’d be right to hate it. Why do/should you need to control a fellow adult like this? Is this perhaps just due to your own personal inadequacies, and the only way of achieving some kind of power in your sad life?🤔
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  1877.  @Bob-l4q6f Neither did Israel prior to 1948. 🤔
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  1878.  @annab9994  You’ve just hit the nail on the head: this was never about being pro-life; this has always been about being anti-women.
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  1879. But they haven’t specified exactly where, how or when.
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  1880.  @kevinb9830  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  1881. Alien One: “You know, these humans are fed by the same food, drink the same water, are warmed by the same sun, and yet they kill each other.” Alien Two: “So primitive, huh?” Alien Two: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems.”👽
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  1882. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (Azerbaijani Azeris v Armenians), religion (Islam v Christianity) and language (Azerbaijani v Armenian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  1883.  @Ass_of_Amalek  And you can’t cope when you’ve been called out. XD
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  1884. That’s like saying how can a plane land in Australia if it’s British Airways? 🤦‍♂️
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  1885. If Putin is shaking hands and slapping backs here, wtf is all that nonsense with the 3-mile long tables he has his meetings on?🤔
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  1886. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
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  1887. Lol. If Tracy from Walmart had crashed into this fella we wouldn’t be here.🤣
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  1888. The clue’s in the word ‘near’.
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  1889.  @AnyoneCanSee  Edinburgh here too, pal. 👍 Same here. A few years back my tenement was about 25% Airbnb but there are none now because of what you say. Totally agree with your other point, as well. Foreigners in Edinburgh are rarely a problem; unlike some of us pissed-up Brits abroad! It’s, in large part, to do with how public drunkenness is seen. I’ve lived in France, Spain and Italy and in all 3 places it’s generally taboo to be seen wasted in public. Not saying French, Spanish and Italians don’t get a little tipsy now and again, they just control themselves far better as it’s seen as shameful to be publicly pished. Too many Brits feel zero restraint in this regard.
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  1890. Fun Fact: people who preface a statement with ‘fun fact’ are intensely annoying, as a rule. (With due respect to the foregoing statement.)
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  1891. Yeah, but so is their average pint of milk and loaf of bread.
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  1892.  @julia2k8  🥱
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  1893. Botox used to be a taboo subject, but now no one raises an eyebrow.
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  1894. Matt Hancock. The clue’s in the name.
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  1895. Madness. But then humanity is. As Einstein purportedly commented, he couldn’t be sure with what weapons exactly WW3 would be fought, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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  1896.  @purplehaze8557  Cope and seethe better, son. 🤓
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  1897. @mylesaway3393 I tend to find people who say “you need to go on a watch list” need to go on a watch list.
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  1898.  @theeraphatsunthornwit6266  That’s the point; it’s gonna rise (at least, for the next 4 billion years), hence there is no debate to be had.
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  1899. They’re not mad at Iceland; they’re mad at the police of Iceland.
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  1900. Yeah, but Jimbo, the more important question is why is it that Miss Universe always comes from Earth? 🤔
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  1901. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  1902.  @samirotba1970  Lol@“Which hypocrisy”.🤣
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  1903. Sunak’s got this. Nothing to do with his policies; all to do with his age. 42. Multiple of 7. Things happen at these ages. Not saying he’s the answer to life, the Universe and everything, but am saying he’s Britain’s next Prime Minister.
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  1904. ‘Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the killing.’ Translation: It was Israel.
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  1905. It’s always very interesting that those who most get triggered by these refreshing ladies aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Their armchair outrage is hilarious! Words are cheap.
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  1906. ‘Balls’? Don’t be silly. I’m a post-op trans woman.
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  1907.  @DilbertWhitehead  Yes. I would have an optimum to the UK of about 25-50,000. I’m not Devil’s Advocate. I’m not pro open borders. I believe if the UK were flooded with too many (particularly of one religion), then this will create issues down the line. All that said, I’m fundamentally pro limited immigration. I have zero problem with miscegenation. I genuinely don’t understand people who want to protect what they see as some kind of ‘ethnic purity’. I care not a jot about your skin colour and whether you come to live here. All I care about is your ideas. They are to be criticised, and as an agnostic, Islam needs criticism in its more extreme form. It’s essentially the Christianity of yesteryear on our planet right now.
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  1908.  @michmor6221  I meant don’t expect randoms to mourn for this dude. I wasn’t saying you can’t comment. I was saying I don’t wanna be part of the mourning. We lost a violent criminal.
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  1909. Should rename the capital: Nairobby! 💰
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  1910. Looks like the dude has crooked the books.
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  1911. The British police seem so crap at this point, maybe they should take a leaf out of the Old American West and put a bounty on his head: Wanted: Alive. Reward: £1,000,000. Pretty sure, if he were still in the UK, he would be found in about 5 minutes in those circumstances! 🤠
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  1912. You just did.
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  1913. Never signed up for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. Best move I never made.
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  1914. Have to say, that in this era of games and gaming and constantly updated technology, there is one piece of technology that still can’t be beaten when it comes to exciting me, holding my interest and making me think: 📕!
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  1915. Priscilla seems quite a hard headed woman and all shook up about this and sometimes, as humans, we do have suspicious minds, but perhaps it’s now or never for Priscilla, as she’s knocking on a bit, but methinks too much is being made of very little here.
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  1916.  @ChosenOne6666  *It’s Ffs, son! You need a remedial class on the apostrophe! Get to it!
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  1917.  @alexsilent5603  Wtf are you on about? Russia colonised Siberia and its indigenous peoples in the same way Europeans colonised the Americas and its natives, with similar negative impacts on the natives and the appropriation of their land. Moreover, it took over Crimea, Finland, Poland and is currently seeking to split Ukraine asunder. Get a history.
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  1918. If he ever lands on the moon, Armstrong’s quote will have to be adapted: “That's one small hop for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” 🌝
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  1919.  @ajlang1447  Not necessarily. If you uphold the materialist notion of existence, perhaps, but as Shakespeare pointed out: there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in anyone’s philosophy.
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  1920. Yeah, but it’s only ‘good’ for him.
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  1921. Yeah, Putin is wise to pick his trains carefully. Just last year I took a trip on the Trans-Siberian Express and began the trip as a man but when I got off in Vladivostok I was a woman! 👨 👩
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  1922.  @jo2832  I repeat: I see no victims here. 😝
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  1923. It’s also just to do with the very basic principle of majority self-determination on the ground as it exists today, regardless of the history. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23.4% preferred maintaining the status quo, 12.5% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. In other words, like a goodly majority of Ukrainians in 2023 want nothing to do with an imperialist Russia, an equally goodly majority of Taiwanese want nothing to do with an expansionist China.
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  1924. In the same way being anti-Islam, the religion, isn’t the same as being against Muslims in general as people, being anti-Israel’s foreign policy isn’t the same as being antisemitic and against Jewish people in general.
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  1925. Shuffling deckchairs while the Titanic sinks. The Tories are dead in the water. They’re going to have to rename it, ‘Drowning Street’.
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  1926. Given the way this planet seems to be going, 500 years hence they’ll probably find HS2 at the bottom of the sea. 🚊 🌊
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  1927. Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  1928. This type of thing has become so normalised in the USA it seems, that I’m vaguely shocked when one of these mass gatherings happens without a shooting of some kind.
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  1929.  @martiedoherty5765  I disagree.
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  1930. ‘European royalty pay their respects …’ How about about them just paying back all that moolah they’ve leached, looted and stolen from their ‘subjects’ and those they’ve colonised, subjugated and enslaved over the centuries?🤓
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  1931. And yet before this all kicked off I bet these people had literally no ill will towards Ukraine/Ukrainians. Amazing how a few individuals can have such an influence on so many.
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  1932. Assault and buttery.
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  1933. She’s looking for that £50,000 she’s just dropped.
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  1934. Let’s be honest: if the law were applied equally to every man and woman in this land, how many of us would escape a fine for not wearing a seatbelt? Just last year I was in India, and not only were they not wearing seatbelts, but they were sitting on top of trains on their daily commute!
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  1935. Yes, but under Article 5 NATO members are legally obliged to attack if one of their number is attacked. Ukraine is convenient for NATO as it can let it be used as Russia’s punchbag, whilst simultaneously weakening Russia. It all makes perfect sense to NATO to sit back here, and put their feet up. For now.
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  1936. Bloody quickly, by the looks of it! 🔥
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  1937. A 2 minute apology for 200 years of brutality against a people doesn’t really cut it. Words are cheap.
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  1938. Finally! Liz meets with the 1922 Committee, where she is committed.
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  1939. This is all rather simple. In 2014, 54% of Scots residents chose to remain in the UK. As we speak, the current polls suggest more or less the same result either way. On this basis, holding another referendum just 8 years after the previous ‘once in a lifetime’ referendum feels a little off. For one thing, current life expectancy in the UK is about 80. Given this, 8 years seems rather quick, unless the 2014 pro-independence folk were talking about ‘once in the lifetime’ … of a dog!🤣 🐕
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  1940. People need to use their loaf. I, for one, am loath to give a public oath to a private oaf.
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  1941. Lol@‘No violence please’ - from a German!?
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  1942. Not sure why men are having any say when it comes to what a woman does with her body.
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  1943.  @wasidanatsali6374  “Do more guns equal more crime”? With a homicide rate consistently 4x that of comparable nations I would say they do.
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  1944. Jeez. Freud would have a field day with this incestuous analysis.
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  1945. Everyone. Apart from the Yanks.
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  1946. “From Ukraine With Love?”
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  1947. And Putin should be grateful he’s still around. Not long now, though. Endgame is nigh.
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  1948. Lol. He can barely speak English! 🤣
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  1949. Old enough to remember Floella from her ‘Play School’ days and I swear she hasn’t aged a day. Floella Benjamin is 73 but could quite easily pass for 50.
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  1950. Surely it’s better not to have marriage until sex.
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  1951. The only thing that really needs to be settled in this climate debate is just how much is humanity complicit in the 1 degree warming we have witnessed these past 200 years. ☀️
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  1952. I hate to say this, but it wouldn’t surprise me if a supposed ‘rogue’ Russian missile finds its way into NATO territory, at some point. At that point: seek your nearest nuclear bunker. ☢️ I, for one, won’t. I’d rather go in the conflagration if surviving meant living in a nuclear winter.
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  1953. Neil Ferguson ~ resigns Allegra Stratton ~ resigns Matt Hancock ~ resigns Boris Johnson ~ re-signs
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  1954.  @rasheedghannan5465  There is no Allah. Get over it. Move on. This is getting so boring now.
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  1955. 🎶 The tax man's left me all my dough, And left me in my stolen home, Lying on a sunny afternoon. And I can sail my yacht, He’s left me everything I’ve got, All I’ve got’s this money afternoon.🎵
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  1956. Depp came off very badly today.
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  1957. Source: ‘trust me, bro.’
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  1958. He was 60, m8. Hardly a fossil ffs.
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  1959. Biden: “Great to see you man. I’ll pass you the gift-wrapped laptop later.” 😉
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  1960. This is hair-raising news concerning Combs.
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  1961. If you “stand for Russia” wtf are you doing in Jamaica then?
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  1962. Seethe, cope and learn to use full-stops. *.
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  1963.  @WOTArtyNoobs  That’s more than slightly disingenuous. The planet is 1.3°C more than it was 150 years ago. Even without the stats, those of us old enough know things are warming up.
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  1964.  @rosita3528  In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice-versa. These latter cases of gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. For me, where the issue arises is when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I have no problem with it; it’s when these same people claim patently unfair rights to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females, that my hackles are raised. In terms of this drag queen in a school: I repeat, I have no real issue with it if all they are doing is reading a story or 2. If they are going beyond this, then I may question it.
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  1965. Oh ffs! If Mark White’s explaining it we’ll be here until next Christmas! 🥱
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  1966. With a name like ‘Schofield’ she needs to get to the back of the line.🙄
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  1967. One of my golden rules in life is to be wary of a man who makes his own halo. 😇
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  1968. “I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” (George Carlin)
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  1969. Wouldn’t blame the ladies personally for this. This decision would have been completely out of their hands and willing to bet good money the majority of them would’ve been more than happy to meet and greet a few fans.
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  1970.  lawrencenewman9941  Banning stuff willy-nilly (pun intended) just smacks of fascism imo. I genuinely have no issue with ‘trans people’ choosing to identify how they want, but as I said above, when their chosen lifestyle adversely impinges on mine without my express consent, then that’s where I start drawing lines.
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  1971. ‘Offence’ is taken, never given. You can’t be offended against your will. Stephen Fry summed this up for me when he said: “It’s now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so f*cking what?” In other words, no one has the right not to be offended.
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  1972. Er, why? We’re not all English, m8. 🤦‍♂️
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  1973. You posted that on the other video and you were wrong then, too.
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  1974. On the bright side for Pip, he’s freed up to go visit his brother in jail where they are putting on a prison musical: Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof!
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  1975. Since this story broke what has been confusing is the stark binary either/or nature of it: either Brand is guilty or it’s an MSM stitch-up. How about it could be both/and: Brand may be guilty here and the MSM want to take him down.
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  1976. Utter tosh, mate. They lived quite happily and still are best of friends it seems. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, eh?😉
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  1977. It’s always amusing watching British weather. Whenever anything slightly out of the ordinary happens, it’s always exaggerated. Wind gusts of 100mph are treated like hurricanes where in actual hurricanes sustained winds are at 150mph. 3 consecutive days of over 25°C are classified as a ‘heatwave’ when other places on the planet have 30°C+ every single day of the year, and many places have summer temperatures topping 40°C for months on end! A ‘severe cold snap’ is a few days of about 0°C when proper ‘cold snaps’ are in places like Canada or Siberia where for weeks on end it can be -20°C and below. British weather is beige. Even when it’s ‘extreme’, it’s beige. Why? Latitude. Mainly. And sea. Oh, and Gulf Stream. For example, Calgary, Canada is at almost exactly the same latitude as London, England, yet London is a good 8-10°C warmer in the winter months!
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  1978. Day 590 of Putin’s war. This has to be the longest 6-day Special Military Operation in history!
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  1979.  @Cloudy.419  Yeah, good old Mohammed; his future wife, Aisha was just six years old when she was betrothed to ole Mo, himself in his 50s, and only nine when the marriage was consummated. Lovely role model stuff there for us all to follow.👍
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  1980. Never thought I’d be directly quoting Enoch Powell with approval in my life, but here it is: Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.
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  1981.  @tiredgardener  Oh, stop it darling. You secretly love the drags; that’s why you are oh so publicly pushing them away.😉
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  1982. It means that you’re gonna be paying 50,000 lira for a turkey. 🦃
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  1983. I’ve lived in southern France, Italy and Spain and 35°C was considered a ‘hot summer’s day’ back then. When it got to 39°C/40°C it was talked about. 45°C/46°C is certainly very unusual. I say that as someone who believes in global warming (the data is incontrovertible) but is not fully sure just how much human activity is complicit in this warming.
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  1984. You keep copying and pasting this. I’ve seen it 4 times tonight already. It’s Jefferson’s quote anyway so stop plagiarising and not attributing.
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  1985. Must’ve been a Virgin helicopter. Early reports suggest there were 72 involved.🚁
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  1986.  @Ashleii  Really? Last time I checked one ‘gang’ was exclusively Hindu, while the other ‘gang’ was exclusively Muslim. Looks like there could be just a smidgen of religious motivation at work here.
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  1987. 2 militaries in Sudan vying for power. What could possibly go wrong? Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  1988. Lol. You need to get out more. Where have you been for 40 years? Locked in a basement? 🤔
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  1989. A la Jeremy Clarkson, I almost have negative feelings about Paltrow ‘on a cellular level’ … but I’m f*cking glad she won this case against an absolute chancer! 💰
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  1990. Ffs. Just have a country together. You seem to be able to live in Jerusalem together: just extend that to Gaza and the West Bank. 🤦‍♂️
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  1991. It’s apt that NATO’s going to train 30,000 troops in the Arctic, as that’s going to be a lot of ‘nae toes’ by the end of the training!
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  1992. This episode goes right to the heart of free-speech and its limits. Personally, as a free-speech absolutist, I have no issue with what Clarkson said but recognise law prohibits speech which, for example, incites murder, violence or terrorism; stirs up racial hatred, or hatred to other groups; causes fear of violence, alarm or distress, constitutes harassment or is defamatory or malicious. Clarkson’s words are clearly an incitement to violence on another, notwithstanding the jokey, blokey Clarkson tone cloaking those words. The fact Clarkson himself appears to think he crossed a line suggests he probably did. However, when all is said and done here, as usual George Orwell hit the nail on the head when he said: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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  1993. Oh Jesus. Don’t bring invisible sky daddies into this. These are a big part of the whole problem in the first place! When is humanity going to grow up and out of organised religion? We are better than this. Or should be, by now. 🤦‍♂️
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  1994. There’s nothing like watching a bunch of randoms earning £2,564 per hour, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all.
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  1995. Aww, diddums, Jimbo. Did the report on black people upset your feelings, sweetie? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better.😭
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  1996. Fukuyama talked of the ‘end of history’ and the ‘last man’ 30 years ago; that is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government, while the ‘last man’ referred to what could go wrong with liberal democracy in the future. If we look around the world we see democracy as a rather fragile thing, liable to crack at populist/nationalist fissure points, as demagoguery maintains or returns to the box-seat in many countries. Taking democracy for granted is highly risky. The ‘last man’ in our current days just sounds plain ominous; especially for Western Europeans who hadn’t really seen an aggressive invasion of a sovereign nation by another since WW2; and when the invading nation has nuclear weapons, then talk of ‘last men’ becomes rather sinister and bleak.
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  1997. @GaryS-gi9fkToo glib. It’s deeper than that, whether you like it or not. The dramatic demographic shift of Western Europe these past 50 years or so was always at some point going to be met with a reaction. What did Newton say? For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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  1998. Hmmm… we’ll see. Ask Syrian women in a year.
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  1999. Some parts of central Spain are considerably colder than Scotland for several months of the year. Spain is, after Switzerland, Europe’s 2nd most mountainous country!
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  2000. What’s interesting about all this is the lack of obvious popular indignation amongst ordinary Russians over a revolt during an enemy counteroffensive shows that Russia’s heart isn’t with Putin and his war against Ukraine. This is an ominous sign for Putin. Watch this space …
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  2001.  @user-xh4uk1rh3b  I didn’t “bombard” anywhere. I fear you have the wrong fella.
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  2002. These religions can’t even agree amongst themselves! 🤦‍♂️ This has a background of Sunni vs Shia. I despair at humankind and their tribal invisible sky daddies. It’s no more advanced than when you’re at school: “My daddy is better than your daddy!” It’s on that level. All invented. All based on unverified and unverifiable stuff. The trouble organised religion causes, causes countless millions to mourn. As Steven Weinberg aptly put it: With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
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  2003.  @MsSherlock69  Wtf are you on about? Siberia had nothing to do with Russia until the late 16th century. Are you going to argue dates now? If it’s far back enough it’s ok. Is that it?
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  2004. Seb, have you taken your medication this morning? I’m seriously worried for you. 💊
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  2005. One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second. Think about it yourself. Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you?... But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. (Yann Martel)
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  2006. He looks like he’s been at the vodka, and let’s face it, if you were working for Putin, you too would be at the vodka!
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  2007. @1:27-1:32 I thought this 5 seconds was never going to end!
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  2008. Proud Boys sounds like that boyband who never made it. And never will.
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  2009. Odd. You’d think Coniston Water would be turning green with jealousy due to Lake Windermere’s higher tourist numbers.
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  2010. While this is clearly a human tragedy and desperate for all those involved, it’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. If these are genuine asylum seekers on these boats and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I would obviously welcome them and give them sanctuary. However, we (and Europe more generally) need to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration (controlled by the host country) and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, every country has the right to determine exactly who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority, in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants (in their state of penury I'd probably be doing the same and seeking a better life) and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.
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  2011.  @ontheslide2339  On the contrary; I get all the ‘diversity’ I need here in the UK.👍 🇬🇧 😉
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  2012.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Irrelevant, Jimbo. I don’t see others as bestial just cuz they have a different colour of skin, son.👍
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  2013. Get those Leopard tanks sent. They’ll knock spots off the Russkis! 🐆
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  2014. What I don’t quite get about all this, is that Germany has been supplying Ukraine with munitions since the beginning of this proxy war farrago; therefore, a tank or two is surely just a slight upgrade, but the principle is the same: military support for Ukraine.
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  2015. Key here for onlookers is to keep Afghanistan citizens separate from the Taliban. Our common humanity tells us we help, no questions asked. The task is to get the aid to those who need it, obviating the need for the Taliban to get its grubby paws on it. In the same way Putin’s regime has to be kept separate from the Russian people, and the Israeli state occupation of Palestinian territory has to be kept separate from Israelis (or, at least, those who don’t support this brutal occupation), then the world must help individuals like this who are affected by natural disasters, through absolutely no fault of their own.
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  2016. Woman’s body; woman’s choice. No one else’s business, aside from the father.
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  2017. So stop moaning and vote him out then. You’re lucky you live somewhere where you can do that. Millions don’t.
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  2018. The Russian cosmonaut is there as there are strong rumours emanating from Moscow that Putin wants to build a Russian base on the moon and have cosmonauts living there permanently. When the cosmonaut was asked if he really wanted to spend the rest of his life in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, he said... "No. That's why I want to go to the moon."
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  2019. Personally, I’m disgusted by the idea of these images, cartoon or not, but the reason loads of Reddit people were telling you he was doing nothing wrong was that, rationally, objectively, he wasn’t in the sense there were no victims and no human pain/suffering was caused. Your subjective feelings are telling you it was ‘wrong’, as are mine tbh, but just because someone is personally disgusted by something doesn’t automatically make it morally wrong, and this is more likely to be true when no actual human victims are involved. There is a categorical moral difference between having fantasies about murdering people and actually acting on those impulses.
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  2020. Back in my day, young people were hooked on BZOs and MDMA, so NFTs could be a better way.
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  2021. Bot. Seen this posted about a million times.
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  2022.  @MeghanBrowning-cy3tm  I repeat, it is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.
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  2023.  @A.A1891  No one needs Islam, m8. 🤦‍♂️
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  2024.  @Jumpyman_thegamerYT  Yes.
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  2025.  @skycloud4802 No. That reminds me though. My local cinema was robbed last night of £754. The thieves took a bag of maltesers, a pick n mix and a large drink... 🥤
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  2026.  @barrypeers8665  Yanks? Not I, chummo. Looks over shoulder to next person
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  2027. Currencies and money are based on hopes and faith, too. We all agree that intrinsically worthless bits of paper and coins carry value; without that agreement, the system would instantly collapse.
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  2028. Even the ghost of Jimmy Savile is blushing at the scale of this one.
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  2029.  @SamadPathan_2.0  🤖
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  2030.  @BilalKhan-zt4hv  Don’t cared.
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  2031.  @fiksaciya_shpindelya  Huh? 🤔 And what, exactly, does that have to do with the beauty, or otherwise, of Odesa? I fear you may have the wrong fella.
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  2032.  @DilbertWhitehead  I think you’re being more than slightly disingenuous when you suggest it’s not about skin colour for certain people. It very much is.
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  2033. It’s unfortunate that France has to bear the burden of their Empire after all these years, isn’t it? If they didn’t want so many players of African heritage in their team, then perhaps they should have kept their nose out of African business in the first place.
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  2034. Love a flute. Particularly in pop. Polyphonic Spree make lovely use of one in their best album: Together We’re Heavy .
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  2035. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  2036.  @Ali..88  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  2037. It’s a close call but for me it’s: 1. Pelé 2. Messi 3. Maradona
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  2038.  @edwardoancea4512  Huh? Not sure what you’re on about, mate. You may have misread me. I’m pro legal immigration. That means every country on this planet has the right to select exactly who they intake. Not sure why this should be up for debate quite frankly. Just seems like common sense. Of course, genuine asylum seekers/refugees should always be allowed a safe haven when their life is in danger. No hypocrisy here. Just for the record, I’m an anti-colonialist. 👍😉
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  2039.  @tastypymp1287  Woke zombie. 👈Ad hominem statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
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  2040. Looking at him, not sure he could run to the end of the street. 🏃‍♂️
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  2041.  Humbert Smith  🤣
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  2042.  @00st307-m  C’mon, get real. If you go to a place that serves drinks all day that contain dairy products and you ask a human being to make a drink without dairy, you still have to take responsibility in the sense that you need to factor in possible human error, as in this case. If I had a dairy allergy, every time I bought a coffee I would either have it black or make damn sure I actually see the barista adding soy/oat milk, not actual milk, before I drank it.
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  2043. 3rd party? I’ve been partying since January 1st and am currently on my 259th party! 🎉
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  2044. Xi: “But I clearly asked for a Jack and Coke.” Trudeau: “I’m sorry, Sir, but this is my first day working here.”
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  2045. Cringe.
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  2046. Yeah, right. So someone comes to your house. Occupies it and demands 2 of the rooms without your consent. Be realistic. Putin would never have negotiated a land-free deal. Some people need to be told with force. Force has to meet force in certain circumstances. This is one of them. If not, the bullies of the world win.
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  2047. 🥱
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  2048. For all the UK’s problems, we Brits look aghast at stuff like this. Living in a country awash with guns and with pretty easy access to them and this is what you can expect on a semi-regular basis. She’s clearly no threat to the dude. We can all see this. Perhaps his relatively advanced age compromised his thinking here. Perhaps there’s a race element involved here. But the real mystery is if the old guy really felt that threatened by the call, why didn’t he just call the cops? 🤦‍♂️
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  2049. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  2050. @0:10 RIP. 🪰
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  2051. Just create 2 States already. Ffs.
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  2052. No fan of the rotten Tories - can’t abide them, in fact - but this has more than a whiff of the good old witch-hunt. At the risk of sounding ageist, I’m willing to bet that those doing the complaining are 35 or under. Could be wrong, but as someone who’s completed the half century, what I’ve noticed these past couple of decades at least, is a kind of trigger-sensitivity in certain younger folk, such that they are ready to be offended by absolutely bloody anything. More than that, some of them seem to see it as their absolute duty to be mortally offended by A N Other! Raab no doubt has a robust ‘office manner’ (he’s a lawyer, after all), but certain folk of a certain age in our society just need to toughen up a little and not seemingly go out of their way to seek offence in every interaction.
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  2053. In other news, water is wet and the sun is hot.
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  2054. It’s not that he ‘expects’ the Ukraine war to last until at least 2023; he knows it’s going to last until 2023. I suspect that the main pillars of this whole conflict, and the timelines, have been carefully mapped out in advance. Something, my dear fellow, smells rotten in the state of NATO.
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  2055. @2:21 “The old status quo is gone.” Indeed, it has. RIP Rick Parfitt. 🙏
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  2056. What’s interesting, and actually quite hopeful, about this whole farrago, notwithstanding the murky deceit and dodge betrayed by Johnson, is just how seriously the nation takes this. In other parts of the world, perhaps most other parts of the world, what Johnson has done would be seen as extraordinarily pettifogging in the grand scheme of things, but no, us Brits, with our sense of ‘fair play’, see this as actually very important, and for this reason: it’s about the larger principle, not the ostensible small-fry crime itself. And that gives me hope. Truth is that Johnson will be really judged at the ballot box.
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  2057. Why not just move the Wagner troops to Belarus without all the unnecessary faff?
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  2058. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  2059. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  2060.  @colinsmith1288  As it should be, really. There should have been no NI in the first place.
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  2061. P&O boss gets £160p/h. Some of his employees get £1.80p/h. What a vicious, unjust system we have created for this to be ‘acceptable’ in a humane society.
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  2062. Never mind sanctions against 360 individuals; we need proper sanctions against 1 individual here.
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  2063. Remember when Russia said it would take Kiev in 5 days in March? Funny times. Haha.🤣
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  2064. While not necessarily without foundation, from my eyeliner there is possibly a bit of lipstick service being paid here, but I blush as they may be using concealer tactics to make their point, and there may be other Max Factors at play here mascaraing, rather than highlighting the real issues.
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  2065.  @kenzandana4791  Cope better. 😊
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  2066. Nice to see Julian Assange has a new role. Long before time, Sir. 👍 🧔‍♀️
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  2067. The word ‘allegiance’ apparently comes from the Old French and swearing to ‘my liege’. Frankly, and with due apologies to the Belgians amongst us, I’d rather swear allegiance to a Brussels sprout than a royal A N Twerp!
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  2068. Boris Johnson is the “great mistake”.
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  2069. As a Brit, here’s what I tink: While our economy tanks we send tanks, along with the Yanks, to tonk and spank the Russki planks. No thanks!
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  2070. Well, that’s just a flat out lie as Europe's highest recorded temperature is 48.8C in Sicily 2 years ago. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda.👍
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  2071. Looking at Johnson’s barnet, there’s definitely something about Boris.😳
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  2072. Wow! That’s a whole lotta white. Last time I saw that much white powdery stuff in one place was that party I was at with Volodymyr Zelensky just last week! sniffs
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  2073. Heathrow having no issue operating its no-fly zone, there.
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  2074. Actors like Zelensky?
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  2075. Why this was ever a debate is bizarre. Don’t kiss randoms on the mouth without their consent. It’s that simple. Case closed.
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  2076. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  2077. The barge is called the Bibby Stockholm. They were going to call it the Bobby Helsinki but were afraid that might have given the Portland locals ideas.
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  2078.  @jortx5578  No, it isn’t. I’m just pointing out that throwing some powder on a bunch of stones isn’t the same thing as blowing them up. Grow up. 🤦‍♂️
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  2079. Lol. 2 big differences: 1. Nothing was blown up. 2. They aren’t inherently disrespecting the stones. The stones are just a way to get your attention. 🤦‍♂️
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  2080. Because we vote politicians in to run our economy. That said, it could be argued this is a referendum issue, much like the issue of mass immigration.
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  2081. Not sure what the Sheikhs in Dubai are going to think of this. Apparently, the Sheikhs in Dubai do not approve of the Flintstones. But those in Abu Dhabi do.
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  2082.  @ia796 It’s a secular school. No one is allowed to pray.
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  2083.  @daniellatham73  The overwhelming historical evidence from American and Japanese archives indicates that Japan would have surrendered that August, even if atomic bombs had not been used — and documents prove that President Truman and his closest advisors knew it. Nice try, though. 👍
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  2084.  @hamzamahmood9565  ‘Whataboutism’ is just the latest term hypocrites bandy to distract from their terrible crimes.
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  2085.  @andyrobinson2653  Who said anything about fighting a war for Zelensky? It was Poland hit here.
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  2086. Lol. Left field but oddly fascinating. 👍
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  2087. No.
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  2088. He’s not mad. Too facile an assumption. On the contrary, he’s very calculating.
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  2089. Tbh, I’d never previously associated Bozo with ‘rubbers’ before.🤓
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  2090. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  2091. Controlled Chaos, you win the gold 🥇for the longest post I have ever read on YouTube; and I didn’t bail in this age of the nanosecond attention-span. You also win the silver 🥈for the most articulate, erudite post in the English language I have ever read by a non-native speaker. Kudos. Either that, or you are on close personal terms with Google Translate, but we have all been there. I will go further, your English is so impeccable I think you may be a descendant of Jane Austen or something. After all, the use of ‘whom’ by any native English-speaker was only really last heard at the back-end of the 19th century. Most speakers of English as a foreign language that I encounter have better English than the natives! Go figure.
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  2092. 8:20 All respect to John Parrott. Fair play to the lad. The way he won that 1991 World Snooker Title was nothing short of remarkable! ✊
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  2093.  @ciararespect4296  Uh huh. And name a politician who has ever lived who doesn’t try to ‘garner votes’. It’s up to you and me to see through this if there is anything to see through. Harris is doing what politicians have done since politicians were invented. 👍
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  2094. Love how Christian Forbes is vilified for her anti-gay marriage stance, yet Humza Yousaf, a practising Muslim, and therefore by definition anti-gay marriage, gets off scot-free! (Pun intended.) I say all this as an agnostic who thinks all organised religion simply an invention of men, primarily for men.
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  2095. @4:00 Lovely to see Barry Took is still with us. Fair play. 👍
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  2096. @Mongo Planted by the British state.
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  2097. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘Anywheres’ and the ‘Somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms. Melenchon’s core base appears to be a curious mixture of the two: ‘Somewheres’ and ‘Anywheres’; traditional left-leaning working-class folk rooted in their specific communities, and a more metropolitan strain, found in the big cities, and while left-leaning, also more likely to fall into the ‘Anywhere’ tribe, principally due to a higher-level of education.
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  2098. S’ok. She’s got some lucrative work lined up as a Lewis Capaldi tribute act.
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  2099. Oh what a tangled web we weave when we start believing in invisible sky daddies.
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  2100. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice-versa. These latter cases of gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. For me, where the issue arises is when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I have no problem with it; it’s when these same people claim patently unfair rights to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females, that my hackles are raised.
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  2101.  @phoenix1619100  Inverted snob.
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  2102. Hmm… Stonewall have clearly been boning up on their Aristotle: “Give me a child until they are 7 and I will show you the adult”.
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  2103. No idea. But she makes a very good chav. 👍
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  2104. Tbf, though, and let’s be brutally honest about this: if France were Britain and Britain were France, we’d be doing exactly the same. That needs to be said before anything else.
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  2105. @0:35 Tbf, I went to school with a few 17 years olds with thick beards, receding hairlines and numerous tattoos on the their arms and legs: and that was just the girls!
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  2106. Yeah, but to be fair, awards based on Empire are just a bunch of nonsense anyway.
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  2107. Best Freudian slip in a foreign language ever seen.
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  2108.  @user-xu5vl5th9n  I’m not ‘cancelling’ him. Just pointing out that what he did was inappropriate and off. 👍
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  2109. Here’s me thinking this mighty Russian army (the second mightiest on the planet, allegedly) was going to originally take Kyiv in a week! Pmsl.😂
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  2110. “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” (Steven Weinberg)
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  2111. Er, how is it ‘evil and stupidity’? 🤔 She’s just a regular Lebanese mother just speaking up for her autonomy. You’re talking like she’s a Hezbollah operative.
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  2112. *it’s
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  2113. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍
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  2114.  @likeisaid1947  Wow! You’re the biggest sense of humour bypass alert I’ve met today. Kudos for that alone. 👍
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  2115. Could be that the British people are a bit dangerous for the patients. 😉
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  2116. I think they should send British tanks. I’m sure some of these Ukrainian fighters could use a Tommy Tank at this point.🤓
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  2117. As a country, we need to stop tip-toeing around certain people when it comes to investigating them. It needs to be repeatedly said that the colour of your skin or the holy book you worship will not exempt you from full and frank examination. This isn’t racist. It’s simply about justice being applied equally across the board.
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  2118. 🎵 “Here comes the Sunak, true-blue-true-blue Here comes the Sunak, and I say It's not right” 🎶
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  2119. Shouldn’t rush to conclusions here. With the Kurds we need to whey up the options.
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  2120. 1:40 Deliveroo lady clearly got her order wrong. Nigel only ordered fries. Preferably not French ones, though. 🍟
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  2121.  @gogadgetgo3125  Er, wot? Doesn’t everything start with an idea? If I didn’t have an idea I wouldn’t exist as a human. Well, I could exist as a human but it wouldn’t be an optimum existence. Descartes suggested this: ‘I think therefore I am.’ Thought is who we are. Emerson put it like this: ‘You become what you think about all day.’ Israel has just perpetuated thoughts of revenge and hatred in Palestinians for not just one generation, but several generations to come.
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  2122. @0:07 “The leopards are on their way.” Indeed. But will they knock spots off the Russkis? 🐆
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  2123. They can’t hear you for all the Israeli bombs.
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  2124. It’s vitally important to establish a homosexual from a transsexual. The amount of ‘transsexuals’ I’ve encountered who are just un-self-acknowledged homosexual is quite a lot.
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  2125.  @sohailrazaque9785  You’ve no idea who I am or what I watch, so stop with the baseless assumptions. Conventional NATO forces are at least 10 times more powerful than Russian forces. At least. Nukes obviously complicate things and I’m not advocating an aggressive hot NATO war with Russia; was just making the point that if we hadn’t split the atom then this thing would’ve been resolved months ago, and not resolved in a good way for the Russians.
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  2126. “We’ve got to show them our pecs.” No, Bozo, you’ve got to show us your P45.
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  2127.  @sambee4927  That’s not the point. It’s her body. If she chooses to terminate that is on her conscience and is simply none of your business.
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  2128. Look on the bright side, Vaughan. You’ve lasted 28 days more than Liz Truss! 👍 That said, I have a lettuce that is currently matching you and looks like it might have a few more days yet… 🥬 😮
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  2129. Airport and postal workers strikes? Looks like nobody’s going to be flying first-class anytime soon. ✈️
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  2130. ‘Stay strong Ireland’?! Lol. Wtf. Since when was Ireland at war? 🥴
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  2131. That canopy was easier to fold up than my umbrella!
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  2132. She’s a neo-fascist from a neo-fascist party. Sure, she wears a polite mask in public, but like Le Pen in France, she’s rather right-wing.
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  2133.  @chethemerc7841  No it wouldn’t. If a woman aggressively kissed a man against his consent, the same rules would apply. Fact is, the vast, vast majority of women don’t indulge in this entitled, inappropriate and off behaviour.👍
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  2134. Seen this comment a million times. 🥱
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  2135. For these two who don’t have the daily 9-5 grind, they have the daily bind of pitching up in a country whose ancestors we brutally subjugated and enslaved for 200 years, and somehow pretending we are still ‘relevant’ to them and their contemporary lives. It’s a bit like that dastardly man who kept me in a shed at the bottom of his garden for 30 years and let me out to graft for him for no money, horrendous terms and conditions and with no free will to make the decision to leave if I so chose; and here he is again; at my front door. The temerity. The brass neck. Staggering.
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  2136.  @julia2k8  Ok, groomer. 🥱
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  2137. Never in the sky of budget airlines was so much earned from so many for so little.
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  2138. But by that logic, every artefact in every museum on the planet which is not from the country in whose museum it’s in, needs to be ‘given back’.
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  2139. Does it? Is this the UK’s battle? After all, Ukraine isn’t even in NATO!
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  2140. This wouldn’t matter if the vast majority of Afghani women supported the Taliban and their stupid regime. Fact is, 95% of Afghani women don’t. When you have repressed, repressive regimes (anywhere) committing barbaric, primitive atrocities on half the human species, it’s well within the rights of people elsewhere to pipe up about this.👍
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  2141.  @polarbear5496 That’s what dictatorships do. Why are you surprised? Jefferson nailed this: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Now, I’m fully aware Jefferson was a slave holder so in that light one may look askance at this quote; but on the other hand, it’s because he was a slave holder that he knew exactly what he was talking about.😉
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  2142. Don’t really buy any of this. There is no threat to her life, as there is no threat to her hubby’s life. No, real people are dying.
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  2143. “You veel eat ze algae and be happy with nothing!”
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  2144. ‘Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.’
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  2145.  @joeoria4497  It’s not a Catholic country, either. It’s a secular republic. On this basis, it very much is the point.
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  2146. And you need a good full-stop! *. Ffs, why do people not just put a full-stop at the end of their sentences, these days? How hard can it be?
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  2147.  @jessegpresley  Slightly disingenuous, as this figure includes threats to glass a victim, or last-minute confiscation of the criminogenic implement. Moreover, actual deaths from glassings are infinitesimally minuscule when ranked against deaths from a bullet shot out of a gun.
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  2148.  @TheSLOShadow  “I guarantee you firearms are not the problem with America’s homicide rate.” And I guarantee you that if you implemented far stricter gun-owning laws that homicide rate would be drastically reduced overnight. Overnight.
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  2149. Last time I checked, they were defending their country against someone who wants it.
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  2150. Certain type of fool more like.
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  2151. Not ‘weird’ at all. The Sundance Film Festival began in September 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the name Utah/United States Film Festival. The idea was launched by the Utah Film Commission as a means to promote independent film and to bring the state of Utah to the attention of filmmakers.
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  2152. There’s evidence that there was prior settlement there before Ivan, Ivan. Nice try, though.👍
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  2153. Huh? Death? I’m not for these guys, but I don’t wanna live on a planet where you are calling for ‘death’ for something that involved no victims.
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  2154.  @msjahun  Oh, stop with the mock outrage and double-standards ffs.
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  2155. Looks like that Omacron strain in France is on the wane.
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  2156.  @Alias_Ex  Why don’t they move to Russia then?
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  2157. The moon’s essentially just a barren, atmosphere-free rock. However, my favourite thing about it has always been how in a solar eclipse it fits exactly over the sun (from Earth’s perspective) as if one were placing a 10p on a 10p. Why? It’s all thanks to a striking coincidence. The sun is about 400 times as wide as the moon, but it is also 400 times further away. If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think someone, or something, had planned it that way. 🤔 🌝
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  2158. Sex is the biggest thing that separates men from women. If a random woman kissed a random man there would be no issue. When a random man kisses a random woman, there is an issue. Why? Power. If the vast majority of sexual crimes were committed by women against men there would be a whole different scenario here.
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  2159. They also rarely forget how you feel them.😳
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  2160. Microchips. Klaus. 🤫
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  2161. Yes, you’re right. Unseen air pockets are clearly ‘pilot error’. 🤦‍♂️
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  2162. Oh dear, looks like the sacrament o’ life is cheap in Sacramento.
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  2163.  @Dogfacedbloke  Do you? Last time I checked Spain was 2nd in the ‘world’s most visited countries’ list, just behind France. On this list it had almost 3x as many visitors as the UK. You may need to recheck your numbers, son.👍
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  2164. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  2165. Love it how large part of Russia’s rationale for invading was Ukraine’s cosying up to Nato and thereby having the nuclear back-up option as part of that club, and possibly having Nato nukes stored on Ukrainian soil aimed right at Moscow; yet, as per usual, Putin doesn’t apply the same standards to himself and uses another country bordering Ukraine to store his own nukes. By doing this, and using Putin’s logic, Ukraine has every right to go in hard on Russia.
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  2166. @0:01 So that’s where Deirdre Barlow got to! I see you, Deirdre, lurking over Mr Raskin’s shoulder. Fair play.🤓
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  2167. You didn’t. You are still here.😳
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  2168. Almost everything Putin says about Ukraine and others whom he disdains could just as equally well be attributed to himself and his own regime. Freud would have a field day with this rank hypocrite.
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  2169. Thumbnail: You just know who’s the daddy in this ‘relationship’.
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  2170. As an agnostic, I abhor all organised religion, but if a loaded gun were pointed to my third eye and I had to pick one, Buddhism would be it. 🧘‍♂️
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  2171. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  2172.  @MrLoobu  I agree. However, I repeat, extrapolation from the previous 4 billion years, and our scientific knowledge of the behaviour and life-cycles of stars, tells us it’s a pretty safe bet the sun will be rising for the next few billion tomorrows. Just sayin’ Pirsig’s analogy was a good one in this context, and particularly when juxtaposed with the nebulous nothings of organised religion.
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  2173. Apparently, Lancashire Police is already in ‘special measures’. The cack-handed, frankly inappropriate and embarrassing way they have handled this case suggests those ‘measures’ need to be ramped up. RIP Nicola.
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  2174.  @SenorSol Officially, it’s only 1%, dude. Compared to 42% UK.
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  2175. Huh? Italian authorities approved a ban on cruise ships entering the historic centre of Venice in 2021. Venice actually led the way here.
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  2176. Stolen comment.
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  2177. The lurch to the right in the recent European elections is principally down to one thing: mass immigration, both illegal and legal. Most people seem to have no real problem with strictly controlled targeted immigration, but the numbers we have seen (700,000 in the UK year on year) seem unsustainable, not only from an infrastructure point of view, but quite simply from a cultural point of view. Of course, Islam is the real elephant in the room in this whole debate. It’s amazing how willing liberal democratic Europe has been and continues to be in accepting millions of individuals upholding ideas diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. When Sweden is projected to be a full 30% Islamic within 20 years, we can predict some rather interesting times ahead for Europe.
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  2178. I suppose that makes ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ an anti-French anthem. Good grief. Can we grow up here? 🤦‍♂️
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  2179. Thought I’d hate this. Didn’t. Quite liked it. However, what overshadowed the whole thing was just how idiotic every single man in the film is made to seem. If a man had directed a movie depicting women in the one-dimensional and almost wholly derogatory way men are portrayed in this movie, there’d have been a been an outcry. And probably rightly.
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  2180.  @soreeyez  Yeah, you did. You ‘stated’. When I challenged your ‘statement’, you ran. Uh huh.👍
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  2181. I’ve never understood this ‘Le Pen isn’t far-right’ thing. Sure, some of her social policies resemble nothing so much as Labour in the UK, but at her core she is a fascist. You need to look at her a bit closer.
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  2182. Yes, and are called names like Hugo Wittering-Posho and Verity Blathering-Uppity.
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  2183. Not totally sure how this quote would apply to stopping a lone, homicidal maniac intent on murder. But hey ho.
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  2184. You spam this comment everywhere. We get it.
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  2185. Well, given Rupert is worth $22 billion and is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world, $787 million is mere pocket money. He could pay it in interest as he earns $1045000000 in annual interest alone!
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  2186. Biden really does resemble the old-age version of that musical, freaky-looking kid in Deliverance . I half expect him to whip out his banjo and serenade us all at any moment. 🪕
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  2187. 🛸 If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  2188. Sad. On a lighter note: Vladimir Putin is at an airport and is going through customs . Customs officer: “Occupation?” Putin: “No, just visiting.”
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  2189. ‘In 1834, after Britain abolished slavery, the government decided to compensate 46,000 slave owners for the loss of their property.’ This is a bit like ‘compensating’ an inveterate thief for his robbing, by letting him keep his ill-gotten gains, when those gains should have been recovered and given back to those who were robbed. So, instead of compensating the slave owners, the 800,000 slaves should have been compensated.
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  2190. French: have a life Rest of the world: 😥
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  2191. I used to totally exist on a diet of just snails. 🐌 I found they made me late for everything, so now I only eat cheetahs! 🐆
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  2192. Indeed. All the bots who don’t actually put their money where their mouth is and go and actually live in Russia.
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  2193. Welcome to the US: “We are seriously considering arming our teachers.” 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK: “We don’t even arm most of our police!” 👮‍♂️
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  2194.  @jasonhigson4865  Nah, more like I just don’t wanna be “homogeneous” with the likes of you or Jimbo, Jase. Bad luck, son. 👎😉
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  2195.  @DilbertWhitehead  Not pushing any ‘agendas’. If anything, you appear to be pushing an ‘agenda’ onto me! I think we fundamentally agree: a little limited immigration strictly controlled by the host country isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You appear to be picking a fight where there isn’t one there.
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  2196.  @chameleon28  It’s ideas. This ‘homogeneity’ thing is weird. Jimbo, for instance, is a racist, sexist, homophobic fool, and yet he’s asking for me to accept some kind of ‘homogeneity’ with him?! Really? It doesn’t work like that in my world. I don’t judge others on a skin colour or a sexual preference or whether they are a woman: I judge them on their ideas. And to me, the likes of Jimbo’s ideas stink so why would I want to be part of his ‘gang’ when it is utter anathema?
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  2197. China: “Taipei or not Taipei? That is the question.”
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  2198. I consider myself an agnostic. Almost right on the fence when it comes to divinity and the existence thereof. However, when it comes to crap like this in Turkey, where a building falls on you, it may not instantly kill you, and you may have to lie there, alive for days, essentially knowing this will be your grave. No escape. Well, that’s pretty much one of my working definitions of hell. In these circumstances, my agnosticism tips quite decisively over into the atheist end of that sliding continuum. I’m with Voltaire at these moments where he makes the devastation of the Lisbon earthquake a key part of the argument of his satirical novel Candide, which mercilessly ridicules the idea that such an event could be part of a universe optimally designed by a benevolent deity.
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  2199. What I find poignant and tragic (aside from the fact of the earthquake itself) is how you get so many people calling it a ‘miracle’ when some poor sod is hauled alive out after a fortnight, and somehow indicative of a benevolent deity. If this supposed deity is so ‘benevolent’ he/she/it wouldn’t have let this crap happen in the first place! Reason 10,456 why I am still an agnostic and probably always will be.
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  2200. Yeah, but they have massive ‘Royal tourism’ in France (Versailles is in the top 3 attractions) and they abolished the Monarchy in 1789!
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  2201. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: if every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
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  2202. @0:57 I also have a convention: it’s my convention that whenever I see Boris Johnson, I think “What an absolute Johnson!”
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  2203.  @Vodkanir  Not to me, it’s not. However, that’s not the point; the point is why are you getting involved with what 2 consenting adults are doing in the bedroom? 🤔
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  2204. Never got the hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  2205. @0:06 Wow! That was freaky. I do believe I just saw an aeroplane fly directly into the head of Paula and there was absolutely no explosion! ✈️ 👩
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  2206. The drinks are on me, and for Trump subpoena colada. 🍹
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  2207. “Welcome to the US: we are seriously considering arming our teachers.” 👨‍🏫 “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police !”👮‍♂️
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  2208. Used to be Russian, though, to be fair.
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  2209. During the last year and a half of the war the largest city the Russians have captured is Rostov.
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  2210. ‘Chuck Schumer’? Was he the guy who threw his footwear at G W Bush in 2008? 🤔
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  2211.  @acslater017  About himself, too himself. 💤
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  2212. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  2213. Got your attention, though! 😉
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  2214. Ok, Jesus. 👍
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  2215. Did I miss a meeting? Since when was it anyone else’s business what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to? 🤔
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  2216. Who is this illegal migrant, Bill? We need to be told.
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  2217. No.
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  2218. Groveller.
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  2219. Since when did Stephen Kinnock morph into John Malkovich? 😳
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  2220. Wow! There was a car?! Who knew? The only ‘Fiesta’ I knew back in 1982 was on the top shelf of the newsagent’s!
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  2221. They’re not missiles; that’s the undersea alien civilisation just letting off a few fireworks.
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  2222. @2:25 That lad’s clearly been sourcing his syrups from Michael Fabricant.
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  2223. Nice to see John Parrott getting some extra work.
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  2224. Asking me to pay reparations for something my ancestors did, is a bit like asking me to pay reparations to the family of the victims of my mass-murdering grandfather.
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  2225.  @monkeymagic4555  Lol.
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  2226. Could have been worse: Mariupol might have been turned into a Ukrainian Birmingham, or Manchester.
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  2227. Yeah. That and the human lives, too. Are we counting this in dollars? Ffs. How tragic, but at the same time, how familiar.
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  2228. Self-determination based on democratic principles: this has to be the key point in any geopolitical contretemps. If a majority want something then that something is carried. It seems the majority in Ukraine want to look West, not East. This should be honoured. If a minority in the East of Ukraine looks East and not West, then they can move if they don’t like a Ukraine looking to NATO/EU/USA. Surely a way to resolve this (leaving aside Putin’s bullying, unchallenged dictatorial whim), is for a referendum to be taken on partition of Ukraine. Why this is not being more actively considered is a bit of a mystery.
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  2229. This 6-day ‘Special Military Operation’ is going well, isn’t it?
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  2230. Apt that Rishi is in the Bavarian capital as he’s always come across as a bit of a castrated impotent: a Munich.
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  2231.  @888ssss  Cope. 😂
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  2232. While this story has clearly attracted some hysteria, the bottom line is simple: don’t kiss someone on the lips without their consent. Don’t cancel the guy. Just educate him into the fact that most people don’t want aggressive, unsolicited kisses on the lips by randoms. 💋
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  2233. There’s nothing like watching two people on £2,564 per hour, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all.
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  2234. It’s a slippery slope. Next they’ll be demanding 12 weeks’ holidays per year at this rate. Oh wait …
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  2235. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call. NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of a sovereign, self-governing territory just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  2236. @Eric Maclennan Gobble, gobble. 🦃
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  2237. Wow! Who knew? James Dean Bradfield’s Ukrainian is fantastic! Kudos. 👍
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  2238. As a Remainer, and democrat, I fully accept the result. Just a little bummed that it was on Boris’ watch that we exited: the E.U. is the only thing Bozo has pulled out of in his entire life!
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  2239. Enforcing an answer at PMQs would be a bit like trying to enforce that Bozo keeps his todger in his kecks.
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  2240. Yeah, but the big difference between 1937 and today, is that in 1937, the Axis and Allied powers didn’t have enough nuclear weaponry to render this planet a crisp in a day. In this context, it’s a little more understandable (and sane) to talk of ‘appeasement’, regardless of how desirable, or otherwise, this might be.
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  2241. In all this talk of nuclear weapons, let it be remembered that, to date, only 1 country has used these in anger. Moreover, it used them, arguably, when it had absolutely no reason to.
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  2242. There’s nothing like watching two people on £2,564 per hour, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all.
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  2243. Allowing trans women to compete in women’s sporting categories is like allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  2244.  @71degrees Lol@‘life in prison’.😂 For what? Last time I checked lifers were in prison for crimes involving actual victims. I see no victim here;) All I see is a stone and a bit of powder paint! 👍🤣
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  2245. Yes. But I have a feeling they won’t.
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  2246. Meanwhile back at £300,000,000 Clarence House …
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  2247.  @parametr  It was a letter to his parents, apparently.
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  2248. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔 Really? Why do we, collectively, allow this?
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  2249. If he ever lands on the moon, Armstrong’s quote will have to be adapted: “That's one small hop for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” 🌝
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  2250. When I read he had been playing ‘non-stop’ since he was 18 months old, then this doesn’t seem surprising. He’ll have put in his 10,000 hours and then some! It’s nearly always about the hours.
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  2251.  @brendanshannon1706  Looks like it.
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  2252. This is outrageous! Both cars white sedans. If they are racially profiling cars at this point, we are all in trouble. 🚗
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  2253. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  2254.  @20alphabet  That’s beside the point. My stance is that if he did drive the car at police, then self-defence is admissible. If he didn’t, and in no other way threatened the safety of this policeman, then I can see no justification for shooting him.
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  2255. How about a General Election? D’oh!
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  2256. And it’s always those with poor vocabulary and grammar skills who seem to be most vociferously against ‘them’.
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  2257. Russia occupying Ukraine: not OK. Israel occupying Palestinian territory: OK. Go figure.
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  2258. Something hasn’t quite added up since day 1 of this war: Russia, officially the world’s 2nd strongest military power facing off against Ukraine, officially 22nd in this table, and yet the Ukrainians seem to be more than holding the line. Surely a testament to the overwhelming motivation the Ukrainians feel as opposed to the demotivated, morale-lacking Russian forces. Never underestimate someone protecting their home from perceived outsiders. Putin clearly didn’t factor this into his calculations.
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  2259. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  2260. If we made it a non-negotiable condition of engagement, that every person, despot or otherwise, declaring an aggressive war, had to serve on the front line of declared war, I’m willing to bet this would go a good way to reducing the phenomenon of war on this planet. 🤔
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  2261. Initially, they tell us it’s a 4-mile convoy. Then it’s 14-mile convoy. Now it’s a 40-mile convoy. They’ll be telling us next it’s a 4,000-mile convoy stretching all the way to Ottawa, Canada and Justin Trudeau’s front door!🇨🇦
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  2262. Stolen quote.
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  2263. Joe Jonas. Taylor Lautner. John Mayer. Jake Gyllenhaal. Zac Efron. Conor Kennedy. Harry Styles. Calvin Harris. Tom Hiddleston. Joe Alwyn. Matt Healy. Isn’t every Taylor Swift album a ‘break-up album’? 🙄
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  2264.  @z6445  A life is a life is a life, as far as I’m concerned.
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  2265.  @meme4one That’s not Israel’s fault if Hamas embed themselves in their own population. 🤨
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  2266. Here’s the difference, as it stands: if I were a famous public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Krishna, or Buddha, or Moses, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, very likely nothing would happen to me. However, if I publicly lambasted Muhammad, I’d be very likely forced to watch my back for the rest of my life. Just ask Salman Rushdie. Islam’s intolerance to criticism is anathema. As an agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  2267. Tbf, no apologist for Henderson, but let’s face it, I’m willing to bet that if £700,000 was placed on a table for a week’s work, the vast majority of us would be unable to resist it, notwithstanding any lip-service pronouncements we may have made in the past. After all, anyone who watched the Qatar World Cup is also complicit here if they genuinely care about human rights.
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  2268. Never mind the Monarchy lasting much longer Down Under; I’m hoping it won’t last much longer Up Over!
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  2269. Don’t have a problem with this. It was just a journalist asking a question which is the prerogative of journalists. And the lady’s prerogative, in this case, was not to reply. No issue here. Given that Morocco outlaws what 2 consenting adults get up to in the privacy of the bedroom, it’s clearly a primitive country on the matter of homosexuality anyway, so in actual fact, the general question is very pertinent. Hitherto, no one has given me a single rational reason as to why I should hate homosexuality.
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  2270.  @kaikai-pb7fh  I’ll repeat what I said above: I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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  2271. “Better facilities”?! Utter bs. It’s essentially a homeless hostel on water.
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  2272. Never works for me anyway. I only get foxes responding to my wolf whistles. 🦊
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  2273. While the choice of words by the cop in this case was unfortunate, if we’re honest, we all know what he meant. If this dude hadn’t been wearing his kippah the copper wouldn’t have made the comment or even noticed him. In a way, the copper was actually trying to protect the dude from what he saw (rightly or wrongly) as potential aggression/violence towards him. The threat to arrest was totally out of order but my instinct is that this copper wasn’t being consciously (or even unconsciously) antisemitic.
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  2274. Aye, hen! 🐓 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  2275. Arresting report. This is the PC of PCs gone mad! 👮‍♂️
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  2276. ‘Three little girls in Brownie uniforms came and gave their salute to the Queen’ … closely followed by Prince Andrew.🤓
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  2277. Not as shocked as she is to have Corden as a husband!
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  2278. “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” (Steven Weinberg)
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  2279. Equality doesn’t mean having biological men competing with biological women. It just means giving the same opportunities to women as to men. You seem to be a bit confused, dear.
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  2280. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice-versa. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as ‘female’, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as ‘male’, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  2281.  @andrewdilworth9180  *you’re
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  2282. @0:58 “You could tell the kind of people.” Lol. Love Simon isn’t even trying to hide his fascism. 🤣
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  2283. Liked Sinéad. Raw, fierce and honest like some kind of Celtic pagan warrior. Imo, only real wrong step she made was to throw her religious deck in with Islam. This appeared to be a reaction against the equally silly and pernicious Catholic Church, but why did she need any organised religion?
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  2284.  @Jelly_andJam  No idea. But you’ve just proved the point. America: they won’t sell you a beer until you are 21, but they will sell you a high-powered machine gun at 18. Seems to me like they have it the wrong way round.🥴
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  2285. If you post this once more, I may have to shoot myself. Or worse.🥸
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  2286. 3:00 Why is Britain so intent on creating little enclaves within the wider culture, as here, where this could be Pakistan or Bangladesh? Immigration per se isn’t necessarily the problem - most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration - it’s Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies (particularly Britain, France and Germany) are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  2287. The thing about global warming for me has always been the idea that it might mean fewer humans in the long run. That, arguably, may be no bad thing.
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  2288. Lol. Are you aware what human beings have done in the name of ‘God’ and ‘the Bible’?!?!🤣😂😅
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  2289. It’s a simulation. Obviously they couldn’t film the real thing unless they had a separate vehicle.
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  2290.  @guidofarage7457  I bet you’re crying knowing Reform will never achieve power. 😭🤣
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  2291. Think you’re stuck in a loop from 2020, m8. 💉
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  2292.  @IRISHSALTMINER61  It’s a scam. In your opinion. If you look at a temperature graph for the past 2,000 years, beginning at 0°C, the temperature fluctuates between 0.0°C and 0.5°C until about the year 1200. After 1200 it cools slightly to 0.0°C and just below this during the ‘Little Ice Age’ between about 1420 and 1820. From 1820 to today the graph rises dramatically to 1.3°C above the 0.0°C 2,000 years ago. That the planet is warming is incontrovertible. Even anecdotally, those of us old enough to know this know this.
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  2293.  @SuedeNymme  Just seems bizarre to me that you have some guy with the latest sonar technology that can cover 10 miles p/day and the cops give you 3 full days but are going to restrict the search area. Smells fishy.
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  2294.  @Joseph-cf2wd  44% of Palestinians voted for Hamas in 2006. I’ll repeat that, 44% of Palestinians voted for Hamas in 2006. Given that there are over 1,000,000 Palestinians aged 18 or under, I think it’s stretching credibility to suggest the majority of Palestinians support Hamas’ aim of wiping Israel from the map. Willing to bet good money that the vast, vast majority of Palestinians would be quite willing to live peacefully side by side with Israel in their own state. Of course, even in these circumstances, groups like Hamas will still exist, no doubt, but a just peace granting the basic dignity and security and freedom that we all aspire to would go a long way to resolving this.
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  2295. That’s exactly the same thing as doing something just because a celebrity tells you; just the opposite! In other words, you are as controlled as those you seem to disdain.👍
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  2296.  @da90sReAlvloc  *severely So are you, it seems.
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  2297.  @Bungle-UK And you appear to have hit the replay button, as you typed this exact same thing in several other posts.
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  2298. @7:43-13:04 Kudos to all those human statues behind Kevin; they didn’t flinch an inch in 6 minutes. Respect. ✊
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  2299. This must be the longest unchanged record in history. Move on, man, ffs! 🤦‍♂️
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  2300.  @balthiersgirl2658  You been at the vodka again? 🥴
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  2301. Scene: a puce Putin pitches up in Ukraine Putin: “Look, I’m your rightful father here to take you, my Slavic sons and daughters back to your mother Russia.” Ukrainians: “But we left home years ago. We became adults. We have our own lives now.” Putin: “Wrong answer. And now I get to trash your house. Get out of my way!”
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  2302. Thing I’m most worried about, Jimbo, is how they ever let you out of the asylum! 🤣
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  2303. The trouble with air pollution is its invisibility. Willing to bet that if contaminated air visually presented as toxic air, then something would have been done about air pollution decades ago.
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  2304.  @jimthompson9370  Again, not the point. Why is anyone else interfering with what a woman does with her body when it’s not directly affecting them? It’s none of your business.
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  2305. This should clearly be done on a case by case basis. There are loads of folk who work well into their 60s, 70s and sometimes even their 80s. Senility isn’t just all about old age. I know dozens of 30 year olds who seem about 70 and quite a few 70 year olds who appear about 30. McConnell? No thanks. Biden? No thanks. Trump? No thanks.
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  2306.  @twolessba1087  Don’t entertain her/him/it. As Mark Twain said: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
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  2307. Aside from being a simple battle for national self-determination in the face of an autocratic aggressor (notwithstanding the very real intra-Ukrainian tensions), this whole war has been a very real question to every single one of us. It’s directly asking us to make a choice about whether we uphold basic non-negotiable liberal values such as individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), pluralistic liberal democracy, secularism, the rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion or, alternatively, we uphold illiberal values such as violation of individual rights (including violation of civil and human rights), illiberal autocracy, abuse of the law, economic and political servitude beholden to dictatorship, little to no freedom of speech, censorship of the press and media more widely, and lack of freedom to worship the Gods of your choice or no God at all. Given this binary choice I, for one, know which side I’m backing.
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  2308. What’s noticeable here is the stark binary opposite of MSM stitch-up v Brand’s guilt. So many are defending him vehemently against the ‘wicked’ MSM, while others are suggesting he might have done this. How about the idea both things are true? Brand may very well be guilty of these alleged offences and MSM are after him and they’ve uncovered some stuff which may (or may not) nail him. Instead of either/or, this could be both/and.
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  2309. In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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  2310.  @steve5123456789 That could be because Spanish tourists behave themselves in the UK.👍😉
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  2311.  @sentientflower7891  That’s not the point. Slavery had zip to do with me, ergo I owe no apology to anyone.
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  2312. Frankly, it should never have been British in the first place.
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  2313. Give it 100 years and it will be “conquered” by the sea.
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  2314. A man worth £730 million and is wealthier than King Charles. Great news for the ‘little people’!👍
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  2315. While I don’t support invading sovereign, self-governing nations, we need to not apply double-standards here. If Mexico suddenly decided to reclaim New Mexico and Texas and all the former Mexican territories by invasion, is it really realistic not to expect America to respond, and respond rather violently? Putin is simply ‘Mexico’ claiming what he considers a rightful part of Russia, historically and culturally. All that said, a majority of Ukrainians appear to want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia, and if so, this should be honoured. Of course, powerful bullies won’t see it that way.
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  2316. As so often with these things, this whole conflict boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race/ethnicity (Palestinian v Jew), organised religion (Islam v Judaism) and language (Arabic v Hebrew). 2 of these aforementioned (ethnicity/language - mother tongue) are given to us by accidents of birth; the other (religion) we kind of choose but, that said, the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the one which predominates in the culture in which they are born and raised, so this could be argued to be an accident of birth, too. So, essentially, we commit internecine conflict predicated on 3 accidents of birth. It seems human beings cannot cope with too much difference. Pretty primitive stuff.
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  2317. Tragic. The irony is that if we got enough elephants together and they all flapped their ears simultaneously, they could cool the planet by about 1°C. 🐘
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  2318. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?” ☕️
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  2319. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  2320. It’s nice to see a bit of nominative determinism in action. With a name like ‘Hunter’, dude was always gonna have gun issues. 😮
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  2321. 20:50? I’ll be tucking into a Chicken Biryani, washed down with a nice Chianti. Ff, ff, ff.
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  2322. Copy pasta bot.
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  2323.  @garymoore2535  There’s control and there’s control. Of course, we all know bossy female spouses who tend to have the final say in a given relationship. However, when it comes to actual physical/psychological abuse all the stats overwhelmingly point to this primarily being a male on female thing than vice-versa. Another point: you never see all-female repressive regimes severely controlling every single daily movement of the men in that society. It’s always the men.
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  2324. Uh huh. And that’s why it’s done on averages, and the longer term average is a 1.3°C rise in the past century.
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  2325.  @MsSherlock69  So, on that basis, should Russia get out of Siberia and neighbouring regions, on the basis they weren’t ‘part of Russia’ until Russia aggressively decided they were? 🤔
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  2326.  @sassy6498  Huh? Could it just be that this anonymous lady in Russia has just hit the nail on the head? Think on … 😉
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  2327. Russia’s Phase 1: Take Kiev. (Lol) Russia’s Phase 2: Take Donbas. (Lmao) Russia’s Phase 3: Hold onto Moscow. (Rofl)
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  2328. I can relate to this. I once bumped into a bunch of bearded men who tried to covert me to their religion. They made me feel a bit Sikh.
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  2329. That wouldn’t work. Zelensky always needs a spotlight.
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  2330. We do. He’s called Tommy Robinson.
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  2331. Oh the irony. So many finding it so difficult to escape the UK, when seemingly so many making the trip the other way find it so easy to enter the UK! 🛶😂
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  2332.  @supermanexpert6462  Why do you have the right to tell me with whom I can sleep if I can’t tell you?
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  2333. 42. The answer to life, the universe and everything.
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  2334. This immortal quote from The Third Man may not be necessarily historically true, but it’s still brilliant: “In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
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  2335. @4:00-4:23 😂That interpreter was really getting into character there with some serious method acting!
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  2336.  ultradeadd  No it’s not. I have read several books about the Taliban. Nice try, though.👍
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  2337. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and ballistics.”
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  2338. If Kim Jong-un ever gets to see this, and I were this guy, I’d be avoiding flights of stairs, open windows and cooking all my meals myself for the rest of my life.
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  2339. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  2340.  @IonBit  ‘Reading Bibles’ and other primitive, manmade religious texts is a big part of the reason we are here in the first place. 🤦‍♂️
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  2341. ‘Breezy and hot’😉
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  2342. This is the only humane thing to do. There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who don’t support Hamas and certainly wouldn’t have supported their barbaric terrorist attack on Israel (leaving aside the wholly innocent children). To want to starve to death thousands of innocents in the name of the horrific actions of the few is not something I support.
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  2343.  @mxx369  Huh? Think you have the wrong fella, bruh.
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  2344. I’m pretty sure that AI can’t be any more destructive and murderous than Homo sapiens have been these past 300,000 years.
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  2345.  @S0ULJA006  I’m not “encouraging” anything. I was simply positing a philosophical question. Nice try, though.👍
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  2346. British, actually. Indian heritage, but British.😉
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  2347. This was funny once. When you keep posting a variation of the same thing, it just becomes boring. It’s called “diminishing returns”.
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  2348.  @amystern123  Get real: Israel since the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948 from their lands/villages has had one foot on the necks of Palestinians. Hell, for the past 17 years alone there’s been a total blockade on Gaza whereby absolutely everything is controlled by the Israelis. For obvious reasons. Not acknowledging this is a major part of the whole issue. At least we agree a just 2-state settlement is the only way here.
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  2349. Indeed. Including their President.
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  2350.  @alexdavies7394  K. My sincerest, deepest, profoundest apologies, my liege. 👍
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  2351. Try Lidl instead.
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  2352.  @Greasyhair  Not totally sure about the premarital thing, man. Premarital sex between two adults is not illegal in India. The Constitution has no such provision or clause which mentions that premarital sex between two adults (above age of 18 years) is illegal.
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  2353. 🛒 With supermarket rationing, putting all your eggs in one shopping basket may become a thing of the past. 🍳
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  2354. Er, I think you’ll find that on the Tories’ watch this went on more than a decade.
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  2355. Ah, lotteries always bring me out in a nostalgic warm glow. Not that I’ve ever won any but the wife likes to say marrying me is like winning the lottery. I politely remind her that most lottery winners blow their winnings. 🌬
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  2356. How apt that Hunt sits with “Honi soit qui mal y pense” behind him. Rough translation: a curse against those who wish you harm. 🧐
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  2357.  @BLVCKSCORP  Ach, it’s just a wee bit of good old British banter, son. Nothing ‘savage’ about it.👍
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  2358. More trouble and strife down Africa way. Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  2359. “Neighbours everybody needs good neighbours, With a little understanding you can find the perfect blend. Neighbours should be there for one another, That’s when good neighbours become good friends.” Tell that to the Brexiteers.😳
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  2360. That makes no sense here. What the dude did wasn’t an ‘atrocity’. That suggests hurting others. Voltaire’s quote was referencing those who believe in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies and act on this belief by harming others.
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  2361.  @TheBattleMaster100  Don’t insult cockroaches.
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  2362.  @addul1996  Indeed. But that doesn’t stop a big part of this being about tribal invisible sky daddies.👍
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  2363.  @dalecrocker3213 North Korea, Iran. Moreover, last time I checked, Russia’s military budget was twice that of Ukraine’s. That’s like putting a heavyweight in the ring against a middleweight. One final rather salient point: Russia illegally invaded Ukraine here, not vice-versa.
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  2364. To be fair, when it comes to pensioners, Macron’s got previous: the older the better! 👵
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  2365. In 2022, around 13,000 African migrants were recorded at the US-Mexico border, according to US Customs and Border protection data. By 2023, this figure had quadrupled to 58,000.
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  2366.  @bbcisaids6727  Uh huh. And most of the “NPC drones” have conspicuously better basic grammar and spelling than you and Lukey. It always seems to go that way, I’ve noticed. 😉
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  2367. Er, cuz at one point he was arguably the most famous person on the planet.
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  2368.  @spoon4956  At least Santa gives you presents, ffs! 🎅
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  2369.  @alisad.7343  You’re missing the point: what another woman decides to do with her body is none of your or my business.
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  2370. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig) Amen. 🙏
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  2371. 🤦‍♂️
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  2372. This is progress. I never understood people wearing leather or fur, for that matter. Don't they realize that animals are suffering because of their vanity? They should put themselves into the animals' skin and try to understand.
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  2373.  @chadimirputin2282  The age of consent in Japan is 13. Cope.
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  2374. At this rate all the arrondissements are gonna become arronpissements!
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  2375. Every time I see Justin Rowlatt he’s in some far-away land he took a jet plane to get there in. This is the dude that doesn’t stop preaching to us all about ‘manmade climate change’. His carbon footprint must be off the charts compared to the average Joe he is proselytising to. Nice.
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  2376. The headlines: Labour win. Everyone gets pissed off with them too after about 5 years, and the Tories are re-elected. In other words, this is a Hobson’s choice.
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  2377. Why is this even a debate? I don’t know anyone who wants unsolicited kisses on the lips from randoms. It’s only certain men who support this stuff. Not a single female I know wants to be unconsensually kissed on the mouth; and particularly not in a full-view public scenario like this. If anyone else in the workplace (eg. a work Christmas party) aggressively grabbed a colleague’s head and planted a smacker on their lips disciplinary proceedings would opened immediately on the basis a sexual assault had taken place. Why is this guy’s behaviour any different?
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  2378.  @kevinh4869 Ad hominem. First resort of those with zero argument.
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  2379.  ___  Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  2380. No women? Or is this just a boy thing tossing yourself off in a quiet corner? 🤔
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  2381. @ShariqAlam-oo6ntI was curious. I did a bit of research. Edmundo Escomel reported on the case of Lina Medina in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to previous reports that she had had regular periods since the age of three or two and a half. So, she was menstruating before she was 1. Presumably this is fair game for you Muslims because, after all, a child is considered an ‘adult’ when she has her first period? 🤦‍♂️
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  2382.  @angielinna7219  It’s about more than ‘lunch’; it’s about the whole school canteen!
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  2383. Really? One-footed. Can’t head. Never played in more than one competitive league. Only won 1 World Cup. I can think of at least 2 others who, arguably, rank above Messi.
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  2384.  @elriano1 Utter bollocks. South Africa's first known inhabitants have been referred to as the Khoisan, the Khwe and the San. Starting in about 1,000 BCE, these groups were then joined by the Bantu tribes who migrated from Western and Central Africa during what is known as the Bantu expansion. Nice try, though.👍
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  2385. I consider myself to have humanity and am pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers, but I totally get why people look at seeing hundreds of thousands of migrants (many of them illegal) trying to enter Europe every year, and feel the whole thing is out of control. That could be because it is.
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  2386. For those of us of a certain vintage, she has the look of 1980s popstress, Tiffany. 🎤
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  2387. @0:55 Lovely to see Leslie Nielsen’s still with us. Cool.👍
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  2388.  @truthwarrior1489  Says you.
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  2389. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  2390.  @rikirich2223  Look, mate, I operate on a very simple principal called ‘self-determination’. If a majority of Ukrainian want self-rule then they should have self-rule. It’s that easy. No one should be forcing any majority self-rule population on this planet into anything against their will. Why humans like Putin are so fucking evil and idiotic over this one can only surmise. Maybe his penis is just limp and small and this is a way of bolstering his flagging impotence.🧐
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  2391. Cheating is not news. 20 years ago while I was at college I was aware of dozens of students who paid professional essay writers to write their essays. All this is doing is making things a little more sophisticated; a little easier. The issue is human nature and the urge to cheat in the first place and not really the actual means of cheating.
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  2392. Truth is, if Prigozhin had pushed on to Moscow in his coup attempt, we’d just have been replacing one dictator with a potentially even worse dictator.
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  2393. Lol. Wearing a colourful shirt is now a crime is it?😂
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  2394. If they ever make a Blackadder with an Asian flavour, Aaqil Ahmed is a shoo-in for the role of Baldrick!
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  2395. If Brand feels he can openly and publicly chat to a 15 year old like this, just imagine what he’s been saying (and doing) when the microphones are switched off. The other thing I find slightly odd, is 4 days ago since these allegations were made, he’s posted zippo on his YouTube channel. If I were him, and I knew myself to be 100% innocent of all these accusations, the first thing I would do, after denying them all (which he has done), would be to carry on as if no allegation had been made.
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  2396.  @giannisksanthopoulos4300  Look, mate, I operate on a very simple principal called ‘self-determination’. If a majority of Ukrainians want self-rule then they should have self-rule. It’s that easy. No one should be forcing any majority self-rule population on this planet into anything against their will. Why humans like Putin are so fucking evil and idiotic over this one can only surmise. Maybe his penis is just limp and small and this is a way of bolstering his flagging impotence, or perhaps his unacknowledged homosexuality.🧐
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  2397. Ah, fair Nimes. As soon as I stepped out the station up that gorgeous wee alley of tumbling water and trees between Ave. Feucheres, leading up to Les Arenes, I knew I was in a spot to savour. It was July. The cicadas were providing that quintessential Midi soundtrack with their crazy buzzing, the buildings has that faded grandeur/shabby-chic look that France does like no other country on Earth (save Italy), and the general vibe was one of satisfied torpor in the summer sun. Sure, there’s not much to the place. To call it France’s Rome is to grossly insult the scale and richness of the Eternal City, but what there is, including, of course, the superbly preserved aforementioned Les Arenes and Maison Carree, is worth a day of anyone’s life.
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  2398.  @morojkiller5418  Huh? I just laid it out for you. Why doesn’t it work both ways?
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  2399. English? ‘Horrible’? ‘Stripped down’? The language with the largest vocabulary in the world is English with 1,025,109.8 words. This is the estimate provided by Global Language Monitor on January 1, 2014. You may need to look again at the English language. Perhaps can I suggest reading books with words, as a start?🧐
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  2400. At what point do England actually start playing football? As a neutral they are a horrendous watch. They are the international equivalent of a Mourinho team. Why can’t they actually play football, given the alleged ‘world class’ players they have? They have literally played sh*t for 99% of this tournament. No patterns of play. No system. Nothing at all, really. It’s bizarre. A penalty shoot-out saves them. They don’t even look that interested. If they win this thing, they will be the most unworthy winners since the deeply crappy 2004 Greece team. It’s the ugliest anti-football I’ve seen since Scotland. And that’s a deep insult to Scotland! It’s quite clear if there is any footballing justice, Spain should win this thing.
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  2401. @5:15 “Those … who are struggling to make ends meet.” Too right, Mick. Most of us are struggling to make ends meet while some others are fighting to make meats end! Throw another shrimp on the barbie! 🦐
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  2402. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” (Isaac Newton) Yes, Newton was talking about physics here, but this quote may be applied perfectly to the geopolitics of Iran. This is simply the ‘reaction’ of the people to 43 years of benighted, primitive, theocratic ‘action’.
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  2403. Yeah, Brexit’s made it tough, but I manage to smuggle in some of my Dutch paintings in the back of a Van Gogh.
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  2404. There probably is no God. Deal with it.
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  2405. I should be ok. I live 53 metres above sea-level.
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  2406. “Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” (Martin Hammond - Eton Housemaster) All the signs were there.
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  2407. Every day for the past 300,000 years has been ‘international men’s day’.
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  2408. I’m more a ‘korma’ man myself. 🍛
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  2409. Odesa has one of these old European cores it would be a tragedy to lose.
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  2410. Given that by the broadest definition of military intervention, the US has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if the US’s grubby tentacles were lending a hand here.
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  2411. As with Shanghai’s extraordinarily draconian lockdown, this has more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This thing clearly exists, but the overreaction here in Shanghai and Beijing smells mighty sinister, even considering the repressive regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  2412. At this point, not even Jesus can save the Tory Party.
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  2413. For a fella who has literally lived on nothing but fish and water for 3 months he looks remarkably well fed. 🤔
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  2414. There’s Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wladimir Klitschko and Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko. Is it compulsory that every male born east of the Danube have the name ‘Vladimir’, or a variation thereof? Moreover, given that the literal English translation of ‘Vladimir’ is ‘ruler of the world’, should we be even more worried than we are already? 🤔
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  2415.  @Bungle-UK  My name is not in question, darling. The point I was making was the cringe-inducing illiteracy and unfunny nature of the OP. Get with the gig, or not at all, lovey. 👍🤡
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  2416.  @andylane247  In your opinion.😉
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  2417. @3:10 “There is a tremendous battle going on for the P-66.” Meanwhile, back in Westminster there is an even more tremendous battle to hand Liz Truss her P-45. 🥸
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  2418. We’re basically already there as there is a large lag effect in the climate and global warming situation. However, in this debate I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  2419. Says someone clearly not living between the Equator and the 35th parallel.
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  2420. This is just health and safety gone mad. Back in the day, pitch invasions were the norm. No one died, no one complained. Why? We weren’t dealing with precious, overpaid twats who seem to think they are above the rest of the populace.
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  2421.  @jrocxib  Really? On that basis everyone who has ever been colonised/enslaved can claim reparations. Given this, what’s the cut-off time? 100 years? 200? 1000? This is all invidious stuff, and my basic point is that I, as I type this now, had nothing to do with slavery, and thereby should not be asked for money for something I never did.
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  2422. A pox on both your Houses of Parliament.
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  2423. It’s lovely to see John Parrott having his say on these important matters. 🦜
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  2424. She failed to, er, ‘deliver’. @1:42 And to be fair to Anne-Marie Trevelyan, she was just looking at tractors. 🚜
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  2425. Happens a lot. New Year in just about every country, for example.
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  2426. Part of me feels that if Liverpool had won the match, this wouldn’t be nearly so much of an issue. It’s apt that the game was played in France, where one or two sour grapes may be found. 🍇😳
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  2427. Now that he’ll have his sense of smell back, he can get back to sniffing random heads.😳
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  2428.  @xaiano794  Look, anyone who is neutral here can raise their view above the partisan parapet, and all I would say is that I wouldn’t be so quick to weigh the Russians against the Ukrainians, and automatically assume that somehow the Ukrainians come out better. We don’t know, but I know this much: if I were a Ukrainian soldier defending my land, I know that almost certainly I would be driven to do stuff I wouldn’t dream of doing on an ordinary Sunday in peacetime. That’s all.
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  2429. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  2430. These are truly Boris’ bye-bye-by elections. 👋
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  2431. Thing people often get mistaken is that the SNP is synonymous with Scottish independence; it is not. Yes, their raison d'être as a Party is independence, but even if the SNP vanished tomorrow, there would still be a steady 40-49% of Scots in favour of independence. I say this as a Scot who is an independence “agnostic” and undecided one way or t’other on the issue. My feeling is, however, that Scottish independence, like a united Ireland, is only a matter of time. It will happen, but perhaps not in the short/medium-term.
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  2432. As ever, with these things, this is really a question of priorities. People use the argument that France shouldn’t have given so much aid to Ukraine, but to date, that has been about $300 million - a drop in the ocean, when compared to the billions pensions cost per year. The other thing to factor in here is that France is 3rd in a list of OECD countries in terms of the proportion of its GDP pensions take up, at 14%. For comparison, the UK is 5%. Pushing back the retirement age by two years and extending the pay-in period would yield an additional 17.7 billion euros ($19.0 billion) in annual pension contributions, allowing the system to break even by 2027. Economically, Macron’s measure makes sense, but the way it has been done is awful and undemocratic, and the only reason he bypassed a vote was he knew it would be voted down. After Denmark, France is the second highest taxed country in Europe, but my own proposal would be to raise the tax threshold for the top band earners in France, and let the middle and lower income workers retire at 62 after a life of work. After all, the rich can retire at any point they want! The less rich don’t have the luxury of that choice. As Thomas Jefferson said: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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  2433.  @dragonofhatefulretribution9041  ‘Homogeneous’? Why is it that those people who bang on about ‘homogeneity’ are, almost with exception, the last type of people I’d want to be ‘homogeneous’ with? 🤔
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  2434.  @thomasrobertson9292 Lol. Says the fella with the Scottish name. 👍
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  2435. At this point, Biden probably thinks an ‘F-16’ is a teenage girl whose hair he can have a sniff of.
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  2436. Because we’re dealing with lawyers. D’oh!
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  2437. It’s going to be pretty hot for the players at the World Cup in Qatar, but if they get enough fans in the stadiums they’ll be ok.
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  2438.  @donnydrumpf9563  Self-determination, son. Read the stats and weep. 😭 Ha ha ha ha!🤣
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  2439. @2:10 Lovely to see John Parrott having his say on this important matter. 👍
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  2440. Many thanks, Armchair Major General Carpenter.👍
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  2441. Lithuania has no need for the gas emanating from Russia. Now, if only the UK could do the same with the gas emanating from Downing Street.😳
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  2442. So that’s what happened to David Beckham’s cornrows.
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  2443. Nice bit of overtime for Clarkey. Keep him in those sleek threads.
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  2444. Poor old Liz. Phone hacked. Not backed. Attacked. She lacked. The cards were stacked. She cracked. Was Sacked. Had to get packed. Fact.
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  2445.  @stevenrakhmanchik3126  Well, that’s just a flat out lie. In Odesa, the largest ethnic groups are: • Ukrainians 622,000(61.6%); • Russians 292,000 (29.0%); • Bulgarians 13,300 (1.3%); • Jews 12,400 (1.2%); • Moldovans 7,600 (0.7%); • Byelorussians 6,400 (0.6%); • Armenians 4,400 (0.4%); • Roma 4,000 (0,4%) • Poles 2.100 (0.2%). Nice try, though.👍
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  2446. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and Europeans have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard (in this case their Australian backyard) to play.
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  2447. This seems like a variation of Chris Martin’s ‘conscious uncoupling’; an ‘unconscious copying’.
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  2448. She’s German.
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  2449. Yeah, it kinda told us that. 🤦‍♂️
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  2450. Putin: “I used to live here until 1989. I’m back to reclaim it. Please step aside.” Mariupol: “Get real, mate. We’ve been paying the mortgage on this place for 30 years. Do one.”
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  2451.  @samsmoot1 Not only that, but Donald means ‘ruler or king of the world or great chief’.
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  2452.  @TRUEBIOLOGYMATTERS  You win the prize for the biggest tin foil hat of the day. 🥇
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  2453.  @gustavo5989  I’m not American. And, no, I don’t see the USA as a ‘hero’ country. I see it as a country with much historical blood on its hands. However, this doesn’t excuse Putin one iota. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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  2454. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)
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  2455. Suddenly the morning commute traffic jam doesn’t seem so bad, after all.🚙🚗🚙
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  2456. The vast majority of folks in my orbit have zero problem with legal immigration. Moreover, even the most liberal people I’m aware of would not be pro-open borders. The main issue here for any UK government is quite simply to get a grip of those people coming into this country. What always astonishes me about this thing is France has a land border with 8 countries and the UK has a natural 20-mile wide moat separating it from 1 country (due respect to the UK-Holland/Belgium routes) yet still can’t control this thing. Weird.
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  2457. Jeez. That Aisleyne has had more work done than the M1!
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  2458. Bruce Devlin looks like the bastard child of Simon Cowell and Phill Jupitus.
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  2459. Lol. @0:15-0:19 She goes all ‘gangsta’ at this point: “I know how complicated people’s lives are gettin’; how stressful they’re gettin’, innit.”😂 Penny from the Block!
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  2460. The obsession this Channel has with Harry/Meghan never ceases to amaze me. And bore me to death. 🥱
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  2461. “He’s not left or right”… 🤣 He’s a Marxist! “Marxism has had a massive influence on Labour throughout its history - and that shouldn't be erased, it should be celebrated.” (Owen Jones on X 2018)
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  2462. This is all about class. Yes, I know Starmer likes to claim he’s from working-class stock (and technically he probably is), but ‘technically’ doesn’t work in the field. Rayner’s a borderline chav so she and Starmer were never going to be jigging together at the disco. 🕺 💃 Never underestimate this: we vote for (just as we go for) people like us. To any outsider, Starmer and Rayner are 2 very unlikely peas in a pod. On most, if not all, levels.
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  2463.  @janetmurphy7053  ‘Polo 🐎’ - Mint comment. 👍
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  2464. “99.9% of women of course haven't got a penis" (Keir Starmer) Keir appears to think 0.1% of women do have a penis! 🤦‍♂️ I’m 100% with Rowling here! 💯
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  2465.  @mr-biz  What? Wtf are you on about? It’s simple politeness not to be on a phone when a teacher is teaching. Nothing to do with ‘compliance’. 🤦‍♂️
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  2466.  @chappy2121  Huh? How is critiquing a set of ideas ‘racism’, exactly?
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  2467. Pretty sure that every male record company boss would’ve offered themselves to her, too!
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  2468. Personally, I’m just generally meh about Schofield (he comes across as smug, entitled and arrogant), but it seems his only real “crime” here is sharing the genes of a paedo. No particular issue with the younger guy thing if he was legal and it was consensual. Those who bang on about his “betrayal” of his wife, always seem to totally ignore the fact that he and his wife are best of friends to this day and his daughters appear to have no issue. From Willoughby’s point of view, I suppose I can kind of get it: in a prime-time telly partnership with the brother of a convicted kiddy-fiddler isn’t the best of looks for a media person, and I can imagine her, perfectly understandably, wanting to professionally (perhaps personally, too) distance herself from him. That said, the bottom line for me is that Schofield himself has essentially committed no crime and the witch-hunt surrounding him baffles me somewhat.
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  2469. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice versa. These latter cases of gender I have no issue with; if you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. Where the issue for me arises, is with, for example, the recent case of the biological male cyclist seeking to be accepted as female and thereby be admitted into female cycling competitions. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If this person wants to identify as female, I have no problem with it; it’s when they claim patently unfair rights to compete in a category to which they are clearly not biologically assigned. That’s all.
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  2470. There is a quite brilliant analysis on YouTube of this case by Norman Fenton and Scott McLachan. I was dubious about the conviction anyway, but watching this has reinforced my suspicions that Letby could be an innocent scapegoat for the systemic failures of NHS management.
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  2471. The bottom line here is, is it funny? Humour, being subjective, will have as many answers as there are people.😳
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  2472. To be fair to France, they have eight borders to police; we have one and even with a 20-mile wide moat we can’t even do that!
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  2473. “Humour is tragedy plus time.” (Mark Twain)
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  2474.  @harlovz  Lol. Did you not hear her accent? Sounds like the fact she was born in Britain will qualify her as a British citizen!🤣
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  2475. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender , however, is a socially-determined free for all: you can be biologically male and identify as female and vice-versa. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as ‘female’, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as ‘male’, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  2476. Harry epitomises the old saying, “the Devil makes work for idle hands”. The sooner he can find a proper job, pay his way in an honest manner, the better for him and the better for the rest of us.
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  2477. Aww, diddums. Did the taxi driver have a skin colour that offended your feelings, sweetie? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it all better.
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  2478.  @CharlieWintersTips  Simple. It’s various things: female, attractive, young, middle-class, young family. She ticks so many boxes that are ‘media-friendly’. That said I’m just as sad for her and her family as I would be for the 13 others who went missing the day she did.
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  2479. I’m not on Brand’s side. I’m on the side of truth.
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  2480. Oh for the good old days when porn was so much easier to navigate; none of this online choice which just bamboozles leaving one feel dazed & confused. No, better the days when one would come across (cough) a scuffed up copy of Razzle under a bush (ahem) in the park. Sure, the pages could be a little sticky, and in winter frostbite could be an issue, 🥶 but they were simpler times. 🤓
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  2481. Yeah, but does Daubney ‘break down in tears’ for the tens of thousands of innocent dead/injured Palestinians? Too much bias and one-sidedness in this war for my liking. That’s the trouble with the world. Too much either/or; not enough both/and. (Just for those of us who watched the whole thing, he didn’t ‘break down in tears’. He sniffed 9:49. That’s not ‘breaking down in tears’. No, that’s classic click bait!) 🤦‍♂️
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  2482. Shocking stuff!
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  2483. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin)
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  2484. Liverpool are just glad to be Riyadh of him at this point.
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  2485. John Redwood? ‘Deadwood’, more like.
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  2486. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call. NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of a sovereign, self-governing territory just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  2487. That’s not that far away: ‘According to a 2017 projection the Muslim population in the UK in the year 2050 is likely to number around 13 million.’ (Source: Wikipedia)
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  2488. Cannot believe that in the year of our Lord, 2022, human beings are still asking if politics and organised religion should be mixing. My 3 year old knows the answer to this question.
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  2489. One of my main issues with this topic is that I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  2490.  @asmrpillow457  Get real, m8. You’re talking purely from a bloke’s position. The vast majority of women don’t want unsolicited kisses on the lips from randoms. Read a few female psychology books.👍
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  2491. This is unity. Melania is unified with the rest of the world in not wanting to kiss Donald Trump!
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  2492. B.A. nicely operating its no-fly zone, there. ✈️ Meanwhile, the train arriving at Platform Number 10 is the gravy train to Easy Street. 🚊
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  2493.  @Whatever4690  You tell me? All I know is that America should be far better regulating who they give out guns to.
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  2494. Henry Ford: “The customer can have any colour they want as long as it’s black.” Vladimir Putin: “The Russian people can have any leader they want as long as it’s me!”
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  2495. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  2496. Lettuce note that once supplies are restored, shoppers will ketchup with their purchases. Brexit’s certainly been an encucumberance, though. My bro, Collin works in a supermarket, and he says there’s mushroom now without the regular fruit and veg. Some people are full of grapes and say all this is spin. Ach, what do they know? Personally, I didn’t advocado Brexit, as it impears the economy. Thought it was bananas!
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  2497. Weather? This was an earthquake, love. It had zero to do with the weather. 🥴
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  2498. Source: trust me bro.
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  2499. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool, Downing St., Aldershot, Sunderland et al. is a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. To call it ‘far-right’ is mighty dangerous, arrogant and complacent as most of the protesters are just ordinary citizens. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  2500.  @run2cat4run  Not true. The “transphobes”, as you call them, in my experience are with what the OP said: they don’t want transgender women competing in biological women’s events and they don’t want transgender women in biological female private spaces. That’s all. As for the rest, I care not how you identify. This opinion goes for most everyone I know, too.👍
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  2501.  @exmuslimkhalid138  No offence taken. 👍Just find talk of “my people” dangerous, stupid and primitive, but certainly not offended.
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  2502. “My people” - that’s exactly the kind of talk that has caused all our problems these past 300,000 years. 🤦‍♂️
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  2503. Can you give me a link for that as I can’t find it? 🤔
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  2504. Amongst other things, Farage is back to appeal to those who have concerns about mass immigration. However, the issue for many people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  2505.  @hederahelix622  It’s boring, m8. It’s a bloke in a frock. Why are you getting your frilly knickers in a twist over this when there are 10,000 more important issues to worry about in this world?
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  2506.  @tiredgardener  What’s the problem, son? It’s a fella in a frock. Cope better.
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  2507. In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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  2508. ‘Allah’s’ a big part of the issue here. 🤦‍♂️
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  2509. If you allow ordinary citizens legal access to weapons like this (why he would need this is a bit of a mystery), you can expect a nightmare like this every so often. It’s just the law of averages when all is said and done.
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  2510. @1:02 Lol. Get that beer to the front of the barricades! 🤣 🍻
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  2511. Poland: 1,200,000 Hungary:192,000 Romania: 143,000 Slovakia: 140,000 Czech Republic: 100,000 Moldova: 83,000 Germany: 30,000 France: 3,000 Ireland: 2,200 UK: 300 Shame on Britain!
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  2512. As usual with these things, this whole conflict boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race/ethnicity (Palestinian v Jew - notwithstanding that both groups are Semitic in that they speak a Semitic language), organised religion (Islam v Judaism) and language (Arabic v Hebrew). 2 of these aforementioned (ethnicity/language - mother tongue) are given to us by accidents of birth; the other (religion) we kind of choose but, that said, the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the one which predominates in the culture in which they are born and raised, so this could be argued to be an accident of birth, too. So, essentially, we commit internecine conflict predicated on 3 accidents of birth. It seems human beings cannot cope with too much difference.
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  2513. There is no Allah. Move on. This is so boring now. 🥱
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  2514.  @freshtoast3879 Huh? Wtf has ‘class’ got to do with anything here? 🤔
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  2515. There’s a crucial difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims (in France, the UK and elsewhere in Europe). However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see a lack of integration only in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/etc. wherever they may be.
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  2516. Yes, long live the pen! And the pencil, too! 🖊 ✏️
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  2517.  @RazorMouth  Belgium’s comparable in the sense you have 2 distinct peoples co-existing. Similarly in Ireland, you have British descendants and Celtic Irish. The Brits shouldn’t be there. Ireland should really be a unified state and would be were it not for the Plantations instigated by the British state. I repeat, there is room on the mainland for discontented Unionists, and unless you are an upholder of aggressive colonisation, these Brits should not be there.
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  2518. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?” ☕️
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  2519. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post-1519 in Mexico, post-1524 in Peru, post-1500 in Brazil, post-1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines, or those who were inhabiting these lands for thousands of years before Europeans aggressively pitched up. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and belligerently imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  2520. Love it how Sarwar is staunchly pro-Union, yet when it suits him he’ll emphasise that he is the Scottish Labour leader. That’s what my old granny would’ve called “having your barm (y?) cake and eating it!”😳
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  2521.  @gerardmackay8909  "When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he's a woman… you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside." (JK Rowling) She’s spot on.
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  2522. Leave God out of this. He’s half the problem here. 🤦‍♂️
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  2523. Grown men in dresses attended to by boys in their own dresses: what could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♂️
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  2524.  @Tamarlane389  My head. We can debate about the numbers; perhaps revised up a little. However, if it’s gonna be 750,000 newcomers year-on-year then that is clearly unsustainable: not least from the simple point of view of social cohesion and integration. If these things are done too quickly, and if too many people who uphold views which are diametrically opposed to western liberal values flood in en-masse, then you’re just asking for real trouble down the line.
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  2525. That’s no way to talk of Boris Johnson.
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  2526. Stolen quote.
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  2527. There is no God. There should be no 2nd Amendment.
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  2528. 0:03 Barron Trump looks exactly like the American equivalent of ‘Tory boy’ in the UK.
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  2529. Huh? That’s like saying why are there houses built in Italy, California and Japan, to name 3 that instantly spring to mind.
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  2530. “And the train arriving at Platform number 10 is the gravy train to Easy Street.”
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  2531. Never signed up for Facebook; never signed up for Twitter: best things I never did!
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  2532.  @helloworld8376  🤣
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  2533.  @problemofcommons775  What’s ‘disgusting’ about it?
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  2534. @@ianardo127Agreed. Organised religion is one of the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent. 👍
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  2535. @xander5411Indeed. I’m essentially centre-left liberal and have never voted for a right of centre party in my life, but on the issue of mass immigration I think many people are voting for Le Pen on this single issue, when they are naturally centre/centre-left voters.
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  2536. Put like that, I’m calling fascist.
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  2537. One other point, Jimbo, given you are a self-confessed “Christian”, I find your constant levels of hate for just about everyone somewhat bizarre. I genuinely know more Satanists more loving than you, Jimbo. 😈 Looks like you’re not closely following your ‘saviour’ all that much, pal.👍😉
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  2538. I somehow suspect the key word for the OP is ‘Christian’, not ‘Nigerian’.
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  2539. 🥱
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  2540. Agree with most of your points here. Very well put! I would just add one thing: you suggest that tourists should consider visiting Toledo, Salamanca etc.; I’m here to tell you that the type of tourist (particularly British tourist) who travels to Spain is, by and large, completely uninterested in Spain’s culture, history, language etc. and would have absolutely zero interest in having cultural jolly in Granada, or Pamplona, or Santiago de Compostela. No, the vast majority of Brits who go to Spain are simply looking for a good old piss up in the sun! 🍻
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  2541. This intriguing glimpse of the Titanic is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  2542.  @EricBlair-jg2ux  Where did I say that the citizens of a country shouldn’t have a say as to who comes to live there? As a matter of fact, I happen to think that there should be a people’s referendum on the issue, in any democracy worthy of that name. My main point here was the baloney ‘indigenous’ one that so many unthinking morons bandy about as a reason for them being more ‘entitled’ than those they perceive as ‘non-indigenous’ ethnically. That’s all. If you’re a citizen of any country, you thereby have just as much of a say as the next citizen, regardless of the genetic make-up of the citizens involved, and if you gainsay this position you just smack of an ethnic racist of quite the most sinister kind, privileging your own accident of birth race/ethnicity based on nothing but your whim. History repeatedly shows that when those who think like that get any untrammelled power, it tends to turn out badly, and not necessarily for them. There now; that wasn’t too difficult, was it? Word to the wise: if you’re going to plump for a moniker like ‘Eric Blair 1948’, you really should have better stuff, as you’re setting yourself up for a mighty fall when you hide behind one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the 20th Century. You might wanna think about this going forward. You’re welcome.
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  2543.  @101-q6t  I’m not! I’m simply pointing out that Europeans, historically, have not a leg to stand on when they moan about non-Europeans coming to Europe.
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  2544. Teargassing those Liverpool fans was absolutely outrageous, and I’m disgusted; after all, they’d just dried their eyes after finding out the final score.
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  2545.  @dandoe1620  You’re clumsily confusing Hamas with the ordinary Palestinian. Well done.
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  2546. 🎶 “I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey) Well I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey)” 🎵
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  2547. Looks like we got ourselves a gamer here. 🥱
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  2548. The usual suspect.
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  2549. And… Labour wins. Labour does its thing. People get frustrated with them and the pendulum swings once again and the Tories will get back in. And so it goes. The sooner this country adopts PR to truly reflect the democratic voting choices of the populace, the better. When I go to the supermarket I expect more than a choice between stale bread and slightly staler bread.
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  2550. Banning what people can and cannot wear in the name of secularism is just as fascistic as enforcing what someone can and cannot wear in the name of religion. 2 sides of the same coin.
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  2551.  @panterafanloco1600 Yes, I do. And I understand the climate has changed since there has been a climate. 👍
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  2552. Thanks mum.👍
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  2553.  @dannggg  No. She disagrees with the MSM narrative, without even knowing it! That’s genius!
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  2554.  @pretzel4805  17 people currently disagree. Cope. 😉
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  2555.  @dm8057bk  “Conviction”?! Pmsl. Like you actually choose your sexuality?! 🤣
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  2556. These Islamist vehicles tend to have a mind of their own. RIP 🪦 Radically need a Reformation and Enlightenment by a non-religious mechanic.
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  2557. Stolen comment. Seen it dozens of times.
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  2558. Really? Are we still doing this sh*t in 2023? 🤷‍♂️ Never got the hate what another human is when it comes to their sexual orientation memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. No one (state or individual) has any business getting involved with what consenting adults are privately doing. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  2559. “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” Yeah, right.
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  2560. Indeed. Always reminds me of Agatha Christie’s humorous observation: “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
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  2561.  @user-pb5jt6xk2m  P.S. I, too, live in the UK. I also have lived in 4 other countries, including the US. In none of these countries did I feel as insecure for my personal safety as I did in the US. Beautiful country, but seriously fucked culture.
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  2562.  @mahmoudanabtawi  Yeah, but to be fair, the vast majority of my gay friends are just living their lives and not ‘forcing’ anything on anybody. This is just a fringe lefty political thing going on at the moment in mainstream culture, but it’s nothing to get overheated about. Like so many, I’m against political agendas being taken into school, and having over-sexualised drag acts in schools etc. but my distinct impression is that this small section of the gay culture is being used as a reason to hate generally. It’s rather alarming and depressing simultaneously.
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  2563.  @mumin8838  Serious question: what is it exactly that deeply offends you about gays?
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  2564. Is Zelensky performing as Chief Clown? 🤡
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  2565.  @Alias_Ex  My point being, if Putin hadn’t invaded in 2014 and 2022 there might have been no big issue. Inter-ethnic tensions, perhaps, but Ukraine might have made it as a whole Ukraine, as it were, with all these eastern bits with the ethnic Russians. After all, Belgium exists with Flemings and Walloons, Switzerland has 4 official languages, Spain also rolls with 4 official languages, so why the fuck can’t east Ukraine coexist as a nation with west Ukraine? Why should this be so difficult? I understand the militant pro-Russian separatists, but I get the feeling, having read a bit about this that most non-radical east Ukrainian pro-Russians were just getting on with their lives happily under the umbrella of Ukraine prior to 2014. Putin is a big part of this, I feel. One man driving the whole separation of Ukraine into two ethnic camps for his own ends of winning back Crimea, Donbas, and ultimately the rest of Ukraine for his mad mother Russia project.
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  2566.  @BeGioBijoux Well, given the dude was living in refugee accommodation it’s a pretty safe bet that he isn’t German.
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  2567. Wtf are you on about? Every soldier they showed had some sort of facial hair. You seem to be confusing a journalist with a bunch of soldiers. Specsavers calling?
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  2568. What part of London was this? Bow? ‘arrow? Early reports suggested fella was on his way to Marble Archery before visiting the London Bullseye. 🏹
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  2569. 128,000/1?!? Presumably that was an accumulator and not a one-off bet.
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  2570.  @johnkeohane4239 Nah, not really, bud. I was just addressing the wider question related to the smaller question. Bad luck. 😭
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  2571. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Jane Austen)
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  2572. The only thing that dragged on more than the coverage given to this story was the movie Titanic!
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  2573. @ Uh huh. Says the totally impartial dude with the Russian flag as his avatar. 🤦‍♂️
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  2574. Look on the bright side, Australia: it could’ve been an invasive species of ants and decs! 🐜
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  2575. Quite obviously the correct decision. Sanity, for once, has prevailed. Allowing trans women to compete in biological women’s sports is a bit like allowing an adult football team to compete in an under-14s league.
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  2576.  @krto7663  They are fleeing war. Majority of these people are economic migrants.
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  2577.  @ontheslide2339  Why would I do that? 🤔
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  2578. They always talk about ‘crimes against humanity’ as a kind of additional extra, as if war itself wasn’t the greatest crime against humanity.
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  2579. According to the Human Freedom Index, which measures personal and economic freedom in 165 countries, representing 98.1% of the global population, using 82 indicators across 12 categories, Iran comes 5th last, with only Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen and Syria scoring worse. In 2021, Switzerland topped the Index at 9.01, followed by New Zealand and Denmark; the global average score was 7.12. Iran scored 4.03. Regions like North America and Western Europe score highest in freedom, whereas the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia rank lowest, with women's freedoms notably restricted. Venezuela, Egypt, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq made up the top 10 of those countries with least freedom. Aside from outliers like Myanmar and Venezuela, 8 of these countries have one thing in common: Islam.
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  2580. Spot on. I’m in the UK. Scotland. Old enough to recall as a child every winter with lying snow for weeks on end. In last 25 years I can count about 2 such winters. In other words, even without the stats, those of us old enough to know, know, just anecdotally. This issue has been, like most issues, toxically politicised.👍
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  2581. She is the tool.
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  2582.  @TheEverFreeKing  You’re missing the point: what another woman decides to do with her body is none of your or my business.
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  2583. This was funny once. When you keep posting a variation of the same thing, it just becomes boring. It’s called “diminishing returns”.
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  2584.  @elizabethlacky6068  And because you do believe in God and Heaven and Hell doesn’t mean they exist and last time I checked the burden of proof was on those making such outlandish claims, not those doubting them.
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  2585.  @its_firas.  You say pun, I say play on words; more or less the same thing in my book, mate.
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  2586.  @GIBBO4182  Denial is in Egypt. This is Uganda.
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  2587. That’s a double bogey you scored there, Jimbo.
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  2588.  @ReVon_pL  Really? Did you not hear of Challenger (1986) and Columbia (2003)?
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  2589. Last time I checked, well over a million Hungarians have immigrated into the USA. Close to half a million into Canada. Hundreds of thousands into other European countries. Hundreds of thousands into Israel. And so on. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post-1519 in Mexico, post-1524 in Peru, post-1500 in Brazil, post-1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines, or the peoples already inhabiting these places for tens of thousands of years. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and Europeans have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  2590. Roboaty McRoboatface.
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  2591.  @barrypeers8665  *Forrest
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  2592. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its 2nd Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the 2nd Amendment was adopted in 1791 (and even then it was only militia set-ups allowed to own a gun; not the individual private citizen), it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the 2nd Amendment (or, at the very least, amending the 2nd Amendment), thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  2593.  @cherylparker8025  Yup. I’m very wary about criticising Islam in front of any Muslim for fear of reprisals. Even people I don’t know I kinda fear they’d track me down. And if you’re a famous figure then woe-betide you if you criticise Islam, as Rushdie found to his cost.
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  2594. Lol.
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  2595. This is bloody good news, if you ask me! 👍
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  2596. Is that a euphemism? 🤔
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  2597. Great idea! Every year seeing the post-Christmas Christmas tree corpses lying on the pavement waiting to be landfilled always makes me feel a little sad. This is far more sustainable as well as being a lovely idea.👍
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  2598. I sympathise with these girls. I recently went to my doc with knee pain and told him I’d broken it in 3 places. He told me not to visit those places again. 🧎‍♂️
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  2599. Lol. Can I use your post to show my Social Studies students as a word-perfect example of virtue signalling? 😷
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  2600. 🛸 If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  2601.  @ayoolukoga9829 Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  2602. Yes, including all those Europeans who have arrived in North and South America since 1492. Go home now and better your own countries!
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  2603. @Mark S Lol. Your logic is utterly bizarre. This means you’re essentially arguing that everyone be armed like cowboys in the Wild West. Yeah, good one, Sherlock.👍🤣
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  2604. @Mark S Get real, mate. Americans are dying more or less weekly in mass shootings; they are not dying in mass stabbings. 🤣
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  2605. Your basic English.
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  2606. Tbh, not sure either party cares that much about each other. They are more like two neighbours who would squabble over the other’s fence.
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  2607.  @BarhaTrading  Just for the record, though, since you brought it up, various non-human animal species exhibit behavior that can be interpreted as homosexual or bisexual. This may include same-sex sexual activity, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same-sex animal pairs. But I repeat: even if it were proven scientific fact that there is no homosexuality in other species, it still wouldn’t bother me that it was a thing in humans.
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  2608.  @Abahoalex840  It’s doing nothing of the sort, son. Hitherto, no one has propounded an even remotely reasonable theory as to why I should hate homosexuality. Nice try, though.👍
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  2609. Jimbo, that’s suspiciously well-spelt and grammatically-correct for you, son. Who did you copy & paste it from, pal? 🤣
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  2610. This is giving me Westworld vibes. The 1973 original. Don’t give that broad a loaded gun, whatever you do! 🤠
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  2611. A new space race? Could very well be. Wonder who’ll get the constellation prize. ✨
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  2612. Regardless of the colour of the victim here, the notion the State enforcers can put a bullet in your head for merely resisting arrest is a chilling one indeed.
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  2613.  @SilentEmpires  Who gave us the ‘creator’ of the sun? 🤓
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  2614.  @_ArsNova  Well, that’s between the 2 people involved and not your concern. I repeat, it is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.
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  2615. Poland: 1,200,000 Hungary:192,000 Romania: 143,000 Slovakia: 140,000 Czech Republic: 100,000 Moldova: 83,000 Germany: 30,000 France: 3,000 Ireland: 2,200 UK: 300 Shame on Britain!
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  2616. That’ll be why Africa has 29, I repeat, 29, countries with a higher homicide rate than the UK.
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  2617. If you look at a map of Europe, and you look at the extent of the NATO countries to 1997, they extend as far east as Germany. After 1997, NATO expands like a cancerous growth (as Putin sees it), to encompass 14 other nations, geographically extending as far east as Estonia and Latvia (crucially, from Putin’s point of view, ex-USSR components.) Now look at Ukraine on this map. A further incursion east, by a state with a majority looking west, not east. A further former ex-USSR component eating into (as Putin sees it) the motherland Russia. Now, I’m no supporter of Putin. He’s wrong to aggressively invade a sovereign, self-governing territory, in my opinion. However, this notwithstanding, I can fully see how, just by looking at a map and the physical geography alone, Putin might feel threatened and a little boxed in. Does this justify his behaviour? Not a jot.
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  2618.  @aidiemcg7413  How do you know he was “groomed”? You’re just falling for the media nonsense. My key idea is quite simple: if you’re the age of consent, and you consent, there is no issue.
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  2619. There is no Allah. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  2620. Pretty sure that inflating the size of his properties isn’t the only thing Trump inflates the size of.🥸
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  2621. Do amputees get a free pass on this one?
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  2622. “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” (George Carlin)
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  2623.  @wintersoldier2835  Not here to dictate to others, m8. Just telling you my story. 😉
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  2624.  @SebsWorld 🤣
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  2625.  @Artifis0743 Ok, some see it as ‘filth’. However, that’s not the point. The point is what 2 (or more) consenting adults do in the bedroom is simply none of anyone else’s business.
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  2626. Depends on your motivation and work ethic. The key is having a real motivation for learning the language. It won’t work if you’re not up for it. However, that goes for anything, really.
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  2627.  @richardhall4830 🤣😂😅👍
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  2628. @SomeoneOnlyWeKnow I agree. Putin’s an arse.
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  2629. No! Not again ! How many times? 🤦‍♂️
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  2630. Well, you’re not against the death penalty, then.
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  2631. That’s a bit like my mate who has a fondness for Germany. He’s called Adolf.
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  2632. ‘I scored a wonder goal against the USSR in 1982.’ (Socrates)
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  2633.  @louditalian1962  For all that, still rather live in US than live in Iran or China.
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  2634. As a Brit watching this stuff, I have to say, I couldn’t give a flying f*ck about any of it! 🤠
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  2635. Ah, the G7 Summit; a colder, emptier, more desolate place it would be hard to imagine; except perhaps the summit of K2. 😳
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  2636. Nah, m8, it’s f*ck-all to do with that. Here’s what it’s to do with: If I, as an adult, am told by you, the State, or anyone else, what I can and cannot do with another consenting adult, then we have a problem, Houston. This is really not that difficult. Uh huh. 😊
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  2637.  @reginageorge4  No it’s not. That’s just a personal statement based on feeling. Not a logical argument. My key argument here is why are you involving yourself with the sex lives of consenting adults? Do you not see how deeply creepy and inappropriate this is, Jools, huh? It’s simply none of your, or anyone else’s, business. None. You need to provide a better, more reasoned argument than just a worthless statement based on personal feeling.
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  2638. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  2639. I f*cking LOVE this dude. He makes me realise he’s the last person on Earth I’d wanna be.
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  2640. 3:20 Take that, Flat-Earthers! Bazinga! 🌍
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  2641. Russia: the ‘imperial fascists of the 21st century’. They learned well watching America in the 20th! 🤠
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  2642. Scene: child custody department Putin: “The child needs to be with me, its rightful home. I am the best for its interests. Can’t you see this?” Social Worker: “Hmmm … And you NATO?” NATO: “The child has expressed an interest in being with me. I’m not violent towards it, I have its best interests at heart. I’m not forcing it to do anything against its will.” Social Worker: “Well, this seems an open and shut case: you, Mr Putin, have acted despicably; you have been aggressive and violent and threatening the child with death if it doesn’t submit to your will. How can you expect us to grant you custody?” Decision: NATO shall be granted custody.
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  2643. To be honest, I’m kinda with Bill Hicks when he said humanity was just a ‘virus with shoes’. Sure, it’s tragic for those concerned who go prematurely, but given this planet has just recently topped 8 billion people, maybe a few folk shuffling off this mortal coil before their time isn’t necessarily a bad thing for the planet in toto.
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  2644. ⛄️ Lovely to see this. These past few days sure have been crazy stuff. If it gets much worse they may have to alter the State names accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Blew Jersey’, ‘Thawaii’, ‘Georjackfrost’, ‘Pennsylweathervania’, ‘Kansice’, ‘Massachillsetts’, ‘Califognia’, ‘New Hampshiver’, ‘Wicesconsin’, ‘Texice’, ‘Mittensota’, ‘Windiana’, ‘Buryland’, ‘Frozen Riverginia’, ‘Godforsakentucky’, ‘Connecticold’, ‘Flurryda’, ‘Slideaho’, ‘Snowshoe York’, ‘Iowhiteout’, ‘Michighandwarmers’, ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Mainedeer’, ‘North/South Dacoata’, ‘Coolorado’, ‘Rawest Virginia’, ‘Wysnowing’, ‘Uthaw’, ‘North/South Barrelina’, ‘Arizsnowa’, ‘Nevada’ - no change needed as already means ‘snowy mountains’, ‘Montanavalanche’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Missfury’, ‘Delaglare’, ‘Starkansas’, ‘Thawregon’, ‘Oklabomba’, ‘Washingtoboggan’, ‘Squallabama’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  2645.  @mikerrnm  Mistakes happen. Still wasn’t his fault ultimately. The armorer bears the burden here imo.
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  2646. You’ve just made it the 1,000,000,000,001st time! 🥱
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  2647. Russia appears to think that in a boxing match only one guy is allowed to throw aggressive punches past the other guy’s defensive borders; that’s not a fair fight; that’s voluntarily being used as a punchbag.
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  2648. Well, you know what they say: one door closes; another door falls off! 🚪 ✈️
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  2649.  @matsten  I have no problem with that. You homophobes are just so weird . I genuinely don’t get what the issue is here. Bizarre.
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  2650. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  2651. Scene: NATO headquarters. Putin is meeting with NATO members. Putin: “I’m not happy with having a state bordering Russia that will have missiles directed at Moscow, capable of hitting in minutes.” NATO: “I’m sorry, Mr Putin, but this is a case of a sovereign nation taking its own decisions.” Putin: “Mexico has agreed to sign a pact with Russia allowing us to station missiles on the US/Mexico border targeting Washington DC. What are you going to do?” NATO: “We will move to remove these missiles, and invade a self-governing, sovereign nation to do this if necessary.” Putin: “Oh really? How interesting.”
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  2652. I once had a brilliant general science teacher at school and by way of introducing the topic would write the following joke on the blackboard and we’d spend the next hour deconstructing what each line of the joke meant scientifically. The joke was: History's great scientists were invited to a party. Here are their responses. Isaac Newton: "I'll drop in." Socrates: "I'll think about it." Georg Ohm: "I'm resisting the idea." Robert Boyle: "I'm under too much pressure." Charles Darwin: "I'll wait to see what evolves." Pierre and Marie Curie: "We're radiating enthusiasm." Alessandro Volta: "I'm electrified at the prospect." Ivan Pavlov: "I'm positively drooling at the thought." Andre-Marie Ampere: "I'm worried I'm not current enough." John James Audubon: "I'll have to wing it." Thomas Edison: "It will be illuminating." Albert Einstein: "It will be relatively easy to attend." Archimedes: "I'm buoyant at the thought." Samuel Morse: "I'll be there on the dot. I'd tell you about other parties I've been to, but I must dash." Carl Friedrich Gauss: "I'm very popular at parties because of my magnetism." Heinrich Hertz: "I plan to attend parties with greater frequency in the future." James Watt: "It will be a good way to let off steam." As for Sigmund Freud: he just couldn't help but give it the slip! Beyond the obvious fun of blowing things up in labs it’s the single most memorable science lesson I ever had.
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  2653. Last time I checked, he was Scottish.
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  2654.  @nuggetwings5932 That’s fine. Just make sure your rule is applied across the board.
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  2655.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  More egg and chips, Jimbo?🤣
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  2656. Getting women pregnant is very often an ‘afterthought’ for the men, too.
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  2657.  @ianclark9198  Don’t be ridiculous, Ian. Last time I checked every household in the UK has a hoard of kitchen knives. However, they don’t have a bunch of guns in the pantry. Just for the record, the US has worse knife crime than the UK so your point is invalid on that score, too.
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  2658. Have to say, if I were Baldwin and were told the gun was ‘cold’ then I would feel a total injustice here to be charged with manslaughter. It’s surely the movie’s armorer who is directly responsible by making the error of handing him a ‘hot’ gun, however unwillingly and mistakenly. There has to be something more here that’ll probably come out in a full trial.
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  2659. Thanks for that, Oprah. 🙏
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  2660. 🤣
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  2661.  @MattyTheConstitutionalist  “Welcome to the US: we are seriously considering arming our teachers.” “Welcome to the UK: we don’t even arm most of our police!”
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  2662. Some people have all the luck, eh? I was once Top Bagger of the Year when I worked at my local supermarket.
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  2663. I would draw the line at corporal punishment in schools. However, parents should be left to parent and not be criminalised if they administer a light smack on the back of the hand or backside of their child if the child runs into a busy street or causes a scene in the supermarket. Those who would seek to physically abuse their kids will do that anyway. This law won’t prevent that. All it will do is criminalise wholly loving, well-meaning parents from disciplining their child as they choose.
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  2664. Here’s the thing: because there are very few real Christians left in the UK in a purely religious sense and most of the Muslims I’m aware of in the UK are very much Muslims in a religious sense that British ‘Christians’ lack, this has caused this rumpus. If Christians were as overt and strong in their beliefs as Muslims are, then there would be no real issue here and freedom of worship would dictate you can worship any God or no God. To me, this is a clear example of prejudice against Islam. Full disclosure: I’m agnostic and consider all organised religion manmade baloney that has, historically, caused humanity far more trouble than it hasn’t.
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  2665. Unless you fall in one. 🥴
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  2666. Yeah, but here’s the thing about Williams: his music is absolute pish! 👍
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  2667.  @DoctorCongoChronicles While you make a valid point about Spain - IME, having lived there myself, the vast majority of Costa Brits don’t really make that much of an effort with the local language/culture if they don’t have to - it’s interesting to see the list of top countries with British immigrants: Australia: 1,300,000 Spain: 761,000 United States: 678,000 Canada: 603,000 Ireland: 291,000 New Zealand: 215,000 South Africa: 212,000 France: 200,000 The striking thing about this list is that Brits are mostly emigrating to countries with a Westernised culture, for want of a better term. They are not pouring into Muslim countries in their hundreds of thousands with their Christianity and radically different cultural practices from the host country, thereby radically altering the cultural demographic in a matter of a few decades.
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  2668. You can’t stop this stuff. Dude used a knife. You can’t ban knives. Capital Punishment won’t stop it, either. America proves that Capital Punishment is not a deterrent. The only we can kind of control it is just to have saner societies, meaning less emphasis on the glorification of violence.
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  2669.  @ricpla6930  Lol. So an invisible thing called ‘death’ was riding a horse through London today, was it? 🤣Have you taken your medication today? 💊 💊 💊
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  2670. The lady in NY was just flashing her meadow.
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  2671. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St., Aldershot and now Sunderland was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  2672. The irony of Putin wanting to put together a new USSR when the Russia he oversees is falling apart. He can’t even manage a corner shop properly and he’s looking to create a supermarket empire.
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  2673. This is all rather simple. In 2014, 54% of Scots residents chose to remain in the UK. As we speak, the current polls suggest more or less the same result either way. On this basis, holding another referendum just 8 years after the previous ‘once in a lifetime’ referendum feels a little off. For one thing, current life expectancy in the UK is about 80. Given this, 8 years seems rather quick, unless the 2014 pro-independence folk were talking about ‘once in the lifetime’ … of a dog!🤣 🐕
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  2674. Nah. It’s tragic, of course. But this is Ronaldo we’re talking about, and it’s always been about Ronaldo.
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  2675. @0:08-0:18 This is absolutely outrageous! How dare they! Targeting a Monet. That don’t impressionist me much. 🖼
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  2676. Groveller.
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  2677.  @KingDomsKingdom85  *Bong
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  2678. Apt that Tejay’s surname is Fletcher as it looks like he could be doing a bit of porridge! 🤣
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  2679.  @Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty  Also, I wouldn’t praise Japan and China and S Korea too highly, mate, as I look at all 3 and often see stressed, anxious, miserable people worked to the bone unable to properly enjoy life. 😊
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  2680. Not sure why men are having any say when it comes to what a woman does with her body.
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  2681. 🎶 So many tears I've cried So much pain inside But baby, it ain't over 'til it's Dover 🎵
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  2682. @0:50 Wow! I have to say that James Dean Bradfield’s Ukrainian it outstanding! Kudos. 👍
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  2683. @0:36 “There’s nothing but Sky.” Lol. A sinister prediction methinks.😂
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  2684. After a few doobies on a Saturday night it looks pretty square to me. 🌙 🥴
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  2685. Something hasn’t quite added up since day 1 of this war: Russia, officially the world’s 2nd strongest military power facing off against Ukraine, officially 22nd in this table, and yet the Ukrainians seem to be more than holding the line. Surely a testament to the overwhelming motivation the Ukrainians feel as opposed to the demotivated, morale-lacking Russian forces. Never underestimate someone protecting their home from perceived outsiders. Putin clearly didn’t factor this into his calculations.
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  2686. For a moment there, didn’t tink the Yanks were going to send the tanks to tonk the Russkis. That would’ve stunk! A few over ten? K. 👍
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  2687. Douglas Ross is camper than a row of tents. ⛺️ ⛺️ ⛺️
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  2688. To be fair, it’s not a major surprise that Hong Kong doesn’t really belong to China, as very little made in China has lasted much more than a week.😳
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  2689. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  2690. Eddie’s accent is morphing all over the (closed?) shop. He starts out a bit Australian, throws in a soupçon of South African, before finally settling on sound of Bow Bells Cockney!😳
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  2691.  @dieselscience  Google is your friend.
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  2692. Overrated pub band that make certain pub bands look good! All songs stolen. Admitted by Noel. They are worth about 5 minutes of your life. Then move on. They’re not worth more than that. 👍
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  2693. Nice to see John Parrot getting some extra work.
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  2694. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one: two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two States side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  2695.  @Reynolds128  Ukrainian bot.
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  2696. Comment makes no sense. If England lose next game, they can still qualify with a draw in the final game. 🥴
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  2697.  @kazaiza6405  We are talking about guns; that is the issue at hand here. America has a sick relationship with firearms, and is therefore paying the price for this. It’s so obvious to anyone with eyes to see, and who isn’t blinded by the 2nd Amendment.
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  2698. Er, I think Western jets ‘bombed’ the bridges.
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  2699. How is it ‘vicious’ to ask a doolally old man to step aside? If anything, he’s being merciful to save the dude further public embarrassment.
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  2700. Yeah, and like they have never, ever had recent rioting and forced entry there, have they?😳
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  2701. It’s bad news Will has been barred from the Oscars, but the good news is that he’s still up for some Bifftas.
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  2702. The weird double standards here are all over the shop: yes, Qatar is a nightmare for liberal values, but 56 years ago in England, the illegality of homosexuality was also a nightmare for liberal values. Yes, the argument is that England has moved on, but on the basis of holding a tournament and having certain laws at that time, England in 1966 is not that different from Qatar 2022.
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  2703.  @malicant123  Interesting though, that most other comparable nations to the US have no issue with gun laws. America seems hypnotised by its archaic, some would say primitive, 2nd Amendment. It reminds me a bit of these religious zealots who stick to the letter of their original law, come what may. American firearms have moved on from 1791, but the laws to regulate them haven’t; this is why America has this issue.
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  2704.  @Robert-xy4xi  Keep up the cope.
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  2705. There is no God. Deal with it.
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  2706. Lol. Taiwan in the context of Russia/Ukraine always sounds a little ominous. Especially if China is looking in.
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  2707. Does this little dictator never stop!? Not only has she controlled New Zealand for the past 6 years, she’s got the brass neck to come over here to the UK and call time on the Premiership, the best Rugby Union league in the world. Outrageous! 🏉
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  2708. We are clearly going Rwanda houses with this thing, and if these migrants had just gone through the right Channels then they might have stood a chance.
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  2709. I’m no conspiracy theorist by nature, but something tells me with this whole mess that NATO/West was ‘destined’ to confront Putin/Russia militarily at some point.
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  2710.  @mouradmerabet932  Huh? Poland is in NATO. Article 5 obliges the rest to act when one is attacked.😉
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  2711. And nobody in Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, North/South America, Indonesia etc was asked whether they wanted European migration/colonisation.
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  2712. Rod has kindly done a remix of one of his greatest hits for the NHS: it’s called “Ailing”.
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  2713.  @larsbjrnson3101  Yes, they did. Moreover, General Eisenhower is on record as saying that is wasn’t necessary to use the bomb as Japan had been largely ground down and defeated by then. He said it was “no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." When the war was over he also said: “It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." Nice try, though.👍
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  2714.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  See? Another one in their tribal camp.
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  2715. At this point they really should consider updating the terms here. To be more inclusive, and avoid insulting women and non-binary people, ‘manslaughter’ should become ‘genderneutralpersonslaughter’.
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  2716. “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.” (J Robert Oppenheimer)
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  2717. If Gatwick can easily operate a no-fly zone, why can’t NATO?😳
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  2718. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” (William Blake)
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  2719. My theory is that they’ve tried every other diet and this is an excellent way to lose a few extra pounds.
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  2720. Talking about yourself again, Suze? 🤣
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  2721. Never ceases to amaze me, the self-righteous sanctimony of these old duffers, who are always eager to shine their torch at others’ ‘war crimes’, yet never seem to turn that torch on themselves. Hypocrisy; double-standards barely covers it.
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  2722. BT calling for this strike with the unions ringing in their ears is understandable.
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  2723. ‘Richy’ Sunak flashes the cash; all for a good cause; this ex-boarder ain’t no hoarder; if it’s his money he’s giving away. If it’s ours ?
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  2724. Conceived in Athens? 🤔 It’s always worrying when names are chosen after place of conception. Imagine if Brooklyn Beckham had been conceived in Peckham! 😳
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  2725. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  2726. So let me get this straight (pun intended): some people get to tell other people who they can and can’t have sex with, but the other people can’t tell some people who they can and can’t have sex with? Lol. At best that’s just rude; at worst, it’s deeply fascist! 🤣
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  2727. This episode was a revelation for me in the way that when they interviewed the Brits I was trying to read the subtitles in Spanish below & they were appearing & disappearing as fast, if not faster, amazingly, than when it’s the other way round. This video slightly put paid to the common assumption that to British ears the Spanish are rattling along 100mph faster than us when we speak our respective native languages. Curiouser and curiouser …
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  2728. @2:20 “I want to move on to the leaks.” For a minute there I thought the chat was going to veer into Chelsea’s incontinence issues. Phew! 😮‍💨
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  2729. No they’re not. There’s a difference between pro-Hamas marches and pro-Palestinian marches, just as there would be a difference between pro-Netanyahu marches and pro-Israeli marches.
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  2730. Channel 4 won’t let us comment directly on the Southport dude (which, let’s face it, is undisguised censorship), so here’s my indirect comment: Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  2731. Stolen comment.
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  2732.  @gambrydew2059  I agree there is a question mark over this particular ship vis-a-vis legionnaires’, but I was more speaking generally. Those scenes we saw a few months ago where migrants were moaning/protesting about their 3/4-star hotel accommodation in central London was a joke. I don’t care if it’s a bunk bed. If you are a genuine refugee you’d be grateful for it at that point.
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  2733.  @utopiandreamer04  How does your ‘pacifist state’ argument explain the UK, France, Spain, Italy, all of Scandinavia, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, China, Belgium, Vietnam, Israel, Morocco, Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Ireland etc etc etc., all of which have homicide rates consistently about 4x less than that of the US, whilst simultaneously not being ‘pacifist’ states?
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  2734.  @nevadak3424  No. I had the main course, too.🤓
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  2735. Jesus, Jimbo. You’re getting some mileage out of this quote, son. I make that the 23,435th time you have copied and pasted it; and that’s just today! 🤪
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  2736. Breaking News: He’s dead, m8. 🥴
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  2737. “Coming to a cinema near you: ‘The March of the Mummies’. Certificate 18.”
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  2738. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  2739.  @thesmallnotesduo  Mike, mate. I’m no eco-warrior. I just happen to think a gradual transition to renewables is probably a good idea in the long run.👍
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  2740.  @WOTArtyNoobs  Uh huh. But that was solar activity and decreased volcanic activity. The rather dramatic warming of the past 200 years correlates directly with human carbon emissions. Again, we can agree to disagree. I happen to think that if we continue on the trajectory we are on then this planet will overheat to such an extent it will become uninhabitable (in large part) for humankind. Nature itself may think that a good thing, but that is a whole other argument.👍
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  2741. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  2742. Sharron is just speaking common sense which, as we know, isn’t so common these days. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all, and is essentially down to feelings: you can be biologically male and identify as (or feel) “female” and vice-versa, but you cannot actually biologically flip from one to the other. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This latter, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as “male”, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  2743. I don’t want to live in a world where the state ( any state) is prescribing or proscribing what people can and cannot wear, whether that’s in the setting of a Paris school or the setting of a Tehran market. Banning what people cannot wear in the name of secularism is just as fascistic as enforcing what someone must wear in the name of religion. 2 sides of the same coin. In mature, free societies, these basic choices should be left to the individual and the state should have no business interfering.
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  2744. To be fair, I’m shocked it’s as high as -70%! 🤐
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  2745. Indeed. Well said. 👏
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  2746. That makes utterly no sense. So, if you see someone battering someone else to death, you don’t call the cops? Yeah, right.
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  2747. I was eating my cornflakes watching this and my spoon started bending. I ended up spooning them into my ear! 🥄
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  2748. Lol. Wtf. So you can be a ‘woman magnet’ and automatically not be a sexual criminal now? 🥴
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  2749. I only date greens. I recycle them regularly.
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  2750. Tbf, anyone seeking to “imitate” Jacob Rees-Mogg needs their head checking. And their hard-drive! 🤓
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  2751. My great escape from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco . 🏃‍♂️
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  2752. Letting someone use a computer without proper punctuation. A mistake.
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  2753. ‘Murphy’?! You can’t even get his name right ya fookin’ spanner! 😂
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  2754. While the choice of words by this cop was unfortunate, if we’re honest, we all know what he meant. If this dude hadn’t been wearing his kippah the copper wouldn’t have made the comment or even noticed him. In a way, the copper was actually trying to protect the dude from what he saw (rightly or wrongly) as potential aggression/violence towards him. The threat to arrest was totally out of order but my instinct is that this copper wasn’t being consciously (or even unconsciously) antisemitic.
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  2755. Can’t be that much more terrifying than being married to Paul Daniels. “You’re gonna like this. Not a lot.” 👍
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  2756. Sex = unchangeable. Gender = changeable. This really isn’t that difficult.
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  2757. This despicable student clearly upset his classmate’s felines.
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  2758. One health service for me, another health service for thee.
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  2759. Lol. Someone calling themselves, apparently unironically, ‘GO AT’, and they’re having a go at others for being “cringe”?!🤣
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  2760. Given the choice between Viktor or Orban, I think I’ll go for Orban; preferably for life.
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  2761. @0:20 “Are dogs getting more dangerous?” No. And they’ve never been anywhere near as dangerous as their human owners.
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  2762. Speak for yourself, Colin. As a British man, I won’t be manning your barricades. Think on.
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  2763. EasyJet has no problem operating a no-fly zone. ✈️ Maybe we should give Zelensky their number.
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  2764. Miss Jean Brodie? ‘Gels!’
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  2765.  @johnkitching2248 Alas, for you, Johnny, I’m not a ‘fake account’. Bad luck. 👍
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  2766. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  2767.  @user-xu5vl5th9n  Look, I’m not sure how you can’t see that kissing someone full on the lips without their consent is a problem.
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  2768. This is ridiculous! Let’s be honest: if the law were applied equally to every man and woman in this land, how many of us would escape a fine for not wearing a seatbelt? Just last year I was in India, and not only were they not wearing seatbelts, but they were sitting on top of trains on their daily commute!
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  2769. Your life is complete.
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  2770. Looking at tractors? Tut-tut. Presumably a few backhoe loaders. 😳
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  2771. Tbf, Gaza needs all the help he can get. He’s back on the bevvy.
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  2772.  @djadam21  By that logic, the over 60% of Israelis who have European, Russian, African and Asian descent also need to ‘go home’.
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  2773. It’s interesting that there were apparently only 3 signatories to the SNP’s financial accounts: Sturgeon, her “husband” and the financial treasurer guy. Now, with the best will in the world, one (perhaps all ) of these 3 has to know what happened to that missing £600,000 of donated money. My guess is that Sturgeon herself is clean here, as while I’m certainly no fan, I don’t think she would hoodwink us on this one if she were consciously complicit in something financially underhand. This leaves her “hubby” and the other guy. Or perhaps some other random got unauthorised access somehow to the SNP’s bank account. Who knows? The fact her hubby had to top-up the SNP coffers with his “own money” after the £600,000 had gone missing is fishy. It’s all as murky as the depths of Loch Ness. The SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it “loses” £600,000 down the back of the sofa. To paraphrase the great Oscar: to lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  2774. Wrong. He originally supported Trump. You need a better researcher, Paddy.
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  2775. This is all rather simple. In 2014, 54% of Scots residents chose to remain in the UK. As we speak, the current polls suggest more or less the same result either way. On this basis, holding another referendum just 8 years after the previous ‘once in a lifetime’ referendum feels a little off. For one thing, current life expectancy in the UK is about 80. Given this, 8 years seems rather quick, unless the 2014 pro-independence folk were talking about ‘once in the lifetime’ … of a dog!🤣 🐕
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  2776.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  These migrants may very well “keep coming”, but each country has the right to refuse entry.
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  2777.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  Indeed. And that’s why I said I’m pro legal immigration and pro intaking genuine asylum seekers. All I see now is something akin to an open door free-for-all.
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  2778. Lol. You talk about ‘that essay’ like a long-lost lover!😆
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  2779.  @EBeb2025-eb There is no Allah. Move on. This is so boring now. 🥱
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  2780. My deepest, sincerest condolences to the house in question. 💐
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  2781. What I don’t get with all these betting scandals is how do they know who has put the bet on? I’m presuming these Tories don’t have actual online accounts with bookies. Moreover, surely if you’ve half a brain and are trying to scam the system you’d get a proxy to place any dodgy bets for you.
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  2782. Kids: just say ‘no’!
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  2783. Russia, the biggest country by landmass, twice the size of Canada, the second biggest; given this, why can’t those ‘Russians’ in Ukraine just move to Russia, if they are unhappy? Ukraine is a sovereign territory. Has been since 1991. Up until 2014, it seems ethnic Russians were ok with living in Ukraine, co-existing with non-ethnic Russian Ukrainians, much like the Flemish share what we call Belgium with the Walloons. My feeling about all this, and it’s just a guess, is that even the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would be quite happy to live in a sovereign, self-governing Ukraine. My strong feeling about all this, is that since at least 2014, Russia (Putin, mainly) has stirred the pot and played on potential ethnic tensions that actually weren’t really that strong. Again, I have no proof, but my instinct, having closely observed this for nine weeks, is that this is actually about one man more than anything. Putin just couldn’t get over the ‘greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th Century’ (his words), that is, the dissolution of the USSR, and as he is about to pop his clogs, he was impelled to take his revenge for this before he does shuffle off this mortal coil. We should not underestimate just how much this really is one man’s war, and on that score, it just bespeaks how primitive we still are as a species, when we don’t have mechanisms in place to deal with these outlying, power-tripping fuckwits.
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  2784. Don’t be ridiculous. No Scots person knows what a salad is.
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  2785. Meanwhile, 35 poor sods are drowned off the Canary Islands while some billionaire and his mates and their defective toy hog all the headlines.
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  2786.  @davidcolley7714 Bob, Jim, Steve and Dave.
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  2787. Is it cos u is fick?
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  2788.  Roniixx  Really? And Israel hasn’t been targeting Palestinian civilians for the past 75 years? Ok. 👍 I would suggest it’s your lack of understanding of this which is exactly what contributes to this conflict. Israel didn’t exist before 1948. Personally, I think it has a right to exist. But so does Palestine.
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  2789. Hair raising! 👍 🐰
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  2790. “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
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  2791. According to the Human Freedom Index, which measures personal and economic freedom in 165 countries, representing 98.1% of the global population, using 82 indicators across 12 categories, Iran comes 5th last, with only Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen and Syria scoring worse. In 2021, Switzerland topped the Index at 9.01, followed by New Zealand and Denmark; the global average score was 7.12. Iran scored 4.03. Regions like North America and Western Europe score highest in freedom, whereas the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia rank lowest, with women's freedoms notably restricted. Venezuela, Egypt, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq made up the top 10 of those countries with least freedom. Aside from outliers like Myanmar and Venezuela, 8 of these countries have one thing in common: Islam.
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  2792. @1:20 “Saqib and Hashim, both 21, died instantly.” Never underestimate the power of the 7 in human lives. Things happen. I can’t prove it’s an objective thing, but my subjective experience more than suggests that things happen in life at multiples of 7.
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  2793.  @granted3203  Er, I’m just saying I’ve absolutely no idea if there’s a God or not, and if humanity were brutally honest with itself, neither does anybody else.
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  2794. To be fair, any thinking person would be silent during any anthem. It’s all an accident of birth, so to take ‘pride’ your mother plopped you out here and not there makes utterly no sense. As George Carlin said: “Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.”
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  2795. All about control of women.
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  2796.  @lowwfeh No, I’m not. Go to Grasse and tell me I’m wrong. 👍
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  2797. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (Azerbaijani Azeris v Armenians), religion (Islam v Christianity) and language (Azerbaijani v Armenian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  2798. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  2799. It’s funny; throughout this whole war we’ve always been told that this Azov Battalion was a bunch of neo-Nazis, and yet there isn’t a single pencil moustache amongst them! 🤓
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  2800. Well, if they ever do a British remake of Deliverance , here’s your possible extras.
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  2801.  @RADICALDESIGNOFFICIAL  That’s just semantics, m8. Every religion is manmade ideology, when all is said and done. How can it be anything else? All of it was created by men.
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  2802.  @thatguyoverthere5788  You need to get out more, in that case.
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  2803. Er, should it? Does that mean gay male porn should be treated as a hate crime against men and boys? 🤔
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  2804. You’re missing the fucking point. It’s not ok for anyone to deploy rockets that hit anyone. How difficult can this be?😳
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  2805. Don’t worry; Jesus never existed, so it’s all academic ultimately.
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  2806. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  2807.  @ww1593 Er, no it’s not. Madrid is south of Naples ffs! Hardly ‘Northern’ European. 🤦‍♂️
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  2808.  @chethemerc7841  In certain areas, I agree. But here’s the deal: if I were a woman would I want some random guy planting a smacker full on my lips without my consent? Answer: no. It’s that simple.👍
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  2809. I always find it funny that people talk of World War 3, as if the world hasn’t been constantly at war since the first Homo Sapiens walked this planet. We have constantly been embroiled in World War 1.
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  2810.  @randomina465  I’m talking about the ones that get through Iron Dome.
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  2811.  @The_Reality_Filter Yeah, you’re right. It’s only 6°C, the Earth is flat and Jesus is your ‘personal saviour’.👍 It’s called science, m8. You should try it sometime.
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  2812. Remind me again: who invaded whom? 🤔
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  2813. Seeing these scenes reminds me of that time I escaped North Africa and the Middle East. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me of all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco . 🏃‍♂️
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  2814.  @TheFirstCause  Yes, full of that ‘European heritage’ Europeans imposed at the barrel of a gun. Lovely stuff. Nice to give the natives a few choices. 👍
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  2815.  @luciobrazil007  Er, and I’m sure the Arabs and Africans said that every time they were flooded by random Europeans and their imposition of how things should be done.
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  2816.  @cal7168  Why are you believing in a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a key marker of your identity in the first place? You could have been born anywhere, so why are you claiming some kind of unearned ‘pride’ that your mother plopped you out here and not over there? Makes utterly no sense.
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  2817.  @somaliforeheadwarrior9721  *debased
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  2818. Yeah, I’m certainly warming to the idea of climate change. ☀️
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  2819. Well, you know what they say the road to Hell is paved with …
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  2820. All very admirable etc. What I’m vaguely concerned about is your slight virtue signalling tone and preachiness and “y’all shud live like me, else planet will die, bro” manner. Live your life. Perhaps even tell us about it and make recommendations. Thing is, though: we don’t all want to live like Gandhi.👍
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  2821. You cared enough to tell us you don’t care.
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  2822.  @barneymagee3285  Huh? 🤔 The UK is part of Europe last time I checked.
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  2823. @orinscrivello1976 Guessing.
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  2824.  @zonkbadonk3937 You conveniently ignored this bit: ‘If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to.’ 👍😉
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  2825.  @putler965  And did you check how many of the 10,000 dead Palestinians (and counting) ‘voted for Hamas’ given 52% of the Gazan population is under 21 and the last vote was in 2006?
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  2826. We all die. Why not go in a crush worshipping an invented invisible sky daddy? I can think of worse things.
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  2827. That’s why it’s called ‘climate change’; not ‘weather change’. Get educated.
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  2828.  @jamescook9125  Lol. And how many artefacts in all the museums in the world were ‘stolen’? We’d be here until eternity if you’re going down that road! 🤣
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  2829.  @aristides2005  You didn’t address my point: if the Elgin Marbles must be returned, then so does every single artefact in every museum on this planet, if you’re being consistent. Why do the Elgin Marbles get a pass here?
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  2830.  @KungFuWizardOfJesus That’ll be why there were warming periods just like this through Earth’s history. Here’s what I think: I think the planet is slightly warming; I also think this debate is far too politicised and I trust neither side; so, that leaves me thinking just wtf is going on here? 🤔 My current working assumption is that humans are contributing to a slight warming of the planet. In other words, it’s the middle ground. Never trust the extremes. That way madness lies.
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  2831. It’s mental the ship (without power etc.) smashed full-on into one of the pillars. 20 metres either way and a catastrophe may have been averted.
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  2832. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  2833. Putin: “Look, I’m your rightful father here to take you, my Slavic sons and daughters back to your mother Russia.” Ukrainians: “But we left home years ago. We became adults. We have our own lives now.”
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  2834. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. And, of course, those who lost their lives. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  2835. @2:05 Lovely to see Carlo Ancelotti taking precious time out from his busy schedule managing Real Madrid to tell us all we have “opened the gates to Hell”. Fair play to the lad. 👍
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  2836.  @isolationnationn  Wow! Someone just got triggered!🤣
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  2837. The thing about this war, and about any war on this infinitesimal dot in the Universe, is that given there are more suns in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on this planet, in cosmic terms, this all means precisely zero. 🌎
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  2838.  @sebastianguerre6868  It’s been agreed by about 98%. Good enough for me.👍
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  2839.  @friend8116  Is life worth it? If you had the choice never to exist or go through all this nonsense, which would you choose? I know which I would.
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  2840. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  2841. *debased
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  2842. The most depressing thing here is that after about 300,000 years of Homo sapiens, the “best” America can throw up is Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Almost makes you think there’s shenanigans going on and as a wise person once said: “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
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  2843. Or a round of beers.
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  2844. 🎵 I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning ⚡️, very, very frightening me (Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family Spare him his life from this monstrosity 🎶
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  2845.  @DarthNationalist  You seem to have deliberately ignored my last point for your own agenda, so here it is again: ‘They’? That’ll be Hamas then. Last time I checked about 750,000 Gazans were under 16. ‘They’ didn’t start this. Moreover, there hasn’t been a fair and free election in Gaza for 17 years.
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  2846. ByteDance: “We do not pass on sensitive user data to the Chinese government.” Chinese Government: “Keep telling them that. Now give us the data or avoid all flights of stairs and open windows for the rest of your life.”
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  2847. Poor fella was just looking for his Seoulmate but took a wrong turn. 🗺
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  2848.  @cdickenson82  Per capita.
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  2849.  @cdickenson82  And yet, that homicide rate is consistently 4x greater in US than in Europe. 🤔
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  2850. @Pierre In Yup.👍
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  2851. The irony of sending ‘love’ for something embodying hate. That will be lost on you, of course.
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  2852. Says the hypocritical dude watching the BBC. 🤦‍♂️
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  2853. $5. Ur mom.
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  2854. There’s evidence that there was prior settlement there before Ivan, Ivan. Nice try, though.👍
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  2855.  @ralphdavis9670  Lol. Someone disagrees with you and you send me to another planet! 🤣 K, fascist. 👍
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  2856. To all those stranded in Calais, make your way to the nearest beach and I’m sure one of the migrant dinghies will make some room for you. Unlike us, reluctant to make room for them.
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  2857. Er, did you never party at 16?😳
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  2858. I bet you’re fun at parties.🤨
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  2859. “Hello and welcome to The One Show”?
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  2860. I f*cking love Andrew Tate. ❤️ He makes me realise he’s the last person on this planet I’d wanna be. 🙏
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  2861. Let’s face it, this whole thing was always a Stormy in a D cup.
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  2862. You’ve just quite perfectly enunciated the eternal issue of ‘security’ versus ‘liberty’.👍
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  2863. Easy to say. Not true, however.
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  2864.  @hunter70558  So why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  2865. “Maybe this world is another planet's hell.” (Aldous Huxley)
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  2866.  @RalphdontGAF  Last time I checked 9/11 happened in America.
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  2867.  @yasuke4593  Yeah, but the Islam haters would say why don’t Muslims go to Muslim countries?
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  2868. ‘​​⁠Portrait of a man with a ginger beard.’ (Jan Stephen van Calcar) Check out the hairline! 😮
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  2869. No one cares about an overrated pub band that should’ve been put out to pasture in about 1997.👍
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  2870. Jeez. I must be cynical. But this lady ticks all the inordinately irritating American tics: cloying accent; check. Unnecessary rising intonation; check. Making up shit (‘normalcy’) for real words (‘normality’); check. Requisite unnecessary use of ‘like’ and super-annoying use of ‘super’ for ‘very’; check. Yes, I’m getting cynical.
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  2871. William and Kate: “Hello. We are the children of the British Empire, an empire that brutally enslaved your ancestors and we are here on a jolly around the Caribbean.” Belize: “Get to fuck, you bunch of chancers!”
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  2872.  @Pining_for_the_fjords  He does. But he has good leafage for wipeage.
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  2873.  @sigmaputin6888  Yeah, and like Putin is a smart, stable leader trying (but failing) to be leader of the Eastern world.
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  2874. He’s pushing up daisies. Doesn’t matter at this point. ⚰️
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  2875.  @3Dmaking  Well, given there’s about 1,000,000 Palestinians under 18 I’d file most of those under ‘innocent’. 👍
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  2876.  @AwkballOddward Lol. You don’t have to own a private plane to make use of a private plane! 🤣
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  2877. Prime Minister: “Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  2878. They tell me Tunisia’s the only true Arab democracy, but seeing this it seems it Tunisn’t.
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  2879.  @theageofgoddess  Not necessarily. I use adult porn but I’ve never abused a woman.
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  2880. This could Dent substantially the company’s profits.
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  2881.  @qwertychat Touché! 👍😂
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  2882. Lol. Whenever there’s death in the news you spam this comment every time.
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  2883. @ Lol.
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  2884. Er, but it’s not his home. He was born in England where he has lived his whole life; ergo, England is his home. 👍
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  2885. Malala is an absolute sweetheart. Weak men feel threatened by women like her. That is the issue here.
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  2886.  @rcas350pilot8  You need to ask yourself why so many other developed nations don’t have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, or at the very least amending it, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’? Furthermore, you need to ask why America has a homicide rate consistently about 4x that of comparable countries, including the UK (so your knife-crime potshot doesn’t work, in this case). I would suggest a massive part of the answer to this is ridiculously easy legal access to firearms in America.
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  2887. A bit hypocritical, though, eh? ‘Bardella’? That great old traditional French name! 👍
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  2888. He’s 56. Multiple of 7. Things, for good or ill, happen at multiples of 7. Xabi Alonso is 42. If the bookies haven’t already stopped taking bets, put your money on now on the basis of the numbers alone.
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  2889. And so the global 👓s turn to Israel for 5 minutes. Ah, the 🇮🇱-🇵🇸 conflict. Well, the first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  2890. There can be no doubt that if the Palestinians had even half the military support from elsewhere that Israel has had these past 75 years from the US, there is absolutely no way Netanyahu would’ve been as recklessly trigger happy as he has been.
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  2891. Blimey! That’s more than some humans I know! 🐢
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  2892. ‘Allah’? Who? I’m aware of an Allan, but this Allah escapes me. 🤔
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  2893. You say that like some wars are not ‘terrible’.
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  2894. @@angrykulla This is all just semantics. As we speak the vast majority of Taiwanese don’t want the dead hand of China ruling over them. If you’re going to play semantics, we could look at every territory on this planet and its history to establish who has a claim on it. In my world, Taiwan, right now, doesn’t seem to want China meddling. This is good enough for me.😉
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  2895.  @karlmax6031  No one consciously chooses their sexuality. You didn’t read my OP properly, either, for even if it were proven we did consciously choose our sexuality, I still see no issue with homosexuality. If we did choose it, we’d all be flip-flopping on a daily basis. Although, tbf, the bisexuals already have this one covered. Don’t knock bisexuality, though, it instantly doubles your chances of scoring on a Saturday night!
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  2896.  @BarhaTrading  Don’t care. If a woman has feelings for another woman and wants to sleep with her, or a man has feelings for another man and wants to sleep with him, I see absolutely zero problem with this.
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  2897. Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more!”
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  2898.  @Sam-fd5yj  Ok, so Russia needs to hand back all the Asian territory it stole between 1613-1917 if we’re playing that game. It works both ways.
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  2899.  @soggybadrongle Er, not sure what your point is, dude. I never supported the US-led invasion of Iraq. Nice try, though. 👍
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  2900. Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish all human beings were blind and we can get over this primitive fuckwittery contingent on the colour of someone’s skin.
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  2901. The Arab Spring of 2011 happened in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Can you guess what these countries have in common?
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  2902. Give me an original human -created Botticelli, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh or Picasso over this stuff any day of the week. 🖼
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  2903.  @DilbertWhitehead  You said most people don’t have an issue with where they’re from. They do. I’m here to tell you that if you’re black/Asian you get a far trickier ride than if you’re a white Pole or Ukrainian. And the clear marker of that difference is skin colour. So stop with yer ‘straw man’ crap. This is just obvious.
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  2904.  @hermonberhe1889  Source?
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  2905.  @keibohow69  Indeed. Not necessarily conflict in terms of war, but certainly internal conflict; without it, we don’t grow. Which do you choose: Attraction or repulsion, reason or energy, love or hate?😉
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  2906.  @charlesK12960 That is your opinion. Of course, I disagree. But that’s what we are free to do in a civilised society. 👍
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  2907.  @originaldelta  I think you missed my point. In the UK they don’t need armed police, in the main, as they don’t allow any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry to legally buy a gun like they are buying a bar of candy. 🍭
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  2908.  @benbow7  Yes. This is well known. Your point is?
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  2909. The hypocrisy of those who desire to ban ‘vulgar’ books, whilst they themselves uphold the most ‘vulgar’ book of all, the Bible. I’m no atheist, but when it comes to the Old Testament God, the putative God of Christians, Jews and Muslims, it’s hard to imagine a nastier piece of work within a piece of work, as it were. Richard Dawkins nailed him exquisitely: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. In terms of ‘vulgarity’ there is no book that comes close, in my opinion.
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  2910. Well, this much is Korea: These subway bosses clearly have no Seoul.
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  2911. 80 year old Sleepy Joe’s doing his own stunts now. A real fall guy. 4 more years, folks!
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  2912.  @whitesun264  Nah, mate. Right back to the beginning of modern life as we know it, Jim.😉
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  2913. Finland gave Scotland saunas; Scotland gave Finland Irn Bru and deep-fried Mars bars!
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  2914.  @adrianlouw2499  But it’s not being ‘burned down’; aside from the unfortunate situation with Notre-Dame.
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  2915.  @mirandaal4541  Exactly. 👍 This is all about respecting others’ personal boundaries, and it’s quite clear that the vast majority of people don’t want unsolicited kisses on the mouth from randoms.
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  2916. Pmsl.
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  2917. Yep. It’s all a very messy, murky business this Ukrainian-Russian debacle. On the bright side, if they need someone to play Darya in any future biopics, can I recommend Billie Piper? As for Dugin himself; well, if Julian Assange is available …😳
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  2918.  @GothAtheist  Sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  2919. I’ve found her Waddle! 🙋‍♂️ He’s called ‘Chris’ and is currently residing in Newcastle. 🐧
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  2920.  @olliesmusic2586 Lol.🤣 That kinda logic will send pure virginal Julia into a tizzy! Don’t confuse the bint, m8.👍
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  2921. Fair point. However, never mind being bilingual, you can’t beat being bisexual: it instantly doubles your chances of scoring on a Saturday night! 👍
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  2922. He’s human. Has his faults like every other human. Taking us to the brink of nuclear conflagration with heated talk about NATO getting involved doesn’t help matters.
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  2923.  @GIBBO4182  Yeah, but La Liga is somewhat of a Mickey Mouse league where it’s always 2 teams who win. Very occasionally 3. Think on, son. 🐭
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  2924. @0:48 Nice to see Wayne Rooney getting a bit of extra work. Fair play.👍
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  2925. Day 448 of the 10-day “Special Military Operation”. One day, Putin will grasp the concept of a “day”. And the day after that, he will grasp the concept of a “Special Military Operation“!🤣
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  2926.  @alexisidouissaaden4969  Yes, “risk their life in a boat” after passing through a dozen safe countries. Uh huh. That makes sense.
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  2927.  @claussebihe8015  No, they are not all “asylum seekers”. Nice try, though.👍
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  2928.  @4thllz  Er, I think you’ll find the women acting as surrogate mothers consent to do so. Nice try, though.👍
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  2929.  @Britlurker  Why not? 🤔
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  2930.  @tastypymp1287  Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭 👈My argument. Where’s yours? 🤔🤡
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  2931. Don’t be ridiculous, sweetheart. The proportion of homosexuality is consistent throughout the world. Africa has the same proportion of gays as anywhere else.
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  2932. That’s easy: the parents! Hell, I recall going to watch a soccer match involving Japan a few years back, and not only did these Japanese clean up their own mess, but they made it their mission to clean up the mess of everyone else, too!
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  2933.  @bretnoecker758  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  2934.  @tonytay4320  After being told it was a COLD GUN. <- - -
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  2935. @0:05 Jesus. They sacked Henry Cavill for this ?! ‘DC Comics’ has just taken on a whole new meaning: Donald Chump Comics!🤣
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  2936. Putin’s doing no doubt. If this had been in Myanmar in the rainy season and the poor fella had been in a bar during the day and had been dressed in brown the headline might have been: “Maroon Tycoon In Saloon Dies In Afternoon Monsoon Typhoon In Rangoon.”
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  2937.  @swabby913  Having lived in the US and the UK, I feel 10x safer in the UK. Just sayin’! 🤠
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  2938. Just a variation of Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou
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  2939. @0:12 Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
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  2940.  @BristolBerg  How do you know he misspelled it? You have no idea. On face value, it looks rather like a pun! Ta da! 🎉
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  2941. That is the question I don’t give a sh*t about.
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  2942. Judging by this, Netanyahu did more than just ‘coddle’ Putin. Looks like after the opera he may have coddled him, cuddled him and then ridden him bareback! 🐴
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  2943.  @pparalaxx3014  If Mexico democratically wants to join Russia, then so be it. A majority in Ukraine are looking west, not north, and Putin needs to realise this.
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  2944. People too often conflate the SNP with Scottish independence and vice-versa. The SNP just happens to be the political party vehicle carrying the hopes of independence, but if the SNP vanished tomorrow there would still be a steady 40-50% support for Scottish independence and another party would emerge to fill the void vacated by the SNP.
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  2945. If it were made a non-negotiable principle that every declarer of a war had to serve in the frontline of that war, the incidence of war would rather dramatically decrease, one suspects.
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  2946. Call me a pacifist but ranging chimes is infinitely preferable to changing regimes.
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  2947.  @stevenvitali7404  Nah, in this case with the moon, I personally just think it’s coincidence.👍
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  2948. These two men are perhaps the most dangerous men in the world, as we speak.
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  2949. You know, when I look around at the mess we humans create, I come round more and more to Aldous Huxley’s affirmation that just “maybe this planet is another’s hell.”
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  2950. BREAKING NEWS: Vladimir Putin announces Russia wants to build a moon base The idea is that Russian astronauts will live there permanently. When the astronauts were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty wasteland, they said: "No. That's why we want go to the moon."
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  2951. “Completely overwritten”: I feel much the same way about War & Peace.
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  2952.  @christianwolf68  Nah, it doesn’t work like that, son. I’m educated. I still spot a creepy (“thou shalt believe in my schtick, or else”) smugness in Hanks. You need to cope better with an opinion you can’t cope with. Not coping with another’s opinion is a dangerous sign. 👍😉
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  2953. It’s clear where Ronan got his pretty-boy looks from; and it wasn’t Woody!🤓🤣 In fact, if you didn’t tell me who his dad was, my instant thought would be Brad Pitt!
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  2954.  @turkiyebuyukbirulke3602  4 days then. What’s a day between friends? The point is, they clearly planned to take Kiev in days. Fact.
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  2955. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  2956. Everyone: famous, not famous, rich or poor should have a right to total privacy when it comes to medical details. What’s perplexing me is how so many, including TalkTV (and this fella here 7:02), are persisting with the pretence that that was Kate at Windsor Farm Shop. I’m not a betting man, but I’d bet my mortgage that it was a lookalike.
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  2957. Lol. Someone’s looking for a pin and a few likes! 👍😂
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  2958. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  2959. Remember: whatever Bozo says, the opposite is true.
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  2960.  @jo2832  I repeat yet, yet again: I see no victims here. 😝
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  2961. *5 horses Nice try, though.👍
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  2962. She’s apparently writing a remake of Heidi; Hidey!
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  2963. No! Jesus preserve us from the over-enthusiastic, inane clap-fests of the Yanks, who would whoop at the opening of an envelope. No.
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  2964. That was the whole point! Part of the rough ‘n’ ready ‘roguish charm’. Without the ‘sloppiness’, Bozo would be an absolute nobody. Only slightly less than what he already is, admittedly.
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  2965. Triggered, much?
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  2966. The SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 down the sofa. To paraphrase the great Oscar: to lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  2967. Bot.
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  2968. Free Willy.
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  2969.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  For the 10,000,001th time, Jimbo! Ffs man, put another record on the needle.
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  2970. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  2971. Tbh, I wouldn’t even give the fella a lying down ovation!
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  2972. Underrated comment.
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  2973. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  2974. @1:02 Lovely to see Sue Perkins doing her bit for the Chinese cause. Fair play.👍
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  2975.  @suzyrottencrotch5132  Yeah, but to be fair, NATO could flatten the whole of Russia in a day if it really wanted to.
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  2976. @0:28 Never mind sending EasyJet in. In this case, they should send in that well-known Irish airline, Aer Liftus. ☘️
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  2977. 0:05 The last time I saw an embrace as fake as that, was when Judas leant in for a kiss with Jesus.😳
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  2978. Better than some guys I can think of, if not exactly perfect.
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  2979. Russian plan 1: Take Kiev (Lol😆) Russian plan 2: Take Donbas (Lmao🤣) Russian plan 3: Hold Moscow (Pmsl 😂)
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  2980. Putin is 70, a multiple of 7, and given that human lives go in cycles of 7, both physically and metaphysically, this is a critical moment for the old tart. I predict a topple before much longer.
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  2981. They can ban my hosepipe but if they come for my ganja pipe, there’ll be trouble.
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  2982. The only ‘representative’ that matters is Netanyahu. Tel Aviv born and bred.👍
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  2983. As they would say in Scotland: this Government appears to care hee-haw about the nee-naws. 🚑
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  2984.  @ToiChutGongWu  Was this your PhD topic? 🤓
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  2985. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  2986. I hate it when moronic human beings flatten beautiful old towns.
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  2987. This is to do with multiples of 7. She’s in her 84th year and about to pass the baton to a fella in his 56th year. Never underestimate the power of the 7 to shape our lives. Things happen. For good or bad.
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  2988. ‘Not at significant risk of anything other than feeling miserable.’ - Business as usual for us Brits then!
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  2989.  @codswallop164 Projecting again, codswallop? Has your own hard-drive been checked recently, darling? 👍😉
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  2990. He’s interim. I give him 6 months. Forbes will be next. She might last a bit longer, but my feeling is the SNP are hobbling along to their possible death, at this point.
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  2991. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  2992. On this day in 1945 the Potsdam Conference began and the heads of the US, the UK, and USSR met in Potsdam to discuss the terms of the German and Japanese surrenders, and to make post-war plans. I’m beginning to smell a possible upcoming Perm Conference as Ukraine discusses the terms of the Russian surrender, which include immediate removal from all Ukrainian territory.
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  2993. Lol. @0:23 I love how he calls it ‘amazing footage’ when an object which doesn’t even emit its own light at precisely 384,400km away is outshining this thing by about 10,000 to 1! 🌝
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  2994. 🎶 “I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey) Well I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey)” 🎵
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  2995. I bless the brains down in Africa.
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  2996. This is scary, and I’m not talking about COVID. Shanghai’s lockdown had more than the whiff of a kind of ‘test-event’ to see just how much we are prepared to accept in the name of ‘COVID security’. This COVID thing clearly exists, but the overreaction in China smells mighty sinister, even considering the repressive regime it’s occurring under. I imagine if open, relatively free liberal democracies attempted this kind of overkill there’d be resistance to the point of civil unrest.
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  2997. @Pim Max Ukrainian bot.
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  2998. The Penny drops … out.
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  2999. We have sheep pox, horse pox, fowl pox, cow pox, goat pox, swine pox, camel pox, raccoon pox, skunk pox, monkey pox … but the greatest pox on this planet has clearly been human.🤧
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  3000.  @mariethereseofthespirits  I think he was being ironic. 🤐
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  3001.  @Muirton66  Celtic FC is also the only Scottish club in history to reach 2 European Cup Finals, and not only that, actually win one! I think this trumps anything any other Scottish club has ever done.😉
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  3002. Triggered much.
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  3003. ‘Sevco’? Wasn’t he a runner?
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  3004. The authorities need to look into this.
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  3005. @1:46 Reporter going commando when it comes to the wearing of life-jackets. Respect. ✊
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  3006. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  3007. Yeah, but for a country wholly above the 50th parallel it’s newsworthy. Think about this, before making smart-alec comments.
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  3008.  Usb Plus  AS IS TYPING CRAP WITH CAPS LOCK ON FOR NO APPARENT REASON.
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  3009. When Sky talked of ‘bleak evacuation points’ I thought they were talking about my @rse after a plate of prunes and custard! 💨
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  3010. Boris Johnson constantly resembles a hedge that’s been pulled through a hedge backwards.
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  3011.  War In Ukraine.  Whatever. Either way, the Russian army invaded and killed a few. Let’s not split crosshairs here.
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  3012. This is really a question of priorities. People use the argument that France shouldn’t have given so much aid to Ukraine, but to date that has been about $300 million - a drop in the ocean, when compared to the billions pensions cost per year. The other thing to factor in here is that France is 3rd in a list of OECD countries in terms of the proportion of its GDP its pensions take up at 14%. For comparison, the UK is 5%. Pushing back the retirement age by two years and extending the pay-in period would yield an additional 17.7 billion euros ($19.0 billion) in annual pension contributions, allowing the system to break even by 2027. Economically, Macron’s measure makes sense, but the way it has been done is awful and undemocratic, and the only reason he bypassed a vote was he knew it would be voted down. After Denmark, France is the second highest taxed country in Europe, but my own proposal would be to raise the tax threshold for the top band earners in France, and let the middle and lower income workers retire at 62 after a life of work. After all, the rich can retire at any point they want! The less rich don’t have the luxury of that choice.
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  3013. Yeah, but that’s not always a wise policy. For example, my dad did that and that’s why they threw him out of the Fire Brigade.
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  3014. In Sunak we don’t trust.
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  3015. This whole war is just another example of what happens when human beings place their core identity in a random accident of birth.
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  3016. For a guy who is worth about £15 billion, he looks about worth 2p.
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  3017. They are in their 40s! If that’s ‘old’ then I’m a fossil!
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  3018. Nah. Pass. Coronations were never up my street.
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  3019.  @SpaceRanger187  Cars aren’t specifically made to maim and kill things; big difference.
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  3020. Breaking News: Larry the cat has been appointed Deputy Purreign Secretary. 🐱
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  3021. Basically, the storyline of Local Hero all over again. Forsyth’s second best movie after the wonderful Gregory’s Girl .
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  3022.  @joshuarubin3684  I know. I was just making the point that I don’t think the cop was being antisemitic.
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  3023. Whenever I see these AI models, their high creepiness is always there and they always have that dead-eyed look Yul Brynner has in Westworld; and we all know what happened there! 🤠
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  3024. By all accounts, Andy’s been paying a bit to these same victims.😉Hush-hush.
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  3025. Lol. Burley’s as common as muck.
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  3026. Terms & conditions, innit.
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  3027. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, women don’t commit these heinous crimes?
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  3028. She’s standing in front of a zebra crossing, but where Boris is concerned she should’ve been wearing a leopard-skin coat. These spots never change.
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  3029. As a world citizen, I blame everyone who claims national ‘citizenry’ on a random, arbitrary accident of birth.
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  3030. Because they can.
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  3031. Goody. Verity and Torquil will be distracted for a few days and not be gluing themselves to the M25.
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  3032.  @20alphabet  Does he? How so?
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  3033. I’ve lived in southern France, Italy and Spain and 35°C was considered a ‘hot summer’s day’ back then. When it got to 39°C/40°C it was talked about. 45°C/46°C is certainly very unusual. I say that as someone who believes in global warming (the data is incontrovertible) but is not fully sure just how much human activity is complicit in this warming.
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  3034. Ukraine should be doing more of this. Not purposefully targeting civilians but hitting spaces in Russia which will plant a few seeds of doubt in the Russian populace vis-a-vis their apparent unswerving (mainly) support for the Russian cause. After all, why shouldn’t Ukraine be allowed to directly hit Moscow? Russia has been directly hitting Kyiv since day 1 of this war. What’s always been a bit mystifying in this conflict is how Putin/Russia get all hoity toity when they experience a direct hit on their land, yet they are seemingly allowed to hit Ukraine with impunity. Last time I checked, in a boxing match both fighters are allowed to throw punches.
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  3035. Old Ernest has a bit of a crush on our Michelle. Down boy!
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  3036.  @ThatCarGuy1983  *asterisk
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  3037. Proud of an accident of birth? Really? How primitive.
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  3038. Wonderful to see Nicholas Witchell getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Impressive Scots accent, too! Fair play.👍
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  3039. He’s smaller than I thought.
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  3040. @@samuelarcher9088 🤣 👏
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  3041. Wise words. I would argue that listening, certainly in the early stages of language learning, is paramount; more important than reading. Reading has to be done in order to consolidate but, I would argue, that one can become conversationally fluent in a foreign language without 📖 reading a single word! After all, by age of 5 almost every human is fluently speaking their birth language to a competent standard and yet most are not ‘fluent’ readers at this point. As for the grammatical finer points; I’d recommend leaving all that business until the end.
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  3042. Thought: if Switzerland can be neutral then why can’t the rest of us be neutral? Would save a whole lot of bother.🇨🇭
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  3043. Humans. 👽
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  3044.  @nothereandthereanywhere  Except I didn’t. Just sayin’!
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  3045. I’m pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country and obviously pro accepting genuine asylum seekers/refugees. However, the chaos we have seen these past 5 years (at least) whereby millions of (mainly economic) migrants try to essentially ‘break into’ Europe is unacceptable to the vast majority of Europeans. If the powers that be don’t get a proper grip of this issue, it’s no exaggeration to say that a substantial proportion of Europeans will be not just voting for vaguely right of centre parties, but fully right of centre parties.
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  3046.  @garycooper9207 Methinks your ‘sarcasm detector’ may need re-setting.👍
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  3047.  @stevebradnam8053  That was the average. Some poor sods are on £1.80 p/h. I literally got more than that for doing a paper round back in 1982!
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  3048. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid How about we just have human beings like you and me who would raise kids with the idea that stabbing another human being is not a good idea. 👍
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  3049. Translation: ‘They disagree with me.’
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  3050.  @irynadobenka5454  I understand that. I was just making the point that if one looks at a map, one can clearly see how NATO has crept right up to Russia’s borders in the past 30 years, that’s all. I’m not excusing what he’s doing. Far from it. Just trying to understand it.
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  3051.  @VHS-CINEMA  Well, that’s the debate to be had and that is one opinion. I was just pointing out that Israel is defending itself; the Nazis were aggressing.
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  3052. Asking me to apologise for something my ancestors did, is a bit like asking me to apologise to the families of the victims of my mass-murdering grandfather. Both had nothing to do with me!
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  3053. Did I miss a meeting? Since when was it anyone else’s business what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to? 🤔
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  3054. No. But I would put Elon Musk’s brain in a chip if they asked.
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  3055. I generally find, as a rule, the incoming foreigners are generally much better educated and in a much better place to make a positive contribution to the UK than a large tranche of the natives, and weirdly, they often have much better spoken English!
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  3056. “UK denistry (sic) is now ‘disaster’”; as is UK spelling!😳
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  3057. Call me old-fashioned, but it’s one of my guiding principles never to trust anyone with a self-created halo. 😇
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  3058. @3:00 This is lovely to see. It’s long before time Timmy Mallett had his say on Harry. 👍
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  3059. Oi! Zammo, give us yer dinner money or yer head is going down that toilet, son. (Norman ‘Gripper’ Stebson) One for the teenagers, there! 👍
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  3060. Cringe.
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  3061. Lol. Lawless by name, lawless by nature? 😂
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  3062.  @martynblackburn9632 Nah. Too easy, m8. If you arrogantly pooh-pooh this stuff it will return to hit you even harder down the line.👍
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  3063. Rayner and Starmer were just testing their eyesight after a few beers with Dominic Cummings in Durham.
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  3064. @@user-rk6xc2fz3b What? Wtf are you on about? I’m aware of dozens of Muslims of several different races. You need a better researcher.👍 I’m not scared of anything, m8. I have zero issue with someone else’s skin colour. My only issue is with what I consider bad ideas. One final point: I don’t think England should be ‘white and Christian’. It could be you who thinks England should be ‘white and Christian’ and you’re just projecting. 😉
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  3065.  @nakedenby  “When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman ... then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.” (JK Rowling) She’s not wrong. 👍
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  3066. 0:50 Lol. That has to be the worst case of blurring I’ve ever seen! 🤣
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  3067. Jeez. This Lois lady has had more work done than the M1! Those lips could double as my sink plunger!
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  3068. Personally, I’m just generally meh about Schofield (he comes across as smug, entitled and arrogant), but it seems his only real “crime” here is sharing the genes of a paedo. No particular issue with the younger guy thing if he was legal and it was consensual. Those who bang on about his “betrayal” of his wife, always seem to totally ignore the fact that he and his wife are best of friends to this day and his daughters appear to have no issue. From Willoughby’s point of view, I suppose I can kind of get it: in a prime-time telly partnership with the brother of a convicted kiddy-fiddler isn’t the best of looks for a media person, and I can imagine her, perfectly understandably, wanting to professionally (perhaps personally, too) distance herself from him. That said, the bottom line for me is that Schofield himself has essentially committed no crime and the witch-hunt surrounding him baffles me somewhat.
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  3069. The free-speech thing has always been clear and simple for me: if you’re not inciting violence everything else is fair game. Those who gainsay this are invariably holy rollers or monomaniacal single-issue ideologists, in my experience.
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  3070. Make it the “Order of the Garter and Suspenders” and I might be interested.
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  3071. “We now know that, unless some drastic change happens, large parts of many of our cities will, by the beginning of the next century, be occupied by a population which has nothing in common with the people of this country.” (Enoch Powell - speaking on the Dick Cavell show in 1971) Powell saw it coming over 50 years out. Essential viewing: https://youtu.be/L7Zfvcb3mWI?si=5YLSXB3PXeBRgcMe
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  3072. Lol. You tragic drama queen!🤣
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  3073. Coronations aren’t up my street.
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  3074. In this debate, sex and gender are consistently conflated. If you’re male you have the xy chromosome and if you’re female you have the xx. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is xx male syndrome. Gender, however, is a socially-determined free for all, and is essentially down to feelings: you can be biologically male and identify as (or feel) “female” and vice-versa, but you cannot actually biologically flip from one to the other. These latter cases of self-identified gender I have no issue with and as long as you’re harming no one, then identify however you want. I don’t care. For me, where the issue arises is specifically when biological males seek to be accepted into biological female categories, and thereby inveigle themselves into female spaces, whether physical public spaces or spaces solely the preserve of females, such as female sports categories. This latter, for me, is as unfair as allowing an adult football team to play in an under-14s league. If a biological male person wants to identify as “female”, I personally have no problem with it; and if a biological female wants me to recognise them as “male”, again, I have no personal issue with this. It’s a free country after all and live and let live. It's when these same people (particularly trans women) claim patently unfair rights, as in Scotland recently, to invade the spaces that should be solely the preserve of biological females that my hackles are raised.
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  3075.  @Makaveli7day1980  Er, wot? You believe in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy! Count me out. At least I’m not brainwashed and can think for myself. 👍
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  3076. Doesn’t surprise me. Watching Truss slink into the Commons the other day, looking like she’d been on a 10-day bender, and then manically sitting on the front bench, grinning, gurning, eyes a spinning … well, ‘sleeper’ agents seem rather apt. 😴
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  3077. Wouldn’t try her for ‘hate speech’. Would just politely suggest man/man, woman/woman have just as much entitlement to get married before the law as man/woman. Genuinely never got why people have an issue with homosexuality. Makes no sense. It’s no threat to you or anyone. You can’t catch it. Just live and let live. 👍
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  3078. "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." (PG Wodehouse) PG Wodehouse wrote this for Neil Oliver! 🤣
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  3079.  @johnmacaroni105  Mr Faulding's team spent three days scouring a stretch of water close to where Nicola’s phone was discovered on a bench. This body today was found a mile from the bench. Mr Faulding told us his sonar will probably start from the weir downwards "and identify any possible targets. It can generally cover about 10 miles of river a day “ . 3 days’ search. 10 miles a day possible. You do the maths.
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  3080. No inherent problem with Lineker tweeting what he wants. He’s not presenting news/current affairs and is a freelancer. If we really uphold freedom of speech, Lineker should be free to say what he wishes. The fact I disagree with much of what he says is neither here nor there.
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  3081. Nice to see Camilla and Charlie looking so well in the thumbnail. 👍
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  3082. This gets so boring how often GB News bores on about PC wokeness. When I was younger, I recall being at loads of good-natured events (festivals; protests; marches etc) where the cops quite often joined in with an impromptu dance or two. Of course, the real reason Martin and his GB cronies are so incensed by this is quite simply because they are standing on the other side of the political fence from Pride; that, and a continual barely-concealed disdain for homosexuality and by extension, homosexuals, as witnessed by the bizarre witch-hunt of Schofield these past few weeks; a man for whom I have no particular liking, but also a man who has committed precisely zero crime. One final thing: the double-standards and rank hypocrisy of GB News has been apparent from day 1: they bang on endlessly about “biased” MSM, and yet, they are the most biased news channel of the lot with their constant boring anti-woke agenda.
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  3083. ‘Eco driven’?! I think Corden’s a little more ‘eGo driven’ than eco driven.
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  3084. He never had any ‘relevance’ in the first place.
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  3085. “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.” (PG Wodehouse) These words were written for ole Neil!🤣
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  3086. To be fair, this is not on, but the other guy (not Kearse) is right here: there will be a minuscule number of men abusing the system like this by transitioning to ‘women’. The vast majority of trans people (men to women) in my experience, genuinely do it for honest reasons and not as some way to inveigle themselves into female spaces. All this said, I’m of the opinion that you can’t change your sex, only gender. Sex is biology and unalterable; gender is socially constructed and infinitely malleable.
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  3087. They’re all manmade bollocks, though.
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  3088. Best is operating at the base level. His ‘fear’ is “fear of losing everything”; in other words, his ‘material wealth’. There are 3 levels. Those who focus on the trappings of material existence. Those who focus on the life of the mind. Those who focus on the life of the spirit. Primitive people are operating at level 1 only (Best). More evolved people have recognised that material goods are meaningless. And the most evolved people have integrated the body (material), mind (intellect) and spirit (soul) into a coherent whole. Best is essentially a Leicester Andrew Tate without that latter twat’s deep obnoxiousness.
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  3089. White by the looks of the thumbnail.
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  3090.  @viper_fan  No. But they’re a key sign of the infantilisation of our culture.
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  3091. Lol. Martin Branning still working for GB News when he asked for others to be cancelled before the facts were established. Rules for thee but not for me. 👌
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  3092.  @chkldstgee2433 So, why are they here? I come to GBNews for actual news that is relevant to my life; not blah, blah, blah about a meaningless non-entity couple.
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  3093. Ironically, for a bloke who likes swishing his hair hither and thither, Neil Oliver constantly has the look of a fella who has literally never let his hair down in his whole puff! He is the living incarnation of PG Wodehouse’s observation on the Caledonians: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  3094. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  3095. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  3096. Royaume-Uni: Nil points.
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  3097.  @asmrpillow457  Not dumb at all. Do you not realise that kissing is perhaps the most intimate act for a woman? Kissing a relative stranger on the lips is just odd behaviour. Entitled behaviour, too, in this case.
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  3098.  @liamhorn1150  Yes, that’s why I said we don’t arm ‘most’ of our police.😉
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  3099. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. And, of course, those who lost their lives. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  3100. No.
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  3101.  @timonsolus  I agree. But the basic point is this: if you’re colonised against your will, this is bound to cause issues in the long run. Like now, with NI.
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  3102. 3,000 years ago? Hardly. In 1978 when Argentina hosted the World Cup it was a brutal dictatorship murdering thousands. In 1966 when England was the host, homosexuality was illegal. You need to get with the gig. Infantino is just pointing out the double-standards hypocrisy. Doing that doesn’t make Qatar ‘right’.
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  3103.  @-GS-  Dude thinks you can’t be British and non-white, yet dude is apparently African and non-black. His hypocrisy is off the charts at this point.
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  3104.  @SandyWolf- Yes. But they have had about 4 years to consider this stuff. 🤦‍♂️
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  3105.  @seabiscuit726142  I wasn’t praising Putin. They’re all as bad as each other. I was just pointing out the double-standards hypocrisy. You need better close-reading skills.
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  3106. ‘Ecuador cracks down on cartels …’ See what they did there.
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  3107. @@BornaFreshBornaGain Lol. That could be because Europeans imposed their ways down the barrel of a gun. 😉
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  3108. Lol. Are you aware what human beings have done in the name of ‘God’ and ‘the Bible’?!?!🤣😂😅
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  3109. This is, quite frankly, utterly outrageous! At this point, to avoid hurting the feelings and sensibilities of others, it’s way beyond time Manchester was renamed ‘Nonbinarygenderneutralchester’.
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  3110. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s 1st daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s 2nd daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s son: “Really, dad? I mean, really?”
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  3111.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Um, nice try. While it is true that a number of states have recognized Palestine as a state, legally it is still not considered one. Individual states' recognition of Palestine, does not amount to statehood. 👍
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  3112. Posted for the 1,000,000,675,234th time. 🥱
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  3113.  @lewilewis3944 ​​⁠The 33% of those French people who voted for NR. This really isn’t that difficult. I’m aware of many people who are sick of uncontrolled mass immigration. Ordinary people.
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  3114. Michael Fabricant’s ‘rug’?
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  3115. @0:32 100,000!? And these are only the ones to be released, so presumably he wrote even more! Assuming these were written over the course of about a year, that makes about 275 WhatsApp messages a day! And that’s only WhatsApp! Wtf did people actually do before social media?
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  3116. Yep! It’s definitely a winter of discontent in the UK. Good times for outdoor gear stores though: now is the winter of their discount tents! 🏕
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  3117. Lol. For the first time in 3 years this comment you constantly post actually is relevant today! 🤣
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  3118.  @TheJewishAzovMember  Don’t patronise me, son. You have no idea who I am or what I’ve been through, so when you resort to that kinda stuff I know you have no real argument.👍😉
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  3119. Makes a decent cup of char. 🫖 ☕️
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  3120. Let’s face it: we are all born a rock spinning at 1,000mph around a nuclear furnace 93,000 million miles away and, as far as it seems, it’s random, we’re just here and we might not be here at any point. Given this knowledge, I’m amazed to meet people who don’t have mental health problems.
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  3121. @1:33 “Even the snowploughs are getting stuck!” Yes, but can we finally establish once and for all how the snowplough driver gets to work in the first place? ⛄️
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  3122.  @davidkavanagh189  Absolutely, sweetheart. 👍 It’s beyond me how a parent can take their 13 year old child with a severe allergy to dairy to a coffee shop where dairy is essentially involved in everything they do and not expect a bad outcome if you are not being vigilant about absolutely everything. And particularly if you don’t bring an EpiPen. 🤷‍♂️ If my 13 year old were dairy-intolerant and I took her to a cafe, the first thing I would do is make sure she had her EpiPen.
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  3123. Apparently, a leaked internal memo has proposed that Serco undergo an urgent radical rebranding. The new mooted name is ‘Sirgo’.
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  3124. 🥅 Yeah, Southgate’s team Pickford the World Cup looks decent. Wilson see. England should Grealish the chance to Mount a Sterling effort for the trophy. Qatar can be a Dier place though, where they throw Stones at you for getting Kaned on narcotics and being a little Trippier than usual, an unsteady Walker. Alcohol is illeGal. Llagher is frowned upon. Maguire they like this? Religion. Follow the religious Coady the country. This all rings a Bellingham sure. Shaw, it seems Maddison against Allah in Qatar, but some of us believe in the Pope. We like a tipple, drinking some dRamsdales and other liquid Phillips, then getting some Foden. As to the football, let’s hope England aren’t too Rashford the victory. They need to rAlexander-Arnold on to their patience and not be rushed for quick results in a tRice. By the end of it all, Southgate will be hoping he’s not for the Saka. ⚽️
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  3125.  @RabidBogling  No. Just an acknowledgment that British descendants should not be in Ireland. Now, if the democratic will of the majority on that island vote at some point for unification, then so be it. In my opinion, these planted unionists have nothing to complain about. I’m not suggesting they be forced out.
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  3126.  @KeithRingo  You’re missing my point, which is this: British descendants should not be there in the first place, unless you’re an upholder of aggressive colonisation without the consent of the colonised, which was the case with the Irish Plantations.
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  3127. Tbh, this could just be a Stormy in a double D cup. ☕️
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  3128.  @Areflection4  I’d rather live in Britain, for all its faults, than the brutal non-democracies littering Africa right now.
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  3129.  @keifer7813  ⁠​​⁠​​⁠ 🥱 Just because you personally find something distasteful doesn’t make it wrong. But that’s not the point. The point is: It’s an eternal mystery why what 2 consenting adults get up to is anyone else’s business.
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  3130. 1) Yes. Yes. Dunno. 2) No. Ya lost me in that one. 3) No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Dunno. 4) Dunno. Could be. Perhaps. 5) Might be. 6) Dunno. Perhaps. Maybe. Yes. No. Definitely not. 7) Yes. No. Yes. Maybe. No. Yes. Dunno. Uh huh. Yes. No. No. Nah. Yay! 8) Any more questions? 😳
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  3131.  @lunatigannie8860  If you couldn’t be bothered to read past 1st line (sic) of my “evil essay”, how do you know it was an evil essay? 🤔
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  3132.  @jrbailey3208 Just for the record: just because you support abortion rights for women doesn’t necessarily make you ‘woke’. That’s just lazy and unsubstantiated argumentation. You’re just stating something without knowing the background of the person supporting pro-choice for women.
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  3133. @0:07 What’s quite satisfying here is when an object which doesn’t even emit its own light at 384,400km away is outshining this thing, that looks like a match being struck, by about 10,000 to 1! 🌝 Suddenly, human beings seem very small.
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  3134. Go and live there then, and see if you like it then.👍
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  3135. Never got the appeal of fake porn. Don’t get it. You might as well have decaffeinated coffee or a non-alcohol beer. To me, makes no sense. Does nothing for me. Watching a digitally altered image is, ultimately, no more arousing than watching Tom & Jerry!
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  3136.  @kalui96  Not quite valid: a gun is specifically designed to maim and kill; that is its sole purpose. A car isn’t.
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  3137.  @shelleyb9848  Don’t argue with Jimbo, Shelley; he epitomises the wise saw one of your greatest people came out with: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” 😉
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  3138.  @hrvatskinoahid1048  Sorry, I nodded off at ‘The authenticity of Moses’ … 🥱
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  3139. I’ll believe it when I see it. Last time I checked, a good proportion of Labour MPs are quite content with open borders. That’s what we’re voting in with Starmer. Feels like it’s planned. See Klaus and his bug-eating friends! 🐛 🐜 🕷 🐞 🦗
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  3140. This whole debacle just once again proves what happens when human beings place their core identity in a random accident of birth. We are still a very very primitive species, alas.
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  3141.  @auldflyer  My, my. Aren’t you triggered by the ‘other’. On that basis, your country perhaps shouldn’t have messed in Pakistan/India’s business in the first place! Just a suggestion.😉
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  3142.  @Shubel-mk4ly  “We”. That one word betrayed you, mate. Us and them. And what’s the key difference? The same invisible sky daddy prayed to in a slightly different way.
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  3143.  @lunaforjustice Of course he ‘forgot’ it: dude’s called ‘Kaufmann’! 👍😉
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  3144. At this point they really should consider updating the terms here. To be more inclusive, and avoid insulting women and non-binary people, ‘manslaughter’ should become ‘genderneutralpersonslaughter’.
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  3145.  @Noel-ji8nm  Uh huh. And that’s why he grabbed her head and pulled her in for the kiss. Gotcha. 👍
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  3146.  @Noel-ji8nm  Yeah, but not full on the lips. I lived in Spain for a year, and they weren’t “customarily” greeting each other with liplock. And they definitely weren’t doing this when it was relative strangers involved. Nice try though, Noely.👍 An early Merry Christmas, btw. 🎄
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  3147.  @brelshar4968  No I won’t, because I’m not on any side.
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  3148. ‘Rebels’ from Belarus? Rebels?! Surely some mistake. Like Ukraine, the majority will in Belarus also appears to look west, not east. Last time I checked there were just 8% of Belarusians of ethnic Russian extraction. These people aren’t ‘rebels’; they are the common people of Belarus enacting an expression of the ordinary Belarusian on behalf of the majority will of that country.
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  3149. I’m just glad I was born and raised in a secular part of the world. If I lived anywhere and there was about to be the installation of an Islamist regime, I would shudder a little. It baffles me, as a post-Enlightenment European child, that we still have places where strong organised religion has so much influence in how a country is run. To me, it’s a no-brainer that religion and politics should be strictly kept separate.
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  3150. Breaking News: Harry and Meghan are in early negotiations with Netflix on a modern update of that old Steve McQueen car-chase classic, Bullitt. This one’s to be called Bullshitt. 🚗
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  3151. This from Shakespeare’s Henry V seems to perfectly encapsulate the spirit of those Ukrainians standing up to Putin: He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made. 👑
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  3152.  @101-q6t  You were randomly plopped out somewhere, mate. You had no say in the matter. To that extent it’s random. Claiming some unearned ‘pride’ in something you had no say in could be a definition of insanity.
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  3153. Er, why? They’re dead. It’s not gonna hurt them. 🤦‍♂️
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  3154.  @BC99  ‘Acknowledgement’ perhaps. But apology for a crime I never committed? I think not.
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  3155. Yawn
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  3156.  @AccountFour-w2o  What do you mean, ‘sexuality’? Are you honestly saying people can’t mention some people are straight, some people are gay and some people are in between? Why are you so prudish about this stuff? I find it bizarre.
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  3157.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  But it’s not “irrelevant really”, as last time I checked, Ukraine was a sovereign self-governing territory including Donbas and including Crimea up until 2014. Moreover, all the polls show that a consistent majority of over 80% of Ukrainians want to join Nato and have nothing to do with Russia. If there are Russians not happy in Ukraine, they can move to Russia; after all, it’s easily the largest national landmass on this planet so there is more than enough room.
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  3158.  @MaxwellJonny  No, of course there isn’t. Just that India is much worse than most of the others for women.
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  3159.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Huh? No bot here. Cope harder. 👍😉
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  3160. Didn’t know John Swinney doubled as the mayor of Lublin. Clever chap. 👓
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  3161.  @jsoren6595  Lol. There is no negotiation with our Jimbo. He’s a knuckle-dragging chumpster of the very first rank. 👍😉
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  3162. Don’t be daft! You can’t wear a suit in India: it’s far too hot! 🥵
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  3163. No she wasn’t. Speak for yourself.
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  3164. Just checked Accuweather. Every day in May, bar 2, New Delhi was 45°C or under. That’s normal. This 52°C is supposed to force us all into the idea humankind is causing the planet to boil. The planet is, clearly, warming but the issue that is still far from settled for me is just how much is humanity responsible for this warming?
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  3165.  @Mr.Clownensky  What? How about the idea that you don’t invade sovereign self-governing nations. This is really not that difficult.
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  3166.  @teabagtowers3823  Lol. Do you know what has been going on in Eastern Ukraine these past 8 years?! And you blithely talk of Nazis ?! 🤣
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  3167. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  3168. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day”😳
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  3169. ⚽️ Hosting the football World Cup in Qatar is a bit like hosting the World Surfing Championships in Switzerland or the World Mountaineering Championships in Holland. To paraphrase Dr Johnson: “Sir, hosting the World Cup in Qatar is like a dog walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” 🐕
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  3170.  Jade Chan 🇺🇦  I’m genuinely neutral here in terms of Ukraine versus Russia. I’m trying to apply universal values here. Zelensky is no saint, I’m aware, but to focus on him to the exclusion of the majority will of Ukrainians is to get tangled in personality crap.
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  3171. I don’t.
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  3172. I once mooned on the land. Does that count? 🤭
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  3173. In 2024 compared to 1776, 70 is the new 40, given increased life expectancy. In Biden’s case, the number isn’t necessarily the issue, it’s his waning critical faculties that are the issue.
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  3174. Translation: I’m Republican.
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  3175.  @Frederick.J.Marshall  Huh? That’s what I said: “you can’t say they haven’t fully integrated” … meaning, they have integrated! D’oh!
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  3176.  @SED2018 That’s not the point: the point is if a woman wants to abort her own foetus, you need to butt-out.
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  3177.  @lilpanadero  It’s a copypasta. Jimbo can barely spell his own name. 👍😉
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  3178.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nurse will be with you soon with your medication, Jimbo. She has drastically upped the dosage. Hang in there, bud.🤪👩‍⚕️ 💊 💊 💊 There has been whispered talk of straitjackets and gurneys. Have no fear, Jimbo. It’s all for your own good, son. 😉
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  3179. I’m not sure you’ve ever been “reasonable” in your puff, Jimbo?! 🤪 You gonna be manning the barricades in yer dotage, sweetie? 🤣
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  3180.  @dannyquinn9128 No, I’m not a bot, Danny. Just someone who thinks like most of the people who surround me think, when it comes to this matter.👍
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  3181.  @Helga7850  Well, you’re certainly right about there being a lot of ‘wild life’ in the Koran.
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  3182. Some turn into vampires at the end of the day.
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  3183.  @raymondwilson2933  Boris is the definition of an ‘Eton Mess’.😁
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  3184. Yes, your spelling.
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  3185.  @mercymugo7775 Jesus never existed, mate. Move on.👍
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  3186. @0:28 Jeez, that fella sure did have acne issues.
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  3187.  @GeeJay1971  He’s an actor fronting a proxy war on behalf of the West.
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  3188.  @Britishbandogge  Lol. If Russia has been ‘incredibly restrained’ in Ukraine, that means Ukraine has been incredibly, unbelievably restrained in Russia. This works both ways. Moreover, last time I checked, it was Russia who started this, Ivan.
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  3189.  @_ArsNova  I have zero issue with miscegenation.😊
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  3190.  @Azune783  Just for the record, the hypocrisy of someone like you accusing me of being 14 when you have a video page full of games I grew out of when I was about 6 is a bit rich. ;)
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  3191. More than a hint of palm oil greasing of palms going on here, methinks.
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  3192. First the Notre-Dame spire, now the Copenhagen Stock Exchange spire. Conspireacy?
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  3193. If they ever make a biopic of her life (they won’t), then Marion Cotillard is a shoo-in for the lead.
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  3194.  @TheEverFreeKing  You’re missing the point: what another woman decides to do with her body is none of your or my business.
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  3195.  @KanuniSuleyman4857  No “Western supremacy mindset” here, bud. You have the wrong fella.👍😊
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  3196.  @billyb7465  But why be frightened before? It makes no sense. You cease to exist. Who cares? No more pain. No more anxiety. No more suffering.
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  3197. What I’ve always found odd about this stuff is that even if humans didn’t land on the moon, who cares? It’s not like we’re not lied to all the time, anyway.
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  3198. “Homogenous”? Really? Why is that the kind of people who call for “homogeneity” are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to be homogeneous with, Jimbo? 🤔
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  3199.  @Patrick-y4d1z  It’s occupation as far as I’m concerned and as far as everyone I know is concerned. Moreover, an 18-year blockade controlling almost every aspect of Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip is another kind of ‘occupation’ in all but name.
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  3200.  @the_godfather9974  Really? Do you really think the US/EU countries are going to ‘look in the same direction’ until the end of time? Don’t you know that with Brexit the UK is already looking in a different direction.
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  3201.  @jacqueslee2592  I know, right? You’d think these Brits who bore on about immigration would know their history, right? Britain battered its way across half the planet, imposing its will and its way. This is just a wee bit of geopolitical blowback! 👍
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  3202.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo: the peak of civilisation. Jesus. If Jimbo’s the peak , I’d hate to see the nadir!!!🤣😂😂
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  3203.  @MarchonWestminster  Er, wot? 🤔 You’re making no sense, son. Why are you seemingly so hung up on some kind of ethnic purity? I don’t get it.
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  3204. As ever with these things, this whole thing boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (Azerbaijani Azeris v Armenians), religion (Islam v Christianity) and language (Azerbaijani v Armenian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  3205. As an agnostic about just how much humanity is contributing to global warming, it’s quite interesting to note that the Delhi weather station clocked 47.4 degrees Celsius on May 28, 1988, the highest between 1967 and 2024, when data is available. Safdarjung, Delhi's base station, recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47.2 degrees Celsius on May 29, 1944—the highest for the weather station, which has maintained records since 1931. Now, I’m not necessarily suggesting humanity isn’t contributing to what seems to be a warming planet; it’s just interesting to note how far back some of these highs go. 1944. Full disclosure: I believe the planet is warming; I don’t necessarily believe humanity is 100% responsible for this warming.
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  3206.  @tokugawa949  This. It will push it up to 70 for a good bulk of French folk.👍
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  3207. Really, Jimbo? Y’know, what I’ve always wondered about is why does Miss Universe always come from Earth? 🤔
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  3208. Humble and proud ? Huh? You can’t have both. Which is it? 🤔
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  3209.  @cadebritt8001  Is that a euphemism? 🤓
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  3210. Interesting that openly drinking alcohol in public is outlawed in most of America, yet openly carrying a loaded gun is tickety-boo! Looks like they have this the wrong way round. 🥴
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  3211. Yes, but Jase, son, why is it that those Brits who bang on about indigenousness are, almost without exception, the last type of people I would want to be indigenous with? 🤔
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  3212. Fun Fact: People who preface a comment with ‘fun fact’ are deeply irritating.
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  3213. ‘People’ won’t be landing on the moon live. It’s not a manned mission. Hate to break this news to you.🤓
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  3214. Thanks for that, armchair General Sharky.👍
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  3215.  @3TYKX  Planet Earth.
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  3216. Well said. Humans being, alas, are still far too primitive as we continue to identify ourselves on random, arbitrary accidents of birth, which is deadly for our continuation as a species as history shows. That and invented daddies in the sky. These two, nationalism and organised religion are the most baleful blights we ever had the misfortune to invent. We are all ‘Earthlings’ first, and foremost. We need to expand our terms of self-identification, and expand them fast, given the weapons we have invented to self-vaporise in an instant.
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  3217.  @thesalandarian3314  Yeah, but I could Google some other “facts” that would contradict the aforementioned narrative. As Napoleon said, “history is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
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  3218.  @donreeves4039  👈 Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert!
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  3219.  @janusz-kowalski  And last time I checked, Poland, Hungary and Romania weren’t illegally invading sovereign self-governing nations to claim back that ‘lost’ territory. Putin could learn a lesson there.
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  3220.  @waterbird91  Lol. ‘Surgeon’? Actually, with the NHS strikes, surgeons are quite rare right now.🤓
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  3221. This is looking serious for Pence. If it escalates they might have to call the cops: the Indianapolis might have to get directly involved. 👮‍♀️
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  3222. In all this polarised debate about Zelensky being a NATO/EU/US stooge and Putin being a new Napoleon trying to bring Ukraine back into the mother Russia fold, one can quite lose one’s bearings. One ends up, as ever in these situations, in believing half of it is true for both sides. Putin is not all devil and Zelensky isn’t all angel.
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  3223. Hands up if you read the headline and immediately thought ‘Islamic terrorism’. Refreshing, in a way.
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  3224. Says the keyboard warrior …
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  3225. @0:40 Pretty plush kitchen. Compared to that, mine’s a cupboard!
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  3226. To be fair, we have all suffered enough man. Man has been very cruel to man.
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  3227.  @Jismysis  Do you? Do you really fight it daily, or do you, as it appears to the rest of the world, just let the toxic polarised political tribes in your country remain paralysed in terms of actually doing anything to fix this?
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  3228.  @MeghanBrowning-cy3tm  “Arrogance”? Lol. Says the person who keeps upvoting herself!🤣
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  3229.  @johnanderson4214  Such a tired cliche. People without guns might not kill people, but give them free and easy access to them, and suddenly the killing rises dramatically. Why does America consistently have a homicide rate 4x that of comparable countries? Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  3230. Or Pepsi.
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  3231.  @rembrantwithagrenade171  It’s not a question of what Russia wants; it’s a question of national self-determination and sovereignty without the meddling of a power-tripping, arrogant bully.
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  3232.  @davidrobertsemail  Pmsl.
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  3233. @0:50 Traditional Russian values. What? Those ‘traditional Russian values’ that invade sovereign, self-governing territories? Those values? Can you imagine if Russia had been illegally invaded by any country on this planet that it would’ve shown any mercy? Of course it wouldn’t. By this reasoning, anyone illegally invaded by Russia should show Russia no mercy.
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  3234. It should be borne in mind that although we are in an ‘interglacial period’ Earth is still living in an Ice Age. At some point in the future, the odds are it will be ‘snowball Earth’ again from the Equator to the Poles such is the way of planetary climatic cycles. That said, it does appear the planet is currently warming and has warmed rather rapidly for about the past 200 years and a likely contributor is manmade carbon emissions. Whether these emissions are the sole cause of the warming is moot. The real issue here is humanity and human survival. Whatever we do, this planet will survive with life on it in one form or other aeons into the future. In terms of global warming, I’m suspicious of both extreme polarities (pun intended) of the debate: the Greta gang who hector us about how we’re in an existential crisis and the Earth is going to collapse yesterday and those who deny that there is any global warming and certainly deny humankind’s complicity in any global warming. As ever with these things, I suspect the truth will lie somewhere in the middle.
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  3235. Don’t lie! You’re in a bedsit in Camden.
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  3236. Tbf, given the amount of cash the US gives Israel (the US is Israel’s no.1 financial benefactor), it’s obvious that America has a strong financial vested interest in this region. Israel isn’t called America’s 51st state in the Middle East for nothing!
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  3237. @@angrykulla It’s just about self-determination, m8. Take a poll right now in Taiwan: the vast majority want nothing to do with China. Cope. This is not that difficult.😉
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  3238.  @EuroTravChannel  Lol. Nice try, son. Want another go?🤣
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  3239.  @keibohow69  Huh? 🤔 No idea wtf you’re on about, m8. All I know is this: self-determination should be the rule here. The stats are laid out above where this concerns Taiwan.😉
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  3240.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Lol. That all you got? 🤣
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  3241. @0:18 “He went on to accuse the former UK prime minister, Liz Truss, as being a ‘girl out of her mind’”. Lol. As if the ‘boy’ is totally in his right mind! 😂
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  3242.  @calvinhoward3808  Oh, leave me out of the petty tribal politics, mate. If we’re going to go down that road, Russia itself, between 1613-1917 expanded massively East into Asian territory that wasn’t its own and West into Eastern Europe into territory that wasn’t its own. Depending on which side of the fence you stand, you can make a case for any side to suit an agenda.
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  3243. Well, it will if humans can give up their medieval books full of fairytales.
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  3244.  @addul1996  Big part of it is actually religion, son.👍
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  3245. Beware all organised religion! Choose agnosticism: a non-prophet organisation with no invisible means of support!
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  3246.  mikekane2492 I agree with that. However, the other issue I can think of with similar polarisation of views is anything to do with LGBT+. 👍
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  3247. Yeah, replace your brother with a better AI version.
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  3248. “Before she could start”?! She’s been at it for 6 years! 🤣
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  3249. Ty John Kettley.👍
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  3250.  @hmmmmm2634  You are aware of such a thing as rape, I presume? As to using abortion as contraception, I wouldn’t encourage this, but for me the bottom line still holds: even if a woman knowingly has sex sans contraception, gets pregnant then aborts, this is simply no one else’s business.
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  3251.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Says the guy I don’t wanna be “homogeneous” with. Cope better, Jimbo.👍😉
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  3252. If you want the oxymoron to end all oxymorons it would be civil war.
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  3253. You just know that if humans ever establish themselves on Mars with settlements, it won’t take long before we f#ck that planet up, too.
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  3254. “To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.” (Walt Whitman)
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  3255. The key issue from day 1 in all this has been self-determination. No matter how much Putin considers the dissolution of the USSR as the “greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century”, and no matter how much he wants to reassemble ‘Mother Russia’, all the indicators and polls point to a vast majority of Ukrainian citizens looking West and not East. In some polls, this pro-Western stance is as much as 90%. Given this, what Putin is doing is akin to a scorned spouse not being able to take the fact he’s been dumped by his partner a long time ago, and he just can’t seem to let it go and move on. The sooner he gets the message, the better for us all.
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  3256.  @TheSeafordian  Of course not. Just I don’t smell ‘in touch with the people’ emanating from Sunak’s pores as he swans around the country visiting his several properties.
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  3257.  @trex163  Yeah, but a little fun and games won’t be out the question, I bet. And it won’t be ‘fun and games’ for the captured Ukrainians.
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  3258. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  3259. Ukraine: “So let me get this straight: you are able to aggressively invade a sovereign, self-governing nation on the pretext we are a ‘threat’ to you, yet you, with 4,000 nuclear weapons, deny us the right to invade you for the very same reason? Really?”
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  3260. She is a bit. If you look closely her right leg is slightly shorter than her left.
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  3261.  @E_N_G-NZ  “Soccer”?!?! What are you? American?
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  3262.  @F.U.B.A.H.O.R  Er, wot? 1. It’s not ‘my mess’. 2. I’m not ‘demanding’ that the Dominican Republic do anything, triggered boy. 👍
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  3263. Yes. Capital letters.
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  3264.  @QuranAlight_20  Yeah, right. Blah, blah, blah.
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  3265. Yep! Human rights violations are rife in certain parts of the world. I recall my own great escape from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. 🇮🇷 Oman ,🇴🇲 the whole story is ridiculous when Iraq 🇮🇶 my Bahrain 🇧🇭 to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly 🇸🇩 had to Qatar 🇶🇦 cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. 🇸🇴 Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon 🇱🇧 a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, 🇸🇾 and slept out in the el Yemen ts. 🇾🇪 To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia 🇹🇳 great one to shake Djibouti 🇩🇯 to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt 🇪🇬 me of all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya 🇱🇾 story, but I assure you Israel. 🇮🇱 I have such a nost Algeria 🇩🇿 for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait 🇰🇼 until to Morocco . 🇲🇦 🏃‍♂️
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  3266.  @kevinh4869 I rarely tussle with those whose basic spelling is pish, Kev. 👍 *let’s
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  3267. This is a case of the strikers’ right to have a writers’ strike. 🖊
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  3268. Ironically, one of them exploded in a cafe called ‘Alan’s Snackbar’!
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  3269. Oh, for the innocent good old days when you used to find a nudey mag in the forest. Yes, the pages were often a little ‘sticky’ but one had none of this online nonsense. 🤓
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  3270. Looks like Amsterdam’s just trying to weed out the bad apples.
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  3271.  @atm111-r1k Not ‘mad’ at anything, sweetheart. Just pointing out that this is a bunch of boys having a Tommy Tank in a quiet corner.👍
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  3272.  @atm111-r1k Ok. It’s just boys quietly tossing themselves off in a corner. Ty. 👍
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  3273. “Murdaugh”? Pretty decent case of nominative determinism.
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  3274.  @SparkyOne549  No it isn’t. It’s all part of the same interconnected narrative.
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  3275. The person who originally came up with this comment would be a billionaire if they sued for plagiarism.
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  3276.  @Canada_Dominium  Oh, I thought you were talking about who would risk war and dying and all that jazz. Ok. Yeah, the power-trippers are legion; with you on that one.👍
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  3277. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  3278. At this rate, they will soon be retrospectively renaming movies: ‘The Genderneutralperson with the Golden Gun’, ‘The Invisible Non-Binary Person’, ‘Scent of a Non-Gendered Person’, ‘Wonder Cisgendered Person’ …
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  3279. Begging for constant funds from big daddy, America, is not a good thing.👍
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  3280. Nuttin’ 2 do wi’ culcha, homeboy. Simple human right to have consenting adult sex, hun. Check it. 👍
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  3281. Bravo! 👏
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  3282.  @reginageorge4  Argue the key point or go away and shut up.👍😉
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  3283.  @reginageorge4  False equivalence. I’m talking about sex. Just for record though, I personally would have no issue with that. Nice try, though. 👍
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  3284. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, their bad breath, their BO and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  3285. Dirt poor. Low levels of democracy. Often extremely corrupt at all levels. Strong organised religion. Average to low levels of literacy. If you look at the countries around the world that criminalise homosexuality these are the salient things they tend to have in common. Imagine being so intolerant that you can’t cope with 2 (or more) adults just having some consenting fun in the bedroom to the point that you have to make it illegal? The sooner humanity can move beyond this primitive nonsense and worry about the really important things (like poverty, authoritarianism and lack of the democratic way, stinking corruption, horrendous levels of basic literacy etc.) instead of twitching your net curtains to see if your neighbour is (consensually) bonking another neighbour of the same sex, the better!
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  3286. The consenting sex lives of adults are quite simply no one else’s business. The only caveat to this is the possible production of progeny with those partaking of incestous sex. Aside from this, crack on! Pun intended! Case closed. 👍
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  3287. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  3288. Kinda irrelevant, Scotty. Consenting adults, sweetie. 😉 Butt-out, son. There’s a good lad. 👍
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  3289. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  3290.  @reginageorge4  Agreed. But neither is yours. It never is with you. Bad luck.🤡
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  3291.  @reginageorge4  Statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.
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  3292. So, why might people have a downer on homosexuality? •It is ‘unnatural’ - All the research (both scientific and anecdotal) overwhelmingly indicates that sexuality isn’t a choice. The vast majority of us, if we are honest, will attest we were romantically/sexually attracted to others very early (and, conversely, not attracted to others) and no volitional choice, as such, was involved in this attraction. In my own case, I knew when I was about 4 that I fancied girls. •Being gay is a ‘sin’ - This argument is just a non-starter, really, given that presumably this ‘sin’ was ordained by ‘God’, and as that ‘God’ hasn’t been verified (manmade written texts don’t count), then using the ‘it’s a sin’ argument won’t float. •Being gay is, somehow, ‘transmissible’ - This one is ridiculous. You can’t ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. Or, for that matter, you are bisexual, or you aren’t. Those against homosexuality never use this one the other way: Gay people are surrounded by heterosexual culture 24/7/365. Gays are simply assumed to be heterosexual until they state that they are not. Every example, with a very few exceptions, of love & romance in our media is heterosexual. Given this saturation, you’d think all of this exposure to hetty culture might ‘turn’ gays heterosexual, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t in exactly the same way that exposing heterosexuals to gays/gay culture ‘turns’ them, because with sexuality, we just are, and from a pretty early age. •Gays have an ‘agenda’ - Of all the arguments I have heard against homosexuality, this is the only one that might be seen to hold some water, not because it’s a moral argument, as such, but because I can understand why people might not be particularly keen to have what they perceive as ‘gay issues’ shoved down their throats, for want of a better phrase. Even as someone who has zero moral issue with homosexuality, this modern-day aspect of the topic can be annoying. However, it should be pointed out, that those gays who are politically motivated represent a minuscule (<1%) rump of activists heard and seen out of all proportion to their size; meanwhile, the vast majority of gays are simply quietly living their lives unseen and unheard and bothering no one. •What gays actually do in the bedroom is ‘disgusting’ - Well, this is clearly subjective. Museveni seems to think it’s ‘disgusting’, even though he laughably claimed he never knew what they did! In terms of criminality, this is rather simple: if you are going to criminalise consenting adults for performing ‘disgusting’ bedroom antics (i.e. anal/oral sex), then you need to apply this law consistently and criminalise the millions of consenting heterosexual adults having anal/oral sex. If this isn’t done, and heterosexuals are treated in exactly the same way by the law vis-à-vis anal/oral sex, then you can be sure this is just about irrationally criminalising a minority whose behaviours you are personally ‘disgusted’ by. Conclusion: No one, hitherto, has given me a single, rational, credible reason as to why I should support the criminalisation of gay sex.
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  3293. Or, indeed, a Tammy Faye haircut and Jim Bakker makeup! 💄
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  3294. 0:30 I was thinking of having a pie for lunch, but looks like Jimbo got there before me! 🥧😬
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  3295.  @duckman5274  China? America? Canada? I know which countries I’m choosing, for all Canada’s and America’s faults.
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  3296. @0:20 Nice to see Spike Lee getting some extra work.👍
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  3297. @3:30 Lovely to see Steven Gerrard doing his bit for the anti-crypto cause. (One for the Brits amongst us.) ⚽️
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  3298. You spam this comment everywhere. We get it.
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  3299.  @truthwarrior1489  Agnostic here, chum. Organised religion has been the greatest blight our species ever had the misfortune to invent. Think on. Cope better.
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  3300. I’d try to care about any of this and then I remember these words from George Carlin: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't.” Suddenly, I feel free.
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  3301.  @BristolBerg Oh ffs, man. Do you actually have a sense of humour? 🤦‍♂️
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  3302.  @matthewm7487 Here’s the difference, as it stands: if I were a famous public figure and castigated Jesus publicly, very likely nothing would happen. However, if I publicly lambasted Muhammad, I’d be very likely forced to watch my back for the rest of my life. Just ask Salman Rushdie. Islam’s intolerance to criticism is anathema.
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  3303. What did you expect them to be? Aliens from Proxima Centauri? 👽
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  3304. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and idiotic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  3305. @1:45 Nice to see Matt Lucas getting some extra work.
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  3306.  @alexsilent5603  Before Russian colonization began in the late 16th century, Siberia was inhabited by a large number of small ethnic groups whose members subsisted either as hunter-gatherers or as pastoral nomads relying on domestic reindeer. The largest of these groups, however, the Sakha (Yakut), raised cattle and horses. I repeat: get a history.
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  3307. I don’t mind a bit of Taylor every now and then. If they start reporting her bowel movements, I may have to switch off, though. 💩
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  3308.  @Bungle-UK ’They’? 🤔
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  3309. While I wholeheartedly disagreed with all his fascist claptrap, I wholeheartedly agree that there was/is too much mass immigration into Europe; particularly Muslim immigration. To say this and uphold this is not ‘far-Right’.
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  3310. Or in this case, life was imitating art. 😉
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  3311. There are no coincidences. Apparently.
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  3312. Steven Weinberg once said, “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” He might also have substituted ‘nationalism’ for ‘religion’ in that quote and right there you have the two most baleful blights human beings ever had the misfortune to invent.
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  3313. “New Strikes Reported Across Ukraine“ As a Brit, if you remove the ‘raine’ from that headline, you have the breaking news here. Makes a guy feel almost blessed.
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  3314. Lol. Wearing a colourful shirt is now a crime is it?😂
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  3315. Lol. @0:19 I love the semantics of these things. A ‘dirty bomb’, yes, radioactive, but that hardly makes every other bomb ‘clean’! 💣 As George Carlin quipped apropos madness like this: “How is it possible to have a civil war?” 🤔
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  3316. ‘Thunderclap’? Was this the bit where Trump, er, let out a trump?🥸 (British onlookers will get this)
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  3317. According to official government stats, the top 5 nationalities arriving illegally into the UK via Channel boats from July 2021-June 2023 are Iran, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. What do these countries have in common? Every single one has a massive Muslim majority population. Even Albania, which I was surprised to discover is nearly 60% Muslim. In principle, I have no intrinsic issue with immigration, provided it is legal and strictly controlled. What we have here is a free-for-all. A free-for-all 99% led by Islam. Yesterday, 700+ made the trip. Imagine if the UK had better weather: 700+ would be making that trip every single day of the year! That’s well over 250,000 unregulated, undocumented people we know nothing about p/y. The UK currently has a 7% Muslim population. Current projections predict it will be 17% by 2050. By 2050 Sweden is predicted to have a 30% Muslim population; a third of Sweden will be Islamic. Interesting times. ​​⁠If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism.
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  3318. The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling. (Ivan Illich)
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  3319. This is the eternal offence versus harm debate. You cannot be offended against your will, you are actively complicit in being offended. Someone offers you a comment and you have the choice whether to be offended or not. Now, the more extreme of Brand’s jokes I personally find repulsive but I’ve chosen that stance. The key issue here is has Brand harmed anyone and has he committed a crime? Hitherto, the jury is out.
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  3320. Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. (Christopher Hitchens)
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  3321. Er, why? Homeless people are no less people than non homeless people. Why would this be ‘embarrassing’? 🤔
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  3322. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  3323.  @memeticist  Yes, but my very basic point is that it’s the height of hypocrisy for Brits to demand cultural integration/assimilation as a condition of entry/permanent residency, when Brits are some of the poorest in the world at assimilating/integrating when they go to live abroad. Heck! We don’t really, as a general rule, seem to even make the basic effort of learning the language if we can possibly get away with it. On this basis, we have utterly no right to demand cultural assimilation/integration of immigrants to the UK, beyond the very obvious ones of learning the language and obeying the law. Why the fuck would they want to be like us anyway, particularly if they have next to nothing in common with us culturally?😳
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  3324. Icke is brilliant at (seemingly) thinking for himself and throwing out a few theories. What’s he’s been guilty of his whole life (after he gave up interviewing snooker players), is not providing a scintilla of evidence for these said theories.
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  3325.  @smoke617 He’s washing off orange powder paint.
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  3326. 0:34 $470 down to $99.99. Never trust this stuff. You can be sure if they’re prepared to go down to $99.99 from $470 this stuff is worth about 50 bucks. If that.
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  3327. The irony of Putin wanting to put together a new USSR when the Russia he oversees is falling apart. He can’t even manage a corner shop properly and he’s looking to create a supermarket empire.
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  3328. All rather bizarre. As someone brought up as a Catholic, it was (is) an open secret that the vast majority of priests are homosexuals. There is a reason it’s ‘altar boys’ and not ‘altar girls’. 🤦‍♂️
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  3329.  @Raulsta1985  Steady. My name is not in question, lovey. Nice try, though.👍
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  3330. Lovely to see Blue’s Lee Ryan getting some extra appearance work from Sky after his recent personal issues. Fair play.👍
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  3331. Well, to imagine that Ukraine wouldn’t be putting out their own propaganda is as fanciful as suggesting that they shouldn’t be allowed to hurt Russia itself, in Russian territory, as it did a few days ago, much to the mock outrage of Putin and Russia.
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  3332. Uh huh. Should’ve kept your nose out of others’ business then.😉
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  3333.  @avezoid8514  I agree. This could be, though.
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  3334. @It’s OK but ‘Starting’?!?!
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  3335.  @babblo1389  Doesn’t preclude Ukraine letting a few punches swing in Russia itself; after all, Putin has hammered large parts of Ukraine for over a month now. For Russia to appear almost offended that Ukraine throw a few right hooks is laughable, given Putin’s brutal record, not just in Ukraine, but in Syria, Georgia, Chechnya, not to mention the ongoing domestic ‘warfare’ he commits every day to his own people in Russia, under his primitive, benighted, backwards dictatorship.
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  3336. To be fair, they’re used to a touch of crabs up in the northeast. 🦀
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  3337. True. Most I can stretch to, is a replacement bus. 🚌
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  3338. Just get EasyJet and British Airways involved; they have no trouble enforcing no-fly zones.
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  3339.  mkkiani  Quite the opposite: it’s the Iranian regime I see as ‘primitive’. Big difference.😉
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  3340. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post-1519 in Mexico, post-1524 in Peru, post-1500 in Brazil, post-1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines, or those who were inhabiting these lands for thousands of years before Europeans aggressively pitched up. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and belligerently imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  3341. ‘On Air’? On some serious uppers, more like.
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  3342. He’s not a Catholic.
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  3343. Seeing this, Aldous Huxley might have been on to something when he said: “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
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  3344. The French police response isn’t surprising, for according to the Law and the Code of Defence, the Gendarmerie is part of the French Armed Forces, just like the Army, Navy and Air Force. The personnel has a military status , and initially undergoes basic military training; a bit different to the idea of the traditional British ‘bobby on the beat’, although that latter image itself has also died in the UK over the past 30 years.
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  3345. Pmsl.
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  3346. 4 real? 2 b honest, 1 couldn’t.
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  3347. 10 minutes?! Given how regulated life is these days, was slightly surprised a pilot was given leeway to actually do this. I’m glad he/she/it/they felt able to. But it’s still a tad surprising. What if he/she/it/they’d run out of fuel before landing? The insurance claims would’ve been astronomical! ✈️
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  3348. @1:34 Lol. That was the least convincing ‘ah, horrific’ I’ve ever heard! 🤣
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  3349. Yes, please. A leg, please. 🦃
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  3350. He reminds of the fella that failed the audition for the remake of Mississippi Burning. 🤓
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  3351. Fine. Go India. Just don’t get all the nationalist crap. Surely science is universal, and not tied to this or that arbitrary line drawn on a map by men. It baffles me how people, on an accident of birth, can take some kind of bizarre, unearned pride in this.
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  3352. Of course it is. Keith Richards has already settled this debate.
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  3353. Uh oh! Reni is just 200m from Romania. One ‘stray’ missile landing and killing a few Romanians might just be enough to bring Nato into this thing and destroy Putin’s regime once and for all.
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  3354. Expecting a bunch of rich, entitled toffs to solve the ‘cost of living crisis’ is a bit like expecting a bunch of oil oligarchs to solve the ‘global warming crisis’.
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  3355. Expect a baby boom in 2024. 🐇
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  3356.  @JOEFABULOUS.  Indeed. Millions she received from the taxpayer. £8 million p/y at last count. She needs to get a proper job and be paid commensurately with what she, and the rest of the lackey, hangers-on, actually do!
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  3357. Laterz, if Rishi plays his cards right, ole Klausy will be ‘pulling’ more than his strings. 🤓
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  3358. HMS Diamond. Just glad it’s not called HMS Talcum Powder!
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  3359. ‘Cromwell Green Entrance’. Hmm … could be ominous for the Tories given what happened to old Charlie I.
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  3360. It’s true. Ever since Victoria really, Balmoral has been a keystone in the Royal Family’s living arrangements. Of course, the Queen, but others too. One recalls at the height of the pandemic, Prince Charles isolating there with Covid - 19. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew was isolating at Windsor with Tracy - 16. 🏰
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  3361. … s.
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  3362. Blimey! Our Phil is good with the impressions. He does a cracking Ronnie Barker in specs 👓, and sans specs he looks like Eamonn Holmes’ long lost brother!
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  3363. Frankly, at this point I’m amazed Biden can even confirm his own name!
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  3364. This is outrageous! Why aren’t these people at work ffs! I’m utterly incensed.
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  3365.  @billsamuls7620  NO!
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  3366. While not a fan of the Tories, Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. Rayner doesn’t inspire me. She’s just a least-worse choice, at best. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  3367. Makes no sense. There are snobby English and there are snobby Germans. Deal with it.
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  3368. They are basically right. The issue here is that for the past 150 years we have hitched our economies to fossil fuels but I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  3369. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call. NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of a sovereign, self-governing territory just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  3370. I walked past a couple of picket lines this week. Saw this really beautiful woman in one of them. She was truly striking. 🪧 👩
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  3371. Straight after this interview, Sophy is off to her day job as a check-out operator.
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  3372. No problem with this, on one condition: if they are genuine refugees they can stay; if they are economic migrants chancing their arm, they can be deported.
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  3373. George cares about no one but himself.
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  3374. Er, it isn’t. French football has just gone through a whole season with horrendous violence every other week.
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  3375. Well, it can actually. People make mistakes sometimes, fyi.
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  3376. “Man is the cruelest animal.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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  3377. Suella Braverman. In this day and age of equality for all, shouldn’t she rename herself Suella Braverperson, to avoid casual sexism against women?
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  3378. AI, for me, will never supersede the human experience when it comes to watching movies. Whenever I watch a movie, if I know a scene has been AI generated, it immediately loses all appeal and effect. If a film in the future has completely AI generated humans as well as AI generated action scenes, this will only worsen the experience further. Leave AI for video games; leave the magic of cinema to flesh and blood human beings.
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  3379. Well, he’s no longer a coffin-dodger, but he was certainly a tax-dodger.
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  3380. Arresting stuff!
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  3381. Well, I wasn’t expecting the bus company to be called ‘Poormond’s’, to be fair. 🚌
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  3382. He made the rules, though.
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  3383. Wallace is leaning towards Johnson. In important news, most of the rest of the country is leaning away from the Tories.
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  3384. The SNP first loses 30,000 Party members (and a full 42% of membership since 2019). Then it ‘loses’ £600,000 down the sofa. To paraphrase the great Oscar: to lose 30,000 members may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose £600,000 looks like carelessness. 🛋 💰 🙈
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  3385. He’ll be terminated before that happens.
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  3386. ‘Discusting’? Is that a new Olympic event?
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  3387.  @williamshakespeare2550  Yes, William, your ‘Winter’s Tale’ may be rendered meaningless, the way things are going. 😞 🥶
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  3388. Never slaves; forever Slavs.
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  3389. Graham Brady: “The emergency exits are here, here and here.” Liz Truss: 🪂
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  3390. More like the filling in Prigozhin’s sandwich.
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  3391. The irony of some old bloke who’s never had a proper job in his life in Paris right now! 🤣
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  3392. No doubt the people of France are fired up over this. Effedgy.
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  3393. If only he’d turn that ‘big bazooka’ on himself and put us all out of our misery.
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  3394. Ffs. This is just going to cause more hassle for the customer. Two weeks ago I ordered a deck of cards from Amazon and it still hasn’t arrived. Phoned customer service and they told me they’re dealing with it. 🃏
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  3395. Let’s draw a veil over that comment.
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  3396. Not sure the Russians can take a bus at this point; never mind the Donbas.
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  3397.  @alsolano2825  Who said I supported Labour? While not a fan of the Tories, Labour also doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  3398. @1:30 Lovely to see Julian Assange with a new lease of life after his recent travails. Fair play to the lad. 👍
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  3399. They’ll be eating the livers of Russian soldiers, with a nice Chianti. Ff, ff, ff.
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  3400. Migrant Dinghy Company We are proud to announce that with P&O out of commission the main Dover-Calais route is to be covered by the Migrant Dinghy Company. There are no cabins on this service but ‘sea-views’ are guaranteed. We also offer a choice of refreshments including ‘fish, freshly caught’ and ‘chilled sea water’. All for the bargain price of £5,000. Don’t delay, Dover’s the way! Paddles included in the price.
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  3401. Translation: He disagrees with me.
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  3402. Because they can.
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  3403. In your opinion.
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  3404. Well, a win for the 3 trees left in the rainforest, but point taken.
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  3405. This is actually nothing to do with the art and the sex of the artist per se; it’s to do with who’s buying the art. 70% are men. This figure goes up even higher when it comes to who goes for the most expensive works. Men want works by men, by and large. Simple demand and supply, ultimately, but more demand in this case. 🖼
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  3406. When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. (Thomas Jefferson)
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  3407. @2:05 Lovely to see BBC Scotland’s Chris McLaughlin having a say. Democracy in action. Fair play.👍
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  3408. Or onion peeling. Or supporting Liverpool. 😢
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  3409. He’s actually quite refreshing as he’s just giving us the facts and not imposing his opinions.
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  3410. She is a person and it’s her job.
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  3411. © South Park
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  3412. So we have an epidemic that becomes a pandemic but that’s all academic if there is no endemic.
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  3413. For the gazillionth time we see this again. New lines, please!
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  3414. B.A. nicely enforcing its no-fly zone, there.👍
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  3415. @1:05 Marvellous to see Brookside’s Sinbad still making a vital contribution. Fair play.👍
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  3416. Is that a euphemism?🥸
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  3417. Meanwhile, it’s day 520 of Putin’s 6-day Special Military Operation.
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  3418. “Even if I were a free person.” < subjunctive detected
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  3419. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  3420. The real thing is more grotesque! 🤣
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  3421. Sleeping Beauty? Well, they got the first bit right for ole Joe.
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  3422. Not sure that’s wholly true, for by that logic if we arm every nation on Earth with nuclear weapons then no one would attack anyone else, but that’s patently unlikely.
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  3423. ‘How does China view the invasion?’ China views the invasion as a vicarious dress-rehearsal for their invasion of Taiwan. That’s how China views the invasion.
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  3424. 🎶 War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, y'all War, huh (good God) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to me 🎵
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  3425. It means that in the US he’ll have better weather.
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  3426. Will miss this fella. Funny, human, real. If they need a doppelgänger for any Paul O’Grady tribute nights, they should call Anderson Cooper. ☎️
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  3427. No.
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  3428. *their
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  3429. Well deserved! Not a City fan, but Guardiola, for me, is the greatest manager who has ever lived, not necessarily for his trophy haul (yet), although, at only 52, that is already impressive enough. No, for me it’s the absolute attacking panache, class and flair with which he sets up his teams and plays football. I will eat my foot if they don’t beat Inter Milan and bag the treble next Saturday!
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  3430. Ah, a nice clear close-up this time. This one’s deffo Wills, unlike that fake Windsor Farm Shop conveniently blurry video. 👍
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  3431. There’s nothing like watching a couple earning £2,673 per minute, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all. 👍
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  3432. 🎶 The tax man's left me all my dough, And left me in my stolen home, Lying on a sunny afternoon. And I can sail my yacht, He’s left me everything I’ve got, All I’ve got’s this money afternoon🎵
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  3433. Pmsl.
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  3434. Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish all human beings were blind and we can get over this deeply primitive crap contingent on the colour of someone’s skin.
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  3435. Bit hypocritical of the French to be shouting ‘vive le roi’, given they chopped their last king’s head off in 1793!
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  3436. The only real winners in this sordid affair are the lawyers.
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  3437. He dropped more than ‘standards’! Just ask his ex-wife!
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  3438. What’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  3439. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  3440. @Gary Similar crimes? Wtf are you on about? We had a horrendous mass shooting back in 1996. We banned hand guns. Since then, we haven’t had a single mass shooting. Get your facts right, son.
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  3441.  @crispinfornoff206  Well, whatever the UK is doing on this score, it’s doing it a darn sight better than America.
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  3442. The middle classes and working classes working together in perfect harmony! 🙄
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  3443. @1:25 Ffs. Boyzone have let themselves go.
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  3444. @3:30 Wow! Last time I saw a pearl necklace as impressive as that was just last night watching the latest Ron Jeremy movie. 🎥
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  3445. There were so many 🇬🇧 symbols in this report, along with the national anthem singing (really?), for a second, I thought I was watching the BNP Party Conference. 🙄
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  3446. Translation: “He disagrees with me.”
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  3447.  @houdini5538  His point was that they would’ve acted as a deterrent to Putin. In the same way that Russia’s 4,000+ nukes act as a deterrent for the West to go in and kick Putin’s butt.
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  3448.  @terriberrens2144  Lol. Well, Terri, if you first establish that ‘God’ actually exists, you may have a point. However … 🤦‍♂️
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  3449. Uh huh. But in the same breath, every single European not currently living in Europe has to go back , Jimbo.👍
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  3450.  @MRLX54  Get real, m8. I’m no saint. Been involved with the law; but even I know that sticking a knife into another human being is a bit extreme. Why are are you defending this? Jesus Christ. l was idle my whole childhood, but I wasn’t so idle I picked up a knife and stabbed someone. This is bizarre. I don’t care what your upbringing is (unless you are a certified psychopath); you shouldn’t be sticking knives into other human beings.
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  3451.  @gustavo5989  NATO is needed for countries nearest to dictators like Putin. Remember, NATO is a voluntary membership organisation, not a ‘drag you kicking and screaming and if you refuse I kill you’ organisation. NATO obviously isn’t perfect but I, personally, fear a Putin-led Russia more than I do NATO.
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  3452.  @VHS-CINEMA Yes, there is a debate. You call it a ‘genocide’; others would call it a ‘fight for national survival’.
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  3453. Plumb by name, plum by nature! 🪠
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  3454.  @Titus9508  I, and most people I’m aware of, don’t consider Nigel Farage ‘far-right’; they consider him ‘right’. If you do, you’ve just proved my point in the OP.
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  3455. When I first heard this, I thought, how silly, and potentially racist and exclusionary, and yes, if an all-white play asked only whites to attend they would be accused of racism, and possibly rightly so. Then I read a bit more and the black-only audience is for one night only , and that changed my opinion. As the play broaches very specific black-experience themes, it’s actually quite a nice idea to have a performance aimed solely at those who directly fall into that category, in the same way that I wouldn’t have an issue if a play with intrinsically, say, homosexual themes, performed a one-night only show only to gays. However, my cynical overriding feeling about all this is that it is a bit of a publicity stunt. As they say: any publicity is good publicity!
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  3456. He was great that Socrates. What a screamer he scored in ‘82 against the Soviets! 👍
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  3457. Leo Kearse, on a stage, has a few decent sub-Frankie Boyle gags; here, without his script, he’s a witless, uninformed wonder.
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  3458. At a push, I’ll reluctantly consider a ‘trigger warning’ on the cowboy section, but leave the rest ffs! 🤠
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  3459. In name only. The vast, vast majority of people I know are not Christians. So, this country isn’t really a Christian nation.
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  3460. What I’ve never quite understood about this stuff, is that in the UK the age of consent is 16, yet you are not legally an adult until 18. So, technically and legally anyone 18 and over having consensual sex with a 16/17 year old is a paedophile, which just seems wrong. Surely the age of consent and legal adulthood should be equalised.
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  3461. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately . (George Carlin)
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  3462. What I’ve never quite understood is this: why should it be ok to hit a kid, but if you hit an adult you’re locked up? 🤓
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  3463. The simple truth is Southgate is a very amiable chap and more articulate and ‘tuned in’ than the average ex-footballer but he’s not a winner.
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  3464. Ffs. Thought that was an Oompa Loompa in the thumbnail. 🍊
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  3465. Ha ha ha! I knew it. This guy was all over Edwards (he’s conveniently deleted all the comments) and it turns out he has apparently been doing exactly the same thing! It’s always the same: the ones who bark most loudly against something are always the ones most likely to be at it themselves. Utter hypocrite. The other thing here is that Wootton called for others to be cancelled before the allegations were properly investigated and yet here is. Rules for thee but not for me.
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  3466. Not necessarily. But we should definitely get a vote when it comes to whether we want Dan (Martin, Maria) Wootton on our screens ever again. Just been catching up on Byline Times. My, my, hasn’t our Dan been a busy busy boy over the years? Can you imagine if the allegations which are swirling around Dan/Maria/Martin were swirling around, say, Phillip Schofield for example, or Huw Edwards, that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing them to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee but not for me.” His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  3467. One of the joys of strolling around Paris is browsing in these wonderful wee set-ups down by the Seine. For regular GB News viewers, a book is something with pages that you read.
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  3468. Lord Fauntleroy: “If we stopped oil, the lights would go out.” Dude: “Well, we wouldn’t have to see you then.” 🤣
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  3469. Looks like Neil’s political career is imminently parishable.
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  3470. The way I have always judged this is, as a heterosexual fella, I can usually sense a trans woman in a jiffy. With Michelle, she’s quite masculine-seeming but I don’t sense she was actually born a man. With Macron’s wife, she looks spectacularly weird, but again, I’m not sensing she was born a man.
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  3471. Ffs. Boyzone have let themselves go.
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  3472.  @mr-biz  Lol. It’s nothing to do with ‘legislation’; it’s to do with a teacher saying at the start of the lesson: “No phones.” You seem in some kind of cloud-cuckoo land. Have you ever taught in a tough comprehensive, or do you just stick to the easy life middle-class ‘international’ schools? Get with the gig, mate.👍
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  3473. ‘A whole new Bradford’?! Dear God. Can we not make it a whole new Winchester, or Bath, or Durham? Anything but Bradford, ffs!
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  3474. Nothing. I always spit anyway.
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  3475.  @basiltozer9078  Or just walk on stilts all day.
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  3476. 14:20 Well, this is patently untrue. Last time I checked, until 1989, Moscow had spread its tentacles as far as Berlin. Moreover, NATO-creep happened because those countries’ majority populations expressly wanted to look West not East because of the perceived Russian threat.
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  3477. Kim Woodburn has to be one of the nastiest pieces of work I’ve encountered in a long time. Her viciousness towards those she happens to dislike seemingly knows no bounds.
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  3478. Anyone else missing comments?
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  3479.  @BlueSteel331  Lol. 🤣 Well, we all now know who has tatts!
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  3480. What’s with the click bait manic capitalisation of the headline writer today? ‘RIDICULED’, ‘HITS OUT’, ‘MOCKED’ etc. It’s unnecessary and so obviously just smacks of angling for views.
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  3481. Yeah, and GBNews never talks about Kate and other connected royals. 🤦‍♂️ All we ever get is the Harry & Meghan show.
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  3482. @1:15 Ffs. ABBA have let themselves go.
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  3483. Anderson checked out.
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  3484. Outrageous behaviour! This is no way to treat our Oil Family!
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  3485.  jack_in_the_green3226  You might “assign roles” to these sexes; I, and millions of others, don’t.
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  3486. Yes. The chances of your newborn child being murdered by a nurse are so infinitesimal they aren’t worth thinking about. Allitt and Letby are such outliers here that, tragic though it is for these victims’ families, I would have zero qualms about leaving my infant/child overnight in any UK hospital.
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  3487. Oh ffs. Not this again ! Whenever the Royal Family is brought up, and particularly Meghan and Harry, one is reminded of Chesterton’s observation: “Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew (or cared) Lord Jones was alive.”
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  3488.  @IBTU  Moreover, even if she were drunk, doesn’t make it any less tragic so your comment is actually invalid either way.
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  3489. So this is what she does for her £3,592 p/h. Nice work if you can get it! 👍
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  3490. Lord Moylan: plummier than a plum on a plum tree in a plum forest in Plumstead!
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  3491.  @dandycat2204  What? Not sure what you’re on about. All I don’t want is biological men competing in biological women’s events. Ta da! 🎉
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  3492.  @timg1246  Er, wot? That makes no sense.🥴
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  3493.  @catcoffee7958  Get real! Do you honestly think she would have stuck around for 20 years if she was deeply miserable? Of course not. Further proof is that they are best of friends to this day.
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  3494. You sound like Omid Djalili in ‘Winning Combination’.
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  3495. Not necessarily. But going Planetarian could save the vegans.
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  3496. It’s both. “Islam is political or it is nothing.” (Ayatollah Khomeini)
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  3497. If I were on a jury in a country where the death penalty existed and there was even a scintilla of doubt in my mind as to a defendant’s guilt, there is no way I would convict. Also, killing a complete innocent is always a risk. Logically it makes no sense, either, for why would we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?
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  3498. Apt that Patrick is presenting this topic; he has the look of the missing link.😳
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  3499.  @jaijai5250  Because you’re annoyed with a tiny minority of the gay community doesn’t mean you have to criminalise and persecute them all.
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  3500.  @fabiobeka  Just for the record: I think a large part of this is about religion; at least from the Serb side. They don’t trust Islam. It’s a good excuse to hate. I’m just glad I’m agnostic.👍
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  3501. Why are you a Muslim? 🤔 I find this bizarre. If no one told you there was an Allah, you wouldn’t know about him/it/her. It’s only cos others tell you about this stuff, you believe it. I’m agnostic. No idea if God exists or not. What I’m not prepared to do is ditch my critical faculties and blindly believe stuff just because a few of my forbears have believed stuff.
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  3502. As so often with these things, this whole conflict boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race/ethnicity (Palestinian v Jew), organised religion (Islam v Judaism) and language (Arabic v Hebrew). 2 of these aforementioned (ethnicity/language - mother tongue) are given to us by accidents of birth; the other (religion) we kind of choose but, that said, the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the one which predominates in the culture in which they are born and raised, so this could be argued to be an accident of birth, too. So, essentially, we commit internecine conflict predicated on 3 accidents of birth. In this particular case, it seems to be principally territorial claims based on religious texts written by men 1000s of years ago. It seems human beings cannot cope with too much difference. We seem to need like-minded tribes. Nations. Religions. Gangs. Families. Clans. The evolved individual is able to think independently and not be in thrall to accidents of birth.
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  3503. You keep spamming this. We get it. Type something new ffs.
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  3504. Pray to whom, exactly? 🤔
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  3505. You should know all about ‘institutions’, Belendtens. 👍😊
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  3506.  @AaronALAI  ‘Russian troll farm’? I fear you have misunderstood my quote, dear boy.
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  3507.  @-GS- ​​⁠ Huh? Once again: did you read the dude’s OP? You seem a little dim. Get with the gig.
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  3508. 🥱
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  3509.  @richardallan2767  Rich, when it comes to our Jimbo, take Mark Twain’s sage advice: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” 😉
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  3510. Bucha - a nominatively determined place.
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  3511. The huge irony here is how Europeans can moan about immigration into Europe, when all Europeans have done since about 1492 is migrate to other places! This is a two-way street. If you don’t want non-European immigrants immigrating into Europe, then you have to be 100% consistent and call for any European who is not currently living in Europe to leave wherever that may be immediately.
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  3512.  @aleksandars764  I kinda think if the Palestinians were offered their own state including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the majority would accept. Tbh, given that Israel didn’t exist until 1948, I don’t think this is too demanding. After all, Israel took the Golan Heights from Syria and, tbf, it has enough to be getting on with. I suppose my basic point is rather simple, this will not end without a 2 state solution: Israel and Palestine within safe, secure borders. It seems everyone else can see this, aside from Israelis and Palestinians!
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  3513.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  According to UN estimates from mid-2020, the most common countries of birth of the foreign born population in France were: Algeria (1,637,000), Morocco (1,060,000), Portugal (640,000), Tunisia (445,000), Turkey (340,000), Italy (326,000), Spain (282,000), Germany (203,000), United Kingdom (170,000), Belgium (164,000). Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria were all in the top 5 making your statement about the largest amount of French immigrants being from the EU utter poppycock!
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  3514. As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (Azerbaijani Azeris v Armenians), religion (Islam v Christianity) and language (Azerbaijani v Armenian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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  3515.  @js1872  What’s the problem with being ‘homosexual’?
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  3516. Tbf, much of the time, Carlson was just ‘hyperbollocks’.
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  3517. Pleading ‘not guilty’ here is a bit like me pleading ‘not guilty’ to the wife when she caught me in bed with the au pair! It’s an open and shut case.
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  3518. Wow! Never knew Anthony Martial had so much influence. ⚽️
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  3519. @0:05 “This is what the war in Sudan looks like on the ground.” Indeed. And this is what human beings look like when they have no hope, no prospects, no chance in life and therefore toting an Uzi is the best life-option they have. After 500,000 years, at least, this is deeply, deeply tragic. We are still so, so primitive. Most dogs I know have better morals than human beings.
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  3520.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  As long as we have a world set up with national sovereign borders, it should 100% be up to each individual country as to how many economic immigrants they want to intake.
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  3521. It’s a proxy war, m8. Get with the gig.
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  3522. A deep insult to Alan Partridge.
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  3523. “So many tears I've cried So much pain inside But baby, it ain't over till it's Dover” 🎶
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  3524.  @Celticsamuraiblue  Huh? What makes you think I’m a ‘unionist’? That’s like calling me an ‘atheist’ when I’m not sure about the existence of God. You need more intellectual rigour, petal. 👍
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  3525. Tbf, I’m not sure a tornado wouldn’t improve Manchester. 🌪
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  3526.  @keifer7813 Yes.
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  3527. The biggest mistake Putin has made here was to arrogantly assume a majority of Ukrainians would simply roll over and have their stomachs tickled by the Russians as they rolled in with their tanks. This is the kind of tone-deafness you get when no one has been able to say ‘no’ to one man for 22 years. In a very real sense, the cause of this war rests squarely on Putin’s shoulders and his mad, misguided designs for a greater mother Russia largely conforming to the old USSR. This is why if Putin succeeds in subjugating Ukraine, then Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be very afraid. The good news for them (but not the Ukrainians) is that it looks like because of Putin’s arrogance he may be bogged down in Ukraine for years to come, and even if Russia does subjugate Ukraine, that will only be the beginning, as internal resistance to Russia will be immense. Putin’s 5 main demands: 1. Neutral Ukraine with concomitant commitment never to join NATO. 2. Ukraine disarmed. 3. Protection for Russian language in Ukraine. 4. DeNazification of Ukraine. 5. Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine, including the Donbas … for me, these should be seriously considered by Ukraine, to save what very probably will be the utter destruction of the country and the loss of a large proportion of Ukrainians. If and when Russia can move into some kind of post-Putin democracy, then some of these things may be looked at again. Part of me thinks we should humour this nuclear-armed (blackmail? Perhaps) dictator until he has shuffled off this mortal coil.
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  3528. Pmsl.
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  3529. Don’t vote Belendtens.
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  3530. We’re basically already there as there is a large lag effect in the climate and global warming situation. However, in this debate I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  3531. Not far behind you, Al. Agree with every word you wrote there. I tend to find those 40 and above who have proper anecdotal data on this (to go with the hard science stats) intuitively know there is something going wrong here in terms of an overheated planet. Having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that human activity is the greatest single contributor to the 1.5° warming we have witnessed these past 150/250 years.
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  3532. Er, I think you’ll find that sexual violence (and most violence) tends to be one way, Gerard.👍
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  3533.  @wavydavy9816  Indeed. Organised religion is up there as one of the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent.👍
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  3534. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one: two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  3535. As ever, it’s the decisions and actions of the very few potentially deciding the destiny of the very many. A familiar theme. It’s very easy to forget that the great majority of Iranians (and particularly those under 35) don’t support the mad mullahs in Tehran. Say what you like about Israel, but at least it’s a functioning democracy; the only one in the region. The Tehran (and to a lesser extent, Israel, and it’s more orthodox hardline Jews) regime encapsulates Hitchens’ ever-apposite observation: “As I write these words, and as you read them, people of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hard-won human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.”
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  3536.  @Robespierre-lI  *minuscule It’s the principle, m8. I’m simply against unelected people. Call me outrageously modern, or something. And if you’re gonna use the ‘tourism’ argument that won’t float either, as France abolished the Monarchy in 1789 and to this day, Versailles is the 3rd most visited tourist attraction in France.
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  3537.  @matteolupo4034  Togo or not Togo? That is the question. 🇹🇬👈Togo 🇮🇪👈Ireland. 🤓
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  3538.  @amydavis4945  I think you might have missed the key word ‘innocent’ in my OP. 44% voted for them in 2006. I’ll repeat that: 44%. Moreover, given that over 50% of Palestinians are under 18 and didn’t vote Hamas in, it’s stretching credibility to suggest they are all (or even most of them) complicit here.
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  3539. What’s interesting about all this is this: you couldn’t imagine an all-women government dictating whether or not a man can wear a tea-towel on his head. Some men need their headgear examined.
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  3540. It’s pure fear behind those eyes; one wrong word and he’ll be served to Putin on toast in the morning.
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  3541.  @sambee4927  I disagree. It’s none of my business what a woman chooses to do with her body if it’s not directly affecting me.
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  3542.  @IndigoDisco  Huh? Yes, I know Farage is a racist. All I was pointing out was that he bears a surname that is most common in The Gambia! A black African country. That must sting for old Nige.😉
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  3543.  @vinkthemink  Confucius say: ‘Never trust those who USE CAPS LOCK FOR NO APPARENT REASON.’
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  3544.  @fxhzwingzero How is it ‘racist’ to point out that a European town full of Arabs to the exclusion of most others is odd? It’s nothing to do with racism. I don’t care what you are. I was just pointing out how odd it feels that so many Western European towns/cities feel distinctly un-European. I have nothing against Arabs, here. I’m just against the ghettoisation of so much of Europe. Most mix. Islam doesn’t. Islam doesn’t want to mix. 👍
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  3545.  @Andrey-fx8mv  Huh? Being gay isn’t a ‘ridiculous ideology’; it’s just a fact of life, son. Cope.👍
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  3546. 🛥 🎶 The tax man's left me all my dough, And left me in my stolen home, Lying on a sunny afternoon. And I can sail my yacht, He’s left me everything I’ve got, All I’ve got’s this money afternoon.🎵
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  3547. Awright, Jimbo? The egg and chips repeating on you again, son? 👍😉
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  3548. 47°C isn’t though.
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  3549. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  3550.  @will.roman-ros  Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  3551.  @henryyeoh8610 Did she, though? 🤔
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  3552. When in England, do as the roamers do. 🚶‍♂️
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  3553. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  3554. Yes, Christopher. They also do that with the porn I gravitate towards. Very irritating.
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  3555.  @Aleksamson  Lol. And you honestly think the Israeli state hasn’t been ‘playing dirty’ these past 8 decades? K. 👍
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  3556. Human beings, eh? What are we like? 🤦‍♂️
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  3557. Came to this neutral. Watched a bit of it. Preliminary feeling he’s innocent; she’s guilty. But it’s early days.
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  3558.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Huh? Who’s talking ‘empire’ here, son? We’re just dealing with people with opinions you don’t dig. Cope harder.🤣
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  3559.  @jaredshipp9207  Says ‘Jared’, he of the Hebrew name. I bet if you’d been called ‘Mohammed’, you’d be saying something completely different.👍
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  3560.  @BrRizzy1 A big part of this whole thing is organised religion. If you can’t see this, you’re half-blind.
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  3561.  @TruthBeTold6573 Yes, there is. There has been constant Islamist aggression against Israel from Hezbollah and Hamas. Were you born yesterday? 🤔
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  3562.  @jankaufmann4305  Says ‘Kaufmann’. I’d bet my bottom shekel if you’d been called ‘Awad’ you’d have typed something different there, thereby proving my point.👍
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  3563. Sean is funny, but all I can think of when I look at him is John Barrowman. 😵
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  3564.  @Noel-ji8nm  It’s not “nothing” for Hermoso, and just about every woman I know. 👍
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  3565. “Storm Daniel”? Really? Coincidence? 🤔
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  3566. How I escaped from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco .
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  3567. Yes you are, Jimbo.👍
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  3568. Given that Mr Dutton resembles a hard boiled egg, this has to be some kind of yolk. 🥚
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  3569. You may be from Spain, but you look like Harry Potter. 🤓
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  3570. Funny how a beard ages a fella. He looked 50, but if he shaved it off I bet he’d look about 15.
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  3571. It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people. (Alan Watts)
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  3572.  @julia2k8  If the women they are marrying are fully consenting, they do! 🎉
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  3573.  @sirsquirrel6176  You have it. Never understood these political extremes. Never will. We’re all a complex maelstrom of left, right and everything in between. This is why I’ve never got why humans hitch their wagons to this or that political Party.
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  3574. We get it Knocked Out Loaded. Left wing bad, right wing gooooooooood
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  3575. @Nicolas Olivier My point is quite simple: if Europeans can roam around the world and impose their culture then you have no right to moan when a few other different cultures show up in your backyard. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. You might call it a kind of ‘geopolitical karma’. 😉
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  3576.  @Lorenz1973  Can I just say that I have read this thread from top to bottom and from your OP to here, you have brilliantly argued your case against all comers. Respect. ✊
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  3577.  @keepingitwild5994  What about all the ‘trouble’ Europeans have exported historically?
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  3578.  @kiabtoomlauj6249  Some of your points were a bit dodgy, but the one about religion being a private matter was the key one. If you give any organised religion an inch, historically, it takes a mile.
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  3579.  @TTCanadaJapan  Agreed. Certain strands of Islam seem unable and/or unwilling to make the effort every other culture seems to.
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  3580.  @101-q6t  So why aren’t you calling for every single person of European heritage in North and South America be sent back to Europe?
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  3581.  @cal7168  I repeat, why are you proud of an accident of birth? It’s irrational folly to stake your very being in such nonsense. If you’re going to go for this crap, why aren’t you ‘proud’ of planet Earth? Why limit yourself to arbitrary, abstract lines drawn on a map which have been revised many times, and will be revised many times again?
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  3582.  @EricBlair-jg2ux  I’m saying we are all ‘indigenous’ to Africa, so it all depends how far back you want to take this. I like to go back to the beginning to obviate racial supremacy baloney.
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  3583. Aww, diddums. All the different colours confusing you, Jimbo? 🤣 🌈
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  3584. Yes, but can we know if Obi Won Kano … bi? 🤓
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  3585. When you are forcing people who don’t particularly like you, to fight for you, against other people with whom they have no real beef, this is what you get: a desperate man sending (unmanned) drones to do his dirty work.
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  3586. “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.” (Walt Whitman - my emphasis)
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  3587. ⁠ @MikkaFitnessFrance Lol. 😂 What? Are you telling me you think there are ski resorts in England, Denmark, Finland and Ireland?! 🤦‍♂️ ⛷ 😂
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  3588.  @MeMyselfI-e4d Yeah, but that’s kind of irrelevant here, as it rarely, or never snows in Perpignan.
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  3589.  @krystofk.2279  Rubbish! One should apologise oneself for the crimes one has committed; one should not be obligated to take on the crimes of others and apologise for things in which you had utterly no part.
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  3590.  @小姜先生  37 years.
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  3591. Huge ‘moral’ problem, too.
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  3592. Sack ‘er forthwith!
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  3593. Slight trouble with your theory is that on the day that Lincolnshire reading was taken there were 46 stations where the temperature met or exceeded the previous national record of 38.7C, with 30 stations hitting above 39C.
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  3594. Incest is actually legal in many countries.
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  3595.  @sebastianguerre6868  Slightly disingenuous. This Irish ‘occupation’ wasn’t a wholesale grab by the Irish state; it was a bunch of independent migrants seeking a better life. Nice try, though.
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  3596. Thumbnail: Mitch McConnell or the ghost of Brian Sewell? 👻
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  3597.  @thedave7760 I agree. But I never hear people talking about this stuff really. It’s just not an issue.
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  3598.  @letsgo1153  No.
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  3599. @4:27 Lol. Looks like Zelensky managed to infiltrate one of his spies. 🤣
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  3600. Wars, earthquakes, famines, droughts - the older I get and the more I look around I think Aldous Huxley had it about right when he said: Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell .
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  3601. @1:27 Lol. “Would you mind inspecting my shoulders for dandruff, please?” 🤣
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  3602.  @sebastianguerre6868  Tbf, the Antarctic icecap has seen an increase recently.
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  3603. Yup, it’s certainly been raining cats and dogs in Dubai recently. Weird. Not as weird as what was happening just up the road where it was raining sheep in Bahrain! 🐑
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  3604. Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, you, son, are as ‘pure’ as the driven slush! 🤣
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  3605.  @alistairw.6394 Don’t be silly. Russia won’t be peacefully leaving Ukraine without, at the very least, Crimea.
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  3606.  @martinrolf2606  Not ‘denying’ anything, sweetheart. What’s your problem? I think the planet is warming. I’m not 100% convinced humankind is 100% responsible for this warming. S’all! 👍
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  3607.  @paul7TM  I think you missed my point. This isn’t about “Britain’s” problem or any other nation’s “problem”. I was speaking of it as a human problem.
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  3608. S’ok. We don’t ‘die’. You have been here countless times before and will be here countless times again. Everything is happening now.
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  3609. This story perfectly encapsulates the meaning of GK Chesterton’s spot-on observation: “Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones is dead’ to people who never knew (or cared - my addition) Lord Jones was alive.”
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  3610. Blimey! Worth $1 trillion?! I have a deep sense of Nvidia.
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  3611. Why the State, any State, is interfering with what people can and cannot wear will always be a sinister, eternal mystery to me. That goes for secular countries like France proscribing clothes as much as it goes for religious countries like Iran prescribing clothes. Both stances strike me as equally fascistic and are just 2 sides of the same coin.
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  3612.  @dharockuser123  The root of this conflict is all about religion.
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  3613.  @michelcalombo5598  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  3614. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  3615. “They may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  3616. Not 100% sure about this particular video. However, the wider point is that I don’t want to live in a world where the state ( any state) is prescribing or proscribing what people can and cannot wear, whether that’s in the setting of a Paris school or the setting of a Tehran market. Banning what people cannot wear in the name of secularism is just as fascistic as enforcing what someone must wear in the name of religion. 2 sides of the same coin. In mature, free societies, these basic clothing choices should be left to the individual and the state should have no business interfering. In 2023, it’s remarkable this even needs to be stated. So, why are we doing this nonsense? Oh, yeah. Organised religion. Gotcha! 👍
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  3617. Have Tim Burton and Elvis Costello ever been seen in the same room together?
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  3618.  @turikazurikaz6730  Not the point. The point is my house has been occupied against my will. If that’s the case, I violently resist.
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  3619. Matthew Perry’s a shoo-in for the Tucker Carlson biopic.
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  3620.  @ngelkiel  I repeat: Is life worth it? If you had the choice never to exist or go through all this nonsense, which would you choose? I know which I would.
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  3621. Awright, Jimbo. Judging by those slightly pudgy chops you could do with losing a few yourself, son.👍
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  3622. They said the same thing about Ukraine and Russia, and look what happened there.
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  3623.  @shaynalynn86  😉
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  3624. ⁠ @-Tidgy ”You do realise Labour are talking about releasing Axel…after less than a year.” Source? Trust me, Bruh? 👍
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  3625. Otis spreading. ⛈
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  3626.  @Thedrunkenswede1337  Nah, it’s just dishonest stealing someone else’s work. Plagiarism.
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  3627. In 1966, the year England hosted the World Cup, Britain was just emerging from 350 years of Empire, in which it undemocratically subjugated, enslaved, murdered, plundered for its own benefit. Moreover, in England itself that year, homosexuality was illegal. To be fair though, you could easily get a pint! 🍻
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  3628. While there is more than the smack of ‘whataboutery’ here, he does have a point. If we look at the historical records of every single host nation in terms of past behaviour, out of Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Italy, USA, France, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Qatar, I’d only really give a pass to Switzerland, Sweden and South Korea. The rest have terrible national historical crimes to atone for, including horrendous human rights violations, whether committed on others, or committed on their own people. In terms of Qatar, they quite obviously fall into this ignominious record, but because we have rolling news 24/7/365 and everyone is obliged to have an opinion on everything it seems, it feels like they are being picked on in a more than hypocritical manner by the West.
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  3629.  @sondoobie1987  Papa, Romeo, India, Charlie, Kilo.
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  3630. They might bend forwards though. Well, the gay ones will.😂
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  3631.  @lproth  Huh? That makes no sense. Did you read my point that there hasn’t been a fair and free election in Gaza for 17 years, or did you just choose to ignore it for your own agenda? 🤔
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  3632.  @BBradshawProductions  Only 24 hours late. Better luck next time, m8! 👍
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  3633.  @cdickenson82  Also, as you mention knives in the UK, just for the record, the US has worse knife crime, so that one is a red herring in this debate when it’s used by those who seem to suggest that British knife crime is a kind of equivalent of American gun crime. It isn’t. It’s a false equivalence.
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  3634.  @cdickenson82  Doesn’t compare at all. World Population Review. Homicides per capita: USA - 4.96 Germany - 0.95 France - 1.20 UK - 1.20 Italy - 0.57 Spain - 0.62
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  3635.  @who_is_dis  That why I said ‘most’. About 90% actually.😉
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  3636. Interesting thing is that Labour have literally had to do nothing in all this. The Tory turmoil is totally self-inflicted.
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  3637.  @hklegomaster  I’m not not being respectful. How is it disrespectful to simply state that there is no Allah?
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  3638.  @joshd3502 ​​⁠​​⁠No, the problem here is invisible sky daddies whom you believe you can act on behalf of. There’s no evidence for any God, and in my experience, it’s only weak unthinking people who lurch for an invisible sky daddy. Lurch for whatever you want; just don’t impose that delusion on others. It’s that simple.
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  3639. Well, as a wiseacre once quipped, “Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.” The climate changes. That is not in question; what is in question is just how much humankind is complicit in this change. At this point, it gets predictably political, which is odd, because last time I checked there was no ‘left’ or ‘right’ science. 🤓
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  3640. Wonder if he’s on the Fred Astaire way to Heaven? 🕺
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  3641. Looks like Khan has just been bowled a googly.
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  3642.  @Alias_Ex  My basic, baseline point here is that anyone, anyone invading a sovereign, self-governing territory is in the wrong. That goes for all the American invasions/subversions of democracy over the years, too.
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  3643. Well, it’ll be ‘warranted’ if thousands of folk show up; and they probably will.
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  3644. Seen this comment dozens of times today.
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  3645. Scene: in an alternate reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  3646. Do you have any actual knowledge of history? Europeans have been migrating to every corner of this planet since at least 1492. If they can do it, why can’t others?
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  3647. No.
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  3648. Yes. Particularly when they appear with Decs!
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  3649.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Oh dear God, no, Jimbo! You personally home-schooled your poor kids?! Oh Jesus Christ, they have my deepest, deepest sympathies. 🙏
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  3650. Without Islam this world would be a better, kinder, more tolerant place.
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  3651. This is not about pro-life; it’s about anti-woman.
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  3652.  @jamesmorrow1646  Yes, standing in front of a green screen! Check it.😉
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  3653. War, mass shootings, dishonest politicians. People like this young lady restore my faith in humanity; for about 5 minutes, at least.
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  3654.  @kathleenswift7979  I’m not talking about ‘protecting borders’; I’m talking about all the racist crap in the comments here and elsewhere. I’m pro protecting borders.
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  3655. @@AScottishLoyalist *you’re *it’s *don’t *decades *you’re *you’re *what’s Just for the record, I don’t think like you in terms of ‘my people’. This country is a varied mixture and to arbitrarily narrow it down to a skin colour, or an accent, or a family, or a clan, or a tribe is not the way I operate. You do. That’s fine. Don’t make the rest of us comply.👍
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  3656.  @SLonxxxx  You seem to be labouring under the delusion I’m pro illegal immigration. Nice try, though.👍
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  3657. Just for the record, Pelé didn’t officially score 1,283 goals. Pelé did score 1,283 goals, but 526 goals came in unofficial friendlies and tour games. He even counted games he played for the Sixth Coast Guard in the military competition. He officially scored 757 goals in 812 games.
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  3658.  @Ranzoe813  My point was the idea of “nationalism” specifically. All this nonsense is essentially because men decided to draw lines on maps to arbitrarily designate this area as against that area. Never got nationalism, which is essentially just tribalism on steroids that requires you to put your societal overlords’ agendas over your own. For one thing, no one has any say where they are born, so to take some kind of weird, unearned pride in a random accident of birth is irrational. For another thing, we are artificially programmed to believe that we are to have more loyalty to anyone else that was born in the same artificial territory as we are, but again this is just irrational and stupid, for human beings are incredibly complex and automatically liking and feeling solidarity with this or that human solely according to the idea that they happened to be plopped out by their mother in the same spot on Earth is a moronic notion when really considered. I like/dislike human beings for a whole host of reasons; their opinions, their ideas, their dress sense, the way they treat others etc. but the idea that I should like them and feel loyalty to them on a random accident of birth, something over which none of us have any say, isn’t (and shouldn’t be) on my radar. The moment you ask me to die for you simply because we are from the same town/city/country, you are crossing into irrational territory and losing me right there and then. The only thing worth dying for is a good cause (so you'd better have one ready), and most of the time, wars started by nation-states are rooted in anything but good causes.
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  3659.  @BrownDaddy007  I beg to differ with your notion that Scottish winters haven’t got warmer. I’m also a 70s child, also from Edinburgh, and have been fascinated with the weather since I was about 7. So much so, I have logged my hometown temperature (among others, for comparison) since I was about 14. I average out each month. The average daily high for every single month of the year from 1980-2023 shows a steady increase when the years are compared month to month. So much so, that the average Edinburgh winter is now a good 1.5-2°C warmer in the 2020s than it was in 1980. So, it’s not just my anecdotal memories here, but raw data to back up the memories. The data suggests these are not false memories. You picked the wrong dude here, fella. Nice try, though.👍
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  3660. The NDEs are interesting. Thousands of people have these. They are well documented. It appears we never ‘die’; we never don’t exist. It also appears that we have lived (and will live) quite literally thousands of human lives. The other thing to note is that this is, relatively, a plane of suffering. The Buddha said: “Life is suffering.” He was talking about human existence. But perhaps the most famous figure who has, for me, best encapsulated these insights and seen into reality is Walt Whitman. He has hundreds of glorious lines, one of my favourites being: “And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.” That ‘luckier’ is just glorious. Like a friendly wink at the reader 😉: “Don’t worry, pal, there’s nothing to fear.”
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  3661.  @주명화-w3c  My point was it is nothing to do with anyone else outside the situation if it is not directly affecting them; i.e. you or me. If you think it’s ‘immoral’ to abort, that’s fine. Women who are pregnant may not share this opinion and want to abort: in that case, that is their right as it’s their body.
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  3662.  @_ArsNova  Er, why are you upvoting yourself, arsenova? 🤔
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  3663.  @TheEverFreeKing  Yes, you have the right to say it, but you don’t have the right to stop it. It’s quite simply none of your business.
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  3664. Ugh. A concrete LA. Even uglier than the one that just burned down.
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  3665.  @Mongezi44  Lovely comment. 👍
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  3666.  @pessi6185  Uh huh. So 2 wrongs make a right in your world. Gotcha. 😉👍
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  3667. Looks like Ebola’s trending everywhere again. Must’ve gone viral. 🦠
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  3668.  @lk7195  Ok. I have an opinion, but I’m neutral in that I genuinely don’t favour one side or the other in this debacle.
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  3669. Whenever I see this stuff, it always looks like when I derailed my Hornby 1982 train set just after the Morecambe & Wise Show and just before the mince pies started repeating on me. As Shaky said: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
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  3670.  @MarchonWestminster  No I’m not: all of North/South America: not ‘ethnically pure’. All of Australasia: not ‘ethnically pure’. All of Africa: not ‘ethnically pure’. The vast, vast majority of Asia: not ‘ethnically pure’. You picked the outlier country. It seems you are the weird abnormal one here.
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  3671. Nice to see Marilyn from Home and Away coping with things in Ukraine. Fair play.👍
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  3672. Yes. The river. Sticklebacks, mainly.
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  3673. Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨🙄
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  3674. We’ve got a no-fries zone in Moscow. What we don’t want is a no-fly zone in Kiev, for the sake of all of us.
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  3675. Have another tinfoil hat to go with yer expanding collection!
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  3676. Nah. Life’s too short not to drink alcohol.
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  3677. Never got the “hate another human being based on their skin colour” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing gays. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid, as no one chooses their sexuality, just as no one chooses their skin colour. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better.
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  3678. As a man, I’m deeply insulted by the name ‘Transnistria’.
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  3679. All I know about periods is that, for some reason, if you’re under 30 you don’t appear to know what one is.
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  3680.  @chadimirputin2282  Excuses, excuses, Chaddy.
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  3681.  @chadimirputin2282  Just someone who doesn’t trust someone who can’t get the basics right, Chaddy.😉
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  3682.  @lukemurray4950  By the way, if women “lie” about rape to get an abortion, that’s their issue. Why are you getting your frilly knickers in a twist over this? You one of the God botherers, Luke? I’m sniffing a bit of the invisible sky daddy acolyte about you, mate. Also, stop overestimating life. The Buddha said: “Life is suffering”. He was right.
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  3683.  @gertrudelaronge6864  This will absolutely lead to more children being harmed . This is debatable and far from settled. For example, in my male friendship/acquaintance circle (about 25 men) we all use adult porn now and again, myself included, and not one of us has ever committed a sexual crime. Moreover, contrary to what many people believe, recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, promote sexism or harm relationships. If anything, some researchers suggest, exposure to pornography might make some people less likely to commit sexual crimes.
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  3684.  @gertrudelaronge6864  Huh? Who said I was in favour of “giving access to images of children being sexually abused”? You need to be more careful. Seriously. I was asking a relevant philosophical question. If you can’t cope with this, I suggest you hold your peace and stop attributing to me things I never said.
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  3685.  @eligebrown8998  Well, if no humans are used and there are no victims it may not be “wrong” objectively. Your feelings are subjectively telling you it’s wrong but that might not actually make it “wrong”. In my world, things that are morally wrong tend to involve victims where pain/suffering is caused. If these are 100% artificially generated images and there is no human pain/suffering, then the I’m not sure it’s so easy to glibly call it “wrong”. I’m personally disgusted by it, but like you that’s just my subjective feelings speaking, and rationally it may not be morally wrong.
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  3686. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  3687.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  There’s no love like Christian hate is there, Jimbo? 😉
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  3688. Oh ffs, Jimbo. I mighta known you’d be a believer in invisible sky daddies. 🤦
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  3689. Putin: “But I’m your rightful father. Can’t you see this?” Ukraine: “Father? You are nothing but an unhinged, unchallenged power-freak, as far as I can see. Oh, ok. That might be my father. Hi dad!”
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  3690. “One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.” (Vladimir Putin)
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  3691. Indeed, Sharon, since about 1492 Europeans have been going into another man’s country to fight. Well said. 👍 Have respect.👌 For the men and the women. Uh huh.
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  3692. Hmm. Well, there was a rumour Hitler had a thing for men from Hungary; after all, they are Hung Aryans.😳
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  3693. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Of course, history has proved Asimov right. However, now that we’re here, if Israel has a right to exist as a state (and it does IMO), then so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  3694. It’s funny how these things gain traction. If I walked past this and no one told me it was a ‘Banksy’, I’d just assume it was some rather ordinary street ‘art’. It still is some rather ordinary street ‘art’ but because the name ‘Banksy’ has come to mean hordes of people must automatically dig anything he/she does, the very ordinary street ‘art’ is somehow elevated. With Banksy, one gets the feeling folk aren’t necessarily digging his/her work, but digging the fact they dig a famous street artist called ‘Banksy’.
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  3695.  @mathisyahu7945  Never said it didn’t have “value”. All I said was that I’m willing to bet that if you asked 100 randoms if they’d rather have existed or not existed (knowing what we know as humans), willing to wager the vast majority would say, “nah, I’m quite happy here in non-existent bliss.” 😉
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  3696.  @gort4166  No. The periods stop once a woman is pregnant.
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  3697. @Iridescent Uh huh. But again you miss the key point: it is none of your damn business what a woman does with her body. It’s her choice. She lives with the consequences. You aren’t involved in this at all.
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  3698. I prefer fishmongers, as a rule.
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  3699.  @morho9422  Yes, but why is the homicide rate in the UK consistently 4x less than in the US?
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  3700.  @andymac7584 I’d rather live in Ukraine than Putin’s Russia every day of the week.
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  3701. No. You have gone crazy. Big difference.👍
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  3702.  @craigruchman7007  and @arruda I live on the 55th parallel and as a kid, we had guaranteed weeks of snow every winter; now, these past 20 years I can count on the fingers of one hand how many ‘proper’ snowy winters we’ve had, and I lost 3 fingers in a lawnmower accident.
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  3703. Bollocks! You say that like it’s the average Indian’s fault, when in fact the average Indian’s carbon footprint is drastically lower than yours or my footprint here in the West. You need to get a better researcher, sonny.
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  3704. Bot.
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  3705. Agreed.👍This seems to have become a “thing” and it’s rather odd.
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  3706.  @MG-eh6bx  But it wasn’t mandated where I’m at. I know dozens of unjabbed people, including myself! Nice try, though.👍
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  3707.  @mellohi6175  Climate has been changing since the year dot, m8.
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  3708. In sad times such as these, I tend to find George Carlin can invariably lift me out of the funk: “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” 🤣
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  3709.  @sanderdeboer6034  You tell these 🐑le, Sander, for they seem to be hypnotised 😵‍💫 into the delusion that the Catholic Church is a good thing ! Go figure.
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  3710.  @belladonnatook8851 I know, right? Chaz can’t seem to cope with the fact I have a lounge. 👍✌️
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  3711.  @ian_r125 It’s a lounge in my house.
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  3712.  @ian_r125 No. I mean ‘lounge’.
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  3713. @0:40 Lovely to see Karl Pilkington getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Fair play. 👍
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  3714. This war is savage. It’s also odd. Quite clearly, Russia could destroy Ukraine militarily in a week if it unleashed its full firepower. However, Putin’s mad mind seemed to have thought that the Ukrainians would would just roll over and have their tummies tickled when his Kremlin tanks rolled into town. Russia’s (Putin’s, mainly) biggest mistake in this whole farrago is to egregiously underestimate the power of home advantage, and to fatally misread the feelings of the vast majority of Ukrainians. Yes, there is a sizeable Ukrainian minority favourable to Russia, but in a country of 44 million, that minority is not going to carry a victory for Russia, and it never was. The sooner Putin realises this, he’ll crawl back under the rock from whence he came. Or, preferably, just shuffle off this mortal coil, as for so many, he’s clearly outstayed his welcome.
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  3715. Here have another tinfoil hat to go with your growing collection. Suits you, Sir.👍😉
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  3716. Seen this quote a dozen times today.
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  3717.  @JeffreyGoddin  This story just highlights the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings.
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  3718.  @JohnnyAngel8  This story just highlights the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings.
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  3719. If an Australian woman’s brain had been found in a live worm this would’ve f*cked me up forever.
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  3720.  @888bangthory Dude in report said he was British.👍
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  3721. Johnson is a colour: white! Moreover, white contains all the other colours of the spectrum. 👍😉
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  3722.  @keibohow69  I just did. I even posted both flags, ya freak! Do keep up at the back.
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  3723. Yeah, but to be fair, Hemingway actively advocated the taunting and mangling of bulls in an arena for human pleasure, so I’m not sure we can take his words as something we ought to adhere to.
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  3724.  @moonshoes11  ‘wicked’ ‘cruel’: doesn’t fit at all. Both adjectives suggest harming others.
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  3725. ‘Headed’ perhaps not the best choice of words, given the context.
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  3726. Their numbers are declining and this could be because too many of them are heavy smokers.
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  3727. *fewer scars
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  3728. Little Billy’s grandpa should count himself lucky then; he could’ve been tragically attacked by a large swarm of puffins off the coast, and ended up losing something far worse than an arm. 😰
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  3729. That last bit should have read “I have a brain”, to go with the foregoing pack of lies you cite.
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  3730.  @teamtryxgg281  Lol.
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  3731. I f*cking love Andrew Tate; he makes me realise he’s the last person on this planet I’d wanna be.
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  3732. Pray to whom, or what, exactly? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? He won’t be able to help here. 🍝
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  3733.  @brandonhitchings8540  Yes they are.
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  3734.  @francesco245  Simmer down, Frankie lad. No need for insolent lip like that, son. 🤫
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  3735. Ben Brown, Christian Fraser, Anita McVeigh, Sophie Raworth, Jane Hill, Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire… Quite a few, petal, but what the colour of someone’s skin has to do with reading an autocue escapes me. 🤔
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  3736. Welcome to ‘McDonald’s Anonymous’.
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  3737.  @indadrops9492  Stop splitting hairs. He was one of the most famous personalities before he became President.👍
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  3738.  @johnwinter2252  How rude! Jesus most certainly is not ‘inside me’! After all, he was against homosexuality, you brute!
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  3739.  @paul7TM  You’re missing the point: what another woman decides to do with her body is none of your or my business.
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  3740.  @phYT01  K, m8. Feeling’s mutual. 🐊👍
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  3741.  @tinalyons3964  I’m with you. I’m just not with you when I necessarily have to have sympathy for this dude. Most ppl I have ever known don’t get involved with machetes that kill ppl. Call me normal. 👍
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  3742. At this point I don’t give a sh*t he is ‘above the law’. All I care about is we have a dollally 81 year old with his finger on the trigger. 🤦‍♂️
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  3743. It’s when the Yanks start using their Americium on Russia’s Moscovium that things could get interesting.
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  3744. 0:15 McLaren here looks and sounds spookily like a young, ginger Jimmy White.
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  3745. Putin: “I used to live here until 1989. I’m back to reclaim it. Please step aside.” Mariupol: “Get real, mate. We’ve been paying the mortgage on this place for 30 years. Do one.”
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  3746. A true Greek tragedy: Oedipus Trainrexed.
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  3747.  @siba-mini8377  Seen this Comment about 100 times already.
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  3748.  @chadimirputin2282  I hate to tell you this, Chaddy, but there is a very well-known psychological theory that essentially posits the idea that those who are most vocally against something are at it themselves. Is that you, Chaddy? Have you a deep, dark secret you want to divulge to the world, son? 🥸
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  3749.  @aidiemcg7413  Your fatal mistake is that this boy that Schofield “groomed” was quite happy to continue a consensual relationship with him. For me, it’s all about consent. Your “grooming” stuff needs work. Needs proof. All I know is this: this “groomed” guy was quite happy to have f*cky, f*cky time with Pip. That doesn’t suggest to me that he was coerced.
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  3750.  @thakiusmuckfeather1103  He did ask for millions. He dropped a previous claim for $3.1m.
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  3751. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and Le Pen and her ilk have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  3752. Stolen quote.
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  3753. Er, y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  3754.  @E_N_G-NZ  Lol. 🥴
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  3755.  @briansmith8490  Lol.
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  3756. With a spacecraft like that, the moon was always going to be Artemis. 🚀 🌙
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  3757.  @QuranAlight_20  Just as a point of order, if God ‘created’ everything, who created God? I fear you may have an infinite regress on your hands here.👍😉
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  3758. Pmsl. ‘As one of the rescued tunnel workers’ 🤣👍
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  3759.  @TheAllMightyGodofCod  Who doesn’t? 😉
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  3760. “The Ukrainian people will hugely benefit from Russian intervention.” Pmsl. The Ukrainian people will ‘hugely benefit’ from Putin getting the hell out of their sovereign, self-governing territory. I have a degree in Mickey Mouse Studies from the Walt Disney School of Animation.
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  3761.  @GothAtheist  I repeat: Sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  3762. 👍
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  3763. @0:45 Lovely to see Wayne Rooney getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Fair play to the lad.👍
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  3764.  @vladokingsley297  I don’t eat pigs either. For the very same reasons I don’t eat octopus. But thanks for telling me. 😉
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  3765.  @MoStBlEsSeD ​​⁠And no one likes to talk more about something for which there is precisely zero credible evidence than the true believer. Kinda funny really.
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  3766.  @Salomessanctuary  Huh? Where was the ‘bullying’? I was pointing out the actual truth here. If you think Harry and Meghan think more about their ‘good work’ than they do themselves (particularly her), then you are seriously deluded. They are the most extraordinary self-seekers currently on the planet. Moan about ‘privacy’ 24/7 but all they want is self-publicity. Why? Who knows. He needs to get a real job and properly earn his way as he strikes me as little more than her hanger-on. I used to like her for about 5 minutes but then quickly realised the universe, for Meghan Markle, 100% revolves around Meghan Markle.
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  3767.  @BruceLee-pr1md  Right lol
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  3768. If they’re looking for an Obi-Wan Kenobi for a Star Wars reboot, here’s your guy!
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  3769. A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some cheese and a nice champagne. Fth, fth, fth.
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  3770.  @skycloud4802  Btw, your first point is utter crap. A huge part of France’s tourism is rural-based. I should know. I lived there.
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  3771.  @kathysmith5674  In another post you said: nothing against gays in general. So, if you have nothing against them why are you harassing them here? Looks like contradictory behaviour.
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  3772.  @tastypymp1287  👈Took down his OP as he was called out for stating something based on feeling and not an argument.😊
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  3773.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Don’t watch CNN then. Simple. 🤡
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  3774. Dirt poor. Low levels of democracy. Extremely corrupt at all levels. Strong organised religion. Average to low levels of literacy. If you look at the countries around the world that criminalise homosexuality these are the salient things they tend to have in common. Imagine being so intolerant that you can’t cope with 2 (or more) adults just having some consenting fun in the bedroom to the point that you have to make it illegal? The sooner humanity can move beyond this primitive nonsense and worry about the really important things (like poverty, authoritarianism and lack of functioning democracy, stinking corruption, horrendous levels of basic literacy etc.) instead of twitching your net curtains to see if your neighbour is (consensually) bonking another neighbour of the same sex, the better!
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  3775. So shun it then, darling. Don’t fine, imprison and execute people for doing consenting stuff which doesn’t affect you in any way whatsoever! It’s called ‘tolerance’, dear. I find jellied eels disgusting, but I won’t send you to jail for eating them, petal! 👍
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  3776. What a tosser! This greasy loon bores on about “African societies and their values” yet here he is sweating his knackers off in a suit! The very epitome of Western sartorial values! The apparel oft proclaims the man. Hypocrisy much? Do as I say, not as I wear.
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  3777. All irrational morons. Not a single credible reason given by any of them. Pearl-clutching personal ‘disgust’ and ‘outrage’.
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  3778. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Nice try, though. 👍
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  3779. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. What do these countries (aside from criminalizing homosexuality) have in common? Three factors - economic development (or the lack thereof), democracy (or the lack thereof) and religion - seem to be significant. All or most of these countries are some of the poorest on the planet, have very strong religious leanings (mainly Islam/Christianity) and score very poorly on democracy tables when ranked. Of the 64, 29 are in benighted Africa, 22 in Asia, 5 in the Americas and 7 in Oceania. No country in enlightened Europe has a law against homosexuality. Why would it? 🤷‍♂️ It’s just 2 consenting adults having sex after all, and, last time I checked, that’s really no one (state or individual) else’s business. Europe also has some of the wealthiest countries on Earth, relatively low levels of organised religion and high levels of democracy. Here’s the unholy list of the countries that like to unreasonably, unjustifiably meddle in the sex lives of consenting adults: Africa Algeria Cameroon Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Kenya Liberia Libya Malawi Mauritania Morocco Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh Brunei Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Myanmar Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Lucia St Vincent & the Grenadines Oceania Kiribati Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
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  3780. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  3781. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is bizarre, indeed. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  3782. Australia has cities as ugly as the average American city. Bad luck. 😭 The other thing Australia has in common with America is a severe lack of culture. Nae real depth. Just a weird surface thing that becomes very tiresome after about 5 minutes. There’s more culture in my pot of yoghurt than there is in America and Australia combined! 🍦
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  3783. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to 20 years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  3784. ‘Sin’? Ok, we found the organised religious moron. Next.
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  3785. Well said, dude! 👏 Common sense.
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  3786. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be consistent.
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  3787. It’s an eternal mystery why what 2 consenting adults get up to is anyone else’s business.
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  3788. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be consistent.
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  3789. Whenever the topic of homophobia arises, I’m always a bit mystified. Why do certain people hate homosexuality with such a vehement passion? Well, religion is clearly the no.1 reason as, in my experience, when questioned the vast majority (90+%) of homosexuality-haters I encounter are holy rollers who believe in this or that unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddy. In the case of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) with their respective books written by men (anecdotally, I find men in my orbit far more likely to be homophobic than women and, tellingly, these same men are often far more forgiving of lesbianism than they are of male-on- male homosexuality), the literalist faithful are required to believe that homosexual sex is sinful and forbidden and by the letter of the holy law actually punishable by death! ( If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ~ Leviticus 20:13). No.2 is more than likely the classic closeted queer who just can’t accept their feelings and so actively pushes them away, for it is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are quite often repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can (and often are) expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” - the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. No.3 is the simple lack of basic education. When you grow up in a culture where the most important text is some primitive book written by fallible men 1000s of years ago, you know you’re going to bump up against some stupid, risible opinions which cannot be logically maintained without the appeal to a putatively omnipotent, omniscient ‘God’. In the same book of the Old Testament which institutes death for homosexual acts it also says: Ye shall keep my statutes … neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon you. ~ Leviticus 19:19 As I said: stupid and risible. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating what someone consensually does sexually isn’t one of them. Hitherto, not one person has given me a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality. I tend to dislike people and what they do in terms of their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their unthinking actions which harm others, their dress-sense etc., but not something over which they have utterly no say or control, and particularly not something which causes no essential harm to another. In this debate, it’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. On the other hand, you can be harmed against your will. With homosexuality, so many people utterly uninvolved with and unrelated to the given homosexuals seem to be mortally offended. I say: so what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s none of your business so butt-out. Ultimately, hating homosexuality is like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random individual has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  3790. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  3791. He’s secretly gay.
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  3792. The day this sweaty, grotesque Jabba the Hut signs off a law to criminalise anal/oral sex in heterosexuals (but, more importantly, fines, imprisons and executes the same proportion of heterosexuals as bisexuals/homosexuals) is the day he’d still be being a complete fucking idiot, but at least there would be some consistency. 👍
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  3793. Utterly irrelevant, sweetheart. This is simply about autonomous, individual human beings being allowed to f*ck whomever they want. Can you not see this? Ok. How about this? I dictate the terms and conditions of your sex life and whom you can and cannot f*ck. Happy? Nah. You’re not happy at all, are you? Look, can we just simplify this? K. Ty. The consenting sex lives of adults are none of your f*cking business. Yeah. Facts.👍
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  3794. ⁠​​⁠•1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  3795. This sweaty, greasy no mark needs to know his place and that place isn’t lurking like a uninvited creepy auditor in the corner of consenting adults’ bedrooms where a wee bit of rumpy-pumpy is going down. 🤦‍♂️
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  3796.  @stopcensorship7705  I see you have no real arguments to offer then. Uh huh.😊
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  3797. ⁠”Your disapproval is a strong indication we are doing the right thing.” (Jegamespeed3599) Seemingly never occurred to the dude that there are millions of non-westerners who also happen to think that criminalizing consenting adults for just having sex is a deeply weird, unthinking, primitive, backward thing to do. Moreover, they argue their case. Yeah. More non-argumentation. Just a seething bitterness. Very boring “I don’t like you and therefore anything you might say is wrong! It is! But it is, mummy! But it is, mummy!”
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  3798. Aye. So you’re quite happy with executing consenting adults for having sex? 🤦‍♂️
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  3799. Criminalising homosexuality makes about as much logical sense as criminalising heterosexuality. After all, there is precisely nothing gays do that millions of heterosexuals the world over don’t do every day. Furthermore, the latter engage in these consenting acts (rightly) without fear of criminalisation. Moreover, even if a penis up an arse is the main issue here (and it seems to be), how on Earth, in that case, does that justify lumping in all the lesbians who never have and never will have anal sex, unless they get the dildos and strap-ons out? None of it makes rational sense in the cold light of day, which is precisely why it appeals to the darkest, basest, knee-jerk instincts in humanity
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  3800. The day this grotesque, oily, sweaty, greasy Jabba the Hutt (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw 🤭) actually gives me a single rational, credible reason to outlaw gay sex, beyond personal pearl-clutching and subjective ‘outrage’ and ‘disgust’, is the day I will listen. 😊
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  3801. Yet you came.😉
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  3802. To be fair, some of the best times of my life have been had in ‘torture chambers’!
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  3803.  @icecold9511  Well, America is the most blood-stained of all, but I agree, Putin is a menace as well.👀
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  3804. Nice to see Holly Hunter, Meg Ryan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and some woman I can’t identify, debating the crucial issues of the day.
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  3805. @Seymour Butts ‘That quote’ will never get old. ‘They’ have us by the cojones, my friend.😉
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  3806.  @familyshare3724  Er, that’s just what I said. 🥴
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  3807. Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, most other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.
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  3808. As an impartial observer, what I can’t quite understand here is why 1. Putin wouldn’t do what the West has done since at least 1492. 2. How the West even has the temerity to judge another on the very thing it’s committed for centuries. Conclusion: none of this is ‘right’, but if we have any chance of understanding this situation we have to acknowledge that Putin is doing precisely nothing the West hasn’t done since at least 1492.
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  3809. To be honest, here in the UK Santa has always been black: only natural given the amount of chimneys he has to come down! 🎅
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  3810. Respect to the news presenter. Rarely have I seen a more symmetrical beard involving such intricate trimming. That chin bit is particularly impressive.🧔‍♂️ ✊
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  3811. @1:00 As a Brit, it’s lovely to see Ian Hislop’s Yankee half-brother having his say. Cool. 👌
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  3812. The symmetry in that news anchor’s beard is a wonder to behold. Kudos. 👍
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  3813. This is sensational! Last time I saw this much white powdery stuff was just last week at a party when Volodymyr Zelensky sneezed! 🤧
    6
  3814.  @BristolBerg Huh? Do you even know what a pun is? 🤣 If OP had used ‘wrap’ it would’ve been a straight, no pun sentence. He punned on ‘wrap’ to make it ‘rap’. Yvw. 👍
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  3815. Aww, don’t diss U2, man. Their first 3 albums were ok.
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  3816. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  3817.  @Opinion-k7k Lol@‘no one is banned’ says the dude that just said ‘notify the police’! 😂 🤡👍 Just for the record, I personally think the OP is in extremely bad taste but your overreaction is hysterical.
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  3818. Huh?
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  3819.  @stereomtl9001  You are missing the point: a majority of Ukrainians see themselves as part of the EU block and they look west in a broad cultural sense, not north. You need to realise this and honour it. If a majority in east Ukraine want to look north, then that’s an intra-Ukraine issue, to be resolved in a referendum (East Ukraine/West Ukraine?) I repeat, as we speak, the majority of Ukrainians see themselves as partners of the west. Putin arrogantly ignores this like a scorned ex. He’s the very definition of a narcissistic, controlling partner.
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  3820. *priMadonna
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  3821.  @Stancehall  Huh?
    6
  3822.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No, Jimbo. Anyway, I’ll be watching the The Idiot. Pretty sure you’ll have seen that one, eh?🤪
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  3823.  @CSCS20  No, it goes beyond what Maslow called a basic hierarchy of needs. Existentially, life does appear to be suffering.
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  3824.  @isleeponcounter9770  Er, if he was under orders from a Commander, I kinda think that puts him an invidious position, and if he refuses to obey that command, I would imagine the punishment by the Russian military (particularly under the Putin regime) would be pretty severe, given their record for the past few centuries.
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  3825.  @darthukas  If that were the case, there would be no war crimes, ever.
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  3826. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he? Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  3827. Lol. Wearing a colourful shirt is now a crime is it?😂
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  3828. Lol. He’s an actor fronting a proxy war for the West.🤣
    6
  3829. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  3830. Zelensky: “Do you expect me to walk?” Putin: “No, Meester Zelensky, I expect you to comply.”
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  3831.  @joshschneider9766  Ok, Mr Pedant. To be fair to me, though, the lyrics almost perfectly fit. Cut me some slack ffs!
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  3832. Jess looks like Harry Potter’s identical twin sister. 👍
    6
  3833.  @NoctisTheBogWitch  No, it’s not. This lame shit is just boring. Write something worth reading, instead of looking for unearned, cheap likes. 👍
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  3834. The art gallery show is a terrifying insight into how easily suggestible human beings are. The power of peer pressure in human beings should never be underestimated.
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  3835. Scene: NATO headquarters. Putin is meeting with NATO members. Putin: “I’m not happy with having a state bordering Russia that will have missiles directed at Moscow, capable of hitting in minutes.” NATO: “I’m sorry, Mr Putin, but this is a case of a sovereign nation taking its own decisions.” Putin: “Mexico has agreed to sign a pact with Russia allowing us to station missiles on the US/Mexico border targeting Washington DC. What are you going to do?” NATO: “We will move to remove these missiles, and invade a self-governing, sovereign nation to do this if necessary.” Putin: “Oh really? How interesting.”
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  3836. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  3837. Ray Mears is a curious case of the morphing man. One minute he looks quite remarkably like Adrian Chiles; the next I could swear that’s Meatloaf staring back at me!😳
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  3838. As a Brit, I’m going to tell what is at the root of this whole thing: class. The horse rider speaks with a middle-class accent and the dog owner has a working-class accent. Never underestimate the power of accent in the UK when it comes to people making certain judgements about others. Willing to bet fairly good money that if both these ladies spoke with similar accents, thereby denoting they belong to the same class tribe, this wouldn’t have escalated like this. The dog bite was just a convenient excuse for it to kick off.
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  3839. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  3840.  @jamesmason8436  Just answer me this basic question: if someone comes to live in this country, works and pays their taxes, learns the language, and obeys the law, then just what is your problem with that? Last time I checked people were free to worship any God or no God. Last time I checked people were free to speak other languages. Last time I checked people were free to eat what they want. Last time I checked people were free to wear what they want. So, what’s your problem?🧐
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  3841.  @memeticist  You’re missing my point. They do move to these places and they don’t (in the main) integrate/assimilate beyond language learning and law obeying. Look at Spain. Most Brits who go there set-up Little England colonies where they are so arrogant they make no attempt to learn Spanish beyond the bare basics. Given this, if people come to the UK, why should we expect them to ditch their cultural heritage? As long as they obey the law and learn the language I don’t see the issue.🧐
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  3842.  @MsMounen  Yes, but if you moved to China, say, beyond learning the language and obeying the law, would you honestly integrate/assimilate beyond these basics? I doubt you would. You might say something different.🧐
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  3843.  @jziffi  Lol. Man alive. We need people like you in this bizarre mass-gobbling of the ‘great’ Jordy, who simply cannot be wrong about anything.👍
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  3844.  @jonathanng138 ’Dafup’? 🤔
    6
  3845. What’s a bit of a mystery here is that a helicopter does just the same job and, moreover, a helicopter doesn’t need a landing strip to take off and land. This could just be a case of just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should.
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  3846.  @jomertadena8590 Even if a man does it, I see no victims. 😝
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  3847.  @oscarkoop2548  So stay inside and call the cops. 🤦‍♂️
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  3848. Tell me you stole that comment without telling me you stole that comment.
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  3849. How I escaped from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco .
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  3850. Scene: child custody department Putin: “The child needs to be with me, its rightful home. I am the best for its interests. Can’t you see this?” Social Worker: “Hmmm … And you NATO?” NATO: “The child has expressed an interest in being with me. I’m not violent towards it, I have its best interests at heart. I’m not forcing it to do anything against its will.” Social Worker: “Well, this seems an open and shut case: you, Mr Putin, have acted despicably; you have been aggressive and violent and threatening the child with death if it doesn’t submit to your will. How can you expect us to grant you custody?” Decision: NATO shall be granted custody.
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  3851. You’re missing the point. A big part of this is the public thrill, the danger. It’s not the sexual thing per se.
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  3852. Ah, the G7 summit, when all the world really needs is a B9 summit.
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  3853. Never really understood this desire to wear $10,000 worth of kit on your wrist just for telling the time. When I’m out and about I carry my cheap alarm clock at all times and that way, when I’m robbed I can sound the alarm! ⏰
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  3854. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  3855. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  3856. This is why dogs are my favourite people.
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  3857. Was it a Flymo?
    6
  3858. So this is what he does for his £3,678 per minute. Beats actually working for a living. Fair play to the lad. 👍
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  3859. Well, if he is, his inflated ego is blaming inflated people for inflation.
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  3860. I always had Jools and Rod down as a couple of swingers. 👍
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  3861. Because he’s sensible. If a few more million like him refused to fight then we’d have a nicer, better world.
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  3862. If they ever make a biopic of her life (they won’t), then Marion Cotillard is a shoo-in for the lead.
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  3863. Putin’s input leaves Joe Biden his time. For now.
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  3864. Wasn’t this cleared up already? A plumber knocked over a tin of fluorescein.
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  3865. ‘Proud’? What? Of an accident of birth? How primitive.😳
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  3866.  @avae5343  Until it isn’t.
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  3867. Jesus very probably never existed historically. Get over it.
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  3868. ‘Voters divided over potential Tory leaders’. Not surprised, given the pumpkin heads they have to choose from. However, while not a fan of the Tories, Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  3869. The fruity ones are quite nice, though.
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  3870. S’ok. Once the supplies are restored, shoppers will soon ketchup with their tomato purchases. 🍅
    6
  3871. French people.
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  3872. Sounds like a threat. Thought Jesus was all about love, Dave? No? 🤔
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  3873. @1:25 Wtf! Thought Alan Rickman died 6 years ago.
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  3874.  @ryrkra8096  Yeah, ‘multiple choices’ with one of two outcomes every time. Some ‘democracy’.
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  3875. And so it goes on. What are humans like, eh? One race they told me in school. One race. As Pogo had it: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
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  3876. Laughing my Azov.😂
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  3877. The truth is that, as a lifelong football fan, women’s football just doesn’t grab me emotionally and also in terms of the actual skill-levels in the same way that men’s football does. I enjoy other women’s sports (eg. tennis, athletics) as much as men’s, but not football. The other thing I’m always curious about is the demand for equal pay in women’s football. Surely this is about demand and supply and if that’s the case, the massively higher demand for men’s football should correlate with higher pay for the men. I’m all for equal pay for an equal job done in a free market; but in this footballing free market, the demand for the men’s game is far higher than the demand for the women’s.
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  3878. Well, looks like this could be Boris’ bye-bye-by-election.👋
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  3879.  @john_smith_john  Says a person who has never had to give birth sans pain relief. Sadist.
    6
  3880. Keir Starmer’s personal wealth is £7 million.😉
    6
  3881. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” (William Blake)
    6
  3882. In the thumbnail, put a ginger wig on Starmer, and he and Rayner could be sisters! Weirdly similar profiles.
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  3883. Nothing
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  3884. “Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub!” 🚒
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  3885. As a keen cyclist, the cyclist was in the wrong. Why is this even a question?
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  3886. Jeez. He makes Liz Truss look like the most dynamic, charismatic public speaker in history!
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  3887. “The name’s Bondarev, Boris Bondarev.”
    6
  3888. No one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world.
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  3889. Pray to whom, exactly? The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
    6
  3890. Translation: he agrees with me.
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  3891. In matters of war one side says the other is an evil, monstrous, terrible, unfeeling wretch and vice-versa. Of course, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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  3892. This is bloody outrageous quite frankly. In this day and age it’s long past time Suella Braverman changed her name to Suella Bravernonbinarygenderfluidperson to avoid offence.
    6
  3893.  @thomasholland5487  Most government funds tend to go to the south.
    6
  3894.  @thepatriot4076  British? Inbred? Pmsl. Britain is one of the most miscegenated places in Europe! 🤣
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  3895. Hot dog! These Frankfurters in Naples really want a pizza the action! 🌭 🍕
    6
  3896. Hillary Clinton does.
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  3897.  @LazerC4  ‘… for the rest of human history.’ I make that about 5 minutes the way things are transpiring. 😰
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  3898. Let’s hear it for the Canary Island date palms flourishing at 50.6099° N! I can’t think of another place on this planet where such a thing would occur so far north. All hail the Gulf Stream. 🌴
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  3899. Russia nuking Kherson at this point would be a bit like shitting in your own bed. Borrowed bed.
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  3900. The whole Zelensky leadership team resemble nothing so much as a bunch of Ukrainian binmen playing war games before they go back to collecting the garbage.
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  3901.  @creesmith2794  That makes no sense. Latvia & Estonia already border Russia.
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  3902.  @duncansmith7562  No worries, bud. From day 1 I’ve felt Russia had little chance here. The sense of Ukrainian identity is far too powerful in the vast majority of the populace for them to willingly be violently taken over by A. N. Other. This has been Putin’s fatal mistake from the outset: he severely underestimated this national identity and cohesion and foolishly thought the ‘Slavic cousin’ thing would work in his favour. I have dozens and dozens of cousins and a fair few of them I wouldn’t want to live with.
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  3903.  @hyperfocus4866  Make what right? If they are refugees then they are doing nothing wrong as far as I can see.
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  3904. Seeing this, I’ll never take Yosemite for granite ever again. 🪨
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  3905. This is almost as devastating as when Tucker Jenkins left Grange Hill and let Gripper Stebson have the run of the school.
    6
  3906.  @ryanfraser167  Says someone clearly not living between the Equator and the 35th parallel.
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  3907. A bit unfair to Axel, methinks.
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  3908. To be fair, we’re a bit freer to protest in the UK than they are in Russia.
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  3909. Pink panties, too. Allegedly.
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  3910. No. She’s about to turn 70. Something like this was bound to happen to her according to the theory of the 7s where our lives go in cycles of 7. She was elected 35 years ago. That fits, too. She’s finished in her current guise; the numbers alone dictate this. It was the same reason Truss lasted 5 minutes and 42 year old Sunak became PM.
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  3911. I believe it’s called the ‘Empire mentality’. Go live somewhere. Impose your rule, but under no circumstances is this allowed to work the other way when non-Brits seek entry to Britain. Rules for thee but not for me.
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  3912. No. She died.
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  3913. An insult to toilets.
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  3914. As they would say in Scotland, this government appears to care hee-haw for the nee-naws. 🚒
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  3915. Not sure what fountain of youth Ince drinks from, but he hardly looks a day older than he did 26 years ago.
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  3916. There is no Allah. Deal with it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  3917.  @wammyhead  Huh? Makes no sense. When is Messi ever going to play Stoke?! 🥴
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  3918.  @Dorr234  Huh? Wtf has that got to do with Blaise Pascal, hun?🤓
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  3919. Ah, the Orangemen in the City of Oranges. An omen?
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  3920. Was he caught with Britney Beers? 🍻
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  3921.  @ElementalDivinity  Yes, I get that. Just think that war is a crime full-stop, without all the ‘rules of engagement’. Seems almost hypocritical; we’ll train up a bunch of young suckers to fight for us and murder other young suckers en masse; all that is a nonsensical crime against basic humanity in my book, without additional ‘rules of engagement’ war crimes.
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  3922.  @tigerskatemom  Russia does have a right to defend itself; I’m unsure of its right to invade a sovereign, self-governing nation.
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  3923. Not me. And I’m rich! Muahahahaha! 💰
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  3924.  @wasidanatsali6374  “Do more guns equal more crime”? With a homicide rate consistently 4x that of comparable nations I would say they do.
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  3925. Humans are very often sickening. This is why I never wear an expensive watch and carry an alarm clock everywhere I go. That way, if the thieves want my clock, I can sound the alarm! ⏰
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  3926. Given that A.I. seems to be the way we are going, how about a binding agreement that all future wars are to be fought between robots? Save a lot of trouble and strife for the humans amongst us. Just a thought.
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  3927.  @georggubo3050  Did he? I disagree with Karl and stand by my original statement. 👍
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  3928. Nice to see Clarkey with a bit more colour in his cheeks. 👍Fella normally looks like he has milk for blood. 🥛 🩸
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  3929. In his 6 inch stilettos he’s just over 5.5 ft.
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  3930. ‘Vote Reform’? What, and 30p Lee? That guy that was campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn 7 years ago?! 👍🤡🤣
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  3931. Prime Minister: “Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  3932. All the Turkeys I know are nodding non-stop. 🦃
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  3933.  @c.m.9369  It’s not even begun , according to some. Witness this thread. I know loads of people who think global warming has little to nothing to do with human activity.
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  3934. “Eh, uh, eh, uh.”
    6
  3935. Seen this 1,000 times already. 🥱
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  3936. To be fair, the French police were only using pepper spray for fear of a salt.
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  3937. No it’s not. He’s a fool. He broke the rules and was stupid enough to get caught.
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  3938. Fake gnashers.
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  3939.  @Ninety9PercentAngel Also, this girl is about 10 years younger than Kate. Yeah, the more I look at ‘William’ here, he seems about 10/15 years younger than William, too. It’s easy to forget that Kate is 42 and William will be 42 this year.
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  3940. @0:27-00:31 Wow! Very phallic.
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  3941. How about she hand back the 5 million quid she earned while putting literally hundreds of people through daily hell? This could be made part of the compensation for the victims.
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  3942. Cringe.
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  3943. The “Windsor Framework” sounds like a posh bed I bought back in 1989. It collapsed after a year. 🥸
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  3944. @0:37 With those shoulder pads, Carey’s next film is going to be ‘Dynasty: The Movie’! 🍿
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  3945.  @danzbar6955  Lol.😆
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  3946. Kudos to that human statue in the background; he didn’t flicker an inch in 7 minutes!
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  3947. @1:33-1:43 When she’s not speaking, there appears to be an invisible thread tugging her lips.
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  3948.  @dylanwalker94  LOL The “underworld” doesn’t exist.
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  3949.  @nataliyahorbachova9953  Hang in there.👍
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  3950. Translation: they clearly support Ukraine in this war and so do I.
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  3951. The trouble with humankind is that far too often they forget the ‘kind’ bit. ☮️
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  3952. Russia, the biggest country by landmass, twice the size of Canada, the second biggest; given this, why can’t those ‘Russians’ in Ukraine just move to Russia, if they are unhappy? Ukraine is a sovereign territory. Has been since 1991. Up until 2014, it seems ethnic Russians were ok with living in Ukraine, co-existing with non-ethnic Russian Ukrainians, much like the Flemish share what we call Belgium with the Walloons. My feeling about all this, and it’s just a guess, is that even the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would be quite happy to live in a sovereign, self-governing Ukraine. My strong feeling about all this, is that since at least 2014, Russia (Putin, mainly) has stirred the pot and played on potential ethnic tensions that actually weren’t really that strong. Again, I have no proof, but my instinct, having closely observed this for nine weeks, is that this is actually about one man more than anything. Putin just couldn’t get over the ‘greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th Century’ (his words), that is, the dissolution of the USSR, and as he is about to pop his clogs, he was impelled to take his revenge for this before he does shuffle off this mortal coil. We should not underestimate just how much this really is one man’s war, and on that score, it just bespeaks how primitive we still are as a species, when we don’t have mechanisms in place to deal with these outlying, power-tripping fuckwits.
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  3953.  @carol-f8f7d  👍
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  3954. Coronations just aren’t up my street.
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  3955.  @chancergordy  Ongoing investigation. Apparently. Something very fishy going on here with Sturgeon and her ‘husband’.
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  3956. Russia, the supposed Champions League team, sorely underestimated their Championship opponents from day 1 of this war, and if anyone’s going to be relegated at this point, it’s Russia.
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  3957. @0:20 Not totally sure this fella realises it but he appears to have a UFO on his napper. 🛸
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  3958. Caused them to ‘Usain Bolt’ by the look of it!
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  3959.  @justwords3882  Yes, Poland’s seen a lot of war these past few hundred years. I dare say its geographical position has largely contributed to this; as it’s a kind of crossroads between west and east Europe.
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  3960.  @glynscothern3876  Yeah, that great “comman langwage”. 🥴 Wtf.
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  3961. I more hate human beings who harm animals than human beings who harm other human beings.
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  3962. Lol. Ok, Joe. I mean, Ivan. 👍🤣
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  3963.  @liveuser8527  Anyone can beat Arsenal if they put their mind to it. Well, Man City can, at least.
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  3964. That could be the Mason-Dixon lie.
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  3965. King stole that. Dante.😉
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  3966.  @conniekabasharira7084  It’s not “pessimism”; it’s barely concealed racism. 😉
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  3967. That’s called ‘appeasement’. History proves this is very, very dangerous.
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  3968. No one talks about the Liberal Party these days.
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  3969. Dinosaur Ode to Ukraine In eastern Europasaurus we have a Russian Tyrannosaurus causing a lot of Confuciusornis getting an Aardonyx by acting as an Irritator to the Lambeosaurus to the slaughter, Ukraine, while the world looks through the Camarasaurus , with Nodosaurus attitude, because it lacks a Spinosaurus.
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  3970.  @kierano8390  It’s not “as simple as”. Far from it. Your comment completely ignores the fact that because of logistics, an invasion of Japan could not begin for another three months, so the U.S. could have waited to see if Japan would surrender before dropping the atomic bombs. There was no urgency or need to do it. Simple as.
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  3971.  @hypermetropic277  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  3972. Er, ok. In my day, we just got a paper round to make a few bob. 📰
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  3973. Tbh, I’m not banking on Barclay.
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  3974. Unlike the Mikes.🥸
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  3975. A barnstarmer of a performance from Keir. 🙄
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  3976. No.
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  3977. I always find it funny that people talk of World War 3, as if the world hasn’t been constantly at war since the first Homo Sapiens walked this planet. We have forever been embroiled in World War 1.
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  3978. Ah, but did he?😉
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  3979. Great for whose ‘economy’? It’s not great for the average person’s ‘economy’ as all it does is force the shops who have stolen stock to pass it on to the consumer in increased prices.
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  3980. Not totally sure this wouldn’t have happened under May’s watch. If that karaoke machine had been blasting out ‘Dancing Queen’ she might have had a moment of weakness and cut a few shapes. 💃
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  3981. 🎶 Wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit🎵(“Rabbit” - Chas & Dave - Chinese remix 🐇)
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  3982.  @LINJ638  45. Hardly ‘old’. Early middle age. Le Pen is 54.
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  3983.  @joeylopez7978  Uh huh. All very well, but being declared an “open city” is one thing; having someone like Putin respecting that open city status under international law is a whole other.
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  3984. Wouldn’t trust this fella as far as I could throw him.
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  3985. Agreed. I don’t get it either. He’s certainly vastly overrated by his sycophantic lovers on here. He often makes predictions that never materialise; talks about stuff which never happened; and repeats the same unsubstantiated stuff in broadcast after broadcast. Also, the notion he is ‘unbiased’ is utter poppycock: he’s pro-Ukraine/NATO/West and this clearly skews his presentations.
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  3986. Lot of Haiti in the comments from blokes who feel threatened. If women’s football is so bad (according to them), why do they need to tell us? It should be obvious.
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  3987. Yes they are. The clothes are cheerful and brighten up grey Britain. And any food 🥘 🍛 is “compensation” over the dreary British muck on offer.
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  3988. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  3989. @0:08 “We don’t want strike action; this is a defensive action.” Didn’t Vladimir Putin say something similar?🤔
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  3990. Yeah, but these ‘mistakes’ weren’t quite as big as bombing Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
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  3991. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  3992. Putin: “But, brother, we are fellow Slavs, speak the same language, you must be with me, no?” Ukrainian: “‘Brother’ is overstating it. Cousins, at best, is how I would put it. Yes, I speak your language, but you don’t speak mine, and no, I must go where my conscience dictates, not where you dictate. Understand this and we can get along.”
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  3993. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  3994. Ooops. “He met a mall of strength” Lol. 😆Churchill would’ve been proud: we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills, we shall fight them in our malls.
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  3995. Yeah, but he’s 50 and he has a wife and 2 kids.
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  3996. The ears have it; the dog’s ears, that is. 🐕
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  3997. Maradona is probably in the top 5 best footballers of all time. My order is: 1. Messi 2. Pele 3. Maradona 4. Cristiano Ronaldo 5. Zidane However, he was also, undoubtedly, a villain. He cheated outrageously to win the 1986 World Cup. If there had been VAR in those days he would never have won the World Cup. But … in terms of individual talent, no question he’s in the top 5 of all time for me. Messi takes no. 1 spot for me though, for 2 reasons: he played the game fairly, mostly, and his consistent longevity for Barcelona. Even although he hasn’t won the World Cup, he still gets my vote for the best of all-time.
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  3998. This is about power. Neville kissing Scholes wasn’t about power. This is men taking the usual liberties with women because they feel they can.
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  3999. Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, most other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.
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  4000. A clear case of having your cake and Tweeting it.
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  4001.  @simontemplar404  Look, mate, I’m for neither of them. Focus of this report was Sunak, so that was my focus.😉
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  4002. I once visited Australia. The people were bluff, hearty and to the point. There were strongly evident, often openly-voiced, undercurrents of racism and homophobia. I was severely disappointed by the endless expanse of barren nothingness. No real mountains to speak of. When you’ve seen one beach you’ve seen them all. There was also a palpable kind of unconcealed disdain for the life of the mind - even more than in the darker corners of Blighty. I realised why so many of the best Aussies, those with any real culture , for want of a better word, leave. Humphries was one such. Too good for his birth-land, too bright, too clever, he had to get out. And now he’s checked-out. Farewell, Barry.
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  4003. Lennon looks 60% John Lydon, 40% Bruce Springsteen. It’s spooky.
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  4004. Triggered, much?🤣
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  4005. The biggest mistake Putin has made here was to arrogantly assume a majority of Ukrainians would simply roll over and have their stomachs tickled by the Russians as they rolled in with their tanks. This is the kind of tone-deafness you get when no one has been able to say ‘no’ to one man for 22 years. In a very real sense, the cause of this war rests squarely on Putin’s shoulders and his mad, misguided designs for a greater mother Russia largely conforming to the old USSR. This is why if Putin succeeds in subjugating Ukraine, then Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be very afraid. The good news for them (but not the Ukrainians) is that it looks like because of Putin’s arrogance he may be bogged down in Ukraine for years to come, and even if Russia does subjugate Ukraine, that will only be the beginning, as internal resistance to Russia will be immense. Putin’s 5 main demands: 1. Neutral Ukraine with concomitant commitment never to join NATO. 2. Ukraine disarmed. 3. Protection for Russian language in Ukraine. 4. DeNazification of Ukraine. 5. Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine, including the Donbas … for me, these should be seriously considered by Ukraine, to save what very probably will be the utter destruction of the country and the loss of a large proportion of Ukrainians. If and when Russia can move into some kind of post-Putin democracy, then some of these things may be looked at again. Part of me thinks we should humour this nuclear-armed (blackmail? Appeasement? Perhaps) dictator until he has shuffled off this mortal coil.
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  4006.  @cryptobroskis545  *apes Get the basics right and you may have a point.
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  4007. That the Earth is heating up is incontrovertible; the only real issue is just how much humans are complicit in this.
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  4008.  @CGplay186  In my book, Zelensky is no angel and neither is Putin. However, if we are to have any semblance of geopolitical justice, anybody invading a sovereign, self-governing nation is wrong. I include the hundreds of egregious interferences of America of her partners in that.
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  4009. Uh huh. But Jimbo, what if it’s a choice between a black, a gay, a Muslim, a Jew or a woman: who do you save, son? 😉
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  4010. Thing is, though, that underneath the drug stuff, he’s clearly a responsible, moral upright person. For every 1 of him, there is another guy who hears he has a child and just 🤷‍♂️.
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  4011. Who is Will By-election and who is impacting his leadership?😳
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  4012. Breaking News: King Charles is now isolating at Windsor Castle with Covid-19. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew is isolating at Buckingham Palace with Bethany-14.
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  4013. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid What? It’s just basic stuff. Why is this so difficult? If you have incompetent parents, then I can see the issue. If they literally cannot parent, then I may forgive them. Everyone else? No. This is just about basic humanity, unless you have lost your marbles.
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  4014.  @LoveZara-j9h Steady now. No need for the sarcastic ‘lols’. Rolling Stone (and many other publications) have ABBA’s ‘Definitive Collection’ in their top 500 albums of all time. Fact. You can’t argue with facts and that fact makes ABBA one of the greatest pure pop groups of all time, Bruh. Uh huh. 😎
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  4015.  @hiramabiff2017 As pure pop, they’re right up there with the best, son! 👍😉
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  4016. The key issue for many people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s mass Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. (Just this week, we have an Islamic dude wanting a Scottish island all to himself and his followers as an ‘Islamic caliphate’. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when stories like this would be an April Fool’s joke!) As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic by 2050. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  4017. News Alert: Jordan Peterson for the umpteenth time proceeds to pronounce well outside his field of expertise. But hey! he’s Jordan Peterson and cannot possibly be wrong about anything!😳
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  4018. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  4019. Proud Boys sounds like that boy band Simon Cowell rejected because they couldn’t get it up.
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  4020.  @evanslater4551  So prove he was “groomed”. Don’t just state it; prove it. If and until we hear from the guy in question I refuse to join this hysterical witch-hunt over very little.
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  4021. Are you kitten me? Democracy died years ago. However, in all this Number 10 toing and froing, spare a thought for Larry the cat. He must be feline awful at the pawsibility of yet another PM, another unfurmiliar face. Purrhaps he’s even going hissterical. Larry has cattitude, though. Maybe all this nonsense is mewsic to his ears.
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  4022.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  4023.  @danielward7008  Even if I were a multimillionaire, I’d be tempted. So would you, I bet.
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  4024. Trump’s ship has sailed. He’s lost that lustre he once had, like he knows the game’s up for him. DeSantis is like Trump, but without all the really horrible crap. Trump knows this. And more importantly, the US electorate knows this, which is why DeSantis will trump Trump here.
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  4025.  @johnkitching2248  With you, John. He’s far, far too up himself, while pretending he isn’t. PG Wodehouse wrote, “It’s never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine” especially for Oliver. As my granny used to say about certain folk: “If he were chocolate, he’d eat himself.”
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  4026. Aye. He also believes in invisible sky daddies; not just invisible inflation.👍
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  4027. Coming soon to a theatre near you: A one-off showing of Hamlet for cigar smokers only. A 2-night special just for snooker players to see The Crucible. A unique production of Lady Windermere’s Fan only for those born and bred in Cumbria. 🤦‍♂️
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  4028.  @toastedterps  I didn’t consider myself a ‘child’ at 16.
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  4029. The trouble with Calvin and his self-created halo 😇 is that not everyone believes in “innate God-given” rights and when he openly blesses himself on telly in a showy, pretentious manner it’s beyond cringe.
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  4030. Nothing wrong with it. No one has ever given me a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality.
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  4031. For a second there, on reading the title, I thought Joe Biden had joined New Order.
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  4032.  @edcarson3113  Yes, and the vast majority of of biological women do not want biological men in their spaces. Christianity has naff-all to do with it, m8.
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  4033. Stewart Lee’s let himself go.
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  4034. So this is what she does for her £3,835 p/h. Nice work if you can get it. Fair play to the lass.👍
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  4035. @palerider955 Well, it is. You are inflicting violence on another human being? What’s so difficult about this to comprehend, sweetie?
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  4036. Uh huh. So when you misbehave am I entitled to smack you?
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  4037.  @stocksyere  It’s no more ‘disgusting’ than a panto dame imo. If you have an issue with those as well, well that suggests that this isn’t a ‘drag queen’ thing per se but a ‘men in frocks’ thing. I have no intrinsic issue with a bloke in a frock reading a story to my children. If there is sexualised stuff, I’d be wary, but this isn’t about that here: this is clearly about homophobes and repressed homosexuals who can’t abide a man in a dress.
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  4038.  @stocksyere  There is no essential difference. This is just weird double-standards.
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  4039. Lol. Have you never been to a pantomime? 🤣
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  4040. Ironic. In the doc he ‘offered’ one of his staff to Savile.
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  4041. If they need an actor for the Carswell biopic (they won’t), just call Woody Harrelson.
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  4042. Yes. And steal our foxes’ jobs. 🦊
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  4043. Love how people are triggered by this when there are about 10,000 other things to be more triggered about in this life! 🤣
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  4044. Panto Dames: ok. Drag Queens: not ok. Go figure.
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  4045.  @davehallett810 Just Europe west of Poland. This is, principally, a British, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese thing. With Belgium and the Netherlands thrown in. Oh, and Sweden now as well. 🤦‍♂️ What are we doing with Western Europe?
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  4046.  @Timmyjg2004  I just did. 🙄
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  4047.  @M.C.H-MakeChangeHappen89 Er, that was my point. 🥴
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  4048. Why would you make a “false allegation of rape” to “protect your marriage, your reputation, your career”? I don’t follow … 🤔
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  4049. All the holier than thou, sententious, double-standards pontificating on this is hilarious. Yes, Murthy is clearly a lefty. We all know this. This is going to show in his interviews, no matter how much ‘journalistic impartiality’ he’s supposed to evince. In the same way, Dan Wooton is a righty, and every time I watch anything he says on GB News, he is clearly coming at it from a rightist bias (often cringingly, embarrassingly so). And here’s the kicker: more than Murthy. Yes, Dan. Murthy may be an obvious liberal lefty, but you are even more of an intolerant righty. That makes you the hypocrite, as it’s not Murthy calling you out for bias, but vice-versa. Yvw.
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  4050. Tbf, Wootton should know all about lies. Like those lies when he pretended he was Martin and Maria. 😷
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  4051. Not by anyone with a scintilla of sense, he wouldn’t.
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  4052. There is a quite brilliant analysis on YouTube of this case by Norman Fenton and Scott McLachan. I was dubious about the conviction anyway, but watching this has reinforced my suspicions that Letby could be an innocent scapegoat for the systemic failures of NHS management.
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  4053. Wrong. BBC actually have covered this.
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  4054. Jesus probably never existed. Deal with it.
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  4055.  @Jamie-uk2zh  Er, yes he is. 🥴
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  4056.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  How is it ‘giving up the country’ if Gething is Welsh First Minister? 🥴
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  4057. Surely the debate should be whether Chris Rock was right to not hit Smith back in self-defence.
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  4058. @@NeriaWolf Lol@“willing to see someone burn without evidence.” 🤣😂😅 And you’ve just spent 10 minutes “willing to see Sturgeon burn” without evidence! Your double-standards hypocrisy is staggering! Ffs! 🤦‍♂️
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  4059. Let’s be honest, if there were no such thing as immigration, Harry and Meghan and no LGBTQIA people, GBNews would cease to exist! 🤣
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  4060.  @personalcheeses8073  It is about loving your fellow man. And, er, boy.😳
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  4061.  @laurenceBDontYaNo  Aren’t I part of Britain?
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  4062. Tbf, loads of famous actors (guys) do this: marry to show their ‘public’ face and for commercial reasons, but are really essentially gay. Jackman, Cruise, Travolta to name just 3. There are tons of others.
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  4063. Don’t buy this crap. It’s to do with education and how education is valued by the average white working-class Brit. Answer: often, not that much. This is a national cultural thing, as I have lived/worked all over the world, and the equivalent working-class individuals in other countries have total and utter respect for education as a way out and a way forward, that is just not the case here.
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  4064. That’s not really the point. I’m all for her having her opinion. What I’m not so much for is her idea men/men and women/women can’t marry and be recognised as married before the law. This isn’t ‘prosecution’; this is her random ’persecution’ based on her own personal beliefs. She can believe all she wants, but if I as a gay man want to get married to my boyfriend and be recognised before the law, she needs to butt out or there might be trouble ahead. 👍
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  4065. I’ve never fully worked out why I think windmills are the prettiest additions to a landscape ever, and yet wind farms, essentially the same thing, at best leave me cold, at worst make me think they destroy the general aspect of the landscape they inhabit. Sticking ‘em all out at sea would be my preferred option here.
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  4066. Projection?
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  4067. He bloody well does. That wig is an outrage to public decency!
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  4068. Huh? 🤔 Last time I checked it was a man taking the photo.
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  4069.  @hedgehogwildlifejunction9119  Huh? The body was found about a mile from the bench. The lead sonar guy said his sonar will probably start from the weir downwards "and identify any possible targets. It can generally cover about 10 miles of river a day “, he added. Now, unless some nefarious character has recently dumped the body, looks like the sonar guys missed it!
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  4070. If The League of Gentlemen are ever looking for a cameo then David Starkey is a shoo-in.
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  4071. My theory about this is that the pressure to teach this at younger and younger ages is a result of the Internet. I would suggest the year before Secondary School would be appropriate to go into sex-ed in any depth. 11/12. I recall this was about the age I received it and this was pre-Internet. I would add this, though: having lived in 6 different countries, I would say that, relatively speaking, there is still a certain prudishness in this matter in the UK. Parents should have the right to withdraw their children if they want, but if you go to, say, Spain, Italy, France, Germany or the Netherlands, they are not nearly so squeamish about all this stuff as we are. Also, having the virginal Ann Widdecombe pontificating to me about matters-sexual is odd; a bit like having my Catholic priest advising me about sex!
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  4072.  @Nickle314  Yeah, but the vast majority of these occurred in elderly, frail patients with multiple comorbidities judged to have had less than 1 year of life left to live. My point was addressing specifically the Letby situation: I repeat, the chances of being murdered by a nurse are so infinitesimal they aren’t worth thinking about. I have used, and will continue to use the NHS regularly (as has my family and friends) and we all have had nothing but the most exemplary care from frontline staff.
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  4073.  @brendagore1115  1 mile from the bench. You or I don’t know if they went a mile from the bench, but given they can cover 10 miles in a day and they searched for 3 full days, it would be the height of negligence not to have covered the area the body was found.
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  4074. Lol. You’re certainly no Jessica Fletcher!🤣
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  4075. Why doesn’t Mark just shave off that ridiculous, combover barnet?
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  4076. Older guy has consensual affair with younger guy and lies about it. Ffs. With all the nonsense going on in the world, I’m utterly baffled at the extensive, almost hysterical coverage given to this. Millions of people all over the world have affairs every day and lie about them. This really isn’t that important. In fact, it’s not important at all, beyond those who are directly involved.
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  4077. Much as I cannot really stand Dr Shola, I happen to think she has a point here. For once.
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  4078.  @ruhaidai  “Ba doom fshhh.” 🤣
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  4079.  @chrisb9345  I would argue if they have gone through the full process, knob & balls lopped off, then they could be admitted into biologically female spaces. I expect you’ll disagree, but that would be my stance here.
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  4080. This is clearly a class thing; but then what isn’t in Britain? Here we have a Sherrilyn from a Council Estate rubbing her bumper up against some middle-class Tristrams and Jemimas and we, the onlookers, will pick our side depending on which side of the tracks we hail from.
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  4081.  @Hertfordshire247  Seriously though, son. You need a hobby. Try crochet or something, pal.😉
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  4082. All the holier-than-thou idiots in this thread are hilarious. Willoughby and Schofield were on a working assignment. They got the chance to see the coffin. They took it. They weren’t holding anyone up. Secretly, I bet most of us would, no matter what folk are saying here. If I were there on a working assignment, I repeat, a working assignment, and I could breeze past the coffin in 2 minutes as an addendum to this, instead of waiting 20 hours in a queue, I would, and I suspect most people would in these circumstances. Beckham and his ilk are exceptions, I suspect. The other thing is that Beckham wasn’t on a specific work assignment. For me, that latter fact allows you a fast track to the coffin, and if it had been offered to me I would have taken it and admitted it afterwards if a ruckus were created. I suspect the real issue here is Schofield and Willoughby being disingenuous about what they really did. The other, perhaps bigger issue, is people just want something on the pair as they don’t like Schofield. If this had just been Holly, there’d be far, far less of a ruckus here, if anything at all. The usual agenda that you always get with GB News folk. They skipped the queue. They were working there. So what? No big deal. Get over it.
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  4083. I think the main reason humans find happiness such a difficult concept is that we are inherently aware of our mortality every waking moment of the day. To compound this knowledge that we die is the fact that no one knows what happens when and after we die. We have ‘faiths’ and ‘philosophies’ based on this or that ‘prophet’ but when all is said and done we’re operating in the dark. Sometimes, I look at animals and would rather be them. Walt Whitman captured this brilliantly: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
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  4084.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Why do you constantly upvote yourself? Cringe.
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  4085. This is surely good news for Russia. Now, if only the UK could somehow do the same.🤔
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  4086.  @helloworld441  Aren’t they? “Order of the British Empire”; “Member of the British Empire”. You may need a better researcher. Just sayin’!
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  4087. No idea what the issue is here. He kissed a bandmate and suggested anti-gay laws might be a bit primitive. Where’s the problem?
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  4088.  @Ropponmatsu2  All I know, is that the correct use of the apostrophe has let itself go.
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  4089. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
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  4090. The bizarre thing about this whole situation is that not one person wants any of it; save one. Why do we tolerate this? I’d take him out and take the consequences in a fucking jiffy. What are we doing to tolerate this?😳
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  4091. I prefer Bilbao to San Sebastián, I think. The latter is overrated, based on its magical setting. The city itself is just a bunch of unprepossessing apartment blocks, save for the two and a half streets and Plaza Consti. that make up the jejune Old Town. Bilbao has more heft, and it’s (also small) old core is more appealing. I have always been of the opinion, against the overwhelming tide of favourable opinion, that if you picked up San Sebastián and plonked it down 200 miles inland, it would be what it is: a rather nondescript, faceless city architecturally. San Sebastián is a city saved by its setting. Best Basque city of all, in my opinion, is the not-on-the-radar Vitoria. It’s a glorious old unspoiled ensemble with a couple of world-class plazas.
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  4092.  @stevenhombrados1530  Yeah, but you can be a believer in God without organised religion, m8. Get with the gig.👍
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  4093. Who isn’t? Virtually every person I know is ‘territory’ (sic).
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  4094.  @finbarrsaunders8688  Evidence?
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  4095. Wouldn’t it be better if random citizens weren’t armed at all times?
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  4096. Bot.
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  4097. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years, just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then do you think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a boxing match, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable.
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  4098.  @omrxblah4572  Absolutely f*ck-all to do with “prudishness”; everything to do with respecting boundaries.
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  4099.  @omrxblah4572  It’s called ‘sexual assault’, m8, if you’re kissing strangers full on the lips without their consent.👍
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  4100.  @highgatehandyman6479  I don’t have a view on this. You clearly do, though. I’m smelling a slightly racist view, to boot. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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  4101. Labour and the Conservatives have been more or less the same party since Blair’s New Labour. UKIP are the far-right wing of the Tory Party. Reform are slightly more to the right. If you confuse UKIP and Reform with the BNP you are making a fatal mistake. The main issue for these voters is immigration (particularly Islamic immigration) and there are plenty of centrist liberals who also have deep concerns about mass Muslim immigration. The Green Party is essentially old Socialist Labour, before Labour became centrist to get elected in 1997.
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  4102. Almost as if you’re hinting that you think him guilty there. I reckon he’s probably engaged in some non-consensual nonsense and the MSM wanted to take him and his influence down so they went hunting for ‘victims’ and found them. In other words, I don’t think these women are necessarily instigating this (others are probably doing that), but I don’t think Brand is completely innocent either.
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  4103. Help the people; not the Taliban.
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  4104. If they were hosting the hustings in Hastings there might be an issue. 😳
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  4105.  @HaveanOreshnik Yes you did. You placed mother right at the end of the sentence, thereby emphasising it. Just admit you made a boo-boo here and we can all move on and watch tonight’s match.
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  4106.  @randyboisa6367  Like your sorry opinion will change world affairs. Translation: I support Israel.
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  4107. @0:10 🐘 As my dear old mum always used to say, never trust men with big ears. Dumbos.👂
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  4108.  @Onion_Knights  Never said everything would be perfect. It’s always a work in progress. Heck, even that mighty beacon of democracy and hope for us all, the US, had a disputed Election last time.😉
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  4109.  @louisee7339  Er, no it’s not. Net migration has never been higher. Are you ok? 🤔
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  4110.  @johnbrennan7175 I disagree with the method, but I 100% understand the motivation here. These people aren’t only expressing their anger at this specific incident; they are making the wider point that they’ve had enough of unfettered mass immigration. I say this as someone who is actually pro-immigration; but pro-very strictly controlled targeted immigration. Not just the free for all it appears to be at this point.👍
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  4111. More a BLT man myself. 🥪
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  4112. Yawn
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  4113.  @JonoPS  ‘As of April 2024, 53 percent of adults in Scotland said they would not support Scotland being independent from the United Kingdom, ...’ (Statista) Check it, son.✌️
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  4114.  @nosmallfeat311 Uh huh. And what does any of that have to do with the fact that an increasingly substantial proportion of Europeans have had enough of mass immigration? Again, you’re spectacularly missing the point.
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  4115. Indeed. And his beard needs a summit meeting with his barnet to sort out the colour they are going with.
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  4116.  @richardpark3054  So share it then. Let’s not have a bully (militarily backed to the hilt by America) dictating the terms and conditions.👍
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  4117.  @Diamonddavej  This. 👏
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  4118. Genuinely never got this skin colour thing, and how some people can’t be doing with a different skin colour from their own. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about.
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  4119. That’ll be why, as of March 2024, Arctic sea ice extent reached its annual maximum, with a monthly value slightly below average, marking the highest March extent since 2013. It’s interesting that MSM never report this stuff. Even if the planet is slightly warming (I tend to think it is, if only anecdotally in my own life), it’s hardly a ‘climate catastrophe’ that we all seem to be forced to believe in.
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  4120. Emotional response. Think. Why would we kill people who kill people to teach people that killing people is wrong? Logical contradiction.😉
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  4121.  @richardduplessis1090  It doesn’t, mate. I regularly get the same comments deleted whether it’s BBC, Guardian or Channel 4. It’s YouTube.
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  4122.  @TheAArmstrong  Oh, I agree about the tv licence thing. That’s not the point, though. I was responding to the OP’s incorrect point.
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  4123. Yeah, but the end of the idea that gave birth to Hamas is not ‘near’. This isn’t a physical thing; this is metaphysical!
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  4124.  @joshradcliffe8563 I never said we shouldn’t jail people. If you want to call that ‘kidnapping’, fine. I have no issue with ‘kidnapping’. There’s a bit of a categorical difference between the state ‘kidnapping’ someone and the state murdering them.
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  4125. No one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world.
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  4126.  @michaelrch  Yeah, so attribute it. He keeps posting it. He’s a thief. It’s not his to quote without attribution.
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  4127. @1:10 “The zoo later claimed the rabbit was safe.” Lol. The same zoo also later claimed the moon’s a balloon! 🤣
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  4128. Surprised old Liz didn’t honour Lewis Capaldi. 😉
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  4129. Learn to use full stops. *.
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  4130. It’s ok. His underpants were in the colours of the Palestinian flag. 🇵🇸 🩲👌
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  4131. Amongst other things, Farage is back to appeal to those who have concerns about mass immigration. However, the issue for many people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  4132. Don’t care, never cared, will never care. Next.
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  4133. Drinker, traitor, guarder, spy!
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  4134. Last time I checked he is just as white as he is black. 🤔
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  4135.  @skontheroad  If I stand with Israel that implicates me in what they are currently doing in the Gaza Strip and I’m not prepared to do that. I’d rather stand for the innocents on both sides caught up in this.
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  4136.  @winning3329  Er, wtf does that have to do with sending in basic humanitarian aid to innocent suffering people? 🤔 *meant - educate yourself before you tell others to educate themselves.
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  4137. Jimbo for the bin! 🗑🤣
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  4138. Really? I thought they were Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.😳
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  4139. ‘Plugging’. 🤭
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  4140. The lazy overuse of the terms ‘Kool Aid’ and ‘woke’ is incredibly irritating; beloved of those who can’t articulate a coherent argument, often.
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  4141. Channel 4? ‘Great broadcaster’? Not if you believe the many thousands who regularly trash Cathy Newman and Krishnan Guru-Murthy in the most vile misogynistic and racist terms.
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  4142.  @gerardmackay8909  Nah. That won’t float, Gerry. It’s not ‘hysterical nonsense’. It’s just common sense.
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  4143. Yes, you are, Jimbo. 😈
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  4144.  @Cedawood  Medal? It’s just an opinion, love. You might need to source some better coping strategies as your current ones clearly aren’t working.👍
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  4145.  @granted3203  Huh? How can I ‘slander’ something which hasn’t been first established? 🤔
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  4146.  @สายฝนทองดีนอก  Huh? That makes no sense. I’m not prepared to pay for unelected numpties. It’s democracy, m8. Cope.
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  4147. The person that wrote the above quote is semi-literate.
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  4148.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Hang in there, Jimbo. Nurse will be with you soon with your medication. She has drastically upped the dosage. 👩‍⚕️ 💊 💊 💊
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  4149.  @westaussie965  Pmsl. Jesus was never here in the first place! 🤣
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  4150. As a Remainer, and democrat, I fully accept the result. Just a little bummed that it was on Boris’ watch that we exited: the E.U. is the only thing Bozo has pulled out of in his entire life!
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  4151.  @jimthompson9370  You can if you want. I’m not stopping you.
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  4152.  @IndigoDisco  Huh? Well, that makes no sense. I was simply saying that Nige has a black African surname. Cope.😂
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  4153. Not actually true. His stand-up is full of jokes, but just not the obviously (sock it to ‘em!) punchline kind. He’s playing with us when he says that.
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  4154. The real George Santos revealed: the lovechild of Alan Carr and Jeff Goldblum. 🪰🤓
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  4155. Indeed, but the ‘profoundest challenge’ Rishi faces, is remaining PM longer than about 2 weeks!
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  4156. Current UK Muslim population is 7% and by 2050 is projected to be 17%. Interesting times.
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  4157. What makes this worse is that ‘Boris’ actually means ‘small’!😳
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  4158. Nice holiday?👍
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  4159. Ugh.
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  4160.  @Thea-gj2or  Lol. What do you think I am? An American?! 🤣
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  4161. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  4162. Tennant’s an odd case. He’s from a central belt Scottish dump called Bathgate which is, essentially, Scotland’s Deliverance territory, yet he comes across as some dude from the posher end of Edinburgh’s Morningside or Stockbridge. As a fellow Scot, it discombobulates my synapses! 😵
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  4163. No. Most of the killing is being done a few hundred miles East.
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  4164. 1:07 Daniel Craig appears to be morphing into Sid James before our very eyes. 👀
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  4165.  @rjkmusicmedia  As far as I can see there was nothing in this report that wasn’t more or less the truth. Yeah, we can debate the is ‘Meloni a fascist?’ thing till the cows come home, but anyone who is leading a party with strong fascist roots and who has repeatedly publicly expressed her admiration for Mussolini, I think it’s safe to assume is pretty far-right. And that’s before we get into her policies.
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  4166.  @iceman463864  Word salad. The vast majority of women don’t want an unsolicited kiss from some random on their lips. Cope. 💋
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  4167.  @iceman463864  F*ck-all to do with feeling “morally superior”. Everything to do with kissing another human being full on their lips without their express consent. Not sure how you can’t see this. If you think it’s ok, fine. I don’t.👌
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  4168.  @Noel-ji8nm  The “problem” is kissing another human being full on their lips without their express consent. Not sure how you can’t see this. If you think it’s ok, fine. I don’t.👌
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  4169.  @xFF7xGIRLx  That was the gag. 🤦‍♂️
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  4170.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  That’s fine, Jimbo, but in the same breath you have to call for the immediate repatriation of the millions of Europeans not currently living in Europe. Works both ways.
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  4171. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for “homogeneity” are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to be homogeneous with, Jimbo? 🤔
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  4172. “Evil”?!?! Lol. What? Dancing?!?! Pmsl. 💃 🕺
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  4173. It’s Murcia on the dancefloor. RIP.
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  4174.  @jeffjohns6414 But you yourself are an ‘Indian man’, ‘Jeff’. I do hope you’ve learned as one of these Indian men. 👍🙃😉
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  4175. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  4176. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  4177. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  4178. ‘Grilled for hours’, huh? Was he served up with some fava beans and a nice Chianti? 🍷 Pfth. Pfth. Pfth.
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  4179. 🤷‍♂️ This is healthy. It’s nature doing nature. The last thing we need at this point is manmade invisible sky daddies. 🤦‍♂️
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  4180.  @ztaylor82  I’d argue, that if you smoke, you almost constantly stink and, well, frankly, it’s just a disgusting habit; particularly for us non-smokers.
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  4181.  @julia2k8 Yes, and consenting homosexuals have a right to have sex.
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  4182.  @newmankidman5763  Curmudgeon! I thought it was rather a sweet distraction from the horrors of Meghan and Harry! 🤣
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  4183.  @wakabayashigenzo4373  Yeah, nice people as long as you share their thoughts, their behaviours. Heaven forfend that others may think differently from these ‘enlightened’ Germans.
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  4184. @Nicolas Olivier Did the ‘indigenous’ natives have any say in whether they wanted the imposition of that general European ‘environment’? Were they given that choice? If they weren’t, then what right do you have to complain when non-Europeans come to live in Europe?
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  4185.  @cal7168  Indeed. That’s my point. The term is meaningless, as it all depends where you choose to begin now, doesn’t it, depending on your agenda?
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  4186.  @davidwatson2399  He knows, Dave. He can’t help it. It’s a kind of Tourette’s for poor Jimbo. There is no saving the chump.
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  4187. Apparently if they try to raise it it will likely just disintegrate due to metal-corrosion. It’s fascinating that the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, was able to be raised remarkably intact 437 years after it sank, yet barely 100 years after Titanic sank, raising it would be futile. There’s a lot to be said for old stuff. Planned obsolescence wasn’t a thing back in Henry VIII’s day. Unless we’re talking his wives! 😮
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  4188. Said the Bishop to the choirboy.
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  4189.  @MikkaFitnessFrance You stick to the gym, dude, and leave basic geography to the rest of us! 👍😂 🏋️‍♀️
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  4190.  @Just_another_Euro_dude  “Southern Europe is cold in winter.” Well, it’s kinda relative, dude. 2,000m up a mountain in the Sierra Nevada, perhaps, but, say, Seville isn’t, in relative terms, ‘cold’ in winter. Average about 17°C. Properly ‘cold’ surely has to be something hovering at or under the 0°C mark. 17°C is very mild. Most of Canada is ‘cold’ ( actually cold!) in winter!
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  4191.  @MikkaFitnessFrance Er, last time I checked there were no real mountains in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Wales, England, Ireland etc. For me, to qualify as a proper mountain you must be 3,000m+.
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  4192.  @teaveins1466  It’s far more to do with the history of slavery and monarchy being a symbol of empire. We all know the modern monarchy is defanged; but as a symbol of an oppressive, unelected, unaccountable regime it still holds power and that’s reason enough to consign it to the dustbin of history.
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  4193. We need to be able to openly and freely discuss the threat of Islam to a secular, free, liberal, democratic Europe. People in Europe are not seeing frequent attacks on the European mainland (well over 100 since 2004) done in the name of Jesus, or Krishna, or Buddha, or Moses, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Is it any wonder a good proportion of Europeans deeply mistrust the religion of Islam? To call it ‘Islamophobia’ is a joke. It’s a rational reaction to the ocular evidence.
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  4194.  @ttii9  Imo, organised religion has caused humanity vastly more trouble and strife than it’s worth. There might be a God. I have no idea. But when large groups of humans gather round the idea that there is a God, history tells us that it causes humanity nothing but trouble.
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  4195.  @winstoningram99  Have another tinfoil hat! Suits you, Sir! 👍
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  4196.  @Kieranp96 So it was a joke. You didn’t get it. 🤦‍♂️
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  4197.  @tyrin2221  Wow! Really? How primitive.
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  4198.  @yummydishes2279  If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. Case closed.
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  4199.  @julia2k8  🥱
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  4200.  @ScottishAtheist  Mate, don’t get involved with Julia. She epitomises Mark Twain’s pithy observation: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. 👍
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  4201.  @garthreid7114 No.
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  4202.  @HarryF-tz5fo  That may be so, but none of that negates anything in the OP.
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  4203.  @randyrogers8201  👍
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  4204.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not seeking to “twist” anything. I was simply making some connections. Ffs, man, you really do need some better coping strategies.
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  4205.  @e.t.c.5836  I said: Tragic. The irony is that if we got enough elephants together and they all flapped their ears simultaneously, they could cool the planet by about 1°C. 🐘
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  4206. So it landed on the moon. I once mooned on the land? Does that count? 🤓
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  4207.  @dominic197733  What? You are aware that the warmest eight years on record have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three?
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  4208. It’s “news” to me, sunshine. And many others I know. You really do need better coping strategies are you are apt to get triggered at the teeniest, slightest thing aren’t you, darling? Uh huh. 😊
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  4209. One-child policy? Two-child policy? Three-child policy? Pah! These are nothing. Jimmy Savile, for example, had a ‘thousand-child policy’! 🤓
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  4210.  @kylerittenhousecommieslaye3558  If you go back right to the beginning we all looked African. Your point is?
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  4211.  @SubwayLoyal  Huh? I said I was a democrat, and this tart 🙄 accuses me of not being a democrat! Hence the ‘huh?’
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  4212.  @thelink4492  Huh? 🤔
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  4213. Lovely “Iranian” name you have there, Susan.👍😉👌
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  4214.  @anthonyballard8468  Humanity has been ‘creating’ a Creator since time immemorial.
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  4215.  @ninjaweretiger4273  I repeat: I think it’s political more than anything else. Whenever it’s political, I deeply distrust it.
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  4216.  @ninjaweretiger4273  This has been happening since time immemorial! 🤦‍♂️
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  4217.  @hgbnkbggj2915  Don’t worry, m8; our Jimbo is wrong about absolutely everything. Eh, Jimbo? 😉
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  4218.  @julia2k8  🥱
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  4219. Thought: if Switzerland can be neutral then why can’t the rest of us be neutral? Would save a whole lot of bother.🇨🇭
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  4220. You quote that like it hasn’t been happening since humans first appeared! 🥴
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  4221.  @thelastofthehitachi972  Imo, if I were a civil servant in France (or anywhere else), I don’t want the state telling me what I can or cannot wear. I’m not telling anyone else what they can or cannot wear so I don’t appreciate it the other way. As I said, it just smacks of dictatorial, fascistic behaviour.
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  4222. @1:42 Lovely to see Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams having his say. We need as many varied voices in this conflict as possible. Fair play to the lad.👍
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  4223. What’s eternally fascinating and exasperating about situations like this where 99% want none of it, Russian or Ukrainian, is that we allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as his unhinged whim dictates. 😳
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  4224. Never understood this political desire of so many to go to the extremes, whether left or right. I never trust either type. Somehow, they always seem so unbalanced.
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  4225.  @Challengerscatpack50  I’m no eco-warrior. Just someone who dispassionately looks at the evidence and considers what’s what. In this case, I have done that. I believe the planet is warming. I believe it is warming quite alarmingly rapidly in historical terms. I believe humankind is contributing (at least in part) to this warming through fossil fuel burning. The end.
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  4226.  @sebastianguerre6868  Yeah, but 500 million years ago there weren’t 8 billion (and rising) people living on this planet competing for finite land and food and resources.
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  4227.  @rvdb7363  The shade doesn't make temperatures cooler. This is all because the temperature you feel in the shade is the actual air temperature. Being in direct sunlight can make the air feel 10-15 degrees warmer than it actually is because of the sun's rays touching your skin but it’s not actually any warmer on the thermometer. In other words, the sun/shade argument here doesn’t hold and if it’s 51°C in the sun it’s 51°C in the shade, too.
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  4228.  @xevicxavier9802 🤣
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  4229. @@mrrayong-jg2vn Yes, but can I have that in English, please? 🤓
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  4230.  @sebastianwrites  Bot-geezer. Take your agenda elsewhere.
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  4231.  @TrueTruth1  You’re confusing Hamas with the Palestinians. Nice try, though.👍
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  4232. Depends where they shave, I suppose.😳
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  4233. Awww. I was expecting Santa Claus. 🎅
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  4234. Yeah, but with a name like yours, I dare say you’re not wholly unbiased here. If you were called ‘Joshua Cohen’, I bet you would’ve typed something rather different.
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  4235.  @Black-Peter  Yeah, a ‘house’ whose 2005 constitution provides for hereditary rule by the emir's male branch of the al-Thani family. Call me modern, but I rather like a bit of freedom of speech and debate as to ‘rules’, particularly if these rules concern something so basic and fundamental as one’s sexuality.
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  4236.  @A1readyDead  Lol. You need to beg, borrow or steal a sense of humour, m8, and fast!
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  4237.  @bubblewrapvillain  If places like Singapore, Japan, the UK, Germany, Australia and Canada can all get a handle on gun control, why can’t America? Oh, yeah, that 2nd Amendment thing.
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  4238.  @Adam-mo6gf  All I’m saying is it’s extraordinarily culturally-blind to ignore the historical barbarities our forbears have committed when people like you moan when a few funny looking foreigners pitch up in your neck of the woods, that’s all. I’m not blaming you personally for all these ignominies, but you are certainly complicit by virtue of being from the place in the name of which these terrible acts occurred, particularly when you are such a seemingly vocal patriot (presumably you are another one of those who believe in national ‘pride’ based on arbitrary, random, accidents of birth. I may be wrong.) Just for the record, I’m not an open-door immigration advocate and I do actually think certain strands of Islam should make a bit more of an effort; however, every other culture I can think of, aside from this one, who lives here does make that effort.
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  4239.  indiasuperclean6969  Lol. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” 🤣
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  4240. Well, perhaps. However, I generally find that people with less easy access to guns tends to equal fewer hurt people. Just sayin’! 🤠
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  4241. All about the 2nd Amendment, mate.😉
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  4242. More knife crime in US actually, so that’s a red herring, mate.
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  4243.  @cdickenson82  Moreover, I don’t believe that even in NI there are ongoing discussions to issue schoolteachers with weapons. 😉
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  4244.  @nuqwestr  As for the population thing, well, that’s a non-sequitur in this debate. If we’re going to go down that road, then let’s take Europe as a whole as the comparison then. Similar population sizes. Nothing much changes in the points made.
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  4245.  @nuqwestr  90% of rank and file British police are not routinely armed. That was my point. Armed Response Units are a whole different thing.
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  4246. The last time I met a ‘Frank Gardner’ he told me to “get off the lawn, you tit!”
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  4247. Incoming sense of fun bypass alert! Incoming sense of fun bypass alert! 🧀
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  4248. 2:30 Wow! James Dean Bradfield’s Ukrainian is bloody brilliant! Fair play.👍
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  4249. There’s no love like Christian hate, eh?😉
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  4250.  @supermanexpert6462  I don’t proactively ‘harass’ anyone; but if I see what I personally consider unjust I’ll call it, and this Ugandan law, as I see it, is dark, primitive, backward, barbaric and just not worthy of enlightened, thinking human beings. That doesn’t mean to say I want to impose my mores and ideas on Uganda, as what that country does it up to itself; all I can say is that Uganda is one of the last places on Earth I would want to live and I thank my lucky stars I don’t have to and that I live in a relatively enlightened place when it comes to sex/gender rights.
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  4251. 0:26 “Boko Haram”: ie. an Islamist, jihadist organisation. The sooner this planet can live without unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies, the sooner we might have a little more peace.
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  4252.  @utubebroadcaster  Define ‘weird’ …
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  4253.  @ralphdavis9670  ‘We’? Not me, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  4254. If you show up with a Fujifilm camera will they let you take a picture? 📷 🏔
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  4255. ⛄️ Mad stuff! With all these extremes from season to season, they may have to alter the State names accordingly 🌴: Squallabama 🥶 Alabalmy 😎 Alaskia 🥶 Baked Alaska 😎 Arizsnowa 🥶 Aridzona 😎 Arkanthaw 🥶 Arkansawdust 😎 Califognia 🥶 Tropicalifornia 😎 Coolorado 🥶 Swimmingpoolorado 😎 Connecticold 🥶 Airconnecticut 😎 Delaglare 🥶 Delabare 😎 Flurryda 🥶 Torrida 😎 Georjackfrost 🥶 Scorchia 😎 Thawaii 🥶 Hawaheat 😎 Slideaho 🥶 Humidaho 😎 Chillinois 🥶 Grillinois 😎 Windiana 🥶 Indianaked 😎 Iowhiteout 🥶 Lilowa 😎 Kansice 🥶 Tansas 😎 Godforsakentucky🥶Kensunstrucky 😎 Louicyana 🥶 Loubeesiana 😎 Mainedeer 🥶 Maineshine 😎 Buryland 🥶 Marysand 😎 Massachillsetts🥶Sunmaskachusetts 😎 Michighandwarmers 🥶Mitchygan 😎 Mittensota 🥶 Manitshota! 😎 Missiceslippy 🥶 Missicecreamy 😎 Missfury 🥶 Blissouri 😎 Montanavalanche 🥶 Montfana 😎 Nebbbrrraska 🥶 Nebaska 😎 Nevada ~ already means Neveranda 😎 ‘snowy mountains’ 🥶 New Hampshiver 🥶 New Hampfire 😎 Blew Jersey 🥶 Phew! Jersey 😎 New Mexicool 🥶 Stew Mexico 😎 Snowshoe York 🥶 Tennisshoe York😎 North/South Barrelina 🥶North/South Camelina😎 North/South Dacoata 🥶North/South Dakhota 😎 Snowhio 🥶 Ohsigho 😎 Oklabomba 🥶 Sunstrokelahoma 😎 Thawregon 🥶 Oregoneoff 😎 Pennsylweathervania🥶Pennsnilrainia 😎 Rhode Iceland 🥶 Rhode Dryland 😎 Tennessleet 🥶 Tennessteamy 😎 Texice 🥶 Texass 😎 Uthaw 🥶 Blutah 😎 Shivermont 🥶 Heatwavermont 😎 Frozen Riverginia 🥶 Virginiasling 😎 Washingtoboggan 🥶 Washingsun 😎 Rawest Virginia 🥶 Sweat Virginia 😎 Wicesconsin 🥶 Wisconsunburn 😎 Wysnowing 🥶 Fryoming 😎
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  4256.  @calvinware7957  But I’ve just been told they are ‘Russian’, not Ukrainian. If that’s the case why don’t they fuck off to Russia? And if they’re ‘Ukrainian’ and not Russian, what’s the issue?
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  4257. This whole thing is really rather simple: ask the people of Ukraine if they want to be part of Russia, and the democratic will of the people is carried.
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  4258. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  4259. What you got against Geography Supply Teachers?😳
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  4260. @Nihcas This war feels staged. There’s something fishy about it. I suppose that was my original point. It feels convenient for certain parties to prolong this thing as long as they can.
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  4261. Right decision. Really should’ve gone after Euro 2020. England got to 2 Euro finals despite Southgate, not because of him. Get someone in who can properly drive this thing. It’s like he was Del Boy driving a Ferrari when all he knew was a Robin Reliant!
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  4262. Stolen comment.
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  4263.  @kateryna5284  Bullcrap! Rublev, for one, explicitly came out against the war! As I said, this should be done on a case by case basis, not just a blanket ban on a random accident of birth.
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  4264. Well, it’s better than a ‘human shield’, I suppose.
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  4265.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  And believe it or not, it’s really not about you either. Let that sink in.
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  4266. Jose Mourinho concurs.
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  4267. Lol. I’m going to show this as a word-perfect example of virtue signalling to my social studies students. 👍
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  4268. “So how many bots are there on Twitter?” Quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a flying f*ck.
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  4269.  @PeterG1975  Yes, it says I more hate human beings who harm animals than human beings who harm other human beings.
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  4270.  @lordyoda9382  Indeed, that’s why some of us don’t eat animals.
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  4271. S’ok. They’ve never heard of you, either. 👍
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  4272. Thumbnail looks like a young Asian John Lennon in a wind tunnel! 🌬
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  4273.  @hwd7 Nah. I’ve looked into it, petal. He never existed. More copium?
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  4274. *have
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  4275. @0:35 Ah, the bitter irony of that ‘COMFY’ sign over the reporter’s left shoulder.
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  4276. Yawn
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  4277. Russia blames Ukraine; Ukraine blames Russia; Russia blames US; I blame RoNaLd McDoNaLd. 🤡
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  4278.  @sci-fi.tsunami  You’re right, it’s not my thing, but even with it not being my thing, the overkill coverage of this was a little off. If we focused half as much on sinking migrant boats full of poor people as we do on entitled rich sods scratching a dangerous and foolish itch, this world might be a better place.
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  4279. Macron would never have dared bring this in before his wife turned 64. She was 62, apparently. Funny that.
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  4280.  @alexsilent5603  No. That won’t do. I made the point that Russia is twice as big as the next country on this planet and it still wants more. And you pitch up with a Russian flag suggesting that’s nonsense and we’re supposed to take you seriously. 🤦‍♂️
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  4281. Nothing to do with ‘voters’, son; everything to do with the woman who is carrying the child. Why you, or I, should have a say in this is irrelevant.
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  4282.  @meroepiankhy183  If a supposedly ‘poxy’ Ukrainian army can hold off the factually 2nd biggest military on this planet (a military that haughtily, arrogantly presumed it could just roll into Kiev in a day or two), I call that brave, notwithstanding the war crimes that will have been committed on both sides, no doubt.
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  4283. “Compassionate”?! If 98% of this comment section is anything to go by, Brits are anything but compassionate.
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  4284. Alas, it may just be the end of the beginning.
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  4285.  @Ghostrider-ul7xn  Awww, diddums. 😢
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  4286.  @SLonxxxx  AND I’M NOT PRO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!!! 🤦‍♂️ How many more times?
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  4287.  duncansmith7562  Huh? How am I a disgusting bigot? I fear you have the wrong fella, m8. His name’s Jimbo. Get it right or not at all.👍
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  4288. I came for the ⚽️s.
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  4289. Says the ‘Calvinist’. Why should we heed the words of some random who’s invented his own invisible sky daddy?
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  4290.  @foryounoname8392  Well, for me, you’re British if you’re born here, or have British citizenship. Simple, really.
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  4291.  @nigelnuj  No they didn’t. I don’t drive.
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  4292. Evan help him.
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  4293.  @Kelmorcellus  He’s an actor fronting a proxy war. Cope better.
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  4294. She’s the daughter of an airline trolley dolly ffs. Get over it.
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  4295. Like China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, Russia is one of far too many countries not to use democracy.
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  4296.  @Greenpoloboy3 It’s to do with specific trigger words whether comments are removed, not whether they are or are not spam per se. You could write 500 words and if you have one word on the YouTube banned list, you are removed.
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  4297. They called it a ‘centre-right government’ in this report. So back in your box.
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  4298.  @springbok4015  Well said. This comment should be pinned. 👍
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  4299.  @kieran6417 Some might argue that humans are currently living in hell. It’s called ‘planet Earth’.
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  4300.  @mrthai-rg9nv  🥔 🥔
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  4301.  @ronniesearcy6602  *too Neither are you.
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  4302. Incoming Incel Alert! Incoming Incel Alert! 🚨
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  4303. G’wan then. Naff off, son. Don’t wipe yer feet.
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  4304. Even if, for the sake of argument, we accept Putin’s contention that the West is ‘occupying’ Ukraine, what business is that of Russia’s? That’s a bit like saying Britain is ‘occupying’ France, so Spain randomly kicks off. Makes no sense. Yes, there are ethnic Russians in Ukraine, but there are ethnic Russians all over the planet, and are we going to make these places part of Russia? No, the bottom line in this whole farrago has been quite simple: the majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin’s mad designs for a Russian motherland. That ship sailed in 1989, and those who do want to be part of that gang can freely move to Russia if they so desire. Leave the rest out of it.
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  4305.  @yl9154  As to “intent”, it’s my opinion that Netanyahu intended and intends to take out innocent Palestinians as he goes. I may be wrong but don’t think I am.
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  4306.  @paul7TM  I don’t care what it is. I don’t want some religious blokes dictating to me what I can and cannot wear. I know dozens of practising Muslim women who are allowed to choose whether they veil or not. It should be a choice; not a diktat.
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  4307.  @mzaf2247  I don’t give a flying f*ck about “narratives”; all I care about is not letting wholly innocent people suffer unnecessarily.
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  4308. He’s not too keen on you, either.
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  4309. If you’re a sovereign, self-governing nation and the will of the majority doesn’t want the UK politically and constitutionally squatting in their home, then this is their right. If the boot were on the other foot, and Britain were a subordinate lackey to Canada, or Australia or New Zealand, those who bang on about the Commonwealth, wouldn’t be banging on about it quite so much. The days of Britain ‘ruling the waves’ are long, long gone. Britain can’t even control its own southern waters at this point. If majority will (via referendum) decides for New Zealand to be a republic, then that will is carried.
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  4310. ‘God’s’ a big part of the problem here, darling.
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  4311. Given that A.I. seems to be the way we are going, how about a binding agreement that all future wars are to be fought between robots? Save a lot of trouble and strife for the humans amongst us. Just a thought.
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  4312.  @ModelA  ‘Native American’?! You look like Ally McCoist! 👍🤣
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  4313. 4k?! What are you looking at? All I see is 63 likes more than hour since it was posted.
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  4314. Funny how things go. Growing up in the UK I lived in a street where literally no one locked their house front-doors, let alone locking school front-doors. Ever since Dunblane in 1996, that all changed vis-a-vis schools. As for houses, no one would dream of leaving these unlocked now, at any time really, whether you’re in them or not.
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  4315. Well, he shouldn’t have been a lech then.
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  4316. 🎶 Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit🎵(“Rabbit” - Chas & Dave 🐇) 🎶 Wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit, wabbit🎵(Chinese remix 🐇)
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  4317. He doesn’t care.
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  4318.  @warprecautions631  Not suggesting anything sinister. She just appears clear-eyed and unfucked-up given her ‘ordeal’, that’s all. Maybe just testament to her strong character. As ‘someone who knows the family’ you will know this better than I.
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  4319. And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. (Walt Whitman)
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  4320. The wit and wisdom of Dolly “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” “I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.” “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.” “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” “It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”😆
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  4321.  @JeffreyGoddin  For me, if a woman is raped, her right to an abortion trumps the rights of that unborn child. You can disagree; that’s fine.
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  4322.  @tickledeggz  Personally, I’m morally repulsed by kiddy pics, whether real or AI generated, but I’d definitely say I’m less repulsed by 100% AI generated stuff quite simply as there are no victims. Subjective feeling tells me it is ‘wrong’, but philosophically it may not objectively be so and this was all I was querying in my OP.
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  4323.  @kant.68  Pretty sure paedophiles don’t consciously choose to desire children in the same way I don’t consciously choose to desire women, so in that sense, it’s exactly the same.
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  4324.  @edwells4769  Not sure. Had a few. 🍻
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  4325. Thumbnail: Kudos to Modi for his quite convincing Jude Bellingham impression. 👍
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  4326. Bot.
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  4327. One knows when someone begins a post on YouTube with: “During my career”, you’re invariably dealing with a pompous tosser. 👍
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  4328. About what? Grammar? Clearly not you.
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  4329.  @unoworld9126  No, I’m not. I’m simply saying that organised religion, on balance, has been an utter disaster for humanity. Deal with it.
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  4330.  @theeraphatsunthornwit6266  Look, mate, not here for a philosophical debate. This quote, for me, perfectly sums up the doubting Thomas mindset of organised religion; hence the passionate intensity with which many monotheistic nutters hold their beliefs, as witnessed by this report.
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  4331.  @abominusrex3205  If you like the quote,check out the book!😉
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  4332.  @brunofernandez3117  Uh huh. And if she chooses to abort, the key issue is it’s none of your damn business.
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  4333. @Iridescent No. You are clearly not getting this: it’s the woman’s body. It’s her choice. You are not involved.
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  4334.  @cabininthewoods7326  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  4335.  @yasuke1280  Every “fact” the Israeli side quotes, can be countered with a Palestinian “fact”. I don’t care. No skin in this game. I happen to think organised religion and nationalism are the 2 most idiotic things humankind have had the misfortune to invent. No simpin here, baby. Cope harder.😉
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  4336.  @Krytern  Yeah, but let’s face it, m8, we’ve all covered up our slums at one point or another. Particularly when the mother-in-law is due to pay a visit. 👵
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  4337.  @sarah69420  Her hubby has had some terribly scurrilous comments about him made online in this case. I’ve read dozens.
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  4338. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  4339. Kevin 34:2 🙏
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  4340.  @Casper_7-7  I’ve just checked your account. I might have known we’d have a gamer on our hands. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the amount of games people have played is in inverse proportion to the amount of books they have read.
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  4341.  @TheLucanicLord  I don’t care. It was 5 horses. Those religious freaks keep saying 4 (to fit their wee theory) as most people understand it as 4 ‘horsemen of the Apocalypse blah, blah, blah’ but it was actually 5 horses that bolted yesterday.
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  4342.  MattBrocklebank It was 5 horses, somewhat scuppering your little fantasy there, Matt.👍
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  4343.  @NationalYouth677  ‘Proud Nationalist’? What? ‘Proud’ of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  4344. A messy night is when Lionel is on a good game.
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  4345. Indeed, looking at his policies they voted for the extremely right person.
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  4346.  @ZaviahIV  Seems to be alright by the Italians, who have recognisably the best levels of nutrition in Europe, and are constantly in the top 3 countries for the most healthy in the world. 🍝
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  4347. ⛄️ Mad stuff! With all these extremes from season to season, they may have to alter the State names accordingly 🌴: Squallabama 🥶 Alabalmy 😎 Alaskia 🥶 Baked Alaska 😎 Arizsnowa 🥶 Aridzona 😎 Arkanthaw 🥶 Arkansawdust 😎 Califognia 🥶 Tropicalifornia 😎 Coolorado 🥶 Swimmingpoolorado 😎 Connecticold 🥶 Airconnecticut 😎 Delaglare 🥶 Delabare 😎 Flurryda 🥶 Torrida 😎 Georjackfrost 🥶 Scorchia 😎 Thawaii 🥶 Hawaheat 😎 Slideaho 🥶 Humidaho 😎 Chillinois 🥶 Grillinois 😎 Windiana 🥶 Indianaked 😎 Iowhiteout 🥶 Lilowa 😎 Kansice 🥶 Tansas 😎 Godforsakentucky🥶Kensunstrucky 😎 Louicyana 🥶 Loubeesiana 😎 Mainedeer 🥶 Maineshine 😎 Buryland 🥶 Marysand 😎 Massachillsetts🥶Sunmaskachusetts 😎 Michighandwarmers 🥶Mitchygan 😎 Mittensota 🥶 Manitshota! 😎 Missiceslippy 🥶 Missicecreamy 😎 Missfury 🥶 Blissouri 😎 Montanavalanche 🥶 Montfana 😎 Nebbbrrraska 🥶 Nebaska 😎 Nevada ~ already means Neveranda 😎 ‘snowy mountains’ 🥶 New Hampshiver 🥶 New Hampfire 😎 Blew Jersey 🥶 Phew! Jersey 😎 New Mexicool 🥶 Stew Mexico 😎 Snowshoe York 🥶 Tennisshoe York😎 North/South Barrelina 🥶North/South Camelina😎 North/South Dacoata 🥶North/South Dakhota 😎 Snowhio 🥶 Ohsigho 😎 Oklabomba 🥶 Sunstrokelahoma 😎 Thawregon 🥶 Oregoneoff 😎 Pennsylweathervania🥶Pennsnilrainia 😎 Rhode Iceland 🥶 Rhode Dryland 😎 Tennessleet 🥶 Tennessteamy 😎 Texice 🥶 Texass 😎 Uthaw 🥶 Blutah 😎 Shivermont 🥶 Heatwavermont 😎 Frozen Riverginia 🥶 Virginiasling 😎 Washingtoboggan 🥶 Washingsun 😎 Rawest Virginia 🥶 Sweat Virginia 😎 Wicesconsin 🥶 Wisconsunburn 😎 Wysnowing 🥶 Fryoming 😎
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  4348. Difficult one, really. There are a number of possible suspects: Brittcoin; Ethelreum; Binancy; Carlyanno; Elon Musk. Take your pick. 🤓
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  4349.  @MeghanBrowning-cy3tm  Upvoting yourself again, I see. 😉 A bit arrogant, no?
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  4350.  @muckraker7942  Naff all to do with ‘Marxism’, pal. Almost everyone I’m aware of is pro same-sex marriage and not a single one is a Marxist. You need better material.
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  4351. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  4352. “All the world’s a stage and a lot of the men and women merely slayers.”
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  4353.  @notjustforhackers4252  Lmao. 14 years vs. a couple of months?! Yeah, righto, time-bender! 👍😂
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  4354.  @Dubjaxfilms  Because there is no war in Eritrea. D’oh! 🤦‍♂️
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  4355.  @fireflyaries  Well, given the debate is over the Catholic Church, I’m guessing ‘judgement’; after all, one judgemental institution deserves another! 🥸
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  4356. Ah, the G7 Summit; a colder, emptier, more desolate place it would be hard to imagine; except perhaps the summit of K2. 😳
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  4357. K, Jesus.👍
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  4358.  @ChristianThePagan ’Colour me unimpressed’? Do ppl really speak like this? Cringe.
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  4359.  @morphkogan8627 I’m not rich, nor do I have a non-standard home. I’m British. Lots of people say ‘lounge’. Including me! Jesus, why is this so difficult? 🤦‍♂️
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  4360.  @belladonnatook8851  👍
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  4361.  @ian_r125  Wrong again. I have a lounge. Always have had a lounge. Always will have a lounge. You need better coping strategies, petal, as your current ones clearly aren’t working.
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  4362.  @ian_r125  No they’re not. I have a lounge in my house.
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  4363.  @realangel777  Nurse will be with you soon with your daily meds. 👩‍⚕️
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  4364.  @АннаИванык  What you said there is utterly irrelevant. If the majority of Ukrainians don’t want to be part of the Russian ‘motherland’, you need to respect this. Putin didn’t respect this, and that’s why he’s getting his arse kicked.
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  4365. Hardly surprising Pelosi is travelling to Taiwan; she’s always had a Taipei personality.
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  4366.  @루루97  Social agreement is kinda the same thing as faith; as long as I trust (ie have faith in) the system and trust others to trust the system, it works. If we all agreed tomorrow not to trust it, it would fall apart.
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  4367.  @bluecollarworker7560  The point is that there is a tribe which is extraordinarily reluctant to move from its place of birth and upbringing; this correlates with a drastically lower level of education. Don’t shoot the messenger.
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  4368. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  4369.  @Buckets1000 Really? Have you polled all of Ireland to get this result, or just polled the dudes who happen to agree with you? 🤔
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  4370. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  4371.  @XXXTENTAClON227  Ok. Here’s one I made especially for you: This story just highlights the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings.
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  4372.  @888bangthory  Yeah, technically it’s all ‘British Isles’ but the vast, vast majority of Irish people south of the border do not consider themselves British in the sense Scots, Welsh and English do. 👍
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  4373. @@angrykulla I do. See above and weep. 😭
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  4374.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Perfectly human here, son. Seethe. 😉
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  4375.  @wooviee An ‘atrocity’ is 99.9% of the time taken to mean someone committing an atrocity affecting and harming others. You don’t generally commit an atrocity on yourself. ✌️
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  4376.  @moonshoes11 ​​⁠You’ve just proved my point by providing the definitions of ‘wicked’ and ‘cruel’. Just admit you were wrong and we can all move on.👍
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  4377. Don’t worry, you can see him taking charlie in the chocolate factory.
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  4378.  @Landis_Grant  Figure of speech, dear boy, figure of speech. You may be too thick to get these.😉
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  4379. @@IggyBooS Triggered? 😉
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  4380. @1:52 Reminds me of the Giant’s Causeway.
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  4381. You have to properly establish the existence of this ‘God’ before you go making rash claims like that. Just stating shit doesn’t make it true.
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  4382. Yawn
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  4383. Humans too often don’t care about other humans.
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  4384. Thank goodness you put the word ‘hat’ between ‘hard’ and ‘on’ there. Phew! You had me worried.😳
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  4385. Whenever I see the horrendous aftermath of a train derailment, it always looks unfailingly like my 125-train set I frequently derailed back in 1982. As Shakespeare said: “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.” 🙏
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  4386. *Today’s👈Spotted this at the last moment, Jimbo! You really do need basic remedial lessons in the use of the possessive apostrophe, son.
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  4387.  @frederickjones532 Indeed! The Milton knowledge is good with you! 👍🤣
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  4388. Billy’s my ‘idol’.
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  4389.  @TrilobitesRTasty  Huh? 🤔 Are you sure? Read the last part of his last sentence.
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  4390. Yeah, the ones that haven’t been massacred in Ukraine.
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  4391. Yeah, but to be fair, if we peer closely at Zelensky and what his government and supporters have done in eastern Ukraine particularly, since 2014, I’m pretty sure we’d turn up some pretty nasty stuff. Putin’s an arse, and obviously wrong to invade sovereign, self-governing nations, but one advantage of being neutral in this whole thing, is seeing through the tendentious rhetoric, no matter from whichever side that rhetoric emanates.
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  4392. Good news. Swede. All Ukraine needs to do is Finnish this whole thing off as there’s Norway Russia can win now. Denmark my words.
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  4393. You only get an ‘oo’ with a typhoon. 🌀
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  4394.  @superstormthunder3  I said: Ty John Kettley. 👍
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  4395.  @attari56  I’ll attest to that!
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  4396.  @HouseholdDog  You can’t. It’s sold out.
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  4397.  @_ArsNova  And why do you keep upvoting yourself?
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  4398.  @_ArsNova  And I’ll repeat: it’s between the 2 people who conceived the child. It’s simply none of your business.
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  4399. I think you meant “virtue”, Lukey, but orthographic accuracy was never your strong suit.
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  4400.  @WilfTompkins5546  Not sitting on any fence. I’m pro legally controlled immigration. It’s you who hasn’t clearly stated a position. Hypocrites R Us.
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  4401.  @j.harrison6744  I know what it means; others don’t. I want their take on the old homogeneity gig. 👍
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  4402.  @skymanifest8339  Ok, I’ve done a bit of homework on you ‘sky’. Invariably I’m proved right about this: you are another one to add to Jimbo I have no desire to be ‘homogeneous’ with. Uh huh.👍
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  4403.  @skymanifest8339  I want you personally to define it for me. So …
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  4404.  @skymanifest8339  Define “homogeneous”.
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  4405.  @louiewood7689  Er, no.
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  4406. Some of the birds in Spain do alright; particularly if they frequent the better nightclubs.
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  4407.  @elliotjohnson9415 👈”Because Elon Musk is a growing problem.” Ok. Ty. At least we know where you stand. 👍😉
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  4408.  @elliotjohnson9415  I agree. That’s why we have libel/slander laws. However, the 1st Amendment is key here. As Orwell (a non-American) said: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.”
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  4409.  @sachinkumarbharti8476  That’s not the point. Charlie isn’t running my country.
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  4410. To expect soldiers who capture surrendered enemy soldiers not to smack their quarry up a little, is like expecting non-feeling, non-emoting, non-avenging automatons programmed to observe the ‘rules of war’ at all times; until they go all Westworld, and dare I say, ‘human’. Yeah, right; good luck with that one.
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  4411.  @freddexta3363  Think about what?
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  4412. Nigeria has an ignominious history of ‘military rule’. Personally, I don’t need to be ‘ruled’ by anyone , let alone the military!
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  4413. Not seen this and, at first sight, probably won’t. However, given it’s directed by Greta Gerwig, it’ll probably be good if her 3 previously directed movies are anything to go by; particularly Little Women and the quite brilliant Lady Bird.
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  4414.  @chrish8764  Lol. Wtf are you on about? 🤣
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  4415. Stolen comment.
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  4416.  @pandrop490  Last time I checked a synonym for malleable was “adaptable”. Cope and seethe.
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  4417.  @chadimirputin2282  Nah, Chaddy. I just don’t necessarily subscribe to your witch-hunt, m8. S’all.😉
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  4418.  @chadimirputin2282  You appear strangely keen on all this, Chaddy, with all the ages and intimate details. Are you speaking from personal experience? 😳
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  4419. Good! 🪖 Poland should stop procrastinating and just send those Leopard tanks: they’ll knock spots off the Russians! 🐆
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  4420.  @Stevexnycautomotive  🥴
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  4421. Adults are weird. We are all out of Africa and, back in the day, we all “peed in the bush”!
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  4422. As far as I can see, if Baldwin was handed a gun and told it contained blanks, then he is 100% innocent. My only question is why on Earth would you ever have live rounds on a film set, unless there was some nefarious nonsense going down?
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  4423. The biggest mistake Putin has made here was to arrogantly assume a majority of Ukrainians would simply roll over and have their stomachs tickled by the Russians as they rolled in with their tanks. This is the kind of tone-deafness you get when no one has been able to say ‘no’ to one man for 22 years. In a very real sense, the cause of this war rests squarely on Putin’s shoulders and his mad, misguided designs for a greater mother Russia largely conforming to the old USSR. This is why if Putin succeeds in subjugating Ukraine, then Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be very afraid. The good news for them (but not the Ukrainians) is that it looks like because of Putin’s arrogance he may be bogged down in Ukraine for years to come, and even if Russia does subjugate Ukraine, that will only be the beginning, as internal resistance to Russia will be immense. Putin’s 5 main demands: 1. Neutral Ukraine with concomitant commitment never to join NATO. 2. Ukraine disarmed. 3. Protection for Russian language in Ukraine. 4. DeNazification of Ukraine. 5. Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine, including the Donbas … for me, these should be seriously considered by Ukraine, to save what very probably will be the utter destruction of the country and the loss of a large proportion of Ukrainians. If and when Russia can move into some kind of post-Putin democracy, then some of these things may be looked at again. Part of me thinks we should humour this nuclear-armed (blackmail? Appeasement? Perhaps) dictator until he has shuffled off this mortal coil.
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  4424. Just don’t buy it then. Simple. You have the power. 👍
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  4425. Pmsl.
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  4426.  @vommir.  Global Mind Project.
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  4427. To annoy you.
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  4428.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record, I personally wouldn’t fire him, but kissing people on the mouth is deeply intimate (particularly for women), and should only be done with great caution and awareness of the boundaries involved. Just do the kissy kissy cheeky cheeky Continental thing; don’t aggressively grab someone’s head like a human vice and go for a bit of lippy lippy. That was the giveaway for me here: the way he grabbed her head as if to say: “this might not work if I don’t grab her head as I subconsciously know not everyone wants a kiss on the mouth from some random.”
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  4429. Er, why are you upvoting yourself. 🤔
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  4430. Andrew Tate in a prison? Well, that’s an incell for you. 🤓
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  4431.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx Jimbo! You, of all people, calling someone else ‘racist’?! Lmao. Pmsl. Lol. Rofl.🤣😂😅
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  4432. Send in Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. He’d kick Putin’s ass.
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  4433. Seeing scenes like this, one is reminded of my dear departed grandad who used to say that you should always fight fire with fire, which is probably why he got thrown out of the Fire Brigade.
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  4434. To be fair, the wildlife, animals, birds and trees ain’t gonna really be aware of your ‘condolences’. Just sayin’.🤓
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  4435. Get well soon!
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  4436. English is the lingua franca of the world so the vast majority of British people just think: ‘well, wherever I go, some dude’ll speak English and so I’ll get by.’ It encourages laziness in Brits when it comes to languages. The only British people who really speak more than one language are those who live abroad (but even then, e.g. Spain, that’s not guaranteed) or university language graduates. Just for the record, it’s *a lot. You can have ‘allot’ or ‘a lot’ but ‘alot’ doesn’t exist and I’ve no idea why it has become a thing.
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  4437.  @pinofshame6253  Yes, really. Another glass of copium? 🥛
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  4438.  @mrsteve170 I have zero personal problem with miscegenation. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot. All I care about is your ideas.
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  4439.  @skycloud4802  Lol. And is that your no.1 argument for keeping the parasites?!🤣
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  4440. I do. 🥸
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  4441. 🇹🇼 Surely, as with every place and people in the world, this thing between China and Taiwan is all about self-determination. In a Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll conducted in June 2020, 54% of respondents supported de jure independence for Taiwan, 23% preferred maintaining the status quo, 13% favored unification with China, and 10% did not hold any particular view on the matter. It seems a substantial majority of Taiwanese want the Chinese to stay the hell out of their business. 🇨🇳
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  4442. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  4443.  @davidadiwego4608  Why would you need to control a homosexual impulse? Where’s the issue? 🤔
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  4444. It’s a bit of a mystery why Putin seems to want to put the ‘USSR’ back together when he can’t even seem to keep RUSSia warm in winter.
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  4445.  @ijumpjudyy  Hey! Take away this crappuccino I never ordered, groomer! 😂
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  4446.  @ijumpjudyy Hey! But I didn’t order a crappuccino, groomer! 😂
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  4447. Just take a wee swatch at his wifey. That tells you all you need to know. 😉
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  4448. 1. You can’t ‘catch’ homosexuality just as you can’t ‘catch’ heterosexuality. 2. It is absolutely no business of anyone else (state or individual) what 2 or more consenting adults engage in. 3. The end.
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  4449. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  4450. You stick to your brain dead, boring, shitty games, child, and leave the serious stuff to the big boyz.
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  4451. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  4452. Like a bit of fisting do you, bro? 😂
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  4453. Ignore her. She’s a repressed asexual/virgin lesbian. 👍😉
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  4454.  @veraluxmundi2032 Or in her case, virginismus! 👍😂
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  4455. Really? You have a gay name. Don’t take that wrong. 👍
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  4456. P.S. My musical request is Y.M.C.A. by Village People! 👮‍♂️
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  4457. The way you can tell this law is unjust is by the rank double-standards in full view. Museveni thinks that homosexuals and their deeds are ‘disgusting’; if in the next breath he’d said that all heterosexuals having anal sex are also ‘disgusting’, it would still just be an opinion and not able to be rationally justified in being made illegal, but the fact he homes in on the homos proves the prejudice, intolerance and willingness to criminalise a minority for doing exactly the same thing as millions of heterosexuals do every day.
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  4458. ⁠”Your disapproval is a strong indication we are doing the right thing.” (Jegamespeed3599) Seemingly never occurred to the dude that there are millions of non-westerners who also happen to think that criminalizing consenting adults for just having sex is a deeply weird, unthinking, primitive, backward thing to do. Moreover, they argue their case. Yeah. More non-argumentation. Just a seething bitterness. Very boring “I don’t like you and therefore anything you might say is wrong! It is! But it is, mummy! But it is, mummy!”
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  4459. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  4460. •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  4461. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be being consistent.
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  4462. Never got the hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sexual business of consenting adults is no one else’s business. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  4463. Proof, as if you needed it, that Jegamoron 🤡 has zero sense of humour: https://youtu.be/7NXNKnT28Kc?si=sPs6uTOyiyBwjbq3 This was a joke! Moreover, even it weren’t a joke, you can’t make people gay! Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ You just are.
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  4464.  @stopcensorship7705  It’s not a choice. You can’t handle this fact as you have a religious agenda to maintain. You need better coping strategies.
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  4465. It’s not a choice. If that were the case, we’d all be flip-flopping around on a daily basis. Today I shall fancy a woman. Tomorrow I shall fancy a man. There is no choice about it and you can’t handle this fact.
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  4466. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this today: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  4467. The key issue here is rather simple: it’s no business of anyone (state or individual) what consenting adults get up to in the bedroom. Case closed.
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  4468. Criminalising homosexuality makes about as much logical sense as criminalising heterosexuality. After all, there is precisely nothing gays do that millions of heterosexuals the world over don’t do every day. Furthermore, the latter engage in these consenting acts (rightly) without fear of criminalisation. Moreover, even if a penis up an arse is the main issue here (and it seems to be), how on Earth, in that case, does that justify lumping in all the lesbians who never have and never will have anal sex, unless they get the dildos and strap-ons out? None of it makes rational sense in the cold light of day, which is precisely why it appeals to the darkest, basest, knee-jerk instincts in humanity.
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  4469. ‘W’ for w ⚓️!
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  4470. That’s a gay avatar, dude. Just sayin’! 👍
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  4471. Why does it not surprise me Timbo’s only video is of his alarmingly young son shooting a gun. 🤦‍♂️
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  4472. It’s just about education, mainly. When people realise they have no rational basis to criminalise gay sex, it all falls apart for them. Take Jegamoron: he can’t supply a rational reason beyond “I hate the West, they let gays live, ergo, homosexuality must be wrong”, or “For the fun of it!”. Tbf, it was 1967 in England and as late as 1981 in Scotland that it was decriminalised. I can recall my dad having anti-gay views when I was a kid (although, he would’ve stopped short of criminalising gays) and years later, he’s just indifferent. Live and let live as he understands it’s none of his business. That’s all this is, ultimately: live and let live. Some are still having major issues with the ‘let live’ bit, alas.
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  4473. Jegamenumpty: 🤡: Claim: “…today, homosexuality is not legally recognised in Turkey.” Fact: Homosexuality is legal in the Republic of Turkey. Claim: “…it (homosexuality in Japan) wasn’t technically legalised (in 1882) either.” Fact: Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Japan since 1882. Claim: “As for Taiwan, homosexuality was not decriminalised in 1912.” Fact: In 1912, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the decriminalization of homosexuality occurred in Taiwan. Conclusion: more bad faith lies from the irrational moron. 🤡
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  4474. So, why might people have a downer on homosexuality? •It is ‘unnatural’ - All the research (both scientific and anecdotal) overwhelmingly indicates that sexuality isn’t a choice. The vast majority of us, if we are honest, will attest we were romantically/sexually attracted to others very early (and, conversely, not attracted to others) and no volitional choice, as such, was involved in this attraction. In my own case, I knew when I was about 4 that I fancied girls. •Being gay is a ‘sin’ - This argument is just a non-starter, really, given that presumably this ‘sin’ was ordained by ‘God’, and as that ‘God’ hasn’t been verified (manmade written texts don’t count), then using the ‘it’s a sin’ argument won’t float. •Being gay is, somehow, ‘transmissible’ - This one is ridiculous. You can’t ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. Or, for that matter, you are bisexual, or you aren’t. Those against homosexuality never use this one the other way: Gay people are surrounded by heterosexual culture 24/7/365. Gays are simply assumed to be heterosexual until they state that they are not. Every example, with a very few exceptions, of love & romance in our media is heterosexual. Given this saturation, you’d think all of this exposure to hetty culture might ‘turn’ gays heterosexual, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t in exactly the same way that exposing heterosexuals to gays/gay culture ‘turns’ them, because with sexuality, we just are, and from a pretty early age. •Gays have an agenda - Of all the arguments I have heard against homosexuality, this is the only one that might be seen to hold some water, not because it’s a moral argument, as such, but because I can understand why people might not be particularly keen to have what they perceive as ‘gay issues’ shoved down their throats, for want of a better phrase. Even as someone who has zero moral issue with homosexuality, this modern-day aspect of the topic can be annoying. However, it should be pointed out, that those gays who are politically motivated represent a minuscule (<1%) rump of activists heard and seen out of all proportion to their size; meanwhile, the vast majority of gays are simply quietly living their lives unseen and unheard and bothering no one. •What gays actually do in the bedroom is ‘disgusting’ - Well, this is clearly subjective. Museveni seems to think it’s ‘disgusting’, even though he laughably claimed he never knew what they did! In terms of criminality, this is rather simple: if you are going to criminalise consenting adults for performing ‘disgusting’ bedroom antics (i.e. anal/oral sex), then you need to apply this law consistently and criminalise the millions of consenting heterosexual adults having anal/oral sex. If this isn’t done, and heterosexuals are treated in exactly the same way by the law vis-à-vis anal/oral sex, then you can be sure this is just about irrationally criminalising a minority whose behaviours you are personally ‘disgusted’ by. Conclusion: No one, hitherto, has given me a single, rational, credible reason as to why I should support the criminalisation of gay sex.
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  4475. No. This is Uganda, doofus.
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  4476. 👏Here we have a sensible dude, for once. It’s not their thing but they are sensible enough to not criminalise consenting adults for having sex.
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  4477.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  You can’t answer the key point: it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults are doing sexually. Uh huh.
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  4478. Jegamoron 🤡: “Most of those gay Africans were simply minding their own business, not forcing others to support or accept their choices and actions.” 🤦‍♂️ Good grief. Are we really at this level? There are 1,0001 ‘choices and actions’ of others I might not necessarily ‘support’ or ‘accept’ but the key issue is criminalising such stuff. 2 men or 2 women consensually fucking is no one else’s business (aside from the case of the production of children via incest); least of all an overreaching State. How about the State (and anyone else, for that matter) ‘minding its own business’ when it comes to consenting adults just having sex? 🤦‍♂️ If I am a gay person choosing to have consensual sex and you tell me you will fine, imprisonment or execute me for doing so, at the very least I want clear justification(s) for criminalising this activity. If someone like a Jegamoron 🤡 turned up at my door one day and told me I couldn’t consensually fuck another adult and if I continued he would intervene, that Jegamoron 🤡 could expect very fierce resistance.
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  4479.  @ijumpjudyy  Awright, Julesy. Put away yer holey jeans (you were right to, on my advice👍😉) and buy a new pair. No one cares about a no-mark deluded by fantasies her/his parents taught him/her. Your biggest tragedy, shweetie, is being unable to think for yourself. Uh huh. Sawree. 😢
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  4480.  @veraluxmundi2032 That said, I also have a telling name! 😮 But at least I’m not homo-hating, I suppose.
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  4481.  @veraluxmundi2032 It’s true, though. So many of these idiots have telling names. We had a ‘Scrottum’ (sic) the other day and here we have a ‘Cockers’! 😂
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  4482. 👆Beware of the brainwashed religious idiot. 😆
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  4483. Jegamoron 🤡: “I’m telling you, the West is obsessed with homosexuality.” Says the dude that spends all his days here! 🤡👍🤦‍♂️😂
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  4484. I know, right? Dictating dude’s presiding over a badly literate, poor, corruption-ridden, undemocratic fly-blown midden and all he can think about is auditing the intimate lives of consenting adults like some kinda weird, creepy, deeply inappropriate sex cop. 👮‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️
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  4485. Lmao. Says the dude subscribed to more gay channels than the ghost of Freddie Mercury! 👍🤦‍♂️😂
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  4486. No. He’s from Uganda, bro.
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  4487. Jegamespeed: “In the West, homosexuals are treated like gods and homosexuality is considered sacred. It’s glorified and worshipped to the point where homosexuals seem to have more parental rights than parents themselves.” Utter rot and spoken like a chump who clearly has zero direct experience of ‘the West’. Here’s the actual truth: 1. The vast majority of non-homosexuals are quite simply indifferent to homosexuality. To say “homosexuals are treated like gods” and it’s considered “sacred” is pure baloney. Personally, it’s not my taste but I wouldn’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex. This opinion is held by 99%+ of the people in my social orbit. 2. It isn’t “glorified” and “worshipped”. There is a minuscule, tiny, highly politicised rump of activists who are heard out of all proportion to their actual (<1%) size. Try again. Try better or not at all. 🤡
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  4488. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is bizarre, indeed. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  4489.  @Possum-010  Aye! And Village People showed up! Or, like, whatever and stuff. 👮 Bad luck, hun. 😢
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  4490. Aye! And Village People showed up! 👮 Bad luck, hun. 😢
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  4491. What a grotesque, sweaty, greasy bollock-head! I can smell the BO stench through the screen. 🤮🤢This is rather simple, as we all know: the sexual lives of consenting adults are simply no one else’s business. I’ve racked my 🧠 , and the only thing I can come up with where I would feel the need to interfere with consenting adult sex is the possible production of offspring via incest. Aside from this? Crack on! None of my (or anyone else’s) business! 😊
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  4492.  @StopCensorship4--03  🥱 Key point not addressed. Just pure feeling. Must do better. Uh huh.
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  4493. Uh huh. And why are the bedroom antics and shenanigans of others anyone else’s business? For that is the key point here. The state has limits where it should not be encroaching and if it is you know you’re living in a tyranny. One of these limits is every single consenting adult’s bedroom door. Case closed.
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  4494. C’mon Mickey, son. ‘Good man’? A sweaty bollock-head who supports killing people for just having sex? ‘Good’?! 🤦‍♂️
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  4495. S’always the ones with the gayest thumbnails.
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  4496. Do you secretly like to give a bit of head, Honcho? 😳
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  4497. Imagine being so triggered by and intolerant of others’ sexual choices that you are prepared to support and implement a law which has in it the provision for the execution of consenting adults for having sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  4498. So it’s not fake, then. Glad we cleared that up.👍
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  4499. Huge respect to the living statues behind the fellas; not a single flicker from any of them. Kudos. ✊
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  4500.  @Raptorman0909  Well, in this case, pal, I’m a happily married father of 3 happy, well-adjusted kids and a contented wife. I give to charity. I help old ladies across roads. I’m always kind to animals. No ‘psychopath’ here, so quit your amateur psychology. No, the principal difference between you and me is that one of us can belly-laugh at the folly of humanity. If anything, in my experience, it’s the po-faced, holier-than-thou folk who are often the real dangerous ones. Think on.😉
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  4501.  @icecold9511  Germany, 1945 Japan, 1945 Syria, 1949 South Korea, 1953 Iran, 1953 Guatemala, 1954 Congo, 1960 Laos, 1960 Iraq, 1963 Brazil, 1964 British Guiana, 1964 Bolivia, 1964 Dominican Republic, 1965 Indonesia, 1965 Ghana, 1966 Greece, 1967 Cambodia, 1970 Bolivia, 1971 Chile, 1973 Australia, 1975 Portugal, 1976 Argentina, 1976 Jamaica, 1980 Turkey, 1980 Chad, 1982 Fiji, 1987 Nicaragua, 1987 Afghanistan, 1989 Panama, 1989 Bulgaria, 1990 Albania, 1991 Yugoslavia, 2000 Ecuador, 2000 Afghanistan, 2001 Venezuela, 2002 Iraq, 2003 Haiti, 2004 Libya, 2011
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  4502. No. Let’s ban those who want to ban alcohol, and leave the freedom of choice on the table for the rest.
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  4503.  @lamiagumbo  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  4504. By that logic no one would do anything beyond fulfilling the basic necessities. Dumping world poverty on Shatner’s shoulders is a little harsh.
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  4505.  @ChosenOne6666  Dunno, son. Any suggestions?
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  4506. Ah, but Hitler and Stalin were both white.
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  4507.  @NoirChloe  I think we more or less agree in principle. Bottom line: woman’s choice (along with father). Simply no one else’s business.👍
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  4508. Let’s just be grateful the Chinese didn’t mistake that plane for a balloon!
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  4509. Zelensky is more fluent in the English language than ole Joe! 🤣
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  4510. Celibate men in dresses with easy access to young boys; what can possibly go wrong? 🤓
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  4511. After this ceremony, Elton presented Biden with the National Senility Medal.
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  4512. Hey! That’s my comment you thief!
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  4513. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  4514.  @truthwarrior1489  There is no God. Another glass of copium? 🥛🤓
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  4515. It’s a bit of a mystery why Putin seems to want to put the ‘USSR’ back together when he can’t even seem to keep RUSSia warm in winter.
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  4516. Which train might that be? That’s like saying they should ‘take the train’ between LA and Honolulu. American geographical knowledge strikes again! 🤦‍♂️
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  4517. Thanks mom. 👍
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  4518. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  4519.  @HouseholdDog  ‘He’s just not Scottish’. By that logic anyone with Polish, Irish, Italian ancestry ‘just isn’t Scottish’, either. I’d like to know when Yousaf’s ‘Scottishness’ kicks in. Are his children ‘Scottish’? If not, will their children be Scottish? In other words, how far back do you want to go with this? If you look into most Scots’ ancestry you’ll find all sorts of genetic stuff. By your logic, they won’t be ‘Scottish’ either, I suppose. I’m willing to bet very good money that if Humza Yousaf was white and born, raised and educated in Scotland to Christian Italian parents you would have zero problem calling him ‘Scottish’. Truth is, you just can’t abide a Muslim dude with brown skin and a funny name calling himself ‘Scottish’ when white dudes with funny names do this all the time.
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  4520.  @Dial999its-a-good-time If you are born, raised, educated and have lived your whole life in a particular country you are generally said to be from that country. Not sure why you’re finding this concept so difficult. I repeat, cope a little better now.
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  4521.  @Dial999its-a-good-time  He was born and raised in Scotland. Ergo, he’s Scottish. Cope a bit better now.
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  4522. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “He’s being a dumbass over the Donbas.” Defence Secretary: “Indeed. But it could be a game of chicken, Kiev-style.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  4523.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  More an Alien fella myself, Jimbo. Throw another egg in that frying pan! 🤣
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  4524.  @I_Lemaire  Indeed. Suffering does seem to be unavoidable. However, on the face of it, it appears insulting to suggest these people ‘chose’ their suffering.
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  4525. Aka, pilot error. 👨‍✈️
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  4526. You know the world’s a random place when the world’s happiest country (Global Mind Project), Dominican Republic, lives right next to one of the most constantly unhappy.
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  4527. This can’t have been fun for da mentalist.
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  4528.  @thunderous-one  And yet the US consistently has a homicide rate 4x that of Europe…
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  4529. There’s Norway I’d have thought it’d take Oslo as this to knight this war hero. 🎖
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  4530. Why should he? I’d call that a private matter.
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  4531. Why would Trump turn to God when in his own mind, he is God?
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  4532. The Jan 6 Committee may have referred Trump, but one feels he may just end up DOJing justice.
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  4533. While Keon’s behaviour is pretty indefensible on the face of it, it’s seriously naive to think that, say, certain Asians don’t mock whites, certain Africans don’t mock Asians, certain penguins don’t mock Europeans etc. The point being that racism isn’t all one way. Never has been; never will be, alas. 🐧
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  4534. I agree. Dodos became extinct years ago. 🦤
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  4535.  @barronridge5613  *eagle’s
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  4536.  @billpardew2375  40 million Ukrainians last time I checked, Willie.😉
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  4537.  @kryzzan7039  You wait.😉
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  4538. Main issue here is America’s ‘pull factor’. Clearly for the bulk of these poor people, the USA represents a chance at life. If America doesn’t want these migrants, it should make the utmost effort to ensure that the economic situation in Latin America is conducive to making people want to remain there. My personal take on this is that obviously asylum seekers should be heard with compassion while purely economic migrants should be accepted only if the US can accommodate them. Australia does this well. It has a points system whereby it ‘targets’ those it actually needs for its economy, whilst still lending a compassionate ear to those genuine refugees. There is no easy answer to this. As long as the US is relatively prosperous vis-a-vis Latin America, this flow of people will not stop of its own volition.
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  4539. As a Brit, I can safely say that Mike Pence makes Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak look like the most charismatic, coolest, badasses on the Block!🤣
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  4540. Yeah, right. ‘Faith’ in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
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  4541.  @JB-uf3sx  C’mon, get real. We all know exactly what Trump is like at this point. I would find it weirder if he weren’t doing this puerile schoolboy stuff!
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  4542. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  4543. Huh? But as far as I know, the women making the claims weren’t in relationships at the time Brand allegedly hit on them, so your idea doesn’t make sense here. 🤔
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  4544. A case like this is the main reason I’m against capital punishment.
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  4545. 0:45 Baby went from 9 months to 90 years in a second! 🤣
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  4546. No. 🤦‍♂️ It’s so lazy. Write something witty/funny and I might upvote you. 😐
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  4547. 5:30 This is the dictionary definition of ‘get a life’. 🔐
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  4548. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  4549. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  4550.  @taraishot100  Frankly, that’s crap. Putin would’ve found any pretext to go for Ukraine and make it part of the mad empire of his mind. In reality, this has nothing really to do with NATO and everything to do with the insane, engorged ego of one man drunk with power. No one has said ‘no’ to this fuckwit in 22 years. And those who do, get divorced, or worse. Just ask his ex-wife.👀
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  4551. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  4552.  @daledelatte9607  Not quite true. I’m totally against what Putin’s doing, but a big part of why he’s doing it is it’s a custody battle in geopolitical terms: a majority of Ukrainians look west, and Putin knows this, and a NATO with Ukraine in it increases Russia’s vulnerability drastically. It’s akin to Mexico allowing Putin to install weapons on the border with the USA. USA would feel threatened, and with good cause. I repeat, however, that Putin is just an arsehole and wrong to invade a self-governing sovereign territory, no matter how insecure he might feel about Ukraine’s status vis-a-vis NATO and the west.
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  4553. Yeah, but where’s the sodding evidence concerning the lizard 🦎 crap? Non-existent, as far as I can see. Call me rational, but I don’t tend to lend credulity to random poppycock based on zippo.
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  4554. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of sovereign, self-governing territories just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  4555.  @MsMounen  Immigrant into UK? From where?
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  4556.  @memeticist  I was using China as a random example. I could’ve said if you moved to Saudi Arabia, beyond obeying the law and learning Arabic, would you assimilate/integrate? I repeat, I don’t think the majority would.🥸
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  4557. @Pale Rider Peterson is a shallow thinker. He punts out the platitudes to the self-help groupies who found ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus’ heavy going. Don’t take that wrong. I happen to agree with his equality of opportunity spiel, but as a previous speaker has pointed out, this is cookie-cutter crap, obvious to every man and his dog. Peterson’s jejune, embarrassing, staggeringly self-entitled proclamation that ‘I don’t think God exists; I act as if He exists’ just sums up, for me, the inherently lazy, arrogant, cracker barrel philosophy of the man, punting out patently obvious platitudes that most of us imbibed with our mother’s milk.🤓
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  4558. It’s not really, though. It’s clearly about power. Men rape women to assert. If it were simply about ‘sex’ they’d just go and have a wank.🤓
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  4559.  @jannisarie  You are genuinely a fucking breath of fresh air, pal. I mean that. And I don’t mean much. But I mean that. 👋 Bye.
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  4560. @2:53 Wow! A rare piece of humility from our Jordy: ‘Christ, there’s lots of ways I’m not right.’ Did he just say that? I may need to play it back again to make sure … yep, he said it. Take note Peterson fanboys; your wet dream is not always right; if only you could note this down in your stained jotters and underline it.🤓
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  4561.  @thekamotodragon  I think it was more the other way around; the horse ran into the bus. Google it. There’s a picture of the smashed bus. 👍
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  4562. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  4563. ‘Poor guy’?!?! 🤦‍♂️ I think your sympathies may be misplaced in this case.
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  4564. The size of whatever this is, is semi-convincing. However, until these people stop capturing this on camera (at a convenient, ambivalent distance), and capture it for real, I believe none of it.
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  4565. 0:05 As a Brit, he bears a spooky resemblance to ‘The Beast’, Mark Labbett crossed with BBC political dude, Gary O’Donoghue! 😮
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  4566. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  4567. Classic bully; always going for the weaker kids in class. Let Putin pick on one of the alphas and he’ll get a very rude awakening.
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  4568. He talks a good game. My issue is I suspect the actual substance may be lacking.😳
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  4569.  @mariogmajner6549  No idea. Don’t really care.
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  4570. @2:38 Lol. She looked genuinely angry here. Like that look my mother always gave me whenever I refused to eat my Brussels sprouts!
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  4571.  @Laxton_Himself  Well, that or his wife!😳
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  4572. @0:10 Fair play to the South African President for visiting Kew Gardens; Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby would’ve found this unbearable! 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ 🚶
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  4573.  @aurelio-reymilaorcabal9669  Er, dirt-poor people whose homes have just been flattened by an earthquake, living in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are hardly likely to be able to help themselves, with the best will in the world. Where is your humanity?
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  4574. As long as a majority of Ukrainians are looking West and Putin wants them to look East, then this battle will continue. Partition may be a way to go here. Referendum for East Ukraine/West Ukraine - two independent sovereign states.
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  4575. No. It’s Stephen.
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  4576. @0:38 I bet he’s sweating a bit in that coat! 😓😉👍
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  4577. @0:35 “Pixared”. Freudian slip?
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  4578. In 2012 Le Pen won 18% of the vote. In 2017 she won 34%. In 2022 Le Pen is projected to win 42%. I think I see a trend, and it would be wise to listen better to the concerns of her supporters, otherwise Le Pen may very well be picking up the keys to the Elysee Palace in 2027.
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  4579. Netanyahu quite clearly has the intent to take out as many innocent Palestinians as he can get away with in his quest for Israeli ‘self-defence’. No one is fooled by this. Because he’s backed to the hilt by the west (both militarily and politically), he’s using this fact as carte-blanche to do more or less what he wants.
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  4580. Welcome to planet Earth. Enjoy your stay.
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  4581. City will never be seen as an elite club until they win the Champions League; elite team currently, yes, but not an elite club .
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  4582. @0:45 Lol. Not surprised he’s “self-appointed”. Not as if anyone else is going to appoint that state.
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  4583. Er, that’s the job of a rigorous interviewer, last time I checked.
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  4584.  @lc5176  Yeah, but to be fair, avenging about 3,000 deaths with about 170,000 deaths, even more maimed, and millions displaced, is a bit of an overreaction, to say the very least.
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  4585. ‘Ground stuff’? What? Snow? In June?
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  4586. Burley? Wigan?! Lol. She’s the poshest Wiganer I’ve ever heard; either that, or she just pretentiously puts on a soft, posh, southerner voice when the cameras are rolling, and when the Director says ‘cut’, the roll-up ciggies and whisky come out and Kay heads down t’Bingo to get some pie-eating done.
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  4587. These Russians who stoop to this are the true mall-rats.
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  4588. @1:00 Lovely to see Clare Short making a political comeback on the Opposition front bench. Fair play.👍
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  4589. Well, looks like this could be Boris’ bye-bye-by-election.👋
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  4590. It’s only a 41-gun salute, as if it were the full 96, there’d be fears the Queen may crock it before they get to the end.
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  4591. That Kate Moss gets everywhere.
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  4592. @0:18 Alistair Bunkall? After this disastrous professional 6 minutes, he needs to change his name to Mike Bungle!🤣 🎤
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  4593. Just for the record, Japan is 80% Shinto, somewhat puncturing a hole in yer wee theory there. 👍
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  4594. 🤦‍♂️
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  4595. Whenever I see the horrendous aftermath of a train derailment, it always looks unfailingly like my 125-train set I frequently derailed back in 1982. As Shakespeare said: “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.” 🙏
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  4596. 42. Sunak is 42. He may not be the answer to life, the Universe and everything, but he is 42. This is powerful. Everyone’s lives go in multiples of 7. 42 is particularly powerful. Things, good and bad, happen at multiples of 7. It’s ineluctable. Just glad I put a tenner on Sunak becoming PM at more or less this point: it’s about to pay me £1,000!
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  4597. Oh, he’s a readily salty sort that Crispin. Blunt by name, blunt by nature.
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  4598.  @KebabMusicLtd  PR is an infinitely more democratic and fairer representation of people’s actual choices than FPTP.
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  4599.  @peterloup2302  It’s more to do with misleading parliament. At the very least he has been remiss with the truth, if not lying outright.
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  4600. 🎶 Warrant, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh Warrant, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, y'all Warrant, huh (good God) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh 🎵
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  4601. Fishermen can. It’s free for them! 🎣
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  4602. I wouldn’t buy them a cup of tea.
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  4603. And what has America done in the name of ‘freedom and democracy’ since 1945?
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  4604. Sunak: “Damn! I’m amongst tall people again; why can’t I meet Volodymyr Zelensky every day?”
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  4605.  @jimbean1196  Group identities here refers more to nationalism/organised religion.
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  4606.  @G0TIMAN  Sense-of-humour bypass?😳
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  4607.  @Leila-gi8nm  He was formatively raised in Israel, though. The Israeli accent.👍
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  4608. This is very unfair of these Just Stop Oil protesters to stop Matt like this: after all, he’s water-based!
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  4609. Nah. Nice try, though.👍
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  4610. *fewer
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  4611. Ironic that Lesley is a Fallowfield and she wants to tear up all the weeds! 🙄
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  4612.  @julianshepherd2038  1970s?!?! More like prehistoric times! Never got why some people have a downer on homosexuals. It’s pointless. No one chooses their sexuality, so to hate someone for this is bizarre indeed!
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  4613. “And the train that should be arriving at Platform 1, isn’t.”
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  4614. Haddington Town want their stolen logo returned by SpaceX.
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  4615. They’re generally harmless. I lived a year in Florida and alligators are everywhere. They just mind their own business. They have enough food so they don’t need to feed on humans. We regularly went up to them lazing in the sun and petted them as if we were petting a dog.
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  4616. “Fright geezer, fright geezer, he doesn’t know how to do it.” 🎶 🧔‍♀️
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  4617.  @Nick_S0  *Brandon
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  4618. Looks like, as with his more famous actor-namesake, Bronson’s looking to make his very own The Great Escape. ⚖️
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  4619. @1:42 I think 48 year olds can cope with this stuff.
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  4620. Lol. Thanks for that, Socrates.
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  4621.  @SonOfExcess  Who said trying to remove Putin was “grubby”? Not me. I hate Putin. I simply said the US has been the biggest meddler in others’ affairs on this planet bar none.
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  4622. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791 (and even then it was only militia set-ups allowed to own a gun; not the individual private citizen), it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  4623.  @adetolaayodele3425  There is no God. Don’t start that nonsense now, as that’s a large part of all the trouble in the first place!
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  4624.  @Girl-101  That was my point.
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  4625. Just had a premonition. England are gonna get thoroughly cuffed here. They deserve nothing from this tournament. They’ve stunk the German joint out all along. Winning it would be a gross injustice for the rather wonderful Spanish team, who actually consistently play beautiful football.
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  4626. As is Rishi Sunak.
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  4627.  @feelsbradman6793  General Eisenhower is on record as saying that is wasn’t necessary to use the bomb as Japan had been largely ground down and defeated by then. He said it was “no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." When the war was over he also said: “It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." Nice try, though. 👍
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  4628. 🎵 “Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow” 🎶 ABC on the BBC! 🎸
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  4629.  @andylane247  Can’t be arsed, mate. Soz.😳
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  4630. *were
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  4631. If the rumours are to believed, he was pulling Hans, too! 🍺😉🤓
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  4632. It’s an accident of birth. Deal with it.
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  4633. Coffey defending a tax-dodging tea leaf. These Tory caffiends need to learn. Luckily, they will at the next GE.
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  4634.  @jebbo-c1l  Where do governments get their money from? 🤔
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  4635.  @jdc3636  Sense of humour bypass, much?😳
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  4636.  @liquidsnake6879  Yes, but the South American stuff is usually intra-criminal stuff; it’s not so often random strangers walking into schools and massacring 10 years olds and their teacher. Big difference.
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  4637.  @DP-ic2lz  Racist? What? Against barrel makers?
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  4638. Yeah, but to be fair, at least we know we’re dealing with something that really exists with the Monarchy. Just sayin’.🥸
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  4639. @0:40 “I’m literally 10 minutes into the job.” He’s almost been doing the job for as long as Suella Braverman!🥸
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  4640. 🐑
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  4641. Boaty McBoatface is jealous.
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  4642. Ah, the seemingly never-ending shuffling of the Tory pack. Truss as PM meets the Queen, before Queen shuffles off this mortal coil. Truss is pushed out of the Club, as she had incompetence in Spades. Now Rishi. Does he have a Heart? Wealthier than the King. Worth more than Diamonds, but does he give a Jackshit about the ordinary person? Will he have an Ace up his sleeve for the country? Ultimately, for me they are all just a bunch of Jokers. 🃏
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  4643. @0:18 “When people meet Zeus they ask ‘Is that a horse?’” Lol. People who have clearly never seen a horse, then! 🐴🤣
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  4644. He does; he provides human beings with excuses to do horrific things they wouldn’t ordinarily do without imaginary daddies in the sky.
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  4645. Is it? Could’ve fooled me. I’m reading The Beano!😳
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  4646. Still can’t get over how Volodymyr Zelensky, even in a ‘height-off’ with Rishi Sunak, loses.
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  4647.  @akon360  Fred Flintstone’s catchphrase is ‘yabba dabba doo’; play on words with Abu Dhabi do.
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  4648. They wouldn’t though. It’s all about ‘illegal’ immigration. Those that come here through legal channels are fine. Witness Kwarteng’s, Patel’s and Braverman’s antecedents.
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  4649. @Alexei Smirnoff Yup. And our last mass shooting was 26 years ago. 26 years. Read it and weep, America.
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  4650.  @wasidanatsali6374  Word salad. “Do more guns equal more crime”? With a homicide rate consistently 4x that of comparable nations I would say they do.
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  4651. Well, looks like France is stuck with the Omacron variant for another five years.
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  4652. Yes Kerry, let’s start popping radioactive bombs all over the place. A wise move.
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  4653. @NC 👍
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  4654. Pmsl.
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  4655. If he ever lands on the moon, Armstrong’s quote will have to be adapted: “That's one small hop for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” 🌝
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  4656. I’ve lived in southern France, Italy and Spain and 35°C was considered a ‘hot summer’s day’ back then. When it got to 39°C/40°C it was talked about. 45°C/46°C is certainly very unusual. I say that as someone who believes in global warming (the data is incontrovertible) but is not fully sure just how much human activity is complicit in this warming.
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  4657. Key here for onlookers is to keep Afghanistan citizens separate from the Taliban. Our common humanity tells us we help, no questions asked. The task is to get the aid to those who need it, obviating the need for the Taliban to get its grubby paws on it. In the same way Putin’s regime has to be kept separate from the Russian people, and the Israeli state occupation of Palestinian territory has to be kept separate from Israelis (or, at least, those who don’t support this brutal occupation), then the world must help individuals like this who are affected by natural disasters, through absolutely no fault of their own.
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  4658. For a moment there, didn’t tink the Jerries were going to send the tanks to tonk the Russkis. That would’ve stunk! Just over ten? K. 👍
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  4659. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  4660. ‘Gutted’? Perhaps not the best choice of words, given the circumstances.
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  4661. Chocolate in a “warm bed” can get mighty sticky and messy in my experience! 🍫😯
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  4662. Ty for allowing me to read this sentence for the 10,000th time over the past 6 months. 🙏
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  4663. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  4664. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  4665.  @tastypymp1287  Yes, but this particular contretemps is based on organised religion; that is, based on primitive nonsense most thinking human beings got beyond yonks ago. Next.
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  4666.  @kingfornjot  Indeed.
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  4667.  @progressivedemagogue8480  It would be, first and foremost, a victory for Medvedev.
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  4668.  @loveisall5520  Triggered much? 🤣
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  4669. So do I. I use mine as bog roll.
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  4670. He often pops on a ‘bummer’ jacket, too. 😉
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  4671. Looking at the map, I’m willing to bet that if there were no sea to the south of Ukraine, none of this would’ve happened. Can we not just concrete over the Black Sea and solve this issue?
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  4672. @Mando Meow. 🐈
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  4673. @Mando I love my car. No issue with cars here.
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  4674.  @LittleLulubee  Yup.
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  4675. Lol. The irony of having a 🍺 there in a Muslim scenario! 🤣
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  4676.  @toainsully  Yes. Kilim.
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  4677. Jesus, man. That is so lame it hurts.
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  4678. Is it misogynistic to point out a woman’s sex appeal? Yes, there’s a time and a place, but surely it’s a lovely compliment; whether made to man, woman or hermaphrodite, no?
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  4679. Johnson and his ‘psychopants’?😳
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  4680. ‘Joint Expeditionary Force’? Sign me up! Always up for skinning up a big fat doobie to ease the stress. Yeah, man.🤓
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  4681. The ‘Bills’? What about the Brians, the Dereks and the Rogers? Don’t they count?
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  4682. Thunder thighs has gone to the skies. RIP. 🙏
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  4683. ‘Brown-up’ Rob Harris and he could pass as a Rishi Sunak impersonator.
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  4684. It’s all in his face. Words not needed.
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  4685.  @AR-DontMiss  Quite often the bravest thing to do is cry; particularly in public.
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  4686.  @mukarji  Pray to whom, exactly? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? 🍝
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  4687.  @ebrakeramires339  Why?
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  4688. Putin is essentially Xi’s bitchboy.
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  4689.  @Sage-Em  That was kinda my point; and if “dead and soulless” things happen to malfunction …?
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  4690. Do you write for ‘Eastenders’?🤓
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  4691. The only issue here is simple: the planet’s warming; is this manmade or not? That’s the issue.
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  4692. Dearie, dearie me. If these rumours are true (they are), it could be time for Stormy Daniels to change her name to ‘Ivankta Trump’! 🤓
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  4693.  @piccalillipit9211  Indeed. The other book Boris read was called ‘Pathological Lying For Dummies’.
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  4694. Yes. Eton. They are all Eton messes!
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  4695. Whatever happens, I’ve put my mortgage on a bet at William Hill that Harry Kane won’t learn more than about 3 words of German. For some reason, the vast majority of British footballers when they go abroad don’t seem to make the effort to learn the local lingo the way the foreigners coming here do. I get English is a bit of a lingua franca so it’s probably a bit easier for the foreigners coming here as they will probably have a few words of English already, but I’m always dismayed and slightly perplexed at why Brits going abroad don’t generally appear to make the same effort. Jude Bellingham, for example: 3 full years in Germany and his German speaking ability appears to be negligible and I’m not holding out much hope he’ll learn that much more Spanish. The most recent Brit footballer who played abroad and quite impressed was Lucy Bronze with her French and Fikayo Tomori’s Italian is staggeringly good in this context. As an example of what can be achieved in this domain, Romelu Lukaku can speak 8 (8!!!) foreign languages at least at a conversationally fluent level.
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  4696.  @Grizzle38  Lol. 🤣👍
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  4697. Yeah, they need to hop off! 🐸 Harry epitomises the saying, ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ He’s been ruined by not actually having to work for a living. However, apparently Frogmore has been offered to that slimy worm, Prince Andrew. Come back Harry and Meghan! All is forgiven! 🤣
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  4698. Tell that to Putin.
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  4699.  es loo  And that’s just her hair-do.
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  4700. I bet your water levels are, though. 🌊
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  4701. These Russians need to stop taking the name ‘missile’ quite so literally. Not only do they ‘miss isles’, they seem to miss just about everything else!
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  4702. Beethoven?
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  4703. Proud? What, of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  4704. Don’t wanna jinx this thing for the English, but just gonna put it out there: Bobby Moore when he lifted the World Cup in ‘66 was 25. Leah Williamson is 25. The other omen goes to the 7’s. Things happen at multiples of 7: it’s 56 years since an English team, men or women, won a major trophy. For both these reasons, I put £100 on England to win. We’ll see. 💴 ⚽️
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  4705. They put the owner in the defroster.
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  4706. It’s slightly different for Israel as Israel has a large Arab cohort and before 1948 Palestine was home to a diverse population of Arabs, Jews, and Christians, as all groups had religious ties to the area, especially the city of Jerusalem.
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  4707. These are truly Boris’ bye-bye-by elections. 👋
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  4708. G7? I counted 9. Looks like we have 2 infiltrators.😳
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  4709.  @ssekhossekho8693 Source: Urban Dictionary.
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  4710. For me, with all the technological advances we have witnessed over the decades from railways to combustion engines; from telephones to electric light; from radios to jet planes; from computers to atom splitting; from the Internet to the now the rapid advances in AI … one piece of technology we invented about 600 years ago still trumps all these: the humble 📕!
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  4711. Pity they couldn’t ‘welcome’ the Protestant Scots back in the day.
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  4712. The Beastie Boys have let themselves go.
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  4713. Her job is to hold to account and stop the waffle. Get over it.
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  4714. Scorsese might have to do a remake: ‘Taxi Pilot’!
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  4715.  @ant7936  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  4716.  @James_Doyle83  Marge had the car that day.
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  4717. “Should Scotland be an independent country?” Democratically, certainly. Economically? Not so sure. 🤔
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  4718. 👏
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  4719. Says what? Am I missing something? What did she say, exactly?
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  4720. Depends on the crime. Not all, in fact most crime doesn’t warrant a bullet from a cop.
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  4721. “Men races at 80mph” (sic) - Methinks the headline writer needs a grammar class.
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  4722.  @PeterFlanagan0987  Good point. Le Pen tends to cosy up more to Putin’s Russia👍
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  4723.  @foryourlugsonly  1.3°C rise correlates almost exactly with fossil fuel emissions. I know correlation isn’t necessarily causation but my instinct tells me on the data that if we continue on the current trajectory, it will be another 1.3°C in 100 years (perhaps sooner with all the feedback loops) etc etc.
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  4724.  @SparkWah  No. The data that says this planet has warmed by 1.3°C in the past 100 years.
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  4725. Bit concerned for old Clarkey: he looks like he’s had his blood drained from him and replaced with milk! 🩸 🥛
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  4726. 6 European Cups for Liverpool. 0 European Cups for bitty City.😆
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  4727. If, as Mark Twain said, ‘God created war so that Americans would learn geography’, He also created war so that Putin would learn Physics; specifically, the 3rd Law of Motion: ‘For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.’
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  4728. Edinburgh ~ easily the most handsome, nay beautiful, urban space in the UK, and relatively speaking (think France, Spain, Italy), there aren’t that many.
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  4729.  @ThatCarGuy1983  Well, it kinda has to do with the fact that the original poster has an Irish name! 🤣
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  4730.  @pramodapte1876  Not quite, but nice try.
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  4731. @0:05 Well, to be fair to Wills, he’s putting his environmental credentials to the fore by growing plants in his cap! 🪴
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  4732. Lovely to see Nicholas Witchell getting some extra work in these hard times for us all. Fair play to the lad. 👍
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  4733. 2 points to note here: 1. All men. 2. Too many stetsons for comfort.
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  4734. Yeah, but to be fair the British blundered their way into Iran in 1941. This could just be karma for Europe.😳
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  4735. Mike Pence gives “charisma bypasses” a bad name.
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  4736. Er, why should she? She’s not the dictator in this scenario; just the messenger.
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  4737.  @AF-gd7fh  Yes, and Sheeran hooked the hook like a thieving crook.
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  4738.  @milanperisic3636  How so? What’s ‘naive’ about a sovereign, self-governing territory wanting to make its own decisions?
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  4739. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  4740. *a lot *a bit
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  4741. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  4742.  @thematic3893  You didn’t answer the question. Do you want another go?
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  4743.  @provisionalhypothesis  Nah, I disagree. If you have a beautiful wife and 2 beautiful kids like this dude has, it can’t be all bad. This dude doesn’t know he’s born or how lucky he is. He’s not poor. He’s not ugly. He’s not stupid. He has a beautiful wife. He has 2 beautiful children. Yet… here we are. Every video a self-pitying piece of nonsense. He needs to get out and smell the real grass where people suffer. Properly suffer. The other thing about this is if I were his wife, I’d be deeply offended by his constant posts about ‘loneliness’. Whenever I have been properly in love in my life, the last thing I felt was loneliness.
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  4744.  @thematic3893  Serious question: what is your issue with homosexuality? I can’t work it out. I’m not gay but I can’t see why people get so weird about this. Can you enlighten me?
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  4745. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  4746. Scene: in an alternate reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  4747.  @budwhite9591  The knife thing doesn’t work either. The US has a higher knife crime rate than the UK.
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  4748.  @BLUELEADER78  Look, son, this is all rather simple. Just regulate your guns. It’s not rocket science. Loads of other countries allow guns legally, but virtually none others do it as recklessly as the US. Stop denying this as it doesn’t serve you.
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  4749. Not sure why everyone is raving about the beauty of Xalapa. From what can be seen it appears a moderately attractive, somewhat scruffy little place. Nothing wrong with this of course, but beautiful? Verdaderamente?
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  4750. Up until today I was convinced Johnny had this. My opinion of him has complete flipped and now I’m inclined to believe that Heard’s more the victim here. Depp came off as childish, violent, petulant, needy and very, very dark and not in a good way. He’s in a single day absolutely ruined this view I had of him as a gentle, harmless, kind Edward Scissorhands figure in real life. I actually pity him after today. Still a way to go, but as it stands Heard is clearly ahead on points here.
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  4751.  @ShibalotonSeattle  Not if co-pilot goes on toilet-break and is locked out as happened in 2015 in France.
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  4752.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You keep eating the egg & chips, Jimbo. Crack a few on yer head for me, son! 🥚🤡
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  4753. Some illegal immigrant been smashing your back door again, Jimbo? 😉
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  4754.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol, Jimbo. Keep imbibing egg & chips, son. They’ve clearly addled what little brain you had, pal.😉
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  4755.  @piscesempress1978  Tbf, all organised religion is a nonsense.
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  4756.  @boogerboy2420  Nah. I’m sticking by my original instinct. Cringe.
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  4757.  @Glasgow_kiss  I’m utterly baffled as to how every single human being who has ever lived isn’t agnostic. No one knows. By definition. Hence ‘faith’. There are no bets ‘to hedge’, as I don’t fear any repercussions for being agnostic.😉
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  4758. I’m willing to bet all I have, this is more than partly to do with Sunak’s parents immigrating in the 1960s. That sounds a bit racist, but it’s not meant to be. It’s just history. Sunak and his parents particularly just aren’t as invested in D-Day as your average Brit with lineage going back decades/centuries would be. I suppose what I’m saying is that I kind of understand Sunak here. If anything, he’s being brutally honest. D-Day commemorations just aren’t as high on his radar given who he is and where he has come from.
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  4759.  @temoork-0197  Yes, but attribute them to the original author. This is just plagiarism without attribution.
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  4760.  @delawarecop  No. As no one should be invading other countries.
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  4761.  @cryptobroskis545  I take no lessons from ‘apes’ that can’t get the basics right. Think on.😉
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  4762.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  Actually, having looked into this, I stand corrected. It seems that current global warming conclusions have led to some confusion as to how more than 100% of observed warming could be attributable to human activity. A human contribution of greater than 100% is possible because natural climate change associated with volcanoes and solar activity would most likely have resulted in a slight cooling over the past 50 years, offsetting some of the warming associated with human activities. My only issue with all this is that while I don’t deny the 1 degree Celsius rise; I’m still not 100% convinced that this is wholly attributable to human activity, even if you date it from about 1850. Most of it probably is, however, and there is enough there to accept this and factor it into one’s life.
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  4763. Sometimes it really is just a case of who is better for the job.
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  4764. ‘Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.’
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  4765.  @taliabraver  I’m sensing more than a slight intolerance to Islam. 🧕
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  4766. Don’t worry about that. American interests will have all the ‘rebuilding’ contracts sorted out.😉
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  4767.  @chrysalis4126  Tbf, I’ve met more Americans with horrendous teeth (or none) than those with pearly whites. It’s a total myth all (or even the majority) Americans have these dazzling white teeth.
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  4768. *inaudible
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  4769.  @martinrye712  I don’t understand what you are getting at? What has my name got to do with anything here?
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  4770.  @SK-vg3mw My life is fine, sweetheart. I just had in my head that Sunak was one of these dudes with a full head of hair until death. It seems I was wrong.✌️
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  4771. As a centre-left liberal (and someone who has never voted for Labour), my biggest issue with them is immigration. If you think the Tories were lax about this, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Immigration is probably the only issue I’m not vaguely liberal on. It never ceases to amaze me how western European secular liberal democracies are seemingly so blasé about importing millions and millions of those with values diametrically opposed to secular liberal democracy. We are already seeing small fires being lit (Sweden), and it’s almost inevitable that there will be a confrontation between Islam and those countries who have chosen to import it en masse. It almost feels like it’s planned… 🤔
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  4772.  @xrmoff Really? Children sexually abused for the sexual gratification of adults? Really? You got something you wanna tell us? 🤔
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  4773.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Message to the Palestinian people: You will never walk alone! We see you. We hear you. We feel your pain and we are fighting for your human rights, your freedom and the restoration of your independence & sovereignty. Humanity stands with Palestine! 👈 You. That doesn’t sound like a Palestinian to me, that sounds like someone who is supporting Palestine. So stop lying and claiming sh*t you ain’t.
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  4774.  @Joshuanyc73 Indeed. And the world is easier when all your answers are in some unchallengeable ‘holy book’. It saves you from thinking. 👍
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  4775.  @cestlextase  I’m pro-immigration. I’m just not pro 750,000 immigrants per year.👍
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  4776. What? Wtf. Firstly, we don’t know if he’s Muslim. Secondly, a name doesn’t automatically tell you someone’s religion. Thirdly, have you never heard of miscegenation and the idea that people with different ethnic/religious traditions sometimes have children?
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  4777.  @WOTArtyNoobs  Ok. We got there. You attribute the current warming to solar power. We can agree to disagree. I’m going with the manmade (mostly) fossil fuel emissions idea. 👍
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  4778.  @Craig121000 Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  4779. Did I miss a meeting? Since when was it anyone else’s business what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to? 🤔
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  4780.  @kieran5191  He’s a Bolton fan. That’s all you need to know.
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  4781. The point is that Rishi does intend to ban new petrol cars and boilers eventually. Looks like Lady Colin’s days are numbered. 🤭
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  4782. *his
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  4783. “Another crime against society: hyphenated names. Hey, lady, pick a fucking name, would you, please? Pick a fucking name.” (George Carlin)
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  4784. The more I watch him these days I’m more inclined to go with the notion of Hollywood asking if Mark Dolan is over.
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  4785.  Leidolfr Last time I checked, it’s a specific reference to skin colour. Last time I checked again, it’s used against whiteys whom others perceive as being racist. Do try to keep up at the back.
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  4786.  Leidolfr ’Gammons’, eh? Pot, kettle, black? 😉
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  4787. Agreed with most of that, if we assume that all those arriving are genuine refugees. A massive assumption. Calais thing is decent. Definitely let them work. ID cards good, too. Don’t agree with much Butterworth says but this seems decent. 👌
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  4788. Really? Didn’t even know transvestites needed a licence.
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  4789.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Lol. U keep upvoting urself, darling. Cringe. 👍
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  4790. @0:15 Lol@“the Left’s racism problem.” I’m not even Left, but the high hypocrisy of GBNews to suggest it’s not a racist Channel is fookin hilarious! 🤣 All it seems to do is batter funny foreigners and gays and anyone else that’s not white, straight and Christian! 😅
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  4791. I’m 33 and while I don’t support illegal immigration, I have zero problem with controlled legal immigration and giving asylum to genuine refugees. Trouble with this scenario is that it appears out of control (and is, to some extent), but the whole situation has just become an excuse for those who are anti-immigration in toto to vent their racist spleens.
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  4792. Jim Davidson’s let himself go.
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  4793. Galloway would sell his granny to the Devil if it publicised his ego. With Georgey baby it’s always been about the Galloway; no one, or nothing else.
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  4794.  @toastedterps  Interestingly, the age of majority is 18 years in all EU Member States except for Scotland (I know the UK has left the EU; but this was written before), where children are considered to have full legal capacity from the age of 16 years. I’m from Scotland, so at 16 I legally was an adult!
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  4795. You have one. BNP.
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  4796.  @josele844  In 1640, the Principality of Catalonia revolted and declared itself an independent republic. Under French protection the republic lasted just over a decade but was eventually taken back by the Spanish. Catalonia can easily revolt again if it has to. If a majority of Catalans vote for independence in a referendum, then Madrid, if it has any respect for democracy at all, should honour this.
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  4797. Oh Jesus. What a pompous tosser. He even has his own self-created halo. Says it all.
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  4798. I’d burn the church down.
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  4799. Although it was a bad day for black Chris Rock, it looks like Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch backfired. On the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking to him for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars .
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  4800. She’s not nearly as hot as Sharon Stone, though. She did a ‘Sharon from accounts’, rather than a Sharon Stone, to be fair.
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  4801. What’s been simultaneously hilarious and confusing here is the exaggerated terms of the argument. If you are not for Sturgeon, you are automatically a right-wing, Scottish (but really British) freak, and if you are for Sturgeon you are a Socialist, state-controlled automaton. How about the notion that you can see the pros and the cons of independence and staying in the Union, without all this polarised tribal bollocks? If there’s one thing I’ve learned about politics over the years, it’s never to trust those who are winging it; whether on the right or the left. Why? Because most people are complicated and have a maelstrom of ideas from the right, the middle and the left. Never understood this thing whereby we have to reduce the terms of debate such that they are constrained within this or that party, for every party I look at has ideas I agree with and ideas I disagree with.
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  4802. I’d love to know what Putin’s daughters think of their dad’s ignominious life’s work; oh to be a fly on the wall earwigging their conversations. “So, dad, at your behest, hundreds were massacred today. How does that make you feel? You proud of that? You ok with that? Is your humanity still intact after all that?”
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  4803. If you think this is ‘thin’ take a look at Markle’s legs. That’s ‘thin’! They’re competing with each other. This much is obvious.
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  4804. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
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  4805. So vote him out. 🗳 At least you Canadians have that option. Millions don’t.
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  4806. Just been catching up on Byline Times. My, my, hasn’t our Dan (sorry, Martin; or is it Maria this week? 🤔 ) been a busy busy boy over the years? Can you imagine if the allegations which are swirling around Dan/Maria/Martin were swirling around, say, Phillip Schofield for example, or Huw Edwards, that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing them to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee but not for me.” His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  4807. Oh ffs. Are we still doing this? Anyone with eyes to see can clearly see that that wasn’t Kate at the Windsor Farm Shop. 🤦‍♂️
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  4808.  @robroots2492  👍
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  4809.  @silversurfer5026  We’re all out of Africa.😉
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  4810.  @jonathanj.7344  I’d be against that. What I’m not against is the general notion of a bloke in a frock. To me, this is just an excuse for a bunch of homophobes to hide behind their homophobia. Are you one of the homophobes, Jonty? Huh? Be honest.
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  4811.  @scottjondansteve9343  Lol. Have you something you want to tell us all, Scotty? 😉
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  4812. Someone‘s not getting any.🤣
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  4813. Lol. Jack should be in that school doing his Tables. He looks about 9!🤣
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  4814. Much of this is about class. I agree with the cause, but not perhaps the methods. However, these guys are getting it in the neck in large part cos they’re middle-class poshos like Oliver here. The people that get most uptight about him and his like are usually called ‘Kevin’ and from a council estate. The power of the British class system should never be underestimated as witnessed here.
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  4815.  @TomRipley7350  Yeah, but some women who weren’t “throwing themselves” at him may be the accusers here. I know loads of women who find Brand an utter creep in terms of the way he talks about women and treats them as his disposable playthings. They compare him to Andrew Tate on this matter.
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  4816.  @lumpyfishgravy  Yes, I never trusted Al.
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  4817. According to official government stats, the top 5 nationalities arriving illegally into the UK via Channel boats from July 2021-June 2023 are Iran, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. What do these countries have in common? Every single one has a massive Muslim majority population. Even Albania, which I was surprised to discover is nearly 60% Muslim. In principle, I have no intrinsic issue with immigration, provided it is legal and strictly controlled. What we have here is a free-for-all. A free-for-all 99% led by Islam. Yesterday, 700+ made the trip. Imagine if the UK had better weather: 700+ would be making that trip every single day of the year! That’s well over 250,000 unregulated, undocumented people we know nothing about p/y. The UK currently has a 7% Muslim population. Current projections predict it will be 17% by 2050. By 2050 Sweden is predicted to have a 30% Muslim population; a third of Sweden will be Islamic. Interesting times. ​​⁠If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism.
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  4818. So you should. America has caused more trouble on this planet than any other country I can think of. 👍
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  4819. No thanks. I’ve already bought one.
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  4820. So, Wootton (Martin, Maria) isn’t broaching Brand’s predicament. Hmm … I wonder why … 🤔
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  4821.  @patriciapetora6616  Lol. You started it! You just couldn’t finish it with a full stop! 😊
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  4822. Lol. And if you get that you’ll be demanding your street gets independence from the estate you live on. Logical conclusion: at some point you will call for independence from yourself, or parts of you, and then you’ll have some real choices to make.
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  4823. What’s interesting, and actually quite hopeful, about this whole farrago, notwithstanding the murky deceit and dodge betrayed by Johnson, is just how seriously the nation takes this. In other parts of the world, perhaps most other parts of the world, what Johnson has done would be seen as extraordinarily pettifogging in the grand scheme of things, but no, us Brits, with our sense of ‘fair play’, see this as actually very important, and for this reason: it’s about the larger principle, not the ostensible small-fry crime itself. And that gives me hope.
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  4824. @Tab Ford I’m just looking for some actual news, Tab. Nice try, though. 👍
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  4825. No. Just GB News, as they are obsessed with them for no apparent reason.
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  4826.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Nah, it’s what my knob’s telling me. 👍
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  4827.  @labouraredangerous Most countries in the world are way more multicultural than the UK.
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  4828.  @Devotee777  Also, on all the lists I check when I type ‘most multicultural countries in the world’, Britain comes near the bottom of every single one.
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  4829. Simon Schama has just filed a complaint.
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  4830. So, why is Nigel not calling for the cancellation of Glastonbury, where 36 arrests were made? Given that there were far fewer than 2 million people involved (200,000 - if you do the maths that’s 360 which is on a par with 308) you’d think cancelling Glastonbury would be no.1 on Nigel’s cancellation list. 🤔
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  4831. Well done you, John, for boarding up our shops. What a guy! Where would we be without you? I bet you have the white skin to prove your credentials too, eh?👱🏿‍♂️
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  4832. Dang! That’s annoying, as I had a ticket to Ryde. 🚂
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  4833.  @stequality  Why do you assume he is on one side or the other? People who hitch their political mast to one end of a political spectrum or t’other always confuse me. When I consider my views on stuff I find I’m right-wing in some, left-wing in others and centrist in yet others and none of the above in the rest. People are complicated.
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  4834. XY doesn’t go into XX as my transsexual Maths teacher always told me.😳
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  4835.  @hurstmitchell6392  Yeah but values schmalues. We used to ‘value’ all sorts of barbaric, primitive nonsense. Organised religion, historically, falls into this category.
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  4836. @@EuropeAwake2024He’s got a Welsh dad, son. Try again.👍
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  4837.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue Just for the record, why is it that those people who bang on about ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I’d actually want to be ‘indigenous’ with? 🤔
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  4838. It’s all academic anyway as there probably is no God, and even if there were he/she/it’d be horrified at the nonsense humans have committed in the name of organised religion.
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  4839. *have
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  4840.  @bonjovi1612  Worth checking out. 👍 I’m not saying she is innocent, but I have my strong doubts about the safety of the conviction.
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  4841. Lol. Trump calling Biden ‘mentally disabled’ is a bit like Biden calling Trump ‘mentally disabled’!
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  4842. Huh? Why does anyone automatically ‘deserve’ anyone else’s respect? 🤔 Respect is earned. I wish her no harm but she ‘deserves’ none of my respect as she’s nothing to me, in the same way I wouldn’t demand she automatically respect me.
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  4843. Yes. And these tendencies tend to increase watching these 3 numpties!
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  4844. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  4845. The elephant in the room for many in this whole debate is Islam. Whenever I discuss this issue with others, Sikhism is never brought up, Hinduism is never brought up, Buddhism is never brought up, but Islam is invariably brought up. Willing to bet that if organised religion wasn’t a thing, this wouldn’t be so much of a thing.
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  4846. To be fair, could have been worse; he might have shown up with a Carlos Valderrama!
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  4847. Legal implications. 😉
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  4848. If Meghan and Harry, homosexuals, trans people and immigrants didn’t exist GB News wouldn’t have a Channel. (Pun intended.)
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  4849. He’s been a caricature of himself since the day he was born.
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  4850. @@Bellator-fidei Definition of “non-natives”? 🤔
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  4851. You’ve got to admire Djokovic, but my God, he’s not the most likeable. 🎾
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  4852. Yes, the hair doubles as Fabricant’s tea cosy. 🫖
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  4853. As an agnostic, I have very little time for all organised religion, but the one I have least time for currently would certainly be Islam. Why? Well, quite simply, as it stands, Islam seems to be the religion in the world today that most demands respect (on pain of torture or worse) but is least likely to return that respect the other way. That said, I’m aware of dozens of Muslims in my orbit, and to a man and a woman they are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens. My fear, somewhere down the line, is that these ‘moderate’ Muslims will be hijacked by the more vociferous kind when a critical mass is reached, and then all bets are off about what might ensue. However, I wouldn’t ban Islam. As a free-speech, freedom of worship advocate, I couldn’t justify banning any organised religion, just because I happen to find them all utter anathema. These are the tensions one has to put up with in a free, liberal society, I suppose.
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  4854. @@johnnyalucard9897 So? She was drunk? And? Your point is?
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  4855. Cringe.
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  4856. For regular GB News viewers a book is something with pages that you read. 📚
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  4857.  @denisebedding1311 Uh huh. Really? And you just proved my point. Ty Denise! 👍
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  4858.  @billysollox7187 Not siding with anyone, m8! I’m a both/and dude, in this conflict, and in life generally. It’s possible to condemn Hamas/Hezbollah and not be anti-Muslim just as it’s possible to condemn Israel without being anti-Semitic. I can see both sides, here. If you can’t/don’t want to, tough!👍
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  4859. Not sure about ‘Sturgeon on Tour’, but with Neil we most certainly have ‘Oliver the Dour’; every time I see his grey, lowering, unsmiling phizzog I’m reminded of PG Wodehouse’ rather pithy epigram: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  4860. Which is ironic, as the most common question I personally hear from women is “Why?”😳
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  4861. What is a woman? @0:14 “Today we are going to get to the bottom of it.” I fear this presenter may be looking at the wrong side.
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  4862. @0:05 “I could be wearing shorts under this desk. You’d never know.” I was so traumatised by this image I had to stop watching.
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  4863. Ah, the old trope of the homophobes and the linking of homosexuality with paedophilia. Well done.👍
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  4864. What aren’t? The men or the porn sites?
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  4865. Yeah, but part of the deal here is that this isn’t really a story. 99% of people agree with Alice. Even the transgender people I know, wouldn’t agree with forcing this ideology on 6 year olds. Because about 5 men and their dog watches GBNews, this is suddenly an issue. It’s not. The vast majority of people agree with Cooper here, but as ever GBNews likes to make out they don’t.
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  4866. As an agnostic, I have very little time for all organised religion, but the one I have least time for currently would certainly be Islam. Why? Well, quite simply, as it stands, Islam seems to be the religion in the world today that most demands respect (on pain of torture or worse) but is least likely to return that respect the other way. That said, I’m aware of dozens of Muslims in my orbit, and to a man and a woman they are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens. My fear, somewhere down the line, is that these ‘moderate’ Muslims will be hijacked by the more vociferous kind when a critical mass is reached, and then all bets are off about what might ensue. However, I wouldn’t ban Islam. As a free-speech, freedom of worship advocate, I couldn’t justify banning any organised religion, just because I happen to find them all utter anathema. These are the tensions one has to put up with in a free, liberal society, I suppose.
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  4867. Life. Get a.
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  4868. Yes, I agree, Dan should’ve been sacked years ago.👍
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  4869. He clearly wants us to love his hair as much as he does. Tough job.
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  4870. They’re rather moreish, as it happens. Like a delicate chicken. 🐸
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  4871. Slightly creepy.
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  4872. That Scottish geezer looks like Nick Dixon crossed with Phill Jupitus.
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  4873. If Baldwin was handed this “prop gun” on the understanding it was “cold” he is 100% innocent.
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  4874. There is definitely something weird that has happened in the past 25 years with the advent of the Internet. Tragically, hundreds of thousands of boys think that an obnoxious twat like Andrew Tate is the summum bonum of how to treat a woman. Women respond to kindness, humility, a sense of humour … all qualities which Tate appears to lack.
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  4875.  @cliffthatcher4574  Yes, and I was always taught never to automatically trust guys called ‘Cliff’, but more importantly those called ‘Thatcher’. Call it bitter experience.
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  4876.  @LondonSteveLee  Yes there is. Even anecdotally. I’m old enough to know this. We are quite clearly experiencing warmer temperatures. The only issue to be resolved is how much (if at all) humans are complicit.
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  4877. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  4878. *you’re Neither are you. Clearly.
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  4879. ‘Our own’?! Don’t you realise how sinister that sounds?
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  4880. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  4881. I reckon 3 million peanuts could cover the entire Ukraine.
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  4882.  @samrowbotham8914 Huh? Ok. So if England win the Euros with Saka scoring the winning goal is doesn’t count, is that it? Of course, if that happens, you’ll put your racist hat away for 5 minutes. Never got this this skin thing. Genuinely. I dislike people for their ideas (like your ideas); skin colour never enters my consideration. Why would skin colour be an issue? 🤔
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  4883.  @B.D.E.  Isn’t it? Ukraine has no official military links with the West, and it’s not in the E.U., so you need to explain …
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  4884.  @mattsmith1859  Misread you. My mistake. Apologies.👍
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  4885. Yeah, but kittens don’t massacre schoolchildren in their classroom. You need lions and tigers for that.
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  4886.  @flickthenick Belendtens makes 3 🤡s! 👍😉
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  4887.  @Pining_for_the_fjords  Never said it “excused” it; said it partly explains it.
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  4888. The feeling’s mutual, Jimbo.👍
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  4889. @lifesbutastumble Who’s to blame? Over-sensitive individuals who seem to think they can impose their over-sensitivity on the rest of us. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin) Amen.
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  4890.  @burlhorse61  Er, no it’s not. It’s the human party in a nutshell. Why are you denying that all of us (unless we are Jesus) have tribal snobby thoughts about others on a regular basis? 🤔
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  4891. Yeah, but yer not called ‘Steve’.
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  4892.  @AF-gd7fh  As things stand, that appears to be true. I was just making the point that this, by rights, shouldn’t be an issue. Ireland was ‘planted’ against its will. This is the legacy.
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  4893.  @ImAMassiveBender  To be fair, I was wearing protection. 🧤
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  4894. This only happened after he started speaking out against mainstream narratives. That’s a bit tenuous. If you look at his YouTube channel, Brand’s being doing this for a good decade. I just checked it and a full 10 years ago he was posting stuff with titles like: Is Climate Change A Hoax? Is Immigration To Blame? How Do The Media Scare Us? So at this point, Brand’s been questioning mainstream narratives for years.
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  4895. OMaGh!
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  4896. Can we trust someone called ‘MrZiv’ to be unbiased? Jesus Christ.
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  4897. He didn’t touch him, actually. Nice try, though.👍
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  4898.  @-GS-  Uh huh. So tell me why he ‘didn’t see a single British person there’? If he were blind, he wouldn’t be able to discern. He made the comment because he saw lots of non-white skin and couldn’t cope. Yet, he’s a white African in a mainly non-white continent. As I said, his hypocrisy is off the charts.
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  4899.  @-GS-  Huh? Did you read the dude’s OP? You seem a little dim. Get with the gig.
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  4900.  @HaveanOreshnik Lol. So why did you ‘categorise’ it by emphasising mother? 😬
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  4901. Awright, Belendtens. 👍 Always a chore, never a pleasure.
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  4902.  @SA-ff9uc  *anything
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  4903.  @I_Lemaire  Don’t be silly. If you transposed this scene to Jerusalem after a Hezbollah attack there and had a Jewish mother saying her exact words: “Nothing will shake us. Even if you blow us up. We are steadfast in our path and will not change.” You would say nothing in this scenario. Why? You’ve taken sides. Some of us can see both sides sometimes.
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  4904. Aye, Jimbo, you took my advice with your single (semi) amusing YouTube comment!🤣 Don’t over do it, though, son. Posting the same thing for the 50th time just isn’t cricket old boy!
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  4905. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  4906. 🤦‍♂️
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  4907.  @Jennyeq  Er, last time I checked, the polls suggested that a majority of Scots want to remain part of the Union.
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  4908. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which distributes aid, sent India £33.4 million in aid cash in 2022/23. But the FCDO's annual report, published this week, reveals that the total is set to rise to £57 million in 2024/25. Unlucky, Jimbo. 😉
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  4909.  @rpatel3935  To even suggest belendtens has a mind is stretching it somewhat.
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  4910. Send them as many British tanks as possible. You can never have too many Tommy Tanks. 🥸
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  4911. Less than 0.25% of this planet uses Twitter. Why is this news?
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  4912.  @billmoretz8718  Of course, Bill, ‘Moretz’: a Hebrew name, essentially, based on Moses. I get ya. If you’d been called ‘Ahmed’ I dare say you might have said something else. Those of us with zero skin in this game tend to be more clear-sighted.👍
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  4913.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Huh? I never used the term, ‘great replacement’. It seems you have the wrong dude. Just for the record, you can be against mass immigration at the current levels and not be a fascist. I’ve never voted for a right of centre political party in my life, so slandering me like that will get us nowhere in this debate and only makes you look rather silly.
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  4914.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  But you said there was little foreign immigration to France from Africa. You said it was mostly the EU. You were wrong. The majority of foreign-born people in France are from Africa.
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  4915.  @j7ech402  You got called out you utter hypocrite. Happy New Year!👍🤣
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  4916.  @Johnsmith-hp6tw  Pmsl.🤣
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  4917. Not if the Scots have anything to do with it.
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  4918. Migrant Dinghy Company We are proud to announce that with P&O out of commission the main Dover-Calais route is to be covered by the Migrant Dinghy Company. There are no cabins on this service but ‘sea-views’ are guaranteed. We also offer a choice of refreshments including ‘fish, freshly caught’ and ‘chilled sea water’. All for the bargain price of £5,000. Don’t delay, Dover’s the way! Paddles included in the price.
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  4919. Looks like ‘Netflix and chill’ became too ‘Netflix and bill’.
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  4920.  @andrewgreen5892  I would generally agree with most of that. However, as a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  4921. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  4922. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one: two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two States side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  4923. Although many may see this as a load of unwanted Bilisht, I’m loath to Berat too easily these Albanians, who have Fier in their bellies and who may be under Durres and the Tirana of smuggling gangs.🥸
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  4924. Because they don’t have to; or want to.
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  4925. @0:50 Zelensky looks like a naughty schoolboy who’s been hauled into the headmaster’s office to have a ‘quiet chat’ with him and the deputy head about smoking in the boys’ toilets. Or in Zelensky’s case, perhaps indulging in a little nose candy. 😳
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  4926. 🪖 Poland should stop procrastinating and just send those Leopard tanks: they’ll knock spots off the Russians! 🐆
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  4927. If they are genuine refugees, yes. If they are economic migrants, then it should be 100% up to the intaking country to decide.
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  4928. I ordered a korma.
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  4929. Schwab pulling his strings.
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  4930. @6:05 “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.” Perhaps. But also 🎶 “She’s a joke(r), she’s mediocre, she’s a midday choker, she sure does want to hurt someone. She’s a picker, she’s a grinner, I’m a lover, but we need to bin her, I play my music in the sun.” 🎶
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  4931.  @TheJewishAzovMember  Huh? I’m not Palestinian, son. Nice try, though. Keep getting it wrong.👍
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  4932.  @TheJewishAzovMember  No offence, but I’m not a child. Moreover, I have a decent command of the possessive apostrophe. 👍
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  4933.  @unworthy42  *whom
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  4934.  @TruculentSheep  It’s all about majorities. That’s how democracy works; or should work. Vast majority of biological women do not want biological men in their private spaces.
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  4935.  @gemcami7243  I’m not asking you to go anywhere. I’m just saying honour the majority wish of biological women, that’s all. 👍 The final bit my OP sums this up: With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces, this wish should be honoured in practice.
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  4936.  @gemcami7243  What? You seem to have completely ignored the main point of my OP: this isn’t about you; it’s about the majority of biological women who are not comfortable with biological men in their private spaces. 👍
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  4937. Ahem. Try telling Cathy Newman or Krishnan Guru-Murthy that they are ‘respected’, for if you believe certain misogynistic, racist commentaries on here, they are anything but.🤔
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  4938. I get so bored with the polarised, political, tribal extremes of this debate with the alarmist Greta gang (of which Okri seems to be remarkably in tune with here) facing off against the conservative manmade global warming deniers. I’m no lefty eco-warrior; nor am I a right-wing conservative. I’m just someone who dispassionately looks at the evidence and considers what’s what. In this case, I have done that. I believe the planet is warming. I believe it is warming quite alarmingly rapidly in historical terms. I believe humankind is contributing (at least in part) to this warming through fossil fuel burning. The end.
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  4939. Net migration certainly is increasing. But to be fair, if we’re importing more nets then that means more fish for all! 🐠
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  4940.  @ronnieince4568  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  4941.  @HK-vy3fh  Huh? Not sure wtf you’re on about, m8. I know several atheist Jews but I know no atheist Muslims. In other words, Islam, as a religion, is a choice. If you’re born a Jew in an ethnic sense (however you want to define that genetically), there is no choice involved, but you’re not born ‘Islamic’ in the same way you can be born ‘Jewish’.
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  4942.  @b.l.a.biglovealwaysbiglove4053  That may be so. But this river is tiny, comparatively. When you have gear that can cover 10 miles in a day and a body is 1 mile from where it vanished, there is surely something wrong. 10 miles a day. 3 full days. They should have had this.
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  4943.  @fookorf  Surely should have been the other way round, no? Sonar downstream , divers upstream .
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  4944. 🇵🇪 Quite a diLima all this. Obviously, these Peruvian demonstrators are very well organised and are operating together. They are clearly Inca hoots. 🤓
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  4945.  @BarlasofIndus  Er, who said he was? ☠️
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  4946.  @RobbyO-p5p No he isn’t. He’s actually in Allan’s snack bar.
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  4947.  @davidhynes  🤦‍♂️
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  4948.  @GiantSandles  Can you imagine if the late Princess Di had married the guitar noodler, Chris Rea? She’d had have to change her name to Di Rea! 💩 🙃
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  4949.  @bryandavidson6386  No. ‘Matt’. Lol.
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  4950. Really, are you not from Uranus?🤓
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  4951. Johnson wasn’t given a penalty but he should have been sent off for foul play.
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  4952.  @tophat593  Thanks for dat, Armchair General Tophat. 👍 🎩
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  4953. Lol. “A bard of Shakespearean levels”. Pure hyperbole and, frankly, utter bollix. Only someone who hasn’t read Shakespeare could make such a fatuous comment. No one, I mean quite literally no one has touched the genius of Shakespeare not only in terms of his quantity of output but in just how rich in human wisdom virtually his every line is. This guy isn’t even a minor footnote to the likes of Shaky.👍
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  4954. Immigrants for immigrants! Does that make us quits?😳
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  4955. This one was a non-Muslim, apparently. Mental health. We’ll see.
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  4956. One of the biggest issues Britain faces and no mainstream party (Labour or Conservative) dare tackle head on is immigration. To be more specific, the issue they dare not tackle is Islamic immigration. As a secular agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust, in the world currently as it stands, is Islam. Wherever it goes and wherever it rubs up against antithetical cultures it seems there is trouble. It constantly amazes me that secular liberal democracies seem so willing to accept en masse those who hold values diametrically opposed to secular liberal democracy. The UK currently has a 7% Muslim population. Current projections predict it will be 17% by 2050. By 2050 Sweden is predicted to have a 30% Muslim population; a third of Sweden will be Islamic. Interesting times. ​​⁠If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s a lot to be said for gradualism.
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  4957.  @Cruzeoc101  People are supporting the right for Ukrainian majority self-determination. It’s interesting that the Azov Battalion is repeatedly mentioned, yet what isn’t mentioned is that it makes up less that 1% of the total Ukrainian army; and that doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of citizen soldiers.
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  4958. Regardless of whether NATO creep ‘provoked’ the Russian invasion, bottom line for me has always been I’d rather live in any NATO country you care to mention than Putin’s Russia.
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  4959.  @yousifshakoor6496  Er, my ‘evidence’ is history, m8. Have you read the religious history of humanity? 🤔
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  4960. Well, after more shuffling going in British politics these past few days than my Ipod, we finally have the new Cabinet: Prime Suspect Minister ~ Rishi Sunak💩 Deputy Time Serving Minister ~ Dominic Raab 🕰 Wealth Secretary ~ Rishi Sunak (Obvs) 💰 Chancer of the Exchequer ~ Jeremy Hunt 💴 Purreign Secretary ~ Larry the cat 🐈 Row Row Row Your Boat Home Secretary ~ Suella Braverman 🛶 Self Defence Secretary ~ John Prescott 🥋 There is no Justice Secretary ~ Obvs ⚖️ Business as Usual Secretary ~ The Tory Party 👩‍💼 👨‍💼 Fair Trade Secretary ~ Greta Thunberg 🌲 Shirk and Dissensions Secretary ~ The Tory Party 😴 Private Education Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🏫 Dishevelling Up Secretary ~ Boris Johnson 🤪 Environmental Disorder Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🌳 Transdeport Secretary ~ Suella Braverman ✈️ 🌎 < Rwanda Northern United Ireland Secretary ~ Michelle O’Neill 🇮🇪 Scotland Independence Referendum Secretary ~ Nicola Sturgeon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wails Secretary ~ Most of us! Argh!!! 😖 Leader of House of Boreds ~ This post won’t be filled as they are all asleep anyway. 🛌 Counterculture Secretary ~ Swampy 🥾 Chief Whip ~ Neil Parish (🚜 & gimp mask supplied.) Breeder of the House of Commons ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg (with an honorary Breeder without Portfolio role for Boris Johnson.) 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶
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  4961. Well, he certainly puts the ‘ick’ in Carrick.
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  4962. @Andy Carter Lol.
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  4963.  @geraldfindon827  Territory’s different in Afghanistan. Fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan is like fighting against rats in the sewers of New York. You might trap a few, but they are going to dodge you for the most part, due to home advantage in a very intricate territory. Former USSR knows all about this terrain to its cost. Russia itself, however, is a sitting duck compared to this.
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  4964.  @sohailrazaque9785  Jesus! Can you even read? All through this thread I’ve been caveating my comments in terms of conventional war. Go away. Stop wasting my time.
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  4965. I hate to say this, and I say it having never voted Tory, but when they are replaced by Labour, I’ve been around long enough to know it won’t be long before folks will be getting impatient with them and so the pendulum will swing once again. As mentioned, I’m no fan of the Tories, but Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  4966. Stolen comment.
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  4967. @Primal Fish Muhahahahaha!
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  4968. Do you ever catch any of the hedges?
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  4969. He’s not sure about you.
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  4970.  @billbogg3857  You omit to mention that the Little Ice Age was most likely largely caused by massive volcanic activity.
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  4971. Ah, Just Stop Oil with another of their stopoiler alerts. Cool.
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  4972.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  4973.  @jamessimmons7480  Hey, Jimmy, are you aware that most police in the UK don’t routinely carry guns? Things can be, and thankfully are , done differently to the good ole US of A ya know! 🤠
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  4974. 2nd Amendment.
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  4975. 1:40 She has a remarkable whiff of Warhol if Warhol had lived to 80!
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  4976. In all this polarised debate about Zelensky being a NATO/EU/US stooge and Putin being a new Napoleon trying to bring Ukraine back into the mother Russia fold, one can quite lose one’s bearings. One ends up, as ever in these situations, in believing half of it is true for both sides. Putin is not all devil and Zelensky isn’t all angel.
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  4977. Putin: “But, brother, we are fellow Slavs, speak the same language, you must be with me, no?” Ukrainian: “‘Brother’ is overstating it. Cousins, at best, is how I would put it. Yes, I speak your language, but you don’t speak mine, and no, I must go where my conscience dictates, not where you dictate. Understand this and we can get along.”
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  4978.  @jimthompson9370  Yes, your business, if you choose to make it your business. I choose to see it as not my business, and see it as no one else’s business either.
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  4979.  @KnightmareUSA  Anglicised Arabic. Either way, ole Nige sports an African/Arabic name! 🤣
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  4980. No. Key words since the beginning of this nonsense thousands of years ago: organised religion.
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  4981.  @sonicfactory-uk  👍 You’re right. Let’s call the whole thing off.
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  4982. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 🧐
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  4983. Well, when you can buy a gun more or less like you can buy a candy bar, what do you expect? America was built on the gun, and for too many people, alas, it still lives by the gun.
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  4984. @0:42 Looks like they both got the shoe memo. 👟
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  4985. 🤦‍♂️ Are you serious or is that a joke?
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  4986. Stolen comment, Belendtens.
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  4987.  @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204  ⁠Yeah, but one of the problems with your idea is why is it that those people bang on about ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be ‘indigenous’ with? 🤔
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  4988. Says Mr Klein. I bet if you were Mr Ahmed, you might have a different tale to tell.👍
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  4989. Cobblers!
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  4990. I think Rolf Harris majored on minors mostly. 🤔
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  4991.  @ramatgan1  He looks like Jabba the Hutt! 👍
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  4992. ‘Gorgeous’?! Jesus. Should’ve gone to Specsavers. 🤓
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  4993. There is no Allah. Get over it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  4994.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  The Jimbo doth protest too much, meeeeeethiiiiiinnnnnkkkkkkss!
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  4995.  @emceedoctorb3022  Lol. You have just admitted defeat. At least you’re honest. 👍👌😎
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  4996.  @emceedoctorb3022  You live in a democracy. If enough people vote for something, it happens. If they don’t, it doesn’t. If there’s not a critical mass in Ireland for an anti-immigration party, as we speak, then you need to cope with this and wait until there is, and wait until there are enough folk who want to vote for it. Trouble for you is quite simple: most people have no issue with controlled legal immigration. Unless you can change this attitude, you have no chance.👍
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  4997. It’s Islam.
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  4998.  @LukiaChan08  What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and. 👈 Just for you, Lukia. 👍😉
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  4999. So far, this war reminds me of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where plucky little Ukraine (Arab guy) waves around his medieval weaponry in Indy’s face, and Indy just draws his gun and blows him away. Except, for some reason Russia hasn’t quite done the very thing I thought it would have long before now; that is, crush Ukraine. Fair play to those Ukrainians.
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  5000.  @jaredshipp9207  K, Jared. 👈Hebrew name. I repeat, if you’d been called ‘Mohammed’, I’d bet my life you’d be saying something rather different.👍
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  5001.  @saberint  Before this war started I knew nothing about the cities of Ukraine beyond a cursory knowledge of Kyiv. Having researched a bit more Lviv looks like the diamond in Ukraine’s tiara; a kind of Ukrainian Krakow in terms of pulchritude. Please God (if you are there) spare this city. Odesa looks like it’s a lovely, lively open port city … and it looks like it’s about to be wiped from the map. Tragic.
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  5002. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🧐
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  5003.  @andrewjones575  Aye, but it was there. Perhaps you just didn’t wanna hear it, eh?😉
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  5004.  @cropcircles5697  Again, you also are missing my point, which is, among a large tranche of the UK population there would be uproar if Rwanda were sending its migrants here.
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  5005.  @oscarmason8904  Lol. You speak like France, Italy, Germany and Spain (to name 4 neighbours), don’t take in refugees.
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  5006.  @loveisall5520  Yawn At least make up your own stuff and stop cribbing it from verbal geniuses.
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  5007.  @steelydanlover1972  Still 👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert! Still 👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  5008.  @steelydanlover1972  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  5009.  @loveisall5520  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  5010. And all this nonsense because men decided to draw lines on maps to arbitrarily designate this area as against that area. Never got nationalism, which is essentially just tribalism on steroids that requires you to put your societal overlords’ agendas over your own. For one thing no one has any say where they are born so to take some kind of weird, unearned pride in a random accident of birth is irrational. For another thing, we are artificially programmed to believe that we are to have more loyalty to anyone else that was born in the same artificial territory as we are, but again this is just irrational and stupid, for human beings are incredibly complex and automatically liking and feeling solidarity with this or that human solely according to the idea that they happened to be plopped out by their mother in the same spot on Earth is a moronic notion when really considered. I like/dislike human beings for a whole host of reasons, their opinions, their ideas, their dress sense, the way they treat others etc. but the idea that I should like them and feel loyalty to them on a random accident of birth, something over which none of us have any say, isn’t (and shouldn’t be) on my radar.
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  5011. It’s a pity Rowan Williams is no longer the Archbishop of Canterbury, for if he were, we could have asked what would Rwanda done? ⛪️
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  5012.  @Tom.Brace14  Looks like they all have white hands to me! 👍
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  5013.  @freddysw  ‘Mike’? Who? 🤔
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  5014. The Oscars 2022 Best Original Score: Volodymyr Zelensky for that good shit he got from Colombia, the country, not the film company. Sniffs Best Original Song: Crimea River . Best Supporting Actor: Hunter Biden for My Beautiful Ukrainian Money Launderette . Best Supporting Actress: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for The Spy Who Came Back to the Cold . Best Actor: Volodymyr Zelensky for Citizen Ukraine . Best Actress: Greta Thunberg for Robocop 26 . Best Director: Vladimir Putin for From Russia Without Love . Best Picture: Tsar Wars: The Russian Empire Strikes Back . Lifetime Under-Achievement Award: Boris Johnson.
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  5015. 0:05 He looks like that middle guy in the famous picture of human evolution from ape to human! 😮
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  5016.  @forallofme4441  Huh? None of that makes any sense. If you want to have sex with someone you get their consent. Case closed. Stop with the pretentious, meaningless word salad.
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  5017. Er, why is it a ‘bad idea’? 🤔
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  5018.  @freddysw  Yeah, but there are crushes and there are crushes, m8.👍
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  5019.  @cal7348  It’s just an accident of birth, chum. Get over it.
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  5020.  @rezzoc91  This.
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  5021.  @thorpeaaron1110  Look, m8, I’ve laid out a few facts; if you choose to blithely ignore them to fit a pre-ordained agenda, so be it. Stay in delusionland.
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  5022. Party has fascist roots, though. Leopard, spots and all that.😉
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  5023.  @iceman463864  Another irrelevant word salad. So, again: The vast majority of women don’t want an unsolicited kiss from some random on their lips. Cope. 💋
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  5024. Not his greatest fan, tbh, but Depp is showing a Cannes-do attitude. Some of his behaviour is an obvious emParisment and he can clearly be a right pain in the Marseille and not Nice at all, with actions Bordeauxing on the squalid. However, against Heard, he was clearly never going Toulouse. By all accounts, his new film won’t be winning the Palme d’Orleans, though. 🍿
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  5025. This is about the 25th time I’ve seen this already. Stolen comment.
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  5026. Yes. But he wasn’t waxed.
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  5027. Scene: An alien mothership hovers looking down on planet Earth Alien One: “You know, these humans are fed by the same food, drink the same water, are warmed by the same sun, and yet they kill each other.” Alien Two: “So primitive, huh?” Alien One: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems.”👽
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  5028.  @The_Reality_Filter  It can be scientifically deduced that the Earth’s core is around 6000°C. That’s good enough for me, sweetheart! 👍😉
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  5029. Er, only to be replaced by the next batch of tourists. 🥴
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  5030.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Where did I say I was English? Quote it back.
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  5031.  @julia2k8  Lmao. Julia has the temerity to call out others for not ‘minding their own business’!!!???🤣😂😅 I’ve heard it all now! 🤣😂😅👍
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  5032. Ty for your interesting facts. 👍
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  5033. Martine Croxall is near the top of my list of weird crushes. Actually, scrub that. She’s near the top of my list of crushes, period! 🤓
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  5034. Lol.
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  5035. Here: have another tinfoil hat. Suits you, Sir.
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  5036. @Nicolas Olivier Turks are not Arabs.
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  5037.  @nicoles9077  In the UK, every culture I can think of integrates well. In England there is a Muslim population who very much live in ghetto cities in the North. However, this doesn’t obtain with Muslims over all the UK, and the many Muslims I know are well-integrated, productive members of society. If you live in an open, free, democratic society, you can’t pick and choose on the basis of faith or culture, if you agree to a certain amount of immigration in the first place.
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  5038.  @gregducati999  Yeah, that and all the murder and slavery and theft. Yeah, that too.
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  5039.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Sex versus gender, Jimbo. Personally have no issue with gender identification as ‘male’, ‘female’, ‘non-binary’ and everything else in between. Sex, though, is immutable. Too often in this debate folk are confusing the terms. Totally get how some folk can feel they are in the ‘wrong-gendered’ body and if they want to alter their gender, fine. Just can’t alter sex.
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  5040.  @sudiptechnical368  Yes, I understand that. However, given the much smaller vehicle this mission sent and the fact it wasn’t crewed, I would’ve just assumed it would’ve got there much quicker than 6 weeks, given what’s been done before.
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  5041. Quite interesting that this mission took fully 6 weeks while the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 took just 4 days. You’d almost think the dates had been mixed up. 🤔
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  5042.  @MikkaFitnessFrance Lol. They’re just minor slopes in northern countries. Denmark’s highest point is 171m; you can’t have mountain ski resorts, as we know them, in such a flat land. 🤦‍♂️
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  5043.  @FuckYTube  No. If I were Dutch they would be apologising on behalf of me as a Dutch citizen. It very much is to do with individual egos. I don’t want anyone , State or otherwise, apologising on my behalf, based on an accident of birth. I will apologise only for the crimes I commit, not the State-sponsored nonsense, none of which was done in my name. Think on.
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  5044.  @locgama3630  ‘My country’? Rubbish. Everyone’s country is just an accident of birth. You had no say where you were born.
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  5045.  @joelassee7942  I’d commiserate, but I’m not apologising for any crime I personally did not commit. Jesus. Why is this so difficult?
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  5046.  @raminMTL  My grandfather died a pauper, alas. 😢
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  5047.  @루루97  ‘Acknowledge’, perhaps. I’ve already conceded that. But apologise for crimes I never committed? Who do you think I am? A character in a Kafka novel?
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  5048.  @teaveins1466  Not sure money buys the deaths and oppression of hundreds of thousands over a century.
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  5049.  @armandpelivani3227  for we Albanians, our own base religion is only God and Albania. Ok, an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy and an accident of birth. Gotcha! 👍
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  5050.  @yeame9163  Thank you, Lord Vader. 🙏
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  5051. In the case of melting sea ice, not so much. Melting sea ice, such as the Arctic ice cap, does not change sea level because the ice displaces its volume. However, if the planet is warming (it is - my only question in all this is just how much mankind is complicit), the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers, and the expansion of seawater as it warms, will indeed raise sea levels. If it all melts, by 60-70m.
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  5052.  @Dirgis-66  Huh? You have no clue about my “lifestyle”. You might wanna fact-check before you make silly claims, son.😉👍
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  5053.  @cleopatra7377  Steady now, love.
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  5054.  @ruthdepew7212  Point was, you can’t reason with an unreasonable animal.
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  5055.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  5056. “Key members of the Belarus opposition will be put on trial in absentia today” - ‘Absentia’? Where’s that, exactly? 🤔
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  5057.  @magnacz  Google’s your friend.😉France, for one.
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  5058.  ___  Just sayin’. Some countries seem to feel it’s ok not to ban it legally. Makes one think a bit, s’all.🤔😉
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  5059.  @goldfinga786able  Try poverty, persecution or the chance of a better life then. 😉
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  5060.  @ella17734  I meant part of the European continent. 😉
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  5061. Once she’s reccied the wreck of the Titanic, if she saves a few Ukrainian hryvnia and greases Zelensky’s palm she can go and see the wreck of the Russian flagship, the Moskva. Should be fun! 🤠
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  5062. Saddening sudden Sudan evacuations. Back to Blighty to get sodden. ☔️
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  5063. Meanwhile, the rest of us are criticising sad Russian mansions. 😳
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  5064. Er, remind me again who attacked whom on October 7th and who has been firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon for decades…🤔
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  5065.  @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive  🤦‍♂️
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  5066.  @HarryF-tz5fo ’Compliance’? Er, what is there to ‘comply’ with? Someone is either gay or they aren’t. Case closed.
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  5067.  @itsohaya4096  Well said! As you say, if straights can smooch in public then so can gays, otherwise that’s just double-standards hypocrisy. Rules for thee but not for me.
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  5068.  @DavidSmith-xn5js  Your feelings don’t matter here, son. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to.
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  5069.  @thedave7760  I don’t get what the issue is. Even if it is, so what? It’s not directly affecting you, so, so what? 🤷‍♂️
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  5070.  @joeyrinard6997 Projecting again? 🧐
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  5071.  @FlowKio You do know you can watch a news channel without swallowing everything it’s saying hook, line and sinker, doncha? Oh boy. 🤦‍♂️
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  5072.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. 1. I’m not a “lefty”. 2. You clearly implied I was being a propagandist. Watch your words ol’ sport.
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  5073.  @josfur1977  *other’s I think you’ll find there was a Spanish invasion of Portugal between 05 May and 24 November 1762. Nice try, though.👍
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  5074.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. So making connections makes me a propagandist now. Ok. 👍
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  5075. Pink Floyd got there first.
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  5076. @0:45 Just glad they got back home safe and sound. If that plane had crashed, as it’s Argentina, it’s not a ‘black box’ they’d have been looking for, but a ‘white box’. 😏
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  5077. *luxury
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  5078.  @khanh604 Er, I think you may have missed the point. 🤦‍♂️
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  5079.  @alexsilent5603  Indeed, Alex. Nice of you to spot the truth, darling. 👍
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  5080.  @alexsilent5603  Uh huh. Well, you’re bound to say that, Alex. My primary thought is if you had US or a UK flag next to your name, you would be saying something rather different. In other words, like us all (unless you think it out), you are a victim of an accident of birth, sweetheart. 👍
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  5081.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  5082. If Jesus came back (he won’t) the last thing he’d wanna be is a Christian.
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  5083.  Ops Blac  I’m sitting, mate.
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  5084. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  5085. This would never have been a “story” but for 2 reasons: 1. Billionaire aboard. 2. The Titanic factor. There are 3 million; I repeat, 3 million sunken boats/ships. Does anyone really believe this would’ve been a story if 2 randoms earning peanuts died while diving to look at some nondescript wreck off the coast of anywhere?
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  5086. At least gay people actually exist. The existence of God is far from clear.👍
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  5087.  @aristides2005  Ok, m8. Woteva.👍🥱
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  5088.  @anthonyballard8468  Let’s just build ordinary men first, before we get any delusions of grandeur.
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  5089.  @JackDarcy-vl8rq  Yes. Ty for pointing this out. 👍
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  5090.  @abuhurairah9977  Funny how it’s only Taliban men and Taliban-supporting men who say silly things like “Afghanistan is the world’s most appropriate country for women”. 🤣 Have you asked the women this? I bet they have a very different answer! 🤡
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  5091. “Give me a child until they are 7 and I will show you the adult.” (Aristotle & Jimmy Savile)
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  5092. You should be in the pound, Jimbo! The dog pound! Woof! 🤣
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  5093. You mean you’re not looking forward to “Klaus’s Krunchy Krickets”? 🦗🤣
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  5094. Yeah, but we kinda know all that sh*t, m8. You need to type solutions and not just causes, otherwise we’ll get nowhere.👍
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  5095.  @oliveralexandre3607  Yes it is. You’re not allowed to wear certain items of clothing. That’s proscribing clothes.
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  5096. @1:35 Argh! They’re burning the wrong Amazon!
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  5097.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  I disagree with the OP’s sentiment and opinion here, but I will defend to the death their right to say them.
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  5098. Could be. They might even get around to printing personalities. Give one to Rishi Sunak.
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  5099.  @S-North  And so you perpetuate the vicious circle. Well done, you.👍
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  5100.  @stevengreen9536  Aye.👍
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  5101.  @edwardvalivonis23  Nice try, son. But wrong. I loathe Putin, but that doesn’t make what this woman said any less true. Cope.
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  5102.  @AUmarcus  Think about what? I loathe Putin, but that doesn’t make what this woman said any less true. Cope.
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  5103.  @banis1980  Who said I ‘didn’t like’ the US? I lived there for 5 years. Here is my honest take: horrendously ugly cities; stupendously beautiful natural scenery; weird people, on the whole, with a few honourable exceptions. So, it’s wrong to say I dislike the US; I’m, when all is said and done, indifferent to the US.
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  5104. What’s with this ‘be like’ thing that everyone says now? It’s even more annoying than when people write ‘alot’.👀
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  5105. It’s not your island, Jimbo. Get with the gig. 👍🤡
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  5106.  @dotmarceo  Funny you should say that as there is a significant school of thought that considers Jesus himself to have been homosexual, or at the very least, bi. All that intimate stuff with the ‘beloved disciple’ etc. Strong motherly bond. Yeah, the signs were there.😉
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  5107.  @kareemdurrant139  It’s cross-cultural. Just sayin’! 🤠
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  5108.  @beautifulempatheticliberal5204  👈 Still incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨 So’s having a healthy sense of humour!🤣
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  5109.  @lukemurray4950  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  5110.  @-Tidgy Source for your claim? I’ll wait… 🍿 🥤
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  5111.  @cactusman7345 I don’t think it is. I agree there seems to be a bit of a 2-tier justice thing going on for leftist fear of offending a certain demographic’s sensitivities but in this case I think he would have been imprisoned and justice would have been served. It could be partly because the crime was so public and caught on camera, I accept that. But even if it hadn’t been Rushdie but some anonymous nobody and this dude had done what he did he still would’ve been banged up for a long time. I have no time for Islam (or any organised religion) but it’s too easy to exaggerate these things as the OP has clearly done in this case. 👍
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  5112. When it comes to the West, for the past 30 years, I cannot think of a single terrorist attack committed by Christians in the name of Christianity, Hindus in the name of Hinduism, Jews in the name of Judaism, Buddhists in the name of Buddhism, Flying Spaghetti Monsterists in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster etc.; no, this seems to be particularly and specifically a Muslim thing. Can we all agree (even Muslims, ffs!) that Islam is a bit of a problem? 🤦‍♂️ RIP to all the victims. (Full disclosure: agnostic here.)
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  5113. Says the guy watching a BBC report. I see a pot and a kettle over there, Jimbo.😉
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  5114.  @bobzherunkle3092  Nah. I’m no fan of Al Gore’s ithms.
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  5115. *A lot
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  5116.  @ashleysmith1290  Go and live in Russia if you prefer their current system. I’ll stick with the west, ty, for all its faults.
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  5117.  @A1readyDead  Once more, for the benefit of the ‘slow’: Lol. You need to beg, borrow or steal a sense of humour, m8, and fast!
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  5118.  @A1readyDead  I repeat: Lol. You need to beg, borrow or steal a sense of humour, m8, and fast!
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  5119. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  5120.  @ezioauditore3128  Just as a point of order, as it’s important in this debate, the UN Refugee Convention does not make it a requirement to seek refuge in the first safe country refugees come to, and UK case law supports this interpretation. Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through other ‘safe’ countries. A large part of this whole issue, for many, possibly including you, reading between the lines, is linked to this idea of why don’t those who come through several ‘safe’ countries seek asylum in one of those countries? Answer: they don’t have to.
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  5121.  @Petal4822  To seek a better life. Why did Europeans colonise others?
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  5122.  @Petal4822  Why did so many people from Christian countries colonise so many other countries when those other countries didn’t ask for it?
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  5123.  @ezioauditore3128  Not ‘blaming’ anyone, mate. Simply saying a little self-awareness wouldn’t go amiss when certain people claim certain rights. That’s all.
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  5124. “War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.” (Paul Valery)
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  5125. Not sure about “Allah” but the helicopter pilot could be an “Allan”. On secondment from Britain.
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  5126. ‘Blow jobs’ may be out of the question at this point.
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  5127.  @uktokers  Lol. 🤣👍
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  5128. Meooooooooooowwwwwwwwww! 🐱
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  5129.  @user-pb5jt6xk2m  Moreover, the US actually has worse knife crime than the UK.😉
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  5130. Why is it, Jimbo, that those who bark loudest about “homogeneity” and “indigenousness” are always those people I’d least want to share my genes with? 🤔
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  5131.  @paultaylor9498  Sorry you feel like this, mate, and you’re entitled to your opinion. All I would say is this: on balance, immigration to this country has been a far more positive thing than negative. 👍
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  5132.  @paultaylor9498  Why do you “hate with a passion” all immigrants? Seems a little irrational. Have you met them all? If not, how can you form an opinion on them?
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  5133. Red herring. US actually has more per capita knifings than UK.
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  5134.  @sigma8756  Bro, where’s the apostrophe? 😢
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  5135. If Uganda’s so great why aren’t you there? Stop being a hypocrite. Words are cheap.
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  5136.  @personofearth2000  No, it’s not: it’s about discrimination in Uganda against what 2 consenting adults get up to. You are purposely missing the point.
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  5137.  @aswadmalik1740  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  5138.  @supermanexpert6462  ‘Do as I please’? Cool. 😎
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  5139.  @naif8493  Didn’t report anything, mate. Nice try, though. Just for the record: it’s not your choice who you are attracted to . Cope harder, sweetie. 😉
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  5140.  @caffeine6370  There is more than a whiff of the ‘glory-hunter’ about them. If they survive, they’ll have a nice anecdote to tell the grandkids, but my feeling is that these guys are overcompensating for some perceived self-weakness that they may not have identified or be able to articulate. No sane person willingly puts themselves into a war situation if at all possible, let alone fighting on behalf of another nation.
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  5141.  @valerieannrumpf4151  ‘Connecticold’ - class!👍🤣
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  5142. There’s no real defence against stuff like this if the perpetrator is determined and/or has a screw loose. Guns make it worse, of course. But if he hadn’t had a gun, he’d probably have used something else. Actually, when you think about it and when you think about how relatively easy it is to access a gun, it’s fairly surprising these things don’t actually happen more often, given how many unhinged people there are in the world.
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  5143.  @Ass_of_Amalek  You just got owned.🤣
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  5144. Why are white men more likely to start wars than black women?
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  5145. Why shouldn’t a 16 year old be at the Playboy mansion if they so choose? Why all the high moral ground baloney? Did you not party at 16?
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  5146. Yeah, but I’m willing to bet your life is upheld by many of the products produced by ‘big business’, and if it is, you need to boycott those products forthwith or forever hold your peace for fear of being seen as a rank double-standards hypocrite.
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  5147. Groomer.
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  5148. “Gay, raw men” … ffs. Just glad you didn’t type those words on GB News! 🇬🇧
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  5149. He was 87. Cope.
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  5150. Fair play to the lad. His best film was schlocky horror, but it was good. ✊
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  5151.  @kateryna5284  Thanks for that. What I’m getting there is that a large part (if not most) of this is a direct result of Putin and his 2014 invasion. The way you describe it, it seems like Ukraine was a relatively peaceful nation with east/west co-existing much like, say, the Flemings and Walloons in Belgium. Thanks again.👍
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  5152.  @Alias_Ex  Lol. I’m serious though. Belgium can do this (2 languages). Spain can do this (4 languages). Switzerland can do this (4 languages). Why the fuck can’t Ukraine?
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  5153.  @agungkrisna7426  While I fully uphold the territorial rights of Ukraine and their desire to win back Crimea and east Ukraine in general, it has to be borne in mind here that Putin is an old USSR has-been having a last hurrah, a final swing before he pops his brothel creepers. From his point of view, the old Russian/Soviet Empire point of view, these parts of Ukraine are indeed Russian. Part of me feels that a way to go here, to save Ukraine more trouble, and the rest of the world potential trouble, is to agree to let Putin’s Russia occupy these bits until Putin departs the scene. I kind of think this is one man’s fantasy project and we should maybe humour him in his dotage, then Ukraine can have Crimea and Donbas back and exist as the full, self-governing sovereign nation it was before 2014. I know this smacks of appeasement, but for a quiet life … for now?
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  5154. Good luck with that, love.👍
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  5155.  @rymacreeks2k07  Scotland’s gun death rate since 1996 has never been above 0.8 per 100,000 people. In America in the same period, the rate has never dropped below 4 per 100,000. Having lived in America and lived in Scotland, I know which country I feel safer in and the objective stats would corroborate this.
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  5156. *Jarvis *we were *engaged
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  5157.  @esthermalone2318 I’m here all week, Esther! 👍 💩
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  5158. If Ukraine/NATO wanted to wipe the floor with Russia they could do it in a week. At this point, part of me wishes they would just get on with it. I never thought I’d say I was bored by a war. But I am.
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  5159. Oh c’mon, man. I accept he got to finals. But the way he did, genuinely made a late Mourinho team look attacking and exciting. Southgate is clearly one of the most likeable men on the planet, but his brand of (anti)-football is some of the most dire I’ve ever seen. Imagine if England had won this thing: aside from Bellingham’s bicycle kick, there would be no highlight reel where we saw genuinely good football being played. For 30 mins. in the first half against the Dutch, England played how they should’ve been playing for the 13 other halves of the tournament. England got to a semi and 2 finals despite Southgate, not because of him.
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  5160. Huh? Capello? Eriksson? 🤷‍♂️
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  5161. Emma Barnett rocking the ‘sexy librarian’ look. 🤓
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  5162. And here’s me thinking the Black Death all started in a flea market. 🤨
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  5163.  @kendall_knows_best2872  Andrew cares. Think on.
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  5164.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You projecting again, Jimbo? Tut.😳
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  5165. @0:30 Caravaggio was essentially making ‘video nasties’ in picture-form 400 years before cinema was invented!
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  5166. The trouble with humankind is that far too often they forget the ‘kind’ bit. ☮️
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  5167.  @epinephrinsr71  You’re back on track with that comment.👍
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  5168.  @PaulHirst-og4uk No. Clearly not the same.
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  5169. *their *it’s *don’t *don’t *it’s
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  5170. Terrible news. These poor people affected by this need to be offered a chance to relocate to Europe. European CO2 emissions far outweigh Afghanistan’s emissions so Europe is complicit in this. Visas all round! 👍
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  5171.  @hmmmmm2634  What? You mean there are walnuts coming out of the walls?🤓
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  5172.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That’s fine, but here’s the difference: I’m not forcing my views on others on pain of torture/death if you don’t accept them. You’re really not very good at this are you, George?
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  5173. Something hasn’t quite added up since day 1 of this war: Russia, officially the world’s 2nd strongest military power facing off against Ukraine, officially 22nd in this table, and yet the Ukrainians seem to be more than holding the line. Surely a testament to the overwhelming motivation the Ukrainians feel as opposed to the demotivated, morale-lacking Russian forces. Never underestimate someone protecting their home from perceived outsiders. Putin clearly didn’t factor this into his calculations.
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  5174. For voice cloning read voice conning .
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  5175.  @jeanclaudejunior  Lol. Are you the unappointed cop of YouTube? 🤣 👮‍♂️
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  5176. Just out of interest, Peter, has anyone taken a look at your hard drive recently? 🤓
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  5177. I just lament the day Scottish football banned football. R.I.P. Scottish football.
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  5178. Tousi TV has the truth of this. YouTube (surprise! surprise!) won’t let me copy the link (on its own platform! 🤦‍♂️) so just type ‘Tousi TV: Magdeburg Live’. Essential viewing. 👍
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  5179. That’s just a flat out lie, Jimbo. Precisely zero cops were stabbed. Nice try though, son.👍
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  5180. To be France, it would be remarkable if they weren’t rioting!
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  5181. He prefers the oldies, tbf.😉
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  5182. To be frank, Britain should never have had Hong Kong in the first place. Can you imagine the antsy pantz in the UK amongst the anti-immigration morons if the Isle of Wight were a Chinese colony, as we speak? Indeed. Hong Kong is none of the UK’s business; nor should it have ever been.
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  5183.  @alexsilent5603  Lol. Yeah, that’s right. Ukraine was gonna invade Russia! Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  5184.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. What would you do, Jimbo, if your daughter brought a black man home? White him up a little? Roll him in egg and flour? 🥚 😜😆
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  5185. Good grief. You people come across as robotic automatons unable to step outside of your conditioning. It’s terrifying in terms of our future as a species. Your religion is just the result of an accident of birth.
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  5186. Translation: I’m more of a fan of Trump than I am Biden.
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  5187. On October 13th, Israel ordered over a million Palestinians to seek a ‘safe’ haven, and move from northern Gaza to southern Gaza on 24 hours’ notice. What are they going to do now? Ask Palestinians to evacuate from southern Gaza to the rubble of northern Gaza on 24 hours’ notice? Or are they going to push the Palestinians out of Gaza altogether? The optics do not look good here for Israel. There was a point passed weeks ago when ‘Israeli self-defence’ began to look like all-out offence on the Palestinian people. No one is fooled by this. There are people who agree with it and there are people who disagree with it, but no one is fooled by it.
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  5188.  @ChitShatter  I agreed with more or less everything you said in your OP, though. 👌
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  5189. @@AlexanderKarlsson3277 Even if I ‘didn’t want them’, perhaps due to religious differences etc., I’d still accept genuine refugees.
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  5190. Er, people go to Grindr for that type of thing.😳
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  5191. Well, unless you’re French-speaking, you don’t say ‘Paree’, you say ‘Paris’.👍
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  5192. What? Proud of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  5193.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I have no issue with strictly controlled legal immigration, Jimbo. You do. That’s fine. We can agree to disagree.🐒
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  5194. @@AScottishLoyalist I have no issue with strictly controlled legal immigration. You do. That’s fine. We can agree to disagree.
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  5195. @@AScottishLoyalist No I’m not. I’m not pro illegal immigration. Get a better researcher, love, as your current one is clearly useless.👍
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  5196. @@AScottishLoyalist How? 🤔
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  5197.  @juliam4100  Huh? Not sure what you’re on about, love. How about you tolerate another’s opinion? 😉
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  5198.  @juliam4100  Well, that’s the debate, isn’t it? I’m aware of dozens of people who don’t think he’s the GOAT. Cope.
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  5199. In the great GOAT debate, just for the record, Pelé didn’t officially score 1,283 goals. Pelé did score 1,283 goals, but 526 goals came in unofficial friendlies and tour games. He even counted games he played for the Sixth Coast Guard in the military competition. He officially scored 757 goals in 812 games. Moreover, strictly speaking, Pelé didn’t really ‘win’ 3 World Cups; he won 2 and a bit. Yes, he was a member of three World Cup-winning teams, but he sat out the large majority of the 1962 World Cup. All that said, he was still a terrific player, right up there in my top 5. Picking a number 1 is always an invidious task, and always depends on where and when you were born, but if I had to, yes, I’d probably pick Pelé. Just. However, if Mbappé stays healthy and motivated, I wouldn’t be surprised to be sitting here saying he’s the GOAT in 10 years’ time! ⚽️
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  5200.  @Sundae_Times  Dutch arrived in 1606, mate. You need better history books.
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  5201.  @djstona5284  Just looking at the world objectively as possible, mate. Fuck-all to do with ‘16th Century lenses’.
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  5202.  @Azune783  Not once did I mention “war”. You need better close-reading skills, sweetie. ;)
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  5203.  @efeddwdw9782  Er, I think you’ll find the US has much higher per capita stabbings. Nice try, though.👍
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  5204.  @Nicolozo  Yeah, right. Done his ‘charity work’ but still has $44 billion ( billion ) left over to throw at a company that probably won’t even exist in 20 years! Nice try.
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  5205.  @ryan1111111555555555  By the way: he did miss my point. Just for the record. 😉
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  5206.  @ryan1111111555555555  I’m not against people earning a few bob, m8; I just have a bit of an issue being part of a planet where 1 person accumulates £44 billion while 10,000 die every day because they can’t feed themselves. S’all. If you’re ok with that, fine. I’m not. We can agree to disagree.😉
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  5207.  @aeliusromanus9338  Irrelevant. I refer you to my OP: If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had £44 billion, while 10,000 people die of hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  5208.  @ummaaron  Well, as a wise person once said: “Money’s like muck, no use unless it’s spread.” 👍😉
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  5209.  @ummaaron  You missed the point. Well done. 👏
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  5210.  @redzwanulhaque4968  🤦‍♂️
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  5211.  @truethat7681  Just sayin’. Just sayin’. Words are cheap.😉
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  5212. You need to throw away your shampoo, soap, pizza, ice cream, detergent, chocolate, deodorant, toothpaste, crisps, noodles and bread to name just some items, if you’re going to put your money where your mouth is.😉
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  5213. I never see the point of folks whinging in a democracy. I’m no fan of Trump, generally speaking, but moaning about his being elected democratically is pointless. The reverse is going on in my country: loads of right-wingers are constantly moaning about ‘terrible’ Keir Starmer. Again, pointless. Democratically elected. Best thing in both cases is to suck it up and get on with it.
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  5214. Keir Starmer’s house?😳
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  5215. Sometimes, just sometimes, humanity is completely beyond my understanding. This is one of those times. Poppy’s grandfather (her grandfather !) raped her. Brave young woman. Total respect. ✊
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  5216.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Paranoid, much? 🤣
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  5217. Essentially, before very long, Bangladesh will be the world’s largest puddle.
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  5218.  @wandson5410  Having looked into this further, it is thought the maracas were originally used as rattles of divination by the Brazilian Tumpinamba people used during healing rituals, to heal the sick. Looks like maracas are originally Brazilian after all! Ta da! 🎉
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  5219.  @charlesmiller7729  Why are you upvoting yourself, Charlie? 😮
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  5220.  @charlesmiller7729  Uh huh. So 2 wrongs make a right in your world. Gotcha. 😉👍
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  5221. “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” (G.K. Chesterton) These words could have been written for the spirit Ukrainian citizen soldiers are showing.
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  5222. If the best guy to play a Jew is a Jew, let him play the Jew. If the best lady to play a lesbian is a lesbian, let her play the lesbian. Otherwise, let actors be actors and let them get roles on merit, and not because of some tick box quota crap.
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  5223.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Huh? I never ‘started’ any war in Afghanistan. I fear you have the wrong fella, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  5224.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You clearly have no idea what a real dictatorship is. Get your ass out to Kabul, son. That’s a dictatorship.
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  5225.  @lgnobil  Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have my moments of joy and happiness and contentment, but let’s be brutally honest about this: for the vast majority of human beings who have ever lived life has been mainly an interesting anxiety trip full of worry and care; I hesitate to be as bleak as Thomas Hobbes (“solitary, nasty, poor, brutish and short”) but he wasn’t far wrong. All that said, I’m actually an agnostic so I don’t 100% rule out the idea of an afterlife and perhaps a divinity shaping our ends, but 6 days out of 7, if I’m honest, I’m essentially an atheist.
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  5226.  @rudijohnsen9674  Lol. All hail the oh wise one, Larry King. ☝️
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  5227.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx *Semitism, Jimbo. Get it right or not at all, son. 🤦‍♂️
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  5228.  @therealteacher8630  2 states.
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  5229.  @cw6132  Indeed. I find it alarming how supposedly normal human beings can so quickly lose their basic humanity when they start taking sides in situations like this. For those neutrals amongst us it’s quite shocking to behold.
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  5230.  @yl9154  No I’m not. I’m simply saying Israel’s response to this heinous, barbaric and brutal attack by Hamas has been heinous, brutal and barbaric. If the Israeli administration really gave 2 figs about the average Palestinian life they would have been far, far more careful and surgical in their clumsy attempt to root out Hamas. All I see here is a tit-for-tat (although when you count the numbers it’s hardly an equal game) revenge scenario in large part. That’s not bias as I am not supporting one side or the other here; just observing from the sidelines.
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  5231. Utter balderdash! 1998: Germany, 101 killed. ... 2013: Spain, 80 killed. ... 2006: Montenegro, 47 killed. ... 2010: Ukraine, 45 killed. ... 2004: Turkey, 41 killed. ... 2003: Hungary, 33 killed. ... 2009: Italy, 32 killed. ... 1999: England, 31 killed.
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  5232. Some might say that about Ukraine’s regime against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine and its American backers. 😯
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  5233. “We all look in the same direction.” Until we don’t.
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  5234.  @MarchonWestminster  Last time I checked, Fiji had 56% Fijian, 35% Indian along with some others. Not ethnically pure. As for the Congo, there are more than 200 ethnic groups in the DRC, and the Bantu are the majority. The Mongo, Luba and Kongo peoples (Bantu) with the Hamitic Mangbetu-Azande peoples make up about 45% of the population. There are also 600,000 Pygmies, the aboriginal people of the country. You’re really not very good at this, are you? 🤣
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  5235.  @MarchonWestminster  Who cares about the colour of someone’s skin? Well, you clearly do. If you are paying your taxes, speaking the language and obeying the law, I care not a jot about your skin colour.
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  5236.  @njugunamaina  Exactly my point. Applies everywhere.
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  5237.  @julianshepherd2038 I hate to disappoint you, Julian, but I am actually an agnostic about manmade global warming. Bad luck!😝
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  5238. Monkeypox + Big Pharma = Moneypox. 💰
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  5239.  Alex Perez  When you have about 99% of climate scientists in agreement that current global warming is very probably a manmade phenomenon, I kinda go with this. I know that the world is warming; this much is clear, even anecdotally. This is patent; my issue is with just how much human activity is causing this. As we speak, I go with the theory that it’s largely human activity that is causing this warming.
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  5240. I’ve heard that Ebola causes headaches, feelings of nausea and is very difficult to get rid of. Coincidentally, much like that free U2 album I got just last week!
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  5241. That was like my dear departed granny who, whenever she sang, always used to break all our best glasses! 🍷
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  5242. In European terms, amongst the big players, France is the outlier here: Germany 65; Italy 67; Spain 65; UK 66. Most of the other European countries have the retirement age set above 62. I’m no fan of the undemocratic way Macron has done this, but France may just need to take its medicine on this one to balance the books, just like every other European country has.
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  5243. Wow. Fifty-first comment.😏
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  5244.  @Mohammed-gj2ed  K, Mo. You keep praying to somewhere, like an automaton, just because others pray to somewhere, like automatons. You wouldn’t pray to Mecca if someone hadn’t told you it was ‘the thing to do’. Think for yourself. Release yourself from mental slavery. 👍
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  5245.  @paddington1670  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  5246. “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Jesus) Would that a few more of these pesky Christians heeded the words of their putative ‘Lord’ and ‘Saviour’. 😳
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  5247. Don’t be silly. These dogs are made for this. 🐕
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  5248. Don’t be ridiculous. Harrods is a shop. Shops can’t be ‘evil’. Categorical error. Don’t pass Go. Don’t collect £200.
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  5249. Looks like this is more than just a Stormy in a D cup for ole Donny. ☕️ 💰
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  5250. “Homogeneous”? Really, Jimbo? Why is it that those people who call for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be homogeneous with, eh? 🤔
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  5251. ‘Armenian Christians’: why do we do this? Why do we constantly place our core identities in accidents of birth? The tribal mentality linked to race/ethnicity, organised religion and language turns humanity crazy. 2 of these aforementioned (ethnicity/language - mother tongue) are given to us by accidents of birth; the other (religion) we kind of choose but, that said, the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the one which predominates in the culture in which they are born and raised, so this could be argued to be an accident of birth, too. So, essentially, we commit internecine conflict predicated on 3 accidents of birth. It seems human beings cannot cope with too much difference. We seem to existentially need like-minded tribes. Nations. Religions. Gangs. Families. Clans. The evolved individual is able to think independently and not be in thrall to accidents of birth.
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  5252. @1:10 Jeez. There are gonna be so many lost passengers at this airport! ✈️
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  5253.  @chadimirputin2282  *Phillip
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  5254.  @chadimirputin2282  Nah. It’s just basic grammar.
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  5255. *boys
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  5256. Really? Next World Cup is largely in America. Given their horrendous historical crimes against humanity can you really bring yourself to watch? If so, how?🤓
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  5257. All this stuff has always confused me, as there has been migration on this planet more or less since there have been humans on this planet. It’s just weird that, in 2023, we’re expecting humans not to migrate. Bizarre. Europeans have been doing this (and continue to do this) since time immemorial.
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  5258. Yes, Jimbo. Triggered much?😉
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  5259. Specsavers? 🤓
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  5260.  @Silverbeardedsurfer  On that last note of yours, CB, Steven Weinberg had something apposite to say: “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
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  5261.  @CastorRabbit  Ah. Well, that’s a result of rational education.
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  5262. This Orion is a belter of a rocket. The moon would be Artemis. 🚀 🌙
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  5263.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Followed by a swift hand shandy, Dave. 🤓
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  5264.  @Armemers  Triggered, much?🤣
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  5265. Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  5266.  @MelioraCogito  Lol. Size isn’t everything when it comes to ‘ferry systems’, y’know.🤣
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  5267. *we’re *doesn’t *he’s - as you were.
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  5268.  @Sundae_Times  That’s a rather shocking slur, and I could sue you for slander if I could give a shit.
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  5269.  @Sundae_Times  He was just wondering; he wasn’t stating anything categorically, Wombat chops.
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  5270.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  E G G & C H I P S.🤣
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  5271.  @cherylparker8025  Yup. In full agreement with you here. 👍
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  5272.  @letsrock1729  I kinda agree with the person who said it was ‘virtue signalling’ as do dozens of others who have upvoted the comment. However, the sentiment behind the ‘look at me and my kind-heartedness’ does appear genuine, so fair play.👍
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  5273.  @letsrock1729  It’s the obsequious, pretentious way it’s worded; not necessarily the sentiment itself.
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  5274.  @romorobloxkalubi5372  “You don’t got to be rudr.” Proper English?! Pmsl.🤣
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  5275.  @cinziam457  Looks like 7 people disagree. Facility? Well, my house often feels like one, if that’s what you mean. Don’t tell the wife.😉
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  5276.  @uongLamSon  What goes around comes around. UK should’ve thought about this as they brutally colonised others without the consent of the colonised for about 300 years. Call it a little ‘geopolitical karma’, if you will.😉
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  5277.  @morho9422  That’s what those who want to keep their guns say.
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  5278.  @UpRisingDown  Ty for your Scandic ‘approval’. 🥴
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  5279. I like Amsterdam. One year, I did a trip to Amsterdam and then went directly to Saudi Arabia. I preferred Amsterdam: I was able to get stoned before I had sex. 🤓
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  5280. Lol. You need to get out more.
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  5281. Looking down your comments Peter, looks like you’re quite the amateur foreign correspondent yourself. Qualifications? I see a pot and kettle over there.
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  5282. Because the temperatures are taken as mean averages, dummy.
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  5283.  @craigruchman7007  👍Didn’t mean to sound so aggressive with you. Apologies.
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  5284.  @heyilikeair8521  Yeah, but as an agnostic, I feel zero threat from all religions, bar one: Islam. If I slag off Jesus, Krishna, Moses, Buddha or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, very likely nothing will happen. If I suggest Islam is pile of manmade poo, I could be watching my back for the rest of my life. That is the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher still in hiding. And for what? Showing a cartoon. I repeat, showing a damn cartoon! When an ideology is so trigger-sensitive it can’t cope with cartoons then it’s surely time to question the ideology, not the cartoon.
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  5285.  @bignumbers  Never said anything about ‘banning guns’. Just said look at the 2nd and perhaps tighten it up a tad. Dunblane 1996. Hand guns banned. Since then not a single comparable citizen on citizen mass killing in the UK. Meanwhile, in those 27 years, literally thousands of citizen on citizen mass killings in the US, very often with legally acquired firearms. Ergo, something can certainly be done here which isn’t being done, as the experience of the rest of the world proves.
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  5286. Aye Jimbo, but if only we had a ‘solution’ for you, son! 👍🤡😉
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  5287.  @khadijahbegum3546  Not the men I know. 👍
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  5288. The bit you won’t hear in the western media is that we have also released a detained Iranian. Western double standards yet again?
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  5289. Although I wouldn’t want it admissible in a court, I’ve never quite understood why all cases like this don’t include a lie detector test. Given that Letby was convicted on circumstantial evidence and not direct evidence, I often think lie detector tests could clarify things a little, notwithstanding that polygraphs are only accurate between 80% and 90% of the time.
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  5290. @0:10 Is it just me or does Chris Grayling look like the lovechild of Chris Whitty and Karl Pilkington? 🤓
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  5291.  @reginageorge4  Using “groomer” in every sentence isn’t an argument. It’s just a tic you seemingly can’t control. Those of us with brains need more, hen.😉👨
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  5292. Not if you’re a man and a man or a woman and a woman it’s not.😉👍 👨 👨 👩 👩
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  5293.  @varoonnone7159  Using phrases like “Abrahamic filth” ain’t gonna help your cause, m8. You’re descending to their level when you do that. The key issue here is rather simple: no one should be involving themselves with what 2 consenting adults get up to.
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  5294.  @varoonnone7159  ‘Orientation’ is fine. ‘Predilection’ works for me, too. I’m on your side here, m8. When you start coming for the likes of me you have no chance.👍
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  5295.  @varoonnone7159  I would say this though, m8, as this was actually my key point: even if we did choose our sexual ‘preferences’, ‘predilections’ or any other word you care to choose, it wouldn’t bother me one iota that you have a different sexual ‘preference’/‘predilection’/ ‘call it wot u want’ to me. (delete as applicable)
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  5296.  @iippo06  No argument then, iippo. Uh huh.👍😉
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  5297. Gene Simmons.
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  5298.  @dennisgill3459  A Higher Education Institution. What else would you get a degree from?
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  5299.  @Spectre10139  Coping fine, son. I’m a member of FIFA.
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  5300.  @sanderdeboer6034  👏
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  5301.  @Jumpyman_thegamerYT  Listen to Emily, Gamer; she’s spitting facts.
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  5302.  @Jumpyman_thegamerYT  Particularly if they’re that most dratted of modern species: gamers! Think on.
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  5303.  @sergiovergaramontemiranda2116  Blimey! How greedy. Too many names can cause confusion. 😐
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  5304. Stolen quote.
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  5305.  @ayoolukoga9829 ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  5306.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol.
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  5307. They steal watches to sell the crime.
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  5308. That’s akin to the ‘she was asking for it’ argument apropos rape. Surely, it’s the responsibility of the robber not to rob and not the wearer of a watch not to wear that watch. By your logic, anarchy lies, as you’re essentially suggesting it’s the victim’s fault.
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  5309.  @davidkottman3440  I wouldn’t put it past the Ukrainians to solidly defeat the Russians, here, and dictate the peace terms. Putin’s biggest blunder in this whole endeavour was to arrogantly underestimate the power of home advantage.
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  5310.  @fazertace6837  An occasional quote here and there is ok, but one feels that these quotes of others, like this guy’s, are just doing it for the 👍s. Much better to garner those by the light of your own wit.😉
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  5311.  @루루97  Money is created by a kind of a perpetual interaction between real, tangible things, our desire for them, and our abstract faith in what has value. Money is valuable because we want it, but we want it only because it can get us a desired product or service. The money in itself is actually worthless.
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  5312. Human beings are tribal. This is all you need to know.😉
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  5313. There is a reason the US has the highest number of homeschooled kids worldwide.
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  5314.  @WeeWeeJumbo  Nice Google touch. Don’t bother with Dicky. He’s lost under the weight of all his hats.
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  5315.  @djbbdfggh  Still triggered. Cope and seeeeeeeeeethe even more! 🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣🤣😅🤣😂😂🤣😅🥲🥲😂😂😂😅🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🥲
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  5316. Lol. There is no God; there will be no King.🤣
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  5317. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the perfervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  5318. Yes, Tom. You’re free for another day.
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  5319.  @account-now-closed  Huh? You assume wrong. I’m simply telling you that if you come at me with an invisible sky daddy, whether called ‘Allah’, ‘Yahweh’, or just plain ‘God’, then I expect evidence. You can’t just state stuff in my world and hey presto! it automatically exists. It doesn’t work like that for those of us who haven’t jettisoned their critical faculties. Think on …
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  5320. Notwithstanding this informative history, the bottom line for me since day 1 of this crap has been simple: just like I don’t bash down my neighbour’s door, kill his family and occupy his house, Russia shouldn’t be illegally invading sovereign, self-governing nations who want absolutely fuck-all to do with Russia. 🤓
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  5321.  @ShatteredFlint  I work nights.
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  5322. Well, if we’re talking wife-swapping, Emmanuel may need to develop a taste for ‘women’ more ‘age-appropriate’, and Boris may need to develop a taste for men!
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  5323.  @keibohow69  Lol. Now you’re just splitting hairs that aren’t actually there! 🇨🇳 🤣
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  5324.  @catamountmpls  But the guy who won kissed no one on the mouth. Yet, he is sacked. This is an important distinction, otherwise we’re just going to descend into prejudiced nonsense here.👍
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  5325.  @nightmaregamer3711  At least you spotted this. 🐮
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  5326.  @moonshoes11  ⁠Just for the record, as ppl like you need to be called out: “‘wicked’: intending or capable of harming someone or something.”👈 Your definition. If you ask 100 ppl who that ‘someone’ refers to in that sentence, I’m willing to bet all I have that 100 ppl will say it refers to someone who is being harmed by the person being ‘wicked’; it doesn’t refer to the wicked person being wicked to themselves. So, you were wrong to suggest that ‘wicked’ (like ‘cruelty’) doesn’t more than suggest it’s others who are being harmed. 😊
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  5327. My great escape from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco . 🏃‍♂️
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  5328.  @jimthompson9370  My point was that the slaves should have been compensated; not the slave owners. I’m not for compensation centuries after the event, but for the people culpable living at that time, then they should have coughed up compensation there and then, on slave release.
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  5329.  @jameswhiteley6843  That’s irrelevant. If the British state was culpable, then it should have directly paid those slaves on freedom; not the slave owners.
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  5330.  @fiksaciya_shpindelya  “These freaks”. Lol. As if Putin isn’t also a ‘freak’.🤣
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  5331. @@IggyBooS Huh? Last time I checked the ‘war and the battle’ was ongoing. You need better coping strategies, sweetie.
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  5332. @@IggyBooS Huh? I was simply making a comment about a rather attractive city. There was nothing political in my OP.
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  5333.  @AbuBased731  Yes they can as, quite simply, these aren’t God’s words. Deal with it.
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  5334. Best argument against death penalty is killing innocents, but also just the one encapsulated in the epithet: why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?
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  5335. There are no coincidences. Everything that happens is meant to happen.
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  5336. There is no Allah. Move on. Cope better. This is so boring now.
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  5337.  @wolfiestreet6899  Yawn
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  5338.  @alexandermuller950  Now you do.
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  5339. The animals should’ve been cooking Gordon Ramsay, if there were any justice in this world.
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  5340. @Jay Dee Yes, you are.
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  5341. Because we have already eaten most of the fish.
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  5342.  @prizma45  It’s not. Google it.😉
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  5343.  @prizma45  Well, I’ve just Googled it, too, and it says that in some parts they are actually endangered.
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  5344.  @Ferociousplayz_11  Er, who said I was an ‘atheist’? 🤔 You need a better researcher as your current one is sh*t.👍
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  5345. @Gary S So let them work, then. All for that.👍
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  5346.  @JohnSavage1984  Yeah, but I’d rather be ‘imprisoned’ in a hotel than fearing for my mortal life every day in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria etc.
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  5347. Thanks Fireman Dave! 👨‍🚒
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  5348. He makes corpses look alive! 🤦‍♂️
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  5349. @ Huh? “Those I support”? What does that mean? I support strictly controlled legal immigration. That’s what I ‘support’. I ‘control’ my house. Strictly controlled legal immigration is my government ‘controlling’ who comes into my country.
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  5350. It’s a bit of silicone, m8. Get a grip.
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  5351.  @lukemurray4950  * come up with an idea 🤦‍♂️
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  5352. Could also get us to Armageddon.
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  5353. It’s you.
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  5354. 42.
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  5355. You were in a hotel ffs. I’m sure if you politely asked the night porter they would’ve let you into the kitchen to have a drink. 🥴
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  5356.  @gosnooky It’s a bot.
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  5357.  @nicholas8785  Regardless of the geopolitics here, I think people would be on the move anyway. We need to get real here: the basic wage in America is far more attractive than most of the basic wages you care to mention in Central/South America. A lot of this (most) is just about aspiration. In their shoes, I’d be doing the same, if I saw a life of essential penury where I was currently living, and I saw the chance to light out for the border.
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  5358. “They”. Weren’t you once “they”? 🤔
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  5359. Nurse will be with you shortly with your medication. 💊 👩‍⚕️
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  5360. I think you needed an ‘n’ there.
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  5361.  @johnwinter2252  K, Father. Enough with the sermon already. 😕
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  5362. No it’s not. Cope.
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  5363.  @medicalsciencesanimations4743  ‘Religion is the tool some use to achieve their goals’. You have just confirmed my original point.
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  5364.  @kholeeko  Well said. I vote you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  5365.  @paul7TM  I disagree. They are just seeking a better life. If they are illegal, deport. I’m not into killing them even if you are.
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  5366.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not with you, Jimbo. If all yer offering is homogeneity with yer meatballs, son, I’ll take a curry any day of the week! A cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I sssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! 🍛🙃
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  5367.  @skymanifest8339  You go and make your wee homogeneous Wendy house with our Jimbo. C o u n t m e o u t.
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  5368.  @dan79600  No, I get that bit. I just don’t understand the demand and why you would throw away millions on a piece of carbon.
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  5369. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  5370. ‘God’ ~ as defined by the theocrats.
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  5371.  @carlosgomez1706  Lol.
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  5372. @0:38 Blimey! You know you’re getting old when BBC technology reporters start looking this young! He’s barely out the foetal stage!
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  5373.  @bahacho  Just for the record, Rwanda has a homicide rate of 3.6 per 100,000 and UK has a rate of 1.2.
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  5374. Sorry, I got distracted by the newscaster’s ears. Pretty sure he could fly to Spain himself with those! 👂
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  5375.  @hermonberhe1889  Source?
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  5376. It’s getting hotter. Not sure what age you are, but those of us old enough to know, know.👍
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  5377. @napolean_ragland Huh? Last time I checked, the UK was part of Europe. 🤦‍♂️
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  5378.  @beat66  And tell me honestly you’d have no problem with Poland importing Islam at the rate Western Europe currently is.
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  5379. 🎶 Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow 🎵 One for the teenagers there, pop-pickers. Not ‘alf, mate! 🤓
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  5380.  @kevinparker461  No more than 5% of UK cops are routinely armed, Kevvy. That was my point, son. You chose to ignore it for your own agenda. Well done.👍
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  5381. That Russian Ambassador looks like he’s been at the vodka, and let’s face it, if you were working for Putin, you too would be at the vodka!
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  5382. Lol. You’re seriously comparing innocent economic migrants/asylum seekers to bank robbers?! I’ve heard it all now. 🤦‍♂️
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  5383. Was that travelling to Asia Minor?😳
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  5384.  @romeisfallingagain  Actually, yes we are. Nice try, though.
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  5385. Oh, c’mon, man, we’re all mongrels. I’m essentially Scottish but have English, French, Spanish and Italian blood, to name just 4. It’s beyond me why people get hung up on this identity thing. The core, common identity here is the one we have lost sight of these past 500,000 odd years: human beings. 👽
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  5386. Ah, but they’re indigenous, Jimbo. 👍🤣
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  5387. Not sure why some people are rejoicing at this verdict as if it’s the end of Trump politically. They don’t seem to realise that Trump can still run for President even if he’s imprisoned - he won’t be imprisoned. Essentially, aside from finding him guilty and now a convicted felon this changes nothing in terms of the Presidential race. How do I know? All the major bookmakers have him odds-on to win. I’ve never yet met a poor bookmaker.
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  5388.  @enkisdaughter4795  Pmsl@“stiffer sentence”.🤣👍🤪
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  5389.  @Miniae_Cecilia  Good luck!
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  5390. It’s in the blurb.
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  5391. Why are you telling us?
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  5392. She is a bit. If you look closely her right leg is slightly shorter than her left.
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  5393. What’s always been confusing about the death penalty in the US is that the vast majority of those supporting it also follow Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite explicit about stuff like this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Matthew 5:38-39) Personally, I’m against the death penalty for one main reason: risk involved in executing innocent people. If I were on a jury where the possibility of the death penalty were involved, I’d be mighty reluctant to convict as there could always be the possibility of a mistake. 12 Angry Men is essential viewing here.
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  5394. Was Bob himself happy with this arrangement?
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  5395.  @jaybee4118  Ok, it’s sexist then. It’s just a fact though, that for the vast majority of onlookers women’s football is not as exciting or as skilful as men’s football. Men just are better at some things, I suppose, in the same way, in my experience, women are better at being emotionally in tune than men, as a rule. Sometimes, generalisations work and these things can be divided along gender lines.
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  5396.  @E_N_G-NZ  👍
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  5397. 🎵 “Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that Bolsonaro …” 🎶
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  5398.  @JeffreyGoddin  No it’s not my alter-ego and you too are reported for harassment.
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  5399.  @godlessandgay  Lol. Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not! 🤣
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  5400. This should be ok for the UK if Putin decides to withhold gas supplies, as we have enough onshore gas generated by Boris Johnson to more than keep us going.
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  5401. Never quite understood how one man’s will can dictate the terms and conditions of so many others’ lives. One recalcitrant kid in the kindergarten starts running amock causing trouble for the rest, and the staff step in and stop them. Why then, in the year 2022, and after 300,000 years of Homo Sapiens, do we still allow one person to raise merry-hell for so many others with im’Putin’ity?
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  5402.  @volumedealer2716  Truth hurts, huh?😉
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  5403.  @DOWNUNDER.  Nah. Not funny, mate. Can do better. Needs more work.
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  5404.  @HP-dx5ln  I can.
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  5405. There is no God. There should be no King Charles.
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  5406.  @F.U.B.A.H.O.R  There was no ‘hidden message’. You once again assumed. Again, incorrectly.
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  5407.  @F.U.B.A.H.O.R  Er, well I wasn’t. You just assumed. Incorrectly.
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  5408. @Stone Missin’ ya already, Stoney baby!👍🤣
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  5409. @Stone rofl Stone lmfao sm imo lols 🤣😂😅
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  5410. @Stone 😉
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  5411. @Stone fu
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  5412.  Shane Pankhurst  Like spelling and grammar: *a lot
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  5413.  @adrianlouw2499  You said Paris was being “burned down”. It’s not. That means you’re the only liar in town. Cope better now.
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  5414.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No it’s not. 🤡
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  5415.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Pmsl.🤣
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  5416. Just a few thousand more of these brave guys and there will come a tipping point, and the Putin regime will be toppled like a house of cards in the wind. 🃏
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  5417. What’s always been more than a little confusing about the death penalty in the US is that the vast majority of those supporting it also follow Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite explicit about stuff like this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” (Matthew 5:38-39) Personally, I’m against the death penalty for one main reason: risk involved in executing innocent people. If I were on a jury where the possibility of the death penalty were involved, I’d be mighty reluctant to convict as there could always be the possibility of a mistake. 12 Angry Men is essential viewing here.
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  5418.  @tastypymp1287  Man alive, TastyTwat, you’re protesting far, far too much. This is just about personal boundaries, m8. I literally know no women who want unsolicited kisses on the mouth from randoms. It’s that simple. Have you ever actually met a woman? 🤔
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  5419. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  5420.  @gutz1981  You upvoted yourself. I arrived at exactly the same time as you and you instantly upvoted yourself. Nice try, though.👍
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  5421.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  A bit rich of you Georgy, moaning about someone else’s English, eh son? 😉👌
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  5422.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yes, but Jimbo, why is it that those who clamour for ‘homogeneity’ are, almost without exception, the last type of people I’d wanna be homogeneous with? 🤔
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  5423. I’m pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country and obviously pro accepting genuine asylum seekers/refugees. However, the chaos we have seen these past 5 years (at least) whereby millions of (mainly economic) migrants try to essentially ‘break into’ Europe is unacceptable to the vast majority of Europeans. If the powers that be don’t get a proper grip of this issue, it’s no exaggeration to say that a substantial proportion of Europeans will be not just voting for vaguely right of centre parties, but fully right of centre parties.
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  5424. Everything “sounds foreign” to you, Jimbo. Even the name “England” sounds foreign to you m8, as it shares letters with Jews, Muslims, women, gays and anything else that isn’t you. You are quite literally the smallest-minded individual I’ve ever encountered.👍
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  5425.  @donab1369  Lol. 👌🤣
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  5426. Ditto postcards. There’s something to be said for some of the ‘old ways’.
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  5427.  @braderley  🤣
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  5428. As ever on the Internet, this debate ends up being a slanging match between the Greta gang and the conservative right. As someone neither particularly politically left nor right it’s too polarised, too political and too tribal for my liking. The Greta gang are convinced they are right and the conservative manmade climate change deniers are equally convinced they are right. Very off-putting and I’m not enamoured of either side. As ever with these things, the truth will lie somewhere in the quiet middle and not at the noisy hectoring extremes. The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the likely consequences, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  5429.  @martacccc689  I aim to please.
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  5430.  @mark-ish  Having a sense of humour bypass is yours.
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  5431. Stolen comment.
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  5432.  @kmgdemortimermcintosh230  Outrageous moniker.
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  5433.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Was looking for an underlying racist, sexist, homophobic connotation there, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt: Merry Chrimbo, Jimbo! Just know this: there will be no mercy for you in the New Year! Your Gypsy tarts will not save you!🤣
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  5434.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol.👍😂
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  5435. Yes, that may be so, but does it break after braking?😳
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  5436. Understandable. The BBC can often be free and easy with numbers. Let’s face it, paying Lineker £1.3 million for what he does, is being rather insouciant with public money. 😳
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  5437.  @gsutton219  Of course they are, sweetheart. Just ask if you want a tissue to wipe up the mess. 👍
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  5438. *feelers
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  5439.  @Artifis0743  Your feelings of sickness. 😉
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  5440. K, Karen.
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  5441. Tbf, back in the day before about 1980 every dad missed the birth of their children. Most were in the pub. You were weird if you attended your child’s birth.
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  5442. 🤣😂😅🥊Cope more. What Usyk ‘really is’, is a better fighter than Fury. Muhahahahaha!
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  5443. Yeah, because Tyson Fury is gonna let someone win because of ‘politics’! 👍🤦‍♂️🤣😅🤣
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  5444. Even Putin thought Usyk won! 🥊🤣👍
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  5445.  @belladolce998  My ‘problem’? See OP. 👍🙃
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  5446.  @joanneentwistle7653  Literally, 3 minutes!
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  5447. Auckland? Duckland, more like. 🦆
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  5448.  @TheCommunicationCoach  You’ve clearly never been present at a school fight. No one steps in; unless it’s a teacher.
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  5449. Er, why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  5450.  @mwd331  Yvw.
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  5451. The religion of ‘Peace My Ass’, huh? Sounds cool. Where can I join?😳
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  5452.  @mookimoves9469  Good old white Tracy and Ken from South Africa.😂👍 Struck a nerve have I, Kenny baby? 🙄🤣
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  5453.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  5454. Apparently, the attacker is a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim who lives in East Germany, loves the AfD (Alternative for Germany) and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance towards Islamists. 🤦‍♂️ If it’s not Islamists themselves, it’s ex-Muslims! Europe can’t win with this lot. Bottom line, though: this is an imported problem. Invariably made in the Middle East.
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  5455. ⛄️ Crazy stuff! If this gets much worse they may have to alter the State names accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Blew Jersey’, ‘Thawaii’, ‘Georjackfrost’, ‘Pennsylweathervania’, ‘Kansice’, ‘Massachillsetts’, ‘Califognia’, ‘New Hampshiver’, ‘Wicesconsin’, ‘Texice’, ‘Mittensota’, ‘Windiana’, ‘Buryland’, ‘Frozen Riverginia’, ‘Godforsakentucky’, ‘Connecticold’, ‘Flurryda’, ‘Slideaho’, ‘Snowshoe York’, ‘Iowhiteout’, ‘Michighandwarmers’, ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Mainedeer’, ‘North/South Dacoata’, ‘Coolorado’, ‘Rawest Virginia’, ‘Wysnowing’, ‘Uthaw’, ‘North/South Barrelina’, ‘Arizsnowa’, ‘Nevada’ - no change needed as already means ‘snowy mountains’, ‘Montanavalanche’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Missfury’, ‘Delaglare’, ‘Starkansas’, ‘Thawregon’, ‘Oklabomba’, ‘Washingtoboggan’, ‘Squallabama’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  5456.  @voncarlowitz3506  To be fair, with a name like Von Carlowtiz, your comment was to be expected. I’m agnostic. Organised religion for me needs to be kept totally separate from the public sphere; it’s a private thing and needs to stay that way. Tend to agree that certain cohorts within Islam appear to think it’s fine to live their own way within the wider host society, wherever this may be. However, I would add this, though: I’m aware of literally dozens of Muslims, both professionally and personally, and I can’t think of a single one of those who causes any of the bother you suggest. But I do agree, Islam in certain forms can be rather toxic, and particularly toxic for those who want nothing to do with it.
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  5457.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Tbf though, McCartney was guilty of crimes against music when he released The Frog Chorus. 🐸
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  5458. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  5459. Shakespeare had better lines. More of them, too! 👍
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  5460. So’s your basic punctuation. *world’s
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  5461.  @AnidaGaming  Ty Anida. Some ppl just want to read what they want to read and not actually what was written.👍
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  5462.  @tauqeerkazmi  I “broke into” no one’s house. Just for the record, I’m an anti-colonialist and a random accident of birth doesn’t make me complicit in past colonial atrocities.
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  5463.  @ryanhunter5594  Uh huh. And that’s why I said we should give genuine asylum seekers refuge. You need better close-reading skills.
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  5464.  @alexisidouissaaden4969  Huh? That makes no sense. Ukrainians are genuine temporary asylum seekers, not economic randoms chancing their arm.
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  5465.  @tastypymp1287  Case is watertight. You, hitherto, have made zero case. I know why. But you just can’t admit it because you’ll be laughed out of town. 🤡
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  5466.  @tastypymp1287  Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭 👈My argument. Where’s yours? 🤔🤡
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  5467.  @davidadiwego4608  I’ll ask again: David, I have 1 simple question that you need to answer: Why are you involving yourself with what 2 consenting adults get up to? That is the key point here. No one is policing what you consensually get up to sexually, so why are you? 🤔
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  5468.  @davidadiwego4608  David, I have 1 simple question that you need to answer: Why are you involving yourself with what 2 consenting adults get up to? That is the key point here. No one is policing what you consensually get up to sexually, so why are you? 🤔
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  5469.  @davidadiwego4608  Huh? How can you “receive hate” if you are having consensual homosexual sex? 🤔
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  5470.  @PexKAY  You may have missed a key bit of my OP, so for the benefit of the poor close readers amongst us: But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. 👍 Just for the record, I literally know of no one who can go from being straight to gay to bi and back and forth. If you do, can you point me to them, pls? But here is the key issue in this whole debate: it is no one else’s business (whether state or individual) what 2 consenting adults get up to in the bedroom. Et voilà!
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  5471. ‘Food beggars’? Lol. You could say Israel were military beggars, in that case. 👍
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  5472.  @IWatchestheWatchmen  And with those teeth just glad she ain’t sucking me! 🦷
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  5473. You’ve never seen Janet Street-Porter then. 🦷
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  5474.  @elizabeth813  Cos I’ve had a few, it’s Saturday night etc etc.😉
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  5475. You’re clearly missing a ‘K’, dude. 👍
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  5476. Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  5477. Jegatwat 🤡: “Heterosexual individuals do not engage in homosexual activity, as doing so would contradict their heterosexual orientation.” Lol. Jegatool 🤡 appears to be labouring under the delusion that homosexuals engage in ‘activity’ that millions of heterosexuals don’t engage in every minute, of every day, everywhere. 🤦‍♂️ What were they teaching him in that private school?
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  5478. Reasonable comment. But let’s not imprison (or worse) people for just having consensual sex. 👍
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  5479.  @reginageorge4 *were 👈subjunctive, groomer. You told us in the past you were religious, groomer. Do try to keep up at the back with your own stuff, groomer. 🤦‍♂️
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  5480.  @Vinaloreviewstech I’m not ‘enforcing’ anything. I don’t care what you do. Gay people exist everywhere and have always existed everywhere. It’s them I care about in this debate. I’m simply stating the case that there is no rational reason to criminalise gay sex. I’m not forcing you (or anyone else) to accept gay sex. You can hate all you want. I’m just making the case that no one (African, or anyone else) should be interfering with what consenting adults are doing in the bedroom.
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  5481.  @Vinaloreviewstech I repeat: this is precisely nothing to do with ‘culture’. Wearing certain clothes isn’t comparable to the basic human right to have consenting sex with whom you want as an adult. If I thought others were enforcing clothing choices on you, I would obviously call that out as fucking ridiculous. This isn’t about clothing choices. It’s about dealing with something you, personally, don’t dig but others do. I hate cucumbers but I’m not so silly as to criminalise others for eating them.
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  5482.  @reginageorge4 ​​⁠​​⁠Hey, groomer! Check it:👉 •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. Suck it and cry harder, groomer. 😢 👋 😂
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  5483. Sane comment. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  5484. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399, aka ‘JayBits’)🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  5485.  @ijumpjudyy Aye, but as you and I know, darlin’, that’s not the point. The point is rather simple: it’s no business of yours what the consenting business of adults in the bedroom is. Case closed. Uh huh.👍
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  5486. Pmsl@ a dude called ‘Ambrose Vermillion’ pretending to be not gay! 👍🤣
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  5487. And you are a dope.
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  5488.  @FlipflopMount222  Aye. Awright, son. Awa an have a wee bummy sesh wi’ Mason, son. Aye. 👍😉
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  5489.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  I take no lessons from one who can’t sort out his nasal hair. Stop putting me off my porridge, ya numpty ya! 🥣
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  5490. You are not hilarious but you are wrong.
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  5491. Last time I checked heterosexuals regularly engage in anal/oral sex, the ‘acts’ which this irrational law seems to be all about. The day Uganda criminalises all those heterosexuals having anal/oral sex in the way it criminalises homosexuals having anal/oral sex, is the day it would still be a backward dump but at least it would be a consistent backward dump. 😊
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  5492.  @ricardolombardini  ‘Comment of the year’?! Lol. There have been about 10,000 similar ‘straight’ puns on here already before this one. You need to get out more, m8.👍
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  5493. Aye! But leave out the manky, unkempt nails, sweetheart. 😩🤮
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  5494.  @ijumpjudyy God, you’re boring. You have no reply. Feelings don’t trump logic, sweetheart. Seethe and cope harder. Believing in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy won’t save you here, darlin’! 👍
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  5495. *a lot
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  5496. Marvellous stuff, Tom! Pin it! 👏
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  5497. BTW, ijumpjudyy and her alts has openly admitted she’s a virgin cum asexual and a theist. This explains her frustrated haunting of these threads. 👍😳🤡
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  5498. Your agreement or otherwise is supremely irrelevant here, darling. Consenting adults. Uh huh. 😊
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  5499. Jegamespeed aka ‘JayBits’ 👈How gay is that moniker btw?! 😮😂 “In the West, homosexuals are treated like gods and homosexuality is considered sacred. It’s glorified and worshipped to the point where homosexuals seem to have more parental rights than parents themselves.” Utter rot and spoken like a chump who clearly has zero direct experience of ‘the West’. Here’s the actual truth: 1. The vast majority of non-homosexuals are quite simply indifferent to homosexuality. To say “homosexuals are treated like gods” and it’s considered “sacred” is pure baloney. Personally, it’s not my taste but I wouldn’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex. This opinion is held by 99%+ of the people in my social orbit. 2. It isn’t “glorified” and “worshipped”. There is a minuscule, tiny, highly politicised rump of activists who are heard out of all proportion to their actual (<1%) size. Try again. Try better or not at all. 🤡
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  5500. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5501.  @Crimsonstorm14  Cringe. FYI: I’m not an atheist. I just require evidence. 👍
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  5502.  @Crimsonstorm14 Don’t be silly, hun. You were taught that stuff. No evidence. You bought it. If you’d been born in Baghdad you’d be boring on to me about Islam. In Thailand? Buddhism. You get the drift. 👍
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  5503. Oh, give over, love! 🤦‍♂️’Love the sinner’? Aye! Let’s permanently do away with the ‘sinner’ for simply having consenting adult sex. Jeezo! Cringe. Have a look, ffs.
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  5504. Says the dude with gaily altered photograph. Cringe.
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  5505. Rocking some nice homoerotic imagery in yer playlists, Joey baby. 👍😉 🏋️‍♀️
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  5506. The day this disgusting, sweaty bollock-head lets me police his consenting adult sex life is the day I still wouldn’t consider letting him police mine. It’s ridiculous and unjustifiable to unreasonably intrude in the sex lives of consenting adults, and the only reason he (and others like him) get away with it is that there are way too many curtain-twitching bigots in this world. It has to be consistent: if you ban gays from giving a BJ or sticking a cock up a bahookie, then you have to ban non-gays doing this, too. You lose all credibility (not to mention rationality being thrown out the window) when you pick on a small minority for the same behaviours committed by a large tranche of the heterosexual population.
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  5507.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Not the point. It’s simply no one else’s business what consenting adults are doing in bed. 🤡
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  5508. It’s an eternal mystery why anyone feels it’s their business to be interfering with what 2 consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own space. Utterly bizarre. Here’s another one of those prissy little fools who is ‘disgusted’ by homosexuality and you just know he is secretly repressing his own gay urges. I mean: look at him!🤣
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  5509. It’s astonishing that anyone, anywhere feels they have the right to police the sex lives of consenting adults. It’s no one else’s business. Case closed.
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  5510. Here’s the deal: the day this grotesque sweaty bollock-head let’s me police his sex life with his mannish wifey, is the day he can ask me if he wants to enter my boudoir and watch the shenanigans. Quid pro quo. C’est simple.
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  5511. Cringe. Says the gay-looking dude with a clear crush on Rafael Nadal! 😻 “New balls, please!” 🎾
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  5512. The shocking rise of sexual abuse of young girls in northern Uganda was revealed when it was reported that in the wake of the pandemic there was a more than four-fold increase in those aged 10-14 becoming pregnant. "In a week, we always have like three cases of defilement. Sometimes when we get the perpetrator, we have to tie them with ropes and take them, escort them to the police. But they don't bother to follow it up." (Obita David Livingstone) Yet, all this sweaty animal can think about is criminalising consenting adults for just having sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5513. Never got the hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  5514.  @asjaosaline5987  Lol@“it started to widely spread.” 🤣 Homosexuality isn’t transmissible, doofus!😂
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  5515. Jegaeejit 🤡: “It’s amusing to see western gaes…” I’m not gay. 😢
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  5516. And you are wrong.
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  5517. Give me one ‘STRAIGHT’ reason why you would imprison people for just having consenting sex? Appealing to your unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky doesn’t count. So? 🤔
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  5518.  @reginageorge4  •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. 2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. Bad luck.😢 👋 😂
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  5519. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5520.  @reginageorge4 ​​⁠Hey, groomer! Check it:👉 •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. 2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. Suck it and cry harder, groomer. 😢 👋 😂
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  5521. The day this grotesque, oily, sweaty, greasy Jabba the Hutt (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw 🤭) actually gives me a single rational, credible reason to outlaw gay sex, beyond personal pearl-clutching and subjective ‘outrage’ and ‘disgust’, is the day I will listen. 😊
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  5522. Don’t be a silly billy, Stacy. Your personal ‘disgust’ is neither here nor there, hen. It’s consenting adults, ducky. Get with the gig, now, there’s a good girl. 🦆
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  5523. Well, lookey here. We got ourselves a WWE fan on our hands. Dude likes admiring muscly, half-naked, oiled up, sweaty men homoerotically grappling in the ring. Uh huh. Say no more. We’ve got your number, bruh.👍😉 🏋️‍♀️
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  5524. Er, wtf are you on about, hun? Establish yer unverified, unverifiable ‘God’ before you start all that balderdash. 🤦‍♂️👍
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  5525. “So don’t bother engaging in a moral debate with him; he doesn’t care what you have to say. He isn’t interested in your reasoning - he’s already decided he’s right and you’re wrong. A moral debate with him would just be a waste of time.” (Jegamespeed3599) Q: “Do you personally think consenting gay adults having sexual relations is immoral?” Jegamespeed5399: “Yes.” Q: “Why?” Jegamespeed5399: “For the fun of it!” Dude has the brass neck to suggest others don’t ‘engage’ in ‘moral debate’. 😂 The rank hypocrisy is particularly strong with this one! 🤦‍♂️
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  5526. You’re completely missing the point. No one should be interfering with what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to.
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  5527.  @reginageorge4  I think you conveniently missed this bit, Jools: Just for record though, I personally would have no issue with that. Nice try, though. 👍 You really do need to brush up on those close reading skills, love.🤡
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  5528.  @AliAliAliAli-kq3mm  As you say, there is no satisfactory rational answer, so when it’s asked, the homophobes are unable to supply the reply. Of course, we all know what this is about: invisible sky daddies and primitive scriptures written by men 1000s of years ago.👍
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  5529. Yeah, make my day, punk! 👍😉
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  5530. C’mon, petal, Suga?! And you’re moaning about gays?! 😂👍 Let’s have a wee bit of self-awareness here, hun.
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  5531.  @veraluxmundi2032 For the fun of it, dude! 👍😉
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  5532. Don’t be a silly Billy, petal. This sweaty numpty has just signed off a law with the provision for executing people for just having sex! I mighta known we had a holy roller on our hands. You people with yer invented invisible sky daddies just cause much more trouble than yer worth! 🤦‍♂️Can we not sign off a law to do away with you? 🤔
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  5533. Jega🤡 says that ‘sex’ is strictly only man-to-woman sexual intercourse, and nothing else qualifies as ‘sex’. Yet, his own random accident of birth country, Uganda, has just passed a Bill whose headline introduction is: ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX; to prohibit the recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX.’ It appears the Ugandan legislators accept that ‘sex’ is more than just man-to-woman intercourse, as they have explicitly stated SAME SEX SEXUAL RELATIONS are, in fact, a thing. 😊
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  5534. The ‘honesty’ is to be applauded, as you say. However, you nailed it with your next point. He’s being a total hypocrite in demanding respect when he’s not showing any! 👍
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  5535. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  5536. All this is rather obvious. One day, hopefully soon, we’ll just get to the realisation that the consenting adult sexual life of A. N. Other is quite simply no one else’s business. That we are still doing this in 2024 is bizarre. 🤦‍♂️
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  5537.  @MrMojoRisin-ul3vp 👈This dumb, sub-literate moron has the brass neck to call others ‘tick’ in an open forum. 😂 You should be ashamed of yourself, son.
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  5538. A big part of it could be hardwired and selected for in evolutionary terms, alas. In the way we’ve been selected to fear snakes, for example. Gays, obviously, tend not to reproduce, so having gays in your tribe was counterproductive to the continuation of that tribe. Therefore, stigma, then hate occurs towards them as they are not continuing the tribe. If it is hardwired, it’s going to be extremely difficult to erase it. All this is not to say that humans dig just a good old irrational hate target and gays are an easy target. The main reason I’m so passionate about this stuff, as a hetty, is that my brother in particular has been on the receiving end of brutal violence just for being gay. Being who he is.
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  5539. This greasy, sweaty twat wants to personally audit the sex lives of consenting adults! 🤦‍♂️ What a bellend of the very first rank! If he thinks he can stroll into my boudoir and tell me what’s what, sexually, then he’s got another thong (pun intended) coming (pun intended)! What a deep creep! 😬
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  5540.  @luckyman932 IME, it’s always the ones with the gayest thumbnails who cause the most trouble, it seems.
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  5541. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  5542. The whole thing here is rather simple: consensual adult sex. That’s all it is. No one, state or individual, should be directly messing with consensual adult sex. The only caveat to this is the case where a child may result from incestous sex. Aside from this one exception, I can think of zero reason to intrude in the sexual lives of consenting adults. Those who do this are, invariably, unacknowledged gays themselves, deeply religious, and/or just general trouble-makers. Often, it’s all of the above!
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  5543.  @Orabishik-w6v  Huh? Since when were gay men identifying as women? 🤔
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  5544. Lmao. As if there are no gays in Africa.👍🤣
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  5545. Imagine being a grown adult and interfering with what 2 consenting adults do in their own time. 🤦‍♂️ The giveaway with this guy is his wife. She’s rather masculine looking. In other words: we’ve got another one of those arseholes who desire the very thing they’re condemning in others. It’s always the same story. And invariably it involves imaginary, invisible sky daddies. Never trust anyone who tells what to do on the basis of an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Ever. However, even without unverifiable, unverified invisible sky daddies, this is rather simple: it’s no one else’s business if someone wants to stick their cock up some consenting dude’s ass. Funnily enough, these complainers never seem to have the same issue with lesbianism. I wonder why… 🤔
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  5546. Last time I checked, heterosexuals regularly engage in anal/oral sex, the ‘acts’ which this irrational law seems to be all about. The day Uganda criminalises all those heterosexuals having anal/oral sex in the way it criminalises homosexuals having anal/oral sex, is the day it would still be a backward dump but at least it would be a consistent backward dump. 😊
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  5547.  @benjiisagoodboy  C’mon, Benji boy. Surely you can do better than that, no? Lame. 🤦‍♂️
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  5548.  @ijumpjudyy Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Bad luck, darlin’. 😢 Btw, I didn’t order a crappuccino. 😂
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  5549. Jegamespeed: “If I ever have kids.” Yeah, right, a nice surrogacy job with yer gay boy lover! 😂 👦🏽
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  5550. He was questioning the ‘are you born gay’ thing. Well, here’s the thing, everyone I know, without exception, attests to having zero choice as to whom they fancy. But, actually, that’s irrelevant. All that matters here is consenting adults. 😊
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  5551. Cringe.
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  5552. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5553. It’s usually linked to religion, Charles. In my experience, 99% of the homophobes believe in an invisible sky daddy (like this Ugandan repressed closet oaf above) and selectively use his ‘writings’ to justify their position. Of course, as you say, no one consciously chooses whom they fancy, but even if they did choose, it still would be utterly irrational and pointless to hate on them. If these primitive religious texts didn’t exist, a good proportion of this irrational, idiotic homophobia would vanish like mist on a summer’s morning.
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  5554. ⁠Jegafuckwit 🤡 : “Yes, we do have a clear definition of what constitutes a proper relationship. So how does stating that some people engage in homosexuality in Africa counter this argument? People also engage in bestiality, incest, paedophilia and other harmful behaviours, and none of these fit our definition of a proper relationship.” There he goes again, folks! Directly linking consenting gay adults having sex with adults having sex with non-consenting animals and children. Bad faith. Very bad faith. 🤦‍♂️
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  5555. He’s got such an alluring greasy head I’d like to stick up my jacksy… in his dreams! 😴
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  5556. Yes. He wants you to bend over so he can insert his big black todger.👍😉
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  5557. ‘We’? Er, and who’s ‘we’ exactement? 🤔 C’mon hunny, don’t be getting down on consenting adults just enjoying a bit anal/oral sex. It doesn’t become you, sweetheart. 👍
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  5558. Indeed, in the video you referenced, when Fry challenged him on heterosexual rape, the moron actually said this: “Let them do it the right way.” 🤦‍♂️
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  5559. 👆Clearly unable to cope as they realise that it’s really rather creepy, weird and downright silly to be lurking around adults’ bedrooms auditing their sex lives like a twisted voyeur freak. 😂
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  5560. Irrelevant, Dikwad. Consenting adults. 😢
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  5561. Those who are against gay sex often cite the ‘harm’ it does, although that’s actually irrelevant if we are dealing with privately consenting adults just having sex and not directly affecting others. However, what they never seem to consider is that, given that loving relationships are such an important part of leading fulfilling, happy lives, people with homosexual orientations are profoundly ‘harmed’ when other people/the state irrationally and unjustifiably tries to prevent them from forming relationships and condemn them to live their whole adult existence on their nerves in fear of imprisonment (or worse) for just having consenting sex. Quite simply, there is no rational basis for trying to interdict consensual relationships between people with homosexual orientations. Personal ‘disgust’ and ‘outrage’ won’t do if you’re going to blithely walk into the private bedrooms of consenting adults like some kind of weird, creepy sex cop. Homosexuality exists, has existed and will exist for as long as there are humans. People’s bedroom habits (gay, straight and everything in between) are quite simply none of anyone's business. The real question to ask here is why do so many people have a problem with that?
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  5562.  @spunkywarrior777  Thanks for a sensible, well-thought out reply. 👍 I’ve thought quite a bit about this topic over the years, as although I’m not homosexual, I have gay close family members who have experienced quite dreadful discrimination. For what it’s worth, here’s my distillation of the subject as to why some people hate homosexuality: Well, religion is clearly the no.1 reason as, in my experience, when questioned the vast majority (90+%) of homosexuality-haters I encounter are holy rollers who believe in this or that unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddy. In the case of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) with their respective books written by men (anecdotally, I find men in my orbit far more likely to be homophobic than women and, tellingly, these same men are often far more forgiving of lesbianism than they are of male-on-male homosexuality), the literalist faithful are required to believe that homosexual sex is sinful and forbidden and by the letter of the holy law actually punishable by death! ( If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ~ Leviticus 20:13). No.2 is more than likely the classic closeted gay who just can’t accept their feelings and so actively pushes them away, for it is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are quite often repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can (and often are) expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” - the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. No.3 is the simple lack of basic education. When you grow up in a culture where the most important text is some primitive book written by fallible men 1000s of years ago, you know you’re going to bump up against some stupid, risible opinions which cannot be logically maintained without the appeal to a putatively omnipotent, omniscient ‘God’. In the same book of the Old Testament which institutes death for homosexual acts it also says: Ye shall keep my statutes … neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon you. ~ Leviticus 19:19 As I said: stupid and risible.
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  5563. Are you, indeed? Says the ‘Red Arrow Gang Member’. 😮Since 1983, no less. These Top Gun pilots, eh? It’s always nice to admire the view, I suppose. 😎
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  5564.  @Tobias-ox8uc  😉
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  5565. Well said! Jega🤡 says that ‘sex’ is strictly only man-to-woman sexual intercourse, and nothing else qualifies as ‘sex’. Yet, his own random accident of birth country, Uganda, has just passed a Bill whose headline introduction is: ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX; to prohibit the recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX.’ It appears the Ugandan legislators accept that ‘sex’ is more than just man-to-woman intercourse, as they have explicitly stated SAME SEX SEXUAL RELATIONS are, in fact, a thing. 😊
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  5566. Hi possum/wombat. 👋
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  5567. In the case of certain things, such as the right to freely exist and be able to express one’s sexuality in consenting adult relationships, these are universal. It’s nothing to do with culture. Or imposing anything. It’s to do with not messing unnecessarily with something as fundamental as one’s private sex life.
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  5568. •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  5569. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free from fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  5570.  @StopCensorship4--03  🥱 Oh, dear, sad, lost Julia. We’ve been over this 10,000x before. Keep yer dirty prying neb out of the business of others’ consenting business. There’s a good lassie. Laddie. Whatever the f*ck you are.
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  5571. You’ve got the wrong video, son. This is about gays. Try the next door down. 👍
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  5572.  @Hispanocel Huh? Where were children mentioned here? Wtf are you on about? This is simply about letting consenting adults f*ck whomever they want. Stop being so silly. 👍
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  5573. Jegamespeed: “In the West, homosexuals are treated like gods and homosexuality is considered sacred. It’s glorified and worshipped to the point where homosexuals seem to have more parental rights than parents themselves.” Utter rot and spoken like a chump who clearly has zero direct experience of ‘the West’. Here’s the actual truth: 1. The vast majority of non-homosexuals are quite simply indifferent to homosexuality. To say “homosexuals are treated like gods” and it’s considered “sacred” is pure baloney. Personally, it’s not my taste but I wouldn’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex as no one has presented a single, credible reason as to why I should. This opinion is held by 99%+ of the people in my social orbit. 2. It isn’t “glorified” and “worshipped”. There is a minuscule, tiny, highly politicised rump of activists who are heard out of all proportion to their actual (<1%) size. Try again. Try better or not at all. 🤡
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  5574. Yes, but can we have that in basic English, Andy? 🤔
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  5575.  @Guywithmaidens No. They were just making the rather sensible suggestion that this greased up loon could quite well be the very thing he ‘hates’. 👍😉
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  5576. Well said! 👏
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  5577. Word salad and not the point. Why are you interfering with what 2 consenting adults get up to? 🤔
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  5578. I didn’t order a crappuccino. 😂
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  5579. Astute insight. 👍 Well said!
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  5580. And so are jellied eels, m8. However, I don’t fine, imprison and execute jellied eels just because I find them ‘disgusting’. 🤦‍♂️👍🤡
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  5581. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  5582. I’ll chip in for your ticket! 🎟 Enjoy the corruption. Enjoy the non-democracy. Enjoy the poverty. Enjoy the sub-literacy. Enjoy the moronic belief in invisible sky daddies. Oh, and the flies. 🪰👍
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  5583. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399, aka ‘JayBits’)🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  5584. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  5585.  @Maximus_W It’s always the ones with the gayest avatars. 👍😉
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  5586.  @TheKrikCameronKids Indeed. He was 52, or something. It’s not like he was 12.
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  5587. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be being consistent.
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  5588. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free from fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  5589. I don’t need to say anything. https://youtu.be/SwqYk-Mie0k?si=RyNuDCxao2dEK9Ut
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  5590. Yes, and there are no heterosexual men who do such things to adopted children. 🤦‍♂️ Moron. 🤡
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  5591. Er, why should homosexuals be ‘loathsome’? What possible interest could you have in what consenting adults choose to do? You’re being a hypocrite. Why should you care?
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  5592. Actually supremely irrelevant, ducky. Consenting adults, dear. Grow up now.👍
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  5593.  @Possum-010 Well, you clearly do as you wouldn’t be replying, otherwise! 😂👍😉
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  5594.  @Possum-010  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂 Talking to yourself again? 😂
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  5595. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  5596. Good. Do one then.
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  5597. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  5598. Who’s ‘end of’ exactly, and why are they ‘disgusting’ him/her? 🤔
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  5599. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  5600. Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  5601. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5602. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this today: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  5603.  @stopcensorship7705  I see you have no real arguments to offer then. Uh huh.😊
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  5604.  @stopcensorship7705  I see you have no real arguments to offer then. Uh huh.😊
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  5605.  @orangutan4269  I know. He’s so obsessed, it’s quite clear he is a severely repressed queer himself.👍
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  5606. I believe that you cannot claim to be a human being, if you do not respect human rights. And this imposes on you an obligation to promote and protect the rights of other human beings. Nelson Mandela held the view that love is inherent and inborn. Hate, on the other hand, is taught, acquired. I think we are all born good human beings and we're all born to love – to love ourselves, to love other human beings, to love our neighbours, regardless of colour, regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of stature. Or it ought to be as simple as that. But there are people who find it easier to abuse power and authority. They pass the law simply because they can, define cultural values simply because they can. And they don't want us to have a debate about this. One of the bill's objectives was supposedly to protect the “traditional”, “moral”, “religious” values of Uganda. What you are saying is that we have [one set of] “religious” values in a country where you have predominant Christian churches, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and pagans. Homophobia has never been part of traditional African societies. Perhaps they had a lack of understanding, but they let them live in peace. Leading up to the first Anti-Homosexuality Bill in 2014, we knew that radical Pentecostal communities from the US were sponsoring the introduction of anti-LGBTIQ laws throughout Africa. There are still a few US pastors – I call them hate-mongers because that's all they excel in, vending hatred in Uganda. I don't understand why heterosexuals are so timid in their skin, why they think that the LGBTIQ community is the greatest threat to the survival of mankind. I believe the problem is this. Our people, including legislators, do not know the difference between homosexuality and non-consensual sex. And they mix it up with paedophilia. The Church of Uganda and the Church of England recently fell out over blessings for same-sex couples. That's where the problem started, before the Muslims jumped on the bandwagon. This has always been fuelled by Christian fundamentalism. Islam is a very conservative religion, but I don't think they had the capacity to pull this off without their Christian brothers and sisters. (Fox Odoi-Oywelowo - member of Uganda’s ruling party and President Yoweri Museveni’s legal adviser for more than 15 years)
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  5607. S’always the ones with the gayest names, it seems, Roly. 😢
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  5608. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  5609. Imagine being so intolerant that you sentence consenting adults to jail (or worse) for just having sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  5610. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be consistent.
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  5611.  @jegamespeed5399  Dude got triggered again! 😂👍
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  5612.  @jegamespeed5399 Accident of birth. Learn to think for yourself as an autonomous human being. 😉
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  5613. Utterly irrelevant, dearie. Consenting adults. Your squirmy, over-sensitive feelings don’t matter a jot here. Nice try, though.👍
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  5614. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  5615. Utterly irrelevant, dearie. Consenting adults. Your squirmy, over-sensitive feelings don’t matter a jot here. Nice try, though.👍
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  5616. Nicely put! 👍 It’s the accident of birth thing that I don’t get here. As if, just because you’re randomly plopped out by your mother somewhere, you thereby automatically adopt/agree with all the laws/mores of that place. 🤦‍♂️
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  5617. 🥱
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  5618.  @WillPOnya Nah, man. I’m just following the evidence. This really isn’t that difficult. Tch, tch! 👍😉
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  5619.  @WillPOnya You’re right. The Earth is ‘flat’. And ‘Jesus’ is your ‘saviour’ and ‘God’ threw in some fossils to test our collective faith, and you are deluded. 😊
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  5620.  @WillPOnya Sorry, dude. You musta missed the obvious curvature. You may need an eye test, sweetheart. 🤓
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  5621. Really? So the rumours are true then? Gay?🤓
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  5622.  @icecold9511  America, since virtually its inception has been in the business of meddling in the business of other countries. It’s all well-documented by independent chroniclers. It’s fact. The U.S. intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000.
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  5623.  @whitesandandreef4919  While I admire Zelensky standing up and being counted (if we believe what we see), he’s no saint. He’s repressed freedom of speech in the recent past. People need to be careful about beatifying him.👀
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  5624.  @lamiagumbo  7 others currently disagree with your opinion.😉
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  5625. @Seymour Butts Dream on.
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  5626. @Just Be Uh huh. Who said I supported CNN? I’m just watching this shit, man.🤓
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  5627.  @zakjuly6721  Uh huh. 🙄
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  5628. “To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” (Steven Wright) To be fair to him, Tarantino falls into the latter category. I would also add that just about every film director you can name also falls into this category.
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  5629.  @MachonyLeeoun  Yes, I’m very impartial to your ass.
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  5630.  @VonnieOdette  I agree. Putin is an arsehole. But the double standards are staggering here.
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  5631. When did you get a scrawny little wizened Hallowe’en mask for a face?
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  5632. The original Saint Nicholas was actually of Greek heritage. Hardly ‘black’.
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  5633. To be fair, a ‘joint meeting’ should be right up Zelensky’s street. Spliffing stuff!
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  5634. He’s an actor fronting a proxy war for the West.
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  5635. @0:22 As a Brit, lovely to see Ian Hislop having a say. Cross-Atlantic democracy in action. Fair play. 👍
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  5636.  @armandhammer2235  His mom’s Russian.
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  5637.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  It was part of the Russian (Soviet) Empire until 1991 ffs! Did you go to school?🙄
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  5638.  @The.Crawling.Chaos.  Just sayin’. It’s a big part of the reason Putin is there.
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  5639.  @soothing_de4th863  *Biden’s
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  5640. Lol. Are you aware of American history? 🤣
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  5641. Obama delivering a speech at a rally for Mandela Barnes is apt; as the older he gets, the greyer he gets, the more he appears to be morphing into a Nelson Mandela facsimile.
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  5642. Off topic: reporter is preternaturally, shimmeringly, scintillatingly beautiful.
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  5643. Jeez. This area just can’t get a break. It must have some serious karmic debt, or something.
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  5644. Including yours?🤓
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  5645. @adrianhoyle6131 Religion is just manmade stuff, man. That’s fine, I dig some manmade stuff, but let’s not pretend it’s any more than that. Imo, the complete works of Shakespeare contain more human/spiritual wisdom that the Bible/Quran combined! 👍
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  5646.  @Opinion-k7k Don’t be silly, dude. There has been child murder and ‘vile’ stuff going down for all of recorded human history. 🤦‍♂️ My advice? Pack in the gaming and read a few history books! 👍 📚
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  5647. Jesus. The propaganda must be strong in Russia if you’re actually volunteering to fight for Putin. I would hate to live in Russia. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against people you don’t hate. Pointless.
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  5648. It. Is. Real. But it’s been sinisterly handled here.
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  5649. Unbeleafable. Hibiscus? It should be instant byebiscus for these creeps. And a long jail term.
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  5650. Slightly dubious choice of words, given the topic. 🥴
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  5651. @1:46-1:58 Lol.
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  5652.  @KTopics  Ah, Paolo Nutini, such a beautiful Scottish name.
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  5653. Last time I checked they were both British.
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  5654.  @alexsilent5603 Just for the record, it wasn’t my colonisation. Just because you’re born in a country doesn’t automatically make you complicit in that country’s previous acts.
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  5655.  @alexsilent5603 Lol. Tell that to the many thousands of indigenous Siberians who were wiped out by the Russians. 👍
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  5656.  @I_Lemaire  Hmm. Yes, well, I’ll let you off then. Nicely saved. 👍
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  5657. Huh? How about being insane? 🤔
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  5658. Reports like this always confuse me. Genuinely never got the “hate another human being according to their skin colour” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different sexual preferences. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better.
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  5659.  @Aaronwhatnow I agree. But a large part of his schtick was no to continued mass immigration, and particularly mass Muslim immigration, and I agree with this part 100%. I say that as a liberal centrist.
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  5660. When I see stuff like this I sometimes think I’ve been sent to the wrong planet by mistake; are there actually members of my species who butcher quite possibly the most majestic land creatures on this planet, all so they can make profit by selling the ivory to absolute morons who appear to have been lobotomised? Yes, we are just getting confirmed reports that this is indeed the case. Like I say, I got off at the wrong stop.
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  5661.  @Allure1337  Not necessarily. To be a ‘murderer’ presumes self-willed intent on the part of the murderer. If he’s ordered to do something, suddenly that self-willed intent becomes null and void, and he’s little more than an automaton; but then, most soldiers on active duty are already that by training.
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  5662.  @frontenac5083  You know that capitalising your moniker for no apparent reason was never in fashion, petal. 🥴
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  5663. “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.” (George Orwell) As someone who agrees with much of what Orwell wrote, this one got me really thinking, and caused quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. 🤔🙄
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  5664.  @theredmenace6428  Red balloons in translation of song. Old enough to remember here! 🎈
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  5665. “Ukrainians should be asking how many Ukrainian lives the US is willing to sacrifice to feed her hegemonic ambitions.”
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  5666. Biden has less respect for boundaries than Russia! Creepy af.
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  5667. Was it one of those special Spanish language cruises for foreigners? He just got lost at ‘si’. 🚢
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  5668. Given that Mr Keon is of Irish ancestry, I’d like to take this opportunity to call him a complete potatohead! 🥔
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  5669. More copium? 🤓
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  5670.  @user-ry3cg3ns2c  Correction: You celebrate that. Leave me out of your ‘celebrations’ in this case.
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  5671. What about ‘woman’ and ‘non-binary gender neutral’ people? Huh?🤔
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  5672.  @jonerlandson1956  Last time I checked, we were all human beings, though.😉
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  5673. Scene: child custody department Putin: “The child needs to be with me, its rightful home. I am the best for its interests. Can’t you see this?” Social Worker: “Hmmm … And you NATO?” NATO: “The child has expressed an interest in being with me. I’m not violent towards it, I have its best interests at heart. I’m not forcing it to do anything against its will.” Social Worker: “Well, this seems an open and shut case: you, Mr Putin, have acted despicably; you have been aggressive and violent and threatening the child with death if it doesn’t submit to your will. How can you expect us to grant you custody?” Decision: NATO shall be granted custody.
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  5674. You volunteering for the front-line then?
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  5675. Title 42? Great band. Particularly loved Running in the Family, It’s Over and Lessons in Love. 👌
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  5676. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  5677. That sounds vaguely sinister. I’m no Trump fan - far from it - but what’s it got to do with you how your family, friends and neighbours vote? Put the boot on the other foot; what might your Trump-supporting family, friends and neighbours think of your voting choices? It’s a democracy. Deal with it.
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  5678.  @markhepworth1556  Yes, of course I would. Ty for confirming this for me.🤓
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  5679. Calvin Robinson? Bar? Not sure he’d know one if he walked into one. 🍺
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  5680.  @MrSimonson  Yup. Can see it would’ve been stressful if you were being stalked. Fair play.👍
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  5681.  @MrSimonson  Fair enough. No, I can imagine that if you’re accused of sexual assault and this becomes common knowledge amongst your social/family circle, then this would be problematic. However, if I were falsely accused by a woman of sexual crimes and it didn’t get out and become public knowledge, I’d probably be ok.
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  5682. Oh, Eamonn got a free transfer from GBNews. Fair play. 👍
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  5683. It’s more to do with ppl thinking Brand innocent. The dress provides a target fuelled by these feelings.
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  5684. You veel eat zee bugs! 🐛 🐜 🦗
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  5685.  @Kolakatten  Bro got pinned. Seethe.
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  5686. I’m not convinced he’s not an AI bot. I mean has anyone ever actually seen this dude?
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  5687. *cop’s Only on YouTube could you get someone posting a 5k comment after 2 hours with such sh*tty basic grammar.
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  5688. 0:05 I think that was a coughuccino! ☕️
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  5689. This must an American thing. I don’t why this video is here. We all have ‘voices’ we put on in certain professional scenarios. There was nothing even startling about this dude’s different voice. Confused.
    4
  5690.  @Heroas_Hamseros A bit route 1, though.
    4
  5691. Prime Minister: “Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
    4
  5692. We should try to understand what’s going on here, instead of just calling the shots for one side or the other. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? And particularly when he sees Ukraine as a kind of renegade cousin who has spurned motherland Russia. It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  5693. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  5694.  @MyUsernameisDifferent  Since 2014, a Ukrainian national iden­tity has taken hold. It includes a strong anti-Russian animus. In an April 2017 public opinion survey conducted by Rating Group Ukraine, 57 percent of Ukrainians polled ex­pressed a very cold or cold attitude toward Russia, as opposed to only 17 percent who expressed a very warm or warm attitude.🧐
    4
  5695.  @AnalogWinter  Yes, so he knows his ‘history’. And? I repeat, this has nothing to do with ‘history’. Do you honestly think Putin gives a fig about the ‘Russian’ boys and girls he sends to their deaths? Get real.👀
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  5696. Most Crop Circles are unimpressive nothings. What gets me about this phenomenon are the intricate, amazing-looking ones that, if you asked me, couldn’t be made by humans in a week, let alone a night. My only doubt about the really impressive ones is: were they were genuinely made ‘overnight’. The one I always cite is the 2001 Milk Hill circle. Now, if you tell me that a bunch of, say, 25 people have a week to create this masterpiece (for that’s what it is), then I might believe you, but even then with difficulty, given it’s scale and precision. If you tell me that on a Monday this thing wasn’t there, and by a Tuesday morning it was … then, there is either an army of very skilful, speedy artists out there, or something very strange is going on. It all hinges on whether these things are created overnight, something which cannot be verified, alas.
    4
  5697. @Eli Ubaldo Word of advice to the wise, son: Creeds and schools in abeyance . You really should heed this, brother, as religion appears to have messed with your head.😳
    4
  5698. Why would you ‘belong’ to Scotland? An accident of birth? Really? You’re predicating your identity on a random, arbitrary accident of birth, which you had utterly no say in? Really? 🧐
    4
  5699.  @princegoro6840  Lol. 👍Enjoy your fantasy novel and your ‘fantasy’ about the ‘devastation of British culture.’
    4
  5700.  @princegoro6840  ‘British culture’?! Gimme a break, man. I’m British born and bred and I can’t define a ‘British culture’ beyond upholding the law, speaking English and paying your taxes. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to what this lost ‘British culture’ might be?😳
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  5701.  @ComicGladiator  Look, mate. Don’t know if you’re a fella. I am and all I know is pretty basic: if I want to dominate and assert power over a woman then rape is the most egregious example I can think of. It’s not intrinsically about sex. Men can hire that, meet someone to have that with on equal terms, or wank. Men don’t rape women for the sex-element of the act: they do it to dominate.😳
    4
  5702. Yeah, but your argument, such as it is, seems to assume women are more attracted in an evolutionary biological/cultural sense to captain caveman, going out and hunting for the meat. You’re mocking ‘feminist men’, as you see them (in a caricatured sense), but surely if you’re mocking these weak saps that leaves more choice for you as women will gravitate to the Neanderthal man, waving his club (calling Freud!), roaring ‘Me Tarzan! You Jane!’ It clears the field for you if you consider male feminists unattractive to women. You’re wrong, of course, if you do, for there are all types of women attracted to all types of men and a fair few of them are attracted to the type who has a handle on the feminist cultural debate, and can argue it from both sides.🤓
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  5703. Jordan Peterson: the unacknowledged homosexual man’s father-figure, regardless of the utter shite he spouts, particularly concerning God.🤓
    4
  5704.  @jannisarie  We need more of you, Billy. Can we clone you? A Peterson fan who isn’t a total fuckwit and who, most importantly, has a sense of humour! 😀 You’re a refreshing drop in the Peterson desert of sycophantic fanboys blowing their load over their hero. Thanks for existing.🙏 You have, single-handedly, restored my faith in humanity. Kudos to you and your kin. And goodnight.🥸
    4
  5705.  @jannisarie  lol@‘Do people really hero worship Peterson?’ Is the Pope a fucking Catholic? Where have you been? Of course they (repressed gay boys, mainly) hero worship Peterson. I respect the fact you appear a little more, er, healthy in your relationship with our Jordy, as you don’t appear to be first in the queue wanting to blow him as a sincere thanks for all he has done in your life. Well done, for not succumbing to this egregious, puke-inducing extent.👍 🤢
    4
  5706.  @Miles.Larsen  How do you know this dude doesn’t have enough to cover the loss? He may not. But he probably does. Particularly as it’s his daughter he is gifting. Often, as parents, we find the money when the tree isn’t necessarily that big.👍😉
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  5707. I feel stoopid cos I don’t get this. Can someone explain this, pls?
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  5708.  @swarajthapa5798  I hate to tell you: this guy was not being ‘sarcastic’. Alas.
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  5709.  @olchat2012  Missed nothing, mate, apart from the meeting when was it decided that the State can interfere what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to. It’s quite literally, no one else’s business. Seethe more.
    4
  5710. Timbuktu.
    4
  5711. Get a room.
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  5712. Is your life that empty you count this as an achievement?
    4
  5713. The Flat Earthers I have filed away with the dinosaur deniers, the deniers of the 4 billion year old Earth, and those who believe every word in the Bible is to be taken as literal truth.
    4
  5714. “Euston, we have a problem.”
    4
  5715. Ah, I get it now. Well, 1. It’s a stolen joke. 2. It’s not that funny. Not sure why it’s got so many upvotes. Must an American thang.
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  5716. I recognise some of these guys from the beach in Marbella. Multitasking, resourceful chaps. You decide what our Al was on about here.
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  5717. Monaco is the type of place people with too much money build to attract people with too much money. Essentially, they found a beautiful Mediterranean cove and built a parking lot. They then glorified it by attracting those toys boys with inadequate appendages are drawn to and called it ‘Formula 1’. Now why does that sound like the preparation I make for my 3-week old baby?
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  5718. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  5719. Some people choose vegetarianism to make ends meet, while others choose it to make meat end.
    4
  5720. Must be tough for Pip. A major broadcaster dropping him like a stone after 20 years will be hard to take. On the bright side, there’ll be several minor Channels clamouring for his services!
    4
  5721.  @ObsidianJake  Uh huh. I see that.
    4
  5722. So this is what she does for her £2,567 hourly rate. Beats working for a living I suppose!
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  5723.  @jyvben1520  It can actually be both: ‘Boris’’ or ‘Boris’s’.
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  5724. “All the world’s a stage and a lot of the men and women merely slayers.”
    4
  5725. *guy’s
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  5726. Quite frankly, this has become beyond farcical. As an agnostic, I have no particular religious axe to grind. But … 🕉 Brahma Mia here we go again and in all this dRama, we have Hanuman in Downing Street. The first Hindu PM. Kali he do any better than Truss? Shivas a disaster. She had all the Krishna of a wet lettuce. The lettuce lasted longer. Let’s Vishnu Sunak doesn’t Varuna the economy. Shakti do that, it could be a tragic Dharma. Brah, man, the whole thing is a mess. 🕉
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  5727. Johnson has not been given a penalty when he should have been ruled off-side and sent off for serious foul play.
    4
  5728.  @scapingby  Yes, yes, I get that. All I’m saying is that if a critical mass refused to serve the war madness machine we could have a better world. If people just refused point-blank to be conscripted en masse. Idealistic? Of course. But just throwing it out there.
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  5729. The look on Priti Patel’s face when Bozo goes on about the deleterious effects of bullying.😳
    4
  5730. 2h50m. He’s Colombia’s national Kayaking champion.
    4
  5731.  @888ssss  lol@‘racist but wholesome’ <oxymoron of the day! Wholesome racism! 😆
    4
  5732.  @suzyrottencrotch5132  And the worlds (sic) most unreliable grammarian.
    4
  5733.  @IrishLadASMR  👏
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  5734.  Israel Hands  What? Just like the Israelis who were also ‘planted’ in the land inhabited by others?
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  5735. @0:10 While he appears to be paying attention, not banking on Barclay taking note of this and changing things anytime soon.
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  5736.  @mosheridan7016  So? 20°C in January in Scotland?! Scotland’s lucky if it gets 20°C in July!
    4
  5737. *hoisted them by their own petard
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  5738.  @Vladklx  I like to look at the evidence. I’ve looked at it. Jesus very probably never existed.
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  5739. Define a ‘man’ and I’ll think about it.
    4
  5740. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  5741. Or the boogie.
    4
  5742. Lol. Love the Babs writes this as she implicitly expects Queenie to actually read it.
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  5743. Not aware aware of this “Allah Almighty” fella. Did share a swift pint with an “Allan Almighty” once, if that counts. 🤓 🍻
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  5744. Your lack of an apostrophe is scarier! 👻
    4
  5745.  @jonwoodmass2849  Lol.👍
    4
  5746. *those
    4
  5747. Trudeau by name, falseau by nature.
    4
  5748.  @acthompson9983  I think they’ve all been waiters/waitresses at one point or another. Apart from Boris, who is just a time server.
    4
  5749. No.
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  5750.  Keith Hoss  👈Projection, much?
    4
  5751. Darvel’s marvels down the Dons!
    4
  5752. Tbf, it’s only Gen Z who might be triggered by this. Back in the day, Cher was seated atop a cannon, ffs! If we’re going to get this touchy about stuff we might as well all go home now. 🤦‍♂️
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  5753. It’s hotting up in Haiti where there appears to be a lot of hatei.
    4
  5754. This is no laughing matter.
    4
  5755. To be fair, they are used to a bit of Charlie up north. sniffs
    4
  5756.  @petercross3984  Yes, but Afghanistan (Taliban) by hosting al-Qaeda were indirectly attacking the US.
    4
  5757. Rodge is now officially a FedEx-tennis player. New balls, please! 🎾
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  5758. Why is it that those who bang on about being ‘indigenous’ are, almost without exception, the last type of people I would actually want to be indigenous with?
    4
  5759.  @satu_rrn  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
    4
  5760.  @suzyrottencrotch5132  Conventionally, NATO would crush Russia tout de suite.
    4
  5761.  @adiands850  Austrian-born. Moreover, it could be plausibly argued Austrians are essentially Germans and vice-versa, anyway.
    4
  5762. And.got.another.with.punctuation.issues
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  5763.  @YouTube-are-Trump-Toilet-Crud  Cunning. 😉
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  5764. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  5765. Naughty Rishi. Cop27 has just issued a search and arrest warrant. He’s not happy. 👮‍♀️
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  5766. He looks, and sounds, like a 6th former on work experience.
    4
  5767. *have
    4
  5768. And also in peace.
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  5769. Lol. ‘Wayne Jones’; the most Welsh name ever ! Aside from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll!
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  5770. There is no God. There should be no king.
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  5771. Now then, now then.
    4
  5772.  @jimbean1196  Oh, I agree. The theory isn’t wholly watertight but it’s got some decent mileage.
    4
  5773.  @cryptobroskis545  Look, all that needs to be said about this is quite simple, and why people are unnecessarily complicating this, I have no idea. If someone attacks a self-governing, sovereign country, then I call that wrong. Where’s the issue here?
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  5774.  @itsJPhere  But Russia won’t, though. And if they try to, they will be incinerated in a jiffy in a nuclear conflagration, along with many bystanders.
    4
  5775. Well, at the very least, Anthony will be pleased.
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  5776. He needs a thick ear.
    4
  5777. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
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  5778. Well, it could be for the potheads, if they discover their grass has gone up in flames. 🚬
    4
  5779. This is Michael. He’s a cross-dresser on the weekends.
    4
  5780.  @UsmanGhani-zg5ge  I said, ‘based on …? An accident of birth? Really? How primitive.’
    4
  5781. Based on …? An accident of birth? Really? How primitive.
    4
  5782. Lol. Afghan?! ‘Lucky Luke’?! 😆
    4
  5783. There probably is no God. Deal with it.
    4
  5784. Vladimir Putin; Volodymyr Zelensky; Volodymyr Klitschko; Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko; is it compulsory that every man east of Warsaw has to have ‘Vladimir’ or a variation thereof in their name?🤔
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  5785. As an agnostic, I consider all organised religion a pile of crap. However, the religion I least currently trust is Islam. Why? It’s the only one that demands most respect for its values but is least likely to give respect for others’ values.
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  5786. Is it? Tell that to the 1,000-odd migrants arriving every other day. 🛶
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  5787. So what if he is? How is that relevant here? 🤔
    4
  5788. @0:20 “The US will advance a vision of a free, open, stable and prosperous world.” Lol. Since about 1776, the US’s modus operandi has been to subvert democratically elected governments all over this planet and forcibly install regimes favourable to their interests. Cuz they can. Some “freedom”.
    4
  5789.  @user-lj8pp1xu4t  Oh, I agree. America and her partners have simply taught Putin the song he is currently playing. That much is clear.
    4
  5790.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  Putin would’ve gone in anyway. That NATO thing is a red herring.
    4
  5791.  @epicon6  Well, is it? Look at this a little more. I don’t condone Putin’s actions one jot, but given his model of the world he is doing precisely nothing inappropriate.
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  5792. Let’s face it: this isn’t a Major catastrophe.
    4
  5793. *Alan’s
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  5794. Really? Never knew Queen was an Altered Images fan. Cool.
    4
  5795. Lol@‘jetsetters’ A 50 quid return to Alicante is hardly ‘jet-setting’.
    4
  5796. *have *their
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  5797. Sorry for the venue. That lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs is unbearable, though.
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  5798.  @philly9872  Pmsl.
    4
  5799. Ask Madonna.
    4
  5800.  @dalecrocker3213  Applies here though. Think on, son.
    4
  5801. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  5802. Don’t wanna jinx this thing for the English, but just gonna put it out there: Bobby Moore when he lifted the World Cup in ‘66 was 25. Leah Williamson is 25. The other omen goes to the 7’s. Things happen at multiples of 7: it’s 56 years since an English team, men or women, won a major trophy. For both these reasons, I put £100 on England to win. We’ll see. 💴 ⚽️
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  5803.  @BradleyCTurner  Ty, Brad. The sanest, most literate comment in this thread. 👍
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  5804.  @sazzbot8874  The clue’s in the name. ‘Terry’. Terries are often terriers. Right-wing terriers. Woof!
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  5805. Some of us live there. The Isle of … 🐕
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  5806.  @andylane247  I’m a remainer.😉
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  5807.  @georgiedenvis3756  Yes, most who come here are. We have legal economic immigration as well. The only issue I have is with illegals. If these are indeed legals/refugees, and many won’t be, then where’s your issue?
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  5808. Whenever one sees the footage of ‘derailed train’ it always looks exactly like that time my brother derailed my Inter-city 125 train-set back in Christmas 1985! As Shakespeare said: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”
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  5809. She might if the bus has a blue livery and ‘£350 million p/week for the NHS’ written on the side.
    4
  5810. Pmsl.
    4
  5811. No one. If it’s gas emanating from Putin’s mouth.
    4
  5812.  @mmmDaber  To keep the house clean.
    4
  5813.  @Saul_Ferguson  Indeed. Especially in the tropics! 😉
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  5814. It’s not the highest mountain.
    4
  5815. I did.
    4
  5816. Don’t wanna jinx this thing for the English, but just gonna put it out there: Bobby Moore when he lifted the World Cup in ‘66 was 25. Leah Williamson is 25. The other omen goes to the 7’s. Things happen at multiples of 7: it’s 56 years since an English team, men or women, won a major trophy. For both these reasons, I put £100 on England to win. We’ll see. 💴 ⚽️
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  5817. Some people living between the Equator and the 25th parallels have no choice. I always tend to find that the most vociferous global warming deniers are those whom it least affects. Eg. Brits.
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  5818. As with defanged Christianity, I grudgingly tolerate this lot. But if they should get ideas above their station ever again à la Henry VIII or Charles I, then I will be manning the barricades. That goes for any organised religious baloney that in any way directly affects my life.👍
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  5819. Well, if they can’t take them now, they will never take them. 🪑
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  5820. What? As opposed to the testosterone filled old women?😳
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  5821. Tim? Henman retired years ago, pal.
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  5822. ‘To God’?! Pmsl.😆
    4
  5823. Concur. The other one that bugs is ‘passed away’, or worse, just ‘passed’ (cringe) for the simpler, cleaner, less pretentious ‘died’.🥸
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  5824.  @raymondsutton7900  Yawn That statement could be applied to any year in the past 2,000 years.
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  5825. Lol.
    4
  5826.  @wasidanatsali6374  They don’t talk about “banning ropes and car exhausts” because, unlike guns, these things are not specifically made to maim and kill things, which is, of course, the primary function of a gun.
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  5827.  @fusion4166  I think his point was ‘humans’. He wasn’t necessarily gendering this thing. Just for the record, though, it’s men who overwhelmingly commit the most murders. (Well over 90%.) So, actually, Nietzsche wasn’t far off the mark.
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  5828.  @xaiano794  I disagree. It’s what soldiers do and what they think they’ll get away with.
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  5829. I agree. For all her apparent sweet niceness and youth, there is something of the night about Forbes.
    4
  5830. Lol. The definition of parochialism; tens of thousands murdered and one man gets all the headlines, just because of an accident of birth.
    4
  5831. Hunt’s right. I wouldn’t run after Liz Truss either.
    4
  5832. *Alton Showers
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  5833.  @loveisall5520  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
    4
  5834. Because she’s presenting an episode of ‘Supermarket Sheep’.
    4
  5835. Knew
    4
  5836. @@Cernunnos-2024 Tbf, Brexit happened and the Yesers for Scots independence were promised it wouldn’t before the last referendum. Remember: 65% of people in Scotland were Remainers.
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  5837. So is Wallace, looking at him.
    4
  5838. This is what rich people do when they have too much money and too much time on their hands. Normal people would just have an argument and move on.
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  5839. Does America truly want to have closer ties with this Jeremy Kyle side show that is the UK government?
    4
  5840.  @Classic_Frog  To be fair, even a good covering of snow can’t save most American towns and cities. Most are bleak, ugly places. Parts of Frisco and the Old Quarter of New Orleans get an honourable pass, here.
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  5841. Lol. As if ‘young people’ wouldn’t cause trouble, too. Last time I checked, Alexander the Great was pushing up daisies at 32.
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  5842. “And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” (Walt Whitman)
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  5843. Russia’s fake ‘liberation’ of an already free Irpin becomes the real liberation of an occupied Irpin by the Ukrainians. Take that Putin!
    4
  5844. Stick it in the microwave then.
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  5845. It hasn’t given ‘billions’. It’s given about $300 million to date.
    4
  5846.  @koolio4997  Fact check: 2022 France gave $2 billion for Ukraine war. France’s pension system accounts for 14% of GDP.
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  5847. No.
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  5848. *Jeremy Runner 🏃‍♂️
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  5849.  @JOEFABULOUS.  Lol. 🤣
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  5850.  @JOEFABULOUS.  Why are there Jews and Muslims in the first place? Ever asked yourself this?
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  5851. @1:20 Get back to that earlobe in 25 years and Trump’s plane will be able to fly right through it! 👂 ✈️
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  5852. Lovely analysis from Ronnie Barker there. Fair play. 👍🤓
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  5853. If the party involves Sue Gray and Boris Johnson, then my gate is firmly closed.
    4
  5854. Frack-off!
    4
  5855. If the party involves Sue Gray and Boris Johnson, then my gate is firmly closed.
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  5856. @2:10 Eyes right … 👀 phwoar! ❤️
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  5857. @0:45 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hello. 🤓
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  5858. I like to sometimes play a name game. It’s where I compare places in the US to places in the UK that share a name. Portland, Oregon is better than Portland, Dorset. Boston, Massachusetts is better than Boston, Lincolnshire. York, Yorkshire is better than New York, New York. Birmingham, Alabama is just as much of a s*hthole as Birmingham, West Midlands. Oxford, Oxfordshire is better than Oxford, Maine. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, is better than Cambridge, Massachusetts, etc etc.
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  5859.  @Tony_Indiana  It kinda is about land, too; strategic land. Not denying the resources argument as well, but this is, in large part a land grab, too.
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  5860.  @corinnebrown5307  Nah, not really. They are showing other women how to grind out ugly results. Their football cannot compete with men’s on every level.
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  5861. First Nigeria played them off the park, then Colombia ran rings around them. At some point England might actually play some attractive football but fair play to them. The eventual winners of these things tend to grind out ‘ugly’ wins. 👍 If Greece can win a major tournament, there’s hope for us all!
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  5862. *whose
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  5863. Technically, yes. Self-loathing women can be sexist against their sex.
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  5864.  @malicant123  I repeat, no other comparable countries seem to have an issue with regulating access to arms.
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  5865.  Matty Kelly  Yeah, but the UK has a homicide rate 4x less than that of the US.
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  5866.  @shikag9638  So why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  5867. ‘British government has used N Ireland as a bit of a plaything.’ Well, that’s progress, since for decades the British government had been using N Ireland as a bit of a war thing.
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  5868. *were
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  5869.  @aboutface7961  Cost to NHS though, m8.👍
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  5870. Jesus. This was just about ok until 1:00. At that point, my knickers creased up with cringe on the minge.
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  5871. While we can’t be 100% sure this was the exact spot where Caesar met his demise, we do know that he was extremely religious and died a very holey man.
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  5872. He’s more a Typhoo and chocolate hobnob man. Get it right ffs.
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  5873. Johnson shouldn’t just be ‘stepping down’; he should be taking a running jump off the top of Big Ben!
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  5874. Immigration referendum wouldn’t substantially alter anything. Vast majority of people in this country are in favour of protecting genuine refugees and controlled legal immigration, and not pro open borders and unrestricted immigration. The referendum would then just be a case of a numbers game in terms of how many immigrants to admit.
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  5875. @0:43 “There is no mandate now.” Yup. Rishi’s had a few ‘mandates’ though, I bet.🥸
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  5876.  @donnydrumpf9563  Not an anglo-saxon either, buddy! Ha ha ha ha! Ho ho ho ho! He he he he! 🤣
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  5877.  @rossib6974  Huh? Last time I checked I wasn’t English. Just sayin’.😉
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  5878. Yes, and we must unaccept the acceptably unacceptable, too.
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  5879. *have
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  5880.  @GK-qc5ry  He doesn’t track back enough. Hasn’t got the legs. United, unless, they play a superior team like City, need players with legs. Arguably, Ronaldo lost the best of his legs 4/5 years ago.
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  5881. For a moment there, didn’t tink the Jerries were going to send the tanks to tonk the Russkis. That would’ve stunk! Just over ten? K. 👍
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  5882. No.
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  5883. *arctic
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  5884. *Hagrid
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  5885.  @tonisiret5557  Not true. John Humphrys, too.
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  5886. ‘New style’? Paxman was doing this sort of thing 30 years ago.
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  5887. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  5888. Lol. There’s only been 3 since Betty! Tbf, though, she’s the best of this lot.
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  5889. No.
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  5890. Not at all. She’s doing her job. She needs to be consistent in doing this across the political spectrum, however.
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  5891. 5 years?! Blinken Hell!
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  5892. Indeed. Let’s hope not so many English teachers. *a lot *teachers’
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  5893. 🎶 The tax man's left me all my dough, And left me in my stolen home, Lying on a sunny afternoon. And I can sail my yacht, He’s left me everything I’ve got, All I’ve got’s this money afternoon.🎵
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  5894. ‘Adler’ - great German name btw. 👍
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  5895. Google it. It’s a thing.
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  5896. To whom?
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  5897. @Razor Mouth Someone trying to invade Britain may see France as a softer entry point than Ireland.
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  5898.  @hieronymusjacabusprincepso5060  Nope. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen: all unjust and morally indefensible. Ditto Putin in Ukraine.
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  5899. We ‘give a crap’ because it just moved one street closer. If Ukraine were geographically on the other side of Russia, I’m willing to bet there might be a little less western fanfare.
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  5900. Gandhi did.
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  5901.  @grayday8089  Perhaps. Something tells me, come what may, that NATO and the West will be drawn into this, and perhaps sooner than later. I’m no conspiracy theorist by nature, but something smells a little fishy here; almost as if the West was ‘destined’ to confront Putin/Russia militarily.
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  5902. They may be the ‘gutter press’, but they are looking at the stars.😉 🌟
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  5903. That’s Queen. These are the Beatles.
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  5904.  @ravd8082  Something like that. OT is currently 74,000. 90,000 sounds about right.
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  5905. Yes, but has Amber heard Johnny’s deposition?
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  5906. Why not seize the ships and and put them to good use as processing centres for migrants seeking to come to the UK?
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  5907. The evidence is clear: the main cause of climate change is burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal. When burnt, fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the air, causing the planet to heat up. The climate on Earth has been changing since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. Until recently, natural factors have been the cause of these changes. Natural influences on the climate include volcanic eruptions, changes in the orbit of the Earth, and shifts in the Earth's crust (known as plate tectonics). Over the past one million years, the Earth has experienced a series of ice ages, including cooler periods (glacials) and warmer periods (interglacials). Glacial and interglacial periods cycle roughly every 100,000 years, caused by changes in Earth's orbit around the sun. For the past few thousand years, Earth has been in an interglacial period with a constant temperature. However, since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, the global temperature has increased at a much faster rate. By burning fossil fuels and changing how we use the land, human activity has quickly become the leading cause of changes to our climate. There’s also water vapour to consider, too. For although water vapour probably accounts for about 60% of the Earth's greenhouse warming effect, water vapour does not control the Earth's temperature. Because these gases are not condensable at atmospheric temperatures and pressures, the atmosphere can pack in much more of these gases. It seems indisputable that not only is the planet warming rather rapidly, but that much of this warming is due to manmade activity.😳
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  5908. Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨🙄
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  5909.  @davidedbrooke9324  Would that we had a bit more ‘app-easement’. All this new technology is so hard to keep up with. 📱
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  5910. The San Andreas Fault may do that for them, at some point. 🌍
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  5911. Sorry, but the image of Klaus Schwab tossing one off is an image too far. 🥴
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  5912. Outrageous Billy Bob, son. Call the cops. Or at the very least, the Border Force.
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  5913. Whatever happens, I’ve put my mortgage on a bet at William Hill that Harry Kane won’t learn more than about 3 words of German. For some reason, the vast majority of British footballers when they go abroad don’t seem to make the effort to learn the local lingo the way the foreigners coming here do. I get English is a bit of a lingua franca so it’s probably a bit easier for the foreigners coming here as they will probably have a few words of English already, but I’m always dismayed and slightly perplexed at why Brits going abroad don’t generally appear to make the same effort. Jude Bellingham, for example: 3 full years in Germany and his German speaking ability appears to be negligible and I’m not holding out much hope he’ll learn that much more Spanish. The most recent Brit footballer who played abroad and quite impressed was Lucy Bronze with her French and Fikayo Tomori’s Italian is staggeringly good in this context. As an example of what can be achieved in this domain, Romelu Lukaku can speak 8 (8!!!) foreign languages at least at a conversationally fluent level.
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  5914. Nice to see John Swinney doing his bit for Labour on his days off. Fair play.👍
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  5915.  @steveparker8065  👍
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  5916.  @terialikhan  👍
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  5917.  @PG-3462  👏
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  5918.  @johnybravo5667  Hmmm …🤔Nope. Let’s see the footage. Then I’ll make my call, and not jump in like the rabid racist mob in this stream.
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  5919. Specsavers? 👓
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  5920.  @trutherasitis2109  Triggered, much?🤣
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  5921. Paris Hilton, huh? That’s nothing. My current girlfriend is called Milton Keynes Premier Inn.
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  5922. I used to work with a trans man. At lunch all he would ever eat was salad. Makes sense, I suppose, as he was a herbefore. 🥗
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  5923. Jesus wept.
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  5924.  @15-Peter-20  They are both on a defamation trial.
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  5925.  @15-Peter-20  Er, he kinda is. As is she.
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  5926.  @artychap8817  Well, to be fair, we all act. Some just get paid for it.
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  5927. Cut the fella some slack; he is pushing 60, and for that, and given how many substances he’s sniffed, I reckon he looks pretty dapper.
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  5928. 🐑
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  5929. How bizarre. Putin, so desperate to have Ukraine (fellow Slavs) under his dictatorial roof, that he’ll actually kill them if they refuse? The very definition of a toxic, paranoid spouse. 😳
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  5930.  @rashmivarma3390  Nah. It’s not really. It’s panto. War, famine, chronic poverty are the eternal verities it seems, of things that matter. Tossing off over some rich unelected people at their death doesn’t even make it onto my list of what really matters.
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  5931. Of 54 African nations, as we speak, only 1 is classified as a ‘full democracy’: Mauritius. The rest are flawed democracies, hybrid democracies incorporating strongly authoritarian anti-democratic elements, or outright dictatorships. The truth is that too much of Africa is still mired in tribalism and too few States have made the requisite efforts to bring their countries into the sunny uplands of the least worst way of politically organising human affairs. The key here has to be education. Of the salient things functioning democracies need to embrace in order to have any chance of working, such as participation, free and fair elections, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, pluralism, and the rule of law, far too few African nations tick even half of these boxes. Until they do, chiefly through education, Africa will remain benighted and doomed to anti-democratic trouble and strife.
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  5932.  @jdfiend  She’s shexy. 🥸
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  5933.  @friendgray1  🐟
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  5934.  @ThatCarGuy1983  A full stop.
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  5935. They may have to move the Eurostar terminal from St Pancras back to Waterloogged.
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  5936. What. All of them? Bit random, given it’s a complex tapestry of 44 million.
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  5937. Watching Brian May there reminded me that I need to take the poodle for its daily, shortly. 🐩
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  5938.  @AndyM_323YYY  *shovels
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  5939.  @raymondpeterson-wc9vi  K, Ray. Say, if I may, was there pay for that display?
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  5940. Russia invades Ukraine. Ukraine invades the rest of Europe.
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  5941.  @nineteen8026  Red herring. Stats show America is even crazier about knives. Nice try, though.👍
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  5942.  @suzyrottencrotch5132  I do. Cope and then cope some more, Suze.🤣
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  5943. Glad they were saved. These two could have littorally died.
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  5944. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was ‘manhandling’ going on as desperate times produce desperate behaviour. What some of these entitled Tories really need is the reality check of being out on their ear and being forced to do a bit of ‘panhandling’ as they strike me as being so utterly out of touch with the common man and woman (and gender neutral person 🤐).
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  5945.  @santoriniblue8413  Lol@Labour Party as ‘socialist’.
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  5946. Proud Boys sounds like that boy band Simon Cowell rejected because they couldn’t get it up.
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  5947. There is no ‘Lord’; there may be no ‘mercy’.😳
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  5948. Nice to see Sophy taking time out from her supermarket check-out job.
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  5949. Gives a whole new meaning to “seaweed”, I suppose.
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  5950.  @barbaraaimson2100  Yeah, but what if all the veterans have brown skins?
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  5951. Willing to bet all I have that if these asylum seekers were white and spoke with an ‘ee bah gum’ accent there would not be an issue here. This is human tribalism, pure and simple. I want only people like me living next to me, and if I see any ‘funny foreigners’ then my racist gene will be instantly activated.
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  5952.  @vladys5238  I just want him to stop moaning so much. He doesn’t realise he’s born! He’s handsome, he’s not poor, he’s healthy, he has a beautiful family… there are millions who have none of this and just get on with it. 👍
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  5953. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and idiotic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  5954.  @thematic3893  That makes no sense. You do know there are thousands of gays in Uganda, thicko.🤣
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  5955. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  5956.  @kevinkaragu1758  You didn’t answer the question. Do you want another go?
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  5957. @Юрий & Ко I’m neutral here, man. Apolitical, agnostic, anational. Just calling this from the sides, as I see it. Most Ukrainians (leaving aside its leadership), are clearly looking West, not North.
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  5958.  @mark9294  So, if he’s not in love with his wife, tell her! Jesus. I repeat, when I’m in love I’m not lonely, even if it’s just me and my lover. Sounds like he’s not in love anymore. Just move on. When you’re in love with someone, you’re not ‘lonely’.
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  5959. It’s not, really. It’s spoken French that is the issue. The actual learning of the grammar and written language is no more difficult than English. English is more difficult in many ways: pronunciation; number of words (1,000,000+); patterns of grammar etc. I’m willing to bet that you are saying English is easier to learn simply because this, out of the two languages, was the one you were most exposed to when growing up. If you had been taught French at school as a main second language you would say something different. For example, the main reason I am more comfortable with French than, say, Spanish or Italian, is because at school I was exposed to it. I’m willing to bet good money that your main second language exposure while at school was English, not French, ergo you feel more comfortable with the former, and not the latter.
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  5960.  @hannacastMAKEUP  ‘This spider is about to be stomped on’. You’ve made up your mind already you hypocrite. Entirety of the trial? You’ve pre-judged already.
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  5961. This humour is essentially Beavis & Butt-Head sniggering into their gauche, socially awkward hands. Not particularly edifying, or funny, come to that, but let’s face it, they were sniggering at this sort of stuff back in Roman times, if the unearthed graffiti are anything to go by. Mankind (and, yes, I use ‘mankind’ here, advisedly, as it is men who go for this sort of humour) has always had one eye on the starry heavens and one eye in the gutter; but the key is that, at the very least, he was actually looking at the stars, while fiddling with his wotsit in the gutter.
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  5962. 2:25 I 100% agree with Pep. No one decides where they are born. So, why then, do the vast majority of the world’s population take some kind of weird ‘pride’ in an accident of birth?
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  5963. What’a marvellous about Easy Spanish is that almost every (and I mean, every) episode is of interest to even the mildly curious individual with a bent towards learning Spanish. Well done for making the episodes so damn engaging!
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  5964.  @pabo-qv3nx  Oh, yeah the trains are a national British disgrace both in terms of service and prices. At least in Spain, Italy, France (and many other European countries) they provide a decent train service. Tbh, I wouldn’t pay for a rail ticket to Clacton even if it were less than a fiver! And if I were stranded in Clacton I’d be looking for the quickest train/exit out! 👍
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  5965. @7:07-7:14 Machine gun discharging its magazine of bullets … oh, it’s just another person speaking Spanish like it was a race or something. Slow down … some of us are here to learn.
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  5966.  @135Bubby  Well said that person. You appear one of the more balanced ones; unlike the Depp fanboys and girls in this thread. Respect for your balance.✊
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  5967. The Italian in the room just got triggered! 😂
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  5968.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Did nothing of the sort, mate. I just thought he was one of the gentler souls, that’s all. I was wrong. I never had him down as an ‘angel’ for as we all know, no-one is all good and similarly no one is all devil, which is why I find quite disturbing the amount of anti-Heard vitriol swilling around. If Depp’s no angel; Heard is no devil. Both just complicated human beings.
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  5969. @M So Depp’s completely innocent. Not aggressive, not violent, not disgusting to live with, not foul-mouthed and abusive. No.
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  5970. A gracious Englishman towards Maradona and the Argentinians? Careful, mate, or you may hand back the Falklands in a fit of absent-mindedness!
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  5971. @8:03 This guy slightly contradicts himself here from what he said earlier in the episode when he was praising Brits for having a cultural openness he was attracted to; here he appears to be falling into that trap of looking at the Brits in Spain as the stereotypical blinkered, monocultural, monolingual dolts that infest the Costas. They are to be abhorred for their blithe delusion that they are somehow ‘it’ with their fish & chips, tatty tattoos & weak beer. Believe it or not, there are Brits who go to the ‘other Spain’; the Spain where life is recognisably Spanish & not some raggedy British enclave full of morons. It’s no accident that the 2 most ‘British’ places in Spain are also the 2 most physically & culturally repulsive in the whole of the country: Benidorm & Gibraltar (yes, I realise Gibraltar isn’t really in Spain, but you know what I mean). They are also the most deeply boring places for the reasons quoted above & it always astonished me that any self-respecting native Spaniard ever has anything to do with either place. For example, I’m told that there are actually Spanish people who go to Benidorm for a holiday?! Go figure. One last thing to say on all this & it’s pertinent: of all the Spaniards that come to live in the UK I’ve never met one who didn’t speak virtually perfect English & a few other languages besides. This cannot be said for the Bulldog British cretins on the Costas. They never learned Spanish & have no intention of doing so. And why? Well, they’re often thick, which doesn’t help, but also quite simply they don’t have to as they know they can get by with their poorly-phrased English which they never learned properly in the first place.
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  5972. I only buy grapes anyway, when it comes to fruit. 🍇
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  5973. By ‘eck, it’s grim oop North! Poor old Newcastle will never win any prizes for beauty. Try Durham; a much more pleasant option.
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  5974.  @davidr7819 Not making any ‘political capital’. I was just pointing out the reality that importing 1% of your population every year is a bit of an issue for quite a few people. 👍
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  5975.  @Jst.a.Normal.Bottle.of.Mustard  But if we are all neutral, where’s the issue? If some dickhead gets too big for their boots the combination of all the neutral states can counter this.
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  5976.  @adamgibson473  Yes, but could you type that in English, please?
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  5977.  @YorkshireBob  Back to yer whippets, Bob lad.
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  5978.  @mohamedbenhamida5652  What is so difficult about this? Every sovereign country should have the final say as to whom and whom they do not admit. It’s not controversial. Every country more or less operates this way, anyway. Why are you suggesting the UK/Europe should be any different?
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  5979.  @itzsleazy6903  Did you read my OP or are you just ranting? Again, for your benefit: “I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers”. If you can prove you can offer a country some economic benefit and/or are fleeing genuine persecution, you are welcome. Don’t make me out to be something I’m not. Almost everyone I know more or less shares this opinion. It’s not controversial.
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  5980.  @Bronkzyny  False memory, Al. Gates went up in 1989.😉
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  5981. We’ve got a no-fries zone in Moscow, and no-Starbucks zone, too. What we don’t want is a no-fly zone in Kiev, along with Starstreaks, for the sake of all of us.
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  5982. 🎶 “I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey) Well I need a dollar, dollar a dollar is what I need (Hey hey)” 🎵
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  5983.  @klchai7884  Last time I checked 13% of Taiwanese favoured reunification with China. Similarly, last time I checked about 25% of Ukrainians supported Russia over Ukraine. Your waffle above is all very well, but you blithely ignore the democratic will of the people in your diatribe. The exact selfsame thing Putin has been doing for 22 years in Russia; and the exact selfsame thing he’s doing in Ukraine. He misjudged the Ukrainian mood horrendously and he’ll eventually pay the price for his hubristic arrogance.
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  5984. Wouldn’t surprise me if Putin consolidated his gains in eastern Ukraine in the coming days and having done this, sit opposite Zelensky at a table to thrash out his 5 main demands: 1. Neutralised Ukraine and Ukraine not seeking NATO membership. 2. Ukraine disarmed. 3. Protection for Russian language in east Ukraine. 4. DeNazification of Ukraine. 5. Crimea, along with most of eastern Ukraine east of Dnieper river recognised as Russian. If I were Ukraine I’d seriously consider these terms. It seems that as long as Putin is around he won’t back down on these demands, so either this war continues and Ukraine is utterly destroyed, along with a substantial portion of its people, or Ukraine sues for peace along these aforementioned lines.
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  5985.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  <- - - - Little England IP confirmed. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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  5986.  @delawarecop  US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Iraq (again) 2003 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (and yet again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK America, and her partners, have a record Putin’s Russia can only dream of when it comes to invading other sovereign nations. The above list doesn’t include the dozens of times America has overturned democratically-elected governments and installed their proxy regimes to suit American self-interests. Including the US/CIA backed coup in Ukraine itself in 2014. It’s a fact that America has meddled in the affairs of virtually every sovereign nation on Earth at some point; some 180 countries. America, quite simply, has more innocent blood on her hands than any other nation on this planet.
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  5987.  @HOLLASOUNDS  Not sure the war ‘is going as Putin intended’ given the quite bad losses on the Russian side. Moreover, it looks like his fourth-rate, unmotivated army is going to have an issue keeping Ukraine if and when they take the country. Putin has been a one man party for 22 years such that literally no one near him has been able to say ‘no’, and those who do, get divorced (just ask his ex-wife). While the west isn’t totally free of culpability here, Putin, for me, exemplifies the dictum: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely . Putin’s mind has been addled as it hasn’t had a healthy challenge to it with fresh ideas for 22 years. Also, a large part of what he’s doing here is simply belated cold revenge for the USSR’s loss in the Cold War. Quite frankly, I’m surprised it has taken him this long to actually move on Ukraine after the initial move in 2014, and very likely the ex-USSR Baltic states will be next if he gets his way in Ukraine.
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  5988.  @HOLLASOUNDS  I think he did think that. He was wrong, so now he goes for the total subjugation and destruction of the country.
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  5989. I’m not sure the US does want to conquer Russia. I think it wants an open, democratic Russia. Conquering it militarily? Nah.
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  5990.  @ltipst2962  I hereby declare you are the most triggered personage I have ever met. 🏅
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  5991.  @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164  Having dipped into some of your playlists, I’m not sure I’ve encountered a more paranoid fella. No doubt you’ll be stocking up on the tinfoil hats at Christmas.😉
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  5992. Ah, so no “Do not comply. No to Covid vaccines … etc etc” today, mate? Are you ok?
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  5993.  @michaelrch  Science, by the way, is always revisable with new data coming in; it’s never ‘concluded’ as you suggest. If you want the ‘concluded’ stuff you go to the religion class for that.
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  5994.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  ‘Straight White Christians’, Jimbo? 🤔 Really? That’s odd. Not to say a little inconsistent, given you were bigging up black Ugandans rather recently, Jimbo. Make yer mind up, Jimbo! Make yer mind up, I ssssssssaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!
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  5995.  @alanteare1603  I’m not an atheist, communist or a fascist. Nice try, though.👍
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  5996.  @EvsEntps  You’re clearly trying to trip me up. You’ll be there a while if that’s your game, mate. You seem sensitive to the idea that Ireland, if it hadn’t been meddled with aggressively by the British over hundreds of years, would clearly be a unified state by now. You seem to have an issue with this notion. You may have to get used to it, for I would think the odds are fairly good that Ireland will indeed unify in yours and my lifetimes, assuming you are under 40.
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  5997.  @Then.72  Where did I insult the British? I stated facts: the British forcibly planted themselves in Ireland. That’s not insulting anyone; it’s called telling the truth, son.
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  5998.  @martinrye712  I’m in favour of democracy, mate. If a majority on the island of Ireland want unification, so be it. I have no skin in this game, and no, I’m not Irish.
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  5999. @Mongo I still don’t get what my name has to do with anything. Perhaps you can explain?🤔
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  6000.  @EvsEntps  Well, that whole immigration debate needs to be instigated then. Personally, if any country is going to have mass immigration, then for me, this is a referendum issue and should be put to the people. After all, a large proportion of those who voted for Brexit did it in order to stem the flow of immigrants into the UK, telling us that this is a very live issue, and large enough to be put directly to the populace.
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  6001.  @benjamin2149  *Surprising “Clever Brits”? I’m assuming you’re in the unclever cohort.
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  6002. ‘Dushbag’? Lol. Weirdest spelling of ‘douchebag’ I’ve seen yet! 👍
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  6003. 0:09 Wow! Sunak has a massive bald patch. Never noticed that before.
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  6004.  @mariannehavisham8323  I think you misunderstand me. He had control over accepting the images, but the fact he’s sexually attracted to small boys is outwith his conscious control. That’s all I meant.👍
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  6005.  @omrxblah4572 ’Who’? What do you mean, ‘who’? And y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  6006.  @irnera  Yeah, but what’s it got to do with Putin if Ukraine is a fascist-run state? Huh? None of his fucking business as far as I can see. If those in East Ukraine look to Russia then Ukraine should have a partition referendum if they cannot co-exist as a single Ukraine. Save the rest of us a lot of bother.
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  6007.  @VHS-CINEMA Just for the record: I cannot recall a single occasion where those most vociferous supporters of the Palestinians have even once publicly categorically condemned Hamas. That’s one of the deep mysteries of this whole thing: why are pro-Palestinians not doing this as a matter of course? After all, they are the direct cause of this current bout of trouble, yet little to no condemnation. Weird.
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  6008. More a BLT fella, myself.
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  6009. 👏
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  6010. @5:40 Lol. Not Newman’s greatest fan but she nailed Oakeshott here with the “sloppy seconds” jibe! 🤣 And the last 2 minutes before Oakeshott scarpered was good too! Those with nothing to answer to don’t run.
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  6011. The trouble with humankind is that far too often they forget the ‘kind’ bit. ☮️
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  6012. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  6013.  Leidolfr I never said I wanted to ‘regulate’ someone’s beliefs. Believe what you want. Just make damn sure it doesn’t impinge on my life. I repeat: my agnosticism doesn’t affect anyone. If I am a Batley teacher (3 years in hiding and counting…), Islam is ruining my life. Against my will. I don’t trust any organised religion but the one I most distrust is Islam. Why? It’s the one, by far, that is political and wants to impose its will on everyone else. That’s all.
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  6014.  Leidolfr  Personally, I have no real issue with your skin colour. I was just pointing out the scale of British immigration, and by extension, Western European immigration. My issue is Islam. It simply causes trouble wherever it goes and particularly when it rubs up against antithetical cultures.
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  6015.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  6016.  @welshhibby  No it’s not. You just happen to disagree with it. That fact doesn’t automatically make it “ridiculous”.
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  6017. ‘Sharia Law’? Who’s she? 🤔
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  6018. Does that include freedom from religion? Ok, I’m in!
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  6019.  @bear1245  I agree. The illegal stuff I’m against.
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  6020.  @chrisbuster6947  I’ve done years of work with various charities, including immigration charities. What have you done, Chris?
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  6021.  @NickQuigley-dp9so  They’re intersex hermaphrodites, and the point I was making is that it’s quite easy to understand how a person might be confused about their sex identity in these circumstances.
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  6022.  @seemorebeer2848  Really? He knows some of his stuff, but anyone who upholds invisible sky daddies are always going to be seen with circumspection in my book.
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  6023. “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.” (PG Wodehouse) Wodehouse wrote this for Oliver!🤣
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  6024. Long before time. Denmark is already on top of this with a strict immigration policy. The sooner places like Britain, France and Germany can get around to this too, the better!
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  6025. @@SpookyDjinn Nah, Spooky. Agnostic here. Nice try, though. 👍
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  6026. Pride in an accident of birth? Really? How primitive.
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  6027.  @k8byp  Incidentally, to call another “uneducated” when you appear unaware of the apostrophe and when to deploy it, is a bit rich. *can’t *Morocco’s
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  6028. A man in a frock condemning men in frocks. I see a pot and a kettle.
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  6029.  @evo8power228  Agnostic here. Just sayin’.😉
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  6030. Translation: she agrees with me.
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  6031. At least the babies were delivered! 👶
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  6032. Given that you live in the New Forest, do you use leaves as bog-roll? 🚽
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  6033. Yep, it’s true. The drug situation in Scotland is pretty serious. Most people there think ‘Nato’ is a nickname for some guy who has been injecting and run out of places. 🦶
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  6034.  @edcarson3113  It was an analogy, Eddie sweetie. It had no direct bearing on the topic in question. As it happens, it was an analogy that works quite perfectly here, petal. Seethe more.
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  6035. Indeed. I want Kermit.
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  6036. Lewis Capaldi’s let himself go.
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  6037.  @El.Cid17  Get a better coping mechanism.
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  6038.  @Lemontea-y71  I thought so. One of Shaky’s many. He really is rather good that way.👍
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  6039. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
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  6040.  @spikey_labrys  Yes, 3. Cope more.
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  6041. Meanwhile, her boyfriend just wanted to blow up everything.
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  6042. Get real m8: you could give me (a Scot with no management experience) that England team and you’d already be double World Cup/European champions!
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  6043. Well, there goes another 11:47 in the presence of Mr Cheerful and still not even a flicker of a smile. Does he? Has he? Ironically, for a bloke who likes swishing his hair hither and thither, he constantly has the look of a fella who has literally never let his hair down in his whole puff! He is the living incarnation of PG Wodehouse’s observation on the Caledonians: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  6044. Proud of an accident of birth? What a silly thing to be proud of.
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  6045.  @taurusgirl2238  I could do you for libel/slander with comments like that. You need to watch what you say here.
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  6046.  @Rosebud100  Ty. I knew I was but it’s nice to get confirmation amongst this bunch of homophobic reprobates. 👍
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  6047.  @rosita3528  Lol. ‘Agenda’?! So are you against the pantomime ‘agenda’? Are you also against the idea that in Shakespeare’s day men played women disguised as men? 🤣 Do you realise how antediluvian you sound?
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  6048. It’s true. So many women I know in this crazy world don’t know whether they are coming or going.🤓
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  6049.  @jaded_ninja Stop being so trigger sensitive, ffs. Get a sense of humour. She married into one of the most famous families on the planet. It comes with the territory.
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  6050. Yes, but with talk like ‘removing these people’ you’re committing the sin you’re condemning in other people wanting Livingstone ‘removed’ from history. You need to watch this, for it smacks of rank hypocrisy on your part.
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  6051.  @mike02439  Yes, but with talk like ‘these people must be driven out’ you’re committing the sin you’re condemning in other people wanting Livingstone ‘driven out’ of history. You need to watch this, for it smacks of rank hypocrisy on your part.
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  6052. Don’t necessarily have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people: so what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are ‘offended’. Again, so what? Side issue: Lionel Shriver and Sam Rockwell ~ separated at birth? 😳
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  6053.  @deecook9638  Protecting them from what, exactly? All the children I see here look perfectly happy, and it’s up to the parents. If the latter are/were unhappy why don’t/didn’t they just vote with their feet? No one was holding them there against their wills?
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  6054. It’s their choice. Let them get on with it. No one’s forcing them.
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  6055. Just watched a report on the BBC where the reporter was wringing his hands asking “What could have caused this?” Well, how about following a medieval book, the Quran, which has 123 verses that call for fighting and killing anyone who does not agree with the statement, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” Jews and Christians are specifically included among such “infidels.” The Quran’s Sura 5:33 says about infidels, “They shall be slain or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off.” Sura 9:5 says, “Slay the infidels wherever you find them ... and lie in wait for them ... and establish every stratagem (of war against them).” Sura 47:4-9 promises paradise to whoever cuts off the head of an infidel. Here’s the difference: back in the day Christians followed the Bible to the letter, more or less. However, Europe underwent an Enlightenment 250 years ago and literal readings of Biblical scripture gave way to more nuanced interpretations. That hasn’t happened with Islam. No Reformation. No Enlightenment. Just a billion people willing to take a primitive, manmade text at face value and to the letter.
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  6056.  @dulls8475  Er, who said anything about ‘teaching atheism’? 🥴 Moreover, I have zero issue with RE as a subject, teaching about all the religions. All I was saying is that religious worship is to be done in your own time and space. Keep it out of public spaces where people who don’t want it are. 👍
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  6057.  @Timmyjg2004  Yep.
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  6058.  @patidar8562 Yeah, fair point. That fact alone, btw, the one you have just raised, ought to be the first glaring red flag when it comes to organised religion. I was even asking this question aged about 7: why is God a ‘he’? I reasoned my way to an answer at 8: because all organised religion was invented by men, principally for men! ✌️
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  6059. That’s ironic, as in my experience most women on the right need the most education.
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  6060.  @alisonford3649  So, because you alisonford3649 declare something “harmful” we ban it? Is that what you’re saying? I’m not offended. My wife isn’t offended. You are offended. So, we ban it because you happen to be “offended”?
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  6061.  @jayp-zy8xl  Just saying “this is wrong. Simple”, won’t cut it with me, m8. I hate to break that news to you, son. 😉 You need to do much more work here.
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  6062.  @jayp-zy8xl  I repeat: Did you actually read my OP or are you just triggered and venting?
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  6063. I wouldn’t trust a girl who doesn’t use full stops.
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  6064. Pmsl. Neil agrees with me; ergo I must be right! 🤣 K, Karen.👍
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  6065. Well, there goes another 9:48 in the presence of Mr Cheerful I’ll never get back, and still not even a flicker of a smile. Does he? Has he? Will he ever? Ironically, for a bloke who likes swishing his hair hither and thither, he constantly has the look of a fella who has literally never let his hair down in his whole puff! He is the living incarnation of PG Wodehouse’s observation on the Caledonians: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  6066. Facts. He believes in invisible sky daddies, y’know. Not only that, invisible sky daddies who just happen to agree with him.
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  6067. Well, there goes another 10:43 of my life I won’t get back in the company of Mr Cheerful and still not even a flicker of a smile. Does he? Has he? Will he ever? Ironically, for a bloke who likes swishing his hair hither and thither, he constantly has the look of a fella who has literally never let his hair down in his whole puff! He is the living incarnation of PG Wodehouse’s observation on the Caledonians: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  6068.  @minkyfran8307  I know, Rees-Mogg needs to check himself, eh? 🤣👍
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  6069. Underrated comment.
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  6070. @@user-rk6xc2fz3b Incidentally, it’s slightly ironic someone with a true Irish name is pronouncing on the fate of England with such confidence. Aren’t you Irish, son? ☘️👍😉
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  6071. Lol. You can’t cope because she’s spitting facts! 🤪🤣🤣🤣👍
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  6072.  @nakedenby  Lol. Is having no answer your only rebuttal? 👍😉
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  6073. If immigrants, Meghan and Harry and Islam didn’t exist, GB News wouldn’t have a Channel! (Pun intended.) 🛶 🏊‍♂️ ☪️
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  6074.  @tejswn  Lol@“people of colour”. As if we don’t all have a “colour”! 😂
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  6075. Imo, the world’s definitely warming. Even anecdotally, without the stats, those of us old enough to know this, know it. My only issue here is just how far humans are complicit in this warming. The way these activists go about their activism is deeply off-putting, but I suppose that’s part of the point in terms of getting noticed.
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  6076. It’s quite clear that Islam is (and is gonna be) the Trojan Horse that is gonna cause nothing but problems for Britain going forward.
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  6077. All Starkey lacks is a wee pencil moustache and he would be complete.
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  6078. Yeah, but he’s got nine tenths of Johnson’s integrity.
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  6079. With Peterson here. The free-speech thing matters. 👍 However, the sooner he comes out as a homosexual, the better for us all. 😊
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  6080. Tell that to the bloke just killed and the injured girl. 👍
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  6081. What kind of society have we created if ‘lots of people struggle to get through the day’ without a phone? 🥴
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  6082. Translation: he agrees with me.
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  6083. When will this madness stop? Saying men cannot menstruate is not transphobic and to say it is just shows how far common sense has been twisted into a weird dystopian nightmare where what is obvious to 99% of the population becomes inadmissible because the other less than 1% say so. This is the ideological dictatorship of the few.
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  6084.  @tabitha4135  Funny how he still seems to be on excellent terms with his wife and daughters, then. Huh? 🤔
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  6085.  @kimgrant3879  Proof?
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  6086. What’s wrong with being gay? 🤔
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  6087. Yeah, but even then those results could be dodgy. I present to you one Ivan Toney. 😉
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  6088. Wyman met Mandy Smith when she was 13. Slept with her at 14. He was 47.
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  6089. Net migration certainly is increasing. But to be fair, if we’re importing more nets then that means more fish for all! 🐠
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  6090. Prince William is just another mildly posh bloke. There’s nothing inherently interesting about him. He’s a ‘yah’. Pleasant enough guy, but if his mother and father weren’t who they are he’d pass through this world totally unnoticed.
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  6091. A nice biryani washed down by the old black custard, eh? Multiculturalism in action. Lovely.👍
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  6092.  @angelaharris6577  Kylie Minogue is weeping into her cocoa. 😢
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  6093. Well, you do. They are called: ‘the coaches’.
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  6094. Jesus never existed so it’s a pointless question.
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  6095. Stanley Johnson’s let himself go.
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  6096. Cringe.
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  6097. @@NeriaWolf And that’s the point, Spooky. You got nothing on her and this kills your agenda stone dead. 👍 😉
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  6098. @@NeriaWolf Nope. Nothing proved. Nice try, though, Spooks.👍
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  6099. I’m no fan of Sturgeon, but “disgraced”? Really? For what, exactly? 🤔
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  6100.  @mariahewitt9787  As an agnostic, I’m nowhere near on the same page as you here. You are entitled to your theory. For me, all organised religion was invented by men, primarily for men.
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  6101.  @pauldavies4522  Just because “sexuality isn’t an intrinsic part of YOUR being”, what right do you have to intrude into the lives of others on this matter, for whom sexuality is a very intrinsic thing ? Huh? Your arrogance on this matter is staggering. Don’t you see this? You have utterly no right to police the sex lives of consenting adults. It’s quite literally, none of your business. You need to realise this.
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  6102.  @pauldavies4522  But what if you don’t want to have children and just want gay sex? Nothing, absolutely nothing you have said there answers the question of why it’s somehow “wrong” for 2 women, or 2 men, to have consensual sex.
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  6103. Bollocks! The death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", which simply means if you’re caught doing it, curtains. Madness. But then we are dealing with human beings here, after all.
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  6104. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  6105. Catalonia surely is part of Spain, albeit a regionally autonomous part. Saying Catalonia isn’t part of Spain is a bit like saying Scotland isn’t part of the UK. Most people understand Catalonia, Galicia, the Basque Country as part of greater Spain, for until they achieve actual sovereign independence that is what they are.
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  6106.  @minkyfran8307  It didn’t actually, as I look at GB News regularly anyway. Nice try, though.👍
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  6107.  @JohnRice-vb2ze It’s not a ‘ridiculous comment’ at all. I can easily imagine saying to a guy wearing a kippah, “Hey, mate, you might want to take a different route.” It would work the other way, too. I can imagine saying to, say, a woman in a hijab about to walk past an orthodox Jewish protest: “Hey, love, you might want to take a different route.” In both cases, I would just be trying to protect them and in both cases I wouldn’t be being anti-Jewish or anti-Islam/Palestinian. The threat to arrest was wrong, but I don’t necessarily see the friendly advice as being so.
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  6108. Don’t care what Carol Vorderman says, quite frankly. She’s still one of the hottest 60+ milfs in town!
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  6109. Well said! Just been catching up on Byline Times. My, my, hasn’t our Dan (sorry, Martin; or is it Maria this week? 🤔 ) been a busy busy boy over the years? Can you imagine if the allegations which are swirling around Dan/Maria/Martin were swirling around, say, Phillip Schofield for example, or Huw Edwards, that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing them to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee but not for me.” His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  6110.  @grief1 Yes, but by Dickie’s logic they aren’t ‘true Scots’ either. Bad luck.👍😉
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  6111.  @S-North  Did you read the OP?! 🤦‍♂️Read it again, then reconsider your foolish comment. We’re not all English, son. 👍
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  6112.  @S-North  Yeah, but they said ‘everyone in the UK’. Shoulda gone to Specsavers, m8. 👍
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  6113. This plan is so nimby by the UK and Patel, not to mention half-baked and unthought-out, I half-expect her to advocate branding each asylum seeker with the word ‘Hutu’ on their forehead and releasing them into Tutsi territory, if they refuse to comply.
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  6114. Yes. Next.
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  6115.  @markthacker9387  Nice diversion tactics there. 👍
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  6116. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  6117. I’m writing a book; I’ve got the page numbers done.
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  6118.  jack_in_the_green3226  No it’s not. I know dozens of men and women who don’t identify with their biological make-up. Gender and sex should be kept strictly apart in this debate.
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  6119. Tbh, not sure it’s necessarily wise to trust the words of a fella who believes in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Moreover, he believes in an unverifiable, unverified invisible sky daddy who just happens to agree with him! To be endorsing that opportunistic, narcissistic chancer, George Galloway, as a “thinking man of conscience” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week! And that way he always has get in a “here’s the thing” is so f*cking cringe.
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  6120. @@Bellator-fidei Huh? What’s Hitler got to do with this? 🤔
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  6121. The British police seem so crap at this point, maybe we should take a leaf out of the Old American West and put a bounty on his head: Wanted: Alive. Reward: £1,000,000. I guarantee, if he were still in the UK, he would be found in about 5 minutes in those circumstances.
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  6122. I get this is the law, but really? 2 men share a kiss and everyone gets their frilly knickers in a twist? What is this? 1954? No one is harmed here. Offended only. You choose to be offended. 🤦‍♂️
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  6123. Yeah, but tbf, the law on this one is ridiculous.
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  6124. They’re not marching for ‘Hamas rapists and calling it liberation’; vast majority are just marching for justice for a people that have been oppressed and crushed by the state of Israel for decades. This really isn’t that difficult, Paddy.👍
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  6125.  @RaveShaman  @0:10-0:12 👍😉
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  6126.  @RaveShaman  Yeah, you watch it again.
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  6127.  @RaveShaman  “What does this have to do with marriage”? She stated that marriage was between a man and a woman. That could be it.👍
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  6128.  @icarus877  Er, that’s more or less exactly what I just said. 🥴
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  6129. Was this breaking powder?
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  6130. Lol. The irony of Wootton talking about ‘deception’ when he, as Martin and Maria deceived others for his sexual gratification. 👍 Rules for thee but not for me. 😉
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  6131. *she’s So has your grammar.
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  6132. Go bloke.
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  6133. I’d love to know what Putin’s daughters think of their dad’s ignominious life’s work; oh to be a fly on the wall earwigging their conversations. “So, dad, at your behest, hundreds were massacred today. How does that make you feel? You proud of that? You ok with that? Is your humanity still intact after all that?”
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  6134.  @mamahustru  That’s because Japan has to be the country more than any other on this planet full of the most utterly programmed human-automatons.
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  6135.  @Vince27.  Indeed. But the lead sonar guy explicitly stated on record that if Nicola’s body was in the river he would find it. It was. He didn’t. Now it could be that a wicked individual has recently dumped the body after that search but this has yet to be determined.
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  6136.  @Anteater23  Call me old school but in my world in terms of sex, not gender, xx=man and xy=woman.
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  6137.  @jkfd97  To be fair, she was passable in her younger days. You seem overly-triggered here, pal. Calm down. Everything’s going to be alright.
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  6138.  @IBTU  Yes.
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  6139. So this is how they earn their £2,654 p/h. Nice work if you can get it.👍
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  6140. Lol. You may meet the wrath of GB News viewers with that incendiary post! 🤣
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  6141. Do you always upvote yourself? 🤔
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  6142. It’s Fraggle Rock rebooted.
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  6143. Wtf. So all teachers are groomers now? 🤦‍♂️
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  6144.  @denisebedding1311 Just as a side note: I’m glad your names weren’t the other way round! People might have had interesting thoughts! 🛌👍🤣
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  6145. Lovely to see Nicholas Witchell getting some extra appearance work from GB News in these hard times for us all. Top up the old pension. Fair play.👍
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  6146. @0:44 “You respect your elders, you respect the Monarchy, you respect your leadership.” Utter bollocks. Respect is earned , not automatically given, no matter who you happen to be. She’s talking like a fascist, and I don’t respect her or her opinions.
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  6147. Translation: “she agrees with me.”
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  6148. Tea? British? Pmsl. You do know we import the stuff? It’s as British as China or India!🤣
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  6149.  @omarlittle-hales8237  Yeah, but where’s my Flying Spaghetti Monster quote? 🤔
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  6150. The irony of a fat fuck being banned from a restaurant. You’d think he’d be trumpeting the restaurant from the rooftops: 🎵 “Food, glorious food Hot sausage and mustard While we're in the mood Cold jelly and custard (wow) Peas, pudding, saveloys What next? is the question Rich gentleman have it, boys Indigestion!” 🎶 These lines could’ve been written for James Corden.
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  6151. Also, he who is without ‘spin’.
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  6152.  @dianethibault4265  Because I think it’s a perfectly credible and reasonable thesis to assume that a young white nurse was more overlooked than a black/Asian nurse might have been. Not saying this happened, but it’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. Also happen to think if this was a male nurse, action may have been taken sooner.
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  6153. *Graham’s
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  6154. Or much of a ‘thinker’ in Best’s case, it seems.
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  6155. Interesting post. I’m Scottish. Love football. Whenever I’m in a pub and England are playing and 95% of the pub is supporting the team playing England (which is almost always the case), I refuse to join in. Why? I just don’t feel it. I genuinely don’t get the bitterness lots of Scots seem to have for England and the English. A lot of it just is banter, I get that, but much of it has a rather dark undertone where these people are deadly serious.
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  6156.  @dandycat2204  That’s different. That was u-15 boys playing women. When I was talking about adult teams playing in u-14 leagues I was talking biological same-sex teams.
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  6157. Why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  6158. Oof! You sound a bit bitter there, Stace. You can’t deny Megs is a bit of a babe. Jealous? 🤓
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  6159. That’s no way to talk about Leo! Ffs.
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  6160. ToUcH sOmE gRaSs.
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  6161. This fella appears to live in his local library. 📚
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  6162. @0:15 Lol. “ In the studio”?! Last time I checked, Paddy and Mickey were freezing their knackers off outside Buck House! 🤣
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  6163. Ann Widdecombe’s let herself go.
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  6164. Well, there goes another 11:13 in the company of Mr Cheerful and still not even a flicker of a smile. Does he? Has he? Will he ever? Ironically, for a bloke who likes swishing his hair hither and thither, he constantly has the look of a fella who has literally never let his hair down in his whole puff! (Let it never be forgotten that this fella believes in invisible sky daddies; not only that, he believes in invisible sky daddies who just happen to agree with him !) He is the living incarnation of PG Wodehouse’s observation on the Caledonians: “It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
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  6165.  @Hertfordshire247  Edd the Duck and Gordon the Gopher are asking for you.
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  6166. And wouldn’t you? Honestly? You get the pass to the event as a working reporter, and you have a chance to walk past the coffin instead of spending 20 hours in a queue, wouldn’t you just skip the queue, if you thought you could get away with it? I know I would. Their big error was not to admit it. Too many people in this thread all holier than thou.
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  6167. I once rammed a Dan. Mr Wootton wasn’t best pleased. 🤓
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  6168. You go live there then if it’s so good.
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  6169. Nile looks like a bizarre cross between Ian Hislop and Ruth Davidson.
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  6170.  @kenneththompson8933  Er, I was kinda making a joke. You may have missed it. 🧈
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  6171. *65km. But point taken.
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  6172. Good ole Davie boy. If The League of Gentlemen are looking for a walk-on, minor cameo, Starkey is a shoo-in. 👍
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  6173.  @noelward8047  What? Not sure what you’re on about, m8. This guy is direct family of a slaver and has decided he would like to pay reparations with his own dosh. Not sure what it’s got to do with you or I. Cope a bit better now, sonny.👍😊
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  6174.  @soviet700  Actually, I’m offended by very little, chummo. Nice try, though. Judging by your triggered responses to all and sundry looks like you’re projecting, sweetie.😉
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  6175.  @djackson652  Mate, you’re far too articulate for the knuckle-draggers who regularly watch GB News. Of course, everything you said was spot-on.👍
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  6176.  @DeathToZioWarPigs No.
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  6177. Sorry. I got lost in the competing hair there, and didn’t listen to a word anyone said.
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  6178.  @ben31uk  Here’s the thing, though: I love the smell of my own farts but can’t abide anyone else’s. 💨
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  6179.  @Beauloqs I hear you. I don’t normally go around claiming I’m agnostic. I only do it when medieval, manmade BS threatens my mortal existence.👍
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  6180.  @SheridanM-dc1nk  OP has a point. Can you imagine the racist furore on here if Letby had been an immigrant nurse? It would’ve been off the scale and you know it.😉
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  6181. To be fair to Cumming, he was rather marvellous in The High Life. ✈️
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  6182. My lab is an amateur magician in his spare time: his catchphrase is ‘labracadabrador’!
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  6183. @@SpookyDjinn Not being dense at all. We have to properly distinguish between offence and harm. You cannot be offended against your will, but you can be harmed against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. Offence is offered; in this case, a pop singer exercised his right to free speech and kissed a bandmate. No one was harmed. If people are offended by something then that is not Healy’s problem. No one can be offended without their own consent. This kiss caused precisely zero harm, and those who were offended, chose to be offended.
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  6184. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  6185. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is one of perspective. We have narrowed our vision such that we are unable to see the universal wood for the exclusive trees. We have hitched our star to this or that family, clan, tribe, nationalism, religion, such that we have become deluded, unable to serenely see what actually is. We are cosmic dust on a grain of sand, one of trillions of grains of sand, whirling around a nuclear reactor, one of trillions of nuclear reactors and we are willing to abase ourselves to murdering one another for an accident of birth, or an imagined daddy in the sky? Has it come to this? There are alien civilisations who use this Earth as a cosmic pit stop on their intergalactic travels and they look at us and weep. They have perspective. They can literally see the Earth in toto. They cannot see the pettifogging, sanguinary squabbles over this or that imaginary line drawn on a map. They cannot see the ignorant ranters championing their imagined God, ranked against the ignorant ranters championing their imaginary God. The solution to all this nonsense is very simple. Expand your terms of self-definition. Refuse to accept a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a salient marker of your identity. Refuse to accept unthought-out shibboleths handed down to you to shore up your fear of death. Refuse to be proud, unless your pride is grounded in self-motivated, self-guided achievement, and not some random, bizarre, nonsensical ‘pride’ based on the fact your mother happened to plop you out here, and not there. None of this would matter a fig, but for a key point: we now, at this critical juncture in our cosmic journey, face the very real and present danger of incinerating this planet and everything on it. Really. We are better than that.😳
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  6186. @bernardfitzsimons6942 Why bring ‘God’ into this?
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  6187. Or also in the words of Elton John: “Don’t let the sun go down on me.” 😳
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  6188.  @pietrojenkins6901  Yup.
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  6189.  @basskick666  Nor you. Think on.
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  6190.  @samrowbotham8914 Lol. Ok. Whatever. Rice isn’t English either. You’re insane. 🤦‍♂️
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  6191.  @yungjoemighty879  My point exactly!👍
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  6192. @PermissiontospkWhy did they give what back?
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  6193.  @pietrojenkins6901  Lol.
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  6194. Pray? To whom, exactly?
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  6195. Straps?😳
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  6196. Stolen quote. Attribute it at least ffs.
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  6197.  @zanecosgrove4820  Did you actually watch the video? Rubiales literally had Hermoso’s head in his hands like a vice. It wasn’t the other way round as you appear to be portraying it for some bizarre reason. 👍
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  6198. If the Holocaust hadn’t happened there would be absolutely no way Israel would’ve been allowed to get away with this stuff.
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  6199.  @alexanderangelo7284  Weinberg’s words nail it for me. Religion appears to trigger and validate the most barbaric behaviours in humans.
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  6200.  @dkrawk8309  Er, remind me who invaded whom, again? 🤔
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  6201. Pmsl.
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  6202.  @gabrieldsouza6541  Er, just because you don’t like a beer or a glass of wine at the end of the day, don’t impose that choice on other, different, autonomous, free individuals. You have no basis to do this. If I smoke in your presence, I accept that I could harm your health as a consequence; if I have have pint of Guinness in your presence, it doesn’t adversely affect you at all.
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  6203.  @GTA5Player1  No, dude, I’m not, dude. Dude, you need better close dude reading skills, dude. Dude.
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  6204.  @belkentens  Oof!
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  6205.  @Roy_Osovsky  That may be so, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop trying to help innocents caught in the crossfire here through zero fault of their own. There are about 1 million Palestinians 16 and under who didn’t vote for Hamas back in 2006. Even if they did, I would still be in favour of humanitarian aid in this case, no questions asked.
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  6206.  @SamWilkinsonn Yes, ‘vanishingly’.
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  6207.  @SA-ff9uc  No. I mean potential civil wars. 👍
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  6208.  @jimbo_beans  I’ve heard some people prefer Uranus. 👍😉
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  6209.  @LordCaptainFather  Even if Asimov didn’t say it, for me it’s more or less spot on.👍
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  6210. We live on a boiling, roiling rock (core temperature: 5,200°C) spinning on its axis at 1,000mph and moving through space at 67,000mph. Given these basic facts, we can expect stuff like this. The only real reason it matters, is that we are flesh and blood (“thinking reeds” as Pascal nicely put it), and we see this stuff from a totally egotistical point of view. The Universe is indifferent to a small microbe living in a tiny corner of a place containing more suns than there are grains of sand on every beach on this planet. As ever, Shakespeare nailed this: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
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  6211.  @Rumpleforeskin77  Smegma?
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  6212.  @Onion_Knights  No. I’m saying wtf has Myanmar got to do with Africa?🥴
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  6213.  @DianeMonahan  I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov) Think about this a little, Diane. There’s a lot of truth in it.👍
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  6214.  @louisee7339  Huh? 🤔
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  6215. Huh? So, no one is to blink in any conversation?
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  6216. He’s not though. All the real power is behind the throne.
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  6217. Perhaps some organisers need to be Asake’d here. P45s ahoy!
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  6218. It’s all panto. Everyone just wants a decent income in order to live. They’re not looking necessarily for riches. For the life of me, I’ve never quite understood how this planet hasn’t achieved this given the wealth we’ve collectively created.
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  6219. *are
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  6220.  @JonoPS No. The majority democratic will said ‘no’. Deek was correct to use the first-person plural pronoun.👍
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  6221. While this is a decent technical achievement, a much better achievement would be to prevent the death of the 7,000 Indians who die of avoidable hunger/malnutrition every day. Then perhaps think about sending spaceships to investigate a bunch of rocks and some ice.
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  6222.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Palestine isn’t a recognised state, mate. Cope.👍
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  6223.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Still upvoting urself. 🤦‍♂️
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  6224.  @billmoretz8718  Do you? I don’t.
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  6225.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Look, m8, we’ll just have to disagree on this one. You see no issue with current levels of Western European immigration. I do. We can agree to disagree. 👍
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  6226.  @hendrixinfinity3992  Get real, m8. You think we couldn’t train up and pay correctly a bunch of health carers if we didn’t put our minds to it? 👍🤣
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  6227.  @hendrixinfinity3992  I agree that the levels are too high, but in principle I’m pro strictly targeted legal immigration. Too much of it currently is random low-skilled individuals. We have them already. We don’t need to import them en masse.
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  6228.  @hendrixinfinity3992  I’m pro-legal immigration, just not at the levels Western Europe has been experiencing it year on year these past few decades. I’m also particularly wary of the mass importation of those with Islamic beliefs, quite simply as it seems wherever they go, trouble tends to be caused as Islam rubs up against antithetical cultures. It always amazes me how western, liberal, democratic Europe seems so keen on the mass importation of those with a credo wholly at odds with liberal democracy. It will surely only end in problems as critical masses of Islamic people are reached in given countries. We are already seeing unrest bubbling. As I said above, by 2050 Sweden will be 30% Muslim. The vote for NR in France was just a clear sign from 33% of the electorate that they’re not happy with the levels of immigration, but particularly mass Muslim immigration.
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  6229.  @hendrixinfinity3992 Tell that to the 33% who voted for Le Pen, not me. I’m not ‘anti-immigration’. You need a better researcher.👍
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  6230. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I know exactly what I’m talking about, son. Israel aggressively appropriated land and dispossessed hundreds of thousands to create its state. 👍
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  6231. @@TOM-TOM-TOM You may have missed this bit: I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍
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  6232. 💩 With all this human waste being directly poured into Britain’s rivers, there might have to be a renaming: the Dee will be the Pee; the Severn will become the Cistern; the Ouse will be renamed the Poos; the Ure will be the Manure; the Ribble will become the Jimmy Riddle; and the Dart will be renamed the Fart! 💨
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  6233. Sue Gray reports that ‘There was excessive drinking and a minor altercation. Someone was sick. A swing was broken.’ So that’s boozing, fighting, puking and swinging; just an ordinary Saturday night in any British town, then.
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  6234. Lol. It’s uncanny. The best doppelgänger I’ve seen in ages! 👍🤣
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  6235.  @julianshepherd2038 Pew Research and others.
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  6236.  @stuartd9741  If you have to spell them out it kinda doesn’t work. No offence.👍
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  6237.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, how dare you! I’m a ‘Hugh Janus’. Surely you can sympathise.😉
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  6238. Last virgin. 👍
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  6239. ‘We’? Speak for yourself, Queenie.
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  6240.  @sexynelson100  Not so squeamish here in Europe about that sort of thing.
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  6241. Well, it is a war.😐
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  6242.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  6243.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe.
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  6244.  @mugikuyu9403  You are in a logically contradictory bind though; I repeat: why would we kill people who kill people to teach people that killing people is wrong? You need to address this. It’s a serious moral question. Even if my child were murdered I would not call for my child’s killer to be murdered, for that perpetuates murder. I think you see where I’m coming from. Just for the record, State execution is murder, as it’s simply the premeditated killing of one human being (abstracted, the State) by another human being. Telling me that premeditated killing isn’t murder is a bit like telling me that water isn’t ‘wet’ or the sun isn’t ‘hot’. 😉
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  6245.  @SA-ff9uc  Pmsl. You’re inverted snobbery and ‘lispism’ is staggering. Imagine if someone suggested she were too working-class to report. Indeed. Think on.😉
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  6246.  @RobGordon35 I am being honest and I have familiarised myself with the facts and I’m still an agnostic about Scottish independence, in much the same way I’m an agnostic about God.
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  6247.  @richardduplessis1090  K, Dicky, keep yer knickers on, m8! 👍
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  6248. Sharia’s a bit of a minger. Can I have Sharon, instead?😳
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  6249. *have
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  6250. You keep spamming this like no one else thinks this. We all think this.👍
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  6251.  @brixcosmo  But that was my point. We’re all humans. Too many of us are troublemakers, for my liking. My Gods are coffee and chocolate.
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  6252. With this comment we learned all we need to know about you. Thanks.
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  6253.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  Bored now. Made my points. Move on. 👍
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  6254.  @joni8090  To be fair, I agree with you, mostly. I would just make this point, however; India has always been hot - not sure that days on end of 42 Celsius are that much different from days on end of 41 Celsius.
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  6255. Have you checked the bookmakers? They say different. I’ve never yet met a poor bookmaker.
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  6256.  @em2906ethis  Just for the record, I have very little time for those who can’t just put a full stop at the end of their sentences. Worth thinking about before you reply.👍😉
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  6257.  @em2906ethis  Er, the OP is, imo, pretty spot-on, darling. Now, I accept you may not be able to cope with it, but that’s not my problem. 👍
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  6258.  @em2906ethis  Nah, I don’t need to ‘think again’. Sheehan kinda nailed it. It could be you who needs to ‘think again’. ✌️😉
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  6259.  @JC1533-g7n  Irrelevant. I was responding to the OP. It suggested immigrants don’t belong here. On that basis, one has to be consistent here and demand the immediate repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living abroad, otherwise it just smacks of egregious double standards hypocrisy and ‘rules for thee but not for me’.
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  6260.  @TheJewishAzovMember  I’ve just read your previous posts, son, and it’s clear you have an anti-Islam animus. That’s fine. We’ve got your number. 👍
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  6261.  @strictlyyoutube6881  🤣
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  6262.  @michaelrch  thief: a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or threat of violence. It’s got naff-all to do with whether they are dead or alive. Have you never heard of ‘intellectual property’, sonny?
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  6263. @0:03 You just know that this guy’s greatest fear is losing his hair. He’s losing his hair. 🤣
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  6264.  @doodlebrighton124  Says the ‘Underworld’ fan. ‘Yawn’ right back atcha! 🥱
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  6265.  @livefrominbetweentrees  Indeed! 👍
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  6266. There’s a subtle difference to be made here: Islam is just an idea and is therefore fair game for any criticism; being Jewish is something you have no say in. An accident of birth. You can be a Jew and be atheist/agnostic, whereas if you’re a Muslim, that’s invariably linked to the Koran and all that jazz. The other thing that’s not pointed out enough is that you can be anti-Israel and its current foreign policy without being anti-semitic. Just as an aside @3:35 it’s lovely to see Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake earning a little extra in these hard times for us all. 🤓 👍
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  6267.  @b.l.a.biglovealwaysbiglove4053  Yes, and the body was 1 mile from the bench! Don’t you get this? If the sonar didn’t go beyond the weir, the divers should have. Did they? Looks like they didn’t.
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  6268.  @b.l.a.biglovealwaysbiglove4053  C’mon man. This wasn’t the Nile. It’s also tidal so sludge? Really? A few reeds maybe. A little silt, perhaps, but nothing the latest sonar high-tech stuff couldn’t cope with. I think you are cutting the investigators too much slack here but we can agree to disagree. 👍
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  6269.  @b.l.a.biglovealwaysbiglove4053  I take your point about the book promotion and I do consider Faulding a bit of a grifter, but I just Googled sonar coverage and the first thing that came up was: “Searchers looking for missing woman Mary Yap have now deployed a high frequency underwater sonar unit which can cover 10 miles of river a day.” This was in 2017. So, this 10-mile thing doesn’t appear to be an exaggeration by Faulding. Given this, this investigation had potentially 30 miles coverage, 15 upstream, 15 downstream, to locate Nicola. They didn’t. Serious questions need to be asked. This all assumes, of course, that poor Nicola wasn’t dumped in the river after the sonar/diver search, a point I made in the OP.
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  6270.  @pjl8119  Indeed.
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  6271. @15:18 Nice to see Sven-Göran Eriksson getting some extra work.
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  6272. Ukraine has quite a bit of oil actually and is second in Europe when it comes to gas reserves.
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  6273.  @VoicesrilankaSinhala  Lol. A wee joke and that automatically makes me a ‘Zionist’ does it?! 🤣 When did you have the sense of humour bypass operation? 🤔
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  6274.  @juliematt1997  C’mon, get real. If you go to a place that serves drinks all day that contain dairy products and you ask a human being to make a drink without dairy, you still have to take responsibility in the sense that you need to factor in possible human error, as in this case. If I had a dairy allergy, every time I bought a coffee I would either have it black or make damn sure I actually see the barista adding soy/oat milk, not actual milk, before I drank it.
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  6275. Wow! What did Germaine ever do to you?😳
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  6276.  @Mcoogie  What’s 100x more uncomfortable for me is the horrendous excuse this interview gave men (and some women), to egregiously abuse Newman in the most disgusting terms. It’s my observation that many of the Peterson fanboys often just use their ‘admiration’ for him to hate on women whenever they get a chance. It’s deeply depressing, and I speak as a male.🤓
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  6277. He didn’t yawn, though. It was a gag. A real yawn would’ve been more devastating.
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  6278. Ur mom.
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  6279. I love how someone called ‘Honey’ is pronouncing on diabetes. 👍 It just seems right, somehow! 🍯
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  6280. Er, that’s like telling an alcoholic to ‘just stop drinking’. You’re really not very good at this, are you?
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  6281.  @Ashleii  Are you blind, mate? You just stated they ‘attacked a Muslim’. You didn’t state, they attacked an agnostic, or an atheist or a pantheist. Moreover, who were ‘they’? They weren’t Scientologists, or Jews, or Buddhists, they were Hindus. This is quite clearly rooted in a Muslim/Hindu religio-cultural milieu and to deny this is to be blatantly playing fast and loose with the evidence.
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  6282.  @Ashleii  If the majority of these lads on either side ‘don’t know theology’ why are they self-identifying as ‘Hindus’ and ‘Muslims’ then? I was brought up in the Christian tradition but I never use the label ‘Christian’ to self-identify, as I’m agnostic. It’s naive in the extreme to conclude that there isn’t a quite considerable religious background stoking this whole fire.
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  6283.  @dyce211  It’s true, though. Never got this “you’re black” thing when you’re mixed-race and just as white as black.
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  6284.  @leenieledejo6849 There’s a very interesting book called Cosmic Consciousness by RM Bucke. In it, he details what ‘cosmic consciousness’ is (just massively expanded awareness compared to the normal workaday human awareness) and he includes Shakespeare as a clear case. I agree. Shakespeare wasn’t necessarily overtly ‘religious’, as such, in his writings, but there is no doubt in my own mind that, along with the likes of Jesus, Whitman, Pascal, Buddha et al., he had this expanded awareness or ‘cosmic consciousness’. 👍
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  6285. While this story has clearly attracted some hysteria, the bottom line is simple: don’t kiss someone on the lips without their consent. Don’t cancel the guy. Just educate him into the fact that most people don’t want aggressive, unsolicited kisses on the lips by randoms. 💋
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  6286.  @colleenpeck6347  Says the woman with the Irish name. ☘️
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  6287. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  6288.  @josephbenoit6180  If they have a valid reason to flea (sic), then they probably fall into the ‘refugee’ category.
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  6289. Triggered. Hehe.
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  6290. It’s already happening. Where you been these past 5 months?😳
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  6291.  @SA-ff9uc  I’m not saying anything aside from this: Europeans should be very, very wary about pontificating about immigration given their history since 1492. This ain’t rocket science, darlin’.😉
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  6292.  @alst4817 ​​⁠No. I’ve been living in the UK. Wake up. Your arrogant insouciance is alarming. 👍😉
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  6293.  @mutatis-mutandis  Jesus never existed.
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  6294. *correspondent *.
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  6295.  @jimgavin1726  Er, no it doesn’t. You made an error in your comment accusing me of ‘stereotyping’. All I was doing was stating pure facts, Jimbo. Bad luck. 👍
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  6296.  @jimgavin1726  Huh? Not sure what your point is, Jimbo. 🤔
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  6297.  @boulevard14 Nah. The dude was trying to be clever, for some reason. There’s nothing wrong with the OP. There’s nothing I hate more than some sub-literate dude who disagrees but still pokes his oar in. It just suggests desperation.
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  6298.  @gearoidt4017  This is about the 100th time I’ve seen this. Yawn
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  6299.  @billbaggins1688  That’s the joke, you fool! He was playing soccer so badly he rugby tackles the kid.
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  6300.  @Gorbyrev  Yeah, but why should we have to resort to the Amsterdam solution if it can be obviated? Isn’t prevention better than the cure?
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  6301. Aye, Jimbo, but the only gas I’m smelling tonight is coming from your bullshit! 🤣
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  6302. You’re right it’s not called the ‘Sunshine State’. That’s Florida.😉
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  6303.  @ukbullseyeldn  All I’m saying is quite simple: if you have gone through male/female puberty you are biologically one or t’other. If you have gone through male puberty, then you will never not be biologically male. Case closed.
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  6304.  @jrbailey3208 ’Elitist snobbery’? Lol. Wtf are you wittering on about, darling? 🤔
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  6305. Just glad they didn’t do this ‘Barbenheimer’ thing with ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ and ‘Holes’! 😳
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  6306. Not as good as Don’t Look Now.
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  6307.  @khoyrulislam  Uh huh. And I didn’t support the Western illegal invasion of Iraq. That still doesn’t negate anything I’ve said. Just cos I was randomly born in a country that invaded another country doesn’t make me complicit in that invasion.
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  6308. Oh, the irony of someone called ‘EnglishForYa’ writing a barely-literate piece of gobbledygook.
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  6309.  @granted3203  I’m the type of guy who has no idea if God exists or not. Why is this seemingly so difficult for you to understand and accept? Moreover, let’s just assume for the sake of argument that he/she/it does exist; in this case, my anathema for the sheep mentality of organised religion would still be the same.
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  6310. Personally, I have little time for Anderson. However, it would be foolish not to recognise that he is speaking for a large tranche of the population not beholden to the metropolitan elites. In amongst all this, it’s important to emphasise that it’s not ‘racist’ to criticise Islam. Ever. Islam is a bunch of ideas, like any other manmade philosophy. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticising these peoples’ race. That would be stupid. No one chooses their race. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that.
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  6311.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I don’t feel any “enslavement” at all, Jimbo! Here, have another 💊
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  6312.  @moshedayan6698  Not totally sure about that.
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  6313. Aye, but did she swallow? 😮
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  6314.  @jamessimmons7480  Again, The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  6315.  @helenpauls1496  👏
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  6316.  @sandybennett_itsme  Indeed. Easy to steal these quotes and pass them off as your own for likes. This one has been doing the rounds for yonks.👍
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  6317. 2. Did you establish how many of the 5,000+ Gazan civilians who have been killed and the 10,000+ maimed ‘supported and celebrated those actions’ before you typed that?
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  6318.  @FrankSkitfortheTruth  Well, if you’re going to play the ‘let’s check the history’ card, I do hope you’ll call for the immediate repatriation of the European ‘occupiers’ in Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, and return these lands to the original inhabitants.👍
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  6319.  @jimthompson9370  We can agree to disagree, Jim.👍
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  6320.  @1112viggo  Yes. He might also have something to say about Putin’s tiny feet.
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  6321.  @Max-kd2gh  I agree. I don’t support Putin, in the same way I didn’t support America and her partners behaving in precisely the same self-interested way. Sometimes the truth stings, and stings bad. This is one of those times. The west needs a long, hard look in the mirror before it starts flinging stones at anyone from inside its glass-house. We have no leg to stand on judging anyone when it comes to actually invading and/or overturning democratically-elected governments from within; precisely what Putin is attempting now.
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  6322. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6323.  @joshsmitch5641 Yes, they are French citizens. All I was saying is that I found it bizarre that there was an Arab ghetto in Grasse. Can we not have a bit more mixing? 🤔
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  6324.  @dlrightnow Yes, I get that. I just found it odd that Grasse, in the south of France, is essentially an Arab town. S’all.👍
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  6325. 0:16 🤣🤣😅😅🤣😂😂😂😅🤣😅😂😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅😂🤣😅🤣🤣
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  6326.  @tomasinacovell4293  Moron. Moronic, non-sequitur comment.
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  6327.  @GrandpaVince You tell ‘im, Vincey! 👍🤣
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  6328. @9:00-14:35 Props to the human statues in the background. Not a flinch out of any of them. Particular kudos to the extra-white guy! 👍
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  6329. Anyone ever told you, you bear a remarkable resemblance to the ageing popster, Jason Donovan?🎤
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  6330. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  6331.  @belkentens  Originally from Scotland here, Belendtens. We’re not all as rough as a butcher’s airse, son. Some of us have standards. You could learn a trick or three there! 👍
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  6332. Don’t confuse people, Dan. Half your responders on here won’t know what a book is.
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  6333. *Le Pen
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  6334.  @will.roman-ros  Ta, Willie.👍
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  6335.  @bid84  Yeah? Source?
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  6336.  @bid84  No you didn’t, cos I’ve just made it up, m8.😉
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  6337. Really? Proud of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  6338. @17:43 “I’m not actually a Welsh nationalist, I’m an internationalist.” Huh? 🤔 A logical contradiction, surely. To get to the ‘inter’ bit of internationalism, you surely have to be a nationalist. 😳
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  6339. I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
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  6340. Cringe bot.
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  6341.  @DDanV  Yeah, you could be right. Having done some further research since I wrote that 🙄, it seems this feller was creating the aggro. ✌️
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  6342.  @gerrabath  Ffs. Why are you asking me to do your work? It’s all out there. Pew Research and plenty of others.
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  6343.  @Hartley_Hare  Explanation of what?
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  6344. Too late for that. The Ides of March were yesterday.
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  6345. Why is it that the many ordinary European people who have had enough of uncontrolled mass immigration are considered ‘far-right’? It’s bizarre. Anywhere else in the world and this would be seen as defending your culture/borders. In Europe, the mantra is it’s ‘far-right’.
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  6346.  @AnandKumar-kp8bt  Hey, it is. May 15 marked the 75th anniversary of Nakba Day, commemorating the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes, and the more than 400 Palestinian villages destroyed in the events surrounding the establishment of Israel in 1948. Research more.
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  6347. Be careful what you wish for; I quite like a few lines of Charlie. sniffs 🤓
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  6348. The rumours are that Putin “goes down” on a regular basis. Gobble, gobble!
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  6349.  @lm157  Huh? You appear to have the wrong fella here. I’m not pro open-borders. Nice try, though.👍
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  6350.  @pucapower2505  So, once again. You conveniently never answered my questions, so here we go again - serious questions: how do you define ‘indigenous Irish’ and what do you do with those who aren’t ‘indigenous Irish’ who are currently living in Ireland according to your criteria?
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  6351.  @pucapower2505  *Let’s Just for the record, I’m half-Irish. You’re really not very good at this are you, son?
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  6352.  @pucapower2505  Serious questions: how do you define ‘indigenous Irish’ and what do you do with those who aren’t ‘indigenous Irish’ who are currently living in Ireland according to your criteria?
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  6353.  @RADICALDESIGNOFFICIAL  Er, wot? Isn’t all religion ‘ideology’? If that’s what you’re saying, I agree with you. It’s just accident of birth politics, by any other name.
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  6354.  @33wanwan  Why don’t you think so?
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  6355. It’s an Islam thing. People are afraid of Islam taking them over. They’re not afraid of the Samba taking them over.
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  6356. Yes but where’s the question mark? *?
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  6357. 🎶 “Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow.” 🎵
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  6358.  @thelocalsiren  Agnostic here, and all I can say is that if you are an example of a believer, then thank Christ I’m agnostic!
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  6359.  @Funintherain13  You may have missed ‘and it does IMO’. Yvw.👍
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  6360. Er, he’s dead.
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  6361.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  I’ll leave you with this. I first read it when I was 18 and I’ve not encountered a better chunk of wisdom since. It’s by Walt Whitman: This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
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  6362. ‘Poxy’ war, more like.
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  6363. This is the power of the 7. Israel last invaded Lebanon in 1982. 42 years ago. (Douglas Adams didn’t pick the number 42 as the answer to ‘life, the Universe and everything’ for nothing. Moreover, he went at 49!) Power of the 7. The power of the 7 is the same reason Arsenal will win the title this season. 21 years on from their last victory.
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  6364.  @ash36230  Aww, I quite like Zoe, too, but not necessarily in that way.
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  6365.  @freddysw  Ahaha. 👍
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  6366.  @freddysw  Just Googled Lenora. Wasn’t aware of her. Looks a bit like Alex Scott.
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  6367.  @Blobby192  Lol. And you completely ignore the fascistic invasion of a sovereign, self-governing territory by a nationalistic nutjob?! Pmsl. Really? A woman from a party with neo-fascist roots, who publicly admits her admiration for Mussolini and is: *Anti-abortion *Anti-gay *Nativist *Strong Christian *Authoritarian *Anti-non Europeans Not sure what political playbook you are reading from, but having looked at Meloni and her party, I conclude that it is, indeed, rather right-wing.
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  6368.  @beautifulprogressivewester7855  You don’t care that you have hypocrital, double-standards that renders your position untenable? Fine.🙄
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  6369. Indeed. Send Europeans home. North/South America, Australia, New Zealand for the indigenous peoples.
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  6370. Er, but that quote could apply at any point in human history for the past 5,000 years. 🤦‍♂️
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  6371. Phrase was used twice. Be careful, as you could come across as as “bogus” as you claim the BBC is.
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  6372. 🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅
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  6373. There’ll be a few wrecked somes in Wrexham tonight. 🥴
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  6374. Cringe.
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  6375.  @warrior4999  Local knowledge needed here.😉
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  6376. Don’t be so potty, Jimbo!
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  6377. Because they are ruled over by a bunch of prehistoric nutters! What’s interesting about all this is this: you couldn’t imagine an all-women government dictating whether or not a man can wear a tea-towel on his head. Some men need their headgear examined.
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  6378.  @guff9567  Source?
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  6379. Guff.
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  6380. Er, you do realise that these 2 things aren’t mutually exclusive, right? You can have Indian male oppression of women and Muslim male oppression of women. 🥴
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  6381.  @weirdasff  Thank you for recognising you’re in the presence of intellectual greatness. Kudos to you and your kin. 👍
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  6382.  @weirdasff  I’m not making any ‘useless arguments’; everything I’ve said, hitherto, makes perfect sense, darling. Ta da! 🎉
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  6383.  @weirdasff  Correction: I didn’t try to call ‘Jeff’ out; I did call him out. Big difference. 🤫
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  6384.  @weirdasff  You got the wrong dude, fella. I’m not one of those who automatically thinks Indian = Hindu. You might wanna make sure with whom you are interacting before you make reckless, misdirected statements. 👍
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  6385. It looks like a gigantic carriage clock.
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  6386.  @aslant3740  Interesting in the 36 years of Hamas we’ve never seen these rockets you speak of fired into Israel. 🤔
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  6387.  @julianshepherd2038  I’m talking about the ones that get through Iron Dome.
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  6388. There’s a touch of nominative determinism here. Apparently, ‘Zahawi’ means ‘pride’; looks like pride has come before Nadhim’s fall! 🥲
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  6389. Blimey! They sure are going Rwanda houses with this stuff. Move on.
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  6390. Just be thankful it wasn’t Etna and your name isn’t Empedocles!
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  6391.  @alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361  You got it, son! 😉
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  6392.  @alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361  No. I prefer guys. Nice try though, Al.👍
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  6393.  @vivavasquez *whom
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  6394.  @Daisy-023.  Just for the record, I live in Edinburgh and we have thousands of Spanish tourists visiting here every year, and they quite literally cause zero trouble. I repeat: why? Because they don’t get hammered.
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  6395.  @masterchuck8772 All fine here, petal. Seethe. 👍😉
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  6396.  @RyanSmith-on1hq P.S. I’m not English. You’re really not very good at this, are you? 🤦‍♂️ 🤫
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  6397.  @RyanSmith-on1hq Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? I fear you have the wrong dude here. 🥴
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  6398.  @julia2k8  Seems they never taught you about the concept of consent, Julesy, darlin’. Your loss. 🤣😉👍
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  6399. With Putin, we have to be careful around any ideas of revenge, for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  6400. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6401. Miss Piggy agrees. 🐷
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  6402. Why shouldn’t it? Britain went in there and ruled it. Could be karma that London, and the UK in general, has nice levels of immigration, given the Imperial nonsense they perpetrated for hundreds of years. Think on.😉
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  6403. Lol. Yeah, so they were travelling at 20mph, tops, and it was “near-catastrophic”?! Pmsl. They were either going at speeds which could endanger others, including themselves, and “near catastrophic”, or they weren’t. You can’t have it both ways. Take your pick and I know which one I’m picking.
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  6404.  @julierogers1155  Try ‘reading between the lines.’😉
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  6405.  @julierogers1155  Have you a sense of humour?🤔
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  6406. We could go way back and the most “devasting tragedy” for this planet being the emergence of Homo sapiens, 300,000-odd years ago.
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  6407.  @babblo1389  Again, wit? 🤔
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  6408.  @babblo1389  Er, wit? 🤔
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  6409.  @101-q6t  I agree on this point. This is a referendum issue, concerning economic immigrants. However, the asylum seeker issue wouldn’t apply here.
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  6410.  @DucadiBorgogna_  Lol. I do hope you’re being ironic, there, as that doesn’t appear to be clear.
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  6411.  @DucadiBorgogna_  Well, actually there is interpretation, as it’s well known that there are layers of interpretation of each Surah. I was just making the point that if certain passages exhort violence, and many do, and you read these as actual commands to behaviour, then we have a problem, Mecca. Take the following: Surah 3:151: We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve (all non-Muslims) … Surah 2:191: And kill them (non-Muslims) wherever you find them … kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers (non-Muslims). Surah 9:5: Then kill the disbelievers (non-Muslims) wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush … Seems to me that there is little unambiguous about these passages. However, the Koran, as with the Bible, is replete with passages which may be interpreted on many levels depending on your mood and whim. Personally, all of it is just stuff written by humans, and for me it’s to be read as I would read Greek/Roman myth. Taken literally is the way of madness.
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  6412.  @mayawhite447  Just saying that Europeans should be very, very, very aware of the historical terms here. They have exported more misery than most these past 1,000 years or so. S’all.
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  6413. Alien One 👽: “You know, these humans are fed by the same food, drink the same water, are warmed by the same sun, and yet they kill each other.” Alien Two 👽: “So primitive, huh?” Alien One 👽: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems.” 🛸
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  6414. ⛪️ As a Catholic (lapsed), beyond me why anyone should be hanging on the words of the leader of a wicked institution with terrible historical crimes on its record: # Pope Pius XII denying eyewitness reports of mass execution during the Holocaust. # Systemically covering up tens of thousands of cases involving sexual misconduct. # Terrorising Jews and Muslims for centuries. # The utter barbaric sadism of Pope Boniface VIII. # Burning of Joan of Arc for ‘dressing like a man’ (this one’s a particular black joke given that priests spend all day in a frock!) # Burning Tynedale for making a vernacular Bible for the masses. # Slaying countless women for being ‘witches’. # Taking cash for ‘absolving sins’. # Executing Jan Hus. # Executing Giordano Bruno. # Detaining Galileo and putting him under house arrest for Galileo’s suggesting science trumped God. # Various Inquisitions involving the torture and murder of thousands of heretics. # Persecution of homosexuals. # General ongoing misogyny. # General ongoing racism. # Utter hypocrisy in following a guy like Jesus who preached holy poverty while the Catholic Church is worth $30 billion. ✝️
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  6415.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You might need these, Jimbo 👉 🕶 . No jokes about Stevie Wonder or I’ll get Burns to release the hounds! 🐕🤣
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  6416.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  ‘Busted’?! Really? The 77th Brigade, Jimbo? Here was me thinking it was McFly! 🤣
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  6417. In all this polarised debate about Zelensky being a NATO/EU/US stooge and Putin being a new Napoleon trying to bring Ukraine back into the mother Russia fold, one can quite lose one’s bearings. One ends up, as ever in these situations, in believing half of it is true for both sides. Putin is not all devil and Zelensky isn’t all angel.
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  6418.  @Owen7768  Lol. And a 17 year blockade totally controlling what enters Gaza is in no way causing any suffering and misery to the Palestinians whatsoever? What a wally.
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  6419.  @Doreana48501  Pmsl.🤣
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  6420. World leaders react as Rishi Sunak becomes UK PM. Putin - No! I’m clearly straight. Biden - Who? I’m too old anyway. Trudeau - Yes! I’m unclearly ‘straight’. Xi Jinping - Why? Homosexuality doesn’t exist in China. Macron - What? Have you seen my husband? I mean ‘wife’. Ffs.
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  6421. I think you’re talking about war there.
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  6422.  archon879  No. It should be acknowledged and historically recorded for posterity; but actors 100s of years after the event should not be made to feel guilt for stuff that had nothing to do with them. This really isn’t that difficult.
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  6423.  @ArabicReja973  < - - - Tuppenny-bit British Empire troll spotted. 🇬🇧
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  6424.  @teaveins1466  Versailles doesn’t want for tourists. That’s all I’m saying.
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  6425.  @curiositycloset2359  Lol. And here’s me thinking after our convo the other day that you were a fan of absolute, authoritarian, unchallenged, untrammelled power in the form of President Putin? So now you’re advocating for the British constitutional monarchy are you? You seem confused, pal.
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  6426.  @teaveins1466  Just think about the descendants of slave owners knocking on the door of the descendants of slaves and the former automatically expecting respect be given to them by the latter. Put yourself in the ‘other’s’ shoes for a second.
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  6427. Interesting that he’s as ‘left’ as Italian Meloni is ‘right’ but Lula never gets labelled ‘far-left’ they way Meloni is always ‘far-right’.🤔
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  6428. Could be that it would only be ‘local news’ in the US because you guys have a homicide rate consistently 4X that of Europe’s. Yw.👍
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  6429.  @maskinisten019  So it’s ethnic then. I didn’t say all these 3 factors had to be in play at the same time. Jesus, why do you people take everything so literally?🤦‍♂️
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  6430.  @arrore  You’re looking at this from only your perspective. I’m willing to bet that for a lot of Christian Serbs a large part of this is about religion.
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  6431.  @gzarari  If you are a Muslim and you drink alcohol, then you’re making up your own rules as you go along. That’s like me saying I’m a ‘vegetarian’ but I’m partial to a Sunday roast.
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  6432. Before this war I was under the impression Russia was a Champions League team and Ukraine was, at best, a Championship team. This may be the case still, but it looks like Putin’s putative galacticos sorely underestimated their plucky, passionate opponents.
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  6433.  @hmq9052  ‘Manly’?! Pmsl. Wtf. 🥴👍
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  6434.  @NHLblkgurl  Lol. I’m not gonna stalk you! 🤣 I just wanted to know the nearest big place you were at so I could verify your claims.
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  6435. Where, in N England?
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  6436. Well, if this is the case it’s going to make it much harder to p-p-pick up a penguin! 🐧
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  6437. @2:00 Are you watching Holly and Phillip? 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶
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  6438. It’s slightly different in the sense that wars haven’t been fought against fat people just for being fat, or ugly people just for being ugly.
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  6439. The term “genetic sexual attraction” is used to describe the intense physical and emotional feelings that some people experience following restored contact between an adopted person and a close member of his or her birth family. Some people believe genetic attraction to be a delayed by-product of “missed bonding”.
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  6440. Cheers, Einstein. 👍
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  6441.  @ziziqar  But that’s the point: no one is going come for me on an ‘ethnic basis’ because I don’t define/see myself in ethnic terms. I’m also agnostic, so I’m not going to be in any religious wars.
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  6442.  @zacurrya9485 Yeah, you missed the garlic.
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  6443.  @HarryF-tz5fo Er, what extra rights do they have? 🤔
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  6444. Er, why? 🤔
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  6445.  @trigularity  Not coping, are you? Awww, der, der, mommy will be along soon to kiss it all better, sweetie. 👍🤣
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  6446.  @hansloyalitat9774  If we chose to be gay or straight, everyone would be flip-flopping from one to t’other all the time. Aside from bisexuals, I know no one who does this. No matter how hard I try I can’t force myself to fancy someone I don’t fancy. However, that’s not the point here. The point is if it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. Case closed.
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  6447.  @Wasp239  It sounds like that as I was directly addressing those who do think it’s wrong. I don’t. Try and be a bit more subtle in reading between the lines next time, sweetie.👍
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  6448.  @zonkbadonk3937  Huh? Why is that even a question? The answer is obvious, surely? 🤔
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  6449.  @joeyrinard6997  You.
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  6450. @2:25 So that’s where my tea cosy went.
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  6451.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That the best you got, Georgy? I’ll take that. 👍
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  6452.  @tastypymp1287  Er, yes he has got the wrong fella. Just because I live in a Nato country doesn’t mean I agree with everything Nato does. Cope, seethe and cry. 😭
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  6453.  @tastypymp1287  👈Salty because he can’t deal with an opinion that disagrees with his.
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  6454.  @keiolge  You are shouting too much for my liking. People sure of their terms don’t bellow, don’t try to shout-down their interlocutor, as you have done throughout this thread with me. Pirsig nailed this one perfectly, when it comes to the doubter betraying themselves by their passionate intensity: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Read these words and digest them. They speak to your hectoring, barracking tone throughout this thread, thereby betraying the fundamental doubt you feel in your terms.
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  6455.  @keiolge  See? There you go again. Can I politely suggest that part of your issue here (aside from the patronising tone), is that you are too emotionally involved.
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  6456.  @keiolge  As I see it, a big part of this is a 70 year-old bloke having a last hurrah before he pops his clogs. And because he’s amassed all the power in himself over these past 22 years he’s just got yes men and women surrounding him. I just hope they can step in if his finger reaches for that nuclear button. A lot of this is unfinished business he’s been sitting on since 1989. I think that’s a large part of this. Belated revenge for the USSR’s loss in the Cold War.
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  6457.  @keiolge  Don’t patronise me. It’s not a good look.
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  6458.  @keiolge  I agree. He is trying for a rebirthed ersatz Soviet Union, yes.
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  6459.  @easymoney8535  I agree. You’re wrong about the Civil War bit but the rest I agree with.
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  6460.  @keiolge  You make no effort to understand what he might be doing. You make no effort to step into the shoes of another and see what they see. That doesn’t justify anything and you are not necessarily agreeing with another when you try to understand their point of view. No one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world. All I’m doing here is trying to understand Putin while condemning him every step of the way as I do so. If you can’t see this then so be it. I repeat, I’m apolitical, agnostic, anational. I happen to think, that along with organised religion, nationalism has been the most baleful blight humans ever had the misfortune to invent. I refuse to hitch any part of my identity to a random, arbitrary accident of birth, as that’s just irrational and stupid. I had no say where I was born, and could have been born anywhere, so I’m not going to take some kind of weird unearned credit for this. It’s precisely for this reason that I’m coming at this Russia/Ukraine thing as a neutral. I can see both sides. I wholeheartedly disagree with what Putin is doing. He’s evil. However, and this is the key point of this whole thread for me: from Putin’s point of view I can see why he might be doing this - a mixture of naked aggressive evil, yes, but also he’s thinking strategically and clearly sees Ukrainians and Ukraine as part of the greater motherland Russia he has concocted in his strange mind. In all this, he is wrong to violently invade another sovereign territory and impose his will.
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  6461.  @keiolge  34% were undecided. You just going to arrogantly assume them for your party are you?
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  6462.  @keiolge  Again, you are not reading me. I agree there was ‘NOT EVEN ONE’ justification for that invasion. Putin didn’t think this, clearly, but anyone, anyone is wrong to invade a sovereign, self-governing nation. Not once have I defended Putin’s actions in this thread; on the contrary I have condemned them at every point. Think about this before assuming I’m this or that.
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  6463.  @easymoney8535  Incidentally, you need to construct some coherent arguments rather than throwing around unfounded, dictatorial slurs from on high. Who do you think you are? Putin or someone?
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  6464.  @easymoney8535  I wish. Actually, I don’t wish given the value of the rouble currently.
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  6465.  @archivesoffantasy5560  Jesus. How many more times? I’m not defending Putin in any way. I’m apolitical, agnostic, anational. I’m simply calling this as I see it from the sidelines in a neutral manner, precisely because I can and I have no emotional involvement here, beyond the one of Putin just stopping before he annihilates another nation, and possibly a few others, if he’s feeling all Dr Strangelove .
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  6466. @1:40 No fan of Gore but, tbf, he acknowledged the point you are making.
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  6467. 🤣
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  6468. Er, why wouldn’t they? It seems like a distinct possibility at this point, sweetheart. 👍
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  6469.  @GavinGas  Well, let’s face it, he ain’t no ‘American beauty’, is he now? 🌹
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  6470.  @alexsilent5603  Uh huh. That was what I was doing to you, darling. Be more than thankful.
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  6471. Yeah, the way you typed that, you think you know it all, when you know nothing! 🤣👍
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  6472.  @tastypymp1287  I said everything I needed to say in the OP, TastyTwat. FYI, the Universe doesn’t spin. 😉
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  6473.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No it wasn’t. You’re just one of the boring extremists with an agenda I referenced in the OP.
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  6474. I agree. Grease (sic) was dead hot. Especially that Olivia Newton-John in those leather hotpants! 🥵
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  6475.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “Why does it need assistance?” 👈 Not an argument. 🤡
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  6476.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes it does. 🤡
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  6477.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. “Because of discrimination” no one watches minor league kids’ games? Pmsl. Utter bullsh*t. Nothing to do with “discrimination”; everything to do with little demand. 🤡
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  6478. Well, tbf, I have slightly more faith in women’s football than I do in God. 😊
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  6479. Thanks mum.
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  6480. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  6481. No she isn’t. She’s dead.
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  6482. He won’t be. ‘Marcon’ isn’t in the running.
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  6483.  @kylerittenhousecommieslaye3558  The sins of the father …
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  6484. Have you asked the hermit crabs how they feel about this? 🦀
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  6485. Not if you’re a hermit, it’s not.
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  6486.  @aristides2005  No, my point is rather simple: if the Elgin Marbles should be returned, then why are you not calling for the return every single other looted item in every museum on this planet? If you are, you have a case. But I’m not hearing that. All I’m hearing is that you want the Elgin Marbles returned and nothing else.
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  6487. When you’re the leader of a nation with annual defence spending upwards of $650 billion, then it’s in your interests to stoke up enough potential trouble to justify that kind of outlay. Having Putin as the big, bad wolf from the bleak Russian steppes falls into this narrative perfectly.
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  6488.  @Bharat_mata_ka_bhosda  Actually, they could both be bad moves. Have you thought of this?
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  6489.  @HoutPateta  That’s what I’m saying. I think it may be a false reading.
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  6490.  @ninjaweretiger4273 ​​⁠ I repeat: I think it’s political more than anything else. Whenever it’s political, I deeply distrust it.
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  6491.  @ninjaweretiger4273  It’s 1°C. Let’s be honest here: 41°C/42°C? Are you really going to notice the difference? I get the strong impression from you that, ‘methinks the lady doth protest too much’.
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  6492.  @ninjaweretiger4273 I don’t deny that the planet is slightly warming. I don’t deny humans are partly contributing to this warming. I just don’t necessarily see the disaster so many suggest, given these predicates (and given the thousand natural shocks that Earth is heir to). My strong hunch is that, before anything else, the bulk of this is political.
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  6493.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  But it’s not a stupid question, Jimbo. Antarctica is enormous. You were quick to suggest in another post that last year’s 40°C in the UK was recorded on the runway of an airport, yet when someone questions you about the veracity of the temperature you quote, you get all defensive? 😉
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  6494.  @polygonalmasonary  Indeed. But why are you telling me this? You have the wrong fella.
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  6495.  @paul7TM  Again, you missed my point. I wasn’t anywhere. I’m here right now, looking at this as a human problem. You need better coping strategies, sweetie. 👍
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  6496.  @motivated_center  Lol. Yeah, that’s right, the Taliban just don’t seem to have time for the basic human rights of more than half the population; the half that just happens to be not them! 🤣
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  6497.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Again, you’re seemingly assuming (quite moronically) that every Brit is for every foreign policy engagement carried out by the government. What a basic boy you are, Johnny. You need a radical overhaul of that pea brain of yours, sweetie.👍🙈
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  6498.  @kitskivich  There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. (Walt Whitman) Walt had it. 👍😉
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  6499. What’s always surprised me about this war is just how rude Russia has been. Given they are the world’s largest national landmass (almost the size of Canada + China!), one would think they’d be donating a little land to those with comparatively little, not stealing more of the cake like the fat selfish kid at the birthday party.
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  6500. Yeah, but in the same breath, Jimbo, you have to demand an immediate stop to all emigration from the UK. Works both ways. 👍
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  6501. Source: trust me, bro. 👌
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  6502.  @Samuel-tc7nf Of course they did, ‘Samuel’. And if you had been born in Baghdad and called ‘Muhammad’, no doubt you’d be saying something rather different. Don’t you see this? It’s all an accident of birth. All of it. 👍😉
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  6503. Aww, that’s a shame. They told me in the email London will be naked. Dang!
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  6504. Projection, Bobby boy?😳
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  6505.  @sebastianguerre6868  The key point for me in this whole debate is rather simple: the planet has warmed 1.3°C in the past 150/200 years. This correlates quite clearly with fossil fuel emissions. While correlation isn’t necessarily direct causation, the evidence is good enough for me to more than suggest human activity through fossil fuel burning is playing a part (perhaps the largest part) in this warming. On this trajectory, for me it makes utter sense to gradually phase out fossil fuels and transition to renewables. The end.
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  6506.  @DR3ADER1 ”I’d rather live my own life. Not one governed by a woman.” Lol 👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  6507. @3:13 Nice to see Gareth Bale getting a bit of extra work. 👍
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  6508.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Er, how do you know “God is real”? Stating stuff doesn’t make it true. If anything, you’re statement is more likely to be the wrong way round: religion is real (alas) but God is not real.
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  6509. Er, Ukrainians do. Just sayin’.
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  6510. No. But you’re speaking Pish, Bash.😉
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  6511.  @skontheroad  Triggered, much?🤣
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  6512.  @philbeesley9265 Mecca bingo! 👍😉
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  6513.  @psychologianiestacjonarna6558  Cope better.
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  6514.  @sassy6498  No idea what that meant. Want another go? 🤓
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  6515. Well, whatever he is, his photo as a young man screams ‘wrong’un’. 👿
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  6516.  @sebastianwrites  Again, you’re copying and pasting. Stop playing the bot, keep it real, as haranguing folk with your agenda never works, Seb. 👎
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  6517.  @sebastianwrites  Lol. Wtf does that have to do with The William Hague? You’re just copying and pasting this like a bot … oh wait … having checked you seem to be doing just that under every comment.
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  6518. Whenever this issue crops up, one is reminded of George Carlin’s insightful take on this whole abortion thing: Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.
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  6519. These boys did a slow mo of snails having sex: it lasted 10 years! 🐌
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  6520.  @pretzel4805  *wasn’t Just for future reference.😉
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  6521. Some say the Taliban are Sunnis, but it appears they are just a bunch of Shiites.
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  6522. @2:25-2:32 Nice to see the Minister of Silly Walks getting his exercise. 🚶‍♂️
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  6523. Ah, tribal humans causing more trouble amongst themselves; clans, gangs, families, political parties, races, religions, nationalisms … any opportunity to in-group and out-group. As George Carlin said: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
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  6524. Lol. How can you “push” sexuality on to someone? It’s not a frigging choice, dipshit!🤣
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  6525. 🥱
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  6526. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 😳
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  6527.  @-Tidgy I’m not burying my head. I can’t stand Islam. Or any organised religion. But I realise that in an open, democratic, free society there is such a thing as freedom of religion. And I agree that certain elements of Islam are causing too much trouble too often in Western Europe (and elsewhere). However, I know dozens of Muslims and to a man and a woman they would condemn Matar’s actions. All that said, I’m wary of the continued mass European importation of immigrants with radically different cultures/religion to the host society. Immigration is also way too high. So, on many points, I probably agree with you. However, condemning a whole demographic for the acts of a few is folly. It would’ve been like demonising the whole Irish population for the acts of the IRA back in the day.
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  6528. Here’s Barney Rubble with the weather!
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  6529.  @julia2k8  Not an argument.
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  6530.  @gemcami7243  He is. Buys me a beer, now and again. Unlike that bloody teetotal Allah fella.
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  6531.  @godofsmallthings4289  Exactly my point.😉
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  6532.  @yazdani3289  They didn’t. It’s a well-known gag they copied and pasted.
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  6533.  @serjbondarev4959  I don’t give a flying fuck whether Ukraine joins NATO or not. Quite frankly, before all this shit hit the fan I was happily minding my own business. Ukraine and Russia should be able to sort this out amongst themselves and not draw the rest of us in with the threat of thermonuclear annihilation. ☢️
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  6534.  @rosadacaro  None of it is ‘right’. The issue is some justify this or that and others justify this or that as they have invested their very being, it seems, in doing so.
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  6535.  @ashleysmith1290  Oh. You’re a man! Lol. I genuinely thought you were a girl with that name.
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  6536.  @helenhollywood915  That’s fine. But at least you aren’t being forced against your will to cuddle up to a dictator. I’m willing to bet, for all Trudeau’s faults, that Canada is a slightly freer place to live in than Putin’s Russia. And if it’s not, then why not move to Russia?
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  6537.  @gustavo5989  This is fuck all to do with ‘economic liberalism’ primarily; it’s a simple question of national self-determination.
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  6538. @UCHTeY-g-Gp_a6F216wrH5Kw Self-determination. That’s key here. Whether you like it or not a majority of Ukrainians look west, not east. That’s just a fact.
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  6539.  @ashleysmith1290  I’m neutral. If you read it closely, you’ll see they are all universal values.
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  6540.  @MadcookieBG  Thanks madcookie!
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  6541.  @jimmyjames3220  There were 427 mass shootings in the United States in 2017, and more than 15,000 people were killed in firearm-related incidents, whilst over 30,000 people were injured. Are you telling me that all those 45,000 murdered/maimed people in 2017 would have been killed/maimed anyway, without the existence of gun availability?
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  6542.  @jimmyjames3220  In the US, the relationship between gun laws and firearms deaths is compelling. In states like Alabama,. Alaska and Louisiana, where guns are lightly regulated, the rate of deaths by firearms (per 100,000 people) is more than four times higher than in New York, Connecticut, Hawaii or Massachusetts, which have some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
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  6543. Apparently the Taliban are all Sunni Muslims, but with dictatorial behaviour like this, to me, they are a bunch of Shiites.
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  6544.  @ezioauditore3128  Last time I checked Le Pen wanted out of the EU. You may need to get a better researcher.
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  6545.  @Adam-mo6gf  So what’s your solution? Blanket ban for all Muslims?
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  6546.  @Adam-mo6gf  Look mate, much like you I find all organised religion anathema, but precisely because we live in an open, free democracy (relatively), we permit freedom of worship. My take on all this stuff is quite simple: if you are breaking no laws, speaking the native language, and paying your taxes, you can pretty much do what you want between consenting adults. Religion and politics should be kept separate, at the state level, notwithstanding that the UK doesn’t observe this, but thankfully the Church is so defanged in today’s Britain it’s powerless. Like you, of all the organised religions, it’s Islam I trust the least, based on what you refer to about democracy, for example, (but also women’s rights, an obvious homophobia and the startlingly violent passages in the Koran openly exhorting Jihad for every Muslim) and based on past behaviour. However, I repeat what I said earlier: the vast majority, actually all the Muslims I have known in my life have been integrated with the wider community and were leading peaceful, productive lives. Again, to focus on the ones that aren’t, is like focussing on that black sheep once again, to the exclusion of the rest.
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  6547.  @Adam-mo6gf  As to the ‘immorality excused because it’s “culturally insensitive” to do so’, well, that’s an infinitesimally minuscule proportion of all sex crimes in the UK, most of which are carried out by the actual partners of the victims, or someone the victim knows. This is not to excuse what you are referring to, but to focus on these is a bit like me moaning about the one black sheep in the field and ignoring the rest of the flock.
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  6548.  @Adam-mo6gf  But over 90% who apply are accepted. So, if we are going to take them in anyway as genuine asylum seekers, where’s the issue?
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  6549.  @Adam-mo6gf  Quota in the sense of non-open door immigration. Controlled economic immigration. The door would be open for all genuine asylum seekers.
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  6550.  @Adam-mo6gf  I have absolutely no issue with 99% of the other cultures that come to live here. I agree, there is a small cohort of Islam that seems to not quite make the same effort as most every Indian, Chinese, African I know of, seems to. However, I would suggest if you’re going to go down the path of banning people of certain faiths coming here, that would be just unworkable in practice. Better to have a well-functioning immigration system allowing a quota in, based on what they can bring to this country, if we’re talking economics. As to refugees; they should all be treated equally, regardless of their culture, and if genuine refugees, are, and should be granted asylum.
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  6551.  @ezioauditore3128  The ones that come here invariably have connections here, speak the language, come from countries (Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq) that the West has helped to fuck up etc. Your mistake is to suggest there are not pull factors for these people to come here. I agree the system needs reforming, just really making the point that over 90% of the people coming here claiming asylum, are granted asylum. Most are not economic migrants. The other point to make is that it’s not for a ‘free ride’ either, as the benefits offered by Germany and France, for example, are better than here.
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  6552.  @ezioauditore3128  So, you would ban absolutely all immigration, is that it? If not, where’s the issue?
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  6553. @Dagoth Ur As far as I can see, no one is spreading ‘hate, terror and wanting to overwrite culture’ more than a minority hardline Muslim cohort. Every other culture I can think of makes the effort. I agree, certain strands of Islam have a bit of an issue doing this, it seems, and I also agree, that it’s a little bit beyond me why some within Islam come to live here and don’t make a bit more of an effort, if only out of courtesy to those with whom you have come to live. All that said, every Muslim I’m personally aware of, about 12-15, make that effort and they are as ‘integrated’ as every other culture I can think of who have settled on these shores.
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  6554. If the rumours are true, Pootin will be holding more than Xi’s hand.😉
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  6555. @Liam Atkins Lol.😂
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  6556.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, you must have major issues when you’re met with a lapsed black lesbian Jew who has converted to Islam, eh? 🤣😂😅
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  6557.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Jimbo’s supporting the Muslims this time! 🤣 He must be so confused at this point! 🤣
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  6558.  @lemdixon01  Uh huh. But for most of the past there weren’t 8 billion people (and rising) competing for finite resources and land.
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  6559. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  6560.  @AlexCookaacook  I take your point about statistics. A bit like flying being the least likely form of transport you’ll die in and yet I’m shit scared of that too! 😰
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  6561.  @AlexCookaacook  I agree. I’m 100% for nuclear power for you and me. I trust you. I trust myself. I just don’t trust the 7 billion others on this planet.🤔
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  6562.  @AlexCookaacook  Just pointing out that humans are very clever. We split the atom. Our big problem is cleaning up the mess. Not wise enough.
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  6563.  @AlexCookaacook  I would also add this: expecting nuclear power to be safe in human hands in the long run is a bit like giving a toddler a loaded gun and not expecting an accident at some point.
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  6564.  @AlexCookaacook  He was actually talking directly about relations between Russia and the USA.🤔
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  6565.  Happy life 😊  No idea who you are but I’m afraid to click you for fear of ‘repercussions’.
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  6566. Indeed. Looks like they’ve taken the ‘Hypocritical Oath’.🤓
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  6567. Triggered much?🤓 I fear you may have used up your quota of !s for one day. Don’t be greedy now.😉
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  6568. I don’t have any daughters, and my wife ran away with the milkman, so I should be ok.🤓
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  6569.  @luckybait  Pump
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  6570. Would you like me to prepare you a small camomile tea, pal, as you appear more than a little triggered? Can I recommend you lie down with a wet flannel on your forehead, and think of calming things, like bunny rabbits, or daffodils, or cheese? 🐰 🌼 🧀🤓
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  6571. Just realised we might be talking about the same fella! 🤠
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  6572. Even ugher 🤮 1:52
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  6573. That’s a shocking way to talk about the Butlins staff. Take that back forthwith, you rapscallion!
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  6574.  @adrianlouw2499  It’s not ‘rambling’ at all, son. You stated that UK citizens feel ‘less safe’; we don’t. That’s because we aren’t! Do try to keep up at the back. 👨‍🏫
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  6575.  @teresabenson3385  Stricter gun laws in America would reduce gun homicides and gun violence. Fact. Deal with it.😉
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  6576.  @t444edt3  Compared to the idea of actually seriously considering arming teachers, the t.v. license seems almost quaint. 😉
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  6577.  @cdickenson82  I refer you to my OP. Just ponder this a little, before making sidebar comments about NI, which is an anomaly, given its history since the day it was established.🥸
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  6578. Vacuous tautology.
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  6579.  @TheAArmstrong  *have hit 👍 This is a common mistake. Just get it right or not at all. Ty.
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  6580.  @TheAArmstrong  PS. You were right to block Comments for that ‘First Animation’, as I fear if you’d read them you may never have made a second animation. 👍
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  6581.  @TheAArmstrong  Just for the record, I’m not “far left”. Far from it. Nice try, though. 👍 You may need a better researcher.😉
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  6582.  @TheAArmstrong  What? I have a “cultural identity” and I “relate” to lots of people. You clearly missed my point which was: those who bore on about preserving some kind of cultural/ethnic/racial purity are invariably uneducated, thick, boring, unenlightened chumpsters. Like Jimbo. But ty for deeply patronising me. 👍
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  6583. ‘Sharia Law’? Who’s she? 🤔
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  6584.  @public.public  Lol. Wtf does that have to do with its urban beauty?!🤣
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  6585.  @wwzzyyy  Come again, Harry Potter?
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  6586.  @paultaylor9498  Wow! This is clearly a trigger issue for you. My take on this is rather simple: I’m pro legal economic immigration controlled by the host country, whichever country that happens to be and of course all genuine asylum seekers should be given safe haven. I know dozens and dozens of friends and acquaintances (Polish, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Australian, French, Indian, Pakistani, American, Nigerian etc) and I genuinely have no problem with a single one of them living and working here as legal immigrants. I have lived in 6 countries and in each of those countries all that was asked of me was 3 things: 1. Speak the language. 2. Pay your taxes. 3. Don’t break the law. This is all I ask of the immigrants that come here. The fact that they bring their interesting foods and cultures only enriches my existence and makes it more interesting. There is only one particular group of people I have an issue with, and that’s a certain cohort of Muslims who are reluctant to integrate properly and this is regrettable. I am an agnostic and I mistrust all organised religion, but Islam is the one I mistrust most. I think in this whole debate about immigration it’s important to distinguish between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’: the former if taken to extremes can cause issues, but what I see in the UK is a good, healthy form of multiethnicism, on the whole, with one or two pockets of trouble mainly caused by certain Muslims.
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  6587. Yes. Lynch.
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  6588.  @tomsaunders9944   @tomsaunders9944  Up to 55 now, m8. Seems like you’re in a minority. Should have gone to Specsavers, son! 🤣🤓 Get over it. ⚽️
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  6589.  @olenamoroz6657  I think the NATO thing is a bit of a red herring and Putin would’ve gone in anyway, such is his feeling for the greater mother Russia project of his tiny mind.
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  6590.  @EE-kt8sh  True. But two wrongs don’t make a right. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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  6591.  @nsubuganaziru361  Just for the record, where I live, homosexuality is not a crime and hasn’t been for decades and in all that time not one person has married a dog, a goat or a sheep. 🐕 🐐 🐑 🤣
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  6592. ‘In our cultures, men marry women’ - How about the notion of just letting people fall in love without fear of imprisonment or worse? If you personally, don’t want to marry or get with a same-sex person, what right do you have to dictate that to others? It works both ways: if you can tell me who I can love, why can’t I tell you?
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  6593.  @fibonacimike4110  👌
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  6594.  @Zeta523  👏
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  6595.  @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul  Hear, hear!
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  6596.  sandman  Huh?
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  6597.  @TripleG69  Pmsl.🤣
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  6598.  @badge5575  Isn’t it? K. Still doesn’t offend me.
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  6599. Another invisible daddy in the sky-botherer. 🥱
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  6600. I don’t. 👌
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  6601. What’s so great about humans anyway?
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  6602.  @Roger-fs5yo  Stop projecting your own sexual fantasies onto the rest of us, Roggie baby! 😉
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  6603.  @Roger-fs5yo  Lol. The irony of a ‘Roger’ pontificating about where one can legally stick one’s appendage! 🤣
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  6604.  @phoebemulube4451  Why did you ‘straighten’ them? What’s your issue with homosexuality?
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  6605.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Btw, excellent point about ‘indoctrination’ and the irony of religious zealots moaning about the ‘indoctrination of our kids’. Might use that one myself!👌🤣
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  6606.  @supermanexpert6462  Not forcing anything on anyone, mate.👍
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  6607.  @deadinthebed963  👍
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  6608.  @deadinthebed963  I’m not oppressing anyone with my prejudices. I just seethe inwardly.🤣
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  6609.  @Ankit__Shah  Yup. 👌
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  6610. Ambiguous comment. 🤔
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  6611.  @LastForeverMedia  My essential point here is rather simple: it is simply no one else’s business, no one , what 2 consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own homes. It’s just plain weird and inappropriate that other people feel the need to interfere here. Would you like another dictating to you who you are allowed to sleep with? I bet you wouldn’t, and you’d be right not to like it. If this is a ‘God’ thing … well, all I say to that is quite simple: keep your God out of my business. Simple.
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  6612.  @LastForeverMedia  Indeed. And I happen to think that it’s ok that an adult woman pursue another consenting adult woman and an adult man pursue another consenting adult man. That may be where we differ, sweetie.😉
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  6613.  @headymcthunderdome2136  I’m not. Seethe harder.
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  6614.  @fibonacimike4110  🤣👌
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  6615. Lol. ‘Screw you guys’, says Jimmy. Oh, the irony.🤣
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  6616.  @darthzackariusnickthenamethede  It’s a human problem, bro. I’m a human suggesting a different way.👍
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  6617.  @yawarsaab  You can’t just assert everything is predetermined by God and not bring to the table any evidence for your claim. It just gets laughed out of town in that case. As C Sagan said: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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  6618. I wonder that about Rishi Sunak, too.
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  6619.  Amier Rayyan MalayaClan  My mother and father created me. Originally, we were all stardust. No divine creator needed to explain this. Occam’s Razor applies here.
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  6620.  @mariamoments478  Not sure your pasty Oirish skin would stand a heatwave, Maria. ☀️
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  6621.  @ian_r125  *lounge
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  6622.  @ian_r125  He said it was a bigger waste of money than the BBC Licence Fee! That hardly suggests to me he thinks the content is good! 🤦‍♂️
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  6623. Whenever I see wee films like this aboot fair Scotia, I’m reminded of Dr Johnson’s apposite apophthegm apropos the Giant’s Causeway: “worth seeing, but not worth going to see.”
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  6624.  @igot5onit423  I’ll die for my family. Beyond that, all bets are off.
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  6625.  @jenny2tone242  TastyTwat comes to all sorts of crappy conclusions cuz he’s a bit fick, innit.👍😉
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  6626.  @KevinXD  Well, at least they’ll step in and do the right thing, and not spend 74 minutes standing in a corridor, while some homicidal dipshit is murdering 19 children and 2 of their teachers.
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  6627. Well, well done you! Your life is now complete.👍
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  6628.  @sideshow4417  You missed my point. The migrants would let you or I in, I’m willing to bet; would we have done the same?
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  6629.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  God, you’re boring, Jimbo. 👍😉
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  6630.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nicely edited, Jimbo. I love the fact you can’t take a joke against yourself, yet you believe in the Bible! 🤣🤣🤣😅🤣🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😂😂😅🤣😅🤣😂😅🤣
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  6631.  @Frederick.J.Marshall  👍
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  6632. Digging for coal?🤔
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  6633. It’s called ‘bein’ a teenager’. What were you doing at 16? Sitting in a library devouring the complete works of Shakespeare?😳
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  6634. It’s not just in her diary: the evidence is all over YouTube!
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  6635.  @Moth94  Yeah, yeah. You don’t have to buy certain things, and if you buy a single product produced by what you call ‘big business’ you are an utter hypocrite. Think on.
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  6636.  @michaelmoraga2926  Slightly triggered are we, Mickey sonny? Uh huh. 😉👍
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  6637. Breaking News: Matthew Amroliwala’s tie discovered moonlighting as a test card.
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  6638.  @mndflnslgn2880  Great film!👍
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  6639. *useless Surely.
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  6640. *were Even when you’re copypastaing others you still can’t get it right, Jimbo, but I suspect something as basic as the subjunctive was never on your radar, son. 👍🐵👌
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  6641.  @Salomessanctuary  Cringe.
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  6642.  @prestonphelps1649  Given her height, she just might be!
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  6643.  @prithviraj8776 Nah, not a bot, nor a troll. You can’t deal with an opinion you disagree with. That’s fine. We’ve all been there.
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  6644.  @mathewber2782  ”If you have a low IQ”. This from the dude who cannot even deploy a full-stop. 🥱
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  6645.  @carlgrove8793  Surah 3:151: We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve (all non-Muslims) … Surah 2:191: And kill them (non-Muslims) wherever you find them … kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers (non-Muslims). Surah 9:5: Then kill the disbelievers (non-Muslims) wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush … You going to tell me that the above quotes are absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with physical violence?
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  6646.  @Tactical5  I’m not anti-immigration, but it should be done carefully, and while immigrants should be free to follow their own cultural practices, within the law of course, it seems that only certain strains of Islam have a problem with making that necessary effort to integrate. I would also add, that most Muslims I’m aware of in my own traditionally non-Muslim country, do make that necessary effort, as do all the other cultures I can think of. Militant Islam on the other hand seems to actively not want to be part of free, open, liberal democracies, quite simply as Islam appears to be a religion not particularly conducive to the values the West upholds, for all the West’s faults.
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  6647.  @Alias_Ex  But you’re telling me they are Russian. If they don’t want to stay in Ukraine why don’t they move?
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  6648. While I personally abhor genuine far-right extremism, there can be no doubt that these so-called ‘far-right’ groups are tapping into a sense of powerlessness that a lot of ordinary people feel (including myself) when they see literally tens of thousands of uncontrolled migrants entering the country (and Europe more generally) every year, with a government seemingly unable (or unwilling? 🤔 ) to do anything about it. Chaotic immigration is currently the main political issue (along with the usual suspects of the cost of living/NHS concerns etc.) for a large proportion of normal Brits who in no way would identify as ‘far-right’. As someone once said, if liberals don’t enforce national borders, fascists will.
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  6649.  @eisberg7681  👍
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  6650.  @sturchshaneai5362  Nae probs, son. I won’t charge you this time.👍
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  6651. Is this one of your lifetime achievements?
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  6652. ‘Walking around money’, Jimbo? 🤔 What? As opposed to ‘sitting down money’ you mean? 🤣👍
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  6653. The Proud Boys sounds like some post-Village People band of uncertain sexuality and the fact they were formed by a fella called ‘Gavin’ only adds to the gheyness! 🤠
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  6654.  @thirly  Yes, but you’d think that as these headliners are getting paid for what they write they might get it right. I’d argue that even if you aren’t getting paid for what you write, you still self-edit, for if you can’t be fannied taking the requisite care and attention over what you’re punting, how do you expect your reader to care a fig (or, indeed, a date) for what you write? Think on.
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  6655.  @AW-zk5qb  You talk about ‘proportion’. America, historically, consistently has 5x the homicide rate of the average European country. 👍
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  6656. Not sure. But he supported Arsenal. A gunner.
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  6657.  @juanmiguelreyesguerr  Aye. Applies to fanatical politicos, too.
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  6658. They fancied a bit of death by chocolate cake.
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  6659. Pmsl.
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  6660.  @mistershade7500  Lol. You call me ‘truly weak’ when you are advocating some strange, self-obsessed repressed homosexual narcissistic who needs to regularly put down 51% of humanity to feel good about himself?! What planet are you on , son?! Planet hypocrisy! 🤣 🌍
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  6661.  @mistershade7500  Lol. 🤣
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  6662. Tate is apparently popular among emasculated little 16 year-old virginal incels; the irony being that no woman (who isn’t paid by him) in her right mind would willingly associate with him.
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  6663.  @TC8787-yq7og  “In the year 2050 the number of Muslims in Sweden would be 1,130,000 (or 11.1% of the population) under the zero migration scenario, 2,470,000 (or 20.5% of the population) under the medium migration scenario, and 4,450,000 (or 30.6% of the population) under the high migration scenario.” (Source: Wikipedia, bro) Now go away, because you clearly can’t deal with truth, bro. 👋
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  6664. *world’s
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  6665.  @graveperil2169  Not to me. I don’t believe in accidents of birth dictating my destiny. If I’m Russian by birth, but not for this war, there should be no way I’m prevented from playing Wimbledon or anywhere else for that matter. Another thing to note here is the deep, deep hypocrisy of the West, for I’m old enough to directly recall Britain’s 2003 illegal invasion of Iraq, but I don’t recall Wimbledon banning all British players that year. Just sayin’!
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  6666. Lol. I didn’t see any blanket bans for British tennis players back in 2003 after Britain’s illegal invasion of Iraq! 🤣
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  6667. You’d almost think Klaus Schwab and his antecedents had all this planned out.😳
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  6668.  @epinephrinsr71  You’ve just contradicted yourself in the space of ten lines. 🥴 ‘Looking at how things are managed in Shanghai, I’m ok with that.’ You then say 6 lines later: ‘But I would’ve revolted if there were put in Shanghai measures.’ Which is it? You either think Shanghai’s reaction was draconian or you don’t? Confused. 🤔
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  6669.  @napolean_ragland  Nah. Just basic grammar, innit.
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  6670.  @razzspice  🥴
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  6671. Huh? How does that work? I’m agnostic. 🥴
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  6672.  @codswallop164 Some dude calling themselves ‘realitythroughmockery’ is having the temerity to call another ‘pretentious’?! 🤣👍🤦‍♂️
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  6673.  @danielgreen2788  Huh? Well, that’s just wishful thinking in the real world, darling. If you don’t take a stance against what you perceive as primitive and barbaric then there is no hope for ’US’ .
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  6674. Adam & Eve have a lot to answer for.
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  6675.  @lucasrem  👈 Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  6676.  @jeanclaudejunior  Because you’re not the unappointed cop of YouTube. D’oh.
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  6677.  @anacc3257  Well, right now, since you ask, you! Ta da!
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  6678. There is a reason these masks cover our collective mouths. Think about it.🤔
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  6679.  @kevinwoplin9322 Yeah, the monarch heard about this and the King’s cross.
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  6680.  @brentjamescollins9731  Neutral here, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  6681. K. Thanks mom. 🙏
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  6682.  @sandiewhite6192  Triggered? 🤓
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  6683. Oh get real, m8. You don’t know you’re born when you can fly from grey, rainy Britain to a sunny Spanish costa in 2 hours for less than the price of a round of drinks! 🍺 🍹
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  6684.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No I’m not and yes I am. Born and bred in the UK. Cope more.
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  6685.  @Native_Non-Gringo  *privilege
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  6686.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  So it’s fine for Europeans to migrate everywhere, but when the boot is on the other foot, that is just not on? Really? Europeans have not a leg to stand on in this debate. Facts.
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  6687.  @DisinfoWatch  Says the non-responsive airhead. So, respond airhead …
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  6688.  @URBeingLiedTo  Respond to what, man? What do you want me to respond to?
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  6689.  @URBeingLiedTo  What? Your first reply was “Legal migration and illegal migration are two distinct things”. And? Your point is, you deep bore?
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  6690.  @ktool4855  Your view of Islam isn’t mine. I’m aware of literally dozens of Muslims in my orbit and they don’t tally with your depiction.
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  6691.  @URBeingLiedTo  Yes I did though. You need better close reading skills.
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  6692.  @ktool4855  I’m agnostic. If religion (any religion) dictates the terms and conditions, there would be push back from me, no matter what the religion.
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  6693.  @URBeingLiedTo  Huh? Did you read my OP or are you just venting? I direct you to the word legal . Simmer more …
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  6694.  @ktool4855  Huh? Wtf. That’s not the point. The point is that Europeans have migrated to virtually every point on this planet since at least 1492. Religion doesn’t come into this. Deal with it.
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  6695.  @DisinfoWatch  Just cos you can’t cope with an OP, don’t pile that on me, sweetie. Just deal with it and move on.
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  6696.  @DisinfoWatch  Again, you’re offering nothing. You need to do more work, sonny.😉
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  6697.  @DisinfoWatch  Still no response? Disingenuous.
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  6698.  @URBeingLiedTo  Huh? Again, another semi-literate personage who tries but can’t.
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  6699.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You can’t deal with the fact I’m European, Johnny. Uh huh.
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  6700.  @DisinfoWatch  No ‘inconsistency’ here. You need better coping strategies. Did you read my OP? If you can’t cope with it, just trot on.😉
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  6701.  @DisinfoWatch  Did you read my OP or are you just venting?
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  6702.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You just can’t deal with facts that you disagree with, John. 😉
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  6703.  @Eechuta  What? You’re not getting this. Once more: Europeans have migrated to every point on this planet for centuries; so, why can’t others do the same thing? And just for the record, my OP clearly stated the legal process. As ever with you types, your close reading skills are never the best.👍
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  6704.  @Eechuta  Man, not sure what your agenda is but you’re boring me. I’ll repeat this in case you missed it: since about 1492 Europeans have been migrating to every corner of this planet. If you accept this, then you have no leg to stand on when a few non Europeans immigrate into Europe.
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  6705.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Did you read my OP, John? Controlled . 😉
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  6706.  @Eechuta  Er, wot? 🥴
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  6707.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  “Native Europeans are mostly Christian”. Really? I must have about 500 people in my orbit and I can honestly say there are about 5 (if that) who are genuinely Christian. You need a better argument, Johnny, as this one is not gonna float.
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  6708.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  That makes no sense. Why do you automatically assume all Europeans are “Christian”?
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  6709. Congratulations. Your life is complete. 👍
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  6710. I always knew Russia was just a bunch of Z-listers. The A-listers in this conflict are the plucky Ukrainians.
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  6711. Looks like Antony certainly is blinken first when it comes to Putin, while his boss, as ever, is just biden his time.
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  6712. Nick Hudson. You stole it from Nick Hudson, Jimbo. I think he has a right to sue for unauthorised use of intellectual capital, Jimbo.👍🤔😉😂
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  6713. C’mon, you didn’t really expect us to believe you knew how to spell ‘prodigiously’ now, did ya, Jimbo? So are you gonna tell us who you stole the quote from, Jimbo? 👍😉
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  6714. Uh huh, Jimbo. Copypasta from others is a wonderful thing when one is a bit fick like you, eh? 👍🤣
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  6715.  @Pining_for_the_fjords Whoosh!
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  6716.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  And what if your son were gay, Jimbo? What would you do? Lock him in a room permanently with only women? 🤩😋😂
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  6717.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *kids’ As you were, Jimbo. 🤨🤨🤨
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  6718. Reports suggest that after he’s removed the remarks, he’s going to play Tucker Carlson in the upcoming biopic.
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  6719. As with all extremists, Le Pen will be all butter wouldn’t melt before being elected, but if she gets in, the gloves will come off and you’ll see her true colours, and it won’t be a pretty sight for a whole host of individuals; if you’re white, Christian, blue-eyed, you should be ok; but the rest?
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  6720.  @johnf4279  Who doesn’t ‘want better’?
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  6721.  @johnf4279  It is; just like Ukraine.
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  6722. America meddles in Latin American politics over centuries, and it wonders why shitty systems it has directly contributed to, cause dirt-poor sods to force themselves into desperate measures to escape their fate. It’s a bit like those fools in Europe who bore on about non-white immigration, without ever taking one second to look at the egregious interference of Europe in the affairs of others since, well, at least 1492.
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  6723.  @enkenk4316  And what about those of us who don’t believe in God?
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  6724. It’s actually all our problem. If you disown this then you can’t complain about future outcomes.
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  6725.  @ChitShatter  Point is that they are allowed to “pick and choose”.
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  6726.  @ChitShatter  To your first point, I got this off the government website: Travel through a safe country can void a UK asylum claim ('third country inadmissibility') The UK Government's position is that refugees should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. The UN Refugee Agency says this is not required by the Refugee Convention or international law. That last sentence explains, in part, why asylum seekers travel through safe countries, along with things like the English language attraction, having relatives in the UK, and France, for example, declining a far higher percentage of asylum applications than the UK, rightly or wrongly.
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  6727.  thomaswilliams1823  Last time I checked, Ukraine was a UN member nation in its own right. For *fook’s sake. 🤦‍♂️
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  6728.  @BenWillock  ‘Our territory’ that just happens to be 1000s of miles away off the coast of Argentina. Yeah, right. The Falkands are just a sorry, pitiful remnant of our dastardly empire and should ultimately return to Argentina. I realise that’s not going to happen as the islands are full of self-designated Brits, but the islands, by rights, should never have been ‘our territory’ in the first place. That’s my point.
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  6729.  @calebmalkavian  Are you even aware of the history of Argentina? I suggest you go away and read a few books and come back to me with better stuff.
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  6730. Congrats to Argentina. Aside from Messi carrying a rather average side over the line, my abiding memory of the World Cup will be that in not one of the televised Argentina games and in not one of the televised reports (see above) did I see a single black face amongst the Argentinian fans, let alone the team itself. Literally not one. Where on Earth are the black Argentinians and do they even exist? Actually, I know the answer to that. There is a tiny minority of blacks in Argentina, but it’s commonly acknowledged by those in the know that blacks have been systematically discouraged (indeed actively been pushed out) from settling in Argentina over the centuries because, whisper it, Argentina is actually a rather racist country. That’ll be it, then.
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  6731. Jimbo, you hypocrite! You play with Gypsy tarts on a regular basis! 🤣
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  6732. ‘Moving forward’? As far as I can see, most breakdancers spin on their heads like spinning tops going precisely nowhere.
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  6733.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You still lusting after that trans woman who won Miss Universe Zimbabwe, Jimbo? 😉
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  6734.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Indeed. Too many, Jimbo. We agree again; 2 in one day! 👍
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  6735.  @bingbong6127  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  6736. How nicely ironic, the Ukrainians bunging Molotov Cocktails at the Russians. A weapon named for a Russian. Here, have some of this!
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  6737.  @robertfranco2464  Usually it’s just the one with the bigger spear.
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  6738.  @GroundhogRoy  1606=17th Century, Roy. You are also welcome.
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  6739.  @djstona5284  Ad Hominem. Always the last resort of the defeated. 👋
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  6740.  @djstona5284  Yeah, and you think a few 21st century folk wouldn’t like to do a few dastardly things to immigrants if they could get away with it?
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  6741.  @Sundae_Times  17th Century if you want to be really accurate. You’re welcome.
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  6742.  @Sundae_Times  Oh, I’ve had these conversations dozens of times over the years, chummo. You can trust me on that one.😉
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  6743.  @Sundae_Times  Huh? I just said it.
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  6744.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  👽👍
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  6745. Unless it’s dry ice.
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  6746.  @Gfw36026  Lol. And you base your decisions on other people’s decisions, do you? If those other people decided to jump into a fire you’d follow them, would you? Popularity doesn’t necessarily equal quality. This is a lesson they clearly never taught you in kindergarten.
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  6747. Yes, but I wouldn’t recommend doing them together.😳
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  6748. Cyclone Freddy Merckx? 🚴
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  6749.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol.🤣👍
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  6750. Why is it so often the wrong people we lose? If this guy wanted to help the world he should have made a trip to the Kremlin. As Bill Hicks put it: “We always kill the guys that try to help us, always. And let the little demons run amok: John Lennon murdered, John Kennedy murdered, Martin Luther King murdered, Gandhi murdered, Jesus murdered … Ronald Reagan … wounded.”
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  6751.    Dude! 🤛
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  6752.    The French guy knows what he’s talking about.
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  6753.  @obamagaming-zv4vy  Another one missing the point. Let me spell it out for you: I am an 👽 and just arrived. I see that one person has £44 billion. I also see that 10,000 are dying every day. Moreover, I can see that at least 43 of this £44 billion may go some way towards alleviating this hunger. After all, how many billions does one person need when 10,000 of your species are dying every day? Well?
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  6754.  @aeliusromanus9338  Why would I want to?
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  6755.  @obamagaming-zv4vy  *It’s
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  6756.  @DeezN1892  Frankly, all my life, I’ve never understood how one can be wholly left or right politically. When I examine my politics, I’m to the right on some stuff, to the left on other stuff, and in the middle on the rest. People who commit to political parties always confuse me, and I inherently distrust them.
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  6757. Is that a euphemism, Jimbo? 🙄😉
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  6758. Why we are giving the French millions of quid to sort out the migrant boat issue their end, is a complete mystery. It’s simply not in France’s interests to lift a finger to do anything when they see migrants leaving their shores to head for the UK. It’s simply one less migrant they won’t have to deal with. 🛶
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  6759. I spoke to my regular London cabbie, Tel Aviv, and he told me, Netanya life, and that if Israel continues to Jerusalem artichoke the Palestinians, there might be Acremony.
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  6760. 1:46 “31 is implausible. It would be like humans being 200 years old.” Methuselah has just turned in his grave.
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  6761.  @amirsayed6656  That may be so. Human beings are incredibly tribal beings. That’s all. We like people like us, and are automatically suspicious of those we perceive as not like us.
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  6762. Everyone is tribal. Did you not get the memo?😳
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  6763. *won’t *it’s *won’t *it’s
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  6764. @ Who? Trump? Yes he did. 77,303,573 votes vs Harris’ 75,019,257 votes. 👍
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  6765. He made every single other American look intelligent. 😳
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  6766. Wtf. Slightly ironic coming from someone from Iceland, which is full of squinty-eyed inbreds.
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  6767. Ugh. You’re deeply creepy. 😩
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  6768. North/South America, Australia and New Zealand for native peoples. 👌
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  6769.  @lorenzodemarin7783  Stay in Italy, then. I would.😉
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  6770. Yeah, but can you put up with the bad weather, bad food and bad teeth?
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  6771. *affect
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  6772. ‘Failed’ artist.
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  6773.  @yoobrynner9492  ‘Centre-right’ also used. It’s actually probably a mixture. She’s on the right of centre-right.
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  6774.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔 Tragic. 🤦‍♂️
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  6775.  @shadowmaydawn  That’s fine. However, I’m going to repeat this as it’s important: it’s none of my business if a woman wants to abort after 21 weeks. 1 week, 10 weeks, 21 weeks? It’s none of my business.
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  6776.  @yanx4797  I think you missed my point, so I’ll repeat it: what another woman decides to do with her body is none of your or my business.
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  6777.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Just for the record, even if I were a bot, that doesn’t invalidate the comment. 🤖
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  6778. Smelly Delhi on the telly.
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  6779.  @saikatghosh5692  K, pedant. Ty for that.👍🤦‍♂️
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  6780. Didn’t get many upvotes for this one did ya, Clydey baby? 😉 Never mind, son. Better luck next time. 👍
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  6781.  @dibsdib3697  Agreed. It’s not particularly scientific. That’s a large black mark against Freud. But we are dealing with the most complex thing we are aware of in the Universe. Not only is the brain aware of its surroundings, but it knows that it knows. It knows itself, or is aware of itself thinking. Tremendously complex systems.
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  6782.  @davidnoelfranks1124  I said ‘citizen’ soldiers. The Azov Battalion makes up less than 1% of the whole Ukrainian army; something which is never mentioned very much, it seems.
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  6783. Putin: often seen riding horses. Macron gifts Xi Jinping with a horse. Kim Jong Un very publicly riding a white horse in a recent North Korean propaganda film. All I’m saying is, if we ever see Iran’s Supreme Leader on a horse, we may just have our 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 🐎 🐴 🐎 🐴
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  6784.  @tobyjackman3212  Yeah, I thought that about his/her comment. Tells us all about rivers and mocks everyone else for having an opinion about a river! 🤣
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  6785.  @breaktide251  Yes, but can we have that in English, please?😳
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  6786. … of work is a man?🥸
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  6787. Looolz.🤣
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  6788. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  6789. *were
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  6790. Kinda is, sunshine. Not sure why folks are denying that this planet is clearly warming; the only issue to settle is if this is manmade warming.
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  6791. You cared enough to write “who cares”.
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  6792.  @Patrick-y4d1z  On what basis does the Gaza Strip “rightfully belong to Israel”?
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  6793.  @EngineVSEngine  No, I’m not saying that. Nice try, though.👍
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  6794.  @Patrick-y4d1z  I just want a just peace here. I genuinely don’t care about taking sides in this as I have no connection with any party. Looking at this as a wholly impartial observer I see brutality on both sides; mainly from the Israeli state and Hamas.
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  6795.  @AFloridaSon  Neutral in the sense I don’t favour one side over the other.👍
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  6796.  @lfeb  It’s a godless religion, but it’s a religion in the sense that it upholds a whole metaphysical superstructure just like the theistic religions. It’s not abstract in the way much philosophy is.
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  6797. Uh huh. But Jimbo, the report’s about a Pakistani train crash. Do keep up at the back. Choo choo!🚂
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  6798.  @ironbutterflyrusted  Keep knocking on that green door, mate! 👍
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  6799.  @robtrunley  Lol. 😉
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  6800.  @robtrunley  Fair play, Rob. Oi! They missed a trick with your name, eh? @robtrainley 🚂
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  6801.  @cz2301  Do they? Are you sure? Would have thought the big boss crocks it first, given their greater responsibility.
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  6802.  @HarleyFirestorm  Fair point, well made. We have always been, quite literally, cut adrift from the rest. Agreed.
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  6803.  @lamestreammedia3154  But apostrophes would be good. *don’t
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  6804.  @MarchonWestminster  Where did I say I have a love of demographic replacement? Yeah, that’s right: nowhere! You need to sack your current researcher and hire a new one, son.👍
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  6805.  @MarchonWestminster  Huh? Where do Europeans not have ‘sovereignty’? 🤔
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  6806.  @mordie31  Projecting again, Mickey? 👍😉
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  6807. What seems consistently overlooked in all this, is that this current nonsense since February 2022 can really be dated to 2013, when pro-Russian President Yanukovych rejected a deal for greater European integration. Protests ensued. Yanukovych tried to quell these violently, and was removed in what was essentially a coup (no doubt a Western-backed coup). Since 2014, a pro-Western regime has reigned in Ukraine. Ukraine is almost 50/50 split down the middle between those who look East and those who look West. The 2010 election results demonstrated this, where Yanukovych received 49% of the vote, with the great majority of his supporters living East of the Dnieper, while his pro-Western rival, Tymoshenko, received 46% of the vote, with the vast majority of of her supporters living West of the Dnieper. (The colour-code map on Wikipedia starkly shows this East/West split.) In other words, this is complicated. Those of us with no skin in the game can clearly see Russia’s illegal invasion is wrong. But we can also see that the behaviour of the pro-Western Ukrainian government towards ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the East of the country is equally wrong. The only way out of this mess, given the demographics and the voting patterns outlined, may be to create an East Ukraine and a West Ukraine.
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  6808.  Alex Perez  Yeah, but we know that since 1850 the average global temperature has risen by over 1 degree Celsius. This is kinda uncommon in terms of the speed of warming given the 4 billion year old Earth.
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  6809. David Attenborough: “Hans off my Zimmer frame!”
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  6810. More egg and chips, Jimbo?😆
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  6811. I’ve got him in a headlock.
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  6812. Triggered, much?🤣He’s behind you! 😂
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  6813. Well, that’ll certainly take the chill off the Sauvignon Blanc. 🍷 This is really a question of priorities. People use the argument that France shouldn’t have given so much aid to Ukraine, but to date, that has been about $300 million - a drop in the ocean, when compared to the billions pensions cost per year. The other thing to factor in here is that France is 3rd in a list of OECD countries in terms of the proportion of its GDP pensions take up, at 14%. For comparison, the UK is 5%. Pushing back the retirement age by two years and extending the pay-in period would yield an additional 17.7 billion euros ($19.0 billion) in annual pension contributions, allowing the system to break even by 2027. Economically, Macron’s measure makes sense, but the way it has been done is awful and undemocratic, and the only reason he bypassed a vote was he knew it would be voted down. After Denmark, France is the second highest taxed country in Europe, but my own proposal would be to raise the tax threshold for the top band earners in France, and let the middle and lower income workers retire at 62 after a life of work. After all, the rich can retire at any point they want! The less rich don’t have the luxury of that choice. As Thomas Jefferson said: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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  6814.  @internetenjoyer1044  So if they were right, and she was 1 mile from the bench, why couldn’t they locate her in 24 days, assuming she wasn’t dumped by some wicked individual after the sonar/diver search? If she’s been there 24 days, this is serious incompetence.
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  6815.  @Tannhauser62  Wow. Someone just got triggered. 😤
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  6816. This would’ve put Burke & Hare out of business back in the day. ⚰️
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  6817.  @jaycearoo  Perhaps. Depends what the Hebrew’s brewing, I suppose. If he’s brewing Typhoo, bring it on! You only get an Oo (and a Hebrew) with Typhoo! 🫖 ☕️
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  6818. Yes. Clearly ‘aliens’. 🤦‍♂️
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  6819.  @louderanimationTV  I’m going to say this again for the benefit of the slacker in the back of the class: just as no human being has ever chosen their skin colour (Michael Jackson doesn’t count), no human being who has ever lived has ever consciously chosen whom they are attracted to. It’s utterly outwith our conscious control, therefore to hate on someone for their skin colour or sexuality is utterly stoopid. But … and it’s a big but … even if … I repeat, even if , skin colour and sexuality were conscious choices it still wouldn’t bother me one iota what another’s skin colour or sexuality was. There now: that wasn’t too difficult was it? 🎉 Ta da!
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  6820.  @louderanimationTV  Did you read my post? Even if we do choose our sexuality, it wouldn’t bother me one iota that someone else has a different sexuality to me. 😉 Just for the record, though, we clearly don’t consciously choose our sexuality. I never “decided” to be heterosexual; it just happened.
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  6821.  @muckraker7942  Says the prat who believes in an invisible sky daddy!🤣
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  6822.  @anacc3257  Correction: it’s not an “aggressive stance” in favour of abortion; it’s a stance in favour of a woman’s right to choose. Big difference. Think on.😉
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  6823.  @A2Z2REAL  Nope, at this point it’s 77 for me. Not sure what you’re looking at.
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  6824. But the fact you exist, Jimbo, might very well be! 🤣
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  6825. It’s at times like this that one consoles oneself with the thought that there are more suns 🌞 in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on this planet. 🏝 Extrapolation tells one that that means there are even more planets! 🌎 Cogitating on this for a moment lightens the burden: we are quite literally no more than microscopic dust on one grain of sand of which there are trillions and trillions. We are dots in the Universe; ultimately, devoid of meaning.
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  6826.  @treasuretrails  Jelly? Yes, please! With lashings of ice cream! 🍨
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  6827. No war in New Zealand cos you lot are too busy shagging sheep. 🐑
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  6828.  @maggie6479  Well, if they are, I’m against it. If they are dogs doing what dogs do, I have no issue. Dogs were not bred to sit around all day.
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  6829.  @maggie6479  Totally disagree. If these dogs are loved and fed properly, there is absolutely nothing they would rather be doing than running in the wilds of Canada. If you get rogue owners who don’t treat their dogs right, that has nothing to do with the vast majority of dog owners who enter this race with absolute love for their canines.
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  6830.  @richjones4956  Lol.👍
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  6831.  @sexynelson100  👍 ✈️
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  6832.  @sexynelson100  More a “Snooker Loopy” fella, myself.
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  6833. So many comments here about how could this happen again to Japan and so soon into 2024. These people have clearly never read and absorbed Albert Camus’ It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
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  6834. This just perpetuates our dangerous world of realpolitik. By all means, if Taiwan chooses to be supplied with most of its arms from the US, then so be it, but for America to actually be willing to militarily meddle itself in what is a local Sino-Taiwanese issue, only takes us a minute nearer to midnight on that Doomsday Clock.
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  6835.  @cadebritt8001  Lol.
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  6836.  @cadebritt8001  ‘Call for my head’? Is that another euphemism? 🤓
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  6837.  @myawallaceee  Weird. Given that the US is far and away the world’s number 1 oil producer.
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  6838.  @robbomax2397  No. Fuck-all to do with that, mate. It’s just my neighbours.
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  6839.  gingerale  Not sure about that. My theory is simpler than that: she was kept in rather nice conditions. It was made clear by the Iranians from day 1 that they wanted the £400 million they were owed by the UK but UK reluctant as appeared too much like paying a ransom even although it was a debt. No sense though that she was chained to radiators in a dark room for years a la Waite, McCarthy et al. The hardship was her freedom was taken but she wasn’t abused in any physical way. After all, she was in her country of birth, no matter how much they may have seen her as a traitor.
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  6840.  @rogerkleemann1691  Neutral here, pal. Any objective view here can clearly see Russia is on her uppers and Putin is on a downer. And I can’t stand Zelensky.
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  6841.  @JeffreyGoddin  OP: “Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.”
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  6842.  @JeffreyGoddin  Huh, again? Did you read the OP? Pain, for me, is the key issue here.
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  6843.  @JeffreyGoddin  Huh? All the evidence points to no pain being felt by a foetus without a developed brain/CNS. The neuroanatomical apparatus required for pain and sensation is not complete until about 26 weeks into pregnancy. As the upper limit worldwide for termination is 24 weeks, and the vast majority of pregnancies are terminated well before this (most in the first 9 weeks in the UK), the question of foetal pain is a complete red herring. So, Jeffrey, I’ve got myself completed ‘sorted’ ty. 😉
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  6844.  @sebastianguerre6868  For me, a woman raped, has more right to abort than the rights of that unborn to be born. That’s just my feeling. Instinct. Opinion. You can disagree. Fine. All I know is that if I were a rape-victim I would be seeking an abortion at the earliest opportunity, and moreover, I would be seeking this whether abortion were illegal or not.
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  6845.  @JeffreyGoddin  Huh? This issue is one of black and white for me. No cowardice. If a woman is raped her right to choose to abort trumps the right of that unborn. So in that specific case I’m very clear. No ambiguity.
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  6846.  @lukemurray4950  You didn’t read me did you? I said I would restrict it to certain cases. You also ignored my other point: if you ban them they happen anyway and the stats bear this out. Reducing access to abortion doesn’t quell the demand for abortion, and making abortion illegal simply makes abortion less safe. Evidence suggests that the abortion rate is approximately equal in countries with and without legal abortion.
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  6847.  @lukemurray4950  I have no intrinsic problem with aborting a foetus providing it’s done early enough in the gestation to obviate unnecessary pain. I would also restrict it to certain cases: mainly rape/ incest/children who have been impregnated etc. Pain is my only real consideration here. To have a blanket ban on this (of which this case above isn’t one, I realise) is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut and if you ban it, it just goes underground and occurs anyway.
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  6848.  @kant.68  Oh man. I’m done with this debate. Move on. I’ll just repeat: Tbf, not sure we actively, consciously choose our sexual urges and whom we fancy. Obviously, paedophilia is a bad thing, but it’s not like I, a heterosexual, can just suddenly decide to fancy men. I had no real say in the matter of my heterosexuality. 👍
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  6849.  @kant.68  The actual desire is not a choice! Ffs. How many times? Can you consciously choose whom you sexually desire? No. When it becomes a choice is the point when the desire is acted out.
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  6850.  @kant.68  Not “normalising” anything. I’m asking a philosophical question. If you’re scared of the possible answer, that’s your problem, not mine.
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  6851.  @Lilia.....  Bs. No one consciously chooses whom they fancy. It’s never a choice. The choice comes in acting out; the actual fact of desiring or being attracted to isn’t a choice. As I said earlier, I can’t consciously choose whom I fancy no matter how hard I try.
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  6852.  @NewSonicLight  No it’s not. I wholly disapprove of paedophilia. Asking a pertinent philosophical question is not a “tacit approval” of anything. It’s an objective questioning of our collective reality. Nice try, though.👍
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  6853.  @RembrandtRasmus  I suppose I was just positing the idea that if the images were 100% artificially generated would it still be ‘paedophilia’?
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  6854.  @theageofgoddess  Pmsl@“watching porn of any kind strengthens deviance and pedophilic behaviour.”🤣 Utter bs.
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  6855.  @Doc.O.K.  Thousands?!?! Last time I checked there have been 166 crewed NASA flights.
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  6856.  @termanator525  You tell me “termanator” (sic). sniggers
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  6857.  @tak6455  Lol. Who started this?🤣
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  6858.  @Domino13334  Er, that was the original gag. 🥴
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  6859.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Jimbo is communing with the single member of his fan club!🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣🩸
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  6860.  @briaredpath9386  Lol. We have found Jimbo’s fan club; and it has a member of 1! 🤣
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  6861. 🥱 Jesus, this is so tiresome, Jimbo. So boring. So primitive. So stupid.
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  6862.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No evidence, Jimbo. You’re living A LIE based on nothing. Nice try though, son.👍 Btw, most educated people use full-stops. 😉 You’re clearly under-educated, Jimbo.🤣
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  6863.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. 🤡 🤣
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  6864.  @kaicee5463  Huh? 🤔 Was that one meant for me? 🤷‍♂️
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  6865. Lame, lazy comment.
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  6866.  @velvaka  ‘Jocking’? Yes, the Scots are.
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  6867. Reports suggest the virus circulating in the French camp pre-game, was made in a lab in Rosario, Argentina: it’s called the ‘Messiinfluencea’ virus! It’s an Mbappé old game.🤓 ⚽️
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  6868. Why is it, Jimbo, that those who bark loudest about “homogeneity” and “indigenousness” are always those people I’d least want to share my genes with? 🤔
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  6869. Dingleberry.😂
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  6870. @0:20 Messi gets to sleep with the best ‘trophy wife’ in the world. 🏆
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  6871.  @hewas_chewasky  😉
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  6872. Hmm. Well, there was a rumour Hitler had a thing for men from Hungary; after all, they are Hung Aryans.😳
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  6873. My commiserations.
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  6874.  @carolinebjerkelund767  The likes of Jason don’t know what a book is, let alone a history book! 👍
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  6875.  @carolinebjerkelund767  No. Tragically, he isn’t joking. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  6876. Only way this conflict is going to end anytime soon is if Putin pops his clogs. There is absolutely zero chance of him leaving Ukraine without territory and there is absolutely zero chance of Ukraine ceding that territory. Result: stalemate for what could quite possibly be years.
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  6877. You cared enough to point out how pointless you found it: ergo, even for you it wasn’t completely ‘pointless’.😉
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  6878.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  That shut you up, Johnny son.😳
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  6879. The missing children at sea are already dead. The billionaire may not be.
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  6880.  @unoworld9126  I’m not spreading any ‘hatred in India’. I have no connection to India whatsoever. I’m speaking as a non-national, neutral human observer, and what I observe is organised religion causing all sorts of problems on the planet I happen to live on. That’s all.
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  6881.  @jen30551  “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” (Blaise Pascal)
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  6882.  @samratmalik9638  Did I? Thought it was Pirsig’s!
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  6883.  @Silverbeardedsurfer  Well said. 👏
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  6884.  @Chad-qk1ig  Triggered, much?😳
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  6885.  @simonsimon325  To be fair, Simon, after 1969 there were other moon landings. All documented. More copium?🤓
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  6886.  @bigdaddyrat7854  Methinks you missed Simon Simon’s irony there.
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  6887. Men are dark, strange and often very evil creatures. Say what you like about women but, as a rule, they rarely plumb the depths we men do. Just for the record, those f*ckers lining up are just as culpable as the husband, if not more so, as they could simply have refused to do his evil bidding.
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  6888.  @happyjonn9242  Roger.
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  6889. One day soon, I will look at BBC news and not see the word ‘conflict’ juxtaposed with ‘Sudan’. And there go the flying pigs 🐖 🐖 🐖 …
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  6890. Er, wrong. A pothole is a chunk of asphalt that is missing from the roadway. A sinkhole is where the asphalt is intact but has sunk due to instability of the ground beneath it. This is a sinkhole. The clue is in the sinking. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  6891.  @johnlemon1863  Lol. Just because you voted for someone you automatically thereby approve of their every act?! Get real. That logic’s bollocks, m8. Eg. How many people voted for the Labour government that went to war in Iraq but were against the war. Uh huh.👍😉
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  6892.  @cosmo43095  Read my OP. Hamas are not the vast majority of Palestinians.
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  6893. Human beings, asininely tribal as we are, to the point of inbreeding, are unlikely to be able to escape the nightmare of nationalism with our current unevolved consciousness. My feeling is that we are at the point where our technology has outrun our wisdom and unless we have a radical collective shift in consciousness and intuitively identify with what we should have been identifying with from day 1, the Earth, then it’s very likely curtains for life as we know it on this planet, Jim.
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  6894.  @cosimodirondo972  Here’s British onlooker Hugh Jarse-Cockburn as to whom the land belongs to: “Mother Nature. We humans are simply temporary renters and, as such, don’t ‘own’ any land. Organised religion and nationalism has turned the human species into something crazy, mad and demented with the mania of owning things.”
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  6895. Scottish scenery is overrated. I say that as a Scot. It’s bleak, treeless, often grey and can’t compete with at least 100 other countries that instantly spring to mind.
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  6896. Are you? Thank you muchly.👍
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  6897. True. That’s why they ignored Trump.
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  6898. What you got against Ernie?
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  6899.  @Sundae_Times  Lol. Touché.
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  6900. Translation: she didn’t agree with me.
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  6901. I bless the rains down in India.
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  6902.  @peakmiez7825  You have no clue who or what I am, so kindly do one.
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  6903. Sounds worryingly like they are softening us up for NATO’s direct involvement in this war. Hell, you’d almost think they’ve planned this!
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  6904. Lol. Wtf? Your comment reminds me of the classic Bill Hicks joke: “I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.”
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  6905. They come from Iceland, dummy.
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  6906.  @paulgibbons2320  You can’t be a human being and not have an agenda, Paul.😉
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  6907.  @neilwheel  I am… a human being. Ta da! 🎉
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  6908.  @tastypymp1287  Uh huh. That’ll be why it's considered one of the safest cities in the world, ranking 6th in The Economist's Safe Cities Index. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, SaltyTwat.
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  6909. Uh huh. That’ll be why it's considered one of the safest cities in the world, ranking 6th in The Economist's Safe Cities Index. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, SaltyTwat.
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  6910. *homing
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  6911. I think I’ve seen this quote 112 times today alone!
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  6912. Horrible way to go. Essentially buried alive, only at sea and not on land. Life would be so much more tolerable if we all knew we were going to die peacefully and painlessly in a dreamless sleep without any foreknowledge of exactly when . It’s not death itself most of us fear but how we die. Woody Allen nailed this: “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't won’t to be there when it happens.”
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  6913. Not quite true. There was extensive coverage of that tragic event. Difference here is that this is an ongoing live event. There’s also the “Titanic factor” here.
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  6914.  @js66613  At what point did I say you could ‘just live off pasta’? Yeah. Nowhere. I just said there’s nothing wrong with it in one’s diet. Stop imputing stuff to me that I never said.
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  6915.  @VedoLeStelle5  Indeed. Just making the point that pasta is a rather large part of Italians’ diet. S’all.😉
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  6916.  @VedoLeStelle5  Italy eats over 4x more pasta than any other country on this planet. They also have one of the highest life expectancies. I repeat, looks like pasta may be rather good for people, after all. 🍝
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  6917.  @VedoLeStelle5  Country Pasta Consumption(in metric tonnes) Per Capita Consumption 1 The United States 2,700,000 m/t 8.8 kg per person 2 Italy 1,540,846 m/t 26.0 kg per person 3 Brazil 1,195,000 m/t 6.2 kg per person 4 Russia 1,128,188 m/t 7.8 kg per person 5 Germany 650,000 m/t 8.1 kg per person. I rest my case.
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  6918. @Jay Dee A bit more sneezeable, too. Atchoo! 🤧
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  6919.  @TR0X3N  I’m of the opinion that the 1.5/2 degree warmth we are experiencing is directly caused by human activity, so you may have misunderstood me.
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  6920.  @wolfiestreet6899  Reading much of your comments, the real fanatic could be you. Have you heard yourself? Here’s a mirror 🪞.
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  6921.  @wolfiestreet6899  Fanatic? Not me, sunshine. I work off data and facts.
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  6922.  @craigruchman7007  Tell that to Whiteley, son. You don’t need to convince me here. You’re preaching to the converted.
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  6923. Tell that to Indians, who have been frying for months on end now.
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  6924. Yawn
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  6925. $430B? Well, given that in 2021 the US defence budget was $800B, this is surely a relative drop in the ocean.
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  6926.  @jesusyvictoria  ‘…we have just changed the religion which we are blaming for our problems.’ Just for the record, atheist/agnostic Jews were also Nazi targets. It wasn’t specifically about religion. Islam is different. Islam is overtly more political.
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  6927.  @jesusyvictoria  This is why the fake term ‘Islamophobia’ is so dangerous: It insinuates that any reservations about Islam must ipso facto be ‘phobic’. A phobia is an irrational fear or dislike. Islamic preaching very often manifests precisely this feature, which is why suspicion of it is by no means irrational. (Christopher Hitchens)
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  6928.  @bignumbers  As to America being 5x the population of the UK. Well, yes, but in America in 2017, there were almost 11,000 gun deaths. In the UK, in the year to March 2020, a total of 30 people died as result of gun crime. 11,000 versus 30. That’s not 5x more gun deaths; that’s 367x times more gun deaths! So, the population argument is a complete non-starter. Yes, there are social/cultural differences between the States and the UK, but not necessarily differences so great that they explain a 367x discrepancy in gun death stats. No, I would argue, that a huge proportion of the difference is down to the ridiculously easy legal access to guns in America.
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  6929.  @bignumbers  So, just to be clear, you would do absolutely nothing to address the mass killings in America by looking at gun laws?
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  6930.  @Jismysis  Huh? I made my principal point in the OP. It seems dozens agree with me. Deal with it.
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  6931.  @Jismysis  I did live there, fool. 5 years all told. Cope harder.
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  6932.  @Coldnewton  No. But I did.
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  6933.  @jeanclaudejunior  Jimbo hates everyone and everything. People like that are always tragic. And ultimately crushingly dull. In Jimbo’s tragic case, he has not the mind nor wit to make his boring hatred even mildly interesting or amusing, eh Jimbo?😜
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  6934.  @Moonscafe7  Of course they have, but we were bludgeoned in this movie with the utter idiocy of men.
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  6935.  @ArtistHusna_Tee  👍😉
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  6936.  @ArtistHusna_Tee  That was ATee’s joke! 😉
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  6937. Yeah, because the death penalty in the US sure is an effective deterrent.👍
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  6938. I think you mean ‘Shiite’.
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  6939. It’s nuffink 2 do wiv Jordan Peterson impressions. It 2 do wiv facts innit. 👍🤓🙄
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  6940.  @WilliamStewart-tk9dj Yeah, the point was made in the OP, but he/she let his/her prejudice get the better of him/her. 👍
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  6941.  @EmilyBoltz I live in the UK, not the US. However, I did live in the US for a year back in 1995/6. Here’s what I observed on this score: if I publicly criticised Jesus, I didn’t fear for my life. Here in the UK (and elsewhere), if you’re a public figure and suggest Islam isn’t all that and directly criticise Muhammad, then your life could very well be in danger. That’s the difference. Significant elements of Islam in 2024 - hell, this stuff goes back to at least 1989 and ‘The Satanic Verses’ - are as intolerant of those who question it as general Christianity was before the Reformation/Enlightenment.
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  6942. The key issue for many European people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s mass Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. Just a couple of weeks ago, we had an Islamic dude wanting a Scottish island all to himself and his followers as an ‘Islamic caliphate’. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when stories like this would’ve been an April Fool’s joke! As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic by 2050. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  6943.  @reginageorge4  And I said: Using “groomer” in every sentence isn’t an argument. It’s just a tic you seemingly can’t control. Those of us with brains need more, hen.😉👨
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  6944.  @reginageorge4  And I said: Using “groomer” in every sentence isn’t an argument. It’s just a tic you seemingly can’t control. Those of us with brains need more, hen.😉👨
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  6945.  @TheBRICSNations  I have zero problem with 2 consenting adults having incestual sex as long as no children are produced. 😊
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  6946.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  6947.  @tastypymp1287  Neither do you. 👍
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  6948.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  6949.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  6950.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Fully flesh and blood here. Cope more, sonny. Uh huh.👍😉
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  6951.  @PamelaGreen354  Me? Hoodwinked? Hardly. I’ve studied this stuff to degree level, love.
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  6952.  @olivere5497  Carbon offset.😉
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  6953.  @The_Reality_Filter  You tell me.
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  6954. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day”😳
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  6955.  @gdewyg  🤣👈😉
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  6956.  @hacklex974  A bit of charlie, in moderation, sometimes gets one through the day.😉
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  6957. Xi Jinping: “People of China, I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank me for re-electing me.”
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  6958.  @sergiovergaramontemiranda2116  Yes you did: “Vergara”.
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  6959. It’s you.
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  6960.  @NakedSageAstrology  Neither’s astrology.
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  6961.  @BrownDaddy007  Why thank you, sir. For a second there, I thought, à la Chazzy baby, you might be depriving me of my human right to call my lounge my lounge. As you’re not, I’ll let you off. 👍😉
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  6962.  @nicolajohnson1887  Yeah, Nicola, Chazzy baby has issues. He can’t seem to cope with people having a lounge. He seems to have a prejudice against there being lounges in houses. He needs to seek help forthwith for this lounge condition. 👍😉
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  6963.  @BrownDaddy007  And my favourite place to lounge is in my lounge.
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  6964.  @EE-kt8sh  The root cause is religion.
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  6965.  @ayoolukoga9829  ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  6966. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  6967.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You used that one the other day, Jimbo. Put another record on the needle, son.
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  6968. It can all be summed up in that most pretentious, wanky, ‘look-at-me’ word that became fashionable a couple of decades ago: ‘designer’. The new one they use to fool us with stuff, well actually 2 new ones, are ‘bespoke’ and ‘boutique’. Oh, and ‘artisan’. Any time you see these words being used to flog you stuff, you know you’ll be paying over the odds.
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  6969. Er, I think you’ll find Aled Jones is a singer who also works as a presenter. You sound like a rather bitter poor person.
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  6970.  @6Tabazan6  😉
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  6971.  @fredo1070  Not trolling anyone, m8. Just pointing out your pernicious, dangerous logic.
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  6972.  @fredo1070  Uh huh. You descend to political party points scoring and ignore the fact you’re victim blaming. Nice dodge, m8.👍
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  6973.  @fredo1070  In many parts of the world, they do. Moreover, again you’re blaming the law-abiding citizen, not the criminal. You’ve got it the wrong way round.
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  6974. @K G For me, in all these things, I look to the will of the majority; and, as far as I can gather the vast majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia, if it means being ruled by them. This seems clear. Not sure how, after 300,000-odd years of human ‘evolution’, we can’t just respect this. This seems to be a fact: the vast majority of Ukrainian citizens want nothing to do with Russia, if that means being subsumed into that latter country . Given this, not sure why this is so difficult, aside from one power-crazed fuctard throwing his weight around.
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  6975.  @Christfollower89  To be fair, it wasn’t anyone’s land. A bunch of Jews just happened to live there, but it wasn’t their land; just in the same way I was born randomly, arbitrarily somewhere, but by that birth, I don’t automatically claim the land. I just live there, s’all. Accident of birth. We are all just born somewhere; claiming eternal land rights from that accident of birth doesn’t compute.
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  6976.  @EGvids1  Well, it kinda is a question, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much kerfuffle over it.
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  6977. Peterson is bad enough; but 100x worse are his drooling fanboys, or gobble-boys, as I like to call them. They are unendurable, and far, far more dangerous than Jordy himself. Woe betide you if you dare critique even a single notion of Peterson’s in their presence, as they will be on you like a pack of rabid hounds. Scary stuff. Also, they exactly mirror the ideologues on the left that they affect to disdain, in that their tolerance for intolerance of Peterson is possibly at a lower threshold than that of the fervid leftist ideologues, whenever one critiques their ideas.
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  6978.  @alexandrewilson5388  Lol.
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  6979. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris demands emergency meeting with whomever is in charge of America’s immigration policy.
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  6980.  @elizabethstanley4541  You are in the minority.
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  6981. @Mark S No. I saw that. You were back pedalling and you didn’t acknowledge it.
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  6982.  @oneGypsy  😉
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  6983. Yes, the bottom of the sea.
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  6984. They might have to consider renaming Newfoundland, ‘Oldlostland’.
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  6985. Cute dimples.
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  6986. ‘Karma’ is actually a Hindu/Buddhist doctrine, Jimbo. Ffs. man, if yer gonna make crass comments at least get yer basic organised religions correct, son!🤣
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  6987.  @sebastianguerre6868  Have you factored the idea that people may have blocked you into your equations?😳
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  6988.  @bluecollarworker7560  ‘Younger lot’? Moi? If only you knew.
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  6989.  @AccountFour-w2o  Uh huh. But since 2004, there has been well over 150 Islamic attacks on mainland Europe. I’ll pin this on a particularly toxic brand of Islam. And stop upvoting yourself. It’s not cool.
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  6990. Not nearly as stoopid as some big man in the sky with a beard making it all. 👍😉
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  6991.  @Tyler_Fuller  Projection? 😊
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  6992. So, why do no other comparable nations have this homicide issue to the same extent? I would say that why they don’t, is because they limit access to legal guns. This 18 year-old freak would, arguably, not have done this if he were not able to walk into a gun store and buy one, no questions asked, no vetting, nothing. If you make guns so free and easy, you are going to get people being free and easy with guns. Other nations recognise this, and legislate for this. America doesn’t. Why? The archaic, primitive 2nd Amendment, protected by those who accept fortunes from gun lobbyists to maintain the status quo (“Love of money is the root of all evil”). America, Guatemala, Mexico: no other nation on Earth allows their citizens this kind of legal access to deadly assault weapons. They don’t allow this for a very good reason. It’s as clear as day to everyone aside from those in America upholding this stupidity in the face of the daily evidence. As Einstein said apropos ‘insanity’: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. That’s America vis-a-vis guns.
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  6993.  @zapfanzapfan  As I say, this is (mainly) a human problem; not necessarily a planetary problem.
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  6994. Lol.
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  6995. Lol. And no one ever gets killed on land.🤣
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  6996. @0:17-0:27 Lol. Looks like our reporter Graham is so excited he just let one rip! 💨 Someone get that biddy behind him an oxygen mask! 😷 😆
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  6997. Nah. Toulouse is cooler.
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  6998.  @djbbdfggh  Wow! You seem triggered. Cope and seethe.🤣
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  6999.  @yonatanollech6908  Yeah, and like with your name you’re going to be impartial in all this. I am.
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  7000.  @Jwiznat  ‘Good faith’? How dare you, Sir/Madam (delete as applicable). I’m a fully paid-up member of the agnostic brigade! 😆
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  7001.  @Jwiznat  We finally got there.👍
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  7002.  @Jwiznat  Agreed. But this particular conflict is fundamentally religious. That’s all I’m saying.
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  7003.  @Jwiznat  I never said it was ‘monocausal’. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driven by several factors: ethnic, national, historical, and religious. Religious identity is the key factor that impacts this issue existentially. Why is religion at the core of this conflict? Several religious factors pertinent to Islam and Judaism dictate the role of religion as the main factor in the conflict, notably including the sanctity of holy sites and the apocalyptic narratives of both religions, which are detrimental to any potential for lasting peace between the two sides. Extreme religious Zionists in Israel increasingly see themselves as guardians and definers of how the Jewish state should be, and are very stringent when it comes to any concessions to the Arabs. On the other hand, Islamist groups in Palestine and elsewhere in the Islamic world advocate the necessity of liberating the “holy” territories and sites for religious reasons, and preach violence and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people. Religion-based rumors propagated by extremists in the media and social media about the hidden religious agendas of the other side exacerbate these tensions. Examples include rumors about a “Jewish Plan” to destroy al Aqsa mosque and build the Jewish third temple on its remnants, and, on the other side rumors that Muslims hold the annihilation of Jews at the core of their belief. In addition, worsening socio-economic conditions in the Arab and Islamic world contribute to the growth of religious radicalism, pushing a larger percentage of youth towards fanaticism, and religion-inspired politics. The advent of the Arab spring, ironically, also posed a threat to Arab-Israeli peace, as previously stable regimes were often challenged by extreme political views. A prominent example was the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who after succeeding to the presidency in 2012, threatened to compromise the peace agreement with Israel based on their religious ideology – even if they did not immediately tear up the treaty. My main point is simply, that organised religion has fundamentally caused this issue.
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  7004. Wtf are you on about? We all came out of Africa.
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  7005.  @Azune783  Posted twice. Cope.😉
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  7006.  @KhoPhi  You can’t expect much cheer from someone who has a crumpy horn.
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  7007.  @vervetech9395  Pmsl.🤣
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  7008.  @jamesgo2014  Huh? I will repeat: Yeah, but I’d rather live in Britain or the US, for all their faults, than the brutal non-democracies littering Africa right now.
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  7009.  @jamesgo2014  Yeah, but I’d rather live in Britain or the US, for all their faults, than the brutal non-democracies littering Africa right now.
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  7010.  @cyantess8423  Seethe better.
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  7011.  @sengamemela3720  Disagree. Churchill was right about it being the worst political system we’ve invented apart from all the others. You got any better ideas?
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  7012.  @Lominosnufc  I disagree with non-consented to Western interference in any country. I’m anti-colonialist. All I’m pointing out is that you can’t lay the fact that only 1 out of 54 African countries is a full democracy wholly at the door of the West or any other interventionist power. Yes, this is partly to blame in a few cases but for much of your continent, the foundations of a political culture necessary to sustain liberal democracy have been weak for most of the postcolonial era (roughly six decades for most African states). The persistence of religious and ethnic rivalries has been underestimated by African democrats and their friends abroad. Also significant has been the role of the police and the army, agreed, often vestiges of colonialism, which have been a cause and consequence of power systems favoring a coterie of elites.
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  7013.  @Lominosnufc  Just pointing out that the fact 1 out of 54 countries in Africa having a full democracy isn’t necessarily all the West’s fault. Look in the mirror. 🪞
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  7014. You win the Internet for today. 👏
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  7015.  @ralado31  Lol.🤣
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  7016. Cope, Jimbo. If your forbears hadn’t aggressively invaded half the world you might never have had this nightmare, son. 😱 Muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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  7017. Russia was revolting. But to be fair, I’ve always found Russia a bit revolting.
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  7018. You definitely stole this one, Jimbo. There’s no way you knew what ‘diaphanous’ meant, let alone how to spell it! You can barely usually spell ‘egg & chips’, Jimbo! 🤡🤪
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  7019. Stolen comment.
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  7020. @1:38 Our country also has a variety of weapons of destruction.” Well, if these weapons are as old as your phones, I’m not too worried.
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  7021.  @Random_cleans  They’re allowed to. There is no legal requirement to stop anywhere. Cope.👍
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  7022. But it could end in a Soundgarden. 🪴
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  7023.  @ShatteredFlint  I thought so, too. Glad you agree.
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  7024. I look at these boys, and boys and girls like them in armies the world over, and the wise words of that great philosopher, Pogo, come to mind: We have met the enemy and he is us .
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  7025.  @Andronikos_911  Like there hasn’t been wars since about ‘300,000 BCE’.
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  7026. @@angrykulla Says someone called ‘angrykulla’! 🤣Pot, kettle, black?
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  7027.  @tedthesailor172  Tbf though, Teddy, I thought all you sailor boys were up for a bit of back-door shenanigans beneath the poop deck! 😳
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  7028. No. Then I will know what a 2,000 year old primitive text written by men is.
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  7029.  @alqadiri92  Lol. Keep dreaming, mate.
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  7030.  @nightmaregamer3711  Men’s men always have something to prove. Why do you think they are ‘men’s men’? Men who have no manliness to prove just are. Also, and this is a bit random, but from my life experience I think there is more than a grain of truth in it: men with beards also feel they have something to prove. I say this as a man who has periodically had a beard, and yes, there’s an element of ‘you must take me and my facial hair seriously’ when a man has a beard. It’s like a sign saying: ‘I’m not necessarily sure of myself here, so I’ll hide behind a beard whilst simultaneously asserting my essential manhood by shoving this hairy monstrosity into your orbit.’ Something like that. Just my opinion. I’m no Freud. More a Jung man tbh. Needless to say, Hemingway’s defining facial feature was a beard. 🧔‍♀️
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  7031.  @nightmaregamer3711  I will be honest with you here. I think Hemingway glorified the murder of essentially defenceless beasts in an arena for the fun of paying onlookers, quite simply because he felt an inadequacy, a powerlessness, and so he compensated for this perceived self-weakness by glorifying the taunting of creatures he knew, when all was said and done, couldn’t win. Hemingway ‘won’ somehow, by championing the murder of animals for human pleasure. In this aspect, I consider him primitive. However, the foregoing notwithstanding, I consider him a pretty terrific writer.
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  7032.  @nightmaregamer3711  Just for the record, I think Hemingway was a terrific writer in terms of the fiction and the human insight. It’s just when he covered ‘real life’, and for some depressing reason championed murdering bulls in front of paying crowds for fun; at that point he lost me.
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  7033.  @ikeameltdown8012  No thanks. I’m a Hindu. 🐮
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  7034.  @RolledLs  Watch out for that Pangloss dude and his ‘all is best in the best of all possible worlds’ malarkey! 👍😂✌️
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  7035.  @RolledLs  The quote doesn’t fit this scenario. The OP was just seeking likes cuz they thought it sounded cool.👍
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  7036.  @Corsayr22  My initial response to the OP was just pointing out that the Voltaire quote doesn’t fit this scenario, not least because Voltaire himself was talking about humans believing in imaginary sky daddies and acting on this belief to harm others; not harm oneself.
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  7037.  @Corsayr22 When we speak of ‘atrocities’ 99.9% of ppl assume it’s an individual committing an atrocity on another. You’re the 0.1%. Congratulations! 👍
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  7038. He’s like a weird genetic mash-up of Paul Burrell + Miles Jupp + Michael Sheen.
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  7039. But are you buggers? 😳
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  7040.  @AJeziorski1967 Yeah, I was always told ‘back is best’ on a plane. However, here’s the thing: you’re many times more likely to be killed in a car crash on the way to the airport than in any plane crash. That said, I’m way more scared of flying sitting in a car! 😟
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  7041.  @AbuBased731  Who said I was ‘forgiving’ them? I’m just anti the death penalty, that’s all. That doesn’t automatically assume forgiveness.
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  7042.  @einienj3281  Basalt rocks, I think.👍
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  7043. Aww, diddums, Jimbo. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it all better. 🤣
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  7044. Well done, Thailand! 👏 As an agnostic, I have zero time for organised religion generally, but as Thailand is 93% Buddhist (and homosexuality and transgenderism are not prohibited by Buddhist teachings and are sometimes seen as the result of a past life's gender asserting itself in the present) gays and trans people are allowed to live relatively hassle-free. No, it’s the patriarchal, intolerant monotheisms (particularly Islam and Christianity) who cramp gays’ style. If you look around the world where gay people are most stigmatised, it’s invariably in strongly Muslim or strongly Christian countries.
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  7045. Most of the Welsh struggle speaking Welsh, to boot!
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  7046. Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea? (Christopher Hitchens) - My emphasis
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  7047. Well, to be fair, they do look bloody hilarious! 😂
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  7048.  @babblo1389  No! No more parties! Partygate has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  7049.  @alexandermuller950  Well said! Wolfie is just a dull, one-trick pony. Ignore him.
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  7050.  @wolfiestreet6899  You’re just jealous you don’t have a personal bot, aren’t you, Wolfie, son?
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  7051.  @alexandermuller950  😉
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  7052. Most of us are just ‘zoomed’.
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  7053.  @prizma45  Well, if Gordon Ramsay said it, it must be true. 🥴
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  7054. Yeah, but it means better swimming without freezing one’s knackers off! 🥶
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  7055.  @alexandermuller950  🎯
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  7056.  @alexandermuller950  Np.
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  7057.  @alexandermuller950  You may be crazy, candlelight vigil, but you are impossible to dislike.🤓
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  7058.  @alexandermuller950  🥴
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  7059.  @alexandermuller950  Well, maggots aren’t.
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  7060. I agree. They’ll be blaming climate change on climate change next.
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  7061. Is it? My favourite bird is that little number I was lucky enough to pull just last night.
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  7062.  @paul7TM Where’s my ‘outrage’, m8? 🤔 I just said they were refreshing and pointing out the comfortable vocal hypocrites who don’t put their money where their mouths are. You need a better coping strategy, Pauly.😉👍
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  7063.  @aymenrafiaahmed  Two tribes: Sunni v Shia.
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  7064.  @cncit  I agree 100%.👍
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  7065.  @abcdefghijk1024  I have looked at Scripture. I have actually read your Koran cover to cover (in translation, admittedly) and I even quoted you some nice passages to ponder. You may have missed them.
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  7066.  @abcdefghijk1024  Really? That’ll be why the very mother of the victim, who is a Muslim herself, believes a large part of the reason for this act was “honour based”.
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  7067. Laffin my Azov.😆
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  7068. Ah, all the end of the pier jokes are coming out tonight.😳
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  7069.  @nightshadehelis9821  No!!! Not another frickin golf course. Didn’t you hear the news read by Mark Twain? “Golf. A good walk spoiled.”
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  7070. She has her hands full with the great melting 1,000,000 thun bergs.
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  7071. Lol.
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  7072.  @joputhiyaparambil07  “Almost.” 🙄😉
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  7073. @papasquat3551) I’m not American. 2) I deeply distrust the left and the right the further these 2 lean to their respective sides. 3) It’s complicated. I look at each issue individually. I suppose, on immigration, some might say I’m more ‘right’ than ‘left’ but on other issues (e.g. gay rights), some might say I’m more ‘left’. In other words, I never fully understand how individuals buy into a whole manifesto of one side or the other. Things are way too complicated for that simplicity.
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  7074.  @peterwilson7532 Sorry? Lol. Wtf are you on about? There are no more homosexuals now than there were 10, 100, 500, 1,000, 10,000 years ago! 😂
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  7075. @papasquat355 open society : a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy) Going by the above definition, I’m pro-open societies. I’m just not pro-not controlling a country’s borders. Otherwise, what are borders for? 🤷‍♂️ I control whom I allow into my house. My government should be doing this with my country.
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  7076. Or New Zealand. 🤔
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  7077. Pot is banging if you get the good stuff.👍
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  7078.  @lukemurray4950  Luke, m8, can I be honest with you? Ok, ty. Your orthography is all over the shop and deeply off-putting in terms of my being able to take you seriously. And don’t start claiming “dyslexia” or whatnot, as you can simply run it through a grammar/spell-checker. When I’m conversing with someone for whom English is apparently their first language, and said interlocutor is apparently unaware of the very basic difference between there and their , it’s mighty tough for me to take them seriously. This is a common theme with you, btw. I’ve had the deep misfortune to run into you a dozen times and you make gaffes constantly. Don’t take that wrong.
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  7079. A ‘black whole’ hoax?😳
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  7080.  @InfoSopher  Lol.
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  7081.  @curiositycloset2359  Lol. What planet are you living on? Have you read a history book? So often, as here, it clearly is about skin colour. You’re in wilful denial if you cannot see this.
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  7082.  @hgbnkbggj2915 Perhaps. But is it 100% manmade? 🤔
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  7083.  @GazzaDazzle Lol. I think we found the dude whose Greek boyfriend just dumped him! 👍🤣
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  7084. Apparently ‘Mariupol’ means ‘left bank’, but it looks like the ruthless Russians didn’t even do that!
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  7085. Really? I have a picture of a young lady playing tennis, with an itchy @rse. New balls please! 🎾
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  7086. While I uphold the right of people to act in self-defence in the face of any aggressor, the nationalist thinking underpinning much of what is going on here doesn’t serve us as a species, as the bloody annals of history clearly show. The essential cause of all this trouble (and the trouble of mankind since the year dot), is hitching your core identity to an accident of birth. Main problem of humans is one of self-definition; before ‘human being’ too many of us want to put family, clan, tribe, nation, religion. This is, essentially, why we can’t tolerate one another. Most of us can’t raise our game to see that a random, arbitrary accident of birth, something in which you had no say, is a nonsensical, irrational, pointless, and very, very dangerous notion to cleave to, given 300,000 murderously squabbling years of Homo Sapiens. Along with imagined daddies in the sky to shore up our fear of death, nationalism is the most egregious, baleful blight human beings ever had the misfortune to invent. As we speak, insular human beings are murdering themselves over an accident of birth. The gods, if they existed, would look down on us and weep.
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  7087. Dinosaur Ode to Ukraine In eastern Europasaurus we have a Russian Tyrannosaurus causing a lot of Confuciusornis getting an Aardonyx by acting as an Irritator to the Lambeosaurus to the slaughter, Ukraine, while the world looks through the Camarasaurus , with Nodosaurus attitude, because it lacks a Spinosaurus.
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  7088. What about all the unemployed men from Asia? Don’t they count?🤔
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  7089.  @indadrops9492  Don’t let your political agenda get in the way of the facts. 👍 I say that as someone for whom Trump is utter anathema.
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  7090.  @paulrichards6894 Er, that was part of the point I was making. 🥴
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  7091.  @monsterinwintercoat  Nope. Just able to see both sides of this, that’s all. If only more folks could.
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  7092.  Inside story  No it isn’t. I wasn’t actually looking for any clip. I was looking for the meaning of life.
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  7093. You’re right. Clearly a fake laugh, Bobby.🤓
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  7094. Gail?
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  7095.  @superstormthunder3  Lol.
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  7096.  @superstormthunder3  I repeat: Huh? Where did I say I “didn’t like young people”? I just said that, comparatively, they have become mentally lazy as a result of tech over-reliance. You need a better coping strategy, dearie.
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  7097.  @superstormthunder3  Huh? Where did I say I “didn’t like young people”? I just said that, comparatively, they have become mentally lazy as a result of tech over-reliance. You need a better coping strategy, dearie.
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  7098.  @superstormthunder3  In many ways they are. Trust me. I’m around them all the time and tech has made them mentally lazy.
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  7099.  @user-ve9tu5rv6e  Yeah, you’re right. Gen Z are such a lazy example of our species that they can’t even Google these days. 😐
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  7100. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  7101. More egg and chips, Jimbo?🤣
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  7102.  @johnwinter2252  Uh huh.
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  7103.  @danijel124  *don’t *it’s
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  7104.  Dodge Morningstar  Carlin has a great routine about the ☀️, too!
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  7105.  @Rafterman955  Not pro-murder; just pro-choice. 😉
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  7106.  @_ArsNova  Upvoting yourself again, arsenova?😉
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  7107.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  7108.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  7109.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  7110.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  7111.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *your *descend *Papier-mâché
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  7112.  @lukemurray4950  She won a comp. Nothing ‘racist’ about it. Now you get back to kindergarten, Lukey, and learn the basics most of us got before we were about 3.
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  7113.  @medicalsciencesanimations4743  When it comes to organised religion, I am mighty suspicious, simply because its historical record teaches me to be suspicious. If you want to believe in a deity, fine; however, when it impinges on my business, my hackles tend to get raised. George Carlin had some nice observations on organised religion. They go like this: Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
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  7114.  @medicalsciencesanimations4743  Er, well, it kinda suggests that religion more often than not is rather dangerous. I’m all for freedom of worship, but when that ‘worship’ cramps my style I tend to want a say. Call me rational.
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  7115.  @WilfTompkins5546  *It’s
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  7116.  @curiositycloset2359  *Because *it’s *British *it’s *British *.
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  7117.  @britishempireno1fan851  *utmost
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  7118. Unlike Musk.
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  7119. This scary, overkill nonsense in China has more than the feeling of a ‘test event’, to see just how much a populace is willing to put up with in the name of ‘Covid security’. If they tried to implement these draconian measures in relatively free, open liberal societies there’d be rebellion to the point of serious civil unrest.
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  7120. In that cold, my nose is not the only appendage I’d be worried about! 🥶
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  7121.  @bahacho  You just can’t deal with facts, mate, that’s your problem. Cope more.😉
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  7122.  @bahacho  No they’re not. I checked them across several sources. Not “fabricated” at all. Nice try, though.👍
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  7123. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  7124. I constantly find it amazing that in 2024 we still have loads of countries in the world where organised religion and government are intrinsically intertwined. Religion should always be a private matter and not be controlling the body politic. As George Carlin pithily put it: “I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
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  7125.  @Alexandra-zp3gr  Indeed. What if? Hence my general agnosticism. Ta da!
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  7126.  @Kriegtime101  Who said anything about ‘war’? 🤔
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  7127.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Btw, Jimbo, you forgot F) The invisible sky daddy con perpetrated by organised religion. 😉
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  7128. You need to encrypt your brain, Jimbo! What little there is of it! 🤣😂😅
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  7129. @2:25 Lol. What does America know about ‘democracy’? Biden lecturing us about democracy is like Gary Glitter lecturing us about childcare. The US has been the greatest State subverter of democracy on this planet, bar none. Hell, even in this Ukrainian case, in 2014, President Yanukovych was ousted and a pro-West/US government installed. If you look at a map of how people vote in the Ukraine, there is an incredibly clear split in voting patterns geographically East/West, with the further West you go, the more pro-West (culturally and politically) the populace are, and the further East you go the more pro-East (culturally and politically) they are. Ukraine is essentially 2 countries in this respect. This is an incredibly complex situation, given the history, and there are no easy answers. It could be, ultimately, that Ukraine may have to be partitioned, creating West Ukraine and East Ukraine.
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  7130. @napolean_raglandHuh? So, no one is allowed to comment on any other country in the world now? 🤦‍♂️
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  7131. Oh, loosen up amigo! Undo a few buttons of that shirt, man, and have a toke on this big fat doobie I’ve skinned up for ya. Chill. 🚬
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  7132. Indeed. Her songs are shite, tbh.
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  7133. Like my dear departed granny always used to tell me: “In life, one should never jump to collusions.” 🤓
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  7134.  @zaca211  Look, Zac, son, if I’m dealing with a tart that is unaware of a basic possessive apostrophe then I fear there is no debating with you and, frankly, there might be no hope for humanity! 🤦‍♂️
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  7135.  @zaca211  America has more knife attacks per capita vis-a-vis the UK. Uh huh. Nice try, though. 🔪😉
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  7136.  @ifv2089  ‘Swift and bold’? Omg. Deep cringe. 😑
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  7137.  @ifv2089  No we don’t. The UK doesn’t routinely arm more than 5% of its officers. Nice try, though.👍
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  7138.  @spmoran4703  That’s why I said ‘most’.👍
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  7139. Really? I understood every single word. Moreover, I bet his English is better than your Greek. 🐈
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  7140.  @graye2799  Historically that’s obvious, but I personally wouldn’t miss Christianity or any organised religion. It’s caused far more trouble for humanity than it’s worth. Read Hitchens and Dawkins on this stuff.
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  7141.  @graye2799  I’m with you on the Islam thing. I have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration, but kinda think we (and Europe in general) should very strictly control the amount of Muslims it admits. Projections suggest that by 2050, the UK will be 17% Muslim (it’s currently 7%) and Sweden, astonishingly, will be 30% Muslim! A full third of Sweden’s population will be Islamic in just over 20 years’ time.
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  7142. @UCC_mUJdDQyEcMmlFwANPdWQ Absolutely. As Blake had it: Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. His way of saying that each of us define ourselves by what we are not.
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  7143. Triggered. Hehe.
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  7144. Tell that to Miss Havisham.
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  7145.  @Valliant2007  No.
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  7146.  @ShowMeCrows  Ok then, the age of consent in China, Brazil, Germany and Italy is 14. Seethe.
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  7147.  @PamelaGreen354  Ah, the ad hominem, huh? Last resort of those with no evidence to back up their argument. K, Pammy. 👍 Got your number, darlin’.
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  7148.  @kimmarievan-ever6599  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  7149.  @grabatar  Lol.
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  7150.  @pandrop490  *don’t *it’s *doesn’t Get it right or not at all.
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  7151.  @aidiemcg7413  Ok. And you must watch “basic grammar and punctuation for 5-year old morons” as it’s common that you guys can’t deploy the capital letter or the full-stop.
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  7152.  @shazanali692  Incidentally, these are the very same people who back home in England would be complaining about all these ‘funny foreigners’ who come to England and never bother to learn the language. The hypocrisy stinks.
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  7153.  @Johnkriller  It is about independence, as well as Russian security. If you wilfully ignore the Ukraine side of this equation then you are perpetuating the problem by not recognising the claims of both sides. I’m neutral in this one so I can see both sides. I can see how Russia might feel threatened by a Ukraine cosying up to NATO/EU/West, but I can also see Ukraine as the sovereign, self-determining, self-governing nation it is. Putin is in the wrong here. Anybody, anybody invading a sovereign, self-governing nation, a nation that wasn’t directly threatening you, is in the wrong in my book. Also, why are you ignoring the other NATO states bordering Russia? Why are you singling out Ukraine here as a possible NATO threat to Russia in the future when Estonia and Latvia could hit Moscow just as quickly as Kiev?
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  7154. I’m struck by how the Russia/Ukraine thing is so desperate and pointless, given the shared cultural/linguistic heritage between the two. It’s akin to England bombing Scotland for the latter having the temerity to vote for self-determination and existence as a sovereign state. That stupid. That pointless. That mad. But then I, an agnostic, think of the Bible. The first murder? Cain and Abel. Brothers. It’s an old, sad, sorry song.
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  7155. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  7156.  @MilkByCow  Yeah, but Accuweather says that yesterday the low was 34°C and the high 45°C.
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  7157.  @funnyboyjohn  So why shouldn’t the native peoples of every country from North America to South America feel ‘entitled’ to their countries and throw all the ‘non-indigenous’ European stock out then? You can’t have one rule for one and another rule for you, for that would be double standards hypocrisy of the most egregious kind.
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  7158.  @MrBabylon  Alright, son, why are you getting all uppity with me, huh? I fear you may have the wrong target here, sonny. Anyway, we all know where you’re coming from MR BABYLON.
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  7159.  @thingstodoinguernseychannel  I was joking, man. 🤦‍♂️
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  7160.  @bolokolsnet1191  So it’s a sexist comment. It also happens to be true.
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  7161.  @IvanMectin  Keep being paranoid about absolutely everything to suit an unexamined agenda.
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  7162. You might want your eyesight checked mate. I can make out good detail on Earth here. Have these: 👓
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  7163.  @EugWanker  Jeff will be reporting you for that name, m8. He’s the netcop who decides what people can or can’t see. If it offends him, he fascistically decides it’s due a ban. Just warning you.⚠️
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  7164. Reported. In “it’s next” you’ve clearly hidden the word “sex”. Reported for obscenity.
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  7165. This should be ok for the UK if Putin decides to withhold gas supplies, as we have enough onshore gas generated by Boris Johnson to more than keep us going.
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  7166. That Russian MP, Popov, should live up to his name.
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  7167.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No. No one “turns” gay. You can’t switch-on and switch-off sexuality in the way you are suggesting. It’s a complex spectrum: at one end, you fancy women; at the other, you fancy men; in between, you can fancy both in varying degrees. I, a heterosexual, cannot decide on a whim tomorrow to start fancying men. It doesn’t work like that.
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  7168.  @Thunderwolf4  Not according to my sources. Last time I checked, Finland consistently has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe.
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  7169. @Stone Don’t hurry, hunny-bunny.😉
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  7170. Well, the squirrels need somewhere to buy their nuts. 🐿
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  7171. Oh, there’s already loads of strikes in London: rail strikes, postal strikes.
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  7172. It was quite amusing once. When you read it for the about 156th time, it’s deeply unfunny. And desperate. 🦘
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  7173.  @adrianlouw2499  Your“point” was that Paris was “burned down”. That’s literally all you said. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t. Facts. 😉
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  7174.  @adrianlouw2499  Please ask a friend if Paris was “burned down”. 👍 🤡
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  7175. I just wish we could cut off the ‘natural gas’ emanating from Putin’s mouth once and for all.
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  7176. Can we not just shut off the Russian gas emanating from Putin’s gob?
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  7177. What’s next for him? Well, he really needs to do some Seoul-searching.
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  7178.  @ActuallyHoudini  Fine. I don’t like it. It comes off to me as lazy and sloppy. Each to their own.👍
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  7179.  @tastypymp1287  Cope. Seethe. Cry. 😿
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  7180.  @tastypymp1287  Is it some form of congenital error in your personality? Do you even need to comment? Is it some form of uncontrollable impulse? 🤡
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  7181. You just admitted it yourself, son: this is “everything to do with males exhibiting predatory sexual behaviour.” Indeed. So where’s your problem? 🤔
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  7182.  @gutz1981  Well, on this we can agree: I, too, wouldn’t have fired him but what he did was, imo, deeply inappropriate.👍
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  7183.  @gutz1981  You upvoted yourself. I was just pointing that out. 👍😉
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  7184. @@user-yz1jq6yx4c I agree that there is a bit of a witch-hunt, but here’s the thing: historically, sexual violence is all one way. Moreover, I don’t know anyone (man or woman) who wants some random planting a kiss on their mouth. It’s just not a thing, and those who are defending this seem to be unaware of the basic boundaries people have. It also suggests they are incels, as no woman, in my experience, wants an unsolicited kiss on the mouth.
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  7185. Well, Khalife certainly ran. 🏃‍♂️
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  7186. How much and at what odds, jooi? 🤔
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  7187. Dead, dead eyes. 👁 👁
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  7188.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  And all you had to say was “ “.
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  7189. Not always, Johnny. I clearly recall at school having ‘Friday fun fingerprint’ painting sessions!
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  7190.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Pmsl.👍
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  7191.  @uw6de 😮Are you saying that all amputees look alike?! That’s outrageous in this day and age and pure disablism! Take that back you villain!
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  7192. Edgy.
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  7193. Pmsl.
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  7194. Dearie, dearie me. Even for you, Jimbo, this is desperate, tragic stuff. 😔
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  7195.  @sharpasacueball  I’m guessing you’ve never been. Your loss. The “old buildings” are its true glory. Almost every city, town and village, north to south, east to west is achingly, staggeringly beautiful. The graffiti is an eyesore. But to not like the “old buildings” bespeaks a severe lack of appreciation for architecture. You sound like one of those crushingly dull, solipsistic individuals who trots out the lazy “it was before my time” when faced with a piece of knowledge/wisdom produced before your own birth; as if your own production was when everything that really matters began. 🥱 These aren’t buildings, but architectural masterpieces, one and all. Aside from the stuff that was rebuilt after the War. I’m guessing you’re the type of person who thinks a glass and steel, ugly, soulless hellhole like Dubai is the summum bonum of urban pulchritude; or downtown Atlanta is the bees-knees when it, along with almost every other major American urban space, is nothing but a deeply underwhelming, strangely oppressive, depressing experience for the eye. And yes, I include New York in that, for although I have a small soft spot for that place due to matters of the heart, a bunch of phallic modern steel and glass and concrete buildings on an island, for me, does not necessarily a beautiful city make. Far from it. In these cases, you are welcome to your modern excrescences and I’ll keep my old bella Italia!
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  7196.  dirpitz6157  Yes, but can we have that in English, please? DOOfus !
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  7197.  dirpitz6157  Wow! I take it you’ve never heard of the very basic notion of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. Let’s hope I never have you sitting on any jury that might be trying me!
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  7198.  @beautifulbull  Cheers, Jess! 🥂
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  7199.  @HouseholdDog  You’re missing an apostrophe.
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  7200.  @HouseholdDog  Just for the record, having just read some of your work, you are, quite frankly, in no position to judge the quality of others’ wit. Just sayin’! 🤓
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  7201.  @HouseholdDog  That wasn’t meant to be funny; it was simply a statement of fact. 😉
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  7202. I do. But only on Tuesdays.
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  7203. And you call my lines non-hilarious?!?! 🥱
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  7204. I agree. But the reason is that Ukraine is a street away on the estate; Yemen is not even on the estate.
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  7205. I agree to an extent. But in this particular case, Hermoso didn’t welcome the kiss. This wasn’t words. This was an explicit physical act. You need to realise this going forward. 👍
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  7206. Indeed. I like Spain, but gosh, scratch the surface and you uncover some mighty alarming attitudes in terms racism and sexism. Given it was a fascist dictatorship until 1975 I suppose one should cut it some slack.
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  7207. Yes, but if Rubiales had kissed a man, that wouldn’t have been about sex and power. Unless Rubiales is gay. He might be. Who knows? This was an entitled man taking liberties. Does he not realise that for women kissing on the lips is perhaps the most intimate act? This is about male power as per.
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  7208. It’s a male with a ‘fe’.
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  7209. Lol.
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  7210. Because she could.
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  7211.  @silvertoad8020  For your own benefit I checked the images. I don’t see different shoes here; I see different quality of CCTV. Think on …
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  7212. Funny you say that, given that in traditional, tribal societies the elders are invariably the revered ones.🤔Seems the ‘elders’ in modern liberal democracies don’t have this cachet.
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  7213. He wasn’t that articulate as an adult, either. He became fluent when he sang.
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  7214. Graphic behind talking head fella reminded me of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. 🖼
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  7215. Welcome to the US: We are thinking of arming our teachers. 👩‍🏫 Welcome to the UK: We don’t even arm most of our police! 👮‍♂️
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  7216. You’re talking out Uranus.
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  7217.  @PaulGrayUK  😉
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  7218. God? Lol. As if he/it/she gave a monkey’s! 😆
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  7219. @ZANDACROSS7 Looks like lesrequiem hit a nerve, sweetie. You were saying? 🤔🤣
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  7220. Projection? 🤓
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  7221.  @kattentissari3247  I never dictate. And if you ‘dictate’ to me, I’m liable to listen but not hear. 👂
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  7222. Lol, Jimbo. Even when you’re copying and pasting others you still can’t get it right! 🤣 *conscience
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  7223.  @julia2k8 I’m very much judging a 50-something dude with a sexual attraction to a 6 year old, and acting upon it, sweetie. That sort of thing you just don’t do, whether it’s 2024 or 724. Sawree! Groomer apologist. 😭
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  7224.  @SB-iy9vn How is sex ‘filth’? It’s the most natural thing on Earth. As natural as eating or breathing. What delusional well have you been drinking at?
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  7225.  @lolololgii754 Or as Mark Twain pithily put it: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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  7226.  @containedhurricane  Exactly that! You get it! 😉
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  7227.  @Lovely-DeeM ​​⁠Ah, you never mentioned the US immigration thing. Makes sense now. Ty.👍
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  7228.  @rjrich2322 Ok. 👍 🥴
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  7229. ‘Languages will become irrelevant’? Wtf are you about? Words and languages are all we have! 🤦‍♂️
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  7230. It doesn’t work like that. If you wanna make money, you have to insert yourself into that space where there is demand. Given that technology these days can do the work translators formally did, your 5 languages are more or less redundant in this case.
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  7231.  @matthewjdouglas6471 🤣😂😅👍
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  7232.  @alexsilent5603  Yes, you’re right, last time I checked Ukraine invaded Russia. 👍🤣
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  7233.  @alexsilent5603  Yes, you’re right, last time I checked Ukraine invaded Russia. 👍🤣
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  7234.  @alexsilent5603  Pmsl@‘Ukraine and Nato decided to attack us’. 🤣😂😅👍
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  7235.  @alexsilent5603  Is it? How can I trust you? You don’t read anything ‘serious’. You just play games all day and read fluffy crap. 🤔
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  7236.  @barneymagee3285  Er, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot? Liberal? Surely some mistake.
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  7237.  @belladolce998  Huh? Who said I dug Kate? I’m a Republican. You need a better researcher, sweetheart.👍😉
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  7238.  @ClevelandKb25  Er, whit?! 🥴
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  7239. Russian troll last week: “Go Putin! Go Putin! Go Putin!” Russian troll this week: “Stay Putin! Stay Putin! Stay Putin!”
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  7240. Pmsl.
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  7241.  @socrates5647  Against the USSR. 1982. Your goal. Greatest goal I have ever seen to this day.
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  7242.  @marshallwages5035  Kelsey Grammer?
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  7243. @Geraldine Burden Well said! We need you in a position of authority forthwith! I’d vote for you.
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  7244.  @deltabeta5527  Nah. Don’t worry about that. Britain, these days, is a defanged beast, in general. We are content hiding in the coattails of the USA. If Russia wanted to, it could chuck over a few bombers and incinerate most of the UK in an afternoon’s work.
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  7245.  @therevster9828  I’m not getting at you personally. I just found it amusing, that’s all.👍
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  7246. ‘Keep safe from England.’ Lol. Without a vital comma in that sentence the meaning becomes mighty sinister. You may have meant to say: ‘keep safe, from England.’ Even when the world is on the brink of WW3 grammar still counts to avoid massive misunderstanding.😳
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  7247.  @milanforever7014  Yes. Arguably, Pelé and Maradona rank above Messi. Another spoonful of copium? 🥄
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  7248.  @migennepravishta9485  Just for the record: Champions League Winners (by country) Spain: 19 Real Madrid (14) Barcelona (5) England 14 Liverpool (6) Manchester United (3) Chelsea (2) Nottingham Forest (2) Aston Villa (1) Italy 12 Milan (7) Inter Milan (3) Juventus (2) Germany 8 Bayern Munich (6) Hamburger SV (1) Borussia Dortmund (1) As this table implies, La Liga is actually 2 leagues: Madrid and Barca and the rest. It’s an uncompetitive, Mickey Mouse league, relatively speaking.
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  7249.  @migennepravishta9485  What’s the problem, son? I happen to think Pelé number 1, Messi number 2 and Maradona number 3. I fear you have the wrong fella, sweetheart. Nice try, though.👍
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  7250.  @pinofshame6253  The pinofshame6253 doth protest too much, methinks. Think on.😉
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  7251.  @menes4936  Yawn
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  7252.  @mwd331  No.
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  7253. I’d rather trash fake news, ty.
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  7254. What you got against dogs? Man’s best friend. Woof! 🐶
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  7255. Cutting edge technology, huh?😳
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  7256. Yes, but why do we kill people to teach people that killing people is wrong? A slight logical impasse there, methinks.
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  7257.  @153tidesthatbind  Kudos for recognising the point. Most just batter on and try to score and win. You saw and said it. Rare on YouTube!👍👏
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  7258.  @153tidesthatbind  Yeah but there’s crime and there’s crime, sweetheart. That’s why we keep stats on it. To compare and contrast.
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  7259.  @freyjasvansdottir9904  Thanks for that, Lloyd Christmas’ girlfriend.👍
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  7260. Translation: “I sense he’s a bit of a BBC lefty and I can’t cope.”
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  7261. Jimbo! You still at this, petal? 😂 If you Google ‘Kriss Donald BBC’ you literally get dozens of responses from various different years. Nice try though, son! Happy New Year! 🎉
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  7262.  @AliHussain-fz7pd  As for the organised religion, again, I personally am 100% pro freedom of worship. However, as an agnostic, it’s when this religion directly impinges on my life that my hackles are raised.
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  7263.  @AliHussain-fz7pd  Good points, well made.👍Just for the record, I, personally, am pro (controlled) immigration. I’m not one of these folk ‘blaming the immigrants’ for all society’s ills.
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  7264. Fair play. By that logic you need to be calling for all Europeans to get out of North/South America, Australia and New Zealand. They need to ‘go home’.
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  7265. My particular beef with Charlie is that he looks like a slice of gammon. 🥩
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  7266. Cringe.
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  7267. I sometimes think there is a malign force loose in the universe that is the social equivalent of cancer, and it’s plastic. It infiltrates everything. It’s metastasis. It gets into every single pore of productive life. I mean there won’t be anything that isn’t made of plastic before long. They’ll be paving the roads with plastic before they’re done. Our bodies, our skeletons, will be replaced with plastic. (Norman Mailer) Not only was Mailer right about plastic in general, it seems he was rather prescient about the paving road thing!
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  7268.  @wom_Bat  ‘Twas a joke, dear fellow. You may have missed it. 🤨
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  7269.  @WaterKing9  Lake provides up to 50% of Panama’s drinking water.
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  7270.  @LFSIX  No. Because I’m not making unconscious grammatical errors. Typos are typos. Grammatical errors are something different.😉
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  7271.  @tastypymp1287  Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭 👈 My argument. Where yours? 🤔🤡
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  7272.  @Britlurker  Ah, but which do you hate more: the gays or the blacks? Or are you an equal opportunities hater and hate them both the same? 👍😉
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  7273.  @tastypymp1287  Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭 👈My argument. Where’s yours? 🤔🤡
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  7274.  @tastypymp1287  Statement based on feeling. Not an argument.😊
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  7275.  @tastypymp1287  Where’s yours? 😊
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  7276. Uh huh, Jimbo. You know what I’ve always wondered? Why does Miss Universe always come from Earth? 🤔
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  7277.  @Britlurker  Uh huh. And heterosexuals never ever wever molest kids. 🤡
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  7278.  @Balla1527  But paedophilia involves abusing non-consenting children which is wrong for both reasons (non-consenting/children) and in the case of incest, I personally don’t particularly have an issue with this if it’s 2 consenting adults and as long as they aren’t having kids. Gays the same. Why are you getting involved with what 2 consenting adults do in the bedroom? Do you not see how deeply creepy and inappropriate this is?
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  7279. Huh? What does homosexuality have to to with paedophilia and incest? 🤔
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  7280. Even if it’s not ‘natural’ that’s not really the point. The point is what 2 consenting adults get up to in the bedroom is no one else’s business.👍
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  7281.  @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil  Don’t bother with Mr Bore, m8. He has no arguments yet constantly calls out others for having ‘no argument’. The hypocrite par excellence. Of course, you are right: it’s nobody else’s business what 2 consenting adults get up to. Georgy is one of these freaks that wants to dictate the terms and conditions but if anyone dared dictate his terms and conditions, he’d be up in arms.
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  7282.  @davidadiwego4608  I’ll ask you one last time: David, I have 1 simple question that you need to answer: Why are you involving yourself with what 2 consenting adults get up to? That is the key point here. No one is policing what you consensually get up to sexually, so why are you? 🤔
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  7283.  @davidadiwego4608  So, do I get an answer to my question, Dave, or you just gonna dodge it as you have no justifiable reply? I answer your questions but you conveniently dodge mine. Is that how it works in your world?
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  7284.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.😊
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  7285.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  7286. 🍰
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  7287. No fan of Putin. However, he’s doing nothing the CIA hasn’t done countless times over the years: bumping off those who threaten your personal interests.
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  7288.  @IDF662 Yes, Israel, stop begging for more money from big daddy, America. 👍🤣😂😅
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  7289. It’s a Morga or a Corby. Take your pick! 👍
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  7290.  @jordan9604  Er, whit? 🤔
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  7291.  @cidsapient7154  👍 Well said! An American who ‘gets it’! 🤓
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  7292.  @jeromejooste3493  Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  7293.  @chuckdangler8620  Yvw, bud.
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  7294.  @immortalasirpa6006  Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  7295.  @krissykriss328  👍
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  7296. What is it about moustaches and men in authority? Unless they adorn the top lips of gay men, I’ve never trusted moustaches. Call it bitter historical experience: 🇩🇪 ~ Hitler 🇷🇺 ~ Stalin 🇮🇶 ~ Saddam 🇧🇾 ~ Lukashenko 🇮🇹 ~ Mussolini 🇨🇺 ~ Castro 🇩🇴 ~ Trujillo 🇱🇾 ~ Gaddafi 🇨🇱 ~ Pinochet 🇷🇼 ~ Kigale Freddie Mercury gets a pass.👨‍🦰
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  7297.  @deborahfreedman333  I agree. There is probably more going on here than meets the eye, geopolitically. However, this notwithstanding, if Vlad just backed off then we may be ok. He’s right to be wary, though. A majority of Ukrainians look west and want to be part of the NATO party, so on this basis, I can see why Putin may be wary when it comes to the West. However, my bottom line here is the very basic principle of democratic self-determination and existing as a sovereign state. On this basis, Vlad needs to pipe down, shut the fuck up, and let Ukraine get on with it.😳
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  7298. Yeah, but here’s the truth: if we hadn’t taught people to believe in a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a key marker of their identity, none of this would have happened. Does a child born in Ukraine hate a child born in Russia on the basis of an accident of birth? No. Of course they fucking don’t. In my book that makes them wiser than we, adults, are, as they play with whomever: black, white, yellow, green, big, small, old, young etc. As Jesus said, (and I’m no Christian, but he was right about this one) observe them, look at how they live in the glory of the moment, without judgment. Until they hit 7, then they become monsters and judge everything! But the salient point is: never hitch your wagon to an accident of birth, for this way madness lies.
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  7299.  @AldousHuxley7  Thanks, Aldous. Sometimes I feel eyeless in Gaza down there. It’s such a brave new world at times. I think I need to cleanse my doors of perception.🙄
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  7300. Colonising Mars makes no sense. Humans can’t even look after Earth properly, and now they are looking to colonise other planets?! This is just ‘empire’ writ on the cosmic scale. Since about the year dot certain humans have sought to brutally suppress other humans who wanted nothing to do with them. This is just the same. If Martians existed, and I were one, I’d do my utmost to prevent humanoids from colonising my planet. 👽
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  7301.  @Spacelove360 Have you cleaned those manky nails yet, son? Seriously. Have you no shame putting that ugly shit on YouTube? 🤢🤮 Moreover, I hope you’ve brushed up on yer basic English today, sweetheart. A few lessons. Yeah? There’s a good lad. 👍📕🤡
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  7302.  @veraluxmundi2032 Rumour has it that Jegamespeed is pencilled in for the Deliverance remake! 🐽🤣
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  7303. 👏
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  7304. Would you agree with him if you were straight or is your disagreeing with him contingent upon your bisexuality?
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  7305. Hi possum, wombat, flunky, peep et al. 👋 You ok, hun? 🤛
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  7306.  @reginageorge4 Btw, groomer, yer putative sense of religion is a fucking joke: John 13:34 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” You come across as the most bitter, frustrated (obviously), hateful, least-loving individual one could possibly imagine, groomer. When he returns, Jesus needs to have a stern word with you, groomer. Did you follow this ‘commandment’, groomer? I’ll let the evidence speak for itself, groomer. 😊
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  7307.  @reginageorge4 I know that, groomer. Where did I say I did have a say? 🤔
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  7308.  @FlipflopMount222  My work here is done. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7309.  @RonnieMantis My job is triggering thick personages such as yourself, my dear. It’s very rewarding! 🤣👍
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  7310.  @RonnieMantis No ahm nae.
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  7311.  @FlipflopMount222  And I often spend weeks off here. I think you’ll find my ‘weeks’ trumps your ‘days’, chumpster. Seethe. 👍🤣
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  7312. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7313. The hypocrisy btw. The f*cking hypocrisy is hilarious 🤣, as last time I checked you are never off here. A clear case of projection, yer Honour. Guilty as charged. Case closed.👍😉😊
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  7314. Yea, ma main hoabby is callin’ oot sub-literate numpties like you, shweetie! 👍😉
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  7315.  @idkman3210 C’mon, m8, that flakey, wispy top-lip tache is betraying your reality, son. Own it. We can all see it. Even Stevie Wonder can see this, pal. 🕶
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  7316.  @ijumpjudyy  Aye, but as you and I know, darlin’, that’s not the point. The point is rather simple: it’s no business of yours what the consenting business of adults in the bedroom is. Case closed. Uh huh.👍 Seethe and seethe again, shweetie.
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  7317.  @AmbroseVermillion Lol.
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  7318.  @ijumpjudyy  Aye, but as you and I know, darlin’, that’s not the point. The point is rather simple: it’s no business of yours what the consenting business of adults in the bedroom is. Case closed. Uh huh.👍
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  7319. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  7320. No they won’t. Seethe.
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  7321. Well, we kinda knew that. Check out his wifey! 😉
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  7322. Says who? 🤔
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  7323.  @antonironstag5085 Irrelevant. It’s their choice. Some might say sticking a cock into a fanny is pretty disgusting. It’s just an opinion. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Your feelings don’t matter here. Sorry.👍
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  7324. No one cares about your hurty feelings. Trot on. 👍😉
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  7325.  @benjiisagoodboy  Is he? I don’t give a sh*t, Benji baby. Do you honestly think my life is so empty I need to engage in extended chit chat with a dude named after a mouldy cheese? 🤔
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  7326.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Is he? I don’t give a sh*t, Jordy baby. Do you honestly think my life is so empty I need to engage in extended chit chat with a dude named after a mouldy cheese? 🤔
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  7327. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, their bad breath, their BO but not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sexual business of consenting adults is simply no one else’s business. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  7328.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, and you’re missing the point. You claim these things are ‘immoral’ and are ready to throw me in prison (or worse) for these acts. At the very least, before you possibly execute me for having consenting gay adult sex (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence,🤦‍♂️)I would like an explanation as to why you think they are ‘immoral’. When I consider all the things I would like criminalised, I tend to have very good moral reasons for every single one beyond the fatuous, kindergarten-level (non-argument) of “for the fun of it!” 👍
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  7329. Well said! 👍 Actually irrelevant whether it’s a ‘choice’ or not (it isn’t); all that matters here is consenting adults.
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  7330. *basted
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  7331.  @veraluxmundi2032 Just an argument, dude. Just a single rational reason why I should consider homosexual sex ‘wrong’. Hitherto, nowt. 😔
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  7332. Just don’t mention those photos of Lars Ulrich tongue-kissing Kirk Hammett! 👅 😮😉👍
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  7333. Nah, I disagree. He’s clearly a deeply repressed gay dude (check out his very mannish wifey! 😉), but he’s entitled to his opinion. However, that’s where my well of sympathy dries up. The day this dude calls for the imprisonment (or worse) of the millions of heterosexuals having anal sex on a regular basis is the day we can have a conversation. As it is, he just clearly reeks of a dude that might easily dig the dudes.
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  7334.  @ijumpjudyy Lmao. ‘Radical’ for upholding the very basic notion of adult consensual sex. 👍🤣
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  7335.  @ijumpjudyy  Just for the record, you seem to be labouring under the delusion that thinking there’s nothing wrong with homosexuality and not believing there are more than 2 genders are mutually exclusive. Fatal mistake. Must do better. 😉
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  7336.  @ijumpjudyy  🥱
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  7337.  @ijumpjudyy I don’t give a sh*t about Uganda, sweetheart. I fear you have the wrong dude here, petal. Bad luck. 😭
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  7338.  @ijumpjudyy  Nope. None of that matters, dummy. It’s quite simply none of anyone’s business what consenting adults get up to. Nice try, though. Seethe more.
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  7339.  @ijumpjudyy  The only permanent thing is impermanence. Bad luck. 😂
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  7340.  @StopCensorship4--03 Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Bad luck, sweetie. 😊
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  7341. Can someone please tell me how your horrendous, droney voice is not illegal?
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  7342.  @Alduintheworldeater Hey, we’re all human and have a right to consenting adult sex lives without unnecessary intrusion from others.
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  7343. Criminalising homosexuality makes about as much logical sense as criminalising heterosexuality. After all, there is precisely nothing gays do that millions of heterosexuals the world over don’t do every day. Furthermore, the latter engage in these consenting acts (rightly) without fear of criminalisation. Moreover, even if a penis up an arse or in a mouth is the main issue here (and it seems to be), how on Earth, in that case, does that justify lumping in all the lesbians who never have and never will have anal sex, unless they get the dildos and strap-ons out? None of it makes rational sense in the cold light of day, which is precisely why it appeals to the darkest, basest, knee-jerk instincts in humanity.
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  7344. Er, y? 🤔
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  7345.  @ijumpjudyy  Lol. Little Miss Virgin/Asexual has walked into one. Again! She claimed she wasn’t a theist the other day. Here she’s claiming the opposite! 😂 🤡 Own 🥅!
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  7346.  @memebro_legit Lol. She calls me out for ‘racial profiling’ when she’s upvoted a dude who supports executing gays for just being themselves. 🤦‍♂️
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  7347.  @bottlecap632 Just out of interest as I’m confused now: what’s your stance on homosexuality? Are you one of the haters, too?
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  7348.  @bottlecap632 Pretty sure they’re the same person. Same speech patterns. Same way of spelling certain words etc.
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  7349.  @bottlecap632 It’s the same person! 🥴
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  7350.  @bottlecap632 Which people? 🤔
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  7351.  @bottlecap632 You do the ‘groomer’ thing on here as well, though? You sound spookily like Tonya in that regard. 🤔
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  7352.  @bottlecap632 She sounds mentally unstable. Religion. Toxic. Poisons everyone and everything, as Hitchens said.
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  7353.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  Well, you clearly are. Inexplicably. That much is obvious. 😊
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  7354.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Well, you clearly are. Inexplicably. That much is obvious. 😊
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  7355. Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  7356.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Little Ms. Virgin/Asexual is clearly so frustrated she doesn’t want anyone else to have sex! 🤣
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  7357. True. One should never knock bisexuality: it instantly doubles your chances of scoring on a Saturday night! 🎉👍
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  7358. Yeah, but all your histrionic pearl-clutching is ultimately irrelevant, dear: consenting adults. 👜
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  7359.  @TheKrikCameronKids  🤣👍😉
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  7360.  @TheKrikCameronKids  ‘Lady’? I thought you said I was Jonathan. Yer all over the joint, petal. 🥴
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  7361.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Nah, m8. That doesn’t compute as it’s intentional. If you know you’re doing it, it’s not a mistake. It’s all under control, sweetie. Don’t you worry now.🤫👍😉
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  7362.  @RonnieHarperMA I never admitted anything, son. All I said was is that I am Sir Hugh Janus-Cockburn. You need better close reading skills as yer current ones aren’t up to snuff, cocker! 👍
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  7363.  @RonnieHarperMA  Does he? Pure coincidence, my child. Pure coincidence.😉👍🤫
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  7364.  @RonnieHarperMA  Lol. I’m not Jonathan but I see what you did there.👍🤫😉
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  7365.  @ijumpjudyy  Lol. Shakespeare?! Wtf. It’s just elementary grammar, dude. Chill.🤣👍
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  7366.  @ijumpjudyy  ‘I’s’?! Lmao. How about just ‘my’? 🥴
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  7367.  @RonnieHarperMA  I’m Sir Hugh Janus-Cockburn, doofus.
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  7368.  @RonnieHarperMA  🥱
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  7369.  @TheFaySchoolKids  🥱
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  7370.  @TheFaySchoolKids This Jonathan crap is sooooooo boring… just move on. No one gives a sh*t.
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  7371. Jega🤡 says that ‘sex’ is strictly only man-to-woman sexual intercourse, and nothing else qualifies as ‘sex’. Yet, his own random accident of birth country, Uganda, has just passed a Bill whose headline introduction is: ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX; to prohibit the recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX.’ It appears the Ugandan legislators accept that ‘sex’ is more than just man-to-woman intercourse, as they have explicitly stated SAME SEX SEXUAL RELATIONS are, in fact, a thing. 😊
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  7372.  @Crimsonstorm14 You, and ppl like you, telling me stuff doesn’t qualify as ‘evidence’. Don’t take that wrong. 👍
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  7373. “That’s interesting, as the parliament explained all the reasons behind the bill, and none of them included personal dislikes for these behaviours.” (Jegamespeed3599) Q. “Do you personally dislike homosexuals?” A. “Of course. They are disgusting.” Rearrange these words: goal, own. 👍😂 ​​⁠
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  7374.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? 🤔
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  7375.  @Flunky000  Among heterosexuals between the ages of 15 to 44 years old, 30% of women and 34% of men have had anal sex at some point in their lifetimes. (Women’s Health) 😢
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  7376. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything (let alone telling consenting f*cking adults what they can and cannot do and with whom in the bedroom!🤦‍♂️) from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  7377. Criminalising homosexuality makes about as much logical sense as criminalising heterosexuality. After all, there is precisely nothing gays do that millions of heterosexuals the world over don’t do every day. Furthermore, the latter engage in these consenting acts (rightly) without fear of criminalisation. Moreover, even if a penis up an arse or in a mouth is the main issue here (and it seems to be), how on Earth, in that case, does that justify lumping in all the lesbians who never have and never will have anal sex, unless they get the dildos and strap-ons out? None of it makes rational sense in the cold light of day, which is precisely why it appeals to the darkest, basest, knee-jerk instincts in humanity.
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  7378. Lmao. Says the dude that has worse grammar than Phil Mitchell! 👍😭🤣
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  7379.  @PurpleJonathan Ur 2 eezy m8. Aye! 👍🤡💋
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  7380.  @PurpleJonathan 👈Ferrante just got triggered! Aye! 😂 💨
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  7381.  @PurpleJonathan Shut it, Ferrante! Aye! 👍🤡 🤫
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  7382. *farts
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  7383. S’always the gayest looking ones…🤠
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  7384.  @ijumpjudyy  Btw, I didn’t order a crappuccino. 😂
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  7385.  @ijumpjudyy  Ah, but the only permanent thing is impermanence.👍😉 Bad luck, shweetie.😢
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  7386. Indeed. Imagine, as a black dude (given their iniquitous history and treatment in certain places), criminalising people for just being gay and having consensual gay sex. Deeply primitive.
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  7387. C’mon, Eric, son. Don’t be a silly boy, now. Aside from the case of the potential production of offspring via incestous sex, I can think of absolutely zero reason why the State (or anyone else for that matter) should be interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults. Perhaps you can enlighten me? 🤔
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  7388.  @FlipflopMount222 Triggered, yep! Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7389. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7390. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  7391.  @ijumpjudyy  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  7392.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠​​⁠You owe me nothing, son. I’m just trying to work out a rational reason for criminalising consenting adults having sex. S’all. 🤔 Hitherto, you’ve supplied nothing that enlightens me beyond a visceral hatred of the West born of a random accident of birth you had no say in. 🤦‍♂️
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  7393.  @jegamespeed5399 Lmao. The dude that has not provided one, single, reasonable justification for criminalising gay consenting adults having sex and just piffles relentless, obfuscating baloney has the temerity to call out another who is actually making some kind of case for their stance. 🤦‍♂️
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  7394. Yes, and he wants to meet you, Mr Tullamore. In the communal shower, after your personal ‘Museveni massage’, just after you’ve dropped the soap!🧼😮
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  7395. 👏 You get it, bro. Sensible enough to not dig certain things and irrationally ban them just because you, personally, don’t dig them.
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  7396. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7397.  @JonathanAKaren  ‘Queenie’?! Lol. Is that supposed to be a roast? 😂 🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  7398. Don’t be silly, darling. This is about the basic human freedom/right to choose with whom we want to have consensual sex as an adult. Good grief! 🤦‍♂️ You morons are 10 a penny.
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  7399. Says the dude with the girl’s name.
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  7400.  @JonathanCunty Now, go away, as you are deeply, deeply 🥱.
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  7401.  @JonathanCunty Er, what?! Wtf are you on about? You do realise that you can be Scottish and British simultaneously? These are not mutually exclusive, ‘Kevin’ petal. 🤦‍♂️
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  7402.  @JonathanCunty  That’s mighty knowledgeable for a ‘9’ year old, Kevvy baby. And just for the record, I never said I wasn’t British. Oh dearie, dearie me. 😭 🤦‍♂️
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  7403.  @wombat010 Er, in another stream you just acknowledged I was British (Scottish actually), so again, you’re shooting blanks. I repeat: you’re really not very good at this, are you? 😢🤫😉
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  7404.  @Possum-010 Again, I’m not humping anyone. You’re really not very good at this. You’ve just been called out and are obviously struggling to cope. S’ok. Just take a timeout, but when you return do try to alter your speech patterns if you are pretending to be various people, 👍🤫😉😊
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  7405.  @wombat010 Stop talking to yourself on YouTube like a mental in-patient.
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  7406. You don’t seem to realise that your speech patterns are exactly the same. Tip for the stoopid: If you’re gonna pretend to be various personas, the first rule is ‘vary your speech patterns’. Uh huh.👍🤫😉
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  7407. There you go again. Talking to yourself. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  7408. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  7409. *Bellend
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  7410. He’s just been humped by his husband.👍
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  7411.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  🥱
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  7412. Aye but that’s irrelevant, sonny. I find cucumbers ‘disgusting’ but I’m not so intolerant and silly as to ban them and put them in prison. Grow up, dude. FYI, that moniker reeks ‘gay’. Just sayin’! Have a good day now! 👍 🥒
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  7413. Says the dude giving his gun a homoerotic blowjob. 👍😉
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  7414. ⁠The day this grotesque, slimy, greasy, sweaty, Jabba the Hut looney lets me lurk in the corner of his pink boudoir with my clipboard auditing his sex life with his deeply mannish wifey 🤭 like a weird, creepy sex cop is the day I might return the favour to him! 👮‍♂️
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  7415. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7416. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7417.  @TheKrikCameronTrollKids Nah, just for the fjords and a bit of mature cheddar, chump! 🧀
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  7418. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, their bad breath, their BO but not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sexual business of consenting adults is simply no one else’s business. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  7419.  @Peep-010 The fact you can’t quote me, Peeptwat, shows you’re an unreliable witness. Also a slanderer. Reported.
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  7420.  @Peep-010 I can categorically say I never said anything you suggest above. Show me the direct quotes.
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  7421.  @Peep-010 So quote me? 🤔
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  7422. Er, where/when did I supposedly post this, exactly? 🤔
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  7423.  @benjiisagoodboy I know. I was playing, Benji, but that very simple concept may be beyond you. Alas. 😢
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  7424.  @ijumpjudyy  I don’t trust anyone who can’t buy troosers without holes in them. What are you? A tramp? Don’t answer that.
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  7425.  @benjiisagoodboy You wish. Stop projecting, Benji. You’re beginning to look very foolish. And homosexual.
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  7426.  @benjiisagoodboy You wish.
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  7427. He’s more than that, m8. He’s a closeted ‘dagger take it up the arser’!
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  7428.  @Peep-010 Ok, cobber. Strewth! 😂 👍🤡
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  7429.  @sleepysombre4307  ⁠​​⁠•1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊 Seethe.
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  7430. He’s an arse, m8. Victim of his accident of birth. We all are. But most of us don’t criminalise others for just having sex. Check out his mannish wifey. That tells you much about what’s going on here. 👍😉
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  7431. Yeah, but the bad news for you, ducky, is that, last time I checked, homosexuality was 100% legal in the US! Bad luck.😢 Ta da! 🎉
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  7432.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  7433.  @ijumpjudyy  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  7434.  @ijumpjudyy  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  7435. Look no further than his vaguely bearded wifey! 🤫
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  7436. You’re Kelly Maloney. ‘She’s’ from Sarf Landon. She’s not gonna say ‘mom’ unless she’s transitioned her nationality as well as her sex. 🥴
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  7437.  @koala5054  You need to vary the speech patterns, possum. That’s your fatal mistake. Think on… 👍
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  7438.  @koala5054  Yes, possum, koala, Julia etc. yawn. 🥱
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  7439.  @koala5054  You’re almost indistinguishable from ijumpjudyy, possum. Uh huh. 👍😉
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  7440.  @koala5054  Ah, Koala, I’ve read some of your previous posts to me. You’re one of these possums who likes to imagine a big unverified, unverifiable invisible daddy in the sky because you can’t cope with reality, doncha? Uh huh. Some of us are better than that, hen. Think on…👍😉
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  7441.  @koala5054  Did it? K. And why is that any business of yours, fool? 💩
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  7442.  @ijumpjudyy Yawn. That’s all you have. Got any other choons? 🙃
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  7443. Lmao. Have you seen your face, son? Are you honestly telling me that’s a heterosexual face?! 👍🤣
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  7444. Imagine being so petty, intolerant and primitive you are prepared to criminalise people (lesbian, gay and bisexual) simply for existing, for being who they are? 🤦‍♂️
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  7445. There’s ‘opinions’ and there’s locking people up (or worse) for no reason based on those ‘opinions’. The holding of the ‘opinion’ is neither here nor there; it’s what is being done in the name of that opinion that is the issue. Yvw.👍
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  7446.  @therarebreeds77therarebree7 Well, it’s true. Type into Google: ‘Billy Corgan young bald’ and see what you get! 👍😉
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  7447. You have a bit of a whiff of Billy Corgan.
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  7448.  @TheKrikCameronKids Have you seen your face?
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  7449.  @XwwXr Just stating stuff doesn’t thereby make it true. It doesn’t work like that, hun. ‘Homosexuality is a sin’. Says who? You? And who told you? God? And who is this God? And who told God? In other words, appealing to unverified, unverifiable daddies in the sky is not adequate here, darling. Won’t work if you are criminalising people for just having consenting sex. Bad luck.👍
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  7450.  @XwwXr Saying it’s ‘unnatural’ isn’t an argument for criminalising consenting adults having sex. Do better.
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  7451.  @XwwXr ’Delusion’ isn’t an answer. Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, there are more paedophiles in the homosexual population (I don’t, and I need a source for your claim), how does that justify criminalising the vast majority of non-paedophilic homosexuals who aren’t paedophiles? That’s as irrational as criminalising all men because there are more murderers in the male population than female.
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  7452.  @veraluxmundi2032 🤣
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  7453. “That’s interesting, as the parliament explained all the reasons behind the bill, and none of them included personal dislikes for these behaviours.”(Jegamespeed3599) Q. “Do you personally dislike homosexuals?” A. “Of course. They are disgusting.” Rearrange these words: goal, own. 👍😂 ​​⁠
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  7454.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Slough is a dump, though. The Office and Betjeman got this one right. However, having lived in the USA you also have hundreds and hundreds of Sloughs and, as a rule, all your cities (with a sprinkling of exceptions) are plug ugly.
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  7455.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Too general a comment. Edinburgh, my place of birth, last time I visited wasn’t a ‘dump’. Plenty of other non-dumpy places I can think of, too.
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  7456. Alas, he will be gone to be succeeded by either his equally intolerant, moronic son or son-in-law. Thank fuck I don’t live in an utter dump like Uganda. 👍
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  7457.  @Peep-010  👈Wow! How’s that for the cleanest stroke of projection you will see here today. Way to go. 👏
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  7458. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  7459. Why?
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  7460. Thanks for that Danahomo.👍
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  7461. @StopCensorship4--03No. But I do quite like the smell of my own farts. *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  7462.  @Peep-010 I’m not gay, dude. For some reason (probably because admitting it to yourself will make you look even more idiotic than you already are), you can’t accept this, but I’m not. Cope.
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  7463.  @Peep-010 You would know. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  7464.  @Peep-010 Why would I know what it is? 1) I’m not even American or in America. 2) I’m not even gay. 3) You’re seriously fucking hopeless, dude. 🤦‍♂️
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  7465.  @TheFaySchoolKids Was it? K. Flunkybore deployed their usual scattergun tactic of just blasting anywhere à la the denouement of The Wild Bunch but, of course, as per usual none of it stuck! Ta da! 🎉
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  7466.  @TheFaySchoolKids Disagree. To me, my farts smell really rather tip-top! 😊
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  7467.  @Flunky000 Lol. How’s that for a backtrack and some slippery wordage? “You don’t have to know Nambla to be Nambla”. By these words you realised you cocked up yet again! Tbf to you, ty for admitting you were wrong. That takes balls. 😊
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  7468.  @TheFaySchoolKids They smell particularly fragrant after a nice curry overloaded with cumin and garam masala! Yum! 🍛 😊
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  7469.  @TheFaySchoolKids I love how you’ve posted this about a million times already, trying to get a reaction but are getting none! 😢Why? Because just about everyone I know quite likes the smell of their own farts. You’re the weirdo here. 👍😉
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  7470.  @TheFaySchoolKids They do! 💨 😊
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  7471.  @Flunky000  I have no idea what Nambla is. So just stating random crap won’t work here, dear. You’re confusing me with someone else. Moreover, you are with a paedo enabler advocate and you freely admit it. 👍😉
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  7472. ⁠ @Flunky000 You pulled a big shovel out today and dug a grave you will not escape from in here. Your truth was outed. 😆
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  7473.  @Flunky000 👈Watch the squirm having been squarely called out. 😂
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  7474.  @Flunky000 Your projection today is quite off the charts, dearie! 👍😉
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  7475.  @Peep-010  "Paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. Paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Paedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty." (Milo Yiannopoulos) According to Peepbore/Flunkychore, Yiannopoulos is, apparently, one of the ‘good gaies’. 🤦‍♂️ I take no lessons from you, on the subject of ‘paedophilia’, paedo enabler advocate. 👍🤡
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  7476. There’s no hate like Christian ‘love’. 🤦‍♂️
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  7477.  @ijumpjudyy What? I was using that in the general sense. 🤦‍♂️ You’re so hopeless, Little Ms Virgin/Asexual! 😂 🐰👈 😉
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  7478. Says the dude with the homoerotic avatar. 👍😉
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  7479.  @Deanthonyforeskin-m6h Yeah, moron for being right. 🤦‍♂️ Ffs. Dude lives in Berlin and he’s anti-gay. What a plonker, Rodney! 🤦‍♂️
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  7480.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? I’m not complaining about polygamy laws in Africa. I fear you have the wrong dude. 👍
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  7481.  @jegamespeed5399  Again, I’ve told you this many times, you appear to be thinking for a whole country or continent. I look at each issue as a human. My country in neither here nor there. Sorry. 😢
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  7482.  @jegamespeed5399 Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter what you want to call it if it’s between consenting adults. Semantics are irrelevant here, sonny. Bad luck.
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  7483.  @kalm4766 That’s fine. You find it ‘disgusting’. This dude also finds it ‘disgusting’ (although, check out his wifey! 😉) and he’s gonna criminalise it. You’re not taking that second step, and for this you are to be commended as you realise you need to butt-out of consenting adults’ sex lives. Bravo! 👏
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  7484.  @kalm4766  I repeat: consenting adults having sex is simply none of your business. 👍
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  7485. Utterly irrelevant, dearie. Consenting adults. Your squirmy, over-sensitive feelings don’t matter a jot here. Nice try, though.👍
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  7486. Ok, Amor(on). Ty for your stunning, intelligent, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  7487. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7488. ‘Art Star’? There’s more than a whiff of the homosexual about that moniker. Just sayin’! 😢
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  7489. https://youtu.be/iWJAE3JvmtU?si=AoHbXogsKASA0-00 Bravo, Thailand! 👏 How can anyone possibly have anything against this sweet couple just for loving each other and having sex together? In a backward dump like Uganda, they’d be persecuted to the point of fines, imprisonment or worse just for being who they are. 🤦‍♂️
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  7490.  @benjiisagoodboy ’Jan’?! Wtf You ppl r weird. 🥴
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  7491.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Oi! I don’t take it up the bahookey, I’ll have you know, Jordan ya tart. Just cuz I called out America for being crap when compared to Europe… no need to take a hissy fit, shweetie. 😑
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  7492.  @TheKrikCameronKids *u
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  7493.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Have u looked in the mirror, recently? 🪞
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  7494.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Yes.
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  7495. ⁠ @FlipflopMount222 *or *you
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  7496.  @FlipflopMount222  My work here is done. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7497.  @FlipflopMount222  Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7498.  @FlipflopMount222 Ooh! Wow! You really are triggered, aincha!? Lmao. 🤣🤣🤣
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  7499. Who’s triggered now, Mason ‘flop’ Mount fangurl? Huh? 👍🤣😉
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  7500.  @reginageorge4  Don’t quote the Bible crap as that’s not an argument. That’s just quoting stuff. Not arguing the key point.
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  7501.  @reginageorge4  Next?
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  7502.  @AliAliAliAli-kq3mm  Oh, indeed. It’s crazy isn’t it? 👍
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  7503. The whole thing here is rather simple: consensual adult sex. That’s all it is. No one, state or individual, should be directly messing with consensual adult sex. The only caveat to this is the case where a child may result from incestous sex. Aside from this one exception, I can think of zero reason to intrude in the sexual lives of consenting adults. Those who do this are, invariably, unacknowledged gays themselves, deeply religious, and/or just general trouble-makers. Often, it’s all of the above!
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  7504.  @benjiisagoodboy  The comparison needs to be Europe (3.8 million sq. miles) vs America (3.9 million sq. miles). Now f*ck off.
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  7505.  @benjiisagoodboy  Just go away. You’re so f*cking boring. Yawn off. 🥱
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  7506.  @benjiisagoodboy  I said Europe vs America. I never mentioned ‘North’. Do try to keep up at the back. 🤦‍♂️ 🥱
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  7507.  @benjiisagoodboy  🥱
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  7508.  @benjiisagoodboy Now go away. You’re very boring. And thick. A deadly combination.🥱
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  7509.  @benjiisagoodboy You’re making a false comparison. Scotland is smaller than South Carolina. The comparison needs to be Europe (3.8 million sq. miles) vs America (3.9 million sq. miles). On every single score, for me, Europe wins. The only score draw I would give is natural scenery.
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  7510.  @benjiisagoodboy Lol. The USA has hundreds of Cumbernaulds! 🤣
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  7511.  @benjiisagoodboy  Part of you Americans’ problem is you think you’re the centre of the f*cking universe! Get yer heid oot yer airse, ffs! 🤦‍♂️
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  7512.  @benjiisagoodboy  Er, we’ve got a whole western coast on the Atlantic Ocean! 🤦‍♂️ Back2skool. Americans and geography. Jesus.
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  7513.  @RonnieMantis  You need to travel round Europe. Check out Spain, France and Italy, to name just 3. All 3 have hundreds of beautiful villages/towns/cities that the USA can only dream of. As I said, South America (and Mexico) were sensible in that they built beautiful Old World-style places that stand to this day.
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  7514.  @RonnieMantis You’re right about the football, though. That’s why I support Spain. 😊
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  7515.  @RonnieMantis Don’t be silly. That’s not a fair comparison given Scotland is smaller than South Carolina. A fair comparison would be USA vs Europe. However, even tiny Scotland (5 million) has several cities/towns/villages more attractive than anything in the USA. 👍
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  7516.  @RonnieMantis Here’s another fact to suck on: look at South America and all their gorgeous colonial cities. North America (save Mexico) has virtually nothing that can compete with these. The European immigrants to South America, architecturally-speaking, recreated a bit Spain, a bit of Portugal in their towns/cities. You North Americans were arrogant. Thought the Old World was to be shunned. Hence you went your own way and you built horrendous urban spaces all over that beautiful land.
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  7517.  @RonnieMantis London, notwithstanding a good bit of it was razed by the Nazis, is still more attractive than the vast majority of US cities.
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  7518.  @RonnieMantis Uh huh. And how does that explain the hundreds of other horrendously ugly US cities that weren’t burned down? Bad luck. 😭
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  7519.  @RonnieMantis Er, I think you’ll find Edinburgh’s New Town was built between 1767 and 1890. Bad luck. 😭
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  7520.  @benjiisagoodboy Seattle? Edinburgh? I think you’ll find Edinburgh is about… oh, 50x… no make that 100x more beautiful than Seattle. Seattle is just a another-average looking glass and steel American disappointment. Without the setting it would utterly horrendous! Edinburgh has the majestic setting but, crucially, they remembered to build a beautiful city to complement that setting. That is the difference. That is the tragedy of American cities: find a setting, build a pile of ugly crap.
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  7521.  @benjiisagoodboy No and no.
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  7522.  @benjiisagoodboy Truth is, Slough edges sh*thole dumps like Detroit and Baltimore. How tragic is that for you guys?!🤣
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  7523. Jegafanny 🤡 thinks I get ‘upset’ when he calls me a homosexual. His tiny, limited mind can’t comprehend that a non-homosexual might have zero problem with consenting gay adults having sex. Alas, poor Jegafud. 🤡 🤦‍♂️
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  7524.  @Sparxy-k9e  “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.” (Rabbie Burns) 👍😉
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  7525.  @ijumpjudyy  Hey! But I didn’t order this crappuccino, groomer! 😡😂
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  7526.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Little Ms. Virgin/Asexual is clearly so frustrated she doesn’t want anyone else to have sex! 🤣
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  7527. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  7528.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u  The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 🤠😉
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  7529. ‘GetToTheChopper’ huh? Like riding a big ‘chopper’ do you, hun? 😉 🚁
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  7530.  @jegamespeed5399 I told you already, I’m not a colonialist. 🤦‍♂️
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  7531. ⁠ @jegamespeed5399 That’s just another another way of saying you can’t explain them, beyond, “for the fun of it!” 😉
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  7532.  @jegamespeed5399 Oh, I’m over it, dearie. You just can’t supply any rational justifications for your beliefs. Do you honestly expect others to take you seriously, in that case? 👍😉
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  7533. Jegamoron 🤡: “Homosexuality has always been illegal and frowned on in African society. It’s amusing to see western propagandists claim that our opposition to homosexuality will hinder the fight against it…” Cringe. He doesn’t seem to realise there have been homosexuals since there have been humans. In Africa, in Asia, everywhere! It’s not a choice. You just fancy whom you fancy. He knows that. I know that. We all know that. If you happen to fancy an adult same-sex person who happens to fancy you, and you wanna fuck, then where’s the issue? 🤷‍♂️ There is no issue. 🤦‍♂️
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  7534. So, you’re more of a spit rather than a swallow guy? Gotcha! 😉👍
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  7535. Lol.
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  7536. Here’s what we’re dealing with, folks👉 “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegafud 🤡 🤦‍♂️) Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  7537.  @jegamespeed5399 Btw, you never answered my other question: do you consider female gay sex immoral too?
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  7538.  @jegamespeed5399  👈”No one is intruding on other people’s lives simply by believing certain actions are wrong.” They are if they are making and supporting laws banning consenting adults from having sex, ya f*cking numpty! 🤦‍♂️
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  7539.  @jegamespeed5399 Lmao. You’re one of a kind, son! 🤣 An atheist and he still won’t allow consenting adults to have sex! 👌 I’ve heard it all now! 🤦‍♂️
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  7540.  @jegamespeed5399  No, it’s actually not the point. Believing something is ‘morally wrong’ doesn’t justify you intruding in others’ lives when it’s patently not clear it’s ‘morally wrong’ in the way murder and rape, we can all agree, are morally wrong. I have yet in my entire life to meet anyone who believes consenting adult gay sex is ‘morally wrong’ unless… unless they were religious. Ah, there’s the rub. Well, sorry m8, some of us just don’t uphold unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies and to call something ‘morally wrong’ on the basis of this doesn’t float. It doesn’t work like that. The point is not interfering in the private sex lives of consenting adults. It’s that simple. Aside from extreme cases where children may be produced of incestuous relations, I can think of no reason you, nor the state, should be policing consenting adults’ sex lives. Consenting gay sex is not affecting you directly in any way. You have no place policing it.
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  7541.  @jegamespeed5399 Yeah, our disjuncture here is that you consider consenting gay adults having sex as ‘morally wrong’ and I don’t. On this basis, I fear there is nothing more to say.
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  7542. Respect putting basic punctuation marks in the correct place.
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  7543.  @jegamespeed5399  👈Dude got triggered by some basic home truths, it seems.
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  7544.  @jegamespeed5399  Don’t you get this, dude? Just because you are randomly born somewhere doesn’t thereby automatically mean you uphold all the mores/values of that place. 🤦‍♂️ I’ve repeatedly told you that I, personally, have zero problem with consensual adult incest if no children result. Bad luck. 😢
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  7545. C’mon Duaney, petal. With a name like ‘Duane’ I bet you’ve had a few offers in a few back alleys you never passed up, hun. 👍😉
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  7546. Lmao. The irony of this moron using a Pet Shop Boys song title! 😂
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  7547. The lady doth protest too much, methinks! Check out that exceedingly mannish wifey of his with ‘her’ permanent 5 o’clock shadow. 🪒
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  7548.  @ijumpjudyy  👆Beware of the brainwashed religious idiot. 😆
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  7549.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7550.  @ijumpjudyy  It doesn’t ‘insult’ me, Judy. But I know it insults freaks like you! Ta da! 🎉👍😂
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  7551.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7552.  @Shane_Diesel_2010 ​​⁠ Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7553.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7554.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7555.  @Shane_Diesel_2010 Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  7556.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  But I’m not gay, schweetie. 🤫
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  7557. Translation: “This repressed gay dude agrees with me.” 🤫
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  7558. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  7559. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399) 🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  7560.  @FlipflopMount222  No. Shut it.
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  7561.  @ijumpjudyy I didn’t order any crappuccino, groomer. 😂
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  7562. Some nice homoerotic stuff in yer shorts there, dude. 👍😉 💪
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  7563. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7564. Aye, quite right. If you really want to know what’s going on here, check out his rather mannish wifey. 🤭
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  7565. There is no ‘reason’ behind what he says as there is no reason to criminalise consenting adults having anal/oral sex. Yvw. 👍
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  7566. The ‘truth’ according to you. Moreover, that’s irrelevant, honey. All that matters here is consenting adults. Your hurty wee feelings don’t matter, dearie. Don’t be a silly boy, now. 👍
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  7567.  @Spacelove360 Introducing big scary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies you just made up won’t save you in this debate, sweetheart. Think on.👍
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  7568.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  7569.  @FlipflopMount222  You’re British anyway, son. Not sure why you’re pretending to be in on the Jonathan crap.
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  7570.  @RonnieMantis  🥱
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  7571.  @FlipflopMount222  Blah, blah, blah. Boring. 🥱
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  7572.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  7573. 🥱
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  7574. C’mon, ‘EvilRod’. With a moniker like that, and quite a few of yer playlist choices, yer fooling no one, son! 👍😉
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  7575. Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  7576. It’s quite simple this: criminalise every consenting heterosexual having anal/oral sex every night and then we can talk. If you’re not prepared to do this, then everyone instantly knows this is about targeting a minority based on selective prejudices. I don’t criminalise jellied eel eaters, even though I find it disgusting. Why? It’s harming no one else and is none of my business. The end. 😊
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  7577.  @Peep-010  Really, Dikwad? You’ve changed your tune: Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Bad luck. 😢 🤡
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  7578.  @TheKrikCameronKids He reminds me of these tedious bores I often get lumbered with at funerals and weddings. He’s full of himself. That much is obvious. Lacks self-awareness. Deadly combination.
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  7579.  @TheKrikCameronKids Is he? He’s certainly a thick c*nt. And for some inexplicable reason he seems to think he’s the funniest most interesting thing in the room when, in fact, he is staggeringly dull, alas.
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  7580.  @Flunky000 Irrelevant. Consenting adults, Dikwad.
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  7581.  @luckyman932 ​​⁠​​⁠Once again, sonny, if two consenting adults want to sit in a room and chow down some Pot Poodle and then wash it down with a nice bottle of 1969 vintage Sauvignon Piss, that is simply none of your damn business, sweetheart. Don’t you get this? Now, strap on yer fannypack, get on yer horse and ride off into the sunset, cowboy!🤠 🌅
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  7582. Utterly irrelevant, petal. Consenting adults. Sorry. Nothing to see here. Trot on, now, there’s a good boy. 🐴
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  7583. It’s just irrational hate. Easy target. Your point is spot on. 99+% of folks in my orbit, including me, are simply indifferent to it. My guess is that the cause of much of the problem is a tiny, vocal, minority rump of LGBT activists who are seen/heard out of all proportion to their size. They even bug the tits off me and I have zero issue with their actual cause, generally speaking.
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  7584.  @danielr.8345 ​​⁠C’mon Daniel darling. Have you seen yourself lately? I don’t have the best gaydar, but it definitely clocked you, m8. C’mon, hun. That closet is a bit cramped. All those cars, too. C’mon, son. Just step out and breathe the fresh air. 🧘‍♀️
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  7585. @PondillacThat’s the one that particularly gets me. Lesbians. Over 50% of the population by sex. 🤦‍♂️ Where is the disease risk here? That proves how irrational this whole thing is. Aside from the basic idea that I see zero reason to criminalise adults having sex, full-stop! Aside from perhaps incest cases where children are produced.
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  7586.  @Flunky000 I’m sure you can see how deeply inappropriate it is to police others’ consensual sex lives, Dikwad. Hell, most people I know don’t even wanna let others know about their sexuality, let alone having creepy weirdos like you, Dikwad, policing their ACTUAL sex lives through the state. It’s really is very simple, Dikwad. I know you have your transparent shield of religious stuff and whatever to defend you and hide behind, but I know loads of religious folk (very religious folk) who actually agree with me, Dikwad, when I simply say my sex life, your sex life and everybody’s sex life is quite simply nobody else’s business. It’s almost silly having to spell this out, Dikwad, doncha think? 😊
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  7587.  @Flunky000 FYI, I’m not a ‘nihilist’. Nice try though, Dikwad. 👍
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  7588.  @Flunky000  Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  7589. Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  7590. Sorry, but yer ‘nation’ thing here doesn’t hold water. Surely, loving someone and being free to have sex with that someone free from fear of criminalisation is a universal right, no? 🤔 Did I miss a meeting?
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  7591. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7592.  @Peep-010  Yes, possum, koala, etc. yawn. 🥱
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  7593. Yes, possum, koala, etc. yawn. 🥱
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  7594. Lmao Charlie. No one can look at your avatar and not have the word ‘gay’ pop into one’s head.👍
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  7595. Uh huh. He’s a corrupt moron ruling over a sub-literate, dirt-poor, non-democratic, strongly religious dump. You called it right. 👍
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  7596. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7597.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  7598.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Lol. You clearly never visited the South of France then, where you find the Pyrenees with dozens of 3000m+ mountains or eastern France and the Alps with more dozens of mountains of 3000m+. Maybe next time you visit you could check them out.
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  7599.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Alaska’s basically Russian if you look at the history. You’ve had Alaska for 5 minutes, son. Europe has had Mont Blanc for 15 million years.
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  7600.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  I don’t call the Danube a ‘small’ river. 🥱 Now just shut up.
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  7601.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  France, the size of Texas and 100x more interesting in every single way you can think of.
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  7602.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  I think you’ll find Mont Blanc is bigger than anything you have over there. Bad luck. 👍
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  7603.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Look, mate. I’m bored with this. Move on, son. I’ve made my points. 👍
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  7604.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Culturally, Europe is 100x more interesting than North America. You guys aren’t doing too well here, huh? We also have better food. Less violent crime. Decent weather if you head south. If we are making a direct comparison between Europe and North America I cannot think of one thing where America wins. Bad luck, Jordan.👍😊
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  7605.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  It’s no less impressive geographically than North America. I would actually argue, Europe edges this one too, when it comes to natural scenery.
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  7606.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Continent to continent.
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  7607.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  It’s a bit unfair to compare Scotland to America in terms of size. Much fairer to make the European comparison. A fairer comparison to Scotland in terms of size would be a state like, say, Pennsylvania. So let’s do that: Philadelphia? Well, dear reader, I’ve visited that place and it’s actually rather depressing and bleak and ugly, notwithstanding it was your capital back in the day. Edinburgh is clearly the beauty (and just generally a more interesting place) here if we are making a fair comparison. And, as I said, the fair comparison for North America would be Europe in toto and, as I also said, we Europeans have literally hundreds of more beautiful cities than you North Americans. Even our relatively ‘ugly’ cities are still miles more attractive than the vast majority of your cities. New York? One of a kind but I wouldn’t call it beautiful. If we’re making a direct comparison London vs New York, then the former beats the latter for me in terms of pulchritude, and that’s quite something given a good part of it was razed by the Nazis! Hope this helps. 😊
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  7608.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Lmao. I’ve actually been to Austin and you’re with a straight face suggesting it might be on a par with Bruges or Amsterdam or Lyon or Dubrovnik?! 🤣 Austin is just another plain-looking, deeply underwhelming American city. Because you Yanks build them so well.👍😊
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  7609.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Savannah, in American terms, is up there. However, Savannah is playing in the Championship while Edinburgh, Toledo, Aix-en-Provence, Verona, Prague, Budapest, Heidelberg etc etc etc etc are all playing in the Premier League. You should come over and see us sometime. I’m not kidding. 👍😉
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  7610.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  …Furthermore, if we widen it to Europe, we have literally hundreds of cities more beautiful than all your American cities because you Yanks just can’t seem to do attractive cities. Bad luck.😭👍😉
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  7611.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Ouch! That’s harsh. Your 2nd point is 100% correct which is why I support Spain. ‘Scotland sucks’? Well, the weather sure sucks if you like warmth and sun, but I will say this (and I say it having lived in the US for a year back in the day), in Edinburgh we have a city that it 10x more beautiful than any American city you care to mention. 👍😉
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  7612.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Is he? He also makes exceedingly good cheese.
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  7613.  @Possum-010 Ok, possum/wombat. 🥱
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  7614.  @JonathanCunty Except they aren’t. Because I have zero clue who the f*ck yer oan aboot, ‘Kevin’.👍🤫😉
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  7615. Funny how your speech patterns are EXACTLY the same as possum/wombat, eh? 🤫👍😊😉
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  7616. Hi Possum/Wombat.👋🤫😉
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  7617. 👆Beware of the brainwashed religious idiot. 😆
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  7618. Don’t be silly, sweetheart. Have you seen your face, lately? It’s screaming GAY! 😱 😂👍
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  7619. He’s a repressed gay boy himself, dude. Check out the permanent 5 o’clock shadow on his ‘wifey’.👍😉
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  7620. •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  7621. ⁠”Your disapproval is a strong indication we are doing the right thing.” (Jegamespeed3599) Seemingly never occurred to the dude that there are millions of non-westerners who also happen to think that criminalizing consenting adults for just having sex is a deeply weird, unthinking, primitive, backward thing to do. Moreover, they argue their case. Yeah. More non-argumentation. Just a seething bitterness. Very boring “I don’t like you and therefore anything you might say is wrong! It is! But it is, mummy! But it is, mummy!”
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  7622.  @Peep-010  And another thing: y r u so obsessed with the health of gay men’s bums, anyway? 😮😉
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  7623. Lol. Slightly ironic from a person named ‘shittlers’! 😮 💩 😂👍🤦‍♂️
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  7624. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista) 🤦‍♂️
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  7625.  @benjiisagoodboy  C’mon, Benji boy. Surely you can do better than that, no? Lame. 🤦‍♂️
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  7626.  @Neokyo璧夢 He’s a moron, dude. Don’t directly engage. That would be my advice. 👍
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  7627. It’s primitives curtain-twitching. Big Brother on steroids. Orwell nailed it.
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  7628.  @wombat010 *Hordes 🤡
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  7629.  @linex1780 Why?
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  7630. Lol.
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  7631.  @jegamespeed5399 I said: ‘consenting gay sex’. Read better, bud.😢
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  7632.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, wot? Wtf are you babbling on about now? Homosexuality has been around since humans have been around. 🤦‍♂️ Cringe.
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  7633. ⁠Scenario: Ugandan about to face death penalty. “So, Mr/Ms Ugandan, we are going to execute you for having consenting gay sex.” “Er, why?” 🤦‍♂️
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  7634. Jegacretin🤡: “We have our own definition of what constitutes a proper relationship, and we will not allow this movement to distort that.” Spoken like a chump seemingly oblivious to the fact that, as a proportion of the population, there are just as many gays in Africa as there are anywhere else on the planet. 🤦‍♂️
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  7635.  @ijumpjudyy As we all know, though, Judesy darlin’, none of what you say matters here as your feelings don’t trump the very, very simple (even for you, shweetie) principle that it’s no one else’s damn business what consenting adults choose to do. Case closed. Uh huh. 😊
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  7636. Fair and balanced appraisal of the situation. 👏
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  7637. Don’t be silly, sonny. Just think about this for a moment: do you, a heterosexual I’m guessing, consciously choose whom you fancy? Of course you don’t. You just see someone and you fancy them. You don’t will it. It just is. It’s exactly the same for bisexuals and homosexuals and everyone else in between! Ta da! 🎉
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  7638.  @stopcensorship7705  You didn’t read me, did you, sweetie? I said, for the benefit of the chump in the room: even if one’s sexuality were a choice (it’s not), it wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another man and a woman getting with another woman. Seethe harder.
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  7639. So are your manky, grubby fingernails. 😷 They always make me boak. 🤮
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  7640. Of course, it’s not necessarily the case that dudes vehemently against gay sex are gay… but… BUT… have you ever encountered a gayer looking and sounding twat than this knobhead? Of course, he’s repressed gay. How do I know? Check out his ‘wife’. 👍😉
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  7641. Ok, Davie, son. Rocking that camp little ‘Brokeback (bareback😮) Mountain’ cowboy hat there, dude! Nice tilt, pal! 😉 🤠
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  7642. Er, it’s Sir Hugh Janus to you, Little Miss Asexual/Virgin. Get it right. 😡
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  7643.  @reginageorge4  Hey, groomer! Check it:👉 •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. Suck it and weep, groomer. 😢🤫😂
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  7644.  @stopcensorship7705  ‘There is archeological evidence for the existence of pasta in the Etruscan civilization, which flourished in the regions we now call Lazio (including Rome), Umbria and Tuscany. A bas-relief unearthed in an Etruscan tomb depicts tools and kitchen utensils used to roll and form pasta very similar to those still in use today.’ *possibilities *you’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  7645. Just don’t drop that bar of soap when you’re in the shower with him! 😮 🧼
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  7646.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  You can’t answer the key point: it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults are doing sexually. Uh huh. 😊
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  7647.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Just a new choon, hunni. Just vary it. Can you do that? Is it within your clearly severely limited capabilities? 😳
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  7648.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri God, you’re boring, darlin’. Ffs. 🤦‍♂️ Got any new choons? 🥱
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  7649.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri FYI, don’t make it so obvious, hun. 😂👍🤦‍♂️
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  7650.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Wow! That’s projection folks! Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  7651. @ Nah, just a nice mature Cheddar, sweetheart. Chill. 👍
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  7652.  @StopCensorship4--03 *possibilities Skill issue. 😢
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  7653.  @TheKrikCameronKids *darlin’
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  7654.  @ijumpjudyy  God, you’re boring. You have no reply. Feelings don’t trump logic, sweetheart. Seethe and cope harder. Believing in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy won’t save you here, darlin’! 👍
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  7655. The playlist homoerotic imagery is particularly strong with this one. 😳
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  7656.  @Peep-010  Ok. Whatever. Jeezo. You’re fucking hard work. 🥱
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  7657.  @Flunky000 Ok. Whatever. Jeezo. You’re fucking hard work. 🥱
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  7658.  @christalball93_ ​​⁠Ok. So you have no issue with gay men f*cking one another and gay women f*cking one another. Ty. It wasn’t clear, but many thanks for confirmation! 👍
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  7659.  @veraluxmundi2032 He’s congenitally incapable of thinking out-with his random accident of birth. 👍 Unable, seemingly, just to think as a rational human being rather than an irrational national. His vituperation against the West gives the game away here. He also can’t seem to grasp the very basic idea that Westerners are actually very self-critical and self-reflecting and don’t just automatically agree with their given government’s actions on a whim or a random accident of birth they had no say in. All very odd, really.
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  7660. Jegaprick 🤡 : “They promote false ideas like gay couples can have sex.” Er, Uganda’s own legislators in this very law have explicitly stated in black and white that gay couples can ‘have sex’: ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX; to prohibit the recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX.’
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  7661.  @ijumpjudyy Ah, but groomer, the only permanent thing is impermanence, groomer. 😂
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  7662.  @ijumpjudyy Irrelevant, groomer. Consenting adults, groomer. 😂
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  7663. What about 2 women? Are they ‘disgusting’ with their greased-up dildos and other wacky paraphernalia? 🤔
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  7664. ‘Fair play’? What? How is it ‘fair’ to fine, imprison and execute people for just having sex? 🤦‍♂️
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  7665.  @reginageorge4  Ty. You agreed with me. We got there. Yoweri Museveni’s wifey looks like a man. That’s all you needed to say. Ty 4 ur honesty. 👍
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  7666.  @reginageorge4  What? Yer all over the shop, sweetheart. I was just pointing out that as a heterosexual dude, Yoweri Museveni’s wifey looks like a man. And she clearly does. If you can’t cope with this then can I suggest you seek therapy. 👍😉
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  7667.  @reginageorge4 No. It’s spotting a dude who secretly fancies men and married, to all intents and purposes, a dude! 😂👍
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  7668. Aye. But have you seen his wifey? 😉
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  7669. Well, imo, this guy is clearly repressing something; not that every homophobe is doing that, but this guy is - the clue very often with these people is go look at their wives. You see a feminine-looking woman in this chump’s case? If you don’t look too closely, you could quite easily mistake her for a fella. I rest my case. But that’s not the point. There are 2 clear issues in this debate that the haters of homosexuality have never provided an answer for: 1. What business is it of anyone to intrude on what 2 consenting adults decide to get up to? 2. No one has, hitherto, given me a single rational reason why I should hate (or even mildly dislike) homosexuality. The key key point is the first one, but for both reasons I have absolutely zero issue with homosexuality.
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  7670. You talking to yourself again possum? 🥱
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  7671. Q: “Do you personally think consenting gay adults having sexual relations is immoral?” Jegamespeed5399: “Yes.” Q: “Why?” Jegamespeed5399: “For the fun of it!” 🤦‍♂️
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  7672.  @Tobias-ox8uc  Well said, Toby.👍I like how you admit you find the act disgusting (it doesn’t particularly bother me) yet are sane and rational and non-religiously brainwashed enough to recognise that the business of consenting adults is no one else’s business.
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  7673.  diddyphukkingkong393  Nope. That doesn’t work. Once again, for the hard of thinking: what consenting adults choose to do that doesn’t affect you is simply none of your business. Cope better now, 👍
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  7674.  @Tobias-ox8uc  The simple point that the haters like StopCensorship and others constantly overlook is that what consenting adults choose to do is simply no one else’s business. This is the irrefutable point in this whole debate and because it can’t be refuted the haters resort to feeling and stamping like children who can’t have an ice cream.
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  7675. ‘Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose reportedly partied at a gay club in London after his band's controversial performance at the Reading Festival over the weekend.’ (NME) 😮
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  7676. You are Grosz.
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  7677. Even if they do/don’t, it’s not the point. Not unnecessarily, irrationally interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults is the point. 😊
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  7678. 👏Ty for your staggeringly scintillating, erudite, well-argued and thoughtful response to the video.
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  7679. Nah, m8. It really doesn’t. We don’t need authoritarian religious idiots living in the dark ages dictating the terms and conditions. Europe lived through that for thousands of years. Then we got enlightened. I have an idea, though. Why don’t you sod off to Uganda? 👍😉
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  7680. Jeganumpty 🤡: “Gaes’ opinions hold no value. So why even attempt to offer your opinion?” Well, for starters, perhaps because I’m not gae! 🤦‍♂️ What a complete divvy this twat is. Good grief.
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  7681. Your assent or otherwise with this proposition is supremely irrelevant here, darling. Consenting adults. Uh huh. 😊
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  7682. That’s fine. Just don’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex. It’s that simple. 🤷‍♂️
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  7683.  @Peep-010 You have nothing, Dikwad. You are flailing in the impotent realisation that if you criminalise anal/oral sex for gays, you must also do it for hettys, too. Because you realise you can’t do this, you are lost, and it’s a joy to watch, Dikwad! 😂👍🤡
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  7684.  @Peep-010 Er, no it’s not, Dikwad. It’s about criminalising homosexuality in Uganda. Do try to keep up at the back, Dikwad. 🤦‍♂️
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  7685. All irrelevant. Consenting adults. Nice convoluted try, though.👍
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  7686.  @Jax-Phoenix77  Projecting again, sonny?👍😉
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  7687.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠ God, you’re boring. You have no reply. Feelings don’t trump logic, sweetheart. Seethe and cope harder. Believing in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy won’t save you here, darlin’! 👍
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  7688. It’s just consenting adults fucking, dude. You need a better coping strategy. 👍
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  7689. Jeganumpty 🤡:”Why are practices like incest, paedophila and bestiality illegal in the West, even though they mostly occur in private settings?” 1) I, personally, have zero problem with consenting adult incest with one single proviso: no kids result. 2) Non-consenting. 3) Non-consenting. Yet again, the bad faith dipshit purposely conflates shit to muddy the waters. Alas, for him, it won’t succeed. 😊
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  7690. Jegamespeed: “If people should be allowed to act on their feelings, why stop with homosexuality? Why not allow bestiality, paedophilia, incest etc.?” Ah, ye olde ‘homosexuality is the gateway drug to paedophilia and bestiality’ trope, beloved by those with no real argument. It apparently hasn’t crossed Jegameclown’s 🤡 tiny brain that homosexuality is consensual and involves adults. Paedophilia and bestiality aren’t and involve children and animals. As for incest, well, personally, if all parties are consenting adults and there is zero chance of offspring resulting, not sure why anyone should be messing here. Answers on a postcard, kids!
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  7691.  @FlipflopMount222 No. Do one.
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  7692.  @FlipflopMount222 Shut it.
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  7693. It’s so he can slip it nicely into his b/f’s bahookey! 👍😉
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  7694. Now, there’s a surprise. Wombattwat and Possumnumpty pop up at exactly the same time! Again. ‘They’ (😉) have a regular habit of doing this. 😮 Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂 🤡 🥤
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  7695.  @ijumpjudyy  Hey! But I didn’t order this crappuccino, groomer! 😡😂
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  7696.  @ijumpjudyy But more than likely true in this case, Judesy darlin’! Tch! Tch! 👍😉
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  7697. Indeed. The US thing is relevant here, as these morons seem to think this is just a Ugandan (African) thing. Not once has anyone has anyone supplied a rational reason why the sexual lives of consenting adults should be anyone else’s business. The only reason I can think of is preventing the birth of a child from incestuous sex.
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  7698.  @stopcensorship7705  Just for the record, in every single statement you make you just state your opinion. You never engage in argument. That’s the first sign of someone unable to defend their position.👍😉
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  7699.  @stopcensorship7705  Do I get to police your sex life like a creepy cop or is this all just one way? 👮‍♂️
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  7700.  @jegamespeed5399 I never used the word ‘legal’ bud. You did. You need better close-reading skills and better comprehension, bud.
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  7701.  @jegamespeed5399 Lmao@‘bacterial vaginosis’ as if heterosexual women don’t also get this. Scraping the barrel at this point, bud, if that’s all you can come up with to ban lesbian sex.😂 🤦‍♂️
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  7702.  @jegamespeed5399 What about lesbians, though, who contribute zero to the HIV stats. Who are they harming? 🤔
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  7703. 👏
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  7704. Why? Are you keeping it up for him, sweetie? 😮
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  7705.  @fahjawjfwujswu Do you? K. Clearly an incel, though. 😩
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  7706. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  7707. But Subhan, hunni, it’s nothing to do with that. This is just a universal thing. No one should be unnecessarily, irrationally interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults. Case closed, flower. 👍
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  7708.  @vitorpereira9515 Don’t be stupid, son. Some of us grew out of fairy stories in infancy. Moreover, what you say is supremely irrelevant. It’s consenting adults, dearie. Grow up, now! 👍
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  7709. The day this grotesque, disgusting, greasy, sweaty bollock-head (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw. 🤭) supports fining, imprisoning and executing consenting heterosexual adults for simply having consensual anal/oral sex is the day he would still be being a complete f*cking moron, but at least he would be consistent.
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  7710. loooool 👏 Ty for your stunning, intelligent, erudite, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  7711. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista)
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  7712.  @jegamespeed5399 Pure whataboutism. No one is denying western war crimes and nefarious sh*t, but to use that as your main argument (i.e. no argument) as to why you want to criminalise gay sexual activity is kindergarten level. It reeks of bitterness. Not rational. And still, I note, in all your obfuscating, pretentious baloney, you have not once provided a reason as to why you would imprison (or worse) consenting adults indulging in sexual activity (for as we already know, you don’t think gays can ‘have sex’ 🥱). That’s telling. You don’t play the ball, you play the man. Bad faith, bud. Bad faith. 👍
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  7713. Jegatwat 🤡: “Heterosexual individuals do not engage in homosexual activity, as doing so would contradict their heterosexual orientation.” Lol. Jegatool 🤡 appears to be labouring under the delusion that homosexuals engage in ‘activity’ that millions of heterosexuals don’t engage in every minute, of every day, everywhere. 🤦‍♂️ What were they teaching him in that private school?
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  7714. You said it. If we think about this for a moment, essentially the State is marching into consenting adults’ bedrooms and dictating the terms and conditions of consenting sex lives. If we remove the State, and imagine some random self-appointed moral vigilante cop doing something similar, then we would be within our rights to forcibly march them right out and then if they resisted, force would be justified. Because the State is involved here, this masks the real perniciousness of directly intruding in the sex lives of consenting adults where they affect no one else. Big Brother on steroids.
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  7715.  @ijumpjudyy 👆Beware of the brainwashed religious idiot. 😆
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  7716. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  7717. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  7718. Yeah, but it’s clearly a politically calculated ‘honesty’ from the old dictator. He also clearly lied when he piffled and blustered: “I,I,I,I,I n,n,never knew what they did.” Yeah, right. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Check out the lovely ‘Mrs’ Museveni, though. Rather interesting, visually speaking. 👍😉
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  7719.  @koala5054  Again, you’re not addressing the key point: it’s simply no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do.
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  7720.  @wombat010  Again, you’re not addressing the key point: it’s simply no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do.
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  7721. Er, that’s all well and good, but you don’t address why it should be criminalised. Of course, it shouldn’t. What 2 people choose to get up to consensually is their business. It never ceases to amaze me how certain people think they should have a say in this. It’s bizarre. Oh, yeah. It’s the old unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Now I get it.👍
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  7722. The day this grotesque, oily, sweaty, greasy Jabba the Hutt (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw 🤭) actually gives me a single rational, credible reason to outlaw gay sex, beyond personal pearl-clutching and subjective ‘outrage’ and ‘disgust’, is the day I will listen. 😊
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  7723.  @bobbiescrisps9208 Ok. Sorry to hear that. At least there was a kind of rational basis to his views. It’s those who say they won’t tolerate gay sex yet cannot give a single reason why. All the best. 👍
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  7724. Yes, but has Mr Daniels ever asked, Mrs Daniels? And did you, Mrs Daniels? Not even once, Mrs Daniels? 😮 🤭
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  7725.  @ijumpjudyy Nah, that one doesn’t really work, luv. Bad luck. 😢
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  7726.  @ijumpjudyy  Not the point. Consenting adults. Bad luck. 🥲 And stop stealing my lines, ya freaky plagiarist!
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  7727. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399) 🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid; •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.). •death. “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  7728. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  7729. That’s generous. A deep insult to 10th class countries, if you ask me.
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  7730. I don’t need to say anything. https://youtu.be/RtOxu-IXeco?si=5vPnJArxzzYYyhmb
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  7731.  @J-joe11 It’s consenting adults, hun. The sexual business of consenting adults is quite simply no one else’s business, Joey. 👍
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  7732. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything (let alone telling consenting f*cking adults what they can and cannot do and with whom in the bedroom!🤦‍♂️) from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  7733.  @veraluxmundi2032 Lmao.
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  7734. Jega 🤡 : “Those are biological facts whether you like them or not, and whether they offend you or not. You can feel however you want about them, but you absolutely cannot refute them. They are biological truths backed by every credible biology book in the world. There isn’t a single book in any curriculum that claims otherwise.” Yeah. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. 😊
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  7735.  @reginageorge4  Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 😊 🥒
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  7736.  @reginageorge4 Aye, but as we all know, groomer, the only permanent thing is impermanence! 😂
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  7737. S’always the ones with the gayest thumbnails.
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  7738. 15. Jesus. I know 2 year olds with better thinking skills. 👍 You think I’m kidding.
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  7739.  @McDob Ok, dude. Gee.
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  7740. Er, you don’t have to be ‘left’ to consider him a moron. 👍
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  7741.  @RonnieHarperMA  Er, for what, exactly? 🤔
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  7742.  @StopCensorship4--03  🥱 Key point not addressed. Just pure feeling. Must do better. Uh huh.
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  7743. I know, right? Dude presides over a dirt poor, corruption-riddled, undemocratic, badly literate wee backwater, and all he can think about is twitching his net curtains to check who the neighbours are bonking! Talk about getting his priorities wrong, eh? 🤦‍♂️
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  7744.  @spongeintheshoe  Also, she’s a religious brainwashed lost cause. They are always the worst. 😉
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  7745.  @spongeintheshoe Nah, I wouldn’t bother. Just let them play it out. They reveal their true colours and condemn themselves. That’s the most satisfying thing. 👍
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  7746.  @spongeintheshoe Don’t engage with her. She has no debate. Just an autopilot ‘groomer’ tic response. Just throw it back at her. That’s all you can do with unthinking idiots. 👍
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  7747.  @ijumpjudyy Hey! But I didn’t order this crappuccino, groomer! 😡😂
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  7748. Uganda’s just passed a, imo, barbaric, dark, primitive, brutal law criminalising gay sex. Now what’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  7749. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (Richard Dawkins) Amen. 🙏
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  7750. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  7751.  @Stuart267  No one. Cope.
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  7752. He also needs brain care. His current one is rotten.
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  7753.  @LGBTQS6314  👍
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  7754.  @veraluxmundi2032 Well observed! It’s as if he can’t see a given law, wherever that law obtains, in a universal sense. I have zero problem if he criticised a law or laws of my own accident of birth country - in fact, I would actively welcome it - so his preternatural hypersensitivity to simply suggesting a law of the accidental country of his birth might be unjust is very odd. Weird. 🤷‍♂️
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  7755.  @veraluxmundi2032 I genuinely think he’s been rendered insane by a random accident of birth he had no say in. 🤦‍♂️ It’s bizarre.
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  7756.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Dude’s from your own country. Your President’s former legal advisor! 🤦‍♂️ 😂👍 🤫
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  7757.  @jegamespeed5399 Dude’s from your own country. Your President’s former legal advisor! 🤦‍♂️ 😂👍 🤫
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  7758. But Corleone, hunni, it’s nothing to do with that. This is just a universal thing. No one should be unnecessarily, irrationally interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults. Case closed, flower. 👍
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  7759. Really? You support executing people for just having sex. Ok. 🤦‍♂️
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  7760. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  7761. @Jazc-mp889Wow! You really triggered the little ‘holy’ virgin. You have an online stalker. She’s following you everywhere. I would report, if I were you. She’s unhinged. Don’t let her get your personal details, man.👍
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  7762. Huh? This is Uganda, brutha, not Chad. Bad luck. 😢
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  7763.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  7764. Huh? Does that not apply to straights, too? 🤔
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  7765.  @Possum-010 ​​⁠ Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂 Talking to yourself again? 😂
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  7766. Cringe.
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  7767. What a grotesque, sweaty, greasy bollock-head! I can smell the BO stench through the screen. 🤮🤢This is rather simple, as we all know: the sexual lives of consenting adults are simply no one else’s business. I’ve racked my 🧠 , and the only thing I can come up with where I would feel the need to interfere with consenting adult sex is the possible production of offspring via incest. Aside from this? Crack on! None of my (or anyone else’s) business! 😊
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  7768. Look at your thumbnail and tell me you’re gay without telling me you’re gay, Mr ARSnEy.😉
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  7769. Jegafud 🤡 : “Your opinions mean nothing to me.” Says the chump who spends weeks, days, months trying to refute others’ opinions. 🤦‍♂️
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  7770. Don’t be ridiculous, Michael. We all know all Michaels are secretly gay. I mean, Jackson? 🤷‍♂️
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  7771. Imagine being a grown adult and interfering with what 2 consenting adults do in their own time. 🤦‍♂️ The giveaway with this guy is his wife. She’s rather masculine looking. In other words: we’ve got another one of those arseholes who desire the very thing they’re condemning in others. It’s always the same story. And invariably it involves imaginary, invisible sky daddies. Never trust anyone who tells what to do on the basis of an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Ever. However, even without unverifiable, unverified invisible sky daddies, this is rather simple: it’s no one else’s business if someone wants to stick their cock up some consenting dude’s ass. Funnily enough, these complainers never seem to have the same issue with lesbianism. I wonder why… 🤔
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  7772. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  7773. He looks like he’s on the game, and hangs out in the gay boy haunts of Kampala when his wifey’s back’s turned.
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  7774.  @jegamespeed5399 However, what I did or didn’t claim is irrelevant. Here’s what’s relevant: You’re totally missing the point here. This is about consenting adult sex. No one is dictating to you, as a consenting adult, whom you can and cannot have sex with. So why, for the life of me, are you doing this to others? Wtf is this all about? 🤦‍♂️ G’night, dude. 👍
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  7775.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠You’re totally missing the point here. This is about consenting adult sex. No one is dictating to you, as a consenting adult, whom you can and cannot have sex with. So why, for the life of me, are you doing this to others? Wtf is this all about? 🤦‍♂️
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  7776.  @veraluxmundi2032 He is. Incredibly. Tedious. You said it, dude. 👍
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  7777.  @ijumpjudyy 👈The non coping is strong with this one. 🤣
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  7778.  @jegamespeed5399 But I don’t agree with every law of my accidental country of birth! Jesus. How many times? 🤦‍♂️ Are you thick?
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  7779.  @jegamespeed5399  Bored, dude. All the best. 👍
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  7780.  @jegamespeed5399  Once again for the unthinking amongst us: Accident of birth. Learn to think for yourself as an autonomous human being. 😉
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  7781.  @jegamespeed5399  Once again for the unthinking amongst us: Accident of birth. Learn to think for yourself as an autonomous human being. 😉
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  7782.  @jegamespeed5399  Once again for the unthinking amongst us: Accident of birth. Learn to think for yourself as an autonomous human being. 😉
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  7783.  @veraluxmundi2032 It’s just common sense to me, dude. The day another person lets me unreasonably, creepily, weirdly police their sex life is the day I may let them police mine. 👍
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  7784. Never got the ‘hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences’ memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, their bad breath, their BO but not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sexual business of consenting adults is simply no one else’s business. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  7785.  @jegamespeed5399 I already answered that. Bored, dude. All the best. 👍
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  7786.  @jegamespeed5399 I don’t know. I have zero issue with polygamy. You’ll have to ask the respective countries. As I say, once again, just because I was accidentally born somewhere doesn’t mean I automatically agree with every law/more of that place. Your weird, unquestioning investment in a pure accident of birth is deeply bizarre and irrational. 😊
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  7787.  @Peep-010 Yet more cringe. 😣
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  7788.  @ijumpjudyy  👈The non-coping hypocrisy is strong with this one. 😂
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  7789.  @Peep-010 More cringe. 😠
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  7790.  @Peep-010 Cringe.
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  7791.  @Flunky000 Cringe.
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  7792.  @FlipflopMount222 My work here is done. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7793.  @FlipflopMount222 *It’s Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7794.  @FlipflopMount222  Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7795.  @FlipflopMount222 Lmao. And England isn’t, I suppose?! 🤣👍
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  7796.  @FlipflopMount222  More projection, dear? 👍😉
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  7797.  @FlipflopMount222 More projection, dear? 👍😉
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  7798.  @FlipflopMount222  It clearly does bother you though, as you’ve just replied trying to justify yer Mason ‘flop’ Mount obsession. You’re really not very good at this, are you? 👍🤣
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  7799.  @FlipflopMount222  Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7800. Mason ‘flop’ Mount. Imagine fangurling that useless waste of space! 🤭
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  7801. ‘Gigachad’? I think you’ll find this is not Chad, but Uganda, fool.
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  7802.  @RE-Jon Sorry, dude, but I’m a free-speech absolutist. 👍😉
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  7803. The criminalisation of homosexuality by the British during their colonisation of Uganda in the late 19th century has helped shape how modern-day Ugandans view homosexuality (a salient legacy of this is that today’s Uganda is 84% Christian, a Christianity introduced by the West). There is documentation of various cultures across the continent, including in pre-colonial Uganda, treating gender and sexuality as continuums rather than binaries. Furthermore, while non-conforming sexualities may have been frowned upon in certain communities, they were only actually criminalised by the colonial rulers. Like other former British colonies, Uganda chose to preserve the English legal system following its independence in 1962, including sodomy laws. In one sense, then, the colonial legacy of homophobia and its role in ‘civilising’ and attempting to morally de-value diverse practices of gender and sexuality across various indigenous populations that did not fall under imperial heteronormative and patriarchal structures lives on. In other words, hypocrite Museveni and his ilk are essentially just continuing and promulgating the views that were introduced by the colonialists in terms of criminalising homosexuality. He makes a great fanfare of calling out the ‘evil West’ but this whole criminalising of homosexuality in Uganda was a Western invention! 🤦‍♂️
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  7804. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  7805.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  7806.  @wombat010 K, possum. Oh, sorry wombat. 😉
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  7807. P.S. Check out his ‘wifey’. 😉 Suits you, Sir.
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  7808. He didn’t know what they did, apparently! 😂 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  7809. It’s quite obvious to everyone with half a brain: if you are going to criminalise men for giving each other a bj or a stiff one up the backyard, then you have to be consistent. Hettys do this every day. No criminalisation. That’s how you know this whole thing is irrational. If this greasy, sweaty bollock-head were prepared to criminalise all the Ugandan heterosexuals giving bj’s and taking it up the bahookey every night, he would still be a fucking tool but, to be fair, he would be consistent!👍
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  7810.  @ijumpjudyy  👈She digs her gangsta rap but has nightmares after listening to Pee-Pee Diddly! 🎶 😂
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  7811.  @ijumpjudyy  Hi Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You giving yer wee rampant rabbit another run-out tonight, darlin’? A little ‘backyard’ exercise, perhaps? 😮 😂 🐰 😉 Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run run! 🐇 😂
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  7812. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  7813. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  7814.  @GiarkReleos  🍔 🐔 🍅 👧!
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  7815.  @lolawants2008  Lol. It’s not even the same joke!🤣 Talk about grasping at straws, Lola!
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  7816.  @lolawants2008  Nope. Wrong again. Don’t know him. Can’t stand Putin. Nice try, though.👍
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  7817.  @livingmodern  In your opinion. 11 others, as we speak, beg to differ with your opinion. Think on. Cope better.
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  7818.  @lindakelley2676  In your opinion. 10 others, as we speak, beg to differ.😉
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  7819.  @ivareskesner2019  This.
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  7820.  @ivareskesner2019  👍
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  7821. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  7822.  @TheAlchaemist  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert! ^🙄
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  7823. Trouble with all this is, that when I’ve burned through my sparklers, I tend to move on to the really big rockets. Only, my rockets aren’t nuclear-tipped. Scary.
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  7824.  @honorladone8682  😉 ✈️
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  7825.  @broncostearsaremostsavory2041  America often doesn’t need to actually militarily invade nations (although it’s done plenty of that, too - more than most) simply because it’s corrupted other countries by overturning democratically elected governments from within given countries. How you can even argue this point is a mystery. It’s just a point of fact and independently documented in countless impartial sources.😳
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  7826.  @broncostearsaremostsavory2041  I agree. I’m just saying Zelensky has shut down opponents, has blood on his watch in East Ukraine and has censored certain media outlets. Putin’s an arsehole. Invading a self-governing, sovereign territory against the will of its majority is clearly wrong. The hagiography of Zelensky is just a little much, that’s all. But I back a self-determined Ukraine.😳
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  7827.  @icecold9511  All I’m saying is Zelensky is not a saint. Far from it. Putin’s a disaster. However, America historically has been the greatest disaster of all in terms of violently overthrowing democratically elected governments. As I say, I’m apolitical. Agnostic. Anational. Just want a quiet life.🧐
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  7828.  @sdrfz  Definitely not the same plane. It’s lower for one thing. The other thing is that Paula is saying two different things in the clips.
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  7829.  @sdrfz  That’s a different one taking off, I think.
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  7830.  @Redspittingcobra  Lol.
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  7831. You missed the 2 best: Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
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  7832. Well, if they are alien beings from other worlds (I personally doubt it), let’s hope they are nicer than many of the human beings in this world! 🛸
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  7833.  @catalinacurio  Well said! 👍
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  7834. Newscaster looks like a weird mash-up of George Clooney and British newscaster, Huw Edwards.
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  7835. Stolen comment.
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  7836. @1:50 “Sharing gas” … yes, at this point I’d happily ‘share’ my canister of carbon monoxide with Putin.
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  7837.  @yaoreivashi9971  Really? They must have stolen it from me as it’s my comment! 🙄
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  7838.  @ChosenOne6666  Pmsl. Your ‘description’ is the most illiterate piece of ‘gibberish’ I’ve read, ever! How about hiring a proof-reader as you’re clearly not up to this gig, son, are you?🤣
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  7839. The Buffalo shooter wasn’t black. Easy to cherry pick your targets to suit your racist agenda, eh? 😉
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  7840.  @nayc5387  Hitler and Stalin Jews?! Lol.🤣
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  7841. Thumbnail for this made me think the Pentagon had released another one of those freaky UFO clips! 🛸
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  7842. I mighta known, Mike. We got ourselves a holy roller. I knew it. Peace friend. ✌️
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  7843. Like Biden, this guy is merely an actor for the real forces pulling the geopolitical strings of this planet.
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  7844. If they ever make a biopic of her life (they won’t), then Marion Cotillard is a shoo-in for the lead.
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  7845. @0:28 This fella’s hair looks like that time I was messing around with some iron filings and a magnet. Uncanny.
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  7846. Just a quick language update, guys and gals: I’m now officially fluent in 8 languages since my Catalan tutor, Pep, passed me at the fluency level. My Portuguese is close to fluency and I have a fair bit of Greek in me at this point. On this basis, I’m expecting to be officially fluent in 10 languages within the year! (Double figures! Yay!) Ty everyone for all your continuing support! It means so much. 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 (🇵🇹 + 🇬🇷… pending fluency verification). I’m deeply sorry I have been so remiss with my posts recently, but you don’t get to octo-fluency level by frittering away yer time on YouTube typing sub-literate sh*t all day, like Mr Stilton, for example. Aye. I know, I know guys, you want more. But I’m a busy dude. People to meet, languages to learn. However, I will update in a few weeks’ time when I’m expecting to be approaching that magic language-decagon! (‘10’ for the sub-literates, which, let’s face it, is most of you! 😢 ) For anyone who has been adversely affected by the issues raised in this post there is an emergency contact hotline, the number of which sadly escapes me right now, alas. 🐵
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  7847.  @WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe  ;)
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  7848.  @ninjaweretiger4273  It’s, like, horrendously irritating.
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  7849.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Seriously bored now, chum. Let’s leave it there. G’night.✌️
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  7850.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Yawn
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  7851.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Yawn
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  7852.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Yawn
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  7853.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Yawn
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  7854.  @Allpaka  Yes, you are.
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  7855.  @kenwhite6449  Why shouldn’t I like them? They’re good. Think on.
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  7856.  @kevinwarburton2938  I was just pointing out that this is complicated. It’s not black and white. And it’s certainly not yellow and blue. The fascists in here just shout you down when you fling a few hard truths in their faces. I’m no Putin fan, but I’m human enough to see what he might be doing, even although I kinda disagree with it. These days, everyone seems to inhabit an either/or position on virtually everything; I prefer to inhabit the both/and territory, as it’s far more interesting in terms of trying to understand things.
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  7857.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Oh, the irony of your name, m8.😉
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  7858.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  In case you missed it. Just for you: Most of Ukraine fell to the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine the Great; in 1793 right-bank Ukraine was annexed by Russia in the Second Partition of Poland. Cope better. 😉
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  7859.  Jerry  Huh? I’m not American, mate, so I don’t give a flying f*ck about the ‘midterms’. Get your head out your ass, man. There’s more to life than America.
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  7860. Blimey! If Anderson Cooper is ever incapacitated, then this guy, with a pair of 👓 could easily double for him.
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  7861. “EE phone home. EE phone home.” (Brits will get this.) 👽 📞
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  7862. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  7863.  @bryanb3352  Source?
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  7864.  @Challengerscatpack50  Lol.🤣
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  7865.  @carmenneumann9479  Actually, I do have some expertise: I’m an amateur meteorologist.🤓
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  7866. Is that a euphemism?🤓
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  7867.  @azul8811  👍
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  7868. @dv8322 I feel perfectly free here in the UK. Cope harder.
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  7869.  @feurigerStern  Red herring. Higher rates of stabbing in the US. Cope.
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  7870. 3:00 As a Brit, it’s lovely to see the Duke of Cambridge’s long lost brother. 👍
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  7871.  @truthwarrior1489  Dream on, baby!
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  7872.  @truthwarrior1489  There was no original ‘Christ’, so have no clue how he can be the ‘Antichrist’.
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  7873.  @truthwarrior1489  Just for the record, I have done no ‘abominable works’ notwithstanding my agnosticism. Just a thought, chummo.🤓
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  7874. Well, suddenly Blaise Pascal’s words seem spot-on: “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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  7875.  @davewebster1627  fu
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  7876. If there had been no camera evidence of this, he would’ve denied it and it would’ve been a case of ‘his word against hers’.
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  7877.  @thyristo These things weren’t done in the name of atheism/agnosticism. 🤦‍♂️
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  7878.  @SaccoMabowles Er, I actually live in the UK in a town with a 20% Muslim population. Bad luck, petal.👍
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  7879. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  7880.  @brotimes7879  Look, pal. Just because you’ve invested your life in a manmade text you’ve convinced yourself is divine, don’t offload that on me. 👍
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  7881.  @brotimes7879  Here’s the difference: Shakespeare is human. Shakespeare is wise. Shakespeare lives. I’m very au fait with all 3 main monotheisms (particularly Judaism/Christianity) and have read all the texts. Dry. Occasional pearls of wisdom. Some lovely passages here and there. But far too much of it is just hectoring, bullying, threatening thou shalt not, or else. Obey, or else. I don’t respond well to threats. It’s all manmade. Just like Shakespeare. Only Shakespeare’s 10x better! 👍
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  7882.  @sanaalkhalil Incidentally, it’s a bit rich of someone who themselves has been brainwashed into following a primitive, tribal, desert religion calling another ‘brainwashed’. I always find it very interesting that the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the religion which predominates in the culture into which they are born. That fact alone tells me we are dealing with human 🐑 here. 👍
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  7883. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK Go figure.
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  7884.  @Paulg865  Not sure what point you’re making, son. 🤔
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  7885.  @donaldlasher2397  We didn’t have drones back in 2001 as far as I’m aware, so how they did Milk Hill without some overhead ‘eye’ still puzzles.🤔
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  7886.  @donaldlasher2397  Hi my fellow Donald. Er, I have looked into this phenomenon a little more since I wrote this, and my current working conclusion (open to revision with new evidence coming in), is that all crop circles are human made. The thing that still puzzles me, though, is that to create them, there must be some kind of ‘eye in the sky’, for as I say above, the precision in some of them is astonishing. Milk Hill being a case in point.
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  7887.  @Opinion-k7k Wow! Talk about on yer high horse, dude. One of your comments had a sly dig at Islam. Ought you to be reported, too? 🤔
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  7888. Nada nada nada.
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  7889.  Let's Go Brandon  ‘This isn’t to say that authoritarianism is bad’?!?! Really? And whose unchallenged, undemocratic authority has ever been ‘good’? Stalin? Hitler? Franco? Mussolini? Pol Pot? Putin?
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  7890. He’s a good reporter. However, I think they’ve misspelled ‘O’Donoghue’. It’s meant to be ‘O’Doughnut’.
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  7891.  @philippwanderer686  We didn’t discuss the life and times of every scientist in the joke; the teacher just explained the concept each line of the joke was referring to; the concept that each mentioned scientist is most famous for.
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  7892.  @sandal_thong  We had heard of them. Most of them. I was about 13/14 at the time.
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  7893.  @barabbasrosebud9282  Universe is considerably older than 70,000 years btw. 13 billion years old, last time I checked.
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  7894. If you’ve got a better theory, let’s hear it.
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  7895. Yes, but it’s the theory that most answers to the observable data. Think on.
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  7896. Is it? What ‘caused’ the Big Bang, then? 🤔
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  7897. The insightful NDEs are interesting. Thousands of people have these. They are well documented. According to these, it appears we never ‘die’; we never don’t exist and have never not existed. No beginning; no end. It also appears that we have lived (and will live) quite literally thousands of human lives. The other thing to note is that this is, relatively, a plane of suffering. The Buddha said: “Life is suffering.” He was talking about human existence. But perhaps the most famous Western figure who has, for me, best encapsulated these insights and seen into reality is Walt Whitman. He has hundreds of glorious lines, one of my favourites being: “And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.” That ‘luckier’ is just glorious. Like a friendly wink at the reader 😉: “Don’t worry, pal, there’s nothing to fear.”
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  7898. 3:00 Folk talkin’ ‘bout ‘Lego’ and ‘Meccano’ and ‘matchsticks’ when it’s quite clear if this thing had barged into the Forth Rail Bridge, the Forth Rail Bridge would now be swimming with dolphins! 🐬
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  7899.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Er, why would I want to book a holiday at Pontin’s, Jimbo? Some of us have class and brains and a basic education, son. Think on.👍😉
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  7900. Well said. As someone from Scotland I would add that those comments you are reading exemplify 2 aspects: 1. Certain people deeply distrust Islam. (I’m one of them. That’s not racist, given Islam is a manmade ideology held by people of multifarious races.) 2. Certain people are racist and they don’t want a brown guy with a funny name running what they perceive as a ‘white’ country. They may not admit this in such stark terms, though (for fear of being seen as racist), and hide behind the Islam thing. What I definitely have noticed these past few years, though, is that more and more people are quite happy to be thought of as racist and they will just quite openly and brazenly tell you they are. You can see many of these people in this comments section.👍
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  7901. China confirmed the call, adding that “it always stood on the side of peace.” Lol. R u 4 real?! Is this the same China that recently spent days surrounding Taiwan flexing its missiles like a dick? 💪
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  7902.  @Stancehall  You seem to misunderstand me. All looted objects should be returned, and if it were in my power, I would return these to Ghana. I fear you have the wrong feller, here. It’s you who is sounding rather silly at this point.
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  7903.  @Stancehall Of course I do. I just don’t dig the double standards here.
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  7904. Clown.
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  7905. Go Brandon!
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  7906.  @Liboch  I prefer to spit, personally.😳
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  7907. Some people can run 26 miles in that time.
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  7908.  @kiyanhakim384  In your opinion.
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  7909. Yeah, but you could play that trick everywhere . All those Moorish buildings in southern Spain and yet where are the Moors? Or, all those Germanic buildings in Alsace-Lorraine but where are the Germans? Or how about those Roman baths in Bath and where are the Romans? You’re talking about the movement of arbitrary lines on a map. They are contingent, random, arbitrary and, as you have suggested, this means we find relics of previous civilisations and peoples in places where the people who built them no longer are.
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  7910.  Happy life 😊  Still not gonna click ya. Don’t trust ya. But like your sentiment.😉
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  7911.  @joe18750  I find your comment inappropriate. Human beings are always something to joke about. Have a sense of humour!
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  7912.  @iamdead2933  😆
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  7913.  @spikey288  Self-defence is obviously different from self-willed killing. This guy, if he was following orders, didn’t will this killing, therefore this isn’t murder; as I said, at worst it’s manslaughter.
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  7914. @Jeruels Jeruel He’s guilty if he purposely chose to shoot the guy, I agree. If he was ordered to do this, at worst, this would be manslaughter. ‘Murder’ presumes free-will; if you’re under orders, you’re not following your free-will, you’re following the will of another.
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  7915.  @spikey288  By your logic that would make every person who has actively served in the military, killing dozens, a mass murderer. In that case, why aren’t you sending these people to prison? Why are you picking on this guy who was putatively ‘following orders’ for killing one man, when millions of soldiers since time immemorial have killed many times over, simply for ‘following orders’?
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  7916.  @spikey288  That’s the point; in an army, you don’t have agency, and if you do, you aren’t following orders. Ergo, if this guy was ‘following orders’ he doesn’t have agency.
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  7917.  @darthukas  Not if those terrorists are freely willing their actions. In the case of this guy, this is in doubt. He may be guilty, he may have freely decided himself to shoot this guy; in that case, he’s guilty. If he didn’t, then the guilty party is the one who gave the order.
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  7918.  @martydav9475  Well said. On this score, the Milgram Experiment is instructive.
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  7919. @0:58-1:06 Obama’s speeches are so good, this lady in pink enjoys dancing to them! Go gurl! 💃
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  7920. Throughout his existence, Trump has seen himself as above the law. This could finally be the time when the law caught him.
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  7921. Why do we, as a species, let people like Putin near a trigger which could spark a nuclear nightmare? 😳
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  7922. Hmm … as a Brit, I had wondered what Paul O’Grady was up to these days. Reading the news for CNN and calling himself ‘Anderson Cooper’. 🙄
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  7923. ‘Waterloo’?! That fella was clearly in ‘Iceloo’. 🧊
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  7924.  @zonie1953  Well, that’s interesting, as I have lived here and over there and my basic take on the US is stupendous natural scenery, but, in the main, incredibly bleak, ugly, soulless urban spaces. As to this latter, parts of Frisco and the old quarter of New Orleans get honourable exemptions. No, give me the endless layers of richness, history, urban beauty and culture of the Old World over the New any day of the week!
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  7925. ❄️ ⛄️ Yep. Crazy few days for you Yankees across the (frozen) Pond. Basking in relatively tropical weather here in Europe! 🌴 There is talk that during the winter months all State names will be changed accordingly: could soon be seeing ‘Blew Jersey’, ‘Thawaii’, ‘Georjackfrost’, ‘Pennsylweathervania’, ‘Kansice’, ‘Massachillsetts’, ‘Califognia’, ‘New Hampshiver’, ‘Wicesconsin’, ‘Texice’, ‘Mittensota’, ‘Windiana’, ‘Buryland’, ‘Frozen Riverginia’, ‘Godforsakentucky’, ‘Connecticold’, ‘Flurryda’, ‘Slideaho’, ‘Snowshoe York’, ‘Iowhiteout’, ‘Michighandwarmers’, ‘Tennessleet’, ‘New Mexicool’, ‘Alaskia’, ‘Chillinois’, ‘Rhode Iceland’, ‘Mainedeer’, ‘North/South Dacoata’, ‘Coolorado’, ‘Rawest Virginia’, ‘Wysnowing’, ‘Uthaw’, ‘North/South Barrelina’, ‘Arizsnowa’, ‘Nevada’ - no change needed as already means ‘snowy mountains’, ‘Montanavalanche’, ‘Shivermont’, ‘Missfury’, ‘Delaglare’, ‘Starkansas’, ‘Thawregon’, ‘Oklabomba’, ‘Washingtoboggan’, ‘Squallabama’, ‘Nebbbrrrraska’, ‘Snowhio’, ‘Louicyana’ and ‘Missiceslippy’! 🥶
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  7926. You spam this comment everywhere. We get it.
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  7927.  @attsealevel  👍
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  7928.  @attsealevel  Yeah. I’m agnostic and have little time for organised religion of any stripe. I’m a kinda ‘live and let live’ guy, but if I feel your religion is adversely affecting my life, I’d speak up. Religion needs to be kept strictly in the private sphere at all times.
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  7929.  @attsealevel  You threw me with the ‘give me a break bit’ then went on to detail the strict ‘take no prisoners’ Sharia system. Had me confused. The joke was a satire on this very Sharia system!🤣
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  7930.  @attsealevel  Woosh! 🌬
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  7931.  D Legionnaire  Is it? Ok. Ty. 😕
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  7932.  @LindaC616  In your opinion.
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  7933. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  7934. The drinks are on me, and for Trump subpoena colada. 🍹
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  7935. Stolen comment.
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  7936. @2:00 🎶 Put the needle in the lips Put the needle in the lips Plump up the volume Plump up the volume 🎵
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  7937.  @parapencarinasibungkus2680  What do you mean? I don’t follow. I’m neutral here. Agnostic, apolitical, anational. I’m calling this from the sidelines. What Putin is doing is wrong. However, he’s only doing what the West has done for centuries. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  7938.  @LindaC616  😉
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  7939. @1:51 Breaking News: American heard speaking foreign language.
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  7940.  @nancyperkins2277  🤣
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  7941.  @chibi_rabbit  Yes. It was a joke. Jesus wept.
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  7942. @0:40 Not sure I fully trust what anyone has to say, who appears to have a poster of herself on her own wall.
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  7943. Lol. Wearing a colourful shirt is now a crime is it?😂
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  7944. Was Cari Champion born a female? Not that it’s an issue, but ‘she’ has more than a vibe of ‘he’.
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  7945. I’m divorcing Christmas. She gets custody.
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  7946.  @christianwolf68 Also, the most historically irritating. Smugness is off the charts.
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  7947.  @joem3502  Aha, the old divide and conquer in political action. Reminds me of Carlin: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.”
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  7948.  @yellow4563  Zelensky’s not clean. Look into it.😉
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  7949. I hope Putin ‘simulated’ a nuclear winter in Moscow, for if he gets out the big boys the response will be no ‘simulation’.
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  7950. Putin: “Volodymyr, I am your father.”
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  7951.  @greyroom6730  Er, I know. ‘Twas a joke. 🥴
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  7952. @PZ20JacobCouttsRogue ‘Your’ nation? Pah! It’s all an accident of birth, mate. Anyone of us could have been born anywhere. It’s all random. Calling this or that spot on this planet ‘your nation’ is a pointless, dangerous, irrational move. We are all born on the 3rd rock from the sun. We are all Earthists. To talk nationalist crap is what has caused and is currently causing much of our problems as a species. Raise your game. You are large. You contain multitudes. Stop restricting yourself to arbitrary, abstract lines on a map that didn’t exist until quite recently and will not exist a few hundred years hence. Grow up. Become wiser. If you don’t, then given the destructive power human beings now have at their disposal, there is no hope for any of us.
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  7953. @PZ20JacobCouttsRogue Thanks for that original, insightful comment. I may nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize. 🥸
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  7954.  @justacinnamonbun8658  Don’t take this wrong, Cinnamon Bun, but if you squint a bit and look at your avatar, well, it looks a bit like 💩! 😂 Sorry. Didn’t mean to be rude. 😉
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  7955. Instead, why can’t we just tie Trump to a rocket and fire him into orbit? That’s the rocket, man, I’d like to see! 🚀 ✨
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  7956.  @Kcm836  😂
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  7957.  @MarvinWestmaas  👆 Sense of humour bypass account.
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  7958.  @Kcm836  Thanks, Kitty. Don’t think this gag is gonna fly too well, Stateside; divided by a common language and all that.😉
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  7959.  @notentirelyapathetic9458  I said fed, watered and loved. You need a better researcher, son, as you’re clearly not attentive enough. Don’t take that wrong.
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  7960. Not sure Jesus has an answer.
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  7961. Can you imagine if the boot were on the other foot … an all-female, prehistoric, morally-benighted, primitive bunch of women dictated to all men in Afghanistan that they couldn’t be educated? There’d be a male uprising as they quite rightly wouldn’t tolerate such barbaric, stupid nonsense. As it is here, these women are incredibly brave, and as a man, I really do despair of the male of the species at times. We can be utterly dreadful specimens of humanity. Like here in Afghanistan.
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  7962.  @jjmcwill1881  Read me right. I said it’s in the US’s own interests to do what it can to foster prosperity in Latin America.
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  7963. @0:05 Nice to see Jack Osbourne, Donald Trump Jr. and Elvis Costello getting some extra work.🤓👍
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  7964. A deep insult to aliens everywhere. 👽
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  7965.  @TheTmcabral3  👈Yes, you are.
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  7966. @2:02 Wow! Have I got news for you: it’s Ian Hislop’s long-lost Yankee cousin! 🤓
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  7967.  @TentinQuarantino_  😉
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  7968. Scene: a puce Putin pitches up in Ukraine Putin: “Look, I’m your rightful father here to take you, my Slavic sons and daughters back to your mother Russia.” Ukrainians: “But we left home years ago. We became adults. We have our own lives now.” Putin: “Wrong answer. And now I get to trash your house. Get out of my way!”
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  7969.  @emmeteeny  Yes, you are.
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  7970. More than a hint of the young Kathleen Turner about SE.
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  7971.  @Lizablue0608  🎈
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  7972.  @markhepworth1556  You agree with me Markey baby! Try telling that to some other idiots in our mutual vicinity.😉
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  7973. When the gunman told his wife that morning that he was going to ‘shoot buffalo’, she probably wasn’t expecting he meant the city! 🦬
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  7974.  @zackharris8373  Like you, I’m also a sucker for this stuff, which kind of suggests I secretly think there is something to it. 🛸I’m in no doubt they are ‘out there’, on statistical probability alone, I just doubt they are ‘in here’, as we speak. That said, some of the videos I have seen recently did give me a slight shiver. What slightly bugs 🐜 me about the whole phenomenon, though, and particularly in the 🇺🇸, is how so much of this stuff is tagged onto Biblical prophecy. I listen to it, but am not convinced. Anyway, nice chatting, man. ✌️
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  7975. Icke is brilliant at (seemingly) thinking for himself and throwing out a few theories. What’s he’s been guilty of his whole life (after he gave up interviewing snooker players), is not providing a scintilla of evidence for these said theories.
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  7976.  @kevinb9830  I suppose what I was getting at was you can be with someone and it goes so far, and then one party doesn’t want it to go any further but the other party ignores this request.
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  7977. Lol. So every woman who happens to be a mother isn’t allowed to “dress like a tart” now? What are you? The clobber copper? 👮‍♀️ 👍🥴
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  7978. Has Sunak never heard of the concept of thinking for yourself? This is beyond embarrassing.
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  7979. I also find some of his stand-up vaguely amusing. However, I find his dark sexual stuff and his attitudes to women in this regard little different to Andrew Tate.
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  7980. Not sure that the ‘camera evidence’ would be strong enough to be admissible in a court of law.
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  7981. We found the imaginary, invisible sky daddy guy. 🙄
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  7982.  @ismailrahman6421  Can I have that in English, please?
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  7983. Yeah, m8. I’m gonna put my faith in a 50-something fella who married a 9-year old. Cushty.👌
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  7984.  @themartian7121  Who said I was “thinking for him”? I was thinking for myself if I placed myself in his shoes. Big difference.👍
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  7985.  @mongoose9851  I associate being ‘embarrassed’ with being ashamed. I would never be ashamed to be homeless.
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  7986.  @mongoose9851  The point I’m making is I don’t see how it’s ‘embarrassing’ to be homeless.
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  7987.  @mongoose9851  I meet lots of dirty, dishevelled people who aren’t homeless.
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  7988.  @Zeylo89  I meet lots of smelly, scruffy people who aren’t homeless.
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  7989.  @luhedi6303  But why is that ‘embarrassing’? Millions of people are (and have been) homeless. There but for the grace of God…
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  7990. 🥱
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  7991.  @HarmonyMoonbeam024  Hehe. 👍😉
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  7992. Seen this quote before. Weird sense of déjà vu.
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  7993. ‘She’?! 🤔
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  7994.  @mellowmoons_2158  I know it’s not that deep. I was literally just making a comment that I don’t understand why you found it so ‘crazy’.
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  7995.  @mellowmoons_2158  I didn’t hear a ‘startling difference’. His ‘professional’ voice just sounded regular and there was nothing remarkable about his ‘real’ voice. As I say, this could be a black American thing. A kind of in-joke.
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  7996. Like what? What was he right about?
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  7997. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  7998. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  7999. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?”
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  8000. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  8001. The Oscars 2022 Best Supporting Actor: Hunter Biden in How to Steal a Million Hyrvnia . Best Supporting Actress: Lyudmila Ocheretnaya in When Lyudmila Left Vladimir and a special commendation for her particularly good fake orgasm scene. Best Original Score: Volodymyr Zelensky for that excellent deal he got from Colombia. Not to be sniffed at. Best Original Song: Vlad the Impaler by Kasabian. Best Actress: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in The Spy Who Came Back to the Cold . Best Actor: Vladimir Putin in Battleship Putinkin Best Picture: From Russia Without Love . Lifetime Under-Achievement Award: Boris Johnson
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  8002. No matter how I try to get my head around this, I just can’t understand how, essentially, one man, one fucking man , can cause so much trouble for millions of other men and women. After 300,000-odd years of Homo Sapiens, how we haven’t established a viable mechanism whereby we can remove a single dictator from power, is a bit of a mystery. If a kid in a kindergarten rides roughshod over the will of all the other kids, the staff step in. Why are we not doing that as adults?
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  8003. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  8004. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  8005. When you nationalise the terms you are perpetuating the very thing that is causing humanity’s collective nightmare, along with organised religion. Don’t you see this? The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  8006. You’re right, of course. We have more double standards than a priest at a Boy Scout jamboree. Playing all moral and ethical to the people, but changing/bending these rules to fit our sneaky self-interest. As I see it, the trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  8007. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  8008. If Putin’s able to do what he’s doing to what he, apparently, sees as his Slavic brethren, just think what he might have in mind for anyone else. 😟
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  8009. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s 1st daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s 2nd daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s son: “Really, dad? I mean, really?”
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  8010. We are just getting reports that it’s now a 4,000-mile convoy stretching all the way to Ottowa, Canada. 🇨🇦
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  8011. If you want to know what 22 years of not saying ‘no’ to one man looks like, this is it.👀
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  8012. If we made it a non-negotiable condition of engagement, that every person, despot or otherwise, declaring an aggressive war, had to serve on the front line of declared war, I’m willing to bet this would go a good way to reducing the phenomenon of war on this planet. 🤔
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  8013.  @user-jp2vy2wv2l  The first bit I agree with. The second bit is inadmissible if a majority of Ukrainians want to be an independent, self-governing, sovereign state. It seems they do. What’s more, a majority look west and not north to Russia. You need to consider this before stating crap that ain’t true.
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  8014.  @kevin6293  Word to the wise Kev, baby: anyone, anyone who needs to define themselves on an accident of birth is thereby a primitive, unthinking human. Taking pride in something you had no say in is irrational, stupid and, and as 300,000 years of squabbling Homo Sapiens have shown, very, very dangerous. 🇺🇸
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  8015.  @kevin6293  Wtf are you on about? I’m standing here apolitical, agnostic, anational, calling this from the sidelines as I see it. Putin, rightly or wrongly (I say wrongly), is acting in his, and Russia’s best self-interest, as he sees it. I happen to think he’s half-crazed but within that madness there is method and you need to try harder here and you might spot some of that method, too. The ‘whataboutism’ accusation is just a lazy trope unthinking people chuck around when they can’t coherently construct an argument.
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  8016. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  8017. Scene: telephone call between Putin and Boris Johnson Putin: “But my name is ‘Vladimir’: literal translation ‘world ruler’.” Johnson: “Well, two can play at that game, sonny boy, for my name is ‘Boris Johnson’ and that literally translates as, um, ‘small penis’.” Putin: “I rest my case. Please make arrangements for my ‘visit’.”👀
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  8018. Alex Harrold: “Hold my beer.”
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  8019. He’s creepy. He reminds me of my uncle back in 1982 with the ‘wandering hands’.
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  8020.  @OmSingh-hq8yj  Paranoia confirmed?🤓
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  8021. What’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  8022. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  8023. Do you ever think Putin’s children ever have a quiet word in his ear: “C’mon dad. Really?”😳
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  8024.  @charlesndeleki6546  Yes you can, as long as they are a consenting adult. Get over yourself.
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  8025. What’s confusing me about all this is why does someone feel they have the right to tell me with whom I can or can’t sleep, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way and I can’t order them (on pain of imprisonment or worse) to sleep with whom I decide? At the very least, that’s just plain rude; at worst, it’s outright fascist. 🤔
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  8026. Prime Minister: “What can we do in the way of troop deployments?” Defence Secretary: “Well, we’re struggling Prime Minister. You may have to dust off your tin helmet.” 🪖
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  8027.  @memeticist  I don’t know. You picked the argument if you read it back. You just assumed something that isn’t true, I suppose. Nobody’s perfect, I guess.😳
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  8028.  @memeticist  Look, mate, let me say this once again in case you missed it: if I’m speaking the language, paying my taxes and obeying the law, then not you, nor anyone else has the right to interfere with me in a free society. This is an issue of personal freedom. If some of my species want to adhere to random, arbitrary accidents of birth and imaginary daddies in the sky, crack on. I’m not stopping you. I want none of it, and if I’m speaking the language, obeying the law and paying into the system then can I politely suggest you stay out of my way in precisely the same manner as I will stay out of yours if you meet my very basic 3 conditions.👀
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  8029.  @simonmuhamed1071  Yeah, I would say that about the Asians. In neither case is it advisable not to learn the native language. I ask 3 things: learn the language; pay your taxes; obey the laws. Beyond that, do what the fuck your want. Neither you, I, nor anyone else have any right to interfere beyond these basics.😳
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  8030.  @jamesmason8436  It’s multiculturalism that’s a big part of your beef, though, isn’t it?
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  8031.  @jamesmason8436  But they’re not migrants, most of them. They were born here! Can you not see this basic point? They can do what they like, within the law. You have no right to step in and stop them doing anything within the law. Wake up ffs! Just admit you don’t like their religion and customs and we can end this here. It’s tough-titty, if you don’t, but not everyone wants to live as you, and as you said earlier Britain is not a monolithic country so why are you trying to bend people to fit your schema? They might not want to behave as you prescribe. Stop being so staggeringly arrogant. We live in a multicultural society and have done for decades. Deal with it. If you don’t like it, why don’t you move?🥸
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  8032. @Eli Ubaldo They are great repositories of good stories for a little light entertainment. Beyond that they are bunkum. Moreover, they are deadly bunkum and should be consigned to humanity’s childhood. We need to wake up from the nightmare of religion; not perpetuate it.😳 That, and nationalism. Not saying you can’t have a daddy in the sky, if you’re that way inclined, just ditch the organised aspect for as Nietzsche wisely pointed out: Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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  8033. @Eli Ubaldo You shouldn’t really be religious at all mate. It’s all utter bunkum and beneath the thinking human being.😳
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  8034.  @memeticist  You’re from America. The very definition of the ‘melting pot’. Even there you cannot get it right when you are all ‘one nation’ under one flag for the Republic, and all that jazz. If you guys cannot get the assimilation/integration thing right after 250 years then what makes you think anyone else can? Yours has been a disastrous social experiment as far as I can see. No, I repeat, beyond learning the language and obeying the laws I don’t see how or why it would be desirable to impose indigenous cultural standards and mores on others who immigrate to another country. 😳
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  8035. I consider the lack of patriotism/nationalism one of the most refreshing aspects of the UK. I’ve never understood this taking pride in an accident of birth. It’s akin to my taking pride in my shoe size or eye colour. It’s that level of irrational and illogical. I had no say in the matter, so why am I taking some ‘unearned credit’ for a random, arbitrary event I had no intrinsic say in? The difference with nationalism/patriotism is their massive danger for the continued existence of our species. It all links in with the concomitant ideas around ‘taking offence’. For me, the greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, race, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks. 😳
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  8036.  @rhoetusochten4211  Agreed. The hand-movements, the voice and the hairline are spookily out of the Tony Blair playbook.🧐
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  8037.  @teuzza23  I read this when I was younger, and I haven’t read anything better as to how to live a ‘good life’ : This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. (Whitman)
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  8038.  @maxineblick2002  I’m not sure what point you are making to me. Try again.😳
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  8039.  @PibrochPonder  You’re on the wrong side of history anyway, mate. To say you don’t want multiculturalism is a bit like saying you don’t want dogs to bark or cows to moo. Multiculturalism happened the day the first of us left Africa, mate, so you need to get with the gig. And another thing: the vast majority of the people I know are for multiculturalism, rather than the gray, bland, pale, wan, sickly kind of Jimculture you are offering. Trust me. They don’t want a sad little Englander dictating to them some unsubstantiated nonsense about ‘indigenous’ people deciding who comes into a country and who doesn’t. You’re too late for all that racist stuff. The multicultural horse bolted from the stable decades ago and it’s way out of your sight. 😳
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  8040.  @outshout1054  *you’re
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  8041.  @Rhodiac  Lol.(<short comment)
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  8042. @Pale Rider Yeah, but of all the Clint Eastwood films you could’ve picked as a moniker, you picked his weakest Western, and one of the weakest, laziest films in his whole oeuvre. Really, sweetie? That makes me question your credentials, bud. Don’t take that wrong.🤠
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  8043.  @carolinekeane2354  Touché! 👍
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  8044.  @pancakewizard1533  I hate to tell you this, but I do my due diligence. I’m au fait with Peterson’s oeuvre in the long-form and the short-form. I’m going to say something to you that may egregiously offend your mortal non-existent soul if you are one of the Peterson gobble-boys: Jordan Peterson has written/spoken nothing my granny Mamie didn’t tell me as a nipper. Moreover, my granny Mamie is not nearly so intellectually dishonest as Jordy, as she refused to bring unverified, unverifiable deities into her chit-chat, thereby leaving me and my siblings unencumbered by the unsubstantiated nothings that so many hucksters promulgate to dishonestly win the favour of gullible numpties. 🤓
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  8045.  @MrFox101  No. All I am is quite simple. I can spot the emperor’s new clothes from 50 paces. This has served me well in life. Like now. 😳
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  8046.  @MrFox101  A bit harsh, mateychops. However, free-speech grants you the right to vacuously proclaim from whatever rooftop you inhabit like an empty vessel.🤓
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  8047.  @bettermanchannel770  Yeah, but women quite soon, quite literally, may be able to dispense with your balls. Think on.🤓
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  8048.  @jannisarie  My theory is quite simple really: Peterson himself is an unacknowledged gay lad, and so other unacknowledged gay lads respond to this in him. Check his wife. Essentially a man. I mean her no harm, but she is very, well, masculine-looking. Peterson has settled. Essentially, he’s gay, but he’s happy to stick with the manly wife. For now. Just a theory. Don’t shoot the messenger!😳
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  8049.  @jannisarie  Well, now you do.
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  8050. ‘Truckers In A Dress’ - coming to a cinema near you. 😂
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  8051.  @ngrovotny  No one gets over not ruling the world anymore; that’s not just a British thing.
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  8052. Er, she’s about 60; he’s 81. I.e. old enough to be her dad. 🥴
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  8053. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  8054.  MrHemi4spd  Er, apparently it’s not illegal to be topless in NYC. Seethe. Moreover, even if it were illegal, I still see no victims here. 😝
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  8055. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  8056. She might have left her home with no intention of going shopping. 🤦‍♂️
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  8057. Reminds me of the end of The Italian Job! 1969 version.
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  8058.  @simonstevenson6686  It doesn’t. Has an ‘off’ feel about it. But another thing that convinced me it is (aside from the news coverage), was that if I were an actor and someone asked me to act this scene for it to go viral the only way you could do it would be to pay me a fortune.
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  8059.  @KB-kp2oz  Er, wot? Your comment makes no sense. 🥴
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  8060. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  8061.  @chap9253  Did you not read my reply to you? 🙄🤷‍♂️
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  8062.  @tobybeggs8676  Yes, I know that. I was just pointing out that in the incident it was 5 horses, not 4. 👍
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  8063. As a Brit, I by no means agree with everything Elon Musk says, but when he suggested the UK was heading for Civil War, he wasn’t too far wrong the way we are going. 🤦‍♂️
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  8064. I prefer Bilbao to San Sebastián, I think. The latter is overrated, based on its magical setting. The city itself is just a bunch of unprepossessing apartment blocks, save for the two and a half streets and Plaza Consti. that make up the jejune Old Town. Bilbao has more heft, and its (also small) old core is more appealing. I have always been of the opinion, against the overwhelming tide of favourable opinion, that if you picked up San Sebastián and plonked it down 200 miles inland, it would be what it is: a rather nondescript, faceless city architecturally. San Sebastián is a city saved by its setting. Best Basque city of all, in my opinion, is the not-on-the-radar Vitoria. It’s a glorious old unspoiled ensemble with a couple of world-class plazas.
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  8065. Says the guy who can’t spell ‘competance’ (sic). The hypocrisy is staggering.👍
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  8066. Nice is more than nice. Yeah, it’s crammed with trippers tripping over other trippers; a lot of the non-Vieille Ville architecture isn’t floating anyone’s boat; heck, even the famed Promenade des Anglais can seem a drag of a main drag if you’re not in the mood. But in toto, and laying aside your preconceived notions, you’ll be charmed by a gorgeous Italianate Old Town; wooed by the winning weather; seduced by the seemingly preternaturally cerulean sea; hell, even the locals seem ok, for a tourist town. Just don’t mention the beach.
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  8067. Just added this to my sick bucket list.
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  8068. Would have been ironic if Macron had been hit with a few Brussels sprouts.
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  8069. This is so tenuous, though, for you could pick virtually any number and compile a similar video about how it appears in lots of places. Makes this meaningless, if all are meaningful.
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  8070. Putin: “Look, we can make this work. That NATO guy is no good. Please?” Ukraine: “That NATO guy lets me decide if I want to be with him. That’s the difference.”
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  8071. Vitoria, for me, is the unsung gem of the Spanish Basque region. Bilbao has the urban grit and steel (but also a small and delightful Casco Viejo), San Sebastián has the curvaceous lines of the beachfront, but for me, a vastly overrated rest-of-town (essentially one small plaza - Consti - and a couple of streets is worth your time), with most of it being an anonymous, nondescript, apartment-blocky mess. Pamplona (is it really Basque?) is lovely, with an extensive and beautiful Casco Viejo cancelling out the drab blight of so many a Spanish city - its bathetic suburbs. But Vitoria. The name alone woos. The city itself backs up the titular promise with a glorious undulating old centre with two of the best plazas in all Spain and web of narrow streets worth a day’s rambling of anyone’s time.
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  8072. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  8073. In any other incident involving a bus hitting a pedestrian we are always told stuff like ‘the driver is under investigation’ or some such. The fact this has not been made publicly clear and we’ve all been asked ‘not to speculate’ makes this fishier than a supper from Harry Ramsden’s! I have a feeling this fishy smell won’t go away very soon.
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  8074. There is so much claim and counterclaim in this war that, as a neutral, one is left with a head spinning more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist . One almost begins to doubt there is actually a real war taking place at all! It couldn’t be, could it? A fake war? A counterfeit masquerading as the real thing being played out on green screens. We are all so many Truman Burbanks in a gameshow made for the sadistic delectation of we know not who. Or, Zelensky and Putin are not really flesh and blood humans but a kind of Westworld cyborg created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. All this talk of ‘puppet regimes’ should’ve been the giveaway: they are going to install Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as an interim measure until the Ukrainians have a goddamn referendum on partition, thereby obviating a lot of unnecessary bother for the rest of us. None of this is real. Is it?
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  8075. Thomas Markle needs to get a proper job, ffs.
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  8076. Given that Bozo could very well be the ‘missing link’, asking him about Monkeypox is apt.
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  8077. True blue Tory.
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  8078. Who cares if Brits don’t have white skin? Get over it.
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  8079. Lol. Says the fella with the Scottish name! 🤣
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  8080.  @bonangmafokate9922  Huh? How does that invalidate the OP? 🤔
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  8081. @Stone *come *I’m *my *it’s
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  8082.  @paulsamson6039  No.
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  8083. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: if every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
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  8084. ‘Hilltop Honey’? Mop-top phoney, more like.
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  8085. Indeed. He’s slept with dozens of unlucky women.
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  8086. The trouble with Scottish football is a problem it has had for decades: lack of emphasis on technique. Too often, too many Scottish players look distinctly uncomfortable on the ball. While almost every other footballing country I can think of emphasises technique over anything else (even the small ones - look at Croatia, a country of 3 million vs Scotland’s 5, yet they consistently produce world class technicians) and produces players who can actually put a foot on a ball and pick a pass, Scottish football remains in the dark ages in this regard. Until Scotland puts basic technique before anything else, it will continue to be crap and not worth watching.
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  8087. Crimea was part of Russia from 1793-1954. I’m no supporter of the invasion of sovereign self-governing territories and I’m no supporter of Putin (who was born in 1952 when it was still Russian/Soviet), but I can kind of understand his aggression (without condoning it).
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  8088. Key here for onlookers is to keep Afghanistan citizens separate from the Taliban. Our common humanity tells us we help, no questions asked. The task is to get the aid to those who need it, obviating the need for the Taliban to get its grubby paws on it. In the same way Putin’s regime has to be kept separate from the Russian people, and the Israeli state occupation of Palestinian territory has to be kept separate from Israelis (or, at least, those who don’t support this brutal occupation), then the world must help individuals like this who are affected by natural disasters, through absolutely no fault of their own.
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  8089. Norman Wisdom’s pushing up daisies, m8. ⚰️
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  8090.  @RoaminRob  Thanks m🎱 !😉
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  8091. Definitely a rabbit in the headlights here.
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  8092.  @noodlyappendage6729  What, indeed.
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  8093. Meanwhile, Labour MPs got up this morning laughing! 😂
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  8094. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  8095.  @robtyman4281  Of course it’s complicated. My point is two-fold: 1. The British state is largely complicit with the plantations. 2. The sooner we, as a species, dispense with organised religion, the better for all.
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  8096.  @mosheridan7016  Yeah, bring it on in Scotland; but that means 60°C in places between the Equator and 40° North and South. Your parochial thinking is desperate and tragic.
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  8097. Just had 20°C this month in the Scottish Highlands.
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  8098.  @thenowornerverkid1  Lol. As if the West Bank and Gaza Strip aren’t already controlled by Hamas! The only way here is the 2-State solution. Also, with a name like ‘Esrog’ we all know where your loyalties lie. Those of us with no skin in the game can see what needs to be done here.😉
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  8099. Who’s Teresa Maybe?🤔
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  8100. Buddha.
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  8101. Not sure about ‘puff’ and ‘huff’; it’s certainly ‘duff’ and ‘guff’. 😳
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  8102.  @ronnieince4568  All about majority self-determination, mate. All about majority self-determination.😉
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  8103.  @avae5343  I’m neutral, mate. Just can clearly see that Ireland will be unified in anyone under 40’s lifetime. S’all.
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  8104.  @NealyLL  Not really. Looks like Ireland is on a one-way street to unification; just as Scotland appears to be on a one-way street to independence.
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  8105. “Russia actually cares about people to remove them from harm’s way.” What? This same Russia that’s just conscripted 300,000 to send them precisely into harm’s way for one man’s delusions? That Russia?
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  8106. $6bn? Pah! Small change to the likes of Elon Musk. He could’ve bought a 7th of Twitter with that kind of dough. He could’ve bought the T and half a w at least!
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  8107.  @jhtrq1465  👍
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  8108. That should’ve read one of the many mainstream journalists left on unreal TV.
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  8109. Sir Simon has a nifty combo of Douglas Hurd’s hair and Paddy Ashdown’s face.
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  8110. Like a competent Tory PM, Robin Hood never existed.
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  8111. @2:10 Lol. There nothing like a Liberal Democrat smashing through some bales of hay and man-spreading like Alexander the Great to get my vote! 🤣 👍
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  8112.  @MORTICIA008  👍
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  8113. Looks like Churchill and Truman didn’t get the ‘fancy dress and silly moustache’ memo!🥸
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  8114. Headline needs an edit: “NoStaffordshire Health Stress’’ 🚑
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  8115. So was Muhammad.😳
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  8116. So are my threads. 👖
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  8117.  @HowDoYouUseSpaceBar  I did. Think on …😉
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  8118.  @yahyaelmi8435  Good analogy. Hadn’t thought of USSR/Afghanistan thing. Well said.👍
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  8119. @S-D Not at all.
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  8120. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that military nerds the world-over, like trainspotters and plane spotters, lack that second X chromosome, so vital to obviate the sitting at the end of train platforms with a flask of weak tea and some soggy marmite sandwiches.
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  8121.  @hastar6914  👍
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  8122. @Lily Wood 👏Best and truest comment on this thread.
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  8123. Nadhim Zahawi - just another Tory shyster putting the ‘con’ into Conservative.
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  8124.  @paulalexwilson  Yeah, and those two should also return to their rightful owner, Morocco. Do two wrongs make a right?
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  8125. @7:38 Presenter: “I’ve went through.” Sorry? Did he just say what I think he said, and if he did, this fella has no right to be on my telly screen with piss-poor grammar like that.
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  8126. *Paid 🛶
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  8127. @0:35 Nice to see so many bright, young, shiny female faces. Last time I saw this many blokes in one place, I was living it up down at the YMCA!
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  8128. To be fair to Starmer, he went to Durham just to test his eyesight after a few beers. 🥴
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  8129.  @insertaverygenericnamehere  Nothing like the Tornado Alley twisters.
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  8130. Me. Particularly the Tory party.
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  8131. Ah, Charlie boy, the good old Republican King. Makes about as much sense as an atheist Pope, globalist nationalist or good rapist. Abolish the lot. Royal tourism didn’t suddenly stop in France in 1789; to this day, Versailles is France’s no. 3 tourist destination. Same would occur here.
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  8132. I disagree. I never liked her, but she looks as hot as ever.👍
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  8133. Isn’t it funny how Covid-19, after 2 years of 24/7 coverage, seems to have almost vanished from view like morning mist on a summer’s morn, to be replaced with another crisis we are all to be consumed by? You’d almost think someone had planned this, if we didn’t know any better. 🤔
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  8134.  Insane Ukriane war videos  Just for the record, petal, it’s ‘Ukraine’. Yvw.
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  8135. I’m tearing up here. 📄 😭
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  8136.  @dizzlechazzle154  Agen? I thought it was Toulouse. Fair play.👍
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  8137. No. She’s a person. Not Amman, but a woman.🤓
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  8138. The sad truth of Mariupol is that it picked the worst possible place to exist geographically. It’s been clear from the outset that Putin will not give in until he has secured this strategic point, on his corridor leading from Crimea to Russia. To quote the Joker: This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
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  8139. I hope they are careful to not honeymoon in certain parts of Ukraine, especially for the bloke, as he won’t want that dreaded situation on the special night when Chernobyl fallout.
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  8140. Not sure about ‘electable’ but out of the triumvirate, she’s certainly the most ‘delectable’.
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  8141. Ah, tribal humans causing more trouble amongst themselves; clans, gangs, families, political parties, races, religions, nationalisms … any opportunity to in-group and out-group. As George Carlin said: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
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  8142.  @paulshorney3465  Lester Pillgottengains! 🤣
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  8143. If Putin’s able to do what he’s doing to what he, apparently, sees as his Slavic brethren, just think what he might have in mind for anyone else. 😟
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  8144. Yeah, but to be fair, Rayner has a bit of a ‘reputation’ around town.😉
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  8145. He’ll pick up the tab. He’s worth £7 million, after all. 💴
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  8146.  @Lis_Zabiaka  I’m talking conventionally. If nukes are sparked then all bets are off. Conventionally, it is quite clear looking at this for the past 8 weeks, that NATO would pulverise Russia rather swiftly. However, this is not just a visual impression, for NATO power is factually 10x that of Russia. Conventionally.
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  8147.  @JohnDoe-lx3it  Well, that’s a given. Wouldn’t wanna upset the cowboys now would we? 🤠
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  8148. Putin has crossed into Barbarism? Jeez, is there any nation this little Hitler won’t consider off-limits?
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  8149. Well, Amber heard Johnny’s deposition, but did Johnny hear Amber’s hearing?😳
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  8150. Thomas the Tank Engine is my favourite train. 🥸
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  8151.  @nabzgg4289  The ‘Doris’ was intended, I think. Sexist. Not funny. But intended.
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  8152. Sunak in a hospital. Apt, given that the Tories are currently in intensive care with little chance of resuscitation.
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  8153. Well, they tell me he never, er, ‘swallows’.🤓
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  8154.  J Silva  🏊‍♂️
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  8155. Yep. That’s the term we use in Scotland when bread is running low.
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  8156. In Scotland it means complications from diabetes.
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  8157.  @freshiG79  😂
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  8158.  @annafirth6738  Well said.
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  8159. Yeah, course they are. 30 years of murder and terror proved that. 👌
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  8160. That the planet is warming and warming rather alarmingly quickly in historical terms is clear. Even anecdotally, without the data this is obvious. The salient issue here is that for the past 100 years we have hitched our economies to fossil fuel burning but I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has ‘changed’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  8161. 1. Is the planet warming? Yes. 2. Is humanity primarily responsible for this? Perhaps. 3. Ultimately, however, this 4 billion year old planet has got this far, and it’ll go 4 billion years into the future no matter what humanity inflicts on it. The only real victims of an overheated planet will be humans; we’ll be shaken off like a bad case of fleas as and when the Earth decides. It’s far wiser than us.
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  8162. UK is north of 50th parallel, however. Think on.
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  8163.  @gucciashton4731  Steady, darlin’. Wind yer neck in, doll.
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  8164.  @wild4fp  Yes; ever lived.
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  8165.  @cryptobroskis545  *let’s
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  8166. Michael Caine does.
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  8167. Will you be requiring Great White Sharks for that?
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  8168. @fab Yup.
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  8169.  @Phone-gz2ig  Yeah. But we all kinda agree on that. That’s not news.
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  8170.  @SingSing-g3c  He’s got it all! The only things missing are the fangs! 🤣 🦷 🦷
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  8171. @0:30 “There is no doubt. These are crimes against humanity.” Says the Vice-President of the only country on this planet to use nuclear weapons in anger.
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  8172.  @hotpearlsnatch2574  Switzerland’s done ok by it.
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  8173. The Ukrainian army isn’t in Moscow as it has manners and tends not to invade sovereign, self-governing nations.
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  8174. Of course he can; the guy’s a multimillionaire, so he could pay for them out of his own pocket! 💰
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  8175. Well, it put a few billion into the coffers of the military-industrial complex.😉
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  8176. Well, they do say Sheffield is resembling India more and more these days …
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  8177. Anyone being ‘proud’ of a country’s history based on an accident of birth is the preserve of the unthinking morons.
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  8178. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  8179.  @axldave9940  Then why is there an issue with immigration into Europe then? If it’s ok for Europeans to blunder into the Americas and Australasia, why isn’t it ok for a few non-Europeans to pitch up in Europe?
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  8180.  @littlebubbie726  I agree. America is a terrible double-standards hypocrite. However, this cannot be used to excuse Putin’s actions.
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  8181.  @intergalactickoala665  Putin? Rat faced? An insult to rats.
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  8182.  @Baffuteagle  Yes, they’re all in France.
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  8183. But to be fair, he wasn’t partying with the Taliban.
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  8184. *don’t
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  8185. Clarity to charity. Nice.
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  8186.  @cliffhughes6010  A bit of a stretch of the term ‘adoption’ there, Cliff, but point taken.👍
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  8187.  @cliffhughes6010  Or cats.
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  8188.  @omen9442  😆
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  8189.  @omen9442  Lol. It shows! *paid
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  8190.  @bg1616  👍
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  8191.  @liukin95  Man, woman or Mordaunt; I’d be saying the same thing.
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  8192.  @liukin95  Er, funny how she doesn’t talk like that for most of the rest of the interview then. All Mary Poppins, there. She reminds me of Lulu, who’s rough as a loofah and from tough Glasgow, yet when she’s putting on airs and graces, she goes all ‘posh’. Keep it real ffs.
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  8193. @@yakovshani240Yeah, but there’s a difference, m8: we can rationally think! 🐒
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  8194. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  8195. The Cure were always better than The 🦠! Robert Smith rocks! 🤙
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  8196. That’s what the aliens say about the planet as a whole when they look down on us.
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  8197. To be fair, a period could make things messy. 🩸
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  8198. So much banging can be a cause of clap. One must be careful.
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  8199. Obviously, this is f*ck-all to do with the seatbelt; it’s to do with those who hate Sunak and the Tories. If Sunak had been in the driver’s seat and run over 3 pensioners who voted Labour and a Liberal voting dog, there might be an issue. As it is …? Really?
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  8200. Carrots.
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  8201.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  Why should Russophones have to leave the territory they were born and raised on?
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  8202. It’s to do with sentience. Bacteria isn’t sentient. A bunch of cells aren’t sentient.
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  8203. Same could be said of human beings.
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  8204.  @England-fan01  Dream on, fool. England are gonna get a royal hammering by the best team in the competition. Strap yourself in, lad.
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  8205. Go Indi, go Indi, go Indi!
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  8206. *their
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  8207. Huh? Makes no sense. Last time I checked there were about 65 million British citizens. Nice try, though.👍
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  8208.  @barneymagee3285  *Labour 😳
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  8209. She’s gawjus.
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  8210. It’s only about 6 generations. Ancestral memory lingers.
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  8211.  @hailhydra7959  EU has to show it won’t tolerate dissent; if it does allow recalcitrance, the EU will evaporate like mist on a summer’s morning.
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  8212.  @jeycalc6877  False equivalence.
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  8213. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  8214. @0:05 Presenter looks like Rob Brydon’s slightly better-looking younger brother.
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  8215.  @creesmith2794  Minor borders doesn’t apply here. If NATO wants to site weapons in a country bordering Russia, then they will do this. What makes Ukraine different from Latvia and Estonia in this regard?
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  8216.  @duncansmith7562  Must be a “deluded fool” then as I see Ukraine winning this conflict.
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  8217. As an impartial observer, what I can’t quite understand here is why 1. Putin wouldn’t do what the West has done since at least 1492. 2. How the West even has the brass neck to judge another on the very thing it’s committed for centuries. Conclusion: none of this is ‘right’, but if we have any chance of understanding this situation we have to acknowledge that Putin is doing precisely nothing the West hasn’t done since at least 1492.
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  8218. Smacks of appeasement, but hey, we could all do with a bit of app-easing in this age of information overload.
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  8219.  @jamesmorrow1646  We’ll see. Well, we won’t see, but our descendants will.
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  8220.  @ryanfraser167  *haven’t *no one *.
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  8221.  @ryanfraser167  Says someone clearly not living between the Equator and the 35th parallel.
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  8222. @@draxxx5164 This.
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  8223. Yes, m’lady.
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  8224.  @tomstory8502  Self-interest, mate. We all look out for our own self-interest. Suits the West to side with Israel in this sorry conflict.
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  8225. We’re all found dead at some point, mate.
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  8226. Helen-Ann Smith, aka Lucy Williamson when she’s doing her BBC assignments.
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  8227. Lol.😂That’s one way of putting it!
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  8228. Apt comment from a SCOFField!😂
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  8229. And if you’d been born in Islamabad, you’d have sworn allegiance to Allah.
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  8230. Another can of petrol to put on that fire? 🔥
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  8231.  @agladman194  Yes, but as we speak,we’re much freer than the Russians are, so equating the two as we speak, doesn’t compute.
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  8232. More fool them, I say. This is the Ukrainians’ fight. If they want to play the mercenary war hero, crack on. Just count me out.
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  8233. This has to be the definition of cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.
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  8234. ‘Stuffing’? Jordan Peterson? Of a female? His ‘wife’ doesn’t count.
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  8235.  @petercristo992  ‘Shooting parties’? 😳
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  8236. Let’s get real here: if Greece can win this thing, then so can anyone! Greece 2004 make Scotland 2024 look like Brazil!
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  8237.  @asmith9140  In your opinion.
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  8238.  @timsmith2279  Lol.
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  8239.  @20alphabet  Lol.
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  8240.  @brightonkennedy8796  Lol.
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  8241.  @BlissLovePeace  Lol.
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  8242. Pope Adrian! Relative of Chiles. Only Brummie Pope in history!🤣
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  8243. Phew! Coulda caused complexes if he’d been called ‘Jash God’.
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  8244. So far, in meteorological terms the Russians have appeared as a light drizzle militarily (notwithstanding the destruction in the South); my strong suspicion is that the almighty hailstorm is not far away, should Russia continue to be bogged down.
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  8245. Lionel: the new Messi, ah. 🤓
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  8246. ‘Jeremy Hunt voices …’; he may need to see a professional about those.
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  8247.  @JI7NKJ  Well, I’m guessing the Spanish police are better on the ball than Scotland. ⚽️
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  8248.  @sutty85  Ok. That’s fine. Mine hasn’t. Cope a bit better now.
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  8249. They may have QAnon in the US, but here in the UK we can top that with our QAnonanonanonanonanonanonanon! … ⚰️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚶 🚶‍♂️
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  8250. Cringe.
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  8251. QAnon starter for Biden.🤓
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  8252.  @clacc2238  👍
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  8253. Yes. When he plays in a forward position he can be a right Juke in the box! 👍
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  8254.  @davidjames3787 It was a slight exaggeration. England looked in total control was what I meant. Until it all fell apart for the last hour. The weak link here is Southgate. I’m convinced of this. His defensive tactics and defensive mentality (understandable, given his own background) will be the main reason if England don’t win this thing. I don’t think he can get it over the line. The other thing is the Harry Kane thing. He’s 30. Never won anything. Could he be a jinx?
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  8255.  @willclouded K, it was slight hyperbole, but they looked pretty decent… until they didn’t, which was for most of the match.
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  8256.  @TheButterfly2743  I think you just answered your own question when you talked of carrying a small human to term.😉
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  8257. @0:28 Wtf is Roy Keane doing standing in the background in a Germany shirt?! Traitor.
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  8258.  @stiggmint6226  Yes, but my point is that after 300,000 years of Homo Sapiens we still allow this nonsense to obtain. That’s all.
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  8259.  @officialJoebiden  *by the Afghans
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  8260. The Who! More my generation.
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  8261.  @trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952  No. but there are Cocoa Pox.
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  8262. ‘Christ people’? Oh ffs, not another frickin religion!
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  8263.  @ricardholm4422  No. Suggs had nothing to do with it.😳
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  8264. I look at Rayner and get Antz in my pants as I just think of Sharon Stone. Labour and the Tories are always going to have Irreconcilable Differences as the Basic Instinct of each is to attack one another. Those with Total Recall know this. In the Sphere of politics it’s often The Mighty who conquer; someone wanting to be the top Alpha Dog. Many say Corbyn was The Disaster Artist, that he was The Specialist in that. He never had a Sliver of a chance of being PM. All I Wish is this: that in the Casino of life, where nobody is Above the Law, people prosper and there are not too many Broken Flowers.
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  8265. Why? Is Bud Light a Democrat?
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  8266.  @BNOCSK  Lies, damned lies and statistics.
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  8267.  @quillo2747  Yes, but Canada has far stricter rules about who can own and what types of weapon they can own.
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  8268.  @Aaron11oD  Totally disagree.
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  8269. Dowden looks like the lovechild of Josh Homme and Gordon Strachan. 🎸 ⚽️
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  8270. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  8271. This is clearly just the E.U.’s revenge for the UK having the brass-neck to actually leave its undemocratic, bloated, unaccountable, dictatorial whim. The E.U. needs to let other countries know of the potential consequences should they follow the UK’s example, hence it’s going to make life as difficult as possible for the UK; a bit like a warped, scorned lover who just can’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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  8272. Never mind the “Spring Offensive”; can we talk about the “Sky Offensive” … of propaganda!
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  8273. ‘Yet another reason’… Sorry, what were the other reasons, again? 🤔
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  8274.  @springbloom5940  Woosh! 🌬
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  8275.  @DTChapman1  Woosh! 🌬
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  8276.  @MrBassmann15  Woosh! 🌬
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  8277.  @jedlimen123  Woosh! 🌬
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  8278. Source?
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  8279. This stuff only goes to show how football, and team field sport generally, is ‘war without guns’; City win, therefore the fans take the ‘territory’ they rightfully feel is ‘theirs’; not quite so funny as back in ‘77, however, when a bunch of Bay City Roller lookalikes took Wembley, and almost took the whole of London for Scotland, after that match!
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  8280. Disunited Kingdom of England, more like.
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  8281. There is so much claim and counterclaim in this war that, as a neutral, one is left with a head spinning more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist . One almost begins to doubt there is actually a real war taking place at all! It couldn’t be, could it? A fake war? A counterfeit masquerading as the real thing being played out on green screens. We are all so many Truman Burbank’s in a gameshow made for the sadistic delectation of we know not who. Or, Zelensky and Putin are not really flesh and blood humans but kind of Westworld cyborgs created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. All this talk of ‘puppet regimes’ should’ve been the giveaway: they are going to install Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as an interim measure until the Ukrainians have a goddamn referendum on partition, thereby obviating a lot of unnecessary bother for the rest of us. None of this is real. Is it?
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  8282.  @residentelect  Lol.
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  8283. Lol.
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  8284.  @greattime860  Yeah, but that’s a drop in the ocean next to $600 billion on bombs and bullets.
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  8285.  @Aaronsteel94  Yeah, but is it an African elephant or an Asian elephant?🐘
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  8286. Aside from being a simple battle for national self-determination in the face of an autocratic aggressor (notwithstanding the very real intra-Ukrainian tensions), this whole war has been a very real question to every single one of us. It’s directly asking us to make a choice about whether we uphold basic non-negotiable liberal values such as individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), pluralistic liberal democracy, secularism, the rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion or, alternatively, we uphold illiberal values such as violation of individual rights (including violation of civil and human rights), illiberal autocracy, abuse of the law, economic and political servitude beholden to dictatorship, little to no freedom of speech, censorship of the press and media more widely, and lack of freedom to worship the Gods of your choice or no God at all. Given this binary choice I, for one, know which side I’m backing.
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  8287.  @famalam943  Well, it’s not that good for Ukraine right now!
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  8288.  @tomsd8656  Not American here, but point taken.👍
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  8289. Last year, Xi met Biden. This year, he’s meeting Kissinger. For next year, he’s pencilled in Methuselah for a State visit.
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  8290. Yes, and he’s squirming around in his word salad.
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  8291. @@Cernunnos-2024 Yes, but those who ultimately voted to remain in the UK were on a promise. That promise wasn’t kept. Material change in circumstances. Personally, I think it’s too soon to have another one, but I totally get why many Yesers are clamouring for one.
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  8292.  @Love_N_Let_Live  Allegedly.
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  8293. Or Britney Spears.
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  8294.  @druunderwood5602  😆
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  8295.  @druunderwood5602  👍
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  8296. Yes, they are thinking of renaming it the ‘Story’ party.
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  8297. Because when the songs are being sung, everyone gets out their lighters! D’oh!
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  8298. So is the delusion Jesus Christ existed.😳
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  8299. *its
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  8300. @roksana khatun Lol.
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  8301. “And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” (Jesus)
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  8302. Reckon if Putin wins Luhansk, Donetsk, Mariupol, Melitopol, Kherson, Odessa and Crimea permanently, he’ll be happy with that. Sure, Ukraine won’t be happy with this and it may be dangerous for future Russian incursions elsewhere if they get away with essentially what is now Eastern Ukraine. However, Ukraine, at some point, may just have to accept this state of affairs.
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  8303. Nice to see Rob Brydon’s slightly better-looking brother presenting for Sky. 👍
    3
  8304.  @kenmay1572  ‘Larry had the Edge’? Bono got jealous.
    3
  8305. I hope ‘Gale’ consented.
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  8306. Seethe more.
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  8307.  @JoeBidensdememtiapills  Tell that to Thomas. He’s Scottish! 👍
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  8308.  @jadler457  Just cos I know how to deploy a possessive apostrophe, son. Cope better.
    3
  8309.  @Backofthenet565  Dave gets it! 👍
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  8310.  @DefinitelyNotaCyberCat  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  8311.  @ahmedmahmood7004  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  8312. Europeans emigrating to just about every point of the planet since about 1492: 👍. Non-Europeans immigrating to Europe today: 👎 . Go figure.
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  8313.  @jamesjameson4566  We more or less take in the same amount as a percentage of population as France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc. It’s a fallacy to assume we take more than our fair share. If anything, we take a bit less. That said, I’m not an advocate of open-door immigration, but given that we have a non-reproducing ageing population it would be economic suicide in the long run not to take in a certain amount.
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  8314.  @jamesjameson4566  Stop doing what?
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  8315.  @happydace6991  To be fair, there are countries in Europe with far more generous benefits systems than the UK; France and Germany for two.
    3
  8316.  @rennardyjuwana7254  👍
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  8317. Good call! Looks and voice. Magenta was a little svelter, as I recall.
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  8318.  @garyt123  Lol. C’mon, son. Semantics. A smile is at least 90% about the teeth! 🤓
    3
  8319.  @neilloughran4437  Ayyyye.
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  8320.  @waseemyasin4475  There is no Allah. Next …
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  8321. “And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.” (Walt Whitman)
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  8322.  @davidkennedy8929  My solution is in the statement: don’t place your core identity in a random accident of birth.
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  8323. Did they all fart?😳
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  8324.  @WolfgangReads  Dunno. But she works at Walmart.
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  8325. Bozo might want to tag a few, most of the rest of us just want to gag him.
    3
  8326. @@user-zw9mg8yd4l 👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  8327.  @andrewdaley5375  Ah.
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  8328.  @jim88  Huh? 🤔
    3
  8329. @Mr Smith It’s actually not only true, but funny, too! All the best jokes tend to be true.
    3
  8330. Yes, but in important news, more than half the rest of the country don’t support Rishi Sunak.
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  8331.  @lestercranmer2631  Yeah, that makes 3. Lisping has a certain allure it seems.
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  8332. Pure as the driven slush.
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  8333. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  8334.  @josephstalin7389  Ok, 1, 2, 3.
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  8335.  @drlarryjohnson7880  Uh huh. That’s why I said if we hadn’t invented nuclear weapons, Putin would’ve been knocked out long before now. 🥴
    3
  8336. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  8337. Physical too.
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  8338.  @MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  8339. Yeah, but only Jeff Buckley’s version.
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  8340.  @cynicalglobe42  😆
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  8341. There is no Poland. This land belongs to the Universe.
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  8342.  @tonyeden8381  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  8343. As someone who genuinely doesn’t give a flying f*ck about Iran or Israel (beyond the fact they might be about to spark WW3), it’s quite clear to this impartial onlooker that the Tehran regime has every desire to erase Israel from the map but Israel has zero desire to do the same to Iran. It should also be borne in mind that the large majority of Iranians (particularly those under 35) don’t support the mad mullahs in Tehran. As so often on this planet, it’s the potential actions of a very few which threaten the existence of very many.
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  8344.  @bronx3522  !!!!!!!!!!!!
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  8345. But we need the bye-byes! 👋
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  8346. ‘ The party of Wales? ‘ It’s B.YO.L.: bring your own leek.
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  8347.  @LinkLich  Er, wot? 🤔
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  8348.  @asmith9140  🧺👈😉
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  8349. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. ⚖️
    3
  8350.  @jeremiahjohnson-zn5hb  🥴
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  8351.  @jeremiahjohnson-zn5hb  What indeed.
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  8352.  @jeremiahjohnson-zn5hb  What’s ‘Scootish’?
    3
  8353. Rather than being more skittish than the British?
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  8354. These rail strikes are a real bummer as I had a ticket to Ryde today. 🚂
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  8355. Yeah, but there’s a clear and present danger they’d drink all the holy wine.
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  8356. ‘Woke’? He looks half asleep to me here.
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  8357.  @JOEFABULOUS.  🤣👍
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  8358. It’s a secular school.
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  8359. Never mind ‘fighting from beneath trees’; these Ukrainians have been pulling up trees from day 1 of this farrago!
    3
  8360. Bullseye!
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  8361. Yes, let’s give them the complete works of Iron Maiden and they can kill the Russians with music. Yes, that’s how it works.
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  8362. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
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  8363. Kay’s expecting that call from the Director of Basic Instinct 3 any day now.
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  8364. No. He doesn’t have any credit left, either.
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  8365. Not true. See rugby and cricket, where, by and large, it works remarkably well.
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  8366. Jesus. Sarah-Jane must have a terrible time keeping those hems clean.
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  8367. That’s a deep insult to the hunchback of Notre Dame.😳
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  8368. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘‘war on ignorance’ but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  8369.  @chrisView  Yeah, but if we had a one-world army, meaning in practice every nation state is neutral with no standing armies, I’m willing to bet we’d drastically reduce the incidence of self-slaughter through war/conflict rather dramatically.
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  8370. And land, and power, and organised religion, and ethnic tribalism, and oil, and imperialism, and nationalism etc etc.
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  8371.  @moonhead9760  No. She’s right, son. Most Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin. This was his greatest error; the arrogant hubris of a dictator to whom no one has said ‘no’ in 22 years. He’s a poor deluded fool on this score.
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  8372.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “In my view.” Indeed. And not everyone shares your view, Georgy.👍
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  8373. That’s a deep insult to farts in the wind.
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  8374. On the ground. Ironically.
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  8375. Sue has just told me she’s not happy with this idea.
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  8376. Huh? 70 on the bus? Since when did people have 57 hips? 🤔
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  8377.  @manichairdo9265  Indeed. Wouldn’t particularly bother me. So …?
    3
  8378. S’ok. The only fatalities were a couple of hibernating hedgehogs. They are now in hog heaven. 🦔 🦔 RIP.
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  8379.  @assassin3003  🎯 It was actually to scare the increasing potential threat of Stalin’s Soviet Union more than Japan but aside from this, spot on.
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  8380. I won’t. Goodness gracious, guys and gals, as it ‘appens, that was the date of the first ever episode of Jim’ll Fix It I saw! How’s about that then?
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  8381. Kinda want England to win, but it’ll still be 9-1 to Germany.
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  8382.  @randomdaveUK  😉
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  8383.  @randomdaveUK  How convenient.🤔
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  8384. That’s no way to talk of Ronald McDonald! 🤡
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  8385.  @MeAndTheBoys_  👍
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  8386. O’Neill’s fitter.
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  8387.  @asamoah631 Different scenario. Israel vs Hamas is armed combat on the ground. Israel vs Iran would be jets/drones combat in the air. Bad luck, petal. 👍✌️🤣
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  8388.  @hus390 ​​⁠You appear to be labouring under the delusion that Israel couldn’t crush Iran in a couple of days if it so chose. That’s what observer bias does to a dude. 👍😉
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  8389. Lmfao. Yer nae 79, son, and if ye aire, can uh huv som o’ yer moisturiser?😎🥸😳
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  8390. @1:10-1:20 Wow! That’s the most black faces I have seen en masse in Edinburgh, ever! Must be the Festival.🥸🤓😎
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  8391. What did he brew, exactly? I like to brew a Typhoo.🤓
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  8392. I once robbed John to pay Jesus, but Jesus refused as he told me it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, and he didn’t want to scupper his chances.
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  8393. Yeah, but the BJs cost more under capitalism.
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  8394. @7:06 Did he just say what I think he said? 😳
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  8395. When extreme fishing goes wrong. 🎣
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  8396. Wall needs to be dismantled. They did it in Berlin.
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  8397.  @terialikhan  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  8398. No. Colombia, mostly. sniffs
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  8399. Toulouse.
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  8400. Amnesty for all the channel migrants. Once that’s done, they’ll do nothing tangible to stop the flow as Labour don’t really believe in national borders. They are a globalist party in this sense. The more the merrier! 🎉
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  8401.  @DontRefuseToVoteThisElection  Driving off fast in a car is not worthy of a bullet in my book.😉 Bullet to a tyre, perhaps. Not to a brain.
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  8402. Pmsl.
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  8403. Yep, too much swinging gives me a headache, too! 🥴
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  8404.  @77belts  Yes.
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  8405.  @audspod1  Man certainly does. And he very often does so in the name of his imagined sky-daddy.
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  8406. There probably is no God. Deal with it.
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  8407. Days before PM is found to have broken the law, he’s seen in Ukraine. Tories use war as excuse for Johnson to remain in Office. He’s now gone to India. Can we expect that when the next tranche of fines comes along that the Tories will be saying we need Boris to make trade deals in India? All of it stinks. The good news is that we can turf him out at the next Election.
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  8408. Folkstone (sic): that well-known town just up the road from Eatbourne, Hatings, Righton and Madstone.😳
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  8409.  @dustersinternational221  Lol.
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  8410. Looks like Johnny may have been indulging in too much charlie at the chocolate factory, while attempting to make Amber Heard a corpse bride. Allegedly.
    3
  8411. I do hope they haven’t placed these solar panels in sunflower fields. 🌻
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  8412.  @adictedgenius8838  Lol. Says the person calling themselves ‘adicted’ (sic). But thanks, anyway!🥴🤣👍
    3
  8413. Flying a hand glider.
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  8414. Well done! 🐘
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  8415. Yeah, but to be fair, France may have a point.
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  8416. Gibraltar isn’t.
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  8417. I’m no Liverpool fan, but the worst team on the night won.
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  8418. There is a ‘wall’ of sorts around the UK. It’s called ‘the sea’.
    3
  8419.  @ThatCarGuy1983  *.
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  8420. Indeed. It was all the immigrants pissing in the tunnel on the way here. 👍
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  8421. Putin: “I ate her liver with some Russian black fava beans and a nice vodka.”
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  8422. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” (William Blake)
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  8423.  @danielm173  Also, anyone called ‘Daniel’ is hardly going to be impartial in this debate. Just sayin’! 🦁
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  8424. Lovely person, great singer, very sexy: in that order.
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  8425. It’s all for show. Pantomime. To get folks to watch the fight. I won’t be.
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  8426. Agreed. There is something very ominous about this phone alert thing. An ‘Armageddon alert’ sounds like they are just priming us for something rather terrible. Hope I’m wrong.
    3
  8427.  @nineteen8026  Yeah, it was a “good point” wasn’t it? 😉
    3
  8428.  @Patrick-y4d1z  Well, that’s just wrong. There is a substantial audience for women’s football.
    3
  8429.  @badmuppet6532  Says another human called ‘Bad Muppet’. I see a pot and kettle.
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  8430. Might not be fascism; but it’s certainly primitive ‘loving’ what is essentially an accident of birth.
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  8431.  @TomNook.  That’s just an outright lie. America has more per capita emissions than China but the 2018 figures show China 8.0, France 5.0 and UK 5.6. Moreover, these per capita figures in Europe have halved since 1980, while in China, in the same time period, they have increased eight-fold!
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  8432.  @Ruscococo1  I never ‘loved’ Bozo in the first place.
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  8433. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  8434. Eat fewer prunes, for starters.
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  8435. Enlightenment?
    3
  8436. Don’t knock mops. I’ve had mine since about 1977 and it’s still erect and able to do its job.
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  8437. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  8438.  @MyPronounIsGoddess  The OP never mentioned ‘asylum seeker’ or ‘benefits. He simply said ‘foreigner’. You need better close reading skills, Bev. I repeat: it’s ok for this dude to be a foreigner in a foreign land but not ok for others to be a foreigner in his land. Simply rank hypocrisy.
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  8439. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  8440. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  8441. 2008 Putin invades Georgia with imputinity. 2014 Putin invades Crimea with imputinity. 2022 Putin invades Ukraine with imputinity? ???? Putin invades ?????? with imputinity?
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  8442.  @kevinkaragu1758  Serious question: what is your issue with homosexuality? I can’t work it out. I’m not gay but I can’t see why people get so weird about this. Can you enlighten me?
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  8443. Can’t work this dude out. He has a beautiful wife and 2 kids. He’s healthy. He’s not poor. Yet all he does is moan about being ‘lonely’. I don’t quite get it. Just go to the doc and pop a few pills like the rest of us if you’re that depressed.
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  8444. Putin: “Look, I’m your rightful father here to take you, my Slavic sons and daughters back to mother Russia.” Ukrainians: “But we left home years ago. We became adults. We have our own lives now.”
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  8445. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather! (Bill Hicks)
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  8446. Can’t work this dude out. He has a beautiful wife and 2 kids. He’s healthy. He’s not poor. Yet all he does is moan about being ‘lonely’. I don’t quite get it. Just go to the doc and pop a few pills like the rest of us if you’re that depressed.
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  8447.  @lijingliangssuit8012  It would more than likely be mutually assured destruction, given the weapons at each side’s disposal. Putin seems genuinely unhinged, he’s 70, and he’s having a last hurrah before he pops his clogs. Men with too much power are dangerous. Old men with too much power are the most dangerous of all.😳
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  8448. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  8449. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  8450. I’m bored by you, m8. At this point this feels fake. You have a beautiful wife and 2 beautiful children as far as I can see. So, what, exactly, is going on here? 🤔
    3
  8451. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
    3
  8452. Anyone fancy an open-air gig?😳
    3
  8453. She’s an interesting mash-up of Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, facially. 👱‍♀️
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  8454. In England Diego Maradona is pronounced ‘thieving hand of God’.
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  8455.  @BLUELEADER78  It’s the per capita thing, son. America has a homicide rate consistently 4x that of comparable nations. Sweden is 1, America is 5.
    3
  8456.  @hannacastMAKEUP  I’m perfectly calm.
    3
  8457.  @alexiveperez4687  Fair point. But I’m willing to bet, albeit only from anecdotal experience, that 50+% of Barcelonais speak Catalan, if not as a first language, then as a strong second back-up. Last time I was in the city, it seemed like the de facto language ‘setting’, as it were, was Catalan, and this particularly in the under 35s. Spanish was only reverted to when they realised I was drawing a blank in Catalan. Also, I have met dozens of non-Catalan Spaniards over the years (I’m old) who all, almost to a man and woman, had stories to tell about how they were made to feel outsiders in Barcelona if they spoke Castilian Spanish only. Language is power, after all; this fact is well known, and one of the easiest ways to assert identity, power, and that feeling of ‘this is who I am’ is through language and also, accents. Human beings judge, hence Jesus’ famous injunction not to do so (I’m agnostic, incidentally, but it’s apposite here), and the most obvious way we all judge others, after personal visual appearance, is how others speak.
    3
  8458.  @margaretmac50  Why? No one forced him to say these things?
    3
  8459.  @BLUELEADER78  All the more reason to take legal assault weapons out of the equation!
    3
  8460. To these British ears the Argentine accent sounds as if the speaker is slightly drunk & slurring his/her words. I had this issue with the Chilean lassie living in Cologne; she sounded like she’d had a couple of gins. She hadn’t, of course; just sounds that way. Whereas, for some reason the Mexican accent sounds as clear as a bell to these ears. It’s all a mystery but interesting nonetheless.
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  8461. As my granny would say: that male presenter would eat himself if he were a piece of chocolate.
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  8462. Don’t overestimate how easy Spanish people find French; as with just about the rest of the world they find it just as daunting; not so much the written language, but that notorious way the French enunciate and swallow words at speed that can seem bamboozling to the French-learning neophyte. In my experience, albeit only anecdotal, the best French-speaking Spaniards fall into 2 main categories: those in close proximity geographically to France and those self-motivated learners who have consciously made a decision to learn French. As for the rest, it seems they are indifferent and, like most others, find the language tough to tackle.
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  8463.  @grantmcroberts4089  I agree. So far Depp doesn’t seem to have been physically hitting her regularly. Tussling a bit it seems. So on that basis, if Heard is suggesting he was actually consistently physically violent, then this may not be the case. Given this, Depp will probably win.
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  8464.  @leveljoe  Not sure what point you’re making.
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  8465.  @Otoskire  Yeah, fair point. I was just struck by ControlledChaos’ archaic style, that was all. He/she sounded like they were straight outta the 19th Century; not straight outta Compton!
    3
  8466.  @ControlledCha0s  Austen ain’t for everyone, I get that. I once suggested to a friend that they read some Austen; he got stuck on p.4 and muttered something about ‘watching paint dry’ being a preferable activity to enduring/reading Austen. I never did trust that old cliche, though, since it was famously said of the movies of Eric Rohmer (in another movie, Night Moves , I think) and those, in my humble opinion, couldn’t be further from the truth of ‘watching paint dry’. Yes, as Austen herself said, in Emma funnily enough: One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Now, take me and video games, for example; I’d rather sit through Titanic 10 times consecutively, than waste a minute of my life on such nonsense. Of course, half the world will disagree, a la Austen.
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  8467.  @ControlledCha0s  The thought of having to read an Austen cover to cover used to bring me out in hives until, one year, I took an Eng. Lit. course; the book was Emma, and to my great surprise, it was an utter, witty, clever, insightful delight! She instantly became, and remains, one of my favourite writers. I never did do the 100 Books You Must Read … thing, but I did do the 1001 Movies You Must See … back in the day; all I can say is I’ll never get those 3 hours back after watching/enduring Titanic .
    3
  8468.  @green4black  I can only assume Controlled Chaos has been binging on Jane Austen box-sets during COVID-19 lock-downs, while the rest of us were slumming it watching Tiger King!😳
    3
  8469.  @leveljoe  Again, another non-sequitur shitpost. Must do better.
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  8470.  @canchero724  Fair point about Basque cross-border cultural connections and you are right, they are quite strong. But on the eastern Pyrenean side too, there is quite a strong Catalonian cross-border thing going on such that, for example, in Perpignan it’s not the colours of the French tricolour you see, but the red and yellow of the Catalan flag, whose colours are very predominant. But your point is right and I would say, only anecdotally, the Basque ties are perhaps stronger.
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  8471. @5:00 This guy is just falling into the trap of ‘things were much better in my day’. I’m not much younger than him and I’m here to tell him they weren’t, in case he’s forgotten. On balance, I consider the Internet and the democratisation of opinion thereby, has been a boon for humanity. The main drawback for me is the drastic deterioration in individual/collective attention spans as users all look to be distracted by the next ‘hit’. However egregious this fact is for me, it is far outweighed by the way the Internet has opened up all opinion to virtually everyone on the planet, including those in countries mired in acute poverty where a cellphone is often atop each person’s ‘hierarchy of needs’, as it is in affluent areas. This man, while I respect his opinion, is completely ignoring the multifarious positives of an Internet-world in favour of, dare I say, not moving with the times. After all, there were similar misgivings about how books would ‘corrupt’ when they became available to a mass readership, and similarly with television, where some commentators presaged the collapse of civilisation as we know it when that came along. It was ever thus, for back in the day even Socrates was looking askance at the youth of his day as they, as he saw it, indulged in idle chatter (for ‘idle chatter’ read ‘Internet chat’) and displayed bad manners and disrespect for elders (for ‘bad manners’ and ‘disrespect’ read constant phone use to the neglect of much else). Surely, each of us should summon the moral confidence of Socrates as he wandered around the market and simply declared: ‘how much I can live without’. In other words, this man has looked at the market of 2022 and, like Socrates, has decided to spurn some of its enticements, but he really has no right to deny these to others or to more than suggest that just because the Internet and cellphones do nothing for him, this does not mean that other people don’t find them useful and beneficial. My feeling is that he just resents not being able to attune to the signs of his times, and he comes across as a man out of his era, and therefore appears curmudgeonly and faintly ridiculous. 💻
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  8472. ⚽️ Well, would Jeddah believe it? Now that Man Utd got Riyadh of him, Ronnie’s decided to cash in for the Meccabucks in Saudi. Well, if they’re Medinaff to pay him that money, fair play. 💰
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  8473. Here in Scotland we don’t have barbecues but we are partial to a deep- fried Mars bar & if we fancy the healthy option we plump for a deep-fried Snickers with extra mayo. The peanuts provide that extra protein sorely lacking in the diet of the average Scottish person.
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  8474. @5:23 Lol. Did I just hear that right? A Mexican, a Mexican , telling us to not put things off until tomorrow?! Are you kidding me? Mexico: the origin of the mañana, mañana culture, and he’s telling me to act today! Confused😩
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  8475. Really? I thought everyone hated America.
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  8476. Yah, but there’s a titty named Hague: William.
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  8477.  @djdoolittle1315  Lol. I’ll take the ‘boy’!😂
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  8478.  @paulwally9007  Huh? So someone who eats grapes is ‘racist’ now are they? I do eat the dark ones as well y’know! 🍇
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  8479.  @Mr.Edd3905  Yeah, but the hustings in Hastings might be worth a pop! 🌊
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  8480.  @ayondash7063  Moi? I don’t have a racist bone in my body, chummo. I have a few ‘ist’ bones, but can honestly say the colour of a person’s skin isn’t one of ‘em!😉
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  8481.  @rehan2118  That’s not my point; my point is that humans are tribal, birds of a feather etc etc. Sunak has quite literally nothing in common with your average voter in Newcastle, or Barnsley, or Gosport, for that matter. For all the UK being a Parliamentary Democracy (lol), and not a Presidential system, we all know that most (all?) Brits do place quite a high emphasis on the leader of the party they vote for (notwithstanding all the policy issues). It’s the basic pub test: The Conservatives won seats in hitherto unthinkable places (for the Tories) at the last election. Why? Well, in large part (but certainly not wholly), they warmed to Johnson, and yes, for all his faults (perhaps because of them), many could imagine shooting the breeze with him over a swift half. Sunak, however, has none of this going for him. I deeply doubt that many of those who voted Tory last time will vote Tory next time if Sunak is PM. Or Truss, come to that, as she is hardly much more ‘relatable’ than Sunak. Hence why Labour may have a genuine chance, notwithstanding their bland, undefined presence as we speak.
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  8482. Angela Rayner. Oh wait …
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  8483.  @mistag3860  Lol.
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  8484.  @andrewelliott4436  Belendtens is never pleased, Andy. He’s in a constant fug of self-loathing and despair due to his congenital thickness. You’re welcome.
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  8485.  @belkentens Belendtens. 🤭
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  8486.  @lucieerazimova5260  Seriously though, I just find it fascinating that we have certain territories on this planet that we all agree not to touch; why, then, can’t we just extend that to the whole planet?
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  8487. Wow! That’s bad, as most Poles hate Putin!
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  8488. Projection, much?😳
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  8489. Scene: NATO headquarters. Putin is meeting with NATO members. Putin: “I’m not happy with having a state bordering Russia that will have missiles directed at Moscow, capable of hitting in minutes.” NATO: “I’m sorry, Mr Putin, but this is a case of a sovereign nation taking its own decisions.” Putin: “Mexico has agreed to sign a pact with Russia allowing us to station missiles on the US/Mexico border directly targeting Washington DC. What are you going to do?” NATO: “We will move to remove these missiles, and invade a self-governing, sovereign nation to do this if necessary.” Putin: “Oh really? How interesting.”
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  8490. *a lot
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  8491.  @blindatadas7763  It’s called ‘nominative determinism’.👍😉
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  8492. Yes, as Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile clearly proved.😳
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  8493. *Ukraine *emboldened
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  8494. She stopped breathing.
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  8495.  @davidblyth5495  *minuscule
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  8496.  @NoMementoMori  We more or less agree, m8. Only difference is, I wouldn’t wholly rule out a deity. Not out of fear of punishment for not believing. Just out of not knowing.
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  8497.  @mohamedbenhamida5652  Btw, interesting that you openly admit that “personally I find all immigration necessarily negative for the host country”. I don’t. I find most immigration positive for the host country. All I am asking is that the host country has the authority here; not the migrant. In the same way that I have the authority as to whom to admit into my own home; not the person who wants to come in.
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  8498. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  8499.  @db7541 I think you misunderstand me. Not saying what he did was right, but given his background, it’s not necessarily that difficult to understand.
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  8500. It’s called democracy. Seethe.
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  8501.  @Richard_L_Y  I’m going way back, mate. You’re dating your thesis from 2011; I’m dating mine since at least 1492.
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  8502.  @Richard_L_Y  I agree with that. My single, salient point throughout this thread is quite simple: historically, the west is just as culpable as Putin. Indeed, if we’re counting buckets of innocent blood, we have more to answer. No impartial onlooker could possibly deny this. That’s all. Putin’s a crazy, old Cold War relic just exacting revenge for the USSR’s loss in 1989. He’s having a last hurrah before he pops his brothel creepers.
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  8503. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  8504. Putin’s apparent 5 principal requests are: 1. Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership. 2. Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia. 3. Protection for the Russian language in Ukraine. 4. The deNazification of Ukraine. 5. Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas. If I were Ukraine, I’d accept these terms, for now, let the old Cold War tart pop his brothel creepers, and hope for a better, more liberal, more democratic Russia in the future.
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  8505.  @marinasparkles  Doubt he’d go for Poland before the Baltic states. He may, but it’s doubtful, given what Putin really seems to want is the re-establishment of the old USSR configuration. To attempt ex-Warsaw Pact (now NATO) countries before that would be reckless in the extreme on his part, and for all his monomaniacal madness, there is a very definite method therein. Having said that, all 3 Baltic ex-USSR states are all NATO as well, so yes, maybe the freak-nut would go for Poland next. Jeez. What a depressing thought. 😢
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  8506.  @China_Secret_Police  Nothing to do with my ‘feelings’, petal. I was spitting facts at you back there about NATO encroachment, and how if something akin to this happened to encroach on America via Mexico and Canada, and what American reaction to this would be. Yes. You got it. American reaction would be very, very violent. There now. That wasn’t too difficult, was it now.😉
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  8507.  @China_Secret_Police  In your opinion.
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  8508.  @Zeitgeist_Dron  Yes, but can we have that in English, please? Lol.😂🤣😅
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  8509.  @ltipst2962  Still triggered. Settle down, petal. Some people don’t share your opinion. Cope. This isn’t that difficult.
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  8510.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  8511.  @cryptobroskis545  Nighty night, chump. I’m off to bed, now.👌
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  8512.  @cryptobroskis545  Look, all that needs to be said about this is quite simple, and why people are unnecessarily complicating this, I have no idea. If someone attacks a self-governing, sovereign country, then I call that wrong. Where’s the issue here?
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  8513.  @cryptobroskis545  *that’s Looks like you need to research a bit more, as getting the basics right seems to be beyond you. There is no excuse here. You have heard of Google Translate I take it? Just make more of an effort, for if you type badly spelled, grammatically poor poppycock, then you are not going to receive the best of receptions from me, particularly if you are coming at me like a rabid ape. 🦧
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  8514.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  Percentages are like fractions, parts of the whole. You can’t have more than 100 percent of a finite capacity. If you give something everything you’ve got, that’s 100% you’ve given.
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  8515.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  As I say, I’m more or less on board with this. More, rather than less. Just for the record, you can’t have more than 100% of a finite capacity.
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  8516.  @KeithRingo  If your boiler’s on its last legs, just get a new wife.
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  8517.  @paul7TM  I was just making the point that, taken as a whole, about 95% of British police don’t routinely carry guns. Cope a bit better now.✌️
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  8518.  @Shelleysnail  It’s not just sarcasm; it’s absolute truth!
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  8519.  @jumanre-b9i Huh? I don’t get your point. Last time I checked, the US had a homicide rate 4x that of the UK; most of it gun-related.
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  8520. The key issue for many European people isn’t immigration per se (most people I know have no particular problem with strictly controlled legal immigration); it’s mass Islamic immigration that is the problem for many, including many left of centre voters. Just a couple of weeks ago, we had an Islamic dude wanting a Scottish island all to himself and his followers as an ‘Islamic caliphate’. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when stories like this would’ve been an April Fool’s joke! As a secular agnostic, I’m constantly amazed at just how carefree western, secular, liberal democracies are when it comes to importing an ideology diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political (‘Islam is politics or it is nothing.’ ~ Ayatollah Khomeini). It wants control of the reins. At the current rate, the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic in 2 decades. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Islamic by 2050. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. With numbers like that, Europe can expect some interesting times ahead.
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  8521.  @CGplay186  Dream on, mate.
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  8522.  @belkentens  I love it when you go all intellectual and long-winded, Belendtens. It makes me more than moist. ❤️ 💐
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  8523. These referendums are just shambollocks.
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  8524.  @TRUEBIOLOGYMATTERS  Frankly, I can’t quite believe you are operating under the theory that the Earth is flat. I work with science in these matters and the overwhelming credible scientific evidence points to a spinning ellipsoid Earth. 1. Watch a ship sail off to sea Without being in the sky, it is impossible to see the curvature of the Earth. However, you can always see a demonstration of this if you visit a harbour or any place with a wide-open view of the water. If you are able to watch a ship sail off to sea, watch its mast and flag as it fades off into the distance. You will notice that, in fact, it does not "fade off into the distance" at all; instead, you will see its mast and flag appear to slowly sink. The ship sailed beyond the point at which you would see it. Just to be sure, bring a pair of binoculars with you so that you can see even farther off into the distance. It's as if you're watching it go over to the other side of a hill. This phenomenon can only be explained by a sphere-shaped planet. 2. Watch a lunar eclipse Solar eclipses get all the attention, but if you are able to catch a glimpse of a lunar eclipse, you can see evidence that the Earth is, indeed, round. Here's how it works: Earth passes between the moon and sun, so that the sun projects Earth’s shadow onto the Moon in the night sky. You've probably seen a partial lunar eclipse without even noticing it; if the moon looks orange, that's a sign of a lunar eclipse. If you've ever seen a total lunar eclipse, you probably noticed that the shadow did not look like this. A round shadow crossed over a round object. This does not sound like a thing that would happen if we were on a plane with all of the celestial bodies simply hovering overhead—or, perhaps more asinine, if the sun were orbiting Earth and not vice versa. 3. Climb a tree Imagine a vast plane with but one tree smack in the middle. If the earth were flat, your vision would extend exactly as far while standing at the base of the tree as it would when at the top of the tree. However, the farther you climb, the farther your line of sight will extend to the horizon. That's because parts of Earth that were concealed from view by its curvature are now revealed because your position has changed. Back to the vast plane. The naked eye can see objects that are millions of miles away in space. Theoretically, with a clear line of sight on a clear night, one would also be able to see bright lights from far-away cities. That this is not possible is further evidence of a round, not flat, Earth 4. Travel through, or even within, different time zones According to a 2008 paper in Applied Optics by David K. Lynch, the curvature of the earth becomes somewhat visible at an elevation of 35,000 feet (with a >60° field of view) and more easily visible at an elevation of 50,000 feet. So if you're on the right commercial flight, you might be able to see the curvature of the earth with your own two eyes. In the event that you're not high enough, though, you can still experience the curvature of the earth another way. For example, if you were to fly all the way around the world, you'd find that it would be nighttime in part of the world and daytime in another part. In that way, the existence of time zones itself is proof that the Earth is round. Taken another way, you wouldn't even need to travel through different time zones. Time zones are wide enough that you will see the sun rising and/or setting later in the western part of a time zone than in the eastern part. According to the Farmers' Almanac, the sun will rise and set roughly four minutes later for every 70 miles you drive from east to west. If you wanted to combine this experiment with the previous one, you could note how much more of Earth you can see when you begin your ascent into the air than you can while you are sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off. 5. Watch a sunset Pick a nice spot from which you can watch a sunset (we'll call this point A). Ideally, you'd have a clear horizon in front of you, and behind you would be some sort of elevated point that you can quickly access (a hill, a building with at least two floors, or perhaps the aforementioned tree; we'll call this point B). Watch the sunset from point A, and once the sun is out of sight, hurry on over to point B. With the added elevation provided by point B, you should be able to see the sun above the horizon. If Earth were flat, the sun would not be visible at any elevation once it had set. Because Earth is round, the sun will come back into your line of sight. If you don't have a hill, you could even try lying on your stomach to watch the sunset and then standing up to get a higher line of sight. 6. Measure shadows across the country Pick two locations that are some distance apart (at least a couple hundred miles from each other and on the same meridian). Grab two sticks or dowels (or other objects) of equal length, two tape measures, and a friend. Each of you will take one stick/dowel/object and one tape measure to your location, stick the object into the ground, and measure the shadow. (For accuracy, you should both take your measurements at the same time of day.) On a flat Earth, the shadow that is cast by each would be of the same length. However, if you and your friend compare notes, you'll find that one shadow was longer than the other. That's because, due to the curvature of Earth, the sun will hit one part of Earth at one angle and another part of Earth at a different angle even at the same time of day. This experiment has been around since about 240 B.C., when Greek mathematician Eratosthenes compared the shadows cast in both Syene—now Aswan, Egypt—and Alexandria on the summer solstice. Eratosthenes had learned of a well in Syene where once a year on the summer solstice, the sun would illuminate the entire bottom of the well and tall buildings and other objects would not cast a shadow. However, he noticed that shadows were being cast on the summer solstice in Alexandria, so he measured the angle of the shadow and found it to be an angle of about 7.2°. 7. Google "International Space Station photos" Seriously, just look at some of the amazing photos you’ll find. There appears to be quite the curvature there. Now if you’d like to provide evidence to back your flat-Earth theory, I’d be grateful.
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  8525.  @WookiRahh  You clearly haven’t met a ‘manmade global warming’ denier.
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  8526.  @TheAArmstrong  If you’re gonna go down ye old ‘by blood’ road, Bobby, you need to demand the immediate repatriation of every European not currently living in Europe. Uh huh.
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  8527.  @user-cd9zp5tn7s  Get real, m8. If yer called ‘Talia’, which is a Hebrew name, you’re gonna more than likely be biased one way or t’other in this. Move into the real world where I live.👍
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  8528.  @taliabraver  Of course, ‘Talia’, a Hebrew name. Gotcha! If you’d been called ‘Fatima’ I’m sure you’d have said something rather different. 👍
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  8529. “Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers. “
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  8530. Ok Karen.
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  8531. Sooooo. How’s that gun homicide rate that’s consistently 4x that of the UK holding out for ya? 🤠
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  8532.  randomsongsinlocrian  All perhaps true. But here’s the ironic deal: invariably I find that those who hate those with disabilities are contributing very little themselves. They are invariably badly educated, idle (often) and just project their ill-feeling to those they perceive they can target.
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  8533.  @belkentens  Belendtens is triggered yet again. Oof! ✋
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  8534.  @belkentens  Belendtens is triggered again. Oof!
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  8535. This is all about men of a certain age’s egos (and money!): there’s no way Trump and Musk are going to get on in the same room with one spotlight. If you asked me who had the real power, then probably Musk; just because he’s 3 decades younger and has more ‘outreach’. All this said, I’m fully with Musk on drastically decreasing Western European immigration and supporting free-speech. Even if he doesn’t seem to to fully practise the latter himself! 👍
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  8536.  @EvsEntps  You may poke fun at the Irish Republicans for being so anti-English but to be fair, as far as I can see, the Irish have rather a lot to be angry about with the English historically. First they endured the Scottish Plantations over 100 years which involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of land by British (mainly Scottish) Protestant settlers into a Catholic territory. Unsurprisingly, the Irish fought back. Two Desmond Rebellions (1569-73;1579-83) to fight against the extension of English governance over the province. Battle of Clontibret (1595) fought against the British. Ditto Battle of the Yellow Ford (1598). The Nine Years’ War (1593-1603) fought English rule in Ireland. The 1641 Rebellion occurred when Irish Catholics were being threatened by the expansion of the anti-Catholic English Parliament and Scottish Planters and they rebelled against English and Protestant domination. The 1798 Irish Rebellion was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland. The Irish wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance and to roll back the Plantations. The 1803 Rebellion of Irish Republicans was against, you’ve guessed it, British rule in Ireland. I think you can spot a theme here. The famous 1916 Easter Rising had the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic, with the hope of finally ending British colonial rule. And so on, right up to the 1960s when the Civil Rights movement challenged the inequalities and discrimination against ethnic Irish Catholics perpetrated by the Ulster Protestant community. So, with this snapshot of Irish history, I return to my OP that began this whole thread: if the British had kept their nose out of other people’s business, then none of this would have obtained.
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  8537.  @EvsEntps  I have made my position clear: majority will in NI carries the day. This, in practice, means a majority on the island of Ireland will be for unification, so technically I was correct. I should’ve said NI, not Ireland to that other guy, but the result is the same if the people of NI do indeed opt to unify.
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  8538.  @EvsEntps  You still haven’t answered the bizarre error you made mate: why would the British, in 2022, be voting to join with Ireland?
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  8539.  @EvsEntps  Ok, if a majority in N Ireland want to join the Republic and the Republic agrees to this, then this kinda amounts to the same thing. Jeez. Mr Pedantic’s on the loose.
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  8540.  @EvsEntps  Your point about the British voting for Ireland to join the UK makes no sense. Ireland is a foreign country. Why would the British be voting on this? Makes no sense.
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  8541.  @EvsEntps  It’s not a meaningless platitude in my world, mate. If a majority in Northern Ireland want to be part of the Republic, and the Republic agree to this, then this will is carried. It’s really rather simple. I go back to my original point: if the British hadn’t forcibly meddled where they were not wanted then we’d have none of this.
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  8542.  Sean Mulcahy  Me? Absolutely not. What makes you think that?
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  8543. Projecting again, sweetheart? Got something you want to tell us all? 🤓✌️😉
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  8544. Pmsl. Even for you , Jimbo, this is weirdly irrelevant. Those egg and chips repeating on you again, son? 🤣
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  8545.  @tflrebornreborn576 ​​⁠ You have that ‘look’, m8. Just saying. That Gary Glitter beard is rather telling.👍
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  8546. It just means he accepted images. Truth is, it’s kinda outwith his control. We have no real say whom we fancy. It’s just a fact that, for various reasons, a good proportion of men have a sexual attraction to children.
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  8547.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  You’re not a Palestinian, m8. You admitted it when you said: “we are ALL Palestinians until further notice.” Nice try, bruh.👍
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  8548.  @ThinkBeingThanks  As an agnostic, I have deep distrust of all organised religion and, yes, Islam appears to be the troublemaker on our planet right now. Here’s the thing: I literally know dozens of Muslims and they mean me no harm. The problem arises when organised religion is hitched to political states and religiopolitical power coagulates. I’m a live and let live kinda guy; believe in any invisible sky daddy you want to; my hackles are raised only when your invisible sky daddy belief impinges directly on my life.
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  8549.  @saraswatkin9226  Whatever it’s called it fucking stinks to high heaven.
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  8550. Yeah, but by forswearing P&O you only jeopardise the jobs of the ordinary workers, however much you abhor the company practices.
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  8551.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Ur upvoting yersel again, Jimbo. 👍
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  8552.  @sonnyfabula1446  I agree, to an extent. I feel more threatened by a Putin-led Russia than by the idea NATO would aggressively go for Russia in a first-strike hot war. However, in purely geographical, geopolitical terms, and looking at the map, I was simply pointing out how NATO has eaten into great swathes of territory formerly under direct Soviet Union rule. Knowing Putin nurses a grievance since 1989 after the USSR’s loss in the Cold War, helps understanding in what he might be doing here. That’s all. I’m not condoning what he’s doing; just trying to understand it.
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  8553.  @irynadobenka5454  Watched Harari. Wasn’t that impressed, alas. More importantly, when I researched him a bit more he’s rather sinister to say the least. He works for WEF, and for Charles Schwab. Harari directly, openly talks about ‘systematically hacking into humans.’ You might want to watch this:https://youtu.be/6G3nWyoQ5CQ
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  8554.  @rutgerb  Don’t patronise me mate. I was simply making the point that NATO over the past 30 years, like an encroaching tide, has begun lapping onto Russian shores. Putin’s an evil dickhead as far as I’m concerned, but from his point of view, I can totally see why he’s spooked. That said, he’s not justified going into Ukraine all guns blazing.
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  8555.  @franciscollingwood7372  Oh, I wasn’t assuming you personally were American, just using you and America interchangeably in a thought-experiment, that’s all. You were to imagine this scenario from America’s point of view.
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  8556.  @jeckjeck3119  Oh, I know that the Russians are brainwashed and fed a single narrative. Someone suggested this whole thing is a New World Order thing and Zelensky is the NWO puppet and Putin, believe it or not, is the ‘good guy’ in all this! I tend to go with the theory that this is all the work of the USA. They want Russia subdued and then that may set up a confrontation with China for hegemony for the next 100 years or so. Assuming there will be any planet left after all that. It’s all very depressing, obviously, and the feelings of powerlessness in the average Joe are overwhelming, me included.
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  8557.  @jeckjeck3119  Oh, I get that. I just don’t think fascism is necessarily rife in Russia. This seems like mainly one man’s war.
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  8558.  @Jade-om7ie  It’s all very worrying.
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  8559.  @lizbehrakis  Yes, the danger is that this is a game of poker with nuclear weapons. Does the West call Putin’s bluff? This is a tricky one, as although I in no way think he is conventionally ‘mad’, I do think he has been nursing revenge fantasies since about 1989. Remember, this was the man who said the dissolution of the USSR was the ‘greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century’. I don’t think he was kidding when he said that. We are dealing with a man who is still stung as if spurned and abandoned by a former lover and he has come back to knock on her door and claim her violently against her majority will.
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  8560.  @WOTArtyNoobs  Straight questions: 1. Do you deny the planet has warmed these past 200-odd years? 2. If you don’t, what do you attribute the warming to?
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  8561. That’s all fine. I’m no eco-warrior. Far from it. I despair of the extremes of this debate. However, it appears that 98% of climate scientists hold that the current warming of the planet is (at least partly), manmade. Now, I’m a critical thinker and don’t just buy any theory that’s thrown out: but the evidence for me more than suggests mankind is contributing to global warming, and particularly over the past 200 years.
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  8562.  @davidprentice5442  What? Yours? I agree.
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  8563.  @martinhumble You conveniently forget that without the iron dome, Israel would’ve incurred literally thousands of casualties at the hands of Hamas/Hezbollah over the years.
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  8564.  @VHS-CINEMA I’m not ‘defending’ any position. I happen to think Israel has been far too heavy-handed in its response to Oct 7th, but a large part of the casualties incurred by the Palestinians is due to Hamas embedding itself in its people. I repeat: this is not Israel’s fault.
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  8565. If you’re going to go down that silly road, then why are a lot of Muslims in Western non-Muslim countries?
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  8566.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *ceos Jimbo, what age are you now, son? 65? 70? You’ve got this far yet you don’t appear to know when and when not to deploy an apostrophe. I think you might see why so many don’t wanna join yer ‘homogeneous’ gang, Jimbo. 😉👍
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  8567.  @gamezone7545  Don’t demonise them, for that gets us nowhere and presages stuff that no one really wants. You need to make the effort to engage, even if it goes against your very being.
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  8568. There are certain strains of Islam that appear unwilling to make the effort virtually every other ‘culture’ I can think of does. That’s my experience, anyway. I’m not anti-Islam, I’m anti all organised religion, particularly when their business necessarily becomes mine against my will.
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  8569.  @AA-ni3km  ‘The biggest problem in 50 years is that there will just not be enough people’. Yes, Jordy, you may have thought that. However, has it ever crossed your egocentric entitled little mind that the last thing this planet wants is more people? No. Thought not. You asked why I thought he might be wrong. Well, how about he might be wrong about the idea that this planet needs more fucking people.😳
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  8570. I’m a bit confused. You spend a good amount of time moaning about a ‘dying UK’ yet you have lived abroad and are avoiding people wherever you are abroad. So, just to be clear, it’s not UK people pissing you off, then. Good to know! 👍
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  8571. Although it was a bad day for black Chris Rock, it looks like Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch backfired. On the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking to him for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars .
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  8572.  @Whiskey0880  Last time I checked they were fascists. ‘Fascism’: a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Sounds pretty much like ‘far-right’ to me! 👍
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  8573.  @redknight9740 He was also a fascist.
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  8574.  @roviannematovu3756  Yeah, I just don’t have an intrinsic problem with this. If a homosexual-themed play invited only gays for one night, I’d be fine; if a feminist-themed play invited only women for one night, I’d be fine; if a trans-themed play invited only trans people for one night, I’d be fine; and to be honest, if some play that had a theme of white racist oppression in it invited only white people for one night, I’d be fine. Sometimes, I feel some of these things are blown out of all proportion. As I said in my OP, my cynical suspicion is that this is, more than anything, a publicity stunt to get bums on seats!
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  8575.  @maryann2612  I blame the hyphenated name.
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  8576.  @maryann2612  Come again?
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  8577. And possibly cats.
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  8578.  Leidolfr As another commenter said, you’ve been caught out. Just own it and stop digging.
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  8579.  Leidolfr That’s a bit too glib and facile. A large part of certain people’s animus to uncontrolled mass immigration is to do specifically with Islam. Islam is a bunch of ideas held by those of multifarious races, therefore it’s not racist to criticise it. In fact, as an agnostic, I see it as my duty to criticise it. Why? It will be imposed on me against my will when my back is turned. That’s the difference. I’m not imposing my agnosticism on anyone.
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  8580.  @jamescollins3647  Indeed. I’m glad we are of the same opinion on this score.
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  8581. Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has so much ‘product’ on and in her face that if she were to go near a naked flame she would melt! 🔥
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  8582. PTSD? Harry? Must be ‘Piss Taking Spare Dipshit’ Syndrome.
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  8583.  @DeathToZioWarPigs More self-upvoting. Cringe.
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  8584.  @johnkitching2248  Indeed. Because you can’t back up what you’re saying when challenged it could be you who has no point. You too have a good evening.👍
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  8585.  @johnkitching2248  I did. But you’re making no sense, John. You want yet another go?
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  8586.  @Richard-Cashisking  That’s fine. I agree that children shouldn’t be forced into gender-change. We can agree on that. However, this wasn’t a child in the advert.
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  8587.  @johnkitching2248  Did I? Please elaborate …
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  8588.  @johnkitching2248  What? You’ve lost me now, John. I was just pointing out that a cartoon of a ‘fella’ with a mastectomy doesn’t offend me or harm me. You’re off at a tangent that’s screaming non-sequitur!
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  8589.  @johnkitching2248  It is. I don’t care if you disregard my opinion. Not offended or harmed.
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  8590.  @johnkitching2248  I don’t care what you do, John. As long you’re not harming me, do what you want. 👍
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  8591.  @shady2390  Just for the record, many in my family died from smoking-related cancer and other drink-related liver disease but I don’t go banning others’ right to smoke and drink in front of me on the grounds I might be “offended”. Why? Cos if I don’t smoke or drink no harm is done, and my being “offended” is neither here nor there.
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  8592.  @shady2390  That’s fine. I honour your being “offended”. Perhaps you can return me the favour and respect the fact I’m not offended. That’s how a free society works. We don’t all have to agree with you.
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  8593.  @shady2390  “Utterly stupid and ignorant” in your opinion. That’s fine. I’m not banning your opinion just as I wouldn’t ban this cartoon on the grounds that a few folk are ‘offended’.
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  8594.  @sjsk  Doesn’t offend me. You chose to be offended. Deal with it and don’t load it onto me.
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  8595.  @shady2390  I repeat. I’m not offended. You appear to be. But here’s the crucial thing: no one is harming you here. If you don’t dig it, look away.
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  8596. Don’t have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people? So what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are ‘offended’. Again, so what?
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  8597. Well, that makes no sense. Christianity itself is a non-Western religion.
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  8598.  @margaretwyatt6689  👍
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  8599.  @madeinsalford91  👍
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  8600. Oh ffs! Not another nothing, gossipy, scurrilous report about 2 boring irrelevant people. GB News seems utterly obsessed with Harry and Meghan and Phillip Schofield, and I’ve no idea why. Then again, Schofield has done absolutely nothing wrong legally, but he’s homosexual, so that’ll be it. Harry and Meghan snubbed the Royal Family so that’ll be that.
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  8601.  @jackhewitt600  Uh huh. Perhaps not on the same scale, but the principle is exactly the same. The tv companies want viewers to make money. If you watched Qatar you contributed to this.
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  8602. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  8603. Surely depends on the advice, no? If they tip me off about some good shit being sold just round the corner then I’m likely to take it.
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  8604. Sorry, but whenever I see Mike Parry I think of this: https://youtu.be/IqmhuYtldd0 👈 One of the funniest things ever! 🤣
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  8605. Full-stops at the end of sentences, please.
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  8606.  @igorlopes7589  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite might be confused about their sex identity.
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  8607.  @abcxyz2927  That’s not the point. You said the term isn’t used anymore. It is.
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  8608.  @abcxyz2927  No it’s not. I personally know 2 hermaphrodites and they both use this term. Bad luck.
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  8609.  @abcxyz2927  I know. I was just making the point that it’s easy to understand how hermaphrodites might be confused: are they (more) male or (more) female?
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  8610.  @KellerPriest63  Yes, they’re rare, but they exist, and I was just pointing that out and the implications of that.
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  8611.  @crow4936  Whatever it is, it exists, and my simple point was that those who have it might quite understandably be confused about their sex identity.
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  8612.  @igorlopes7589  Whatever the percentage, they exist.
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  8613.  @AT-ytinvasive  That’s not the point. It’s estimated that up to 1.7 percent of the population are born with intersex traits. Intersex people may have any gender identity or sexual orientation. For example, an intersex person (sex characteristics), may identify as a man (gender identity) and as heterosexual (sexual orientation). In other words, sex isn’t binary black and white 100% of the time. In me it is. In you it is. But if you’re born with intersex traits (i.e. hermaphroditism) then it’s quite easy to understand how someone might be confused as to whether they are male or female.
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  8614. What’s interesting, and actually quite hopeful, about this whole farrago, notwithstanding the murky deceit and dodge betrayed by Johnson, is just how seriously the nation takes this. In other parts of the world, perhaps most other parts of the world, what Johnson has done would be seen as extraordinarily pettifogging in the grand scheme of things, but no, us Brits, with our sense of ‘fair play’, see this as actually very important, and for this reason: it’s about the larger principle, not the ostensible small-fry crime itself. And that gives me hope.
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  8615. Fewer.
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  8616.  @robroots2492  Disagree. They work and pay taxes. I call that contributing. I’ve lived and worked in 6 countries and all that was asked of me in each of these was 1. Obey the law. 2. Pay your taxes. 3. Learn the language. This is all I ask of incomers here and if they do that, it’s all cool.
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  8617.  @robroots2492  And “as far as I am a witness” they often contribute far more than dozens and dozens of native-born dossers I’m aware of where I live. They want to work. They are often better educated. They speak better English. Win, win, win.
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  8618.  @BlueSteel331  I was referring to genuine refugees, old boy! 😉
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  8619. Yeah, but does the refusal to admit females only apply to humans?
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  8620. Lol. Nick Dixon out of his league. Again! 🤣
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  8621.  @shelleyphilcox4743  Indeed. Each to their own. :D
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  8622.  @shelleyphilcox4743  I wasn’t talking about Edinburgh. I was talking about the natural scenery. It’s underwhelming if you’ve been anywhere, really.
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  8623. As a Scot, Scotland is massively overrated scenically. You don’t have to go far to find much better scenery in terms of sublimity.
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  8624. Must be tough for Pip. A major broadcaster like ITV dropping him like a stone after 20 years will be hard to take. On the bright side, there’ll be several minor Channels clamouring for his services!
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  8625. As a centrist liberal I never used to really believe all this was ‘planned’ but the older I get the more I’m coming round to the idea that there might well be some planning to it. It will only get worse, of course, as mass immigration (to the tune of well over 500,000 net immigrants per year) doesn’t look like abating any time soon. If you import en masse literally millions of those with views diametrically opposed to free, western, liberal democracy, you are asking for trouble at some point. I fear this is only the start.
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  8626.  @josele844  Yes, I understand that. All I’m saying is that if a majority of citizens in Galicia, or the Basque region, or Catalonia want independence, then democracy dictates that this should be honoured and perhaps the Spanish constitution needs to be amended.
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  8627. 1:55 George Carlin was on to this a few years ago and articulated it superbly: Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that've long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.
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  8628. I think you picked the wrong Channel for that kinda stuff, m8. GB Viewers like a little bit of racism in their daily diet. They crow on about anti-white this and that and you know why? Guilt. They are just as racist as the racism they perceive in the likes of Khan and they can’t handle these feelings so projection becomes the order of the day.👍
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  8629. @@BrianBadondebowl Humans. D’oh!
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  8630. Omg! This is gonna Tehranify me!
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  8631.  @thesaltybrit9321  Just sayin’. S’all. Whenever I’ve been sacked it’s because I was crap. 😉
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  8632. It could be that Dreyfus is a crap actor. Just putting it out there.
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  8633.  @resistancefighter9009  Don’t agree with the first bit. The second bit is comment of the day territory.
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  8634. If you look closely, Angela’s got his knackers in a vice-like grip under the desk.
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  8635. How is a unisex toilet “geared up to the normalisation of paedophilia” exactly?
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  8636. Lol@“bang on” in a video about sex! 🤣 Bang on!
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  8637. That’s horrendously sexist, m8. Have you not thought of the Herspanics, ffs?
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  8638. Tbf, I occasionally walk around in a sheet. Usually around Halloween! 👻
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  8639.  @WinstonSmith22  What do you mean? I was responding to someone who was calling for a return of blacks to their “native lands”. If that’s the case, Europeans should return to their “native lands”, too.
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  8640.  @4Kandlez  Their “native lands”?!? Lol. Does that apply to all the Europeans who entered the Americas after 1603? Should they return to their “native lands”, too, or is it just blacks? 🤔
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  8641.  @EmpiricalMind  I was referring to the history of America.👍
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  8642. No. What you want. Don’t act the fascist and presume to speak for all of us, ty.
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  8643.  @The_Cosmic_Yog-Sothoth  James hardly took the Crown forcibly. He was entitled to it as cousin of Elizabeth who died with no heirs.
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  8644. If not consciously, then I’m convinced that on an unconscious level her whole being was telling her to get North as she knew her days were numbered.
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  8645.  @joelhall5124  Disagree. I’ve lived here and there, and unquestionably there is more freedom to speak your mind Stateside, while over here our freedom of speech has been rather alarmingly curtailed by certain elements of the political far left these past few years. I say all this as a centre-left liberal.
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  8646. Tbf, that doesn’t always apply. They do free-speech better in the US.
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  8647. November 6th?! She’ll be flucking lucky!
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  8648.  @hazelnut975  I get that too. YT is not really to be trusted, alas.
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  8649. If you are getting paid £3,854 p/h for shaking a bunch of hands the least you could do is look interested.
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  8650.  @personalcheeses8073  ‘Bitter’? Evidence? 🤔
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  8651.  @bettyswunghole3310  But why do you need to hit another human being? Answer me that. On what basis are you ok with inflicting physical violence on another human being? You could be the problem here, darling. Think on. 😉
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  8652.  @bettyswunghole3310  No. I have not missed the point. You have missed the point, which is, and I repeat: if it’s not ok to hit adults, why is it ok to hit kids?
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  8653.  @spikey_labrys  Look, son, this is f*ck-all to do with the amount of kids you have; it’s to do with the very basic idea that hitting other human beings without their consent is wrong. If anything, it’s even more egregious that adults are hitting children as adults should know better. But they clearly don’t.
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  8654.  @bettyswunghole3310  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  8655.  @roselee4445  Fully grown here, ty.👍
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  8656.  @GrumpyMeow-Meow  Not at all. Just like to see the standards applied equally to all. For some weird reason, Wootton is getting a pass here.
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  8657.  @cannedham8630  “Winning knockout games” against teams England should beat. Unable to win these games against the big boys. That’s the difference. There is nothing in Southgate’s managerial record to suggest he can do this.
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  8658. Er, and what if you’re Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, agnostic, atheist etc etc? Christmas has just turned into a commercial racket. There is no religious connection anymore. We all know this. Christmas is what people do who were told what to do by the people before them who also had people telling them what to do.
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  8659. The last thing we need is people believing in unverified, unverifiable nothings, and then banding together in groups based on these beliefs. Has history taught you nothing?
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  8660.  @sbor2020  Stop stealing Stewart Lee’s routines! Plagiarist!
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  8661. Anyone, anywhere holding any national flag with a straight face is a moron.
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  8662. On that basis, you need to think about every person of European extraction in North and South America, and Australia and New Zealand. You can’t rabbit on about ‘colonialism’ without looking at the terrible crimes of European colonialism.
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  8663.  @trevorscrivens3440  Apparently Letby was a UKIP supporter. Somewhat scuttles your pet theory there, Trevvy.👍
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  8664. @JoeM Jesus. You are seriously lost to some kind of religious hypnosis. You have my sincere condolences.
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  8665.  @DarrylHart  And like I said: That makes utterly no sense. So, if you see someone battering someone else to death, you don’t call the cops? Yeah, right. 👍
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  8666. Isla Bryson? Well, it’s now more like Isla Byeson. 👋 For a few years, at least. Can we just get this straight once and for all? Humans cannot change sex, which is determined at fertilization (genotype) and during embryonic development (phenotype). People may change many features of their lives, such as their interests, hobbies, diet, friends or careers. However, some facts are unalterable. A person’s genetic inheritance, their biological sex, is an immutable characteristic. This doesn’t mean to say a person cannot ‘identify’ as a man when biologically a woman, or a woman when biologically a man. However, this is no different to my ‘identifying’ as a pig, or a snake, or a fish, when all my biological wiring says I’m a human being.
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  8667. Lol.
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  8668.  @cbluejay2499  Yeah, yeah.😉
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  8669. He’s certainly getting it in the neck here.
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  8670.  @djdoolittle1315 For what? 🤔
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  8671. James Whale once interviewed Geller. James gave him a spoon. Geller may have switched it, not sure, what did happen though was that Geller placed the spoon (original or not) on the desk in front of Whale and the spoon continued to bend for at least a good minute. I’ve seen the footage. It’s out there somewhere. Geller is probably just a magician, so to that extent he is deceiving us with all the spooky psychic sh*t, but this trick was quite impressive.
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  8672.  @lesleycarney8868 Oh, I know them. I just don’t think it really matters that much. That’s where we might differ, darling.👍
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  8673.  @jaded_ninja You trying to shut down free speech? Are you Muslim or something? 🤔
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  8674.  @kellycarmona1737 Oh, come on, sweetheart. It was just a bit of fun with a doctored photo and a few conspiracy theories. I repeat: no one was directly mocking the woman or her condition. 🤦‍♂️
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  8675. Tbf, no one knew about Kate’s condition at the time. Making jokes about a photoshopped image is perfectly acceptable in a free society. Speculating about the wife of the heir to the throne is perfectly acceptable in a free society. With hindsight, it’s a bit awkward knowing what we do now, but it’s not as if any of these people were making fun of Kate’s actual condition. People need to lighten up here.
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  8676. Brahma Mia here we go again and in all this dRama, we have Hanuman in Downing Street. The first Hindu PM. Kali he do any better than Truss? Shivas a disaster. She had all the Krishna of a wet lettuce. The lettuce lasted longer. Let’s Vishnu Sunak doesn’t Varuna the economy. Shakti do that, it could be a tragic Dharma. Brah, man, the whole thing is a mess.
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  8677.  @MrTudwud  *probably
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  8678.  @vladtheimpaler8995  Disagree. The image was an adult after a procedure to address their gender/sex and how they feel about who they are. It offended you, but didn’t directly harm you. Crucial difference you need to learn.
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  8679.  @grief1  The evidence is mounting, grief; you may want to log-off at this point. 😉🤓🥸
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  8680.  @grief1  Oh ffs, man, woman, whatever you are. You are so spooked by this that I suspect you have guilt on your soul. I may be wrong. Just deal with it. Men dress as women. Cope ffs.
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  8681.  @grief1  Lol. Yet you come at me pretending you know everything ! Hypocrisy, much?🤣
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  8682.  @grief1  There you go again. The lady doth protest too much, methinks! 🤣
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  8683.  @grief1  You called me the pervert, dipshit.🤣
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  8684.  @grief1  Lol@“you pervert”. You really are betraying something rather alarming here. What are you hiding, grief? 🥸
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  8685.  @grief1  Well, if that happened at one drag queen story time, it was out of order. However, I repeat my basic point: panto dames ok; drag queens not ok. There is no essential difference.
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  8686.  @grief1  I’ve been to dozens of ‘family’ pantos in my life where the dames were just as risqué as a drag queen. It’s double standards, pure and simple.
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  8687.  @dulls8475 Where did I say my views were ‘correct’. I just said I, an agnostic, don’t want organised religion in my public spaces sticking its oar in. I don’t want my child indoctrinated into something for which there is zero evidence. I want my child, yes, educated about the individual religions and their (often horrific) histories, but I don’t want my child in a school where one religion takes precedence over another or where religion is practised at all. It’s a private matter. I don’t parade my agnosticism around. Similarly, those who are religious need to keep their observance for the home or church/mosque/temple etc.
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  8688.  @aclark903 ”Secularism is what is wrong with modern Europe.” Yeah, and 3,000 years of organised religion has been just dandy for humanity! 🤦‍♂️
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  8689.  @aclark903  I’ll repeat this once more: all religious observance should be a private matter. I’m aware Muslims pray 5 times a day. School goes from 9.00-3.00. This leaves ample time for 4 prayer sessions after 3.00pm. It’s that simple. Organised religion has no place in secular public spaces such as state schools. Pay for a private religious school if you want that. Do it in your home or at your church/mosque/temple.
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  8690.  @dulls8475  Just for the record, you don’t have to be an atheist to hold the views I’m propounding. Moreover, I personally am not an atheist. I know plenty of religious people who share exactly my views on this matter.👍
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  8691.  @dulls8475  No. I’m saying all religious observance should be a private matter. All of it. If you’re a Christian, pray if you want. But pray when and where it doesn’t affect non-Christians. Ditto Islam and all the rest. A school is no place for overt religious observance, unless it’s a specifically religious school and that’s what it trades on. That’s why we have churches, mosques, temples etc.
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  8692. Religious observance should be done privately and with like-minded individuals. No publicly-funded state school containing kids of half a dozen religions and no religion should be seen to be favouring one religion over another. The best way to do this, is to do what Michaela has done: religious observance (whatever the religion) is proscribed on school premises and in school time.
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  8693. A comedy of errors.
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  8694.  @gamriii  Lol. Touché.😆
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  8695.  @Lorenzo-cp7qs  My gums are quite hushed, son. It’s my fingers doing the talking here.😉
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  8696. Translation: she agrees with my opinions.
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  8697. This is all about men controlling what women wear. It’s about power. Rayner can wear wtf she wants. It’s akin to those morons in France telling women they can’t wear hijabs. Fascistic behaviour, par excellence.
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  8698.  @hermanthetosser4219  Not “leftist”, son. You need a better researcher.
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  8699.  @sharonstephens5447  What? The “work brigade and the trans community” … you have no clue who or what I am but because you can’t directly engage with my key points you impute nonsense to me I’m not. Keep trying.🥴👍
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  8700.  @sharonstephens5447  Who decides what’s “obscene”, Sharon? You?
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  8701.  @sharonstephens5447  What? Wtf are you about? Let me repeat this again: no one can be offended against their will. We choose to be offended by something. I’m not offended by this. You are. That’s fine. I respect the fact you are ‘offended’. You need to respect the fact I am not ‘offended’.
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  8702.  @shelleyphilcox4743  That’s fine; you are clearly offended. I’m not. No harm done. Let’s all move on.
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  8703. Folk confuse this issue all the time. Yes, there is Greta and her annoying cultish gang, but there can be no doubt the planet is warming. Those of us old enough to know this, know it. Winters used to be reliably and regularly white. No longer. The only real question in this debate is to properly establish the level of human complicity in this warming.
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  8704. Projecting once again, love?😳
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  8705.  @stequality  No.
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  8706.  @BlueSteel331  Huh? Who said I was an atheist, old boy? 🤔
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  8707. Oliver occasionally makes the odd valid point or two, but frankly, I just can’t see past the invisible daddy in the sky thing, and that renders everything else he says suspect.
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  8708.  @Wal-Wil  Neither are you. Ta da! 🎉
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  8709. He believes in invisible sky daddies, y’know. Not only that, invisible sky daddies who just happen to agree with him.
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  8710.  @tonyjones9442  So you can see the argument for splitting Wales into north and south? Two separate self-governing states?
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  8711.  @tonyjones9442  Lol. I totally missed your humour there. My mistake. I genuinely thought you were being serious.🥴👍
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  8712.  @megaxenu753  You like a bit of sausage, then? Say no more. 😉
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  8713.  @HilaryB.  😉
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  8714. @0:17 “As they thrashed Iran in an action patch match.” Er, ok.
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  8715.  @gisele.1488  No. And yes, “for no apparent reason”. It’s so utterly, utterly tedious to hear them being mentioned by GB News every 5 seconds. They are boring and irrelevant.
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  8716. If there’s one thing that GB News is seemingly more obsessive about than some gay tv presenter having a consensual relationship with a young man, it’s these two. GB News increasingly seems like a bitter old maid, sniping from the sidelines about actually very little. Boring. 🥱
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  8717. It’s f*ck-all to do with ‘God’. The human idea of ‘God’ on this planet has caused way more trouble than it’s worth. The reason for all this nonsense is rather simple: lack of a fear of proper consequences.
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  8718. ‘Twindemic Terror’ - So we had a systemic viremic epidemic that becomes a pandemic that some use as a polemic but that’s all academic if there is no endemic.
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  8719.  @1977JohnBoy  Lol.
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  8720.  @labouraredangerous  I’ll repeat: on all the lists I check when I type ‘most multicultural countries in the world’, Britain comes near the bottom of every single one.
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  8721.  @zufgh  Or perhaps certain more aggressive, potentially more dangerous types of dogs should be more strictly regulated.
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  8722. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. (George Orwell)
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  8723.  @nhamilton4399  Yeah, but clever people don’t make it quite so obvious. Think on.😉
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  8724.  @tabitha4135  Ok. So you’ll just conveniently skip over the fact that his wife and daughters are still very close to him, huh? Looks like Tabitha has an agenda.
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  8725.  @youtubesucks8995  No. I’m just asking that Dan apply the standards equally across the board. 😉
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  8726.  @Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist  What’s that got to do with anything here? I was talking about Wootton’s hypocrisy; whether I’ve posted 1 comment or 10,000 comments is neither here nor there. Do keep up at the back.
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  8727.  @Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist  Not trolling anyone. I haven’t commented about this particular issue more than about 5 times. If that. Nice try, though. Nothing like not letting the facts get in the way of an agenda, eh? 👍😉
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  8728.  @Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist  Can you imagine if the allegations which are swirling around Dan Wootton (sorry, Martin Branning aka Maria) were swirling around Phillip Schofield , for example, or Huw Edwards, that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing them to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee but not for me.” His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  8729.  @jonathanaikman2285  Nah, m8, this is about hypocrisy and some guy going on about others’ lies when he has some of the biggest whoppers in his closet. 🍔👌
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  8730.  @bendaniel2271  Ask Dan.😉
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  8731. That’s no way to talk about Mark.
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  8732. Change your name then! Simple.
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  8733.  @edenbreckhouse  You’re overthinking this. Their ‘handlers’ and PR people would have made this decision. Cope a bit better now.👍
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  8734.  @featherbrain7147  Basketball on stilts is one thing; how about running the 100m with attached rocket-boosters? I’d pay for a bit of that.
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  8735. I literally can’t stand Dawn Neesom but I still would.
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  8736.  @ukar69  I’ll easily say the same about Allah: I don’t believe any more in Allah than I do in Jesus.
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  8737. @@SpookyDjinn No he won’t, because he never existed.
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  8738. All these ppl spilling their load over Willie. Appropriate, I suppose. 🤭
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  8739.  @Banana.69699  Yes, that’s the point. Per capita is adjusted for population. That shows US knife crime is almost double that of the UK.
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  8740.  @nightowl7459  Yeah, but tbf, the BBC does that with all ‘live’ cases like this one. It’s nothing unusual.
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  8741.  @nightowl7459  It does. But the OP said the story wasn’t covered by the BBC. It was.
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  8742.  @yeldaRooBTKAM  No malice perceived here, chum. I repeat once again as you seem to have missed it: I never said I was an atheist, I just said that Jesus is probably not a historical person. That’s all.👍
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  8743. Never got this oversensitivity for a flag thing. “‘Hey buddy, my daddy died for that flag.' 'Really? 'Cause ... I bought mine. Yeah, they sell them at K-Mart.' 'He died in the Korean War.' 'Wow, what a coincidence. Mine was made in Korea.' No one – and I repeat, no one – has ever died for a flag. They may have died for freedom, but that is also the right to burn flags if you want to." (Bill Hicks)
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  8744. No.
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  8745. Are you dissing his grace? Disgraceful!
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  8746. The Bible tells us all sorts of garbage not worthy of the thinking human being.
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  8747. @@NeriaWolf My work is done here, Spooks. You go bully someone else now, pet. 👍
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  8748. @@NeriaWolf Nothing proved. She could be 100% innocent. You sound awfully quick to judge the actually innocent before the law at this point, Spooks. Jesus, I’m glad you’re not my judge and jury. 🤦‍♂️
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  8749.  @Cosmic-lover293  ✌️
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  8750.  @kimgrant3879  Just for the record, I had to do some checking there with your last statement, as surely it couldn’t be true, and of course it’s not true: It is actually not illegal for someone under 18 years old to watch porn in the UK. You almost had me fooled.😁Nice try, though.👍
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  8751.  @kimgrant3879  And so it’s just this you crucify Schofield for? Really? His brother tells him he engaged in sexual activity with someone over 16; and you conclude Schofield is some sort of monster? Pmsl. 🤣 You must have very high standards. I’m not saying it is right, but I repeat, he has committed no crime, and until he is actually found guilty of something in law I can’t get my knickers in a twist here in such a weird, witch-hunty, hysterical manner as evinced in the Comments section here.
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  8752.  @melgrant7404  Ok, but blood is thicker than water, his brother told him it was a one-off, and he said the person in question was over 16 at the time (of course, we now know that not to be true). So, yes it’s a little disturbing, but Phil’s not reporting it is not illegal, given the age he was led to believe was involved. Not a police issue.
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  8753. This is all rather simple: if you were born with a co*k you can’t play with the girls. If you were born with a f*nny, most boys will want you to play with you, but for some reason, trans men don’t want to play with the boys. I wonder why.🤔
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  8754.  @bene9472  Not at all. I’m also aware from friends who tell a similar story. The Hasidic Jewish men in particular have very little time for Muslim women in Jerusalem. This is rather well known, Benjamin. But with a name like Benjamin, I’m sure there’s quite a bit of observer bias going down in your case, eh? 👍😊
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  8755.  @bene9472  You’ve clearly never been to Israel. I spent a year there on a kibbutz. On a trip to Jerusalem I witnessed rather nasty aggro from orthodox Hasidic Jewish men towards Islamic women. Let’s just say there wasn’t much ‘modesty’ on show. Nice try, though. 👍
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  8756.  @IIChristisKingII I didn’t confirm anything. I said ‘potentially’.
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  8757.  @generaldreedle2801  No.
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  8758. Awright, Johnny lad, put it away. It’s early doors and I’m not sure you’ve even been STD tested, m8.👍
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  8759. Not sure I have ever come across a more miserable f*ckwit than Neil Oliver. P.G. Wodehouse wrote these words for the depressing tart: “It is never difficult to distinguish between with a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.” Can you imagine a night in the pub with this depressed moron? 🍺
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  8760. Unisex toilets were never going to be a real goer; heck, I’ve known minor wars to have been started over who left up the toilet seat. 🚽
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  8761. @@slartibartfast1214 *there Please don’t tell me what to do and what not to do. You’re in no position to do such a thing, darling.
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  8762.  @richardgallagher4880 No you can’t. You decide to take offence. If you don’t choose to be offended, you’re not offended. You’re not very good at this are you, Dickie? 🤣😂😅
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  8763. Ok, so by that logic all the Scots (and there are tens of thousands of them) who have Irish ancestry/genes are not ‘true Scots’ either.
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  8764.  @grief1  I never said I was for illegal immigration. I’m not. My point was simply a refutation of the OP’s bizarre suggestion that not upholding the basic human rights of those seeking asylum was apparently a good thing . S’all.👍
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  8765. Translation: “She disagrees with me.” Why would you not defend the general concept of seeking asylum? That’s a basic human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 14 that “everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution”.
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  8766. @@johnnyalucard9897 Perfectly “untriggered” here, m8.🤣
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  8767.  @james7040  We seem to be in agreement here then, Jimbo. Good day to you. 😊 👍
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  8768.  @S-North  Huh? What’s your point? If you’re a British citizen you’re a British citizen. End of story. All that genetic stuff is irrelevant. If you’re going to make it relevant, then I‘ll repeat once again, you need to establish a test as to which genes ‘qualify’ and which don’t. But the real issue is what are you gonna do with those who don’t meet your genetic test. What if I refused your genetic test, and stood my ground as someone just as British as you? Huh? What then? 🤔
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  8769.  @jimthompson9370  I’m not for open doors either, mate. But the gig is that we have folks of all races in Britain, and as far as I can see, it seems to tick along pretty well.
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  8770. The ‘indigenous people’. That kinda talk sparks genocides not too far down the line.
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  8771. Gordon Bennett!
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  8772.  @robertjones2053  Attacking “English skills” isn’t a left-wing thing; it’s just a basic education thing.👍
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  8773.  @Indigenous-English-Man  Not “woke” at all. I have zero problem with controlled legal immigration, that’s all. That doesn’t make me “woke”; it makes me exactly what every other person in my orbit is on this issue. You are the outlier here. 😉👍
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  8774. @@TB-mj1kn Irrelevant statement. She’s a British citizen and has exactly the same rights as any other British citizen under the law. Just because you don’t like this doesn’t make it not true.👍
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  8775.  @BG-xp8vy  Yeah, but they don’t do that in Britain. This lady, judging by her accent, is clearly British. I’m guessing she was born here. Ergo, she’ll be a British citizen. The fact she’s been legally working in the UK and appears to have been doing so for some time also proves she will be a British citizen. You, and folks like you, need better coping strategies in these situations. 😉👍
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  8776.  @nealmcgloin2984  Irrelevant statement. She’s a British citizen, and under those terms has exactly the same rights under the law as any other British citizen, “naturalised” or not. Deal with it. 👍 Moreover, last time I checked, the UK had freedom of worship. If you don’t dig Islam, then you have to be consistent and look at banning Sikhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and all the rest.
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  8777.  @stevenham1937  Ty, petal.
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  8778.  @NordieJ  Not “obsessed” with anything, Jayne. Just like to see standards applied equally across the board. 👍
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  8779.  @frederickkay4308  “Rules for thee but not for me.” 😉👍
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  8780.  @GIBBO4182  Nice diversion tactics there.👍
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  8781. But what do The Cure say? 🤔
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  8782. Legal implications. 😉
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  8783. Don’t have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people? So what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are ‘offended’. Again, so what?
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  8784.  @wendycutts9734  Noms de guerre huh? Get you! That’s a bit fancy and foreigny for GB News! Touché! 🤺
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  8785.  @wendycutts9734  Extra Brownie points for spelling ‘Howerd’ right. 👍🧅🧀
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  8786.  @wendycutts9734  Lol.
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  8787. Simmer down, Wendy. I’m sure a nice cheese and pickle sandwich will soothe your furrowed brow. 🧀 🧅
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  8788.  @TaxingIsThieving  What? Wtf are you on about, m8? I haven’t copied and pasted anything and have no clue who you are. l fear you have the wrong fella, son. 👍🥴
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  8789.  @littleboots9800  Lol. An umbrella?!?! Wtf. 🤦‍♂️
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  8790. Yes, it was a bad day for black Chris Rock and Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch wasn’t his best; however, on the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking for the lead for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars.
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  8791.  @NPC--666  Why what?
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  8792.  @littlenan3576  You need to get out more, nan. 👵
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  8793.  @martynblackburn9632  And you support Putin?! Wow. A pro-gay Putin guy. Refreshing.
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  8794.  @therespectedlex9794  Aye.
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  8795.  @photoman3579  No I won’t, m8. Nice try, though. 👍
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  8796. @@Bellator-fidei Nah, it’s pure fascism, m8. Just call it what it is. If you were more honest about this, I’d have more respect for you. 👍
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  8797.  @johnbrereton5229  Er, yes you are randomly born somewhere. None of us have any say where we’re born: the very definition of ‘random’. 👍
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  8798. @@Bellator-fidei He was. But we’re not talking about Hitler here. We’re talking about the fact you want to deport any non-English, Welsh, Scots and Irish people. I repeat: sounds a bit fascist 2 me m8.
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  8799. @@Bellator-fidei Really? So you want to deport anyone that’s not Scottish, English, Welsh or Irish? Really? Sounds a bit fascist 2 me m8.👍
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  8800.  @erickrodriguez402  What’s wrong with gays and blacks? 🤔
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  8801. Until, and if, this younger guy comes out publicly and gives his side of the story, I refuse to join the Schofield witch-hunt. The man himself I find meh, but I was always taught, until all the evidence has been heard you do not rush to judgment. Also, I find it interesting there is no NDA: so, if I were an unwilling victim of “grooming” I think I would go public (even under cover of anonymity) and let the world know about it. Here’s my theory, for what it is worth: these 2 met when this guy was clearly underage. They had verbal contact. Schofield may have had unholy thoughts but knew he couldn’t act on them. When the guy was “of age” they had a consensual affair. Now, if this is the case, absolutely no crime has been committed and we all just need to move on from this staggeringly boring story.
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  8802. Bojo won’t resign as that cake he had at the party was an upside-down cake; to go with his topsy-turvy morals.
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  8803. Lol. Someone for whom their most important book is the Bible and they have the temerity to call something out for being ‘disgusting’!? 🤣
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  8804.  @Be_great577  I agree that in a primary school (5-12) this book shouldn’t be allowed but I’d have zero issue with it in a secondary school.
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  8805. Agreed. I consider myself a centre-left liberal but can’t stand woke. Lee? A brilliant comedian. Boyle? A semi-decent comedian but essentially Jerry Sadowitz-lite. Howard? Mildly amusing but too obviously ‘right on’. Acaster is an interesting case as he’s not funny here, but I’ve seen him do completely apolitical routines that had me belly-laughing. Too many people go into these things thinking about where a given comedian stands politically, and if they are at a different point in the spectrum feel they can’t laugh. Let us not forget that Ricky Gervais (admired by so many GB News punters in here) voted for Jeremy Corbyn.
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  8806. Lol. Wtf.
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  8807. Sacking Ronaldo won’t hurt him. He looks like the type who enjoys a back, sack and crack, whilst wearing his partner’s high heels. If footballers ever get to the point of just coming out, convinced Ronaldo would be near the top of that list.
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  8808.  @LILLYB8328  I have zero issue with a drag queen reading a story to kids in a school. I’m against the full-on adult swinging from ropes in schools, though. 😊
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  8809.  @jonwoodmass2849  Lol.👍
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  8810.  @jonwoodmass2849  Does Bill Gates know you lick windows?
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  8811.  @teri_ccc5160  Ok, IN MY OPINION (and the opinion of just about every other person I know), this law is clearly ridiculous and I’ll tell you why I think that: Laws, for me, should at the very least, involve some kind of victim. 2 blokes kissing harms no one. Offends many, yes, but harms no one. There are no victims. That’s why I see this as primitive, and on that basis I’ll call it out, and if we had a law here outlawing 2 men kissing in public I’d call that out too. So this is nothing to do with where this is happening. Just for the record, it is happening for the usual boring reason: organised religion. About 99% of the people I meet who have an an animus towards homosexuality, invariably uphold an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. Why? Because there is no rational reason why homosexuality should be criminalised, or even disliked.
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  8812.  @teri_ccc5160  What? What’s that got to do with the point I made? This law is clearly stupid.
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  8813.  @RaveShaman  I’m pretty sure I know why you kept missing it. Np, Rave. Yvw, son. Anytime. 👍😉
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  8814. That’s no powder. That’s table assault!
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  8815. Powder disrupts; absolute powder disrupts absolutely.
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  8816.  @ANobodyatall  Lol. The vast majority of commenters on any topic on this channel are quite open racists. This isn’t news. Do keep up at the back.👍
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  8817. Well, he was. He said enough crap over the years to prove that. That doesn’t mean I’m not grateful to him for defeating the evil of the Nazis but Churchill clearly was a racist himself and said some horrifying things such as he hated people with "slit eyes and pig tails." To him, people from India were "the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans." He also admitted that he "did not really think that black people were as capable or as efficient as white people." The truth about Churchill is that if he hadn’t defeated the Nazis he would be seen more clearly for what he really was: a nasty, vicious white supremacist.
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  8818. Well, funny you should bring up old Willie, as he actually allowed the abolitionist colony of Sierra Leone, which the Clapham sect managed, to use slave labour and buy and sell slaves. So, yes, looks like, at least indirectly, Wilberforce was a slaver.👍
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  8819.  @richardcory5024  Huh? How is it ‘bigoted’ to criticise a bunch of ideas? Wtf. 🤦‍♂️ Are we at that stage now, that I can’t tell you that your thinking is shit? If we are, I fear for the future.
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  8820.  @alfsmith4936  I’ve posted it thrice, son. You need better coping strategies.👍
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  8821.  @doxasophosmoros  Projection?
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  8822.  @londonlion5179  🤣
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  8823. Worrall Thompson looks like a weird mash up of Tom Fletcher + Robin Cook.
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  8824. Some of us don’t define ourselves by this or that “culture”. That’s just groupthink mental slavery. I’m a complex individual with multifarious facets not to be reduced to a single “culture”. The reductiveness of that is utter anathema.
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  8825. Disagree with the first bit; agree with the second.
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  8826. Lol. Gerard, for me, talks a good game, gives off the elite-manager vibes (potentially), but my feeling is he’ll settle into the league of managers the likes of a Brendan Rodgers or an Arteta operate in. Good but not great. He’s not got the nous for me to make it to the levels Klopp, Guardiola et al operate at.
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  8827. *?
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  8828. Time was when tattoos were one of the most subversive harmless statements you could make to the world. Now that’s completely flipped and now that every man, woman and non-binary person and their dogs have a tatty tattoo, it seems the true act of rebellion is to be tatt-free!
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  8829. Interesting that GBNews are ‘monitoring’ the progress of the allegations against Wootton. In case anybody’s not in the know, he’s been accused of using a pseudonym to solicit sexually explicit images for payment from former colleagues at the Sun over many years. What I find interesting is that, hitherto, he hasn’t denied the allegations. Can you imagine if these allegations which are swirling around Dan (sorry, Martin, or is it Maria today? 🤔 ) were swirling around Prince Harry, for example, (or Huw Edwards, or Phillip Schofield) that he would show any mercy? No. He wouldn’t. He’d be in there like a hawk tearing them to pieces. Wootton is the epitome of “rules for thee and not for me”. His viper-tongued double-standards hypocrisy stinks. 🐍
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  8830.  @tlsum9475  Nah. Not worth an ha'penny. 😊
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  8831.  @lastchance9341  Every French person I know likes me.
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  8832.  @ClactonCuun  K. Just checkin’. A little insecure, are we? 🤔
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  8833.  @annofcleavers5791  Because I can. Free speech and all that. 👍😉
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  8834.  @streuthmonkey1  Irrelevant. She’s unelected and she represents me in no way whatsoever. 👍
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  8835. @samirdoncic6395 All I know is the Bible was written by a bunch of men. To me, it is no more ‘holy’ than Walt Whitman’s poetry or an Emerson essay.
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  8836. @samirdoncic6395 Huh? Again, you’re all over the place. I have read all the monotheistic texts cover-to-cover and none of them conform to my idea of God (if there is such is being). All I read is petty manmade crap written by men for men.
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  8837. @samirdoncic6395 Huh? You do realise that you can think all organised religion manmade claptrap but still be open-minded about the existence of God? 🥴
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  8838.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  Lol. You lost all respect with your first sentence. 🤦‍♂️
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  8839.  @kt1696  Not siding with anyone, m8! I’m a both/and dude, in this conflict, and in life generally. It’s possible to condemn Hamas/Hezbollah and not be anti-Muslim just as it’s possible to condemn Israel without being anti-Semitic. I can see both sides, here. If you can’t/don’t want to, tough!👍
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  8840.  @Slumbert  He “did” organised religion in toto. 👍
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  8841.  @sammim7657  I repeat; if they are hitting their agreed targets, where’s the issue?
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  8842. Yeah, but if what’s needed to be done, is done, where’s the problem? The amount of micro-managing office managers I’ve had over the years, constantly looking over employees’ shoulders, only serves to inhibit the worker. Being at home you can relax a bit, and produce some of your best work.
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  8843. A big part of the uproar here, aside from half-naked men in stripper heels swinging around provocatively on ropes in a school classroom in front of pre-teens, is what is said surrounding ‘gender ideology’ when drags take the class. It’s clearly agenda-based. Can we just get this straight (pun intended) once and for all? Humans cannot change biological sex, which is determined at fertilization (genotype) and during embryonic development (phenotype). People may change many features of their lives, such as their interests, hobbies, diet, friends or careers. However, some facts are unalterable. A person’s genetic inheritance, their biological sex, (not culturally-determined gender), is an immutable characteristic. No amount of ‘gender-reassignment’ can alter the fact that if you were born with XY sex chromosomes, you will die with XY sex chromosomes, and if you were born with XX sex chromosomes, you will die with XX sex chromosomes. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is XX male syndrome, but even in these cases, their own biological chromosomal inheritance cannot be altered. A hermaphrodite cannot biologically ‘unhermaphrodite’ themselves. None of the foregoing means to say a person cannot choose to ‘identify’ as a man when biologically a woman, or a woman when biologically a man. It’s a free world, after all. And it also doesn’t mean to say a fella can’t don a frock or a woman can’t waltz around in a well-fitted suit and tie. Wear what you want. However, identifying as one of the supposed 73 ‘genders’ is no different to my ‘identifying’ as a pig, or a snake, or a fish, when all my unalterable biological wiring says I’m a human being.
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  8844.  @padiedo7213  Is your name Padi Edo? If so, that’s better. It’s only when you stick them together as ‘Padiedo’ that they begin to look dodgy!🤣 Padi Edo is fine, though, m8. Don’t worry about it.👍
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  8845.  @padiedo7213  😉You got there. Eventually! 🤣 Amazed no one has pointed this out before! 👍
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  8846.  @padiedo7213  Completely read your name wrong there, m8. Shift those letters a bit and you get something else. Must be my dyslexia kicking in.😉
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  8847. Lmao.😂
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  8848. Why are you proud or not proud of accidents of birth? It’s primitive and unworthy of the thinking person. You were randomly born somewhere, you had no say in the matter, so taking some kind of unearned, weird ‘pride’ in this is bizarre indeed. In your case you buck the trend. You’re not a fan of Oz. That’s rare, as most folks in my experience, take the automatic pride stance in their place of birth, so you’re actually refreshing from this point of view. However, pride in accidents of birth is stoopid.
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  8849.  @howardjones7370  Many thanks for that fulsome tribute, Howie. 🙏
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  8850.  @howardjones7370  Oh, Howard, you’re really not very good at dealing with an opinion you don’t agree with eh, hun? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it all better, sweetie. 😊
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  8851. Er, why? What if I want to buy this for my kids? Are you going to dictate to me I can’t? I agree, a school library isn’t necessarily the best place for this (given the sensitivities of people like you), but I resent your censoring of material I don’t particularly have a problem with. I have loads of books I cannot stand and think are dangerous for children (the Bible and the Koran being far more dangerous to impressionable children’s minds than some 2-bit kiddies’ book) but I wouldn’t ban you from buying a Bible and reading it to your kids.
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  8852.  @Adam-sd2ow  He did. In the same sentence he juxtaposed homosexuality and child abuse. You need better close reading skills.
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  8853.  @purplehaze8557  The OP claimed tea as ‘British’; I repeat, it’s not. We import the vast majority from countries we invaded and brutally reigned over. Like Kenya, like India. As you were. 🤓
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  8854. @jamesw2414 Btw, so not cool to upvote yersel, son. Just sayin’! 😉
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  8855.  @chaoscorsair  🤣
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  8856.  @rockhardsolid3394  Not sure he even existed, m8.
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  8857. With a name like ‘Barry’, I thought that would’ve been you, Baz.
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  8858. Mellor makes his pitch for most ridiculous Tory barnet after Bozo and Fabricant.
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  8859. Was not expecting female presenter to have that voice/accent, upon first setting my eyes on her. Funny how we’re so easily conditioned in this society.🤔
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  8860. That’s a terrible way to talk about Ann ffs!
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  8861. Tbh, think Neil’s being a bit of an alarmist tosser here. ‘Minor Attracted Person’? ‘Paedophile’? We all know they are one and the same. No, what I have found alarming these past few weeks, following the anti-LGBT laws in Uganda, was just how many arseholes equated homosexuality with paedophilia. Adult sex with children and sex between 2 consenting adults and yet these are being equated?! I blame the Bible.
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  8862. This channel constantly wheels out the same kind of people, with the same kind of opinions. I must’ve seen this random nonentity at least 4 times this past year on here, waffling on and expecting any of us to care.
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  8863. He looks like that every time he’s not speaking.
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  8864. Including Britain.
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  8865. @gnorweb I’ll grasp any ‘irony’ when the poster can learn to use the apostrophe correctly. Until then, gtf.
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  8866. Yeah, and like you have never ‘flip flopped’ about anything, ever.
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  8867. Look, this is all very simple and I’m not sure why it’s even a ‘thing’. If you are born with the XX chromosome you are female. If you are born with the XY chromosome you are male. Take any ‘gender’ you want, but sex is destiny; it’s unalterable. Unless, of course, you’re born with XXXX; in that case you are an Australian beer of no particular sex. 🍺
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  8868.  @drahcirnevarc9152  Thanks, Dave. To be fair, though, the surname has to work. “Janus” is a proper surname. You’ve just made up sh*t to make a pun!🤣
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  8869.  @catcoffee7958  Another way to think about this is ask yourself why do the vast majority (probably all ) of my female friends have no issue with gay men sharing their spaces, including quite intimate ones? Answer: no sexual threat. Similarly a castrated man; no sexual threat. For this reason, as I say above, I’d have no problem with castrated men sharing my spaces if I were a woman, in the same way I’d have no issue with gay men sharing my spaces.
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  8870.  @emperorsnewclothes9405  Can you supply the exact reference please? I’d like to look at the stats.
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  8871. Yeah, yeah, but Oliver just falls into the trap of being one of the tribalists on the right reacting against the tribalists on the left. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  8872.  @raymorse3259  *you’re
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  8873.  @robroots2492  Lol. You brought up the Cockney thing! 🤣
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  8874.  @doris.from.pinner  Well, in that case the police are simply not doing their jobs properly. The other thing about this lady in the car I don’t get is, if she was so keen to get her son to school and herself to work why not just turn back and take a different route, which is presumably what she did anyway at the end. To use a car as a weapon is a greater crime in my book than sitting obstructing a road, especially when there are other roads to choose from.
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  8875.  @PointNemo9  Is it? Last time I checked non-violent protest was a legal right. The one instigating the violence here was the driver you jump to defend.
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  8876. *those
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  8877.  @AT-ytinvasive  Ty, sweetheart. I normally get half-hearted basterds, so to have a wholehearted personage such as yourself supporting the cause is infinitely wonderful. Ty.👍
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  8878.  @stevengosney9083  K. At least you’re not denying it. 🤣👌
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  8879.  @LILLYB8328  Nah, Stace. I just spend my nights picking fights with sub-literates who can’t put a space between ‘never’ and ‘mind’. Nevermind. 👍 Just for the record, Meghan’s still fitter than you. 😉🤓
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  8880.  @LILLYB8328  *Never mind.
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  8881. Why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  8882.  @andyforshaw8489  Lol.
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  8883.  @jane1975  👍The other thing is this: in my experience, and my own personal experience, children love all that nasty horrible stuff you sometimes get in certain fairytales! They are meant to be subversive as they are speaking to what it actually means to be human.
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  8884.  @unicron2109  Ok, not copied and pasted. My key point still stands: those who bore on about some imagined “British culture” and how it needs to be desperately protected are invariably unthinking chumps who wouldn’t know what a history book was if it smacked them in the face!
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  8885. What a load of cobblers! Whenever I ask anyone to define ‘British culture’, they can’t. This isn’t about ‘British culture’; this is about a few folk who can’t abide a few funny foreigners. The irony of those who bore on about protecting some imaginary ‘British culture’, is that it’s invariably those who have worse basic English skills than those they affect to disdain!
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  8886.  @KemPeck1701  Yes, Johnny, I criticise Neil’s “spiritual beliefs” as there is no evidence for these “spiritual beliefs”. Seethe. Then cope.
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  8887.  @peterflynn7083  Simmer down, Petey baby. You seem a little triggered. Cool off and get back to me when you can cope.😉
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  8888.  @stevejacobs9320  Er, wot? That makes no sense. 🥴
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  8889.  @Hertfordshire247  Lol.
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  8890.  @geoffreymollart7311  That’s fine. All I’m saying is this: if I were there on a working assignment, I repeat, a working assignment, and I could breeze past the coffin as an addendum to this, I would. Beckham and his ilk are exceptions, I suspect. The other thing is that Beckham wasn’t on a specific work assignment. For me, that fact allows you a fast track to the coffin, and if it had been offered to me I would have taken it and admitted it afterwards if a ruckus were created. I suspect the real issue here is Schofield and Holloughby being disingenuous about what they really did. They skipped the queue. They were working there. So what? No big deal.
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  8891. Well, one of them’s a Schofield, if that counts.
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  8892. Nurse will be with you shortly with your medication. Your dosage has been increased. 💊 👩‍⚕️
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  8893. *you’re Seems you can’t have basic spelling if you’re a non-liberal Labour person.
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  8894.  @apebass2215  Yes, but in their shoes willing to bet you’d have done exactly the same if you thought you’d get away with it.
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  8895.  @rightherethereeverywhere  I repeat: they are best of friends to this day.
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  8896. Pmsl.
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  8897. Well said!👏
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  8898. Well, to be fair, he’s been blown by a few. Some of them may even have been called ‘Chance’! 🤓
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  8899. Not legally, they’re not. Nice try, though.👍
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  8900. 2 non-entities who should have got a proper job long before now.
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  8901. If Marine Le Pen were the French President as we speak, then given her pro-Putin sentiments, I dare say southern England would be beginning to speak a little French by now, to be followed by a little Russian once Putin has dealt with the eastern front. Those Russian bombers that buzzed British airspace these past few years would be dropping their payloads.
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  8902.  @PGHEngineer  Look, m8. You don’t have to agree with me. I’m fine with that. I’m also fine with my perfectly coherent position. 😉
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  8903.  @PGHEngineer  I don’t like animals dying unnecessarily for entertainment purposes. This really ain’t rocket science, m8.
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  8904.  @PGHEngineer  Lol. That’s nature! That’s what nature does. We have free will you chump! 🤣
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  8905. I always find it interesting that those who are most pro the death penalty are otherwise pro least State interference in our lives. What bigger interference in one’s life is the State actually taking your life? 🤔
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  8906. For what? They’ve committed no crime, so why are you depriving them of their livelihoods?
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  8907. Something definitely weird going on with YouTube today, m8. I’m missing dozens of comments that say they are there but aren’t.👍
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  8908. She’s a mad bat that needs tethering, but point taken.
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  8909. @@fhugly999 Yes, your comment will.👍
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  8910. This was all about $. Willing to bet my mortgage that these ‘victims’ put forward this stuff quite simply because they had $$ for eyes.
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  8911. Lovely how someone called ‘fgt’ makes such a comment. Add a few vowels, an a and an o and slip in g and we have a classic case of projection.😁
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  8912.  @chkldstgee2433  Uh huh. And yet you’re here… 🤔 Hypocrisy? 🙃
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  8913.  @madelinemardigan3386  Dunno. You’ll have to ask them. Not sure why you’re getting your knickers in a twist. This guy offered to apologise and it’s really nothing to do with you. 😊👍
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  8914.  @BritishEngineer  That all you got, son? Lol.
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  8915.  @soviet700  Fyi, you need to pop a full-stop at the end of a sentence. 😉
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  8916.  @soviet700  Uh huh. That the best you got? 🤣
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  8917.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Why do you laugh at your own unfunny gags?
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  8918.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Not funny. 🙃
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  8919.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Why do you upvote your every post? Cringe.
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  8920. Lol. Love the appropriateness of a ‘Pride’ passionately commenting on an lgbtq story! 🏳️‍🌈
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  8921. @2:10 Labour 50% female MPs; Tories 25%. The lady makes a valid point. In my experience right-wingers tend to be far more overtly sexist than those more to the left.
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  8922. Who’s Robin Reliant?😕
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  8923. In my experience, anyone who says “check his hard drive” needs his hard drive checked. 🤓
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  8924. What lad isn’t though, son? Stop pretending you’re not a Tommy Tanker.
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  8925.  @nihilistlivesmatter  He did. I was in after him in 30 seconds. I think so. 👍
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  8926. Lineker is clearly a virtue-signalling individual. However, if his basic schtick is “no problem with genuine asylum seekers and no problem with legal immigrants”, then I agree with him.
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  8927.  @jascam74  Seethe more, Jase.
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  8928.  @jascam74  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  8929.  @jascam74  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert!🚨
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  8930. Since when did Marion Cotillard become Scottish?🥸
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  8931.  @cliffthatcher4574  Yeah, but the point is, Cliff, that those conversations should have remained in those churches. Organised religion is a private matter and should remain so; it’s got no business actively meddling in the affairs of state, beyond a ceremonial one (and even then, I’m not all that keen, truth be told, as it’s not to be trusted when it acquires too much unchecked power), based on the vestiges of what remains of organised Christianity in this country. I’m not advocating banning religion; but I am very definitely advocating keeping it out of my business. Mind it for yourself, if you so choose.
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  8932.  @cliffthatcher4574  Yeah, and I learned that people who have no argument meekly slope off, like cowards.
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  8933.  @labrador-fx3fb  🐶!
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  8934.  @anneashley5110  I make perfect sense, dear. You were querying who the “vast majority are”? I was just telling you that contrary to the wishes of the OP, the vast majority are those who don’t vote for a Party like Reform UK! Ta da! 🎉
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  8935.  @anneashley5110  Well, that’s easy: the vast majority are simply those who don’t vote for a Party like Reform UK! Ta da! 🎉
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  8936. And if “the vast majority of the country” do want it to continue, looks like you’re stuffed, eh? That’s democracy! 😁
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  8937.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  Er, wot?
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  8938. So let me get this straight (pun intended): some people get to tell other people who they can and can’t have sex with, but the other people can’t tell some people who they can and can’t have sex with? Lol. At best that’s just rude; at worst, it’s deeply fascist! 🤣
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  8939.  @tobyjackman3212  Harsh crowd.
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  8940.  @divatalk9011  Ironic, given that historically, politicised organised religion has given anything but “peace”.
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  8941.  @stevenhombrados1530  Er, that’s more or less what was in my OP. 🥴
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  8942.  @memetopia5130  We are all mongrels, mate. All of us out of Africa and since then interbreeding. My sister-in-law has two parents born in India; she was born in Europe and is just as ‘European’ as the next person.
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  8943. Yes, Krishnan is, ahem, selabrating his venture signalling to the rest of us. Indeed. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
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  8944. Yes, she will punish her diary one day, bless her.🙏
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  8945.  @vladimirputin4822  Steady Vlad. You’re not above a good spanking, sonny.
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  8946.  @MostlyLoveOfMusic Y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  8947.  @samrowbotham8914  Just out of interest, what is your definition of being ‘English’? 🤔
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  8948.  @olivere5497 No. I’m here to tell you a lot of it is racist. It turns when England don’t win. We’ve seen it before. We shouldn’t be surprised.
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  8949.  @jonathancharles3719  Huh? I think you misunderstood me. Religion is a control mechanism ; not a ‘controlled mechanism’. Moreover, give me capitalism and democracy over organised religion any day of the week! 👍
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  8950.  @jonathancharles3719  Er, wot? “Democracy and capitalism” isn’t what? 🤔
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  8951. @hakanozaslan9571 So, it’s all about religion, then. At least from the Serb side. Tell that to fabiobeka.
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  8952.  @fabiobeka  So it’s ethnicity then.👍
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  8953. It’s obvious. Trump just wants the Palestinians to flee. He’s not a fan. If he thinks he can go in there and clear them out, he’ll have a go. Of course, it won’t work. Remember, this is the guy that suggested with a straight face injecting disinfectant into people during the Covid pandemic. 🤦‍♂️
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  8954.  @deenieteenie3934  Got what?
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  8955.  @deenieteenie3934  Wow! You really are taking this thing seriously, aren’t you? Have you sought help for this?
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  8956. Apparently the eggs in Europe are better. 🍳
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  8957. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  8958.  @jeremias-serus  Just for the record, Jerry, I’m not an atheist; I just happen to think organised religion is one the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent.
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  8959.  @Scotland2306  Lol.
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  8960.  @Marcus-ym1oj  *hear, hear.
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  8961. 🤣
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  8962. That’s utterly outrageous in this day and age! Talk like that in these modern times is just not on. At the very least, it should be the ‘hangperson’ but to obviate offending the feelings of all and sundry it’s long before time we renamed it the ‘hangnonbinarygenderneutralperson’.
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  8963.  @mariaROEurope  You were right first time: 1998.👍
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  8964.  @mariaROEurope  Wow! I had to check that. Never realised that the death penalty was still on the statute books as late as 1998 in England!
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  8965. I once wanted Sharia Law. She was this gorgeous bird who used to sit next to me in my accountancy lectures. When I found out her punishments for minor infringements I ran a mile! 🤓
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  8966.  @omrxblah4572  But not the “freedom” to kiss a relative stranger on the lips, though. If he had done the kissy cheek thing the Continentals are so fond of there’d be no issue here.
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  8967.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *whose Jimbo, you never had a brain to “fry” in the first place! 🤪
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  8968.  @jimbocho660  I was just making the wider point about Pakistan being created as an explicitly Muslim nation, and this feeding into all this. I realise that this specific report is an intra-Indian one, based on the usual religious nonsense humans just can’t seem to surmount.
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  8969.  @Nic1963D  Do you? I don’t. I quite literally couldn’t care less about either side.
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  8970.  @jaysummers9396  Well said, that man.👍
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  8971. Lol. Hitler was ‘Green’. Good luck with that. 👍
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  8972. @1:28 “He (Johnson) was awarded Ukraine’s ‘Order of Liberty’”. Meanwhile, after Bozo arrives back in Britain, he’s to be awarded the UK’s ‘Order of Taking Liberties’.
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  8973. @lifesbutastumble It’s already happening. Look up ‘Jerry Sadowitz: cancelled’.
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  8974. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s 1st daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s 2nd daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s son: “Really, dad? I mean, really?”
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  8975.  @Dharmarenee  15 (and counting) seemed to get it, m8! 👍
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  8976. Saw the thumbnail; thought this was the announcement of Slipknot’s latest tour. My mistake. 😷
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  8977. On the principal of ‘garbage in, garbage out’, if ‘most’ Russians in Russia support this war then that is just testament to the power of Putin’s propaganda machine. For all the west’s faults (and they are legion), any truly objective observer can see that life in America, or Britain, or France, or indeed Ukraine (leaving aside the intra-Ukrainian east/west tensions), is infinitely preferable to the relatively benighted existence the average Russian endures.
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  8978.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Aye, ok, Jimbo, yer as boringly unreliable and illiterate as ever, son! 👍🤦‍♂️😉
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  8979. Sounds a bit too articulate for you, Jimbo. You been stealing quotes again, son? 👍🤫😉
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  8980.  @margelatu79  Do I? K.😉
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  8981.  @himalrana3605  Yeah, but Putin still didn’t keep to that original timetable. Can you guess why?😉
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  8982. Dingleberry.😆
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  8983.  @Roy_Osovsky  Yeah, but too many people are ensconced in their tribal camps here. I think Hamas’ attack was outrageous, barbaric and unforgivable but I also think Israel’s response has taken far, far too many innocent lives in their putative quest to “defend” themselves. It’s the old using a sledgehammer to crack a nut scenario that the Israeli state is a past master in. It helps to have absolutely zero skin in the game in these kinds of situations in order to see them for what they are.
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  8984.  @ScottishRoss27  Dunno. All I know is that it’s very close. It’s been close for decades. If there were a vote tomorrow, and I had to put my life on it, I’d put the money (and my life) on the Union, Ross. ✌️
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  8985.  @Bungle-UK Zippy sends his regards.👍
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  8986.  @SamWilkinsonn *So *of
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  8987.  @gerryh7895 Lol. If you think Hezbollah are happy with the existence of Israel, you need to take a look at its founding charter. 👍
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  8988. Nah. I blame Islam for most of this stuff. It’s toxic.
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  8989.  @rorygee482  Are you sure? I lived through the last 20 years of the Cold War and I have never in my lifetime been more concerned about the possibility of nuclear conflict than I am now. Would that I had your blithe confidence.
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  8990.  @rorygee482  You did miss my point. Russia has the most powerful thermonuclear bombs on the planet, and rather a lot of them. That was my point, and you missed it twice. Wanna try for three?
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  8991.  @rorygee482  You miss my point. Russia may not give us time. 😨
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  8992.  @rorygee482  We might not have a decade, mate. ☢️ 😰
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  8993. I can see precisely 0 of the replies on this thread … 🤔
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  8994. Why can’t the politicians get this? Few people have any real problem with strictly controlled legal immigration. The problem arises when, for example, you’re importing 1%+ of your population year on year, as the UK has just done these past few years. How is that good for proper integration when you’re accepting that many in such a short space of time? Answer: it isn’t. It’s not racist to say this and it needs to be said: most people have no real problem with strictly controlled legal immigration. These same people are not as happy with millions pouring in year on year (as in the UK case). It feels like it’s planned. The reason for the rise of the populist political Parties in Western Europe and elsewhere, is exactly this. If you won’t listen…
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  8995.  @50_Pence  I think you may be giving too much credence to Brand’s influence. Not totally convinced that MSM and its political paymasters care that much about him, tbh. They may be orchestrating this. Who knows? As with Brand’s guilt or otherwise, the jury’s out on both topics.
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  8996.  @Exhithronous  Yeah, but why the ‘?’? 🤔
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  8997.  @Exhithronous  What?
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  8998.  @ActuallyHoudini  Ok, so you think him guilty then. Just say it, m8. Stop trying to be all enigmatic and pretentiously verbose. 👍
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  8999. So an already free part of Ukraine was allegedly ‘freed’ by Russian occupiers, only in its turn to be really freed from the occupiers by the Ukrainians. Yes, I think that’s how it goes.🤔
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  9000. One man. One fucking man upends the lives of millions? Why? How? 😧
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  9001.  @SmokingMonkeyMediaSFX  No they didn’t. He didn’t ‘whip’ anyone; he threatened to whip the kid, but didn’t. 😊
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  9002. Er, you may have missed the thumbnail.
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  9003.  @HaveanOreshnik Word salad. 🥱 Want another go?
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  9004.  @HaveanOreshnik Look, Georgy baby, you made an egregious error by emphasising mothers here. No one wants to be soaked in corrosive alkaline solution. Think on …
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  9005.  @belkentens Only on your blob, Belendtens.😬
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  9006.  @coppershark1973  We’re gonna need a bigger boat, coppershark! 🦈
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  9007.  @LordCaptainFather  Just for the record, son, the quote comes from Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks and Anecdotes. It’s good to get these things right. But, this notwithstanding, I repeat: even if Asimov never said it, it’s more or less spot on. 😉
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  9008.  @PrivateWalker  How so what?
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  9009. So, he rode a few nags. We’ve all been there.😳
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  9010. Why? They don’t care about your ‘deepest condolences’, and neither do you, really. Weird.
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  9011. Huh? 🤔 Have you read your Koran lately? You must have a different, bowdlerised copy to mine which says: (9:5) “And when the forbidden months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them and take them prisoners, and beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, then leave their way free. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.” Now call me “modern”, but I refuse to put one ounce of my faith and mental energy in a book which explicitly tells me to “kill the idolaters”. The sooner humanity can get beyond these primitive, barbaric texts penned by men thousands of years ago, the better.
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  9012. 🤣
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  9013.  @tatemitchell1479  Lol. It was a pun, you fool!
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  9014.  @I_Lemaire I never said Israel didn’t have a right to exist. I repeat, this was an ordinary Lebanese mother; not a Hezbollah operative.
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  9015.  @I_Lemaire Er, y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  9016.  @Diamonddavej  Huh? 🤔 Did you not read my post? You seem to be replying to someone completely different.
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  9017. “68th Brigade”; just 9 below the 77th Brigade. 🤓
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  9018. Lovely Islam at it again. As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  9019.  @ellem2293  Many thanks.👍
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  9020.  @belkentens  Nah, m8. Jimbo played the ‘Hitler card’. Get it right or not at all.👍
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  9021. No clown is unemployed. There will always be work for creepy looking men blowing up balloons and twisting them into phallic symbols.
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  9022. @0:00-01:30 To be fair to all the human statues: not a flicker. Respect. 👍
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  9023.  @borntobebroken  Is it any more ‘random’ than you existing to make that comment? Uh huh.
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  9024.  @belkentens You’re confusing being ‘posh’ with ‘being educated’, Belendtens. Big mistake, schweetie. 👍😉
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  9025.  @hansoconner6898  😉
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  9026. *Oregon
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  9027.  @FjS-GLY  Ty.
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  9028.  @JonoPS Who said they can’t? The point I was making is that the majority will in Scotland as we speak doesn’t want independence.
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  9029.  @ScottishRoss27 *There Debatable. There is, however, a case for knowing the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’.
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  9030.  @Anatinea  Well said.
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  9031.  @kunzetale  Putin wants the 5 things outlined in my original post. They are not made up by me. I reckon if he gets them he will stop.
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  9032.  @djadam21  K, and of course, ‘Adam’, if you’d been called ‘djmohammed’ I’d bet my granny you’d be saying something completely different.👍
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  9033.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Cuz it’s tragic.👍
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  9034.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Moreover, why did you claim you were ‘Palestinian’ when you aren’t? 👍😉
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  9035.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  9036. Chaplin was a funny dude, tbf.
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  9037.  @_Richard_F___  In the Urban Dictionary it’s not. Think on, Rich.😉
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  9038.  @_Richard_F___  Woosh! 🌬
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  9039. Ffs. This has to be the longest unchanged record in Internet history. 🤦‍♂️
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  9040.  @sam-jj4fm  Was just making the point in my OP that the reason for the lurch to the right in Europe is continued mass immigration. Now, I’ve repeatedly said here I’m pro controlled legal immigration. I have 2 main issues: the numbers (685,000 in the UK is agreed upon by parties left, right and centre to be too high); and Islam. Importing hundreds of millions of those with a credo diametrically opposed to western liberal democracy is surely a recipe for disaster in the future.
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  9041. 💩 With all this human waste being directly poured into Britain’s rivers, there might have to be a renaming: the Dee will be the Pee; the Severn will become the Cistern; the Ouse will be renamed the Poos; the Ure will be the Manure; the Ribble will become the Jimmy Riddle; and the Dart will be renamed the Fart! 💨
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  9042. *dead-to-dead
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  9043.  @belkentens  Lol.
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  9044. Liz had no chance. 47. Not going to work. Sunak - 42. Badenoch - 42. Mordaunt - 49. Ah, the 7’s. It’s all about the 7’s. My money’s on Sunak, based on the power of the 7, and based on the fact 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. I say that as someone who can’t stand Sunak, but the numbers never lie.
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  9045.  @ayoolukoga9829  When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. (R Pirsig)
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  9046.  @ayoolukoga9829  Yawn
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  9047. @@TOM-TOM-TOM Huh? Wtf are you on about at this point? 🤔 Did you actually read my OP? You just sound like a random having a go. Get a grip. Nothing I have said is remotely controversial. If you can’t cope with this then that is not my problem, darling.
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  9048. @@TOM-TOM-TOM You may have missed this bit: I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍 I would emphasise ‘the way it was done’, here. 👍
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  9049.  @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo  Er, no I didn’t. Nice try, though, son.👍
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  9050.  @MrBeautifulmountain  How is it an “idiotic comment”? It’s factually and historically correct. Your saying it’s an “idiotic comment” is the only idiotic comment here, m8. 👍
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  9051.  @andrewq159  And? If we are, what’s the issue with a fella in frock?
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  9052.  @davidz3879  How do you know ‘being a drag queen is a choice’? You’re making the mighty philosophical leap that we all have free-will. This has been far from established. On that basis, being a drag is far from being a choice.
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  9053.  @tiredgardener  K. That the best you got, son? Fine. You’re clearly one of these guys who secretly fancy boys. Just admit your truth, m8, and put us all out of our misery.😉
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  9054.  @belkentens  So? Even if they are, where’s the problem?
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  9055. I agree with the criticism of the armorer, not the actor.
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  9056. This was released. On purpose. The West knew about it. This was a plan by the elites to scare us shi*less, in order have a test-run to see just how much we would comply with essentially living in our houses for a year. We complied. The next one will be even stricter . They have measured us and they now know our tolerance levels.
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  9057. I’m pretty sure this was a parody. These guys I could imagine hanging out together, and I’m sure I read somewhere that this was a set-up🤓.
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  9058. I agree. He was always cooler than that meanie, Gripper Stebson.
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  9059. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  9060.  @GeorginaJett  Huh? Don’t get it.🤔
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  9061.  @stephenwalker2924  They would be located where they are now. It’s a 2-State solution or nothing at all. They need to get on with it. My own thinking here is that there are two States, but with a shared capital, Jerusalem, as it kinda is now.
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  9062.  @davebirch1976  We’re all out of Africa, m8. Get over it.
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  9063. Indeed. However, since about 1492 Europeans have been ‘inviting’ themselves to other places that didn’t want them. With this Albanian thing, it just got incestuous.🤓
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  9064. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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  9065.  @ConvictedRaypistTrump  Lol.
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  9066.  @thiscommentsdeleted  Lol.
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  9067. *too
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  9068.  @judekalyesubula8646  It’s nothing to do with ‘stopping immigration’; it’s to do with controlling immigration.
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  9069.  @tompearce3610  Maybe if we paid our NHS staff on the frontline better, half of them wouldn’t opt to work privately or go abroad to work for better terms and conditions.
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  9070. @1:50 This is a test-event for the new Olympic sport: human ten-pin bowling! 🎳
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  9071. “Carrying themselves like thugs and fitting the profile of criminals” doesn’t justify this. It’s simple incompetency on the police’s part, no doubt mingled with a healthy dash of racism.
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  9072. 0:25 Did this guy fail the audition for Ross in Friends?
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  9073.  @brixcosmo  Um, last time I checked I was a human. Just sayin’! 👽
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  9074. Has anyone been blowing you lately, Jimbo? Is the old wifey doing her wifely duties as per the pre-nuptial contract? 🤣
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  9075.  @joni8090  Yup. Fair point; well made.👍
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  9076. The more this war goes on, the more one gets the impression that NATO is quite happy to sit back and smoke a few cigars as Ukraine fights on its behalf, and as Putin has the nuclear Damocles sword dangling over Europe’s head, it’s convenient for NATO to use this as the reason for not intervening; meanwhile Russia batters Ukraine, Ukraine valiantly fights back, Ukraine will probably lose, and Russia will probably regroup and move for the Baltic States, and then NATO will have to extinguish its cigar and perhaps think about actually getting its hands dirty.
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  9077.  @EBeb2025-eb Y r u upvoting urself paceAndorder? 🤔
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  9078. Tom.
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  9079.  @unworthy42  You were still wrong, sunshine, no matter your protestations. Cope more.
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  9080.  @marknewbold2583  It’s attributed to him. 👍
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  9081. The tinfoil hat suits you, Sir. Your oh so superior “I don’t watch tv” line doesn’t automatically make you right. ROFL
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  9082.  @mcstyle24  Yes, fair enough, indeed.😉
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  9083.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe.
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  9084.  @michaelrch  Incidentally, you conspicuously chose to ignore the rather valid point that you are on a ‘capitalist corporate’ platform railing against capitalist corporations. You can’t have it both ways, sonny; you either boycott those capitalist, corporate platforms you affect to disdain or you forever hold your peace, sweetheart. Now, which is it?
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  9085.  @michaelrch  It’s called ‘intellectual property’, sweetie. You may have accidentally on purpose missed that rather vital bit of my last but one post. Stop cherry picking to suit your ends, son. Keep it real.
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  9086.  @macrick  Oh, they will call alright. These things take time.
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  9087. Well, if they administer the vaccine via banana I might consider it. No microchimps, though! 💉🍌 🐒
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  9088. It’s more convincing than McCartney’s, to be fair. Just.
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  9089. It ends when human beings stop defining themselves on an accident of birth.
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  9090.  @MrJenkins-g3i  Was that book called: ‘Lester’s Pillgottengains’? 🥸
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  9091.  @livefrominbetweentrees  But that was exactly my point: they didn’t have half a brain to get a proxy to place the bets on their behalf.
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  9092.  @Kreze202  Huh? Where was I giving them ‘credit’? 🤔
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  9093. He was a white guy, you fanny.
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  9094.  @ffotograffydd  I’m not ‘taken in’ by him, m8. I can think for myself. You’re confusing me with someone else.
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  9095.  @ffotograffydd  ‘Grifter’ ~ Translation: he/she disagrees with me.
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  9096.  @ffotograffydd Ok, we get you. You hate Nigel. I’m no particular fan, but I listen. He’s wrong about a lot of things, but imo, one thing he (and others) is not wrong about it that the mass importation of millions into Europe upholding an ideology (Islam) diametrically opposed to secular liberal democracy, is just storing up a future disaster. 👍
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  9097.  @therealrobertbirchall  The name ‘Farage’ is widely accepted to be of Arabic origin (anglicised from ‘Faraj’). However, there are many indicators that the name ‘Farage’ may be of Jewish origin, too, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal. 👍
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  9098.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx Yeah, but tbf, Jimbo, anyone who isn’t you, apparently, is unacceptable. I’ve never encountered someone with a higher level of intolerance to other human beings. You are that double whammy (nay, triple whammy): boring, ridiculous and thick. 👍 Yvw, Jimbo. Pay me l8erz, son. 😁
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  9099.  @johnross2924  Lol.
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  9100.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  Not buying that one. Nice try, though.👍
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  9101.  @peacelove9716  I’ll take all of those but you can keep ‘sobriety’. 🥴
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  9102. I think it was more like 1 mile away.
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  9103.  @shaney9393  *.
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  9104. Putin is getting through so many troops it won’t be long before he’s calling up the ‘Elite Babushka Unit’ and ‘Crack Dedushka Batallion’.
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  9105. The biggest tragedy here is that these conscripts’ greatest enemy isn’t Ukraine; it’s Putin.
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  9106.  @andrewlee-py9zm  I don’t actually have a ‘very elementary understanding of religion’. You, on the other hand, have a very elementary understanding of basic punctuation and when to use capital letters and apostrophes.
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  9107.  @GhastlyCretin Aye, ‘sweetheart’. You gotta problem with ‘sweetheart’, sweetheart? 🤔
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  9108.  @davidkavanagh189  Well said, Dave! 👍
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  9109.  @sbesh622  It was just the nurse thing that brought you here, Shane. Admit it, son.🤓
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  9110.  @busawulf It’s just the truth. No embellishments here, m8.👍
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  9111. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  9112. Vladimir Putin: that toxic ex who just couldn’t let it go.😳
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  9113.  @print-master  Long time ago though, m8. Practices and procedures are bound to alter over the years with different staff/management etc.
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  9114.  @maqboolusman2914  😂👍
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  9115.  @martinvanburen4578  And if the Brits had stayed where they were they might not have this geopolitical karma.😉
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  9116.  @fuckbankers  😂🤓👏
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  9117.  @fuckbankers  ☕️ 🫖
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  9118.  @darkflighter100  I think Pirsig was simply strafing the fundamentalist religious mindset. He’s telling us to mistrust the loudest. Incidentally, it’s far from a platitude, mate, and it’s even less of one when you read the whole book from which it’s taken to establish context.😉
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  9119.  @arthurzengeler8296  Translation: “Empty vessels make the loudest sound.”
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  9120.  @michaelring6077  “Yes.” ~ The ghost of Oliver Cromwell.
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  9121.  @Redflowers9  Ask Israel.
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  9122.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  Er, that was basically my point. 🥴
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  9123.  @larrydickman5936 Any race you care to mention, more or less.
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  9124. Bit hypocritical though, eh? ‘Jordan Bardella’: that good old traditional French name! 👍
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  9125. Well, on the bright side, there’ll be fewer Felixstowaways during the strike.🤓
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  9126. Uh huh. Well, Jimbo, in the same breath you have to call an immediate halt to all emigration from the UK. Works both ways.👍
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  9127.  @xrmoff  Does that include children?
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  9128. So America’s protecting its self-interests by supporting Ukraine. Er, and? Your point is? As for countries supporting Putin, well, let’s see now: North Korea, Belarus, Eritrea, Syria. Hmm … now, why might that be? Ah, yes, all one-man dictatorships protecting their one-man-band self-interests. Tada!
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  9129.  David Harris  Putin’s an arsehole. However, if you just think about this a little from his point of view, then it becomes clear why he might be doing this. He’s, quite simply, protecting his own self-interests, as he sees them. As we all do. To see him as ‘Vlad the Mad’ is a grave error. On the contrary, he knows exactly what he’s doing. No one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world. I happen to disagree with Putin, as anyone invading a sovereign, self-governing nation against its will is clearly a wrong’un. It just helps here to try to see things a bit from Putin’s view, no matter how much so many think Ukraine has suffered a grievous injustice. I’m with them in that.🤔
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  9130.  @colleenpeck6347  Yeah, but you have a ‘non-British’ foreign name by your rules. You can’t have it both ways, for that would be double-standards and rank hypocrisy.
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  9131.  @connorking9135  Yeah, but Connor is an Irish name. Seethe more.
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  9132. Says the bloke with the Irish name.
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  9133.  @Mezzystar1  👍
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  9134.  @nigelstuart756  K, Nige.👍
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  9135.  @kellyt5341  🤐
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  9136.  @aprilabbatoy  I have all the “help” I require but many thanks for your kind thoughts and consideration for my well-being. 🙏
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  9137.  @steveparker8065  K, Stevie. You stick with yer Welsh ‘bard’ and the rest of us will stick with THE Bard.👍😉
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  9138.  @steveparker8065  I’m comparing his story-based songs to the grit and realism of Shakespeare. Huh? That makes no sense. You might as well randomly compare him to anyone with a modicum of “grit and realism”. You happened to pick Shaky which was a mighty foolish juxtaposition.👍
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  9139.  @kellyt5341  Er, where did I say others weren’t “allowed their opinion”? 🤔
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  9140. God, no.
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  9141.  @leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget  Might not be. We’ll see.
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  9142.  @BickYok  Ayr? I’ve never visited tbh.👍
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  9143.  @mephistosprincipium  Nah. I say if Ukraine can hit Moscow a few times, that might end this thing quicker than expected. The fact Putin today was saying he hasn’t ruled out peace talks, suggests his stomach for this thing is not as big as it once might have been. Imo, Putin’s fatal mistake from day 1 was to overestimate how amenable his “Slavic cousins” in Ukraine would be towards his aggressive intrusions. I have dozens of cousins and a fair few of them I have no time for.
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  9144.  @bradlangston36  That may be so, but as far as I can see it’s a pretty accurate opinion.
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  9145.  @mutatis-mutandis  The evidence is there. Or rather it isn’t there; more to the point. Check it.
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  9146.  @avalanche816  Yes, but the second bit doesn’t work as characterising Macron as ‘Le Sword’ makes no sense. If anything, with her ‘anti-everything apart from her tribe’ belligerence, it’s Le Pen who is the sword.
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  9147. The first bit works; not sure about the second. 5 outta 10.
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  9148. Here’s the thing about Piers Morgan: I used to think he was one of these right-wing, sexist intolerant bigots (based mainly on the mainstream media reactions), but having regularly watched his programme on Talk TV, it turns out he’s simply a free-speech liberal and I find myself in tune with the bulk of his ideas.
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  9149.  @mixandmatch5138 Huh? Not sure what you mean? 🤔
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  9150.  @Petal4822  Laughing my Azov.😂
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  9151. Moove on then. 🐮
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  9152.  @Gorbyrev  I’ve just checked Jacobabad’s weather for the next fortnight and here are the forecast temps: 46°, 48°, 48°, 47°, 47°, 46°, 49°, 49°, 48°, 49°, 48°, 49°, 51°. Now I don’t know about you Mark, but if humans through fossil-fuel burning activity are significantly contributing to the warming of the planet (as 99% of the scientific consensus is agreed upon), doesn’t it behove us to decrease this fossil fuel use? As I said, add another 3°, possibly 5° at this rate and by the end of the century you’re talking temperature norms of 55° in certain latitudes! Not to mention the huge sea-ice melt which is currently predicted to raise sea levels by at least a metre by 2100. I’m with you on technological solutions to human issues, but surely we can act a bit before we have to take these technological solutions and literally fry and drown huge swathes of this planet out of human liveable existence.
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  9153.  @michaelrch  Nice try, Mike, but it’s not quite so cut-and-dried as you appear to make out. However, I more or less agree with your thrust, and I can’t be arsed arguing tonight.
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  9154.  @belkentens  Wow! Belendtens, your inverted snobbery is off the charts at this point! Just cuz yer a scuzzy schemey scally fae the gutter, dinny affload that ontae ithers, Belendtens. 👍🥱 PS. I always know you’re triggered, Belendtens, when you write more than 3 words. 😉
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  9155.  @TheAntiTrope  So if it’s the “dumbest thing you’ve ever read” why are you so triggered by it? Just walk on by.😉👍
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  9156.  @Vrailly  That’s fine, m8. You have your opinion. All I know is this: the number 7 seems to be very powerful. It’s not even just a human thing. This applies to events as well. Just anecdotal, but I’ve noticed it over the years. 👍
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  9157.  @jrbailey3208 Huh? What ‘English common vernacular adjective’? 🤔
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  9158.  @jrbailey3208  Yes, but some people support pro-choice for women but also think there are 2 biologically unalterable sexes. Do try to keep up at the back. 🤦‍♂️
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  9159.  @herculeholmes504  Nah. My instinct was right. If I were asked tomorrow to ride out with the cowboys or the injuns, it’d be with the latter all the way into the sunset. 🐎 🌅
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  9160.  @ponypetedm  Yes, but can we have that in English please, Petey petal?
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  9161.  @ponypetedm  That’s why the sea-levels will have to rise high enough, Petey baby. I take it basic English isn’t your strong suit.😉
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  9162.  @mysticcove3392  You’re sweet, mystic. I’ll give you that! 🍯
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  9163.  @mysticcove3392  Lol.
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  9164.  @mysticcove3392  Indeed. Although, I’m not necessarily wholly on board with Dawkins’ atheism. There might be a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will. What I am more or less 100% convinced of is that organised religion is all manmade stuff, made principally for men to serve men. It’s divine politics by any other name. My God is better than your God, blah, blah, blah.
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  9165.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Orthographhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I saaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Jimbo. 😉🤡🌈
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  9166.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I bet they also grew up despising basic English grammar and orthography, Jimbo. 😷
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  9167. Tbf Jimbo, your kids had the deep misfortune to be home-schooled by you! 🤣🤓🌈👌
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  9168. Uh huh. And Mohammed has just told me he wants a fight behind the bikesheds. 🚴 🚲 🏍
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  9169. Yeah, but you forget: Brexit was the democratic will of the people. I say that as a Remainer.
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  9170.  @isaacho8230  Yes, I understand all that and ty for the patronising tone. I will repeat this once again for the hard of reading: I’m pro-immigration; just not pro-750,000 per year. Just for the record, I don’t know anyone I’m aware of who would support those kinds of numbers. 👍
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  9171. Tbf, Lincoln is less than 6 miles away, so I’m sure it has enough “infrastructure” to cope.
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  9172.  @khoyrulislam  Huh? Well, it does work like that as I never voted for that government. Nice try though, pal.👍
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  9173. @plurabelle5 I’m an anti-colonialist. A random accident of birth I had no say in doesn’t make me complicit in the colonialism of my forefathers.😉
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  9174.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You wrote that one yesterday, Jimbo. Nice to know you’re into recycling, mate! 🤣
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  9175. @dondoodat Not a “drama queen” response at all. Perfectly calm and logical here, mate. Last year there were 45,755 arriving in boats across the Channel. Some of these people will be genuine asylum seekers and those who are can stay, no further debate. The vast majority, however, are young men seeking economic opportunity. That’s fine. All I’m saying is that the UK has the right of refusal if they are economic migrants. This really isn’t that difficult and I’m not sure why it’s even up for debate.
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  9176. I agree. However, in legal terms the defendants could plausibly argue that she agreed to this process before she was drugged. Of course, she obviously didn’t in this case, but they may argue this.
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  9177. 🤦‍♂️
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  9178. Is that a euphemism?😳
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  9179. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that those who type in Caps Lock FOR NO APPARENT REASON, invariably type garbage.
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  9180.  @fredyaghooti813  Can we have that in English, please?
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  9181.  @Cyrano1971  Article 5 obliges all other NATO countries to get involved if one of them is attacked. Deal with it.
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  9182. Just ask Zelensky. He has some of the best gear. sniffs
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  9183.  @默-c1r  Just because you personally find another’s view ‘horrible’ doesn’t necessarily allow you to shut down the expression of that view. I have already said that law recognises various constraints on freedom of speech (see above), but I personally have no issue with what Clarkson said and would not ban him, or anyone else, from saying such things in the future. However, I understand that others will disagree with this view. Free-speech and freedom of thought, if they are about anything, are also about the freedom to disagree .
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  9184.  @granted3203  Neither.
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  9185. This isn’t an anti-Ukraine vote; it’s an anti-Nato vote.
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  9186.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *How’s Get it right, Jimbo! Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.🤣
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  9187. More egg and chips, Jimbo? Just last night you were singing the praises of Ugandan blacks; perhaps we can add a little African spice into those egg and chips, son? 🤣
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  9188.  @janel342  You didn’t read my Versailles response, did you? I recommend it.😉
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  9189. There is no God. Deal with it.
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  9190. ‘Pass bill’? When did the House of Lords eat him?
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  9191.  @mattbrown-mb  While I happen to believe humans are contributing to global warming, I’m unsure of the exact level of that contribution. That 1.3°C rise we’ve seen these past 200 years is significant, but humankind may have contributed 20% to this rise. Or 10%. Or 50%. There is still some serious debate, even amongst those who buy the manmade global warming theory, as to just exactly how much humans are complicit. Another thing I would remind you of is that far more people die of cold on this planet than they do of heat. 4x more.
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  9192. That the planet is warming and warming rather alarmingly quickly in historical terms is clear. Even anecdotally, without the data, this is obvious. The issue here is that for the past 200/300 years we have hitched our economies to fossil fuel burning but I do wish people would stop talking about climate change .The climate has changed for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is global warming and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  9193. Moist Belendtens. Yum.
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  9194.  @Melian_Dialogue  So are you saying that the past, say, 300 years since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the West, and the past 50-100 years of the Asian Industrial Revolution and their concomitant emitting of thousands of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases has absolutely no bearing on the 1.1° Celsius rise in global temperature we have seen in that time?
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  9195.  @fredmercury1314  No. But correlation in certain cases can be rather strong evidence of causation. Like here.
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  9196. Certainly warming, Jimbo. You need to stop frying those chips or you could be left with egg on your face.😉🤣
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  9197. That’s some filler work right there. She’s 80, but from here could pass for 40.
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  9198.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Projecting, again, Jimbo?🤣
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  9199.  @kalui96  I wouldn’t ban guns wholesale; just regulate them better like almost every other country on this planet does. It ain’t rocket science. USA is clearly hamstrung by the 2nd Amendment and by its toxic polarised political tribes on this issue, making any kind of more control almost impossible.
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  9200. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  9201.  @djdiscoordination639 Yeah, that’s sounds about right. Imo, all this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 7 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  9202. Unless you live next to the M1.
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  9203.  @wenlisman  Yes, I get that and agree with it. However, you are not seeing this from Putin’s point of view. He sees anyone joining NATO as a traitor. And particularly the former territories overseen by the USSR.
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  9204.  @belkentens  You’re crackers!
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  9205.  @DavidBenYahuda  Yes. Cope.
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  9206.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Pmsl. The irony of a deeply illiterate tart like you, Jimbo, talking about the ‘alphabet’!!!🤣
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  9207.  @xgx899  5. No. Some of those who deny it, deny it because it might not be true. Nice try, though.👍
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  9208.  @xgx899  Source?
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  9209.  @annabellelee4535  Probably. And in both cases (America/Mexico, Russia/Ukraine) the aggressors would be wrong to invade sovereign, self-governing territories.
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  9210.  @EDMcIntoshBrocher  Indeed.👍
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  9211.  @Bungle-UK  Father should get a say if he wants the child. Aside from mother and father, no one else should be getting involved imo.
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  9212.  @ssuwandi3240 So how about just using your brain? 🤔 🧠
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  9213.  @ssuwandi3240  Uh huh, perhaps. You could use some basic punctuation, though. A full stop would be nice for starters. Jesus, I have no idea what our schools are doing these days, but if they are producing those unaware of very basic punctuation, then they can be rightly called a f*cking disaster. 🤦‍♂️
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  9214. Social media, blah, blah, blah. I’m more more interested in anti-social media. I might even start my own anti-social networking site. I’ll call it ‘Twattoff’.
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  9215.  @uemackay1592  Look m8, can I make this simple for you? K, ty. If I had $44 billion to throw away on a here today gone tomorrow social media company, when I knew that money could be going to alleviate a certain amount of suffering, I would be throwing it at the suffering. I don’t care how hard Elon Musk has worked; no human has worked $44 billion harder than the next human. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night in his shoes.
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  9216.  @CaminoAir  Says someone using a social media platform. ‘By their deeds, ye shall know them.’
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  9217. Have you looked at the west’s geopolitical record, lately? US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of sovereign nations by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  9218. Can you imagine how bad this conflict would be if the Palestinians and the Israelis didn’t believe in the same sky daddy? 🤔
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  9219.  @lowwfeh Just out of interest, where in Provence did you live?
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  9220. Uh huh, Jimbo. And when it comes to you, let’s call a tool a tool! 👍🤣
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  9221. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (W Blake)
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  9222.  @3-Kashmir  ‘Freemasons’? Lol. Wtf are you on about, son? Agnostic here. Get it right or not at all.
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  9223.  @sonicfactory-uk  I know you were. Lee is being disingenuous and knowingly playful when he says this. 👍
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  9224. At first, 2 years ago I was willing to give our governments the benefit of the doubt in all this, but seeing scenes like this, for an ostensibly mild strain of the virus, makes me wonder. Chris Hedges’ words come to mind: The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.
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  9225. Well blow me down. Humanity sets up a civilian ‘army’ to police its potential miscreants using ‘law and order’, and doesn’t expect to attract a fair few nutters at the extreme end of the ‘authoritarian personality’ scale, with some rather dodgy views about women and other races? 👮‍♂️
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  9226. Spoken like a true Norfolk Boy! 🤪
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  9227. Republi-c*nts?
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  9228.  @belkentens  Nothing to do with being “classist”, Belendtens. It’s to do with having standards, son. Moreover, not a single human being walking this is Earth isn’t a snob in one way or another and I never trust those who say they aren’t. We all judge ourselves and others and rank our ourselves and others (ALL of us) including you Belendtens, so put away the holier-than-thou ‘class card’, son, cuz it ain’t gonna fly with me, m8.👍😉
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  9229. I tend to agree. One of my ‘icks’ is seeing chefs standing outside their restaurant in grubby whites, smoking a roll-up with dirty, nicotine-stained fingers. Urgh.🤮
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  9230.  @jeffreiland7463  Lol.
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  9231.  @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204  Lol@‘traitor to my kin’. 🤣 👍 If you wanna be an unthinking 🤡 and invest your faith in a complete random accident of birth you had no say in, go right ahead. Just count me out, son. My identity tends to be based on other stuff; not where I was randomly born.
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  9232. Just you and the other 10 numpties in the tinfoil hats, Jimbo!🤪
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  9233. The issue isn’t immigration, per se, it’s Islam. Most Europeans just don’t want Islam, as the evidence is that it causes trouble wherever it goes. This has actually already started. The recent riots were largely fuelled by antipathy to Islam. The political class here, and more widely in Western Europe, ignore this feeling of the masses at their peril. If they do ignore it in the long run, it will return with a vengeance at a not too distant point down the line.
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  9234.  @Lancer498  “Imperialism is unironically good if we do it.” Yeah, that’s right; I’ll barge into your home uninvited and institute my laws and practices and tell you how it goes in your house and then we’ll see how “unironically good” imperialism is then, huh? 🤡
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  9235.  @gerrabath Projected by census statistics. It’s all on Wikipedia. 👍😉
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  9236. 🤣
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  9237. If we bring back Boris, we’ll have all the natural gas we need from now until eternity! 💨
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  9238. War, famine, earthquake, drought, volcano, disease, pestilence; but hey! Look on the bright side: we’re all gonna die!
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  9239.  @tictacmantips1  Cheery you.
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  9240.  @aigaoliveira3278  Here’s what I think: since October 7th Israel’s response has been completely disproportionate. Yes, go after Hamas. Don’t massacre 12,000 (and counting) innocents while you do that.
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  9241.  @jaggar28  I have. I moved on from organised religion in the womb.👍
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  9242. Wow! Grandpa Vince gets all political on us. Unlike him. Usually just posts throwaway whimsical sh*t. 🧐
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  9243.  @hawsrulebegin7768  Yup. And those who can’t find them will be squeeeaaallling all the way home. 🐷
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  9244.  @Edgar876  Do I? K. You’re wrong.
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  9245.  @Edgar876  No. Why? Are you?
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  9246. Thumbnail: never has Biden looked more like the grandad of the creepy banjo boy in Deliverance. 🪕
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  9247.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo … you stick to yer egg and chips, sonny, as the ‘political analysis’ just ain’t flying, mate! 🤣
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  9248. Klimt is marvellous, I agree. His ‘Kiss’ had me in raptures! 💋
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  9249.  @lm157  Er, which statement? 🤔
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  9250.  @pucapower2505  You conveniently never answered my questions, so here we go again - serious questions: how do you define ‘indigenous Irish’ and what do you do with those who aren’t ‘indigenous Irish’ who are currently living in Ireland according to your criteria?
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  9251.  @rossgeography  It’s essentially the background to all this. I repeat: wake up! Look at Holland. 👍
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  9252.  @rossgeography  Lol. You honestly think a major part of certain Europeans’ animus against mass immigration isn’t to do with Islam? Wake up! 👍
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  9253.  @LukiaChan08  Huh? Did you actually read my OP, or are you just venting? 🤔
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  9254.  @owenflynn7417  😉
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  9255.  @owenflynn7417  Oh, don’t agree with me, man! Whenever people agree with me I fear I must be wrong!
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  9256.  @owenflynn7417  👍
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  9257.  @sonicfactory-uk  Rather be ‘a bit weird’ than some conformist drone, Chrissy baby. You should try it some day.😉
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  9258. One can’t help but feel that if we hadn’t split the atom this thing would’ve been over a long time ago. As it is, the WEFst wants this thing to rumble on as long as possible. Nice profits to be made in them there wars. Meanwhile, Ukraine fights on behalf of the rest of us, simultaneously weakening Russia. Win win! Unless you’re a dead Ukrainian/Russian.👍
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  9259.  @carpediem7654  Still doesn’t excuse Putin I’m afraid.
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  9260. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  9261.  @saxglend9439  🤣
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  9262.  @saxglend9439  K. Keep taking the medication, m8. 💊 👍
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  9263.  @mr.skeleton3190  Triggered. Hehe.
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  9264.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  Once more: I’m not doing the God debate, and quoting religious piffle at me is not going to aid your cause.
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  9265.  @kirkhunter146  That fact doesn’t actually negate my initial point; which was the double-standards of a large tranche of the population who are clamouring that they be sent to Rwanda.
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  9266.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  I refer you to the comment I made some moments ago: not doing the God debate here, son.😉
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  9267.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  Not going to get into the God debate here, chummo. All I’ll say is this: no one really knows if there’s a God, or not, as far as I can see. I’m open. Hitherto, for me the evidence is not nearly convincing enough. One thing I’m more or less 100% sure of, is the baleful effect of organised, literalist, monotheistic religion. That’s all.
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  9268.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  I don’t like the plan as I consider all organised religion a dangerous relic of our past that we should have consigned to the dustbin of history long, long before now. Along with nationalism. Apart from that, your plan is just tickety-boo!
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  9269.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  Like any and every rational person I know, I’m agnostic.
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  9270.  @peteranderson3956  It’s not a fucking straw-man argument as I wasn’t denying the agreement. And if terms are agreed they are binding. I was simply pointing out the potential attitudes of some of the UK natives if the boot were to be on the other foot in this scenario. It’s all settled though, as we’re swapping migrants with Rwanda.
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  9271.  @cropcircles5697  S’ok. All been settled. Apparently, we’re swapping refugees with Rwanda. Go figure.
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  9272.  @urbanimage  In that case, wtf are we doing swapping refugees at immense cost to the taxpayer?! A bonkers plan just got even more bonkers!
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  9273.  @peteranderson3956  That’s irrelevant to my point. I was talking about the attitude of the people here in the UK if this policy were implemented the other way round.
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  9274. 411 members. 63% of Parliament. 45,765,567 immigrants. 64% of the UK.
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  9275.  @razachaswills5076  I made a perfectly ‘sensible point’. The fact you can’t cope with it is not my problem. 😊
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  9276.  @faraz2498  Yeah, but this dude isn’t ‘Gerald’. Clearly.
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  9277.  @chrisspencer6502  That makes no sense, but ty anyway.
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  9278.  @patriot7021  Evening! Edinburgh. 😉
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  9279.  @patriot7021  You can have “community” and “unity” without nationalism. I’m also not arguing for cultural homogeneity and am not saying we shouldn't cherish our cultural differences. On the contrary, I believe diversity is a wonderful thing and I find it fascinating that nearly every group of people out there has devised their own ways of communication, worship etc. Just don't let that devolve into "we are better than them", as it usually happens. However, if I see a sufficient cause to combat (eg. Nazism) I don’t need a nationalistic umbrella to prompt me to that cause. Yes, we have organised the world politically into nation-states; just don’t expect me to be loyal to something so nebulous, artificial and ultimately so arbitrary.
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  9280.  @clivedarwell5732  Summat like that.
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  9281.  @kingdomfreedom8323  I’m with you on most of what you say. There is something more than a little sinister about this whole ‘war’. Almost, dare I say, as if it was planned and everyone is playing their role perfectly. Of course, that doesn’t include the massacred innocents. 🙏
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  9282.  @kingdomfreedom8323  Er, quite.
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  9283. How do you know there aren’t feminists in the front line? Have you done a survey? Moreover, your underlying assumption appears to be that men can’t be feminists. I and about 75% (possibly more) of my mates would define ourselves as ‘feminist’.
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  9284. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  9285. Everyone needs to calm down. The salute is just how Musk heils a cab from his favourite taxi service: Uber Über Alles! 🚖 🖖
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  9286. Lol. Triggered much, given your repeated posting of this? 😂 👍
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  9287.  @RoninTF2011  You stick to yer brain-frying games and leave the important issues to the adults, petal.👍
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  9288. With due acknowledgment of Emerson’s admonition, I can’t resist these 2 corkers to add to the rent-a-quote party: I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned. (R Feynman) With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. (S Weinberg)🥸
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  9289. Nice caravan though; wouldn’t mind one of those.
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  9290. That’s cos they’re all Tories.
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  9291.  @curiositycloset2359  I laid some of it out above if you’d take the time to read it, dipshit.🙄
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  9292.  @leehenry5764  Triggered much, sonny? Simmer down, simmer down now, there’s a good lad.
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  9293. *don’t Thick dipshit.
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  9294.  @kevinmcdonagh1063  *you’re Did your mummy ever send you to school?🥸
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  9295.  @bigbob6700  Really? A woman from a party with neo-fascist roots, who publicly admits her admiration for Mussolini and is: *Anti-abortion *Anti-gay *Nativist *Strong Christian *Authoritarian *Anti-non Europeans You don’t need to teach me what ‘fascism’ is, m8. I know it when I see it.
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  9296.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  K, well you need to start returning all those descended from Europeans from North/South America, Australia and New Zealand then. Can’t have one rule for one side of the debate and one rule for the other.😉
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  9297.  @beautifulprogressivewester7855  You’re the one seething, m8. Cope.
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  9298.  @beautifulprogressivewester7855  Yawn
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  9299.  @happyjonn9242  Not in the places I mentioned we weren’t.😉
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  9300.  @Noel-ji8nm  Lol. Talk about an off-topic comment when you have no argument! 🤣
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  9301. Quick question: do you not see a contradiction between “thinking for yourself” and following a text written by men 2,000 years ago? 🤔
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  9302.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  I was kinda joking. It is a coincidence. 👍 I’m occasionally paranoid, but not that paranoid.
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  9303.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Der, der, Jimbo, it’s not as bad as all that. You’re just racist, m8; I know that, you know that, we all know that. Everything, and I mean everything you see, you seem to see through such an incredibly narrow prism which means, in practice, you essentially only want people like you in your orbit: straight, white, heterosexual, semi-literate, intolerant of any difference etc etc. I’m here to tell you it doesn’t work like that, Jimbo. 👍
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  9304. *whom
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  9305.  @MancMilitia  Just for the record, race pride and sex pride are just accidents of birth. To celebrate your sexuality or to celebrate your mommy plopped you out here and not over there, are both pretty nonsensical imo. That said, pride linked to sexuality has caused far less harm in human history than pride of the racial kind.👍😉
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  9306. As for “pride”, Jimbo, well aren’t you constantly telling us how ‘proud’ you are to be a white Briton, and boring on to the rest of us that white = “the peak of civilisation”? That smacks of rank hypocrisy, Jimbo. Rules for thee but not for me. No consistency, Jimbo.👍😉
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  9307. There’s no conclusive evidence Jesus ever existed, Jimbo. And certainly not in the fantastical way the Christians depict him; it’s a story nicked from the pagans.🔥
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  9308. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  9309.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Spaced (out) invaders, Jimbo. 😎
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  9310.  @jeffjohns6414  ‘Okay’ indeed, ‘Jeffey’.👍 🤫
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  9311.  @weirdasff Er, where did I mention religion? 🤔 Yeah, that’s right: nowhere! Ta da! 🎉
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  9312.  @ThatCarGuy1983  England 117 per 100,000; India 2 per 100,000. Uh huh. 👍😉🤫
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  9313.  @frezzbysnappywopapy  The stats are the same wherever you look, dude. Around 2 per 100,000. Just for the record, India isn’t the only place where unreported rapes happen. Sawree. 😭
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  9314.  @nemadharma6400 Source?
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  9315. They aren’t ‘rebels’; as far as I can gather these people represent the mass rank and file of Belarusian opinion. Like Ukraine, they look west, not east on a majority will; hence why they can only have an anti-democratic pro-Russian authoritarian leader on the sufferance of the vast majority of Belarusians.
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  9316. I agree. They are majority opinion in Belarus.
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  9317. 👍
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  9318.  @solinworld632  Process of elimination, m8. 😉🤓
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  9319.  @harrycallahan1  Lol.
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  9320. Ah, the Devil quoting Scripture for his ends. Nice. 👿
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  9321. Jenny Hill’s cheekbones look like they could cut diamonds.
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  9322.  @Squiffilect  Steal it once, if you’re a thief. Don’t copy and paste it 25 times.
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  9323. The monopoly stranglehold of the Tories goes on. You deserved the boot, Liz. Please do pass ‘Go’. Do not collect £115,000 per year. You’re lucky you’re not in jail. Taking a chance on you was a disaster. Spare us any water works.
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  9324. A power outage caused by a ‘power outrage’ living in the Kremlin.
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  9325.  @The_Reality_Filter Yes, I do believe the OP. You need much better coping mechanisms, petal. 👍
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  9326.  @richard7645  Some of them recommend full-stops today. *.
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  9327. Throw another egg in the frying pan, Jimbo! 🍳🤣
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  9328.  @greenflat259  Ask Julia. 😉
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  9329.  Palepride Worldwide  Very little ‘triggers’ me, mate. Least of all a random comment on YouTube.😉
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  9330.  Palepride Worldwide  I read it alright; but it made no sense.😉
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  9331.  Palepride Worldwide  Huh? Come again?😳
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  9332. USA + Iraq/Libya/Afghanistan/Yemen/etc = OK Russia + Ukraine = Not OK Impartial observer: all of it not ok.
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  9333. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  9334. Yup.
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  9335. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the de-Nazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  9336. I love Matthew; he always looks like he’s dressed to go to his First Holy Communion. 🙏
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  9337. It’s utterly inevitable that unless Russia just nukes Ukraine, then they have no long-term chance of winning this thing. And, actually, if they do that, no one wins. Putin’s mad designs for some kind of ersatz reconstruction of the Soviet Union are deluded in the face of a majority population who will fight for every inch of their sovereign, self-governed territory. Putin thinking it could be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, shows he’s clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  9338. @ It was a joke, dude. FYI, he was a comedian. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  9339.  @Hermetica022  But they come here because they can with our immigration systems. It’s not immigrants’ fault if they want to come to Europe for a better life. It’s up to you to stop them at source. If you can’t/won’t do this, then shut the fuck up.
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  9340. @Consigliere Who? Well, who you got? Spain, France, Portugal, Britain, Netherlands; this doesn’t include all the citizens from Europe that went to live all over the world and imposed their ways and mores on the back of the state-sponsored colonialism. Europe displays a staggering lack of self-awareness and an egregious double standards hypocrisy when it moans about economic migration into Europe.
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  9341. @Consigliere What? Europeans have never exported trouble?! Lmao. Europeans since 1492 have been exporting murder, slavery, colonialism without consent of the colonised, theft, war. Need I say any more?
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  9342.  @luciobrazil007  Yawn However, there were quite a few ‘ethnic Germans’ willing to go along with the ideas of Hitler.
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  9343. @Nicolas Olivier No one is innocent in all this. Every culture, most countries I can think of are complicit in terrible crimes against humanity at one point or another. It’s not a game of weighing these against each other, and thereby scoring points; it’s about acknowledging it was all wrong. Most people I know are for controlled immigration; I’m aware of no one who would have absolutely no non-European immigration to Europe. So we take it from there. As Prypiat says in this thread, the middle way is usually the right way. The extremes, in my experience, in political terms, are always unbalanced: that is, open-door immigration advocates versus closed-door advocates. Willing to bet that 90%+ of Europeans are in favour of some controlled economic immigration; determining what that might be in practice is the issue.
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  9344. @Nicolas Olivier Why are you stating stuff as if I don’t know it’s morally wrong? I repeat, as I’ve repeated throughout this thread, if Europeans don’t think they have buckets of blood on their hands, they are living in cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is enslaving, or violently imposing their mores and will on another then that is wrong. On this score, Europeans are as guilty as anyone else you care to mention, therefore for Europeans to talk as if they aren’t guilty of the most brutal historical crimes is laughable.
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  9345. @Nicolas Olivier Yes, but Spain and Portugal stole, enslaved, murdered and imposed their mores and ways back in the 16th Century.
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  9346. @Nicolas Olivier I’m anti all colonialism, if the consent of the colonised is not obtained. It’s quite simple. Answer me this: I knock on your door tomorrow and ask you if I can occupy your house against your will, impose my will, and if you dare refuse this I kill you, would you be happy with this scenario? However, if you agree to my occupation of your house, and the imposition of my ways, that is different. As far as I can see, if you are obeying the laws, speaking the native language and paying your taxes, then anyone has just as much right to live in a place as anyone else. That said, I’m not for open-door immigration when it comes to economic migrants and each nation rightly reserves the right to control this as it wishes. However, I do advocate an open-door policy for any genuine asylum seeker seeking refuge; although it would perhaps be preferable if international agreements as to these could be reached so that one country isn’t taking in more than their fair share proportionally to resources available.
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  9347.  @gregducati999  Answer me this: I knock on your door tomorrow and ask you if I can occupy your house against your will, impose my will, and if you dare refuse this I kill you? You happy with that scenario, sunshine?
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  9348.  @DucadiBorgogna_  To be fair though, mate, we should all be thankful Christianity has been relatively defanged these past 100 years or so. I’m agnostic and as far as I can see, much of Islamic practice and adherence is similar to what Christianity was like centuries ago. Truth is, that with no Islamic Reformation of any kind, a worrying amount of Muslims take their text by the letter. Very dangerous. This is not an ‘Islam’ problem; this is an organised religion problem. When people use texts written by primitive, ignorant, often barbaric folk and use these texts literally, then that way madness lies, as 2000 years of sanguinary human history evinces.
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  9349.  @keepingitwild5994  How about just keeping their noses out of other people’s business? The double standards hypocrisy is egregious. You’ll make rules about who comes to your neck of the woods, but when your forbears went to other parts, what say did the ‘indigenous’ populations have then? You’re laughable in your hypocrisy.
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  9350.  @rq21abdullahi96  I only drink my own piss. Get it right, son. 🐮
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  9351.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  🙈
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  9352. So, I presume you’ll not be popping this particular newscaster into your wank-bank then? 🤓
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  9353. Start with the smaller ones in Spain - the mosquitos!
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  9354. And you may have harmed your karma there, such that you might be reborn a tick that feeds on that pig’s anus.😳
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  9355. I quoted that one earlier! 😉
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  9356. “Siamese fighting fish. Fascinating creatures. Brave, but on the whole stupid. Yes, they’re stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here, who lets the other two fight while he waits. Waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself. And then, like SPECTRE, he strikes.” (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) ‘The occasional one’ = USA/NATO?
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  9357. “As you can see, I am about to inaugurate a little war. In a matter of hours after America and Russia have annihilated each other. We shall see a new power dominating the world.” (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) Was David Icke right all along? 😲
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  9358.  @gamingtonight1526  Takes one to know one!😉
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  9359. Another egg to go with the 2 chips on your shoulder, Jimbo? 🥚 🍟
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  9360.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  It’s called variation, Jimbo. We don’t all want (or need) people like you. You appear to think you’re more entitled than anyone else, Jimbo. It doesn’t work like that, son. I’m sure you realise this, deep down. 👍😉👌
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  9361. Ah, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, you really needs to attribute the quotes you steal from others. It’s called ‘plagiarism’, Jimbo. A big word for you, I know. 👍😉
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  9362.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Throw another chip in the pan, Jimbo. 😉🍟🤡👌
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  9363. Dinny worry, Jimbo, sonny. You just chow down yer egg and chips and everything will be ok.😉🤡
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  9364. Because your parents had sex. Alas.
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  9365.  @thinkwithvideos2238 But that’s their choice. Ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  9366.  @DFenV  😉
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  9367.  @DFenV  You guys not have sarcasm over there?
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  9368.  Michael  Lol. Wrong thread, son! 😁
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  9369.  @philipharris7594  *where I don’t have a team.😉
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  9370. Given that Russia is the largest country in the world by land area, and is almost twice the size of Canada, the second largest country by area, it seems almost greedy that it should want even more land; if anything, it should be donating land to those in need of some.
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  9371.  @FormulaProg  That’s by the by. Can you imagine if, in 2022, the Isle of Wight were ceded to the Chinese? There would monumental uproar from the ‘no more immigration’ morons; the very people who are all for Empire, so long as it’s their Empire.
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  9372.  @cann0708  That’s by the by. Can you imagine if, in 2022, the Isle of Wight were ceded to the Chinese? There would monumental uproar from the ‘no more immigration’ morons; the very people who are all for Empire, so long as it’s their Empire.
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  9373.  @ArabicReja973  < - - - You need to pay a visit to a psychiatrist, pronto! 👩‍⚕️
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  9374.  @teaveins1466  It’s not really though, is it? If they disappeared tomorrow few would mourn them, and those who would are relics of a bygone era anyway. The modern royals are little more than C-list celebrities; eminently dispensable to be replaced by the latest bright new thing. The French point is a good one: Versailles is the third most popular visitor attraction in France 250 years after they abolished the bunch of sponging cretins.
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  9375.  @teaveins1466  Just a little insensitive, that’s all. 200 years ain’t that long. Ancestral memory lingers. Think on.
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  9376.  @Witheredgoogie  Who’s shaming a whole country? Not me. Just pointing out that Britain was the most dominant in the transport of slaves between 1640 and 1807 when the British slave trade was abolished. It is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans (of whom 2.7 million arrived) to the British colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to other countries. Being ‘imported into Britain’ is totally irrelevant. They were taken from their lands, transported elsewhere against their wills, and where that elsewhere was isn’t the issue: the issue is that it was Britain carrying on this nonsense.
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  9377.  @Witheredgoogie  Yes, and so? Does that make it ok? The slavery against non-whites is particularly egregious due to the race element involved; the seeing them as sub-human. Dickens at 12 in a factory is slightly different contextually, to say the least.
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  9378.  @Witheredgoogie  One form of slavery doesn’t validate another. You’re making a non sequitur point. They are equally bad: child slavery/black slavery.
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  9379. Dingleberry.🤣
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  9380.  @sasazapadnik9335  Why are people so literal? Jesus Christ. If Serbs and Kosovans shared the same language, ethnicity and religion there would be no issue here. All I was suggesting was that some of us on this planet see human beings hating others for ethnic, religious or language reasons as deeply, deeply primitive. S’all.👍
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  9381.  @terrymurphy2032  I’ve heard of nominative determinism for people and their jobs (Vladimir = ‘world ruler’ yikes! Boris Johnson = ‘small penis’ eeek! 😨) but nominatively determined streets takes it to another level again.
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  9382. Wow! The hate in here is toxic. Imagine what it would be like if these travellers were Muslim, too!
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  9383. @@anthonym8395 👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  9384.  @kittyss2371  There is actually a well-documented phenomenon that two half-siblings (or indeed full siblings) who, for whatever reason, are brought up completely separated, when they meet later in life for the first time, there is very often an extraordinary sexual attraction there.
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  9385.  @deborahminter6231  Translation: I disagree with your point. *you’re
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  9386.  @lisavanderpump7475  Not to some people, it seems.
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  9387.  @TTCanadaJapan  What’s interesting to me about the GSA phenomenon is its power. I’ve read much about this, and it appears in many cases the urge is overwhelming and has to be acted upon. Something going on, and something that’s not necessarily conducive to the genetic strength of the species.
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  9388.  @TTCanadaJapan  There is actually quite a well-documented phenomenon termed “genetic sexual attraction” to describe the intense physical and emotional feelings that some people experience following restored contact between an adopted person and a close member of his or her birth family. Some people believe genetic attraction to be a delayed by-product of “missed bonding”. Not sure how evolution selects for this, but it’s curious (and simultaneously alarming) to note.🤔 Anyway, as I said above, my issue is the children issue. Otherwise, do what you want between consenting adults. It’s not for me, but I have no right to disbar others from pursuing it if they so wish.
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  9389.  @TTCanadaJapan  ‘Wrong’ in your opinion. Frankly, my only real issue is having children in all this. However, if 2 consenting, genetically related adults want to have a relationship, I personally have no issue with it. We can agree to disagree.
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  9390.  @TTCanadaJapan  I was just making the point, that some people have a different opinion to you, and they see nothing intrinsically wrong with incest.
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  9391.  @TTCanadaJapan  Some would beg to differ. Have you never seen Deliverance ?
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  9392.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, when my wife and I discussed the tragedy that is you last night, we both concluded it was a genetic fuck-up we just couldn’t understand. She said: “I bet he was an extra in Deliverance! 🪕 🤡 😂
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  9393. “I can confirm we have received 1 valid nomination.” ~ democracy in action. Or, better still, democracy ‘inaction’.
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  9394.  @crystal2484  Who’s bothered about ‘taking land’ when hundreds of thousands are murdered?
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  9395.  @crystal2484  America, and her partners, have more blood on their hands than just about any other country you care to mention. That’s why I blame America.
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  9396.  @jamiebrotherston2241  Nah. For one thing, how do you know that the likes of Medvedev are not against what Putin’s doing? Even if this weren’t the case, if you are not intrinsically linked to the regime, and these tennis players aren’t, it seems, they should not be penalised. Imagine how you would feel having been hitting tennis balls for 6 hours a day since you were 5, and then the likes of Wimbledon turning round and telling you to fuck off?
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  9397. Rodge is now officially a FedEx-tennis player. 🎾
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  9398. We ought to make the world safe from sods like you, Jimbo! 👍🤣
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  9399. 🤣
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  9400. The biggest issue the human species has always had to face is the one of being too clever for our own good, but not nearly wise enough for our own good.🤔 There will be no road out of this conundrum until we, as a species, become wiser. It may actually take a massive nuclear incineration of this planet to cleanse it; cleanse it of the virus that has done it, and its inhabitants most harm in past 300,000 years. We are a virus with shoes, collectively.
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  9401.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Bore off, m8. I’m done.
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  9402. ‘Shelling’ and ‘shilling’ if some news outlets are to be believed.
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  9403. I really like a lot of the BBC’s output; just resent the method of payment. Beeb seems to have forgotten that we’re not living in Communist China, but a free-market economy where people make their own choices as to what they want to pay for, and not be coerced into paying non-negotiable taxes.
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  9404.  @fazertace6837  👍Well spotted!
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  9405. @0:35 Pinky ring. That’s interesting. One of the key signals (conscious or otherwise) of someone’s homosexuality. Jeremy Paxman and Prince Charles are 2 other recently spotted pinky ringers!
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  9406. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  9407. And last, if you believe the Koran.
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  9408. @Lies Tricks For the benefit of the humourless, let me repeat that having no sense of humour also never works. Think on.😉
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  9409. @Lies Tricks Having no sense of humour also never works. Think on.😉
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  9410. *A LOT
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  9411. Apart from being bloody hilarious, this just shows how self-important and pompous humans can be. Why didn’t he just play along and have some fun with his kids? This is what happens when children turn into adults and lose all spontaneity.
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  9412.  @easymoney8535  Just for the record (because I do my due diligence), you came at me with your lazy unthinking slur I was a Putin ‘bot’. You sought me with your unfounded, slanderous crap. Think on.
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  9413.  @gordonstrong5232  George Galloway? How? Why? Because I’m suggesting that Putin is doing nothing the West hasn’t done since about 1492? If that makes me George Galloway, then so be it. Can’t you see the staggering hypocrisy and double standards of the West here? The West has bludgeoned its way through democratically-elected governments and invaded sovereign nations since the year dot. Why? Because it could. Putin is simply apeing (an insult to our simian cousins) the behaviour the West has betrayed for centuries. He can so he does. Just as the West did in countless other sovereign, self-governing states. I add this caveat as others on here seem to think I’m a Putin apologist: none of this is right. From the perspective of the majority, of which I count myself, none of this is right. But neither was the West’s behaviour in the past ‘right’. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and so why are we so surprised when Putin invades a sovereign, self-governing nation? He’s simply taken one look at the West and thought: ‘I’ll have some of that.’
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  9414.  @easymoney8535  Moral absolutes exist only as they relate to human perceptions. Otherwise, there are no moral absolutes. For example, most people might believe the murder of another human being is absolutely immoral. That is only because the ones making the judgment are human beings. How do you know death isn’t a ‘good’ in this equation? You are assuming that death is to be avoided at all costs? Why? Many people live in misery of multifarious kinds and I’m willing to bet if you gave them a pill to end it all painlessly they would. If you are talking about the taking of another’s life against their expressed will, then of course, you are right and this is not to be desired. However, I repeat this basic point that you and your fellow haranguer don’t seem to be able to perceive: other people value different things in a hierarchy different to your particular hierarchy. Putin, for example, is clearly hell-bent and motivated on subsuming all Ukrainians into a greater Russia just because he has this vision and he has the means, having been untouched in his absolute corrupted power for 20 years. You need to recognise that his ‘values’ concerning his invasion of Ukraine and the slaughter of innocents therein take a completely different spin to your ‘values’ or my ‘values’. He has ends, and for him the means justify the ends. I repeat what I said before as it’s vital you get this if you are to have any understanding of human behaviour: no one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world. Putin’s model radically differs from your model, or my model of the world, but given the model Putin is operating from, absolutely nothing he is doing is inappropriate. You need to see this if we are to have any mutual understanding here. Morality is just something we make up as we go along, case by case. To walk down the path of moral absolutes, is to walk the path of every authoritarian who ever lived. There are no moral absolutes. We collectively agree that killing someone is a ‘bad thing’ but I can think of cases where killing another is a ‘good thing'. For example, imagine you are standing beside some tram tracks. In the distance, you spot a runaway trolley hurtling down the tracks towards five workers who cannot hear it coming. Even if they do spot it, they won’t be able to move out of the way in time. As this disaster looms, you glance down and see a lever connected to the tracks. You realise that if you pull the lever, the tram will be diverted down a second set of tracks away from the five unsuspecting workers. However, down this side track is one lone worker, just as oblivious as his colleagues. So, would you pull the lever, leading to one death but saving five? Well, would you? The trolley dilemma allows us to think through the consequences of an action and consider whether its moral value is determined solely by its outcome. I, personally, am a consequentialist/utilitarian when it comes to ethics/morality: that is, what’s the outcome, and what shall give the greatest happiness to the greatest number? As Shakespeare said: There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. What he is saying is that there are no moral absolutes. Sometimes killing someone is the ‘right’ decision. As to Putin, I repeat what I said numerous times in this thread: he’s a dick. The planet could do without him. However, and this is the key point: Putin doesn’t think he’s wrong, and unless we conjure with this truth we will get nowhere, and thereby probably enable further incursions into wherever his fancy may take him next.
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  9415.  @easymoney8535  It’s not though is it, sunshine? From my point of view it’s 100% wrong, from your point of view it’s 100% wrong, but from Putin’s point of view it most certainly isn’t 100% wrong: ergo it’s not 100% wrong is it, as we have a third of our party not feeling it to be 100% wrong. You must have been off the day they taught this elementary stuff. 😳
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  9416.  @keiolge  Yes, but for the main man here it’s not black and white. To you it’s black and white and Putin is black and Ukraine is white. But to any impartial observer this is most certainly not black and white. I repeat, you are too ensconced in one camp (white) to see this. There is an infinite amount of shades of grey here depending on what you look at and who you ask.
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  9417.  @keiolge  From his point of view he has a point. Jesus, you seem incapable of stepping outside your fevered little bubble just for one second. Of course Putin thinks he has a point. Why else would he be there otherwise? I think he’s wrong, as do you, clearly, but from Putin’s point of view he has a point.
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  9418.  @easymoney8535  Yeah? You got that lie yet? Struggling, aren’t you?
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  9419.  @keiolge  A Ukrainian public opinion poll of May 6 showed 37% in favor of joining NATO with 28% opposed and 34% undecided. Er, you were saying? 28% opposed . Again, you were saying?
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  9420.  @easymoney8535  Where? Which lie? Name one.
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  9421.  @keiolge  Yes, but you still haven’t once in this conversation acknowledged that a substantial minority in East Ukraine want nothing to do with the West/NATO/EU. You need to do this, regardless of this referendum or that referendum; the fact remains about 30-40% of Ukrainians are looking to Russia. That’s all I’m saying. It’s also why I’m saying I think they should have a national vote on partitioning Ukraine.
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  9422.  @keiolge  Also what about the democratically-elected President the West/EU/West Ukrainians didn’t approve of and ousted? You’re going to ignore that one to suit your agenda, I suppose?
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  9423.  @gmailvfone  That’s not the point here. Regardless if America was a democratically-elected regime, or, as with Putin, a barbaric dictatorship, both have blood on their hands, and, yes, if we tally it up historically, I can’t think of one regime that has more blood on its hands than America. And that probably includes Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, although, God knows, they were bad enough.
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  9424.  @keiolge  NATO in Ukraine is a clear and present danger to Putin. If you can’t see this then can I suggest trying to see things from his point of view, and not just yours? I’m just pointing out the horrendous double standards of the West historically, that’s all. America and her partners have the worst record of any on this planet in invading sovereign self-governing nations (just what Putin is doing) and/or overturning democratically-elected governments forcibly (just what Putin is doing). Think about this a little more without your ‘agenda spectacles’.👓
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  9425. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”
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  9426. *loser
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  9427.  @nathanmerritt1581  You could have been born anywhere, son. It’s random. So, you are randomly born somewhere and you’re going to adopt this as a key marker of who you are? Really? I call that primitive thinking. Think on.
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  9428.  @nathanmerritt1581  Because I’m good. I repeat, why are you placing a key marker of your identity in an accident of birth?
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  9429.  @nathanmerritt1581  Why are you placing a key marker of your identity in an accident of birth?
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  9430.  @nathanmerritt1581  Yes, you hit the nail on the head! 👏
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  9431. Nation states are arbitrary, contingent abstract nonsenses dictated by accidents of birth. To be a nationalist is to be an unthinking fool.
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  9432.  @gooddestiny12345  Was just playing around with Kilgore’s Apocalypse Now motto. Chill.
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  9433.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. You utter double-standards hypocrite! You’re onto the “copes” now are you? The very techniques you disdain in others so loudly and haughtily and pretentiously you yourself deploy! I knew it. I had your number from day 1 you badly-grammared, badly-spelled 🤡! Uh huh.😊👌
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  9434. Women, blacks, Jews, Asians, gays … well, Jimbo that really just leaves you, m8 in your sub-literate echo chamber chowing down the egg & chips. 🤪
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  9435.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  It was rather successful. Almost two million fans attended the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand - up by more than 600,000 on the previous record. You really do need a better researcher. Uh huh. 🤡
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  9436. Including ones who forget full-stops. *.
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  9437. Yep. And remember: China got Covid right off the bat. 🦇
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  9438. I agree. That Ben Shephard can be a right rotter.
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  9439. Triggered, much?🤣
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  9440. No votes, Jimbo. Bad luck. 😭
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  9441. One vote, Jimbo. You! Bad luck. 😭
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  9442. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  9443. Well, on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
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  9444. … it up and start again?
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  9445.  @phillipwalker8827  Not good m8. Liz is dead. Thanks for caring. 🙏😐
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  9446. Lol. How many times, Jimbo?! 😂Change da fookin’ record, man!😳
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  9447. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  9448.  @nikolassodiant2595  I’m sure he does. But not on a first one.
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  9449.  @kylerittenhousecommieslaye3558  Your problem mate, amongst legion, is that you shot your load with your moniker. Never a wise move.
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  9450.  @kylerittenhousecommieslaye3558  Lol. Changing what’s accepted by the vast majority of cultural anthropologists to suit your agenda. Smooth.
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  9451.  @kylerittenhousecommieslaye3558  Deal with reality of your self-created surroundings. Hahaha!
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  9452. S’ok. The fishmongers’ll have it covered.
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  9453.  Russians T -Bag Ukrainian Neo-Nazis  ‘Twas a jape.
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  9454. It’s funny; throughout this whole war we’ve always been told that this Azov Battalion was a bunch of neo-Nazis, and yet there isn’t a single pencil moustache amongst them! 🤓
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  9455.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *there’s 👈 Jeez, Jimbo, are you frickin’ allergic to apostrophes or something, pal?!🤣
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  9456.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  ‘Discovery South Africa: Facebook.’ There, Jimbo, I quoted the source for you ya cheeky thief of others’ hard work, son! 🤣
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  9457.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yes, but Jimbo, from whom did you crib that, son? It’s far too witty, snappy and intelligent to be your work! Source please! 🤣
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  9458.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  ‘Myocarditis’? My, O, what a card it is you are, Jimbo! 🤣
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  9459. It’s a piece of clothing, m8. It’s not as if banning the burka is going to make that person renounce their Islam! 🤣
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  9460.  @isobeljohnshoward  But it did go over your head! I wasn’t being sarcastic. I was making the point that what the French State is doing is a mirror image of what the Taliban is doing and, in that sense, I’m not a fan of either.
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  9461.  @isobeljohnshoward  No, I wasn’t being “sarcastic”; I was making a valid point.
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  9462.  @isobeljohnshoward  As the OP, yes it did. 👍
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  9463. Roger! 👍
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  9464.  Block Lord  I never mentioned the hijab.
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  9465.  @hanzalaomar9915  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  9466.  @motivated_center  They can’t go to school. They can’t go to the park. They can’t drive. They can’t leave the house without a male chaperone. Not allowed to not wear the full veil in public. No protection for women and girls threatened by violence. Very few opportunities to work. Essentially, women in Afghanistan under the Taliban are expunged from public life. They are dictated to by men. If you’re so happy with this, why don’t you live there permanently? 🤡
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  9467.  @quill9105 Um, yes, I got that bit. I was just playing with the idea that it smashed right into a pillar of the bridge that brought it down. It’s a coincidence, I’m sure. But it’s interesting nonetheless.
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  9468. Pmsl.
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  9469. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s 1st daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin 2nd daughter: “Really, dad? I mean, really?” Putin’s son: “Really, dad? I mean, really?”
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  9470. Entrusting humans with nuclear power is like handing your toddler a lit firework and expecting everything to be ok.
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  9471. This whole thing is getting so alarming that I half expect Putin to fly down on a nuclear missile any day now, riding it like a crazed cowboy, with his flabby torso exposed, as his personal homage to the final scene of Dr Strangelove .
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  9472.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not stepping on any free-speech, Jimbo. I fear you have the wrong fella, son. Total libertarian you have on your hands in that sense, chummo. Almost, one could say, Elon Muskesque, Jimbo! 👍😉
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  9473.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  All you care about, Jimbo, is you and your little Englander worldview. You make dinosaurs look progressive, m8.👍 🦖
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  9474.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not the point, Jimbo. You want no incoming immigration. If you’re being consistent you need to call for no outgoing emigration.
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  9475. I’ve got a ‘crooked hockey stick’, Jimbo. Now, just bend over for me, son. This may sting. 🏒
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  9476.  @fukyutube2279  I’m not sure what you’re on about. Most people I know in ‘the West’ have clean water, affordable food, are free to say what they want (without infringing hate laws), can do what they want without hindrance … so, what’s the issue? How better do you want this to be if you are fed, watered, are free to think, say and do what you want (within the law)? What’s missing here?
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  9477. Nah, Master of Puppets was better.
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  9478. If there was ever more proof of just how primitive we are as a species is the fact that 300,000 years after we appeared on the scene we cannot simply stop one unhinged, weird creep from quite possibly taking us into mutual nuclear annihilation. 😔 Make no mistake, this psychopath has nothing to lose at 70 and he’ll bring on Armageddon without a second thought if we aren’t careful.
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  9479. What, ‘morons’ like you who are also watching the BBC? Hypocrite.😉
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  9480. If literacy were allowed, you’d still be nowhere near it.
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  9481.  @JOEFABULOUS.  Ffs. Don’t bring Bono into this! U2 are shyte!
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  9482. Perhaps get the refs to hold up red cards for China, too!
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  9483. @David Brown Lol. Kudos for owning that geographical ignorance.🥴
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  9484.  @danielhutchinson6604  Er, k. 🥴
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  9485.  @S-North  Huh? Not sure wtf you’re on about, son. In my OP it clearly displays no bias one way or the other. You may have the wrong guy here. I forgive you.👍
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  9486.  @Isclachau  Please ask mummy for a basic science textbook. You’re making yourself look very foolish by continuing this. I’d stop now if I were you.
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  9487.  @Isclachau It’s science. Did you not go to your basic science classes, darling? 🤦‍♂️
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  9488.  @AUmarcus  As is America. 2 nasty sides of the same coin.😉
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  9489.  @what8562  There is a reason that, after 10 years, you still have no frickin’ subscribers!🤣😂🤣
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  9490.  @sassy6498  Just know this: this whole thing is, ultimately, orchestrated by the West.
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  9491.  @what8562  No. Tracy. Get it right.
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  9492.  @sassy6498  K, Sass. You said your piece and it didn’t totally add up. Fair play, though. You had a go. 👍
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  9493. Lol, Jimbo. 🤣 Your poor, poor sprogs; they had the deep misfortune to be ‘educated’ by a sub-literate chumpster like you! 🤣 🤦‍♂️
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  9494. Wonder if Zelensky will be donning a baseball cap in honour of The William Hague. 🧢
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  9495.  @siesie8827  ‘i agree with u women should have the choice.’ Where’s the issue, then? We agree. I think women should be the final arbiters of what happens to their bodies and so do you.
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  9496.  @siesie8827  Well, so we just have to agree to disagree there. I’m not saying I don’t ‘value’ human life. I’m not saying that the decision to abort is an easy one. I’m not advocating using abortion as a kind of contraception after the fact. I’m not saying that other people who are anti-abortion are not entitled to their point of view. I’m not saying others, like you, can’t disagree with my point of view. What I am saying is this: I, someone who has absolutely nothing to do with a given pregnant woman, have utterly no right to prevent this woman from taking the decisions she wants to take when it comes to her body. I can speak. I can offer an opinion, as can anyone else. But ultimately, this is a decision for the woman, and the woman alone, and that’s why I’m pro-choice on the issue of abortion.
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  9497.  @siesie8827  Nothing’s ‘given’ to us as far as I can see. It just happens. We are all just genetic accidents. I repeat my point: if you were given the choice whether to endure this vale of tears or not, knowing what you know now, would you? I know what my choice would be. I don’t buy this arrogant anthropocentric idea that human life is any more ‘sacred’ than the life of any other living creature who is able to suffer. On this basis, pro-choice for women (with all due consideration for dates on termination in the womb) has to be the way here, in my opinion. The earlier the better, to obviate risk of suffering. I have absolutely no moral issue with terminating a bunch of cells or anything which hasn’t developed a fully-functioning central nervous system. It’s the woman’s body; ergo, it’s her choice, therefore for anyone , man or woman, to interfere with this choice is inadmissible and invidious. It’s none of my, or anyone else’s business, aside from the woman in question.
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  9498. St Thomas of Aquinas was talking out his blowhole.
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  9499. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  9500. K, dad.
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  9501. lol
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  9502.  @MA-fg5hz  Huh? You’re making no sense.
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  9503. 🥱
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  9504.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  It is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are very probably repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. 🥸 Got something you wanna get off your pallid chest, Jimbo?🤣
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  9505. Lol. Methinks the repressed homosexual doth protest too much!🤣
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  9506.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  That comment btw, Jimbo, you made 1 hour ago … about the “disgust” and “maggots” and all that crap? Pure repressed homosexuality, Jimbo. It’s still just panto season, Jimbo - he’s behind you!🤣
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  9507.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Catcher of the pie Mon-Fri, Jimbo. Thrower-upper on the weekends! 🤓
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  9508.  @TeoZMuff313  What’s the story? Well, for me it’s often a morning glory. 🤓
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  9509.  @KevinXD  You might be a latent homosexual. In fact, I think you are! 🥲🤣
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  9510.  @KevinXD  🥱
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  9511. Spot on, woodcutter! 100% tallies with my experience. Irrationally homophobic people (always men) usually turn out to be repressed homosexuals themselves, I have noticed. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be, and often are expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. 🥸
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  9512.  @deejay7648  Of course, the small elephant in the room here, deejay, is that you have a rather camp name. The kinda thing my 18 year old gay b/f might be called! 🤣😉
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  9513. Yes, Jimbo, you shallah. Out! 🤪
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  9514.  @troublej1035  You make the grave categorical error that pointing out others’ bad ways in the past is defending Qatar today. It’s not. I abjure it all vehemently.
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  9515.  @troublej1035  Not defending them at all. You have no clue have you? I abhor Qatar’s regime. But it’s no more abhorrent than all the previous hosts have been, excepting perhaps Sweden, South Korea and Switzerland. You seem to appear to think the world is light-years more advanced than 1966 or 1978. It’s not. Arguably, we’ve moved an inch forward, but great swathes of this planet are still morally benighted, living under horrendous regimes. Infantino is simply pointing out that the West has been operating ‘horrendous regimes’ (mostly on others) since about 1492. He’s right to point this out. None of this excuses Qatar. Obviously they got the World Cup because some palms were greased but that is a whole other debate.
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  9516.  @troublej1035  Stop making the rules up as you go along. Argentina in 1978 was a brutal dictatorship murdering thousands. How you gonna defend that one?
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  9517.  @troublej1035  Did you not see my reply to that? Argentina was. England was. Just to take 2 examples. In 1966, homosexuality was illegal in England. Now I’m not sure what moral universe you live in, but I’d say that was a grave abuse of the human rights of gay people.
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  9518.  @troublej1035  I would also add that in very recent history to when Germany first hosted it, Germany had been the instigator of the most horrendous human slaughter in human history. Just a thought.
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  9519.  @troublej1035  Argentina was. England was. Think on.
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  9520.  @joso7228  I agree. Infantino was just pointing out the egregious double-standards hypocrisy at work here. I’m no fan of FIFA, but he’s right on this one.
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  9521.  @jessez8503  It was a joke. You have clearly had the ‘sense of humour bypass’ operation. I was essentially saying this: Qatar, a country with 0 footballing tradition, and with 1 stadium when it was awarded the World Cup, has been chosen to host the World Cup. Can you guess why? I bet you can. If you can’t, let me help you: 💰 💰 💰
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  9522. 👩‍⚕️ Nurse will be with you shortly, Jimbo. She has your medication. They have upped the dosage but as they have run out of 💊 they will have to administer it anally. I’m sure you’re used to anal insertions! Now, pants off, bend over 💉🤣
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  9523. Yeah, but it was tricky for the Neanderthals as they weren’t fully erect.
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  9524. If you were told an A350 Airbus would be completely destroyed after being engulfed in flames and every single person on that plane got out alive, it would be hard to believe. But it happened. Alas, the same couldn’t be said for the coastguard plane’s occupants. RIP.
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  9525.  @akon360  Pmsl.
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  9526.  @Pfyzer  😉
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  9527. Well, on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
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  9528.  @serjbondarev4959  Yes, yes, yes, I’m aware of the long and sordid history. None of that answers whether Putin is justified in invading a sovereign, self-governing territory. I say ‘no’. You appear, at the very least, ambiguous about this. Incidentally, you appear to be wrong about those in favour of looking to the west and NATO/EU: Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power.
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  9529.  @julianpetkov8320  Just for the record Canada contributed 100 troops to the Iraqi invasion. Doesn’t make it right. Afghanistan was a different matter. The legality was murkier. Iraq was clearly an illegal invasion. Like Putin’s. You appear to be condemning one and condoning the other. Odd.
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  9530.  @julianpetkov8320  It’s pretty clear a majority of Ukrainians look west and want nothing to do with Putin. If that weren’t the case, Putin wouldn’t be meeting with so much resistance.
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  9531.  @analoguesoul4594  There is the irrefutable invasion of another country against majority will. I’m not sure what’s complicated about that.
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  9532.  @julianpetkov8320  The double standards of the west are horrendous, I’ve never dodged this, and freely admit America and her partners have more blood on their hands in terms of actual invasion and/or overturning of democratically-elected governments from within than anyone else. I accept this and don’t defend it. However, this only emphasises that Putin is in the wrong here. Two of these don’t make a right. And as someone else correctly pointed out to me recently, there is no nation on this planet that doesn’t have blood on its hands in one way or another if you peer close enough. On that basis, the game is off and we all go home to count the buckets of blood. All the more need then, to call out the likes of Putin when he throws his weight around.
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  9533.  @helenhollywood915  Get real. Trudeau/Putin? Really? Yes, Justin is a mighty sinister figure from where I’m sitting but Putin trumps him on this score. Oh, and the last time I checked Canada wasn’t invading sovereign, self-governing nations.
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  9534.  @purplespeckledappleeater8738  I call Putin ‘illiberal’ if that means restricting freedom of thought and behaviour.
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  9535.  @purplespeckledappleeater8738  Ok, I’ll make this easier for you: Russia or USA? Russia or virtually any other European country? Russia or Canada? Every time, I’m not picking Russia in its current incarnation.
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  9536.  @ashleysmith1290  I’m just coming from the value-position here. Frankly, I personally in my everyday life before this all started, couldn’t have given a flying fuck about Ukraine or Russia; all I know, having stood on the sidelines for 3 weeks, is that Russia is the more the wronger here than the wronged. I say this fully acknowledging that, yes, Zelensky is far from sainthood. But I return to the key point here, leaving aside the personality crap: Russia invaded a sovereign, self-governing nation, the majority of whom want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia. This much, for me, is clear.
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  9537.  @ashleysmith1290  Oh, you are a bitter one, aren’t you.
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  9538. Yes, those people in Rennes, Brest and St Malo are going to have it tough this winter. On the bright side, they are only a hop, skip and jump from the Côte d’Azur! 🏝
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  9539. @4:10 Neil Parish got rather excited at this point and made a terrible mess. 🚜 🤓
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  9540. That’s no way to talk about the Tory Party!
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  9541. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  9542. There were 427 mass shootings in the United States in 2017, and more than 15,000 people were killed in firearm-related incidents, whilst over 30,000 people were injured. Are you telling me that all those 45,000 murdered/maimed people in 2017 would have been killed/maimed anyway, without the existence of gun availability?
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  9543.  @jeffw.4205  I’d agree that gun violence can cramp one’s style, somewhat.
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  9544.  @jimmyjames3220  Pmsl. It's true that banning (or, at least, heavily restricting) guns from civilian ownership wouldn't eliminate gun violence completely, but it would make it less likely. It would also save tens of thousands of lives. Not sure what planet you are living on, son.
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  9545.  @jimmyjames3220  Apart from killing things what do guns do?
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  9546.  @jimmyjames3220  Countries with strict gun laws have fewer homicides by gun. This isn’t rocket-science.
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  9547.  @jimmyjames3220  Yeah, but cars are not intrinsically made for killing people. Guns are clearly made for shooting living things; among other things.
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  9548. Her right leg is 3 inches shorter than the other.
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  9549.  @Adam-mo6gf  ‘Rels’?
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  9550.  @Adam-mo6gf  Look mate, we are all already mongrels. Get over it. It’s boring.
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  9551.  @SimonLee-y1u  Not triggered by anything, sonny. Cope a bit better now. 🤡😉
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  9552.  @billc.4584  It’s the double-standards, pal. I’m no Trump fan, but it works both ways and ole Biden has more than a whiff of corruption floating around his doddery head.
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  9553.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Uh huh. But what about that trans, Muslim homosexual black man from Jamaica who converted to Hinduism, Jimbo? Did you marry him? 🤭
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  9554.  @curiositycloset2359  If we “don’t have the data” to “go off” why are you hypocritically quoting data?
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  9555. First orgasm. 😉
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  9556.  @TheWunder  Not grammatically incorrect, though, son. Think on.
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  9557. Specsavers? 🤓
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  9558. More knife crime in US, too.😉
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  9559. How does your ‘border’ argument work when it comes to Spain, or France, or Italy, or Germany? Moreover, we have criminals in Europe. They can access illegal weapons, just like your criminals in America can. Difference with America is that you freaks can also quite easily access legal weapons, capable of massacring dozens in seconds. Ease of access permits your homicide rate to be consistently 4x that of European nations. Truth is, you’re hobbled by your 2nd Amendment. Yes, if you regulate guns better, this will not stop the hardened, determined, ne’er-do-well from getting their hands on guns, but it would drastically lessen the chances of a disaffected 18 year old nutjob walking into a school and blowing away 20 children in less than 3 minutes. That kind of thing, while not unknown in Europe, and elsewhere, just doesn’t happen with the horrific frequency it does in America. Fact: last mass shooting in UK? 1996. You read that right. 1996.
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  9560. There is no God. There should be no 2nd Amendment. There may very well be no Texas. Think on … 😉
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  9561. Dude calls himself John Locke. 🥸
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  9562. Crossed with George Lucas. 🧔‍♂️
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  9563.  @MarkyMark2177  P.S. I don’t need to move, as I’m one of the lucky ones: I don’t actually live in that shithole nation they call the U S of A! Ta da! Gotcha!😂
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  9564.  @MarkyMark2177  I was using ‘you’ in the general sense, you semi-educated numpty!😆Ah, Yankee education ain’t what it used to be, and I’m not sure it even ever was!🤠
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  9565.  @MarkyMark2177  I’m not interested in whether abortion is ‘constitutional’ or not; it’s about a woman’s choice. Neither I, you, nor anyone else should have any kind of final say in this. Yes, using freedom of speech, we can proffer an opinion, and that’s as it should be, but you’re asking me to actively interfere and potentially legally force a raped woman, for example, to have the child of that rape? Never would I do this.
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  9566. *payers’
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  9567.  @zplanetx8050  Non sequitur point. This is about homicidal gun violence, son. Don’t stray from the point, as that suggests you’re beaten. America consistently has 4x more homicides than Europe. Deal with it.😉
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  9568. Bollix! Most, if not all, of Europe has strict gun laws. Violence there is consistently 4x less than the US in terms of homicides. Think on …
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  9569.  @luckybait  Keep taking the Mogadon, Jimbo.👍
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  9570.  @newsomsr2000  So you should be, dearie.
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  9571. *This won’t make any difference.
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  9572. Suggs disagrees.
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  9573.  @earthquakkejake9894  Well, they are worth liking. No worse than those who preen and take dozens of selfies every day. And often they’re not even good-looking! 👹😉
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  9574. What, even on Mars? You’re talking out Uranus, m8.
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  9575. Funny how most of the rest of the world has no issue not having guns and the vast majority of these same people have no issue with criminals. Almost makes you think this is just an American thang. 🧐
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  9576. @Patrick Dempsey What, all those slave owners who ‘founded the country’? Worse than ‘old and stinky’ I’d say.
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  9577. Why do you presume that every person who is pro-gun control is a Communist/Marxist/Socialist? You seem brainwashed, son. Most everyone I’m aware of who is pro-gun control doesn’t answer to your description in any way. You may need to get out more, mate. Get yourself a passport, come and visit the UK, and the rest of Europe while you’re at it: you might learn a thing or two.😉
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  9578. “… Never, Never” (Said with thick N Irish accent.)
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  9579.  @Angela-de1yw  Lol.
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  9580.  @Angela-de1yw  Is it me you’re looking for?😳
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  9581. You strike me as having a ‘Type A’ personality.
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  9582.  @PsyChoAnaLize  😆
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  9583.  @josephstalin7389  Lol. Idiot.
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  9584. What, just like you ‘robbed’ millions of Russians, Joseph?
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  9585. Possibly. I’ve turned in a few bad unemployed guns. 🤓
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  9586. And we the people will have our ‘defen c e’. 🇬🇧
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  9587. If you piss on a forest fire and there is no one there to watch it, does part of the fire go out? 🌳 🔥
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  9588. *he were < subjunctive detected.🤓
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  9589. I never, ahem, touched your gun, sonny, and I’m not sure you should be playing with it anyway.😳
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  9590. Says someone called ‘Soviet Union Roblox-George’. I think I see a pot and a kettle somewhere.
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  9591. Yes, but can you tell us what you really think?🤓
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  9592.  @percyfaith11  Statistics suggest quite clearly knife crime is higher, per capita, in the US, than in the UK. Ooops! 🥸
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  9593.  @adrianlouw2499  Adey, petal, did you actually read my OP, or are you just a wilful numpty with an agenda? Huh? I’ll spell it out for you quite simply: I don’t want to live in a country where they are seriously mooting the idea of arming schoolteachers. Moreover, there are places (more than you might think) where the police don’t routinely carry guns. These places feel 10x more safe than America. There now, that wasn’t too difficult, was it sweetie?😉
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  9594.  @adrianlouw2499  Ah, you mention Japan. Oops! You might have shot yourself in the foot there, m8. Japan: some of the strictest gun laws in the world; one of the lowest homicide rates in the world? Coincidence?😳🥸😉
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  9595.  @adrianlouw2499  Can I take this opportunity to quote one of the few genuine wiseacres to emerge from your benighted country, Adey, baby? K, thanks. It’s from the wonderful Mark Twain: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” He wrote that one especially for you! 🎉 Ta da!😂
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  9596.  @adrianlouw2499  World Population Review. Homicides per capita: USA - 4.96 Germany - 0.95 France - 1.20 UK - 1.20 Italy - 0.57 Spain - 0.62 These stats factually , I repeat FACTUALLY make Europe 4 times safer than America. You really do need to get back to school, sonny, as dealing with simple facts appears to be beyond you. Run along now.😂
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  9597.  @adrianlouw2499  Averages, dummy. All about the averages. 4x fewer homicides, sonny, as a national average. Think on …🥸😉
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  9598.  @adrianlouw2499  But yet … but yet … we still seem to have 4x fewer homicides than the US. 🥳 That factually , I repeat FACTUALLY makes us ‘more safe’. Ta da! 🎉
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  9599.  @adrianlouw2499  We’re taking the stats as national averages, moron. Did they teach you nothing in kindergarten, fannychops, or were you just fiddling with your bits in the sandpit all day?😂
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  9600.  @adrianlouw2499  Doesn’t feel ‘less safe’ here in the UK and in Europe in general compared to the US and I say that having lived in the US.😉 Moreover, the stats back this up as Europe actually is 4x more safe, in terms of homicides, than the US. That’ll probably be why it doesn’t feel less safe here compared to America. Ta da!🤓
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  9601.  @MEANASSJAMSTER  Lol.
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  9602.  @margarethany  Actually, much of the rest of the world routinely arms its police, so no, I actually mean the UK more than the rest of the world in this case.😉
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  9603.  @chaosXP3RT  If most other places, admittedly not all, can trust the police to protect them and their families, then why not America? You might be right; your police may not be able to be trusted, but then that’s just one more sign of just how fucked your country is.
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  9604.  @victorbostitch2294  Stay strapped, continue living in homicidal crap.
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  9605.  @victorbostitch2294  And another thing, you are at least 4 times more likely to get your head blown off with a semi-automatic in America, than you are likely to get stabbed here in the UK. Just sayin’.😉
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  9606.  @victorbostitch2294  Really? Do you carry your gun around on your person 24/7? Moreover, 60% of Americans don’t own firearms.
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  9607.  @victorbostitch2294  More knife crime in America than UK. Just sayin’.😉
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  9608.  @bubandlisa  And? Today in America about 500 people will have a cap popped in them. 4x more homicides Stateside. Think on …😉
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  9609. @Uk Sucks One swallow doth not a summer make. (As the Liverpool prossie said to her client) Think on, er, Uk Sucks …🥸
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  9610.  @keithlarsen7557  Why would American teachers need to ‘out-fight’ British police? The fact you’re even thinking along these lines only seems to re-emphasise just how fucked up America and Americans are.
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  9611.  @thomasproctor3047  So, why do no other comparable nations have this homicide issue to the same extent? I would say that why they don’t, is because they limit the access to legal guns. If you make guns so free and easy to the average citizen you are going to get average, disaffected citizens being free and easy with guns. Other nations recognise this, and legislate for this. America doesn’t. Why? The archaic, primitive 2nd Amendment, protected by those who accept fortunes from gun lobbyists to maintain the status quo (“Love of money is the root of all evil”). America, Guatemala, Mexico: no other nation on Earth allows their citizens this kind of legal access to deadly assault weapons. They don’t allow this for a very good reason. It’s as clear as day to everyone aside from those in America upholding this stupidity in the face of the daily evidence. As Einstein said apropos ‘insanity’: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. That’s America vis-a-vis guns.
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  9612. Ice hockey sticks?😳 🏒
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  9613. Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting on a bit now. 🏋️‍♀️
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  9614. ‘Fuck around and find out’. That was motto of the last orgy I attended. 🥸
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  9615. Yes, but at least you can use the New York Times as makeshift bog-roll when times are hard. Can’t say that about the BBC. 🚽
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  9616.  @idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533  “British Londoners” - how are you defining this? If you are born in Britain or have citizenship, you are British. What’s your problem?
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  9617.  @idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533  Disagree. I repeat: immigration to the UK has, on balance, been more positive than negative.
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  9618. Oh goody! Let’s terrorise and possibly murder human beings over something they have absolutely no control over. Splendid stuff. So glad I share the planet with these fascist, dictatorial unthinking morons. Bravo! 👏
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  9619.  @carloschacal9334  👏
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  9620. @Grim 👏
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  9621. You’ve got anus on the brain.
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  9622. What if I don’t recognise your ‘god’?😉
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  9623. Don’t worry. Jim’ll fix it.😉
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  9624. Huh? And there are never any heterosexual pedos, ever! 🤣
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  9625. Good on Billie-Jean! 👍Funnily enough, I knew someone similar. Haunted Soho. He was also called BJ King!🤓
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  9626. You cared enough to type that, though. Hypocrisy? 🤔
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  9627. Boys with their toys. Most ordinary people don’t give a toss about Twitter. They just want affordable housing, affordable food, efficient services and a few more leaders who just tell us the truth. Is that so much to ask?
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  9628. There is no Allah. Deal with it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  9629.  @maalikserebryakov  Reported for unfounded slander.
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  9630.  @maalikserebryakov  ‘Racism’?! Lol. I made no comment about race.😆
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  9631.  @hklegomaster  Burden of proof with outlandish stuff is on the claimer of said outlandish stuff, not the denier. As Carl Sagan said: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Most (all?) atheists/agnostics don’t see a scintilla of credible evidence forthcoming from the theists. Why do you think these primitive monotheisms invented the strong-arm tactic of hell fire? Because they couldn’t persuade people quietly as they didn’t (don’t) have the evidence to persuade. Think about this a bit more before blundering in with your claims. Rational people work off evidence, credible evidence which can be peer-reviewed and verified. Organised religion has been egregiously remiss with not supplying this evidence these past 5,000 years. I would suggest there is a very good reason for this.
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  9632.  @mariamoments478  How do you know it’s a ‘he’?
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  9633. Fun fact: I can’t stand people who write ‘fun fact’ all the time.
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  9634. Tony Heller high water?😳🥵
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  9635. Said the Bishop to the choir-boy.😳
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  9636. ‘Cool’ is perhaps not the best word in this scenario.
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  9637. Just another illiterate post lazily bandying about the word ‘woke’.
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  9638.  @karhutitan  Allegedly. At this stage there is so much claim and counter-claim that it’s difficult to believe anyone!
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  9639. Putin: “I used to live here until 1989. I’m back to reclaim it. Please step aside.” Kiev: “Get real, mate. We’ve been paying the mortgage on this place for 30 years. Do one.”
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  9640. Yup! ‘Codswallop’! They named you right, sweetie! 👍
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  9641.  @ayoaye2276  Aye. As are you, I bet.
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  9642. Putin’s menstruating? Wow!
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  9643. Lol@‘no regime change policy’ - That’s been America’s operating policy since 1776. Why that should change today after literally hundreds of ‘regime changes’ instigated by America is a bit of a mystery.🤔
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  9644. He also said: “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?” If he thought that about his own country, think how difficult it is to get other countries to behave according to your perceived self-interests.
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  9645.  Marshall  The irony of the homophobic guy with the gayest name imaginable, Marshall. 🤣Got something you wanna tell us all once you’ve stepped out of that closet?😂
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  9646. Or how about just not giving any random nutter a gun.
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  9647.  @ralphdavis9670  🥱
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  9648. Yes, but tell us what you really think.
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  9649. Prime Minister: “While Joe’s Biden his time, I’ll Putin a word with Vladimir.”
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  9650. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  9651. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  9652.  @sideshow4417  Jeez. It was a joke. Hello?
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  9653.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yer rambling pish, as per, Jimbo. No one cares, son. You’re an irrelevant dinosaur. Get with the gig. 🦖
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  9654.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Uh huh, Jimbo. The irony about you, son, is that you can’t think for yourself and you decided to hitch your wagon to a pointless, nasty, irrelevant book written by men like you 1000s of years ago! Muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  9655.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I just do , Jimbo. Simmer down, son. 🔥
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  9656. Nothing burns for all eternity, Jimbo. You were told that when you were 7. The rest of us who were told that got over it by 8.👍😉
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  9657.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yes.
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  9658.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No votes, Jimbo. Can you guess why? 🤣🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  9659.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  God, you’re boring, Jimbo. 👍😉
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  9660. More projection, Jimbo? Woof! 🐕
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  9661. Mohammed marries a pre-teen?!?! Woaw.
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  9662.  @johnylalrina1451  Pmsl.😂 You were the one that brought up race, dipshit.
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  9663. Wow! Imagine if you change that ‘white’ for any other colour. Somehow it’s ok to be openly racist to whites. Okeydokey.
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  9664. Oooh, the mock moral outrage.
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  9665.  @thisisnotericmays  No. I just know that 16 year olds are often out doing ‘stuff’ in this world, and to pretend otherwise is to be blind to reality.
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  9666.  @DolletteDarling  *they’re All I know is one thing: black, white, yellow, pink or green; if you have non-consenting nonsense then you deserve to pay the price. My gut tells me Cosby is guilty. Of course, I could be wrong.
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  9667. Partying. You should try it some time.
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  9668. Partying. What were you doing at 16? Sitting in a library reading the complete works of Shakespeare?
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  9669. Well, you’re right that a few asses were lying. It was the Playboy mansion, after all.😳
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  9670. *were
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  9671. It’s 10pm from where I’m standing, son.
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  9672. Everyone always blames the minors. I blame Thatcher for all this minor-bashing.
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  9673.  @bradleyriles3889  *hearsay When you make schoolboy errors like this, sonny, I’m not inclined to engage you in any matter. Think on.😉
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  9674.  @bradleyriles3889  The evidence is all around. Open your eyes, sunshine. If you are vaccinated you tend not to die. Deal with it.😉
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  9675.  @murielodette2995  Oh, I agree. I’m wary (and suspicious) of multiple vaccines per year. What can’t be denied is that having a vaccine reduced the COVID death-rate dramatically.
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  9676.  @sbonky  Yes, but you’re ignoring my point: if you’re vaccinated you are far less likely to die. That was Biden’s point. Regardless of how many jabs you need, you need jabs to reduce risk of death. That was the way those countries who had their populations vaccinated got out of the woods. For now.
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  9677.  @TheDrAstrov  Yeah, yeah. You got it. 👍 yawn
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  9678.  @TheDrAstrov  Lighten up you tart. Stop defending a moron, as it only makes you look like an even bigger moron.
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  9679.  @issabenlamine2699  Pmsl.
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  9680.  @TheDrAstrov  Says the Russian orc!🤣
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  9681. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?”
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  9682. But she’s not white. Deal with it.
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  9683. Lol. You remind me of Edward Woodward at the end of The Wickerman .
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  9684.  @carlgrove8793  I’ll say this once more: the Koran explicitly exhorts its followers to go out and convert and kill if people refuse to do so. I quoted you the passage. There is nothing ‘defensive’ about this; it’s openly aggressive.
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  9685.  @carlgrove8793  The Koran is ‘addressing’ how to deal with those who don’t agree with Islam. Fuck-all to do with ‘water rights’, mate. Read it again and get back to me with better stuff, as I’m sure you can do better.
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  9686.  @carlgrove8793  Just for the record, I’m not from an ‘extreme’ background so stop with your baseless assumptions. I was bored shitless every Sunday being dragged to church, that’s all. Nothing extremist. What it did give me though, was a good working knowledge of the Bible. Very often these things are debated and one person hasn’t done the legwork and due diligence by actually reading the texts in question. Very annoying. I think you may get where I’m coming from here.😉
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  9687.  @carlgrove8793  I don’t understand what your point is. You seem to be denying the bleeding obvious even when others place it right in front of you. If you want to uphold that both the Bible and the Koran are peace-loving books upholding love and tolerance for all humankind, then I suggest at best, you’re deluded, and at worst, you’re being wilfully sinister. Remind me not to have you in any jury if I’m ever on trial for something. The evidence is legion, mate. Ignore it all you want; that only makes you look foolish.
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  9688.  @carlgrove8793  Lol @ not just literal violence. Lmao. That’s ok then. A bit of something else to go with the ‘literal’ violence. Ok. Try to defend this stuff all you want.
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  9689.  @carlgrove8793  I can tell you categorically having been brought up in a quite strict religious tradition, that Dawkins’ description is in no way over the top. The Old Testament God is a horrendously brutal character and I’m just glad he doesn’t actually exist! As for the Koran, well this is not a pleasant book, particularly if you’re not Muslim. Infidels are brutally condemned, jihad is openly sanctioned, women often come off second best, homosexuals and homosexuality are demonised, and so it goes on. Neither book is particularly conducive to the creation of open, tolerant, decent people, to say the least. Look at the Koran again if you don’t believe me. I’ll give you this almost at random concerning jihad: The believers who stay at home - apart from those that suffer from a grave impediment - are not the equal of those who fight for the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God has given those that fight with their goods and their persons a higher rank than those who stay at home. God has promised all a good reward; but far richer is the recompense of those who fight for Him … He that leaves his dwelling to fight for God and His apostle and is then overtaken by death, shall be rewarded by God … the unbelievers are your inveterate enemies. (Koran 4:95-101) This stuff is chilling quite simply because Islam never underwent any kind of Reformation whereby this toxic, dangerous crap might not be taken quite so literally. As it is, if I’m a Muslim reading these words, it’s explicitly exhorting me to go and fight others for my religion. It can’t be read any other way. I repeat, I’m no atheist, but I’m most certainly against these rigid, primitive, barbaric, monotheistic texts that have benighted humanity for 2000 years. Organised religion, along with nationalism are the two most baleful disasters humanity ever had the misfortune to invent.
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  9690.  @carlgrove8793  You need to look again at both books, I fear. Certainly, the Old Testament is dripping blood virtually cover to cover, and the Koran is not far behind. I’m no atheist, but Richard Dawkins nailed just what we are dealing with in the Old Testament God: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. This depiction is in no way hyperbole. More’s the pity.
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  9691.  @carlgrove8793  I tend to agree, up to a point. I’m an upholder of absolute free-speech, meaning that I personally would advocate anyone being able to say absolutely anything they want to say, yes, including what others would perhaps claim as incitement to violence. I accept that in the real world, that that, perhaps, isn’t going to float, but my line is when words are turned into actions. So, you can say what you want, if you want, but make sure you have the evidence for your claims. As to burning ‘holy’ books: on the one hand, I can see this as incendiary from a certain point of view, from another absolutist free-speech point of view, I don’t particularly have an issue with it, although it’s not necessarily conducive to the operations of a peaceful civil society in the long run. I suppose what this all boils down to is what are you offended by? Most, if not all, people have certain triggers, but these triggers vary from person to person. Nothing particularly triggers me, as I have trained myself not to be offended; by anything, really. However, if you’re going to stray into the realms of slander/libel, then make sure you have the evidence, that’s all. Free-speech as long as you are not inciting violence is perhaps the best we can hope for here in the real world. That means all religion should be open to criticism. Personally, I have an anathema to all the acknowledged monotheistic religions, seeing the literal adherence to medieval, barbaric, primitive texts unworthy of thinking human beings. The Bible and the Koran, in my opinion, are horrendously brutal texts if you read them literally. However, I read them as I read the Greek/Roman myths; as repositories of fanciful, but sometimes instructive tales; but the last thing you want to do is be taking any of it literally, for that way madness lies, as the past 2000 years demonstrate, and as the current events in Malmö demonstrate.
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  9692.  @sonofsomerset1695  Yeah, but that’s too extreme. In a globalised world people move, and move frequently. We either ban people from moving; impossible; or we accept that host cultures take in a few ‘aliens’.
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  9693.  @carlgrove8793  I agree; that’s why I get worried when so many non-Muslims appear to tarnish every Muslim with the same brush.
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  9694.  @curiositycloset2359  Can I tell you something, mate, I’m probably a bit older than you and, while I certainly don’t take my freedoms for granted, and yes, we are all at the behest of the military-industrial complex, but then that has been the case since the year dot, so tell me something new, but if you give me the choice of life in a liberal democratic country versus life in Putin’s Russia, I’m choosing the former 10 times out of 10. Kudos to you, and anyone else, who would even consider for a second that Putin’s Russia is preferable for the ordinary punter than France, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany etc etc etc.
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  9695.  @curiositycloset2359  Wow! I’m amazed you say that. For all the ‘lies’ as you say, the freedoms we enjoy here are infinitely greater than those they endure in Russia, for all our faults. You should count yourself lucky.
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  9696.  @curiositycloset2359  Putin would be out of his mind to go for NATO. Ukraine, yes. After that, unless he takes Finland, it’s into NATO territory. Putin wouldn’t be that mad. And if he is that mad then, yes, I dare say we are looking at nuclear conflict.
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  9697.  @curiositycloset2359  Don’t get your point. America has her fingers in every pie? Yes. And your point is? This has been common knowledge since about 1776. My point is quite simple and I don’t want to say this again as it’s boring: the majority of Ukrainians look west.
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  9698.  @curiositycloset2359  Sigh I’m not defending coups. What I am defending is the democratic principle of the will of the people in the sense that a majority seem to look to the democratic west than to the autocratic north and east. Jesus. You can disagree with this if you want but I happen to think it’s true. Part of the proof of this is the sterling resistance to Russia’s ‘mighty’ army by a band of rag-tag home-guard soldiers, essentially. That more than suggests to me that the majority of these people want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia. I’m done now. This is getting boring.
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  9699.  @curiositycloset2359  I’m not defending the coup. It was wrong. What I’m saying is rather simple: Zelensky was democratically-elected. Putin wasn’t. Putin invaded a sovereign, self-governing nation, first in 2014 and again in 2022. I’m not saying Zelensky’s an angel. What I am saying is that Putin is more the wronger than the wronged in this scenario. My key point that you continually ignore, wilfully or otherwise, is that a majority of Ukrainians want fuck all to do with Putin’s Russia. They have proved this by smashing him in this war, notwithstanding the superior forces of the Russians. Quite simply, a majority of Ukrainians want to live in a liberal democratic country and not a communist dictatorship. And, yes, yes, I know all about the coup and the Civil War, but that doesn’t detract one iota from my two main points: Putin was wrong to invade a sovereign nation and the majority of Ukrainians look west, not east. No one is totally blameless in this but for me most of the blame lies with Putin, and that’s having researched this topic thoroughly.
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  9700.  @curiositycloset2359  Zelensky was democratically elected. Unlike Putin.
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  9701.  @curiositycloset2359  Just leave if you don’t want to fully participate in Ukraine. Russia is a big place. Before 2014 Ukraine was relatively peaceful. Putin has stoked much of this stuff. The majority look west. Deal with this fact.
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  9702.  @user-zq5mr3jb7c  Of course not. All I’m saying is that this war is always either Russia or Ukraine, when it’s nothing of the sort. Putin feels provoked, I get that, but that doesn’t justify invading a sovereign, self-governing nation. As to protecting pro-Russian east Ukrainians, all I say to that is, if you’re fomenting trouble in the country you live in against the majority will of the people, then just leave. If you don’t want to be a full Ukrainian go and live elsewhere. Russia is a large country.
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  9703.  @s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js  In case you missed it first time round: Incidentally, if Russia decided to form a Canada-Mexico pact and based weapons 4 minutes from Washington DC, do you really think America would let that happen, given that country’s egregious record of invading others’ territories and/or overturning democratically-elected governments from within and ruling by proxy? Of course not. America is the most hypocritical, double standards modus operandi nation par excellence. She meddles in the affairs of virtually every single other sovereign territory on this planet in her time, almost bar none, historically, and yet when someone like Putin (whom I don’t support) suggests he might not want a bank of NATO territories rammed up against Russia’s borders that’s somehow not on on his part? Get real. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK I don’t call that ‘losing the argument’ you hypocritical, double standards fool.
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  9704.  @b57ecv  *their *would have *caused *they’re *soldiers *their *food banks *meddling *their And precisely nothing you said justifies Putin’s actions one iota. You also are terribly self-contradictory in claiming “this is Britain’s and America’s fault” and going on to say we should have nothing to do with it?! If it’s our fault, then according to you we are complicit and this war has everything to do with us. Fool.
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  9705.  @curiositycloset2359  You don’t need to lecture me, mate. I’m neutral here. I do my research. I’m fully aware Zelensky is no angel. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view. So, you see? I get all that stuff. I return to my fundamental point: the majority will of Ukrainians seems to want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia. You need to acknowledge this or forever hold your peace.
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  9706.  @curiositycloset2359  I meant 1991. My mistake.
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  9707.  @curiositycloset2359  I don’t deny the coup. But I repeat, a majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia? Why do you think they are currently smashing him? Zelensky was democratically-elected.
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  9708.  @curiositycloset2359  Yes, but you’re ignoring the fact a majority of Ukrainians look west, not east. I work on the principle of the democratic will of the majority.
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  9709.  JL  Why should African refugees have to move back to Africa if they don’t want to? My point was that if ethnic Russian east Ukrainians disdain Ukraine that much then why don’t they just move?
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  9710.  @curiositycloset2359  I do understand the history. Crimea and east Ukraine was part of Russian/Soviet Empire. Since 1991 they are part of Ukraine.
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  9711.  @user-zq5mr3jb7c  Yeah, yeah. I’m aware of all this stuff. It still doesn’t make Putin’s actions right.
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  9712.  @s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js  Who said it was up to the west? Not once did I say it wasn’t up to Ukraine, dickhead. Read me back before imputing shit.
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  9713.  @fatfat1877  I agree. Doesn’t make Putin right, however. I have more than acknowledged American meddling in others’ affairs, either by direct invasion and/or overturning democratically-elected governments from within and ruling by proxy.
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  9714.  @AWcinema  While I fully uphold the territorial rights of Ukraine and their desire to win back Crimea and east Ukraine in general, it has to be borne in mind here that Putin is an old USSR has-been having a last hurrah, a final swing before he pops his brothel creepers. From his point of view, the old Russian/Soviet Empire point of view, these parts of Ukraine are indeed Russian. Part of me feels that a way to go here, to save Ukraine more trouble, and the rest of the world potential trouble, is to agree to let Putin’s Russia occupy these bits until Putin departs the scene. I kind of think this is one man’s fantasy project and we should maybe humour him in his dotage, then Ukraine can have Crimea and Donbas back and exist as the full, self-governing sovereign nation it was before 2014. I know this smacks of appeasement, but for a quiet life … for now?
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  9715. She did answer the question. She made it patently clear that Crimea and Donbas weren’t up as bargaining chips.
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  9716.  @beachbummer3434  Agreed. NATO is simply using Ukraine to do its dirty work, as far as I can see. If and when it needs to get involved, as you say it will be a severely weakened Russia, conventionally. Willing to bet if nukes weren’t involved in this equation, the West probably would have crushed Russia long before now, notwithstanding that Russia hasn’t actually attacked a NATO country. Yet.
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  9717.  @beachbummer3434  Let the eastern regions go their own way, if that is majority will. However, still not sure why Ukraine can’t just have a Belgium-like situation, where two distinct groups co-exist in the same sovereign state.
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  9718.  @randomdude2832  If not a whole country referendum; then a referendum on partition, then. Surely the bottom line here is the majority will.
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  9719.  @Надежда_Александровна  Putin needs a prick then, if he’s worried about COVID. A prick for the prick. Makes sense.
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  9720. Marmite is very Marmite.
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  9721. Yes, I had some real shit pop back in the 90s; that Dandelion and Burdock especially sucked.
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  9722.  @fazertace6837  Yeah, and like you don’t dig people you’ll never know and who couldn’t give a flying fuck whether you exist or not. Hypocrite.
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  9723.  @Sundae_Times  Wrong! It does have a question mark.
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  9724.  @Sundae_Times  If yer gonna be persnickety, yer missing a ‘?’ inside those quotation marks. Just sayin’.
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  9725.  @Sundae_Times  No. I was pished.
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  9726. That may be so, Jimbo, but that doesn’t negate the fact that no one on planet Earth wants to be ‘homogeneous’ with you, son! 🤣
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  9727.  @andyr4735  Correct ‘your’; incorrect ‘it’s’; and, on the contrary, it most certainly does matter as words are all we really have and if we start playing fast and loose with those then it can be argued that civilisation is on a slippery slope into the abyss. Think on.🤔
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  9728.  @thirly  Political? Moi? Looks over shoulder to next person 👀
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  9729.  @andyr4735  Would that you had edited your comment. ‘Id’? Were you off the day they taught the apostrophe at junior school?
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  9730.  @londonalicante  Zaghari reminds me of Marion Bartoli. 🎾
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  9731.  @londonalicante  No. Barnett’s a decent sort to these eyes.😳Not sure about Wark, though.🥴 Beauty and beholder’s eye, and all that jazz.😉
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  9732.  @nancy4980  👍 🐜
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  9733. 👑 Some of the reasons I am not a monarchist. # Accident of birth bestowed wealth and privilege. # Peasants must ‘know their place’. # Don’t have ‘proper jobs’; smiling and shaking hands with people is not a ‘proper job’. # I am paying for them, without being asked. # Unelected and undemocratic. # Supposed to automatically ‘look up’ to them but they are one of the most dysfunctional families I know. # Take credit for other people’s real hard work. # Lobby politicians behind closed doors. # They are perfectly happy for the inequality of them being royal to exist, yet claim to be equal to others in terms of liberty and privacy, thereby having it both ways. # Think they are above others based on accident of birth. # Their status is unearned, just automatically given, therefore unable to be properly challenged. # Titles have nothing to do with real, earned merit. # Historically adversely affecting others’ lives via colonisation and Empire.
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  9734. ‘Brittany Garrison’? You mean St Malo?🤓
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  9735.  @meatiest1989  Pmsl.
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  9736.  @muneerallem9432  Pmsl.
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  9737. Methinks putting ‘Taliban’ in a sentence with the word ‘progress’ is the biggest contradiction in terms I’ve heard in quite some time.
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  9738.  @AttaBek1422  Precisely. Pirsig’s point exactly. Well said.👍
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  9739.  @dr.haransivasambu1819  ‘Karma’? More of a ‘korma’ man myself. 🍛
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  9740.  @turkiabdullah6900  Sense of humour bypass, much?😳
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  9741.  @turkiabdullah6900  Sense of humour bypass, much?😳
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  9742.  @Islamnusantara009  Sense of humour bypass, much?😳
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  9743. Some say the Taliban are Sunni Muslims, but quite frankly, they’re just a bunch of Shiites.
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  9744. Depends on the doctor; Harold Shipman coulda done with being bumped off at birth.
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  9745. Whereas midwives risk their food to deliver lives.
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  9746.  @fredmercury1314  Source?
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  9747. Yeah, you are an arse, son. Is that the time, Jimbo? 🤪🤡
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  9748. The natural beauty’s quite nice. Honolulu has to be one of the ugliest cities anywhere on Earth, though.
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  9749. Interesting Strawdogs info.. I don’t think Tom has a wife in that movie; or maybe I blinked and missed her. 🤔
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  9750. On this sad April day, may the august June Brown march her merry way to the grave.
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  9751.  @lukemurray4950  *their Lol. Pathetic.
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  9752. Yes, but city-dwellers breathe highly toxic air 24/7 without a second thought. But like these folks: just pop it and damn the consequences.
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  9753. Guff!
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  9754. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he? Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  9755.  @mistershade7500  *brought Why can you people never spell?🤣
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  9756.  @Tushar_Talwar_09  *don’t ‘Mediocre’, indeed, sweetie.
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  9757.  @Tushar_Talwar_09  Huh? Is that the best you’ve got? Lol.🤣
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  9758. Copy paste comment seen thousands of times already. 🥱
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  9759. The twatter takes over Twitter. Apt.
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  9760.  @TC8787-yq7og  In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims (in Sweden, the UK, France and many other western European states). However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism, thereby rebuking you claim I’m somehow ‘racist’. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims living in the UK, and Europe more generally. I don’t see it in, for example, Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this. And as a previous speaker in these comments said, a big part of the issue is more moderate Muslims staying silent when their more vehement brethren are causing trouble for everyone wherever they go.
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  9761. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  9762.  @epinephrinsr71  Nice edit. Freudian slip, perchance? 😉
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  9763.  @PaulHirst-og4uk  Yes, you are. Lmao. Pmsl. Lol.
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  9764.  @PaulHirst-og4uk  You weren’t right, though. Seethe on. 😭
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  9765.  @PaulHirst-og4uk  No. Clearly not the same.
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  9766.  @mark-nm4tc  Zu Su posted it here because Boris is a banana.😆 🍌
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  9767. Source?
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  9768.  @s.m.1354  And if you wrote that you’d score nil points in Scrabble.
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  9769.  @sorkenyo  As per, no one can supply a rational reason to hate homosexuality.
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  9770.  @heekyungkim8147  “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) 😉
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  9771. Norm! Where ya been all these years? How’s Cliffy? Cheers! 🍻
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  9772.  @user-zz9xg2ps4t  Ironically, you’re the bottiest bot around, mate. Do you not see this? You seem to be mad. Seriously. Your behaviour is disturbing.
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  9773.  @user-zz9xg2ps4t  Der, der. Mommy will be along to suckle you soon, darling.
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  9774.  @user-zz9xg2ps4t  Projection?😉
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  9775.  @oliverdahlberg838  Look pal, stop taking the high moral ground. I’ll say this once more for your benefit: I don’t have an issue hearing any voice, human or bot, and I’m not going to censor anything. You disagree. That’s fine. The world would be boring if everyone agreed about everything.
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  9776.  @gessie  Where did I say “all opinions are valid”? Yeah, that’s right; I didn’t. I said that I have no issue hearing all opinions. Big difference. You need to be careful with what you impute you others as it doesn’t reflect well on you.
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  9777.  @oliverdahlberg838  Oliver, dear, I just don’t have an issue with hearing others’ voices. I don’t care from what source. I trust my critical faculties enough to discern the ‘good’ from the ‘bad’. I’m for total free-speech. My personal line is drawn when you lay a finger on me. That’s when you’ll know about it. But words? Say what you want.
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  9778.  @user-zz9xg2ps4t  Huh? Wow! You’re clearly easily triggered. Do you react in this bizarre way with everyone who happens to have a different opinion? To be this emotional is alarming. You may need to seek professional help.
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  9779.  @oliverdahlberg838  Can’t you read? ‘Propaganda’ or not, I, personally, wouldn’t ban them. You disagree. That’s fine. Move on.
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  9780.  @TheAlchaemist  I don’t care. I still wouldn’t ban them. That’s just a fascist thing to do.
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  9781.  @wumbleisthebest3270  I repeat: I personally don’t have a problem with any voiced opinion, bot-created or not. I find others’ opinions handy for testing my own. Like now. We disagree. We can agree to do that.😉
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  9782.  @TheAlchaemist  I’d actually go further: I, personally, wouldn’t delete the bots, either. Yes, they are a pest, but sometimes (most of the time?) it’s good to test your opinions against others, bot or not!
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  9783.  @TheAlchaemist  If it’s a human voice it should be heard.
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  9784. Disagree. If you’re a human voicing an opinion, any opinion, I think it’s far better to be heard than not. If you’re for free-speech then you don’t have the right not to hear things you happen to disagree with.
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  9785. It’d be a bit of a bummer if Michael Parkinson developed Parkinson’s disease, though.
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  9786. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  9787. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  9788.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *there Before you ‘jibby-jabby’ with anyone, son, get that dictionary out, sweetheart, as your basic spelling and grammar is letting you down, Jimbo. Again.🤓
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  9789.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  ‘Gypsy tart’, eh Jimbo? But enough about your sex life; what’s for dinner?🤣
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  9790. Lol. Always relevant and on point as usual, Jimbo.🤣 More cottage pie, you naughty tart?!🤣
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  9791. 🤓
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  9792.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Bless you!
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  9793. It’s the way her mouth moves.
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  9794. Many prostitutes I know. Next question.
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  9795. Nits.
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  9796.  @peterbarton9856  …’batah’?🤓
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  9797.  @jeanclaudejunior  Good. Then shut up then!🤓
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  9798. The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are! (George Carlin)
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  9799.  @dntakemesrs  What animals?
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  9800.  @einherjar8585  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  9801.  @hunter70558  Incidentally, the amount of rounds clearly does matter. When an 18 year old homicidal maniac can buy a semi-automatic weapon as if he were buying a can of soda, lock himself in a classroom with 10 year olds, and massacre them and their teacher firing at 50 rounds per minute, then this is an ‘issue’. This would not have been possible on such a scale until these high-powered weapons were developed. Your ‘tyrannical government’ argument doesn’t seem to be an argument for any other countries; no, they sensibly have strict vetting, strict laws as to whom can legally own guns and what type of guns they may own. Eg. Dunblane, Scotland, 1996, mass shooting in a school; immediate gun legislation instituted; in the 26 years since, there has not been a single mass shooting in the UK. People in Europe, and elsewhere, look at America in stunned disbelief that you allow this to continue. Yes, it’s political, and we all know Republicans are paid to block gun control reform, but with this debate I’m always reminded of Einstein and his definition of ‘madness’: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
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  9802. So’s King Charles.
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  9803. *a lot
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  9804. You, Sir, are quite possibly the most paranoid individual anywhere online.
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  9805.  @sirchriswitlessjesuitpuppe5804  Mr Paranoia detected once again. Man, you have serious issues with your level of madness. Yes, the system’s crooked, we all know that, but you are monomaniacal in your repeated tropes; almost like you’re more hypnotised than those you are seeking to wake up.
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  9806. Or having sex with your wife.
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  9807. Copy & paste Comment spotted for only the 124,567th time today. 🥱
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  9808.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Huh? So it’s ok for Europeans to go everywhere since 1492 but others coming to Europe is just not on. Really? Are you having a laugh? 🤣
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  9809.  @ktool4855  Huh? Again, you are imputing stuff to me that is just wrong. 1. I’m not a leftist. I have never voted Labour (UK). 2. “White people colonised nations so they deserved to be colonised.” Huh? Wtf does this even mean? I am anti any colonisation if it’s against the will of the colonised. 3. As for living in a “multiracial hell-hole”, well, this may sting, sonny, but the vast majority of individuals in this “multiracial hell-hole” have better basic English than the likes of the people who complain about the “multiracial hell-hole”! Facts. Just do some research.
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  9810. I mean c’mon, who are you gonna believe here? The dumb bleached blonde with the big tits or Stormy Daniels?
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  9811.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, the only thing anyone took from you was the piss, son! 👍🤣😂😅
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  9812.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Jimbo, your basic lack of self-awareness is staggering. You’re the guy that literally hates everything and everyone and any two-bit psychologist will tell you that’s the classic sign of self-loather. 😉👍🤨
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  9813.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  And what about parents who don’t give their offspring a basic education, eh Jimbo? You should be suing yours to Hell and back on that basis, mateychops. 👍
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  9814.  @Blarm  And? I know tons of bullied people but they are nowhere near the mahoosive kn*bhead that Tate is.
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  9815.  @stonedsynthesizer  Close. She was a miner-attracted person. Nice try, though.👍
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  9816.  @madplanet3351 It’s not the individual tourist that’s the problem, which your OP suggested. It’s the phenomenon of tourism. 🤷‍♂️
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  9817. Er, but in effect they don’t. Because as soon as one tourist leaves another 2 arrive. 🥴
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  9818.  @Dogfacedbloke  This has to be the comment of someone who has never been, or only been to Benidorm. Real Spain is as far from ‘tacky’, ‘uninspiring’, ‘unfriendly’, ‘dirty’ and ‘backwards’ as you can get. Spain is full of glorious world-class cities, majestic, varied and stunning natural scenery and some of the nicest people in Europe, in my experience. Did you get dumped by a Spanish boyfriend, perchance? 🤔
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  9819.  @johnf4279  Yeah, but you were the one claiming ‘no typos here’; read yourself back, mate. I never made such claims.
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  9820. *Macron’s < corrected typo.
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  9821.  @joexavier4070  Organised religion permits all kinds of atrocities, otherwise decent human beings wouldn’t commit. History consistently shows this.
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  9822.  @SolarFlareGaming202  Atheism seems reasonable: a non-prophet organisation with no invisible means of support. 😳
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  9823. Never mind your ‘left ear’; I was just worried about what your right hand was up to.😳
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  9824. And the police.
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  9825. They call it the ‘American Dream’ because you have to be asleep to believe it.😉
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  9826. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. (George Carlin)
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  9827.  @carlyoung6111  Dinny patronise me, sunshine. That ain’t gonna float in my world, petal. Think on.😉
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  9828.  @edcarson3113  So, a woman is raped by her father; to abort or not to abort? Looks like you’re the one needing help, petal.👍
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  9829.  @edcarson3113  You, son, have no say about the choices a woman makes concerning her body. Simples.😊
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  9830.  @officialspock  Nah; it’s anti-woman.
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  9831. *break *the Yvw.
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  9832. America thinks it’s a ‘force’, but it’s a ‘farce’, you are correct.👍
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  9833. *those yvw.
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  9834. Nah; it’s about men controlling women; that’s what it’s largely about. As ever thus …
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  9835. Thank your lucky stars you were born at all ! You might have been aborted.😳
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  9836.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not sleeping tonight, Jimbo? You worrying about all those homosexual immigrants again, son?🤣
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  9837.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *Let’s Aye, Jimbo, you may constantly have egg on yer phizzog, and chips on yer shoulders, but what you never seem to have is wee bag of apostrophes! 💼🤣🥴😲🤦
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  9838.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yer egging this for all it’s worth, Jimbo. 🤣 I always knew you were secretly a quiche man anyway.😉😳😂
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  9839. Throw another chip on yer shoulder, Jimbo! 🤣
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  9840.  @skp8748  She’s a Jew. Hardly unbiased in all this.
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  9841. As do Steps.
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  9842.  @barryscott9127  Uh huh. So much so they are ‘leaping and bounding’ to other places.😉
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  9843.  @domitravel795  Nice copy & paste. Smooth.👍
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  9844.  @zoneofsilence  On day 1 of this thing, I thought that. Now at Day 80-something, and having looked into all this, while I don’t support one jot what Putin’s doing, it’s perfectly understandable what he is doing from his point of view . The polarised wholly good Ukraine versus the wholly bad Russia and vice-versa has been one of the most depressing aspects of this whole farrago. Those of us with intrinsically no skin in the game can clearly see both sides. Personally speaking, this whole thing is a bit like watching a guy in the school playground you’re neither here nor there about, getting a kicking by the school bully who mostly everyone hates; but because you are not in the friendship group of the victim you are happy to stand and watch, and occasionally try to trip up the bully if he comes near you.
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  9845.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  It’s called having your evidence to hand, Peter. I find that usually helps when you assert shit.
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  9846.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  If you can’t find it and post it how the fuck do you expect anyone else to? Just post it. If it actually exists.
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  9847.  @TonkistLT  Lol. Touché.
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  9848.  @christinehomer2185  Look, there are war crimes on both sides here, for that is the nature of war. I don’t really give a shit who wins this conflict, I just want peace and no escalation. Propaganda proliferates on both sides. My simple original point was that the ordinary Ukrainian citizen foot-soldier has shown extraordinary courage in the defence of their homeland. That’s all.
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  9849. @North Korea Is Best Korea Pete C is one of these tendentious asserters without evidence types that have so bedevilled this whole conflict.
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  9850.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  Still no source. You need to quote your source otherwise your claim is rendered null and void. Anyone can claim shit and pass it off as true. So once again, where is your source?
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  9851.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  Source?
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  9852.  @rsuriyop  It’s not that they have better guns, necessarily, but that what they do have they have been well-trained to use. Add to that the sense of someone unwanted intruding into your home, and you have a mighty rebuttal to the Russians.
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  9853.  @yossarianreborn2904  Anyone namechecking Catch-22 canny be all bad! 😉
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  9854. *its
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  9855. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  9856.  @honkhonk6359  I think you’ll find it’s maimed and/or dead people in the Middle Eastern conflicts that are ‘suffering’ a bit more than your average Anglo-Saxon. But anyway.
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  9857.  @honkhonk6359  But Anglo-Saxons are from Continental Europe, historically, so again, your comment makes no sense.
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  9858.  @honkhonk6359  Your comment makes no sense. Why would an ‘Anglo-Saxon elite’ pick on Denmark?
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  9859.  @BenWillock  I condemn all empire, so I’m not applying double standards.
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  9860.  @BenWillock  No, I understand your points; just seems odd having ‘Brits’ living on a bunch of rocks thousands of miles away, that’s all. Dregs of empire.
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  9861. Not sure how the war changed Argentina, but it sure made the UK still feel like a mighty empire for 5 more minutes long after the sun had set on its proper empire. Taking on Argentina was like picking on the scrawny kid in the playground because you knew you’d have no chance with the Alphas.
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  9862.  @herekitty791  No problems on that score, petal; you should try me sometime. 😉 🐈‍⬛
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  9863.  @burgerman-nb3cv  You have a point. Just good to shine a light on the rather unsavoury side of Argentina when one gets the chance. Like now.😉
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  9864.  Block Lord  Last time I checked, she was American.
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  9865. 0:56 Fact check: according to Accuweather the daily June average high in Mecca is 45°C. So far, this June has exceeded 45°C twice and only by 1°C on both occasions. Not sure where the Beeb is getting 50°C.
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  9866. What’s interesting about all this Iranian nonsense is this: you couldn’t imagine an all-women government dictating whether or not a man can wear a tea-towel on his head. Some men need their headgear examined.
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  9867. I know, right? I did that the other day when the mother-in-law was on the can pushing one out! She’d forgotten to lock the door! 🚽
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  9868.  @MDM1992  No I wasn’t. I was responding to someone who was talking about Ukraine. You need better close reading skills. 🤦‍♂️
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  9869. I choose extinction for you, Jimbo.👍
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  9870.  @laurencesmith1435  You picked the outlier country in Africa. South Africa and Botswana have high rape rates but the bulk of the rest of Africa doesn’t. Fact. Another fact: Sweden regularly has a much higher rape rate than almost every single African country. Nice try though, bud. If you just admit you’re intolerant of blacks I’d have more respect for you, m8.👍
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  9871.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Or a trans woman from Zimbabwe! 🤣
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  9872.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, just for the record: Species (noun) a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. Looks like Jude Bellingham just disproved your biologically illiterate assertion. 🧑🏿+ 👩= 👦🏽👈Jude.😉We can add this biological illiteracy to go with your illiteracy illiteracy, Jimbo! All these illiteracies are piling up for you, son.👍
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  9873.  @kathleenswift7979  You also need to read me right. You assume what I am but your assumption is wrong. For the last time: I’m not pro illegal undocumented immigration; I am pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country.
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  9874.  @kathleenswift7979  Not at all. I have a non-discriminating attitude. What I don’t dig is random racism.
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  9875.  @kathleenswift7979  Fine here, ty! 😊
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  9876.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  We’re a completely different species. A lucky escape for every black person, Jimbo! 😉
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  9877.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Bestiality? Nah. We’re back to disagreeing again, Jimbo. Normal service has resumed! 😉👍
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  9878.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I agree this is out of hand, Jimbo. For the first time in 2 years we agree! 🤣
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  9879.  @ushojedi  Yeah, fair points. Just pointing one or two things out here, that’s all. Just to confirm, I, personally, do consider Pelé, on balance, the GOAT. Just.
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  9880. Really? He got women pregnant and didn’t take responsibility for his actions. To me, that’s not ‘honourable’ for the woman, but more importantly the child involved.
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  9881.  Valrossa  None. For as we all know, no one is really ‘indigenous’ these days.😉 That’s just a word intolerant, racist fuctards wheel out when anyone they dislike, usually for random, bizarre reasons, is wheeled into their orbit? Don’t you know this by now, sweetie? Come, come, now.
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  9882.  Valrossa  Yeah. I’m on the coffee now.
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  9883.  @harry.flashman  No. I like to keep my good tea.
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  9884.  @Sundae_Times  Yeah. But where’s your argument to defend the irrational, stupid, primitive, dangerous folly of believing in an accident of birth? No. Thought not.
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  9885.  @Sundae_Times  Hating British people? Not I, sunshine. If you want to play the stupid, dangerous game of defining yourself on an accident of birth, go right ahead. Just count me out.
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  9886.  @holeefuk413  So, what about the millions that went in the 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century? You going to apply your double standards hypocrisy there, too? Get real. The West has been colonising others’ ‘indigenous’ territory since the year dot, so when a few come to play in your backyard you ain’t got a leg to stand on. You secretly know this, too, and that’s why you’re so irked.
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  9887.  @peace4peaceful  Dame Edna Everage?
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  9888. @Ian Woof!
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  9889.  @robertfranco2464  Well, with a name like ‘Franco’ we all know where you’re coming from, mate. Say no more.😉
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  9890. @Ian *weren’t
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  9891.  @yvonneplant9434  Yeah, but you are clearly a plant, so don’t count in this debate.
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  9892.  @GroundhogRoy  Yeah, but you called me out on a mistake I never made. I never made any error with my date statements so read me back properly before coming at me you inattentive numpty.
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  9893.  @Sundae_Times  My grammar is not in question; your brain may very well be, Gonzo.
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  9894.  @Sundae_Times  I was talking about when the Europeans arrived, Kermit. Read me back before stating crap I never intended. There’s a good lad.
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  9895.  @DelGTAGrndrs  Ma
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  9896. I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. (Bill Bryson)
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  9897. Indeed. Free Akraine too! 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  9898. America: a country where you can’t legally drink alcohol in public, but you can legally purchase a mass killing machine at 18. Talk about a failure of priorities.
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  9899.  @Gfw36026 They’re just a boring pub band, son. Get over it.
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  9900. *its
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  9901. Can I have vinegar with mine? 😳
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  9902. Some have tattoos where the sun don’t shine, too!😮
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  9903. I think it Canter be honest and we shouldn’t Equine too much. That said, technology is often a nightMare making one Bridle and become unStable. This much can’t be gainsNeighed and we’d be Foals if we were too Blinkered. However, as we’re Saddled with it, and as the ePonymous Mr Ed might have said: “Don’t yell at me, Wilbur, I’m not your wife!” 🐴
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  9904. You missed a ‘dis’.
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  9905.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo! We agree! For the first and last time! 🤣
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  9906.  @mizzboomorris3276  A ‘gigachad’ is a rock concert in Chad. 🎶
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  9907. Perhaps the EU could turf out Orban’s Hungary to vacate a seat for Ukraine’s accession. Then NATO? 😳
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  9908.  @ryan1111111555555555  I didn’t miss any point. He made a point completely pointless with reference to the point that was pointed out in the first place, ya fanny! Just get back to your ‘dumbbells’, chum, as yer brain is clearly not up to this. 💪😅
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  9909.  @olivernoone3565  Again, another numpty missing the point. You are also clearly triggered, but that’s healthy, I suppose. I will repeat this again: If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had £44 billion, while 10,000 people die of hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  9910.  @evie-kn1de  No. I have the mind of a human being who can simply see that we human beings live on a very primitive planet. S’all. Yvw.😉
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  9911.  @ummaaron  Red herring, m8. It’s just the idea that we have created a world where 1 person can have the means to help others, as we have based our world on money. I’m not saying we should all have £54 per week. What I am saying, is that if you have one person with £44 billion pounds, and this person is pissing around with a here today gone tomorrow social media site, then the world that person is living in, if they are happy with this state of affairs, needs their head inspected, given the suffering they could alleviate with that £44 billion.
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  9912.  @juri_xiii9977  Who isn’t ‘programmed’ precisely? You blithely say that as if you yourself aren’t programmed.
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  9913.  @thetalonsofwaynechiang  Lol. So anyone whose account is less than a year old is a troll now, are they? Moron.
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  9914.  @user-zo2rj2zi9g  The Anywheres=20/25%. The Somewheres=50%. The rest somewhere in between.
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  9915.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No, Jimbo, I have no desire to be ‘homogeneous’ with you, son. No desire, IIIIIIIIIIIIIII SSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!
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  9916. Yeah, sister. Not sure about ‘karma’, but I am partial to a nice chicken korma of a Friday night. 🥸
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  9917. Makes a decent lubricant, though.😳
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  9918. In Scotland we call that stance a ‘Nae palm oil death’ stance. Or at least, some of the metalheads do. 😳
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  9919. Did Jesus run over your pussy or something, buddy? 😳
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  9920. @2:13 Somebody needs to put this lady’s fingers out; they are on fire! 🔥
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  9921.  @bharata_varsa  Huh? Why? The OP was on about the looks of Brits. Wtf has the Gambia got to do with anything? You’re obsessed. Freak.
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  9922.  @bharata_varsa  Lol. Wtf does that have to do with the looks of British people?! 😂
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  9923.  @bharata_varsa  Huh? He’s commenting on the good looks (or otherwise) of Brits. Has he looked at his fellow countrymen and women recently?
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  9924.  @JaimePatterson23  Lol. Slightly creepy. 😬
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  9925.  @beautifulprogressivewester7855  Better.
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  9926.  @beautifulprogressivewester7855  You need to change your moniker btw. It’s a severe contravention of the Trade Descriptions Act.
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  9927. ‘Girl’?! Pmsl. She’s 45 ffs!
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  9928.  @KingKizza  I call it just a basic education.😉
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  9929. Better than ‘nuking’, I suppose.
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  9930.  @GinoMEGuain  In public, I agree, Meloni presents the centre-right mask to garner as many votes as possible. Willing to bet my mortgage that in private, things are rather different.
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  9931.  @ShyamKumar-wq7ky  Yeah, but most aren’t smoking and casting a smog over a whole city.
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  9932.  @CosmicCanvas666  Wtf are you on, mate? Watch the report. There was a huge stinking, burning landfill site.
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  9933. A landfill site next to a mindfill site.
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  9934. Er, I’m guessing the school came first in this particular equation.
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  9935.  @AndTecks  Who the fook is ‘Miss Speak’? She married to ‘Mr Dumb’? 🤓
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  9936.  @heartofsteel7821  Pmsl.🤣
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  9937.  @sarthak3401  Uh huh. So 2 wrongs make a right in your world. Gotcha. 😉👍
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  9938.  @dibsdib3697  Well, here’s the thing: you’d think some kind of genetic imperative would override his lust for his mother, but it didn’t. He simply liked the look of her and married her. The knowledge, or otherwise, that she was his mother is irrelevant. I would add this, however, I tend to think that the idea of boys fancying their mums is a bit less true than the idea of girls lusting after their fathers, or at the very least, someone quite closely resembling him, often both physically and morally. I’m not aware of many of my male acquaintances who have secretly lusted for their mums, myself included, but I most certainly have met a fair few men who secretly wanted to do away with their dad for one reason or another (probably not so much Freud’s one of secretly lusting for mother). So I think Freud got about half of the Oedipus complex right. As I said above, these ideas can be dated right back to the beginnings of our collective intellectual evolution as a species, and they persist for very good reasons. The thing you suggested earlier about homosexuality not conforming to Freud’s idea of issues in his anal phase, well again, I wouldn’t write these things off so blithely. I personally happen to think that a genetic component of sexuality largely determines one’s sexual predilections; however, these can be directed, as it were, according to how we were brought up as infants.
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  9939.  @dibsdib3697  One final point: I studied Psychology and Freud’s name was near the top of the reading list, so not sure what Psychology courses you are taking, but I would suggest that to study Psychology without studying Freud is a bit like studying Christianity without looking at St Paul. Freud is, arguably, not only the key 20th century psychologist, but he’s a key thinker in general of the 20th century. No history of the intellectual evolution of our species could leave him out, and it’d almost be remiss of said history if it didn’t devote a least a decent sized chapter to him.
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  9940.  @dibsdib3697  Also, Freud’s keystone insight that everything humans engage in revolves around sex and death is pretty clearly true, as one glance around the world at our fellow humans will show.
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  9941.  @dibsdib3697  I wouldn’t write off the Oedipal/Electra complex so blithely by the way. There is a long history (hence Oedipus) going right back to the Greeks about these ideas and there is more than a grain of truth in them. Certainly, in my personal experience, almost every heterosexual woman I know who admires her father, seeks something very similar in her choice of life partner.
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  9942.  @dibsdib3697  Incidentally, just because someone ‘has issues with their own mind’ as you put it, does not one jot invalidate anything they may have said on any matter for that reason. For example, Nietzsche went crazy and spent the last decade of his life mentally incapacitated, however, the 46 years before this proved that he had one of the sharpest minds to have ever inhabited a cranium.
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  9943. @cobusb8373 That’s not the point. Are you a dummy? Some people on this planet have no choice! That’s the whole point. Iran. What if you’re agnostic/atheist/non-religious in Iran? Huh? Why do these people have to be ruled by repressed old men who believe in imaginary invisible sky daddies? Surely you can see this. No? 🤔
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  9944.  @GL-xe5vx  It matters to me because I have religious nutters dictating the terms and conditions of my life. 👍
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  9945. Awright, Jimbo. 👍 You back for more son. Dinny tak this wrang, but ah thought ye were deid! 🤣👍
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  9946. You ridiculous boy.
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  9947. Or those who pay their electricity bills on time.
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  9948. Lol@Martin McMartin😂That’s right up there with ‘Neville Neville’!
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  9949.  @lidiiyvrublevska4535  😉
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  9950.  @richarddave410gmail6  Er, ‘V ruble vska’. Give you 3 guesses …😳
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  9951. @Gavin Gas Lol.👍
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  9952.  @optimisticoutreach1236  Whoosh!
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  9953. They don’t want you either, tbh.😳
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  9954. Rocket launchers, too.😉
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  9955. Indeed. They want to run this country on a shoestring, when they should be rebooting the economy. 🥾
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  9956. I thought she was a Communist. 😳
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  9957.  @KevinXD  You’re not white, you’re clearly ‘Red’.
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  9958.  @MadDragon76  No you don’t have to “take a side”. This isn’t a binary choice. There is a complex spectrum here. I’m ‘right-wing(ish)’ on some things and ‘left-wing(ish)’ on others and in the centre on others. Your suggestion is far too simplistic.
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  9959.  @Knight766  Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. (George Orwell)
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  9960. Well, to be fair we all “pay to die”; it’s called “living”.
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  9961.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, you need to get acquainted with spellchecker, as yer a lazy fuctard who seems 2 think we’ll accept yer pishy, subliterate crap. We won’t. Jimbo. Uh huh. ✌️
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  9962. Pmsl.
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  9963.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Ok, I’ll do that when you can get basic grammar correct. “No, it’s far to cold” (sic). I’m waiting …
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  9964.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I refer you to my comment of some hours ago: having looked at the evidence, human activity tells me that we are largely responsible for the 1.2 degree temperature rise these past 200 years.
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  9965.  @nickbreen287  K. You’re entitled to your opinion. I happen to think, having looked at the evidence, that humankind is responsible for much of global warming these past 200 years or so.
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  9966.  @nickbreen287  If it’s not to be humans, then so be it. My issue is quite simple: I more than think that humans are doing this as we speak, and so if we don’t check ourselves this could be truly disastrous for life as we know it, Nick.
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  9967. You only get an ‘oo’ with a Typhoon. 🌀 ☕️ 🫖
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  9968. West warned Russia against sending troops into Ukraine; did they listen?
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  9969.  @steviewonderisnotblind5833  Stevie Wonder is blind, and so are you, it seems. Wilfully blind.😉 😎
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  9970. Yes. You have a point.
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  9971. A rearmed Germany now, in all probability, will mean a beheaded somewhere else in the future. Have we not learned from history?
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  9972.  @morrigangg  No need for the personal brickbats, love. I never suggested Germany was going to not look west and continue to be the bulwark of the EU and NATO in Europe. My point was to say that some of us (eg. Britain) are already not looking in the same way on certain matters as their a European brethren, that’s all. I’m no ‘idiot’ btw. Think on.
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  9973.  @joshbentley2307  I never implied anything of the sort. You brought up NATO. I was simply making the valid point that a great swathe of the UK population feel they have little to nothing in common with the rest of Europe, that’s all. I, personally, think that’s a bit sad, but it happens to be true. You need to look a little closer at Europe, mate. Have you not noticed the rise of the populist right in the past decade or so? Check this out as these guys don’t buy a globalised world, let alone a European one. They also don’t seem to buy liberal democracy either.
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  9974.  @joshbentley2307  You said ‘we’re tied together due to cultural and geographical reasons.’ Geography, perhaps. But culturally all the straight Brexiteers I know want nothing to do with Europe, on any level, really. I should add, I’m pro-European on the cultural level but deeply suspicious of Brussels, even although I was a remainer. Just. Also, I never mentioned NATO: you did.
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  9975.  @lamestreammedia3154  It’s just you. In this case, you couldn’t get lower case ‘don’t’ right.👍
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  9976.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy veyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Jiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbbboooooooooooo!!!!!!!
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  9977. @@MrAn0n Why do losers like you not know how to spell such a basic word as ‘losers’? 🤔
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  9978.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No idea what that was all about, Jimbo. 🤷‍♂️ Yer rambling again, son. No meaning. Semi-literate. Nothing of substance. An old man unaware of the possessive apostrophe. I hope you and your family are ashamed of who your are, Jimbo. Don’t take that wrong. 😑
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  9979.  @joeblogs6598  Uh huh. So it’s ok for white Europeans to stomp all over this planet since at least 1492, but it’s not ok for non-Europeans to do the same thing? Lol. That’s just double-standards rank hypocrisy and rules for thee but not for me. 👍
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  9980.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Even the Jews aren’t Jeiwsh (sic), Jimbo. You need a better spellchecker, son. And brain.👍
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  9981. I wisely choose extinction for you, Jimbo. 👍
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  9982.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  The irony of a subliterate wee fella like you making that comment, Jimbo!!! 🤣😂😅
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  9983. Islam is “right” about sweet Fanny Adams.
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  9984. To whom, exactly? The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
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  9985.  Alex Perez  Glad we cleared that one up, son. Have a nice day now. Missin’ ya already!👍
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  9986.  Alex Perez  Yes you did. You said temperatures have risen and fallen many times, thereby casting doubt that this current warming trend might be manmade. You need to read yourself back.
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  9987.  Alex Perez  So has rainfall. Your point is?
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  9988.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  😮Jimbo! Are you actually saying that this mass, egregious, sickeningly self-important, inexplicably hagiographic, egotistically pompous ‘mourning’ for ole Liz is a little much? 🤓You might need another chip.
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  9989.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  That’ll be right, Jimbo, son! 🥴
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  9990.  @jeanclaudejunior  Don’t worry about Jimbo, Jean-Claude; he doesn’t get let out much by his African boyfriend!🤣
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  9991. Looks like you have a new member of your fan club to register, Jimbo!🤣
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  9992.  @wv9529  Only idiots would do such a thing.
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  9993.  @katiazayats977  💰
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  9994. Female, attractive, young(ish), young family, middle-class … all very media-friendly. Principal reason is probably the awful way Lancashire police handled the case.
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  9995.  @SethiozProject No. Not really: the shop is ‘lifting’; hence ‘shoplifting’. 👍
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  9996.  @tedcrilly46  Gern geschehen, Teddy sweetie. Sweet dreams, hun. 👍
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  9997.  @tedcrilly46 This was Best One, not Tesco.
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  9998. Rubbish! If anything, Poland has more of a claim on Ukraine than Russia as the majority of Ukraine was incorporated into the Russian empire after the second partition of Poland in 1793. However, none of that matters as these things always have to be about self-determination today . The vast majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia, so Russia needs to butt-out. This goes for China in Taiwan, too. Self-determination has to be the watchword.
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  9999.  @fabrizio483  Lol.
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  10000. No. The queue to see him is even longer than the Queen’s! They’re still filing past as we speak.
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  10001.  @muckraker7942  I, personally, am pro legalisation of all drugs. Nice try, though.👍
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  10002. Bad luck, Jimbo. You thought you’d get more for this didn’t you? The irony of you, Jimbo, using all the colours of the 🌈 when you loathe homosexuals! 🤣
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  10003.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  All I know is that you are a fanny, Jimbo. 🤣
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  10004.  @unworthy42  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  10005.  @fabiocossa2420  Er, rhetorical?🤓
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  10006. Indeed. Especially if they are a Man Utd fan.
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  10007. Thanks for the sermon. 🙏
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  10008.  @sandradixon6205  Yeah, but the big elephant in the room with all your foregoing spiel, is that ‘Jesus Christ’ is a figment of your imagination.😉
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  10009.  @Synathidy  Lol. Looks like Jesus overlooked this!😆
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  10010. *separate
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  10011.  @Mr-Safology  Yes, I saw that documentary. I’d also say this: there is no Allah. You and your brethren need to get over this. Move on, as it’s so boring now. You, and people like you, have been hypnotised/indoctrinated into believing in this ‘Allah’. You’ve been sold a lie. I say that as an agnostic.😉
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  10012. Er, why? Most of the BBC corporation is filled with atheist/agnostics.
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  10013. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  10014. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  10015.  @richjones4956  I once knew a London cabbie called ‘Tel Aviv’. Nice lad. 🚖
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  10016. Human beings.
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  10017.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo. How anti-Semitic of you, son. Doncha know that the Jews share the same non-existent invisible sky daddy as you Christians?!🤣😂😅
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  10018.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Double bogey, Jimbo. Democracy wins out here, son. 7.😉🤡
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  10019. 10 years? Time for a biopic, methinks. Michael McIntyre’s to play the fool in ‘Little Rocket Man’, with a soundtrack by Elton John.
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  10020. Why are you upvoting yourself? 🙏
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  10021.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *Liars Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, when are you going to realise that no one is going to take you seriously when you make such schoolboy errors?! 😛🤪😜
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  10022.  @jonathandnicholson  That is the sort of statement I would’ve made in elementary school, not knowing anything about life or anything really.
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  10023. This comment won’t age well when she recovers and starts doing public engagements again.
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  10024.  @eggroll3745  I’m against other countries fighting other countries’ battles, as a rule. If outsiders are going to get militarily involved in a dispute like China-Taiwan, or indeed Russia-Ukraine, let it be a United Nations Army; not the most powerful top dog doing so, just because it can.
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  10025.  @eggroll3745  Just making the point that countries meddling in other countries’ affairs down the centuries has been the cause of so much disaster for our species. As I said, if Taiwan wants to arm itself to the teeth with American weapons, then that is its business; but for America to be stepping in to start punching China over what is a Sino-Taiwanese issue just strikes me as very, very dangerous for the rest of us on this planet.
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  10026. Oooooooh! You’re hard.
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  10027. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  10028.  @robbomax2397  Humans are awful, as a rule. Have you not met any?
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  10029. Ain’t it funny. Looking at these innocents, humanity seems adorable. Wtf happens in the bit in between that makes me disdain a good proportion of my fellow humans? 🤔
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  10030.  @SarraLovesTunisia  Western-backed, it seems. America digs him cos he’s keeping the mad mullahs at bay. 😉
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  10031.  @Mike_MFn_Jones  Think you may have meant ‘Yip’.
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  10032.  gingerale  Weapons. We owed the money and were just too stubborn to pay what we owed to the ostracised Iranians. Would have looked too much like paying a ransom and others would have got ideas.
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  10033.  @tastypymp1287  Projection? 1k+? You utter, utter, badly-spelled, double-standards hypocrite. 🤡
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  10034. He has: he commissioned a monument to himself when he should really have commissioned one to Zelensky.
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  10035. And I don’t believe in “sin”. Next.
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  10036. ‘Lucky’? France lost. How is that ‘lucky’? 🥴
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  10037. Swan Vestas?🤓
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  10038.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *Argentina Dearie me, Jimbo, you really do need to hire a proofreader.🤣
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  10039.  @swetagupta4146  It was the comment I was commenting on. Do keep up at the back!
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  10040. Stop messi-ing in other people’s business, then. This really isn’t that difficult. You created the very thing you are moaning about. Think on.😉
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  10041. He won it for the gingers. 🦁
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  10042. What? Just cos your team lost?🤣
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  10043.  @amaduseisay  Just sayin’ that Messi can’t lace Pelé’s boots. Calm down. Calm down. Son.🤓
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  10044. Maybe. But Messi still can’t lace Pelé’s boots.
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  10045. @2:56-2:58 Wow! In a country of 46,000,000 they managed to film the only black person in the whole of Argentina! Fair play.👍
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  10046. Do you want to live in Putin’s Russia or the democratic west? That’s what’s at stake here for millions.
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  10047. Tell Freddie Mercury that.
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  10048.  @jakekim8150  Get real. Every comedian I know is ‘acting’ in some way. They have a stage persona. Anyway, my point was that you can come from a background non-political and still make a decent politician.
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  10049. They told us that, dummy.
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  10050. Was always more of an EMF fan myself. 🎸
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  10051. Shiiiiiite? Nah, pretty sure Islam is not going float with Orban.😳
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  10052. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  10053.  @TheAArmstrong  Awright, Bobby lad, simmer down, sweetie. We all know your coping strategies aren’t the best. 👍 😋
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  10054. And Jimbo for the mental hospital! 🤣
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  10055. This is all very well, but beware of any of these AI models called ‘Linda’: they won’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day! 💵
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  10056.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, you’re just hacked off that a wee 8-year old British lassie with a brown skin is brighter than you! 😂 You are so idiotic, this triggers you.
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  10057.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Copying and pasting stuff won’t contradict the simple fact that eggs are not English and chips are not intrinsically English. Deal with it, fool.😆
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  10058.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  So, Jimbo, what have we learned today, petal? Well, 1. If you’re a British citizen you are ‘British’. 2. Eggs are pretty universal. 3. Chips are not intrinsically ‘English’. You may need some remedial classes tomorrow, Jimmy lad. Don’t be late.😉 We’ll be learning to count to 3 and to write your name, Jimbo. Bring a pen. 😂
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  10059.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Again, you display your foolishness, Jimbo. I repeat: eggs were not ‘invented’ in England. And other countries, such as Belgium and Portugal may have a prior claim on the chip. Checkmate.😉
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  10060.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  “I’m as English as egg & chips.” Er, eggs aren’t ‘English’, Jimbo. I think you’ll find they are eaten everywhere. As for chips, well Portugal may have a better claim on these. You need a better researcher, pal.
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  10061.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No, Jimbo. British people are British citizens, son. You’re talking about English, Scots, Irish, Welsh. Still triggered, huh? Pity.
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  10062.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I think she’s Indian heritage, Jimbo son. British born ‘n’ bred, though. Hehe. Deal with it, pal.😉🤓
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  10063.  Кот Шредингера  And? Who cares? Not I.😉
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  10064. Yes, but I bet you can’t name the capitals and currencies of all these places.🤓
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  10065. Asia!? She’s British you numpty!
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  10066. Why watch it? She’s on it!
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  10067. Or China. It’s to do with respect for education these places have. We lost that in the West decades ago, such that we take education for granted, or worse, we actively disdain it. Witness all the thickos in here, and on YouTube generally, with English as a first language and barely able to construct a coherent, grammatically correct sentence.
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  10068.  @druunderwood5602  *it’s
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  10069.  @clementclark  I love the name ‘Clement Clark’. Imagine if your folks had been having an off-day when they were naming you and went for ‘Inclement Clark’!😂
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  10070.  @druunderwood5602  *think
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  10071.  @bren2385  * you are a And no, I’m not a ‘grammar specialist’, I’m simply someone who has had a basic education. No go away, as you’re deeply tedious.
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  10072.  @bren2385  *There’s Now, bog off!
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  10073.  @bren2385  I rarely engage with idiots who use Caps Lock FOR NO APPARENT REASON. That policy has served me well, thus far. Think on.😉
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  10074.  @bren2385  I refer you to the comment I gave 2 hours ago.
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  10075. Any excuse, at this point. Covid softened us up. They’ll throw a bit of Mpox into the pot, and before you know it, they’ll be locking us down again. “You will own nothing and be happy.” (Klaus Schwab)
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  10076.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  👍🤡😂
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  10077. *serotonin Another egg to go with those chips, Jimbo?🤣 🍳
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  10078.  @samratmalik9638  Let’s face it, show me a writer who hasn’t stolen at some point and I’ll show you a liar. “To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” Either way, the quote, as Pirsig has stated it, nails fanatical thinking to a T.😉
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  10079.  @jakegrist8487  Indeed. Empty vessels make the loudest sound. Sometimes I feel that many adherents of this or that organised religion deeply fear there is nothing really in it metaphysically, hence the passionate, often violent, intensity with which they are impelled to defend their unverified, unverifiable beliefs.
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  10080.  @nagolhayze9366  I see you realise the error of your way now, chummo. No matter, we all get it drastically wrong sometimes. I won’t hold your ignorance on this matter against you, son. Yes indeedy, that ☀️ has been shining away for about 4 billion years and looks like it will be doing that for about the next 4 billion years. Looks like my timelines were more or less spot-on, eh sunshine?😉
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  10081.  @nagolhayze9366  You need to invest in a few elementary science books, sonny. Can I suggest you begin with ‘Stars For Dummies.’😉
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  10082.  @Chad-qk1ig  Yeah, I don’t use ‘certain words’ cos I don’t wanna sound like an utter tosser, like you. 🤡
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  10083.  @CastorRabbit  Not in religiously benighted places such as India and Pakistan, alas.
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  10084.  @Chad-qk1ig  I’m not screaming about anything I’m confident in, and one of the main things is the sun rising each day.😉Cope, bro, bruh, brah (delete as applicable, dipshit)
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  10085.  @theeraphatsunthornwit6266  Last time I checked, Islam was monotheistic, and last time I checked, they were the ones doing the beheadings in this report.😉
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  10086.  @kinfongyeung5400  Ffs! It’s not a manned mission! Get a sense of humour.
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  10087. At that exact point where we play out our video games for real, is where we know human beings have truly lost their marbles.👀
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  10088.  @kevinb9830  No.
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  10089. @Iridescent Lol. So putting a full-stop at the end of sentence counts as a “thesis” now, does it?!?! 🤣 I notice you were careful enough to throw in a comma there, so why not just do the right thing and put the period where it’s needed? As you don’t, it makes you look like a semi-literate chump to those of us who have a basic kindergarten education. Think on …
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  10090. *woman yvw.
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  10091. How camp are you?!
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  10092.  @darkwebwatching5100  *I *didn’t *I’m *I *I
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  10093. Pmsl. USA not trying to ruin civilisation?! Have you read a history book?
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  10094.  Big kev  Only goats do that.
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  10095. Who does? And if they do, wtf are they doing with their lives?!
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  10096. Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Andy.
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  10097.  @leonspinks3787  If you don’t watch your lip Spinks, you could be in for a few spanks!
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  10098. Er, well that clears things up then.
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  10099. I think she was called Crystal Meth.
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  10100.  @kaiser5568  Capital letters for surnames please.
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  10101. Ya na Lang woopsie usa .. most plant knees tosser.
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  10102.  @cvn6555  Lol. Easy to say. You’ve clearly never been around a majority-Muslim population. If you are and dare criticise it publicly, you’ll need to watch your back. 👍
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  10103.  @KTBFFH  Lol.
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  10104. i love little green men
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  10105. They torch the trains down in India. 🎶
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  10106. Put another needle on the record, ‘deejay’.
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  10107.  @donreeves4039  👈 *too Too stupid to know the difference between ‘to’ and ‘too’. Lol.
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  10108.  @mefisto05s.20  *in fact
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  10109.  @lenawagenfuehr53  All borders are lines drawn on maps by men. Get with the gig.
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  10110. There is no God. There very well may be no BBC.
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  10111.  @zu438  I agree. I’m not defending him. He’s evil. I’m just trying however much I can see it from his point of view as well as the NATO/EU/USA point of view. That’s all.
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  10112. Most of all, you.
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  10113.  @freeagent8225  😉👍
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  10114.  @paulgibbons2320  Yeah, but to be fair, we’re human beings here, we all have an agenda. Get with the gig.
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  10115. Lol. ‘In love’ with someone you’ve never met. That’s not ‘in love’; that’s psychopathy.
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  10116.  @DesertStateInEU  This is going to sting you a little more, so you might want to sit down and pour yourself a stiff drink before you read this: # USA ~ 4.96 homicides per 100,000 # Serbia ~ 1.23 homicides per 100,000 # Finland ~ 1.63 homicides per 100,000 # North Macedonia ~ 1.2 homicides per 100,000 # Albania ~ 2.29 homicides per 100,000 # France ~ 1.2 homicides per 100,000 # Slovakia ~ 1.14 homicides per 100,000 # Switzerland ~ 0.59 homicides per 100,000 # Belgium ~ 1.69 homicides per 100,000
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  10117. Interesting development. In Scotland most people think NATO is just a nickname you give to a guy who lost a foot to diabetes. 🦶
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  10118. It didn’t. It happened in the country of Britain.
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  10119.  @Eattherich2  No it wasn’t. 4 people were injured and 5 horses bolted. ‘Five horses from the Household Cavalry bolted after throwing off their riders during their morning exercise in Belgravia when they were spooked ...’ (The Telegraph)
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  10120.  @tastypymp1287  Amsterdam remains the least safe city in the Netherlands. This is meaningless in this debate given that the Netherlands hovers around the no.20 mark in most of the lists of the world’s safest countries. Thing is, Tasty, you have an agenda and you’re determined to promote it, bolster it, feed it. I’ve deduced that you’re right-wing, anti-immigration and probably want to retain some kind of “white ethnic purity” in the British populace (I could be wrong on all 3 counts here but don’t think I am), so when you quote me selective stuff to fit your preordained agenda, I just don’t buy it. I tend to look at the data in the round. So, I repeat: the Netherlands is a top 20 safe country (more or less), so saying Amsterdam is the most dangerous city in the Netherlands, in that context, loses its power. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have an agenda too (we all have an agenda), but I have very little time for the extremes in any debate, and you strike me as particularly far to one side (and therefore, in my eyes, unbalanced) in all these debates. Global warming; immigration; crime etc.
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  10121.  @albertmarnell9976  Huh? No idea why you are directing this stuff at me. I fear you have the wrong fella. 🤷‍♂️
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  10122.  @davidcufc  Orban shuts down opponents as a matter of course. The government controls the airwaves and media companies to such a degree that the opposition can’t get a fair hearing. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, stands up bogus opposition parties during parliamentary elections as a means of dividing the anti-Fidesz vote. In April 2018, Fidesz won the national elections, cementing Orbán’s hold on power; international monitors concluded that the opposition never really had a fair chance. Hungary’s civil society looks free and vibrant on paper, but a patchwork of nonsensical regulations makes it nearly impossible for pro-democracy organizations to do their work. The economy seems to be growing, but a significant number of corporations are controlled by Orbán’s cronies. Orban is a right-wing populist semi-dictator with a grip on power won unfairly. He’s as intolerant as Lukashenko and operates in a similar manner as Putin in his close control over the populace.
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  10123.  @weatherqueennami  Ditto you. Don’t believe everything that you read in your country about your ‘free and fair’ elections.
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  10124.  @davidcufc  Hungarian election officials have reported a suspected case of voter fraud to the police, as populist conservative leader Viktor Orban battles to secure a fourth successive term in office in Sunday’s election. Bags full of completed ballots were found at a rubbish dump outside Targu Mures, a city in north-western Romania where a large Hungarian minority has the right to vote in the neighbouring country’s elections. Romanian police have also opened an investigation and said they may take legal action. The opposition shared images and videos of partially burnt ballots, marked to support opposition parties. There were no details available about the perpetrators, possible motives or even the number of ballots. (Financial Times) We should not be surprised at this, as this is the common modus operandi of dictators.
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  10125.  @davidcufc  More than an element of truth, though, for there are more than hints that the election was rigged; surprise, surprise.
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  10126.  @epiphany55  Yeah, but pasta ain’t killing them. Cope.
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  10127.  @VedoLeStelle5  Pasta is fine. Stats prove it.😉
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  10128. Can’t be much more dangerous than humanity, tbf.
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  10129. I choose extinction for you, Jimbo.👍
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  10130.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yeah, but Jimbo, you appear to fancy a biological bloke, if the rumours are true. Given this, you may have to revise your anti-gay stance as … drumroll … 🥁… you are one! 🤣😂😅
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  10131.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  It’s always the loudest ones, Jimbo. Always the loudest ones who have the most to hide, son. Eh? 😉 Got something you want to confess? I will be your surrogate father-confessor! 🤣
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  10132.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You are aware of the rumours, Jimbo? 😉Trans woman. Looks like you might have the hots for a biological man! 🤭
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  10133.  @wolfiestreet6899  9 days ago, the aforementioned slammed you, chummo. Your memory is all hazy, as you’re drunk on your fanaticism of climate change denial. Please use that mirror I offered you the other day; there’s a good lad.😉
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  10134.  @wolfiestreet6899  Nope. Not mistaking you for anyone else but you, chump. Propius ad veritatum dei. Read it and weep, sonny. 😆
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  10135.  @wolfiestreet6899  Not as embarrassed as you should be for yourself after that other fella utterly wiped the floor with you the other day. You ought to hide in shame for months. It was hilarious to watch; he totally dismantled you and you withered like a dry grape on the vine. Marvellous to behold.😆
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  10136.  @wolfiestreet6899  Yes, you are.
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  10137.  @wolfiestreet6899  I think you meant ‘emulsion’.
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  10138.  @ruairievans  You can change the past if you’re the one writing the history.
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  10139. No. It’s heating up unnaturally along with its usual natural processes. Humanity’s activities are just speeding this process along.
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  10140.  @ruairievans  Because he was suggesting that data taken out of context could bolster an argument. It can’t. Hence he’s an idiot. As are you to even question this, son. Think on.
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  10141.  @wolfiestreet6899  I repeat, a rise of over 1 degree Celsius is incontrovertible, son. This rise can be directly correlated with greenhouse gas emissions over the decades; both natural and manmade. Once again for the benefit of the retarded, petal, the only issue here is the one of just how much humanity is complicit in all this.
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  10142.  @wolfiestreet6899  No gaslighting here, mate. The planet has warmed these past 100 years. This is incontrovertible. The only real debate to be had is whether this is humanity’s doing or not.
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  10143. Another historically-blind idiot. Don’t you realise that from about 1750 for a good century and a half, the West was ‘trashing the environment’ just as much as the Indians are now with their belated Industrial Revolution? Pot, kettle.
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  10144. Any chance we could have this in English, please?
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  10145.  @Martial-Mat  Well, you should have made that clear in your original post. I suggest you edit it, as you have just been hoist by your laxity with language. To more than suggest the average Indian ‘deserves’ all they’ve got in terms of unbearable heat due to climate change is borderline racist, pal. And if that wasn’t your intention, you failed in not making this clear, son. Think on before you post moronic statements in public forums in future.
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  10146.  @Martial-Mat  You said ‘it’s fitting they are paying the price’. Who? Indians. Fool.
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  10147.  @captain-obvious-speaks  👏Well said.
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  10148.  @Intentspunk19  *It’s
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  10149. Not if you live on the equator.
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  10150. Pmsl.
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  10151. Imprison Jimbo Smith. 👍
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  10152.  @chipzz86  : “In my view this is a once in a generation – perhaps even a once in a lifetime – opportunity.” (Alex Salmond 2014) Now, Alex Salmond is many things but I’m pretty sure a newspaper isn’t one of them!🤣
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  10153. @0:28 Oh, Dear God; and I thought Birmingham was ugly!
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  10154.  @zanshibumi  Lol.
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  10155. Indeed, Jimbo. As per, the state of your poopaganda stinks. 💩
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  10156. Lol. So it’s not ok to kill human beings before they are born, but ok to murder them after they are born. Gotcha. 👍
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  10157. 🤣
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  10158. Cases like these always make me think of the eternal human “free-will v determinism” debate. I used to believe for years that humans had a least a scintilla of free-will, but the older I get, the more I read and experience, the more I’m coming round to the rather more disturbing conclusion that human beings quite very possibly have zero free-will. Of course, the implications of this are enormous, not least for our criminal justice systems, for if we have no free-will, Letby (and others like her) cannot be held responsible for their obviously heinous crimes.
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  10159. Who said she was an ‘eco warrior’? She’s a BBC journalist.
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  10160. Non-Americans look at this in disbelief. America has so hamstrung itself with the 2nd Amendment, that there seems no way out of this ongoing nightmare. Meanwhile, most other comparable nations to the US have no issue with gun laws. America seems hypnotised by its archaic, some would say primitive, 2nd Amendment. It reminds me a bit of these religious zealots who stick to the letter of their original law, come what may. American firearms have moved on from 1791, but the laws to regulate them haven’t; this is why America has this issue. The other thing that strikes me is that this seems to be overwhelmingly a male thing. In my 4 decades on this planet I have never heard of a single mass shooter. Not saying they haven’t existed, but they are so vanishingly rare as to be negligible in the final account. The whole thing brings to mind George Carlin’s wise words: Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid .
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  10161.  @AndyCutright  If the ‘guns’ aren’t the issue, why is it that after 16 children and their teacher were massacred in Dunblane in Scotland in 1996, stricter gun laws were instituted and there hasn’t been a mass shooting in the UK since?; while in America, where every bozo and their dog over 18 can access guns like they can access candies, there are weekly mass shootings? Seems to me like easy legal access to guns very much is the issue, here. It’s as obvious as day. Also, you call America ‘safe’, but with a homicide rate (mostly using guns), consistently 4x over that of comparable countries, that would seem to suggest there is a gun issue. Few other countries have this issue in the same way as America, as they have instituted laws to protect free, easy access to high-calibre weapons. Also, none of these countries seem to invoke this argument that they must have a firearm to ‘protect them from a tyrannical government’; only America (and usually Republican America) trots out this argument, so that they can keep their deadly toys.
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  10162.  @mclarenf1gtr99  I was using 18 as that is the age you can legally own a gun in America.
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  10163.  @Team-fabulous  He’s not wrong about everything . To believe that makes you an idiot.
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  10164.  @justsain3236  Having lived in ‘dry’ countries and countries which permit alcohol, I’ll take my chances with the latter, for all the messiness. The former places are, without exception, intolerably, crushingly, mind-bendingly dull. When you throw in rigid, patriarchal, monotheistic crap based on primitive, medieval, frequently barbaric texts that dictate that thou shalt do this and not that, well, you’re getting close to a definition of hell in my book. The other thing is, you talk of people ‘drinking’ alcohol and list all these issues as if all people who ‘drink’ alcohol cause all these problems. I’m here to tell you something: 99% of the people I know who ‘drink’ alcohol cause precisely zero of these problems. You need to be more accurate with your language. ‘Abuse’ alcohol was the word you wanted. Just Sa’in.
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  10165.  @EvonneLindiwe  🪨
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  10166. Yes, but if they’re not wearing the hijab they won’t be allowed to leave. 🪨
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  10167. I should imagine, given the Slavic ties, that the average Russian in the street feels a similar way to how we would feel here if England decided to invade Scotland just after the latter had declared independence, or if England went into Wales just after the latter had rustled some sheep from the border country, or if England attacked Northern Ireland because an Irish Republican Army had taken over the reigns of government and ruled from Dublin. In other words, the average Russian must feel conflicted, to say the least.
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  10168.  @the-weirdist  Says you. One begs to differ, sonny.
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  10169.  @the-weirdist  Er, k.
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  10170.  @the-weirdist  Er, k.
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  10171. Can’t help feeling this is the one situation where every lady in this report needed to be wearing her burka.
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  10172. Aye, off you go, son. Lip service ain’t enough. Pack yer bags and go and have your freedoms stripped to the bare bones by a bunch of loonies who revere a 50 year old man who married a pre-teen.👍
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  10173. Yes. Xi: “You know who’s the boss.”
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  10174. You’ve also got ye olde giveaway facial accoutrement of the average fascist, Al: the tache! Or are you gay? It’s one or t’other, mate. Do tell … 👍😉
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  10175. They seem to ban a lot in Russia, don’t they? Such a shame that the one thing they haven’t banned yet is still running amok with his dictatorial nonsense.
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  10176. Boring, pointless comment.
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  10177.  @tastypymp1287  What? Wtf are you on about? If heterosexuals can legally get married then homosexuals and bisexuals should equally be free to marry if they so choose. Why do you people get involved with 2 consenting people who are doing you no harm? If they want to legally marry, why are you bothered? Not only do you interfere with their sex lives but you interfere with their non-sex lives! Just butt-out! No one is policing your sex/marital life, so stop policing others. It’s insanity! Not to mention, deeply creepy and inappropriate.🤦‍♂️👈TastyTwat supports this but she has no argument.
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  10178.  @soreeyez  What? Wtf are you on about? If heterosexuals can legally get married then homosexuals and bisexuals should equally be free to marry if they so choose. Why do you people get involved with 2 consenting people who are doing you no harm? If they want to legally marry, why are you bothered? Not only do you interfere with their sex lives but you interfere with their non-sex lives! Just butt-out! No one is policing your sex/marital life, so stop policing others. It’s insanity! Not to mention, deeply creepy and inappropriate.🤦‍♂️
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  10179. “Pretty”?! She’s as plain as they come.
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  10180. Neither did Hitler.
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  10181. Anyone with half a 🧠 could have seen this coming. I’d be splitting from Russia faster than a 🐆 in a 🛩 this scenario. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ✌️
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  10182. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  10183. We should have done that with your mother.
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  10184.  @nanban1896  Alright Nan. Put your slippers on and drink your cocoa.
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  10185.  @chucknorris7221  To be fair, Chuck, not one example of your, um, oeuvre, ever had me. Don’t take that wrong.
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  10186. Says someone called ‘Oliver’!🤣
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  10187.  @theonemesis5217  Lol@“isolated from the rest of the world”. 🤣 How tragic that you consider here today, gone tomorrow social media frippery necessary to be connected to the world! Some of us have real live, flesh and blood mates.😉
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  10188.  @notjustforhackers4252  🥱 Ok, son. You obviously can’t cope with losing a democratic election, it seems. Sawree. 😭
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  10189.  @notjustforhackers4252 *Labour’s I never trust anyone who is not aware of the very basic grammatical notion of the possessive apostrophe. Uh huh. Bad luck. 😭
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  10190. *World Cup Get it right, you semi-literate numpty!
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  10191.  @kulasisinigagongdigongnyo4925  Triggered, much, sonny? 😂
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  10192.  @Jumpyman_thegamerYT  Lol.🤣 You need to stop playing those brain-frying games and read a few history books! The Catholic Church is a wicked institution with terrible historical crimes on its record: # Pope Pius XII denying eyewitness reports of mass execution during the Holocaust. # Systemically covering up tens of thousands of cases involving sexual misconduct. # Terrorising Jews and Muslims for centuries. # The utter barbaric sadism of Pope Boniface VIII. # Burning of Joan of Arc for ‘dressing like a man’ (this one’s a particular black joke given that priests spend all day in a frock!) # Burning Tynedale for making a vernacular Bible for the masses. # Slaying countless women for being ‘witches’. # Taking cash for ‘absolving sins’. # Executing Jan Hus. # Executing Giordano Bruno. # Detaining Galileo and putting him under house arrest for Galileo’s suggesting science trumped God. # Various Inquisitions involving the torture and murder of thousands of heretics. # Persecution of homosexuals. # General ongoing misogyny. # General ongoing racism. # Utter hypocrisy in following a guy like Jesus who preached holy poverty while the Catholic Church is worth $30 billion. ✝️
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  10193. 🐑
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  10194.  @thing.1263  She’s a fascist. Deny it all you want, but her core beliefs answer to fascism.
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  10195.  @thing.1263  Je raconte ce que je pense. C’est tout.
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  10196. Pick the bones out of that one. 😳
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  10197. There’s a woman there, too, y’know.😳
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  10198.  @sergiovergaramontemiranda2116  😉 🇨🇷
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  10199.  @JHW44  Was India ok with this? What did she have to say about it?
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  10200.  @sergiovergaramontemiranda2116  *a lot Playing with you, mate. I’m fully aware of the Hispanic double-barrelled nonsense. Thanks for the lesson, anyway.👍
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  10201.  @fjuvo  Well-Googled.👍😉
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  10202.  @sergiovergaramontemiranda2116  Where I’m from double-barrelled names are the sign of pretentiousness wankiness. Probably different where you’re from, culturally and historically.👍
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  10203. Does it? How about some ‘woman power’? You volunteering to put your life on the line, Shannon?😳
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  10204. Germany delaying arms to ‘Ukrine’? You’d almost think the Germans were taking the piss!😳
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  10205. That’s no way to talk about Boris Johnson.😳
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  10206. Lol. Putin will be dead in a year.
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  10207. Nah, ‘Brains’ was the best brains ever. Thunderbirds are go!🥸
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  10208. Or, how about going bearless and riding on a shirt? Much safer. 🐻
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  10209. Great band.👍
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  10210. Yes, but why don’t you just tell us what you really think? 😳
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  10211. 9.
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  10212. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 😳
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  10213. Dunno. All I know is that if you steal a Rolex and get caught by the fuzz, you’ll be doing time.
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  10214. Hunky Dory! Possible life on Mars.
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  10215. @K G 😉
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  10216. @Angelo Lol.😆
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  10217. Napoleon Bonaparte 5’6”; Benito Mussolini 5’6”; Alexander the Great 5’6”; Silvio Berlusconi 5’5”; Joseph Stalin 5’5”; Hirohito 5’5”; Vladimir Lenin 5’5”; Francisco Franco 5’4”; Kim Jong-il 5’3”; Kim Jong-un 5’6”; Robert Mugabe 5’7”; Vladimir Putin 5’7” … 🧐 methinks I see a pattern here.🥸
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  10218.  @DC8Combi  For the record, I didn’t tell you what to do; I simply said quit the sarcastic shit when it comes to basic grammar, as yours ain’t all that (‘ain’t’ used ironically, here). I don’t believe you are a native-born Russian. I think you’re American-born. Can you confirm or deny your Russian provenance, and where exactly you were born? Just for the record, you’re messing with the wrong guy if you think you can threaten me; trust me on that one.
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  10219.  @DC8Combi  Where were you born?
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  10220.  @DC8Combi  Where were you born then?
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  10221.  @DC8Combi  *just saw *let’s *someone’s - no charge for the grammar lessons.
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  10222.  @DC8Combi  *one’s - you need the possessive for that son, so stop with the sarcastic crap.
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  10223.  @DC8Combi  You never told me why you were ‘proud’ to be Russian …
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  10224.  @DC8Combi  *one’s
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  10225.  @DC8Combi  Russian, my arse! Looking at your channel, all the evidence points to you being a Yank. If that’s the case, the semi-literacy is hardly surprising. You may have some explaining to do, son.
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  10226.  @DC8Combi  Incidentally, why are you ‘proud’ to be Russian?
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  10227.  @DC8Combi  Well, to be fair, it’s better than liking your comments.😉
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  10228.  @DC8Combi  Yeah, but if English is your first language you ought to be ashamed of yourself with your hypocrisy.
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  10229.  @DC8Combi  *world’s
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  10230.  @Christfollower89  Pmsl.
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  10231.  @Christfollower89  Pmsl.
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  10232.  @jimmer1047  Look, mate, here’s the deal: people are born somewhere. It’s random. To hitch your identity to an accident of birth is the way of unthinking morons. Think on; if you can.
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  10233.  @АннаИванык  Look, if you feel more ‘Russian’ than Ukrainian; just move to Russia. After all, it’s more than twice the size of the next biggest country on this planet. It’s not as if there is a lack of room. One of the bitter ironies of this whole situation is that Russia is far and away the largest country by landmass, yet here it is, demanding more. If anything, Russia should be donating land to others; not consolidating by illegally invading sovereign, self-governing nations.
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  10234.  @EGvids1  I never said they would. Just that they should. S’all.
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  10235.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Not at all too late, as far as I can see. Russia could quite easily be defeated here.
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  10236.  @colorbugoriginals4457  🤷‍♂️
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  10237.  @rembrantwithagrenade171  Well, let them be sent this time, and we can sort this out once and for all. Take a vote of the 44 million Ukrainians (or the eligible adults, rather), and let’s see where the majority lies when it comes to the future of Crimea and the Donbas.
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  10238. There is no God, and very soon there will be no Biden.
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  10239. YES, AND TYPING IN CAPS LOCK FOR NO APPARENT REASON IS ALSO A POISON.
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  10240.  @elizabethstanley4541  You asked, “Why can’t we welcome our neighbours?” Because human beings are extraordinarily tribal; we like people like us, and, as a rule, are deeply suspicious of those unlike us. That was my point.
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  10241.  @tonygange7636  Double standards and hypocrisy, son. Put away your agenda.
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  10242.  @tonygange7636  Just replying to the OP, chum. No right to tell others to ‘stay home and better your own countries’ when his/her own ancestors only did what others are doing today. Double-standards and rank hypocrisy in my book, mate.😉
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  10243. And, you, Jimbo are just a moron! 👍🤣😂😅
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  10244.  @atlasnetwork7855  Again, you mention ‘academics’. Again, you miss me completely; I’m not talking about ivory-tower, institutionalised academics; I’m talking about you, or I, or Joe or Jane Bloggs who has had a good general liberal education well beyond school. That’s all. Jeez, why are you making this so difficult?
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  10245.  @atlasnetwork7855  Not sure why you keep harping on about this ‘risk averse’ thing. I never mentioned this once. At the risk of repeating myself, my thesis is rather simple: those who have been broadly educated in further and higher education (although I include the autodidacts in this, too), correlate with more open, tolerant, liberal attitudes to others generally. This is my experience over decades. Conversely, those who have had a poor/basic education (for whatever reason) tend to be narrow, intolerant, conservative, hidebound and not much in favour of very much beyond their own very narrow self-interest. Now, of course, we are all in favour of our own self-interest, but some self-interests are grander and broader than others. That’s all. Not sure why this should be news, frankly. It’s obvious stuff to anyone with eyes to see.
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  10246.  @atlasnetwork7855  1. I wasn’t suggesting people don’t have a right to these opinions; I was just pointing it out as I see it. Moreover, I have absolutely no issue, personally, with these opinions being expressed. 2. I disagree. I would say that if being sexist, racist and homophobic isn’t ‘right-wing’, then we are going to render such terms meaningless thereby. 3. You are naive to suggest that folk who are strongly anti-immigration aren’t somewhat racist. Not all, but lots are; perhaps the majority in their various ways. For the record, I get why people are intolerant of what they see as mass immigration and think this is a national referendum issue; however, there is a strong streak of racism behind much of the anti-immigration thing in my experience. 4. I stand by my claim that those I’m aware of who are strongly anti-European, are often anti-women, anti-gays, and anti-just about any other culture you care to mention that isn’t their own narrow one. 5. Not necessarily ‘Europhile’; that’s perhaps exaggerating it. I think you’re missing my general point here. This is, that people who are broadly educated in the liberal tradition are more likely to have fewer issues with foreign cultures generally. That’s all I was really saying. Don’t get too sidetracked with the Brexit thing in this regard. 6. We may have to agree to disagree here, mate. Your points are well made and I’m on board with much of what you say, but I stand by what I’ve said in this thread.
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  10247.  @atlasnetwork7855  I would add that you are perhaps misreading me; just because folk don’t have formal further and higher education doesn’t make them stupid. However, I would argue that it does make them, broadly, socially conservative, suspicious, often intolerant, often disdainful of the life of the mind, often, yes, racist, sexist and homophobic. None of these things ipso facto mark you out as stupid, necessarily, but they are certainly a predictor of whether you’re going to want to throw your lot in with a bunch of ‘funny foreigners’ across the water. For the record, I’m highly suspicious of the E.U., but on balance, think it’s the better thing. Just.
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  10248.  @atlasnetwork7855  You’ve just proved my point: “This is to do with how enterprising and adventurous a person is, how much they like to take chances, versus people who simply don’t like change.” You have just thereby given a perfect definition and description of his Somewhere tribe.
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  10249. @UC-aH2gWB3B4UNGeSm8q2xMw You’re more popular than I.😉
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  10250.  @sebastianguerre6868  For the record, there are 18 comments now, and I can only see 10!
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  10251.  @atlasnetwork7855  I disagree. There is a lot of truth in Goodheart’s thesis; this is only anecdotal, but it’s apposite: virtually everyone I know who voted to remain is university-educated, has lived in several places other than their place of birth and upbringing, are invariably socially liberal, are not arsed about ‘accident-of-birth’ crap as a key marker of their identity, are open to (and, vitally, not threatened by) other cultures, have travelled extensively, are often multilingual (yes, these are Brits!). While, contra this, the principal core of Brexiteers I know are not university-educated (and, actually, often have an active disdain for the life of the mind), have not only not lived anywhere else but their ‘accident-of-birth’ realm, but have often not been beyond a Spanish Costa when it comes to seeing other parts of this planet, are socially conservative to the point of appearing racist, sexist and homophobic to the Anywheres (not that this is an issue for the Somewheres, as they often wear their prejudices like badges of honour), are often poor in speaking their mother-tongue, let alone other tongues, and so it goes on. Now, of course, there are exceptions to these and this is my anecdotal experience, but this experience largely tallies with Goodheart’s thesis in broad terms.
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  10252.  @michaeldjango Lol. And who created the Creator, then? 🤔
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  10253. The trouble with humankind is that far too often they forget the ‘kind’ bit. ☮️
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  10254. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  10255. ‘Boy’?! You’re 21, son. Get a grip.
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  10256. Scene: Putin reimagined as a kind of Dirty Harry. ‘Law enforcement’ - Russian-style. “I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six missiles or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb in the world, and would blow your country clean off the map, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well do ya, punk?”
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  10257. No he doesn’t. He looks what he is. 45.
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  10258. They’ve been saying that for 2,000 years. It’s always “about” …
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  10259.  Jim Meritt  That’s what organised religion does for ya. Alas. 😑
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  10260. And you have just encapsulated why organised religion has been the greatest blight humanity ever had the misfortune to invent.
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  10261.  @nuqwestr  And of, course, because you’re tendentious you will say that. Those who are objective see something rather different; something like a decades-old occupation by Israel. The two-state solution is the obvious one here, to everyone with common sense, but then, as Voltaire noted: “common sense isn’t that common.”
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  10262.  @yonatanollech6908  Israel is illegally occupying and you know it; as I say, you have skin in the game; I don’t. The 2-state solution is the only way here, if we want a peaceful solution.
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  10263.  @yonatanollech6908  On the contrary, a two-state solution is the only realistic solution.
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  10264.  @childofeternity  Are you a willing moron? Read my original post, then get back to me. Stop wasting my time, son.
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  10265.  @childofeternity  Oh, stop your crap. Jews have lived on the land of Israel continuously for almost 4,000 years. The land of Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people. Approximately 4,000 years ago, Abraham moved to the land of Israel where he lived with his family, raised his children and purchased land to bury his wife and himself. This is all Biblical crap. It’s all religious, so go away and think about this better.
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  10266.  @Jwiznat  I actually stand by that first sentence: if you’re secular and not intrinsically linked with all this crap, you can easily see a way for 2 nations to create their separate states and live side by side. Religion has scuppered all this. So, remove religion, and things become that much easier.
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  10267.  @Jwiznat  Remove religion and this thing is a whole lot easier to solve.
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  10268.  @Jwiznat  Actually, it kinda is easy to solve. Remove all religion and you have 2 secular peoples sitting down to discuss how to share this land, without all the bullshit nonsense going back thousands of years. Because religion is so inextricably linked with this conflict, this may never happen, however.
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  10269.  @Jwiznat  That was my very point: organised religion is the very root of how we got here.
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  10270. If this war were to be guaranteed to be limited to conventional weapons (an impossibility, of course), then NATO/US could probably take out Russia in a day or two.
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  10271. Jesus. Why can’t we have a good news story? Just once. Please. This is too painful to watch. And I hate humans but this is too painful to watch.
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  10272.  @tomround8271  Yes, Tom, you keep focusing on that less than 0.1%.😉
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  10273.  @tomround8271  Doesn’t surprise me that you have had a sense of humour bypass.
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  10274. No, Sagittarius, I think.
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  10275.  @neffetSnnamremmiZ  Or Morris dancing.
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  10276.  @account-now-closed  Why r u doing the Jeffrey Marsh thing in every post?
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  10277. Her pronunciation was correct. Niger is a former French colony, and along with Arabic, French is an official language.
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  10278. Did she, Jimbo? What a f*cking disaster that must be for you, son, as yer egg and chips won’t be on time. 🍳 🍟
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  10279.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nah, Jimbo. You just can’t cope with the fact your forbears went everywhere, and now that the blowback is hitting you, you’re changing the rules. 💋 This migration sh*t works both ways, Jimbo. Sooner you can get with the gig, the better for us all. Not least, you! 😉👍
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  10280.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!, Jimbo.
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  10281.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Well, tbf, Jimbo, Brits turned half the planet into their image. Have you not read a history book, son? 😉 📕
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  10282.  @jordanbaker8870  Pmsl.
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  10283. Pmsl. The irony of Jimbo (possibly the most intolerant numpty on Earth) moaning about others’ “intolerance”! 🤣 Jimbo: you literally hate everyone ! Your staggering hypocrisy is hilarious. 😂 Moreover, you yourself believe in the “illusion” of an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy and you’re hypocritically banging on at others about living in “illusion”?! 😅
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  10284.  @Random_cleans  Nah man, you don’t get out of this so smugly. You have no idea how many of these people are genuine asylum seekers/refugees. Moreover, even if all of them are just economic migrants seeking a better life, well, as I pointed out earlier, hundreds of millions of Europeans have been doing that since 1492! Why, as I speak there are currently 5.5 million Brits living abroad. Think on, son.😊
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  10285. Indeed. Just like hundreds of millions of Europeans have done since 1492. 👍
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  10286.  @imonaroll9502  God no. Too old and too fat.
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  10287.  @J1mmyMack  Technically though, he’s right to say Ireland (Republic included) is part of the British Isles.
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  10288. 2p.
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  10289.  @mathisyahu7945  Whit?!?! 🤣I’m British ya feckin’ tit! Get right or not at all. Incidentally, if you’re disregarding self-determination, you’ll be ok if I come over to your house, occupy it and demand you live by my rules, won’t you?😉
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  10290.  @mathisyahu7945  Ever heard of self-determination you utter twit?🤣
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  10291. Er, you’re kinda missing the point: it’s whether the Taiwanese want to be fully integrated under China’s flag.
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  10292.  @sp4c3g  The National Democratic Institute's May 2022 poll found that only 3 percent of Ukrainians would like Ukraine to join the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union, and 90 percent want Ukraine to become a member state of the European Union, with the lowest number, in the east and south, still an overwhelming majority at 84%. Cope harder. 🍻
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  10293.  @eigelgregossweisse9563  ‘It was China’s’ … but right now the majority of Taiwanese want f*ck-all to do with China, and quite frankly, I don’t blame them. Cope better.
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  10294. I’m only an armchair Private, alas. 🪖
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  10295.  @Homeschoolsw6  Yeah, but the world has been at war for 300,000 years. It’s just the lucky ones who can’t spot this, as they live carefree lives in war-free zones. But taken in toto, human beings have been involved in a ‘World War’ since we have existed.
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  10296. I always find it funny that people talk of World War 3, as if the world hasn’t been constantly at war since the first Homo Sapiens walked this planet. We have forever been embroiled in World War 1.
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  10297. Yes. Homer Simpson. D’oh!
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  10298. Upvoting yourself and laughing at your own weak joke? Novel.
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  10299. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  10300. I find it intriguing that so many pro-Russians in this war talk of the NATO threat and how it has crept up to the border of Russia since 1989; this much is true. However, is it any wonder nations like Finland and Ukraine look west and to NATO given Putin’s record? He’s invaded 5 countries in 22 years. Quite frankly I don’t blame countries near him for looking west for collective protection.
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  10301.  @jimthompson9370  Again, you’re not reading me right; I’m not in favour of paying out reparations centuries after the event; I repeat, at the time of slave abolition in 1833, this money should have gone directly to the slaves, not the owners. If the British State chose to carry on slavery for 170 years, then the least they can do is deal with a little ‘blowback’ when we all realise that slavery is an iniquitous evil. Although, some of us realised this in the antediluvian days.
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  10302. “Oh, oh, the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away Oh, the mother and child reunion Is only a moment away (oh oh)” 🎼 🎵 🎶
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  10303. Yes, but has Amber heard Johnny’s deposition?
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  10304.  @solidus_reaver4381  Can we fuck! Nice try though.👍
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  10305. Well, yeah, whatever. But whenever I read comments like this, I always ask myself: where would I rather live? Uh huh. 🤡
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  10306.  @AbuBased731  You monotheists are mentally hobbled by the primitive text(s) you adhere to. Ditch the crap and come into the light.
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  10307. Because she could.
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  10308. Prime Minister: “While Joe’s Biden his time, I’ll Putin a word with Vladimir.”
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  10309. Dumb comment, Jimbo, as ever. Last time I checked India was made up of over 700 different ethnic groups and China 56.
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  10310. There is no Allah. Move on. Cope. This is so boring now.
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  10311.  @Belisarius-nr3ty  *you’re You’re sub-literate. Get a spellchecker.
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  10312. *their
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  10313.  @jimcourt9164 Projecting yet again, Jimbo? 🤔😉
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  10314. The monkey pox decorations have been taken down for another year. I’m currently putting up the China-Taiwan decorations.
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  10315. A bit racist against Danes. You’ll be telling us next the Vikings should never have come here and raped, pillaged and colonised.
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  10316. Hey! Don’t knock grift. He was terrific in ‘Alas, Smith & Jones’. One for the teenagers, there.
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  10317. No! No one should be shooting these birds!
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  10318. And refund the subscribers.
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  10319. @SassySam Hear, hear! 👂
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  10320.  @cheesball96  Nicely researched, cheeseball. Judy: you may need an edit.
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  10321.  @benjamindover4337  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨 Jesus, have you never had train set, son? *practising
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  10322. Lemons?
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  10323. Pmsl.
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  10324. If you squint a bit, the thumbnail looks remarkably like some old grey bearded guy with glasses. Uncanny.
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  10325. Just ‘sometimes’?
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  10326. You shouldn’t be proud of a random accident of birth anyway, so don’t worry about it. You had no choice where your mother plopped you out; ergo you are absolved of all guilt in this matter.
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  10327. In an alternate Universe: the 22nd European Games begin in Beijing. Of course not. And Europeans wonder why non-Europeans are so wary of Europeans, historically.😳
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  10328.  @myazpiration3861  I hate to say this, mate, as you’re clearly passionate, but Coventry is quite possibly the ugliest mid-sized city in the whole of the UK. Of course, this is not Coventry’s fault; it’s the fault of the Nazis. 💣
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  10329.  @happyjonn9242  They sent you to Coventry, mate.🤓
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  10330. Do you supply wet wipes?
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  10331. Well, on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
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  10332. The Monarchy: an unelected, unaccountable, money-grubbing tribe of hangers-on. Free from public scrutiny, what have they ever really done for us? A symbol of ‘Britishness’? Not my idea of Britishness. The Queen is in a bind, as she can neither truly speak for herself or Britain. She cannot hold herself to account, or politicians to account. Ah, but the Monarchy promotes Britain abroad. Does it? How are we supposed to ‘promote’ democracy abroad through a deeply undemocratic institution? The internal contradiction is insurmountable. Finally, the monarchists chime in with ‘but they are so good for tourism’, but that idea may be demolished in a jiffy: look at France; a Republic for 250 years, and the Versailles Palace is the 3rd most visited tourist site in the whole of France, so the point that the tourist stream to Britain would run dry if we abolished the monarchy is a non-starter.
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  10333.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nicely edited apostrophe, btw, Jimbo. 👍 Don’t worry, son, in these hard times for us all, I’m not charging for my basic pre-school English lessons! 🤣
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  10334.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Well, I do dig the occasional doughnut, Jimbo, if that’s what you mean. 🍩 🤓
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  10335. *its
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  10336. ‘Going to the moon tomorrow’. Pah! You’re talking out Uranus.
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  10337. You’re right! I just checked Accuweather and 40°C recorded once this month for Athens. I did the same check a few weeks ago when they said Delhi was reaching 53°C and it turns out it was actually 46°C.
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  10338.  @hgbnkbggj2915  So, if it’s not 100% manmade, what is it? 5%? 25%? 75%?
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  10339. ‘Beef stiffado’? Is that a euphemism? 😮
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  10340. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  10341. The West’s military-industrial complex has far too much staked in this for it to end anytime soon, alas.
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  10342. It’s a ‘tity’.😉
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  10343.  @curiositycloset2359  Not you again ! If you dig Russia that much just go and live there and spare us all the grief.
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  10344.  @Zed9659  Actually, it kinda does. Everything that ever happened has been leading up to you, in this moment. If even the slightest thing had happened otherwise you wouldn’t be here. The odds on you existing are astronomical, running to billions to one.
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  10345. Count yourself lucky, mate. I have to share my bed with the wife!
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  10346. A deep insult to dogshit. 💩
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  10347.  @conceptalfa  That and revering some ageing 50-something who was betrothed to a 6 year old and married her at 9! You couldn’t make this stuff up.
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  10348. Ok, that’s the second-worst clown in Russia dispensed with; now, just one to go! 🤡
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  10349. Can we not just arm the drones and let them get on with it, and leave the rest of us to live in relative peace?
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  10350. ‘Could’ win war? Haven’t they already? Putin fails to take Kiev. Putin is failing to take Donbas. At least a third of his demoralised, unmotivated, badly equipped conventional forces are destroyed. Putin has singularly failed to read the majority of the Ukrainian people, with his pre-war arrogant hubris that he could simply roll a few rusty tanks over the border and topple a sovereign, self-governing nation like he was pushing over a wobbly tower of dominoes. Fool. He’s dying anyway, it seems. This fact is largely behind his reckless endeavours, and he chose to gamble at a last hurrah in the murky world of aggressive geopolitics. His fatal miscalculation was that about 20% (if that) of the ethnic Russian Ukrainians would see him through. It won’t. The critical mass ain’t there. Once he pops his clogs, Russia needs to elect someone who isn’t going to be so foolishly inept as to believe you can pitch up to your next-door neighbour, and attempt to take that neighbour’s home by force. Has Putin never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs ?
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  10351. Actually, they’re not, in the main. The true Nazis were genuinely motivated by an ideology; most of these 18/19 year-old Russian conscripts are just callow, unwilling non-ideological cannon fodder for the Kremlin, who, in other circumstances, would be at college, or beginning an apprenticeship, like most 18/19 year olds in many other places where they don’t have to unthinkingly fight for a cowardly thug who has never put himself in a front-line to be shot at in his life.
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  10352. Good points, well made. However, what I’ve never quite got is why they would remove a star, even if an individual is a criminal. Life is messy. People do bad things. It’s like the statue controversy here in the UK a few years ago where statues of men linked to slavery were hauled down. Not pro slavery (obviously), but I don’t want my history whitewashed. I want my historical figures, warts and all, and I want to know what they did or didn’t do. If they are going to go down this line of removing stars on the Walk , then perhaps they should have 2 Walks : The Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Shame .
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  10353.  @indadrops9492  My essential point stands: Trump has been the most famous person on the planet. The Hollywood Walk of FAME ; the clue’s in the title.
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  10354.  @indadrops9492  It’s just a fact. If you are US President, the day you are inaugurated will make you (for 1 day at least) the most famous person on the planet.
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  10355.  @jssapo303  I agree. Putin is caught between the fact he’s facing his Slavic brothers and sisters and knowing he could, as you say, blitz the city in two days. America had no such qualms. At some point I fear his patience will run out though if he meets too much resistance; Slav brothers or not.
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  10356. Yeah, if Putin’s army are the second best army in the world that makes the Hare Krishnas number three then.
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  10357. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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  10358. No. A chair.
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  10359. Unlucky. She got hired.
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  10360. Pmsl.
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  10361.  @paulrichards6894  You took it wrong. I was suggesting to America there is a different way.
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  10362.  @beatricecallan  My main point was really that since 2014 Ukraine has undemocratically been ruled by governments favourable to America and the west. Obviously, those eastern Ukrainians of Russian ethnic origin are going to be (and have been) kept in their place by the ruling Kyiv regime. Zelensky is no saint, and for the past 3 years he has continued with this policy, which is a substantial reason for Putin invading, firstly in 2014, and now on Zelensky’s watch. As I said, I have no intrinsic skin in this game so am able to see it in the round.
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  10363. One of the other ‘downsides’ of Communism is that it doesn’t really work.
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  10364. Er, ooooooooook. 😐
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  10365.  @jjperceval  Ah, yes. I always preferred 69s though. 😲
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  10366.  @mr.t993  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  10367. Here Japan. Have these: an eagle, a kestrel and a falcon. 🦅
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  10368.  @bonysminiatures3123  Yup.
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  10369. Yes. And if Bono stopped clicking his fingers, we might do something about it.
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  10370. I think that cheese went off some time ago. That could be why. 👃 🧀
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  10371. Stop eating so many prunes then.
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  10372. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is one of perspective. We have narrowed our vision such that are unable to see the universal wood for the exclusive trees. We have hitched our star to this or that family, clan, tribe, nationalism, religion, such that we have become deluded, unable to serenely see what actually is. We are cosmic dust on a grain of sand, one of trillions of grains of sand, whirling around a nuclear reactor, one of trillions of nuclear reactors and we are willing to abase ourselves to murdering one another for an accident of birth, or an imagined daddy in the sky? Has it come to this? There are alien civilisations who use this Earth as a cosmic pit stop on their intergalactic travels and they look at us and weep. They have perspective. They can literally see the Earth in toto. They cannot see the pettifogging, sanguinary squabbles over this or that imaginary line drawn on a map. They cannot see the ignorant ranters championing their imagined God, ranked against the ignorant ranters championing their imaginary God. The solution to all this nonsense is very simple. Expand your terms of self-definition. Refuse to accept a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a salient marker of your identity. Refuse to accept unthought-out shibboleths handed down to you to shore up your fear of death. Refuse to be proud, unless your pride is grounded in self-motivated, self-guided achievement, and not some random, bizarre, nonsensical ‘pride’ based on the fact your mother happened to plop you out here, and not there. None of this would matter a fig, but for a key point: we now, at this critical juncture in our cosmic journey, face the very real and present danger of incinerating this planet and everything on it. Really. We are better than that.😳
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  10373. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  10374. Sounds like you know a bit about “pursuing naive or misguided youths for sexual favours”, Jimbo. 🤫🤪
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  10375. Full disclosure: I’m agnostic, apolitical and anational. I just don’t want to be incinerated in a thermonuclear annihilation scenario, that’s all. But this needs to be said, if we are to have any understanding as to what is going on here: Putin is not mad; rather, he considers NATO/USA/West an encroaching mortal threat, and I think he has a point. It’s too easy to label him as Vlad the Mad, the unhinged, sexually repressed freak (he’s that, all right - if he just came out he could save us a whole lotta trouble here), but he’s simply acting according to his vision of the world. Where I and Vlad part company, is where he invades self-governing, sovereign territories, no matter how much he may think he has a claim on them, like in some geopolitical version of a child-custody battle. However, it’s vitally important we don’t paint Putin as this non-human ‘monster’; he’s far from that.😳
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  10376. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems” 👽
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  10377.  @zhihechang9850  Two wrongs don’t make a right.👀
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  10378.  @johnwinter2252  Oh, I’ve partaken of the occasional doobie in my time. Don’t you worry about that.🤓
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  10379.  Dodge Morningstar  👍
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  10380.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yeah Jimbo; she’s a gay black Jew. Cope.
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  10381. Jeezo, Jimbo. Even for you that was just witless, unfunny rot. 🤦‍♂️
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  10382.  @lukemurray4950  And again: She won a comp. Nothing ‘racist’ about it. Now you get back to kindergarten, Lukey, and learn the basics most of us got before we were about 3.
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  10383.  @lukemurray4950  For a third time: She won a comp. Nothing ‘racist’ about it. Now you get back to kindergarten, Lukey, and learn the basics most of us got before we were about 3.
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  10384.  @lukemurray4950  I repeat: She won a comp. Nothing ‘racist’ about it. Now you get back to kindergarten, Lukey, and learn the basics most of us got before we were about 3.
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  10385.  @lukemurray4950  Why is calling out racism offend you (sic) Good grief.
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  10386.  @khaddy72632u  Yes, but the fundamental roots of the whole thing are religious , going back thousands of years! Jesus, why is this so difficult?
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  10387.  @elkapitan75  *it’s *shopkeeper *world’s *atheist’s In your overheated state, you’re being a bit remiss with basic punctuation and spelling, son, so I thought I’d help you out here. No charge. Yvw.😊
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  10388.  @elkapitan75  Just for the record, I’m not an atheist, dipshit.
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  10389.  @elkapitan75  Religion underpins the whole thing historically; if you can’t see this can I politely suggest you invest in some better history books while I finish my conversation with Steven Weinberg.
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  10390.  @elkapitan75  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driven by several factors: ethnic, national, historical, and religious. Religious identity is the key factor that impacts this issue existentially. Why is religion at the core of this conflict? Several religious factors pertinent to Islam and Judaism dictate the role of religion as the main factor in the conflict, notably including the sanctity of holy sites and the apocalyptic narratives of both religions, which are detrimental to any potential for lasting peace between the two sides. Extreme religious Zionists in Israel increasingly see themselves as guardians and definers of how the Jewish state should be, and are very stringent when it comes to any concessions to the Arabs. On the other hand, Islamist groups in Palestine and elsewhere in the Islamic world advocate the necessity of liberating the “holy” territories and sites for religious reasons, and preach violence and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people. Religion-based rumors propagated by extremists in the media and social media about the hidden religious agendas of the other side exacerbate these tensions. Examples include rumors about a “Jewish Plan” to destroy al Aqsa mosque and build the Jewish third temple on its remnants, and, on the other side rumors that Muslims hold the annihilation of Jews at the core of their belief. In addition, worsening socio-economic conditions in the Arab and Islamic world contribute to the growth of religious radicalism, pushing a larger percentage of youth towards fanaticism, and religion-inspired politics. The advent of the Arab spring, ironically, also posed a threat to Arab-Israeli peace, as previously stable regimes were often challenged by extreme political views. A prominent example was the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who after succeeding to the presidency in 2012, threatened to compromise the peace agreement with Israel based on their religious ideology – even if they did not immediately tear up the treaty. That , son, is what religion has to do with this issue.
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  10391.  @elkapitan75  What has religion got to do with the Israel/Palestine issue? Pmsl.😆
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  10392.  @elkapitan75  I’m not simplifying anything, son. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion . My experience of religion concurs with Mr Weinberg.
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  10393.  @CamperDurgesh  I disagree. They are just seeking a better life. If they are illegal, deport. I’m not into killing them even if you are.
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  10394.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  The irony of someone like you, Jimbo, more or less demanding they think like you, live like you, be like you, yet if anyone else made the same demands on you ?!?! 🤣 Your hypocrisy is staggering, son. “I’m Jimbo, you must live like me. I make the rules.” Dictator par excellence, Jimbo. 👌 DiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiCKttttttttttttttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Jiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmbooooooooooooooooooooooooo … zo.🤣🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅🤣🤣
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  10395.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I wisely choose extinction, Jimbo. For you, I sssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🐵🐒🐒🐒🐒🐵🐵🐵🐵🤣😂🤣😂🐵🐵🐵🐒🐵🐵🐵
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  10396.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  And the only book you’ve read, Jimbo, is the greatest work of fiction in history: the Bible! The Bible I sssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Muahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! 🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂
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  10397.  @tinalyons3964  Of course. But you’re missing the point. He’s nothing to me. Moreover, he hurts ppl. Violently.
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  10398.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Give me your explanation then …
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  10399.  @Andrew-rc3vh  I don’t call 2,000,000 refugees, and counting, ‘manufactured’, however way you want to spin it. Unless you buy the conspiracy theories that this is all a ‘New World Order’ manufactured war and Putin is actually the ‘good guy’ in this scenario as he tries to oust the NWO puppet Zelensky; which I, for one, don’t.
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  10400.  @gemm4793  Yeah, but I’d argue in times of emergency like this, it’s a moral duty to help refugees. If you’re talking about purely economic migrants your point has some validity.
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  10401. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?” ☕️
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  10402.  @dalfokane  Yes, and you’ve just seen it again. It’s my comment.😉
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  10403. @0:30 Lol.
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  10404. It’s a drink. Usually orange. Ask R.E.M..
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  10405. Menelaus.😳
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  10406.  @Nosalad1235  And that was just French customs.
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  10407. @DM I agree. Cheers! 👍
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  10408.  @ronaldlindeman6136  No. Better to have High Art and Low Art. So ok, that’s fine then: let’s have ‘High Art’ and ‘Low Art’; just so that we’re not putting knocking over a bunch of concrete slabs in the same category as Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, or Breughel’s The Hunters in the Snow, or Durham Cathedral, or Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, then we’ll be just fine. If you want to call what we see here High Art, crack on. I don’t and won’t.
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  10409.  @carrieoff  That argument has just been hijacked by talentless sods to ‘create’ anything and call it ‘art’. This thing with the concrete blocks? Anyone could do this. Literally anyone. My 7 year old could do this. Neither I, nor my 7 year old, could sculpt the gargoyles on Notre Dame, or paint the Mona Lisa, or write the complete works of Shakespeare, or compose the symphonies of Beethoven. That’s the difference. If you want to call this high art, then the term ‘art’ loses all meaning.
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  10410.  @drewlovelyhell4892  Well, when one recognises talent, one likes to appreciate it.
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  10411.  @drewlovelyhell4892  If you’re putting a bunch of concrete blocks being toppled over into the same category as Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Picasso etc., you may need an overhaul of your basic critical faculties, son.
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  10412.  @drewlovelyhell4892  You need to bone up on the differences between art and crafts.
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  10413.  @JohnDoe-tx8lq  No. But I mentioned painting, dummy. Do try to keep up at the back.
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  10414.  @JohnDoe-tx8lq  Let’s just say, most people can see through poppycock when it comes to art. This is poppycock. It’s great fun; but it’s not art.
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  10415.  @drewlovelyhell4892  I never said the fine arts were confined to painting. You seemed to assume that on my behalf.
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  10416.  @JohnDoe-tx8lq  There’s art and there’s ‘art’, mate. In my book, this ain’t art. Calling this ‘art’ is like calling me Eric Clapton because I can strum 3 chords on a guitar.
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  10417.  @IdiAmin95  Because it’s not ours to trash, you arrogant oaf.
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  10418.  @IdiAmin95  It’s the arrogance of humanity. To all intents and purposes, Mars just is a bunch of rocks, but we’ll go up there and trash it anyway. Think about what we’ve already done to space, which is littered with our detritus. We pollute everywhere we go; the land, the seas, the skies … and now we’re going to leave our stain on Mars.
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  10419.  @happyjonn9242  Just the attitude one would expect from a human being. It’s a whole ecosystem you ignorant fool.
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  10420. Imagine being innocent of something and for 48 years they punish you for this. Jesus. This guy has essentially had his life stolen. This is the no. 1 reason I’m against the death penalty. Not that he had any real life anyway.
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  10421. The BBC will never take my Coca Cola!
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  10422. 🇯🇵 One way to address the falling birth rate is for Japan to have a few more General Erections. 🗳
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  10423.  @Lisa-lt1ex  No it’s not. Seethe some more.
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  10424. That’s an appalling way to talk about Kim Jong-un you horrid little man!
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  10425. @0:20 Lovely to see Manic Street Preachers boosting Ukrainian morale. Fair play.👌If you tolerate this your children will be next. 🎸
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  10426. Reports are coming in that Russian forces are hunting Ukrainian soldiers dubbed ‘The Hateful Eight’.
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  10427. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  10428. *a lot
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  10429.  @wolfiestreet6899  *man’s Even more embarrassed for you, you semi-literate dipshit.🥸 Didn’t they teach you the possessive in kindergarten?🤓
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  10430.  @wolfiestreet6899  Met your match there, eh Wolfie? Pmsl. Completely out of your depth as the waters rise around you.😆
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  10431.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Always been awake here, Jimbo. Not woke, though.😉
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  10432.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  All very well, Jimbo, but you crucially omitted the bit about far, far, far more Ukrainians hating Putin than hating Zelensky. Nice try, though.👍
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  10433. *Green Day
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  10434. A Scottish guy with the name ‘Quentin’ was always going to have something to prove. Here we have it.
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  10435.  @richardmidson3407  K, Dicky. It’s just cuz you can’t cope with my comments, ain’t it? 🤣😉👍
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  10436. Aye. End very quickly in WW3 and nuclear incineration for all!
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  10437. Well, if she’s fitter than Cleo I may consider it.🥸
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  10438.  @Kushal-v8b Projecting, again? 👍😉
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  10439.  @philomcmasters8358  Penis? Don’t be silly: I’m a post-op trans woman.
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  10440. It’s true. A massive part of the vitriol towards Ardern is simply misogynistic men venting. They can’t bear to see a woman (of any political persuasion) in charge. Weak men. I say that as someone ambivalent to Ardern herself. But 99% of the venom today towards her on YouTube is coming from men. Add having a polar opposite political point of view into the mix and you have a recipe for a toxic soup.
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  10441. Not all Scotland. We wanted England to win. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  10442. He looks a bit like a puffier, chubbier, uglier George Clooney a la Monuments Men .
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  10443. @UC3GW_WP5botGW-bbSUBKUCg Who? Andrew? Source?
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  10444. To be fair, the main issue for me was the trafficking and the non-consensual nature of what P.A. did. She was 17. After all, in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Portugal, the age of consent is 14.
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  10445. Far enough for Isaac Newton. 🍏 🌳
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  10446. And a big fat cigar where the sun don’t shine. 😳
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  10447. So does Dog.
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  10448. Wouldn’t be surprised if Johnson had had ‘relations’ with the whole female population of Oxford in 1984.
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  10449.  @ayoolukoga9829  I just work on credible evidence, mate. And for the existence of God there is not a scintilla of credible evidence. Of course, when fools like you start quoting your barbaric text against another’s barbaric text, then the trouble starts, and often for those, such as I, who want none of it. Believe what you want you credulous twit; just keep it out of my business.
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  10450.  @ayoolukoga9829  You’re a poor deluded fool, but there are many of those and I reserve you the right to be this if you so choose. Any dispassionate reader of the Bible can see from the off that we are dealing with a primitive, barbaric text, depicting a primitive, barbaric God. As Richard Dawkins brilliantly stated: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. If you want to uphold that God, crack on. Just count me out.
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  10451.  @ayoolukoga9829  Yes? And? Your point is? Those things have been happening for the past 2,000 years. You quote it like it was written for today, when in fact, it can be applied to just about any year you care to mention from 0CE-2022CE. After all, those near contemporaries of Jesus thought he was coming back in their time, and when he didn’t you nutters had to spin it out for the text 2,000 years; as you will be doing for the next 2,000; and then the next. For Jesus never existed. His story is a stolen, rehashed, reheated tale of the dying/resurrecting god, brazenly filched from the pagans. The Christians are, quite simply, brazen-faced plagiarists. The fatal mistake the rigid monotheists have made since time immemorial is to foolishly read their respective texts as literal truth.
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  10452. Yes. “Life is suffering.” (The Buddha) Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  10453.  @loriolsen5785  Omg! 😱 You are honestly telling me that you would legally force a rape victim, or a woman raped by her father to have that child?! Really? I need to say something at this point: I’m ashamed (mainly for you) and alarmed to share the planet with people who think like this. After 300, 000 years, I kinda thought we could do better than this, as a species. Seemingly not.
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  10454.  @loriolsen5785  You never responded to my last question. That speaks volumes.
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  10455.  @loriolsen5785  Just as a point of order: you would ban abortion under all circumstances, including rape and incestual rape?
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  10456.  @loriolsen5785  Word salad. I repeat: this is not about pro-life, it’s about anti-woman.
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  10457.  @Isclachau  Clearly so.
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  10458.  @Isclachau  I just did use my brain, sunshine. Sorry to disappoint you.😉
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  10459. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “He’s being a dumbass over the Donbas.” Defence Secretary: “He is. But it could be a game of chicken, Kiev-style.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  10460. Lol. Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, once again you are all over the shop. You spend 99.9% of your time hating on others and yet when it suits you, blacks suddenly are cool cos they hate gays just like you! Go figure. More egg & chips, sonny? 🤣
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  10461.  @obayajoshuahumphrey7017  Translation: Xavier agrees with me.
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  10462.  @motherofallemails  It’s only ‘revolting and vile’ because they want to hate, and this is a convenient smokescreen prescribed by some unestablished invisible sky daddy. However, being ‘revolting and vile’ to you doesn’t cut it for me, m8. Lame non-argument. I find dozens of things ‘revolting and vile’ but I don’t institute the death penalty for them. You must do better. Also, where does this apply to lesbians? Are you going to ban them from having sex on pain of death? What if they use penetrating toys? Does that count as ‘female sodomy’, punishable by possible death? Really? Do you want to be this person? It’s 2 consenting adults : no crime, no victims, no harm done. On the contrary in fact: the 2 parties are having the best fun they can have! With all the sadness and tragedy and pain in the world you’d actually think most rational people would actively welcome this moment of physical pleasure between 2 human beings, no? Maybe these benighted Ugandans should put away all these Bibles we have given them if they hate us so much, eh? 😉🤓 Seems like rank hypocrisy to be making primitive laws on the back of texts we handed them.
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  10463.  @motherofallemails  Yes, but for the life of me I don’t get why sodomy is taboo. As I said, it’s a pointless, irrational and idiotic taboo.
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  10464. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 😳
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  10465.  @JLW2004  Never said it was. Just said you stole it, m8. 🤪
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  10466.  @JimSmith-e2g  Just for the record, Jimbo, where’s yer wee West Highland Terrier with the weird eyes? More egg and chips, son?😂🤣🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅
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  10467.  @Octaphea  Lol!😂 18?!?! Are you for real, bruh? What kind of sheltered existence do you live? I was fooling around at 13, man. And in answer to your question: you are being absolutely disingenuous and not living in the real world if you imagine men of all ages don’t look at pretty young 18 year olds or handsome young men. America is that weird country where showing graphic violence and living in a kind of lawless Wild West with guns everywhere is ok; but apparently consensual sex is now “weird”. Get real, fella.🤣
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  10468.  @chadimirputin2282  *in fact
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  10469.  @nvmtt  Good point. Those with English as their mother tongue seem to be poorer when it comes to learning other languages, quite simply as English appears to be the lingua franca of the globalised world. For now.
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  10470. I always find it funny that people talk of World War 3, as if the world hasn’t been constantly at war since the first Homo Sapiens walked this planet. We have constantly been embroiled in World War 1.
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  10471. Yer also upvoting yerself.
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  10472. He acts with imputinity.
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  10473. ‘False flag’? A nice idea. Can’t we make every flag ‘false’, null and void, and stop identifying with pieces of rag on a stick, based on an accident of birth?
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  10474. Ok, Gareth. 👍
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  10475.  @kethughes8266  Lol.
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  10476.  @kethughes8266  I work nights.😉
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  10477. Prime Minister: “Do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister”
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  10478.  Mike Kush ❈  Indeed. You invade and brutally occupy several countries without their consent, and the descendants of these countries actually win the World Cup for you! France should be grateful.
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  10479. What you got against pigs? They are some of the sweetest creatures on Earth; and they’re a darn sight more honourable than human beings.
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  10480.  @funnyboyjohn  *were a European *it’s
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  10481.  @davidblackwood106  Indeed. Just good to be aware of what our forbears did, though, eh?
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  10482.  @jamiedalton2623  It’s called ‘immigration’, mate. They are coming here to live and work, not brutally subjugate and enslave.
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  10483.  @funnyboyjohn  Mixed race? Moi? I fear you may have the wrong person, mate. Try again. Try better. If you’re up to it.
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  10484. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies, strong support for the Armed Forces, suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures, strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty), and a general authoritarianism and the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  10485. Lol@‘veiled’.
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  10486. Pmsl.
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  10487. It took you that long?🧐
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  10488. Er, y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  10489. A guillotine?😳
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  10490. Sack the headline editor! *Borne the brunt.
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  10491.  @JeffreyGoddin  No, I’m not an American. You need a much better researcher, Jeffey.
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  10492.  @javiUSC  Lol. You double-standards hypocrite! Before 1492 none of South America was ‘Latin’!😂
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  10493. -h +z
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  10494.  @islam9.0  Yes, yes, no, no, yes, no.
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  10495. There is no Allah. Deal with it. Move on. This is so boring now.
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  10496.  @TheLadyDelirium  👍😉
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  10497.  @VisagesSausages  Lol.🤣👍
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  10498.  @SubwayLoyal  Huh? 🤔
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  10499.  @rchaykovskiy  Lol.
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  10500.  @rammingspeed5217  Lol. Bathing in cold water and sitting in a shed is a ‘middle-class luxury’ now is it?🤣
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  10501. Simple suggestion: 1 bullet.😳
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  10502. Bit random.
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  10503. You’re still watching it, I see.
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  10504.  @YarrowTV  👍
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  10505.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Lol@“all the young people that have turned gay.” 🤣😂😅
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  10506.  @GoodDay36912  *proving
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  10507.  @GoodDay36912  At least I can spell very basic words, Seany baby! 😁
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  10508.  @GoodDay36912  *you’re *you’re 😊
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  10509. Blacks, women, gays, Jews, Muslims … is there anyone you actually like , Jimbo? 🤣
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  10510.  @Lalo3g1  He was far from unprovoked, though. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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  10511.  @volumedealer2716  *were
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  10512. So is your spelling of rediculous (sic). 📕
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  10513. S’ok for you though, Jimbo, as you don’t actually have a brain to be r4ped! 🧠🤪
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  10514.  @raoulduke344  No. It’s Donald Lamont.
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  10515. It’s *China, thicko. Yvw.
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  10516. In a bottle halfway across the Atlantic Ocean, as we speak.
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  10517. Vile.
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  10518.  @adrianlouw2499  Lol. I don’t call something that can be largely cleaned up in a day ‘burning down a city’!🤣
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  10519. No.
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  10520. Lettuce? 🥬 Strawberry? 🍓
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  10521. “Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.” (Julius Caesar)
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  10522.  @tastypymp1287  No “puppet accounts” here ole sport. But in you, I’ve certainly got a “muppet account”! 😂😂🤣😄😄😃😅😂😃😀😂😄😂😂😃😂😂😃😃😂😄😅😂😂
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  10523. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  10524. I can’t be sure Putin is consciously channeling Blofeld, but if you see him stroking a white pussy anytime soon, we may be in even more trouble. It doesn’t help that the literal translation of ‘Vladimir’ is ‘world ruler’. Here’s hoping he hasn’t heard of the theory of nominative determinism. 🐈
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  10525. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  10526. Go Allan.
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  10527. Is that a euphemism?😳
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  10528.  @boleslavsavdax282  Your Japanese ‘girlfriend’ has my deepest, deepest condolences.
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  10529.  @boleslavsavdax282  Yawn 5 languages and tedious in all of them. 🥱
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  10530.  @boleslavsavdax282  Lol. Trying to cover your @ss now, ain’t gonna work, sunshine. Nice try, though.👍
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  10531. Lol. Being ‘unshaved’ is now a crime.😂 Last time I checked every man up until about 50,000 years ago was a beardy! One would almost think it’s actually unnatural to shave. 🪒 That thought may be beyond you, though, petal.😉
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  10532. *too
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  10533. *whom
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  10534. More boring copy & paste shite. Yes, Chris, you really are witless. Aptly named.
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  10535. Huh? That makes no sense. If it were a woman kissing others on the mouth without their consent, the same rules would apply. You’re really not very good at this, are you? Er, and why are you upvoting yourself again? 🤔
    2
  10536.  @tastypymp1287  You protest far too much. Can I make this simple for you? Ok. Unless someone is dying, don’t kiss them on the lips. Mwah! 💋
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  10537.  @tastypymp1287  Your issue, TastyTwat, is that you’re diametrically opposed to those you hate on the other side. This has blinded you. You can’t see that the vast, vast majority of those who are on neither extreme just agree with the premise: don’t kiss people on the mouth without their consent. 😊 Of course, if they’re dying, kiss them. But when some guy grabs a female head and pulls her in for the unavoidable kiss, this is slightly different from doing the old CPR. Context, m8. Context. You might want to brush up on ‘context’. 😉👍
    2
  10538.  @tastypymp1287  No. I haven’t lost any debate. You lost the debate, m8. Nice try, though. 👍
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  10539.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. So someone dying and someone else giving them CPR is on a par with some random aggressively grabbing someone’s head and kissing them is it? Have you never heard of context, TastyTwat? Somehow I think your example is a bit silly. Nice try, though.👍😉
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  10540.  @gutz1981  And your comment and those like you’s (sic) attitude, explains its (sic) in most men’s interests to be single. Don’t take this wrong, m8, but you’re giving off major incel vibes.🤓
    2
  10541. Close call with Afghanistan, though.
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  10542.  @syncopatedfeb4770  Huh? Who said he “hated” Iran apart from you? Yeah, no one. Do keep up at the back.
    2
  10543. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
    2
  10544.  @sirrathersplendid4825  What about the quadruple amputees? 🤔
    2
  10545.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Call me Staction, Jimbo. Morris Staction! 😂
    2
  10546. Scene: Fawlty Towers revisited in an imagined future. Fawlty: “Is there something wrong?” Putin: “Will you stop talking about the war?” Fawlty: “Me? You started it.” Putin: “I did not start it.” Fawlty: “Yes you did - you invaded Ukraine.”
    2
  10547.  @streuthmonkey1  How is it ‘murder’ if he was under the impression it was a ‘cold’ gun, dipshit? For it to be murder, he would have to have been in cahoots with the armorer as she knowingly handed him a ‘hot’ gun.
    2
  10548.  @hmmmmm2634  Wtf are you on about? Yemen is twice the distance from the UK as Ukraine is. You may need some basic geography lessons.
    2
  10549.  @psnaris  You probably don’t give a shit either way then.
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  10550.  @greathey1234  Yeah, but I would say it’s more to do with proximity.
    2
  10551. If Schwab and his acolytes get their way, these things will be extinct in a decade.
    2
  10552.  ___  Would that you were a bit funnier, son!
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  10553. Alanis Morissette agrees.😳
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  10554.  @lawrenceanthony8468  Mickey Mouse Studies. I already told you, fannybreath.
    2
  10555. Torn?😳
    2
  10556.  @jonasp6043  Pedant!
    2
  10557. Yes, yes, but my tooth hurts! 🦷
    2
  10558.  @brettbr815  Yes. My comments. What’s wrong with that?
    2
  10559.  @Bombazor  The comment has been posted precisely 3 times on the Internet, so 7 is an hyperbolic lie.
    2
  10560.  @kny1098  I’ve only posted this comment precisely 3 times on the Internet. 400 times? Liar!
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  10561. “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” (Mark Twain)
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  10562.  user-nv3wp8pk2c  I think you mean, ‘Allan’.😉
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  10563.  user-nv3wp8pk2c  Nothing to be ‘won’, son. I’m not fighting against a non-existent thing. Think on.😉
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  10564. My religion speaks of ‘Allan’ and he tells me the good and the evil; usually down the pub over a few beers! Cin-cin! 🍻
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  10565.  @T-rex-s6z  Socrates also had a few good goals. ⚽️
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  10566. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  10567. Bullcrap. I’m Scottish and I often cringe at how ‘horrible, loutish, arrogant and nasty’ some young Scots are abroad.
    2
  10568.  @john_2589  Not wholly sure this is an old versus young thing, but hey-ho.
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  10569.  @Libertarian-Socialist  Even without the emoji it was pretty lame.
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  10570. No.
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  10571. 0:45 There’s a certain logic in what Carlo Ancelotti is suggesting, but he needs to take it a step further. If they just extend Ramadan a little (instead of sunrise/sunset fasting), fast 24/7/365 and soon enough no one will have the energy to fight! If properly implemented, this could be a potential solution for all conflicts. 👍
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  10572. Why? Is he not happy with his American arms?😳
    2
  10573. *bruh
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  10574. K, might do. Lemme just have a quick Tommy Tank first.
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  10575. Methinks the Caps Lock guy protesteth too much.🤓
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  10576. Climate change is perennial. What needs to be yet established is how much humanity is complicit in this.😉
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  10577.  @who6891  K, Klaus.
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  10578. I prefer ‘hell as fake’.😳
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  10579. 5 mentions of ‘communist’. Hmm. 🤔 You are aware of the theory of ‘projection’, huh?😉
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  10580. Yup. Looks like Yosemite needs a pussy-protection league. 🐈😳
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  10581. Not quite as interesting as you promised. Nice try, though.😳
    2
  10582. Stop peeling those onions.
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  10583. Well, you’re not really. You just wrote “Crazy. Omg. Im (sic) speechless.” Hardly, er, ‘speechless’.😳
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  10584.  @blardymunggas6884  Pmsl.
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  10585.  @josephharrington4502  I don’t find it amusing. I find the idea that your imaginary ‘God’ cares, amusing! Big difference.😉🤓
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  10586. There is so much claim and counterclaim in this war that, as a neutral, one is left with a head spinning more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist . One almost begins to doubt there is actually a real war taking place at all! It couldn’t be, could it? A fake war? A counterfeit masquerading as the real thing being played out on green screens. We are all so many Truman Burbank's in a gameshow made for the sadistic delectation of we know not who. Or, Zelensky and Putin are not really flesh and blood humans but kind of Westworld cyborgs created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. All this talk of ‘puppet regimes’ should’ve been the giveaway: they are going to install Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as an interim measure until the Ukrainians have a goddamn referendum on partition, thereby obviating a lot of unnecessary bother for the rest of us. None of this is real. Is it?
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  10587. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  10588.  @Heat_6789  You’re not me. I asked. Cope better. 👍
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  10589. @ZANDACROSS7 I did.
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  10590.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Uh huh, Jimbo, but you stole the comment so technically you have no likes you big fat zero! 🤪
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  10591.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Oh, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, the sad thing for you, son, and the good thing for the rest of us, is that most people don’t follow illiterate morons like you! Ta da! 🎉🤣😂😜🤪
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  10592.  @Artifis0743  Bigot: ‘a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.’ You’re the dictionary definition. Congratulations! 👏
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  10593.  @Artifis0743  K. I was bored about 4 hours ago, chummo. Trot on.
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  10594.  @Artifis0743  Aww, that happens to us all, petal, so angling for the sympathy vote won’t work. Once a bigot always a bigot. Uh huh.
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  10595.  @Artifis0743 Aww, bless. Der, der. Mommy’ll be along soon to kiss it all better, shweetie. 😉
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  10596.  @paocut9018  Hmmm… 🤔 K.👍
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  10597. Why would having ADHD negate the fact you speak 4 languages fluently? You either speak these languages or you don’t and your ADHD is neither here nor there. 🤷‍♂️
    2
  10598. Wars, earthquakes, famine, drought, disease, hurricanes, tsunamis, and now this, a great flood in Oz. But hey, look on the bright side: we’re all gonna die one day!🤠
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  10599.  @cheekibreeki4492  We are simply a virus with shoes. The evidence has been in for hundreds of thousands of years. Deal with it.
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  10600. If you want to “deport the migrants”, Jimbo, I hope you’re going to be fully consistent here and ask for the immediate repatriation of the millions of Europeans currently not living in Europe.👍
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  10601. Yeah, because Tyson Fury is gonna let someone win because of ‘politics’! 👍🤦‍♂️🤣😅🤣
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  10602.  @alexsilent5603  ​​⁠ Yes, you’re right, last time I checked Ukraine invaded Russia. 👍🤣
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  10603.  @alexsilent5603 ​​⁠ Yes, you’re right, last time I checked Ukraine invaded Russia. 👍🤣
    2
  10604. Meanwhile, back at £300,000,000 Clarence House …
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  10605.  @Genia__art  To be fair though, mate, I’d rather live in a liberal, relatively free, relatively democratic West, than I would a one-party, benighted dictatorship. All things considered.
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  10606. All in Ukraine, more like.
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  10607. Well, some of the presenters do, but they’re quite good newsreaders.
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  10608. Great band.
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  10609. This is really just one man. Don’t tar Russia or Russians en masse.
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  10610. Yeah, and all Russia is trying to do is to ‘liberate’ Ukraine from Ukrainians. Orwell would be proud.
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  10611.  @yourfinalhiringagency3890  I’ll think about it if you stick an ‘s’ on it.
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  10612.  @charlesdarwin5561  I refer you to Mark Twain’s apposite quote. You strike me as a pretentious arse, quite frankly, arguing for the sake of it. Pipe down and leave the thinkers in peace.
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  10613.  @charlesdarwin5561  Look son, I’m just telling you that everything humans do revolves around power and morality. Read it and weep.
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  10614.  @charlesdarwin5561  You made the nonsensical, stupid statement that ‘power and morality do not overlap’; I said you need to read some history books. I’ll repeat it: read some history books. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Putin all demonstrate that power and (a)morality most clearly do overlap you silly numpty. Think again. Think better.
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  10615.  @charlesdarwin5561  So, the amorality and the untrammelled power of Putin are not interlinked? Really? Get real.
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  10616.  @charlesdarwin5561  Power and morality are inextricably linked, Charles. You need to read a few history books, son.
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  10617.  @elliottnunez1057  No, one-on-one fights in school were always just that. The mass after-school brawls in the park against the rival school down the road were a different matter altogether.
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  10618.  @churrothiev8387  Yeah, but NATO doesn’t want to set fire to the world, which it most probably would provoke by directly intervening. And it has no real loyalty to Ukraine, beyond the loyalty of supporting a sovereign nation invaded by a deluded idiot.
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  10619.  @DoctorDeath147  No.
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  10620.  @marshallwages5035  *it’s
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  10621.  @frizolda  I don’t think he’s a troll. What Russia is doing is clearly wrong but the West has no leg to stand on historically given the carnage it has sewn abroad: Syria; Afghanistan; Iraq; Libya; Yemen, to cite just some more recent examples. America, of any other country on this planet, has the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of others, often with deadly effect. It is the past master of military intervention, intervening in the affairs of sovereign nations, overturning democratically-elected governments literally 100s of times. The double standards of the West on this score are staggering. As I say, Putin is wrong-headed here, but he’s actually doing what the West has been practising for the past 250 years.
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  10622. Ok, grandad. 👍
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  10623.  @mrcpasif  In your opinion.
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  10624.  @georgeasher2798  He’s Top 7, for sure. Not above the 3 above in my Panini sticker book, though.😉
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  10625. @1:50 ©️Dougie Vipond 🥁
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  10626.  @renoirrandy7241  I do. Barcelona + Real Madrid = La Liga. The rest = Mickey Mouse league. Another glass of copium, sonny? 🥛🤓
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  10627.  @iamtheshadows4916  In your opinion. Pelé for me, son. Sweet dreams to you too, petal. 😴
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  10628.  @daquaviousbingleton9763  No troll at all, sonny. Just spittin’ facts here. Another glass of copium? 🥛
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  10629.  @mdabrarali3312  Ronaldo.
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  10630.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not black, Jimbo?! Liar! You’re black with luminious green eyes, you freak! Woof! 🤣
    2
  10631. Another chip (on your shoulder), Jimbo? 🤣 🍟
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  10632.  ahmad hanbal  Pmsl@“only an ignoramus would despise religion.” 😂
    2
  10633.  @menes4936  Really? You ‘love’ a man who murdered a million Armenians? How bizarre. And deeply alarming. And also very, very tragic.
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  10634.  Devyan Utsav  No.
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  10635. @johny utah Yawn
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  10636. I think you needed an ‘n’ there, m8.
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  10637. He does. Na na na na na!
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  10638. They’re not too keen on periods, either. 🩸
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  10639.  @druunderwood5602  Lol.
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  10640. Guillotine? Why? You got a bad case of dandruff or something?
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  10641.  @mookimoves9469  Just as long as you permit others that same right ‘to live in the country of their birth’. If you do, you and I will swing along just dandy, sweetheart! 👍
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  10642.  @mookimoves9469  I never said you couldn’t be there, son. Nowhere. I was simply pointing out hypocrisy in others. You need better close-reading skills, chummo.😉
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  10643.  @mookanator1 🙃
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  10644.  @Roland_Tr909_Swing Do you? Yeah, course you do. I feel ‘terrible’ for your lack of apostrophes. 😔
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  10645. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  10646. @@yenkel970 Take all your points but for me, though, this is rather simple: no one knows. By definition, we can’t. That’s why I’m agnostic.😉
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  10647.  oldenglishale6357  Yeah. Tend to agree. My own feeling is that there is something going on here, but for me to throw all my religious eggs into one basket is not on. I’m 50/50 agnostic most days. But on some days, I’m 51/49 in favour of a deity. Can’t explain it. Can’t justify it. Just something based on reading, feeling and life.
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  10648.  @Raven-nx8dr  🐧
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  10649.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Interesting, Jimbo. One week you are celebrating black Ugandans; the next week you hate them again. Make yer mind up, Jimbo. I sssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!😄😂😅
    2
  10650.  @reginageorge4  Julia & Jimbo: a racist, sexist, homophobic nightmare made in Hell! 🤣😂😅
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  10651.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Jimbo has got one of his own rebelling against him! 🤣😂😅
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  10652. No one cares. Cringe.
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  10653. No. But M C Hammer’s in the house. You can’t touch this! 🔨
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  10654.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You’re obsessed with this white thing, Jimbo. You need to seek help for this, son. It’s irrelevant. It’s about ideas. Skin colour is meaningless here. Your ideas stink. They would stink if you were white, brown, black or yellow. Uh huh.😉😅👌
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  10655.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  🥱
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  10656. You thought you’d get more for that, didn’t you Jimbo? But it was just yer own upvote that had this one, son. Reading the room was never yer strong suit, was it, Jimbo?👍😂😉
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  10657.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Not me, chickpea.
    2
  10658. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  10659.  @wom_Bat  Yes, you missed it.
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  10660. @John Anders I once entered a tap dancing contest. Fell into the sink. 🚰
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  10661.  @frontenac5083  Coping fine here, son. You , however, appear to be deeply triggered! 🤣
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  10662. Triggered, much?🤣
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  10663.  @kathysmith5674  Who cares? If it gives people pleasure, why do you care? They are not bothering you. I could say that your weird, creepy interest in gay people’s sex lives is ‘unnatural’.
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  10664.  @kathysmith5674  Did you actually read my comment? Why is it your business? Just for the record, gay behaviour is well-established in the animal kingdom.
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  10665.  @kathysmith5674  I think he’s saying what he does with his butthole with another consenting adult is none of your business.👍
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  10666.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  The defeated Mr Bore retires as he has no argument. I accept your surrender, son. You just watch out for that subjunctive in future, Mr Bore.👍
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  10667.  @Britlurker  You talk like homosexuality was invented yesterday when there have been gays since the year dot, you tit! 🤣
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  10668.  @tastypymp1287  You ignored the key bit of the statement. Actually, I’ll make this even simpler for you, TastyTwat, as you’re clearly not up to this: it is none of your business what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to. Ta da! 🎉😊
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  10669. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  10670.  Suicide3worldPoorPeople Yes, begging is a ‘bad habit’, you’re right. Israel must really stop begging for more from America. “Gobble, gobble, big daddy. Yes, Big Daddy. Anything you say, Big Daddy. Just give me more money, Big Daddy. Gobble gobble, Big Daddy.”
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  10671.  @nottobebelieved8608  Another humourless Yankee-Doofus Dandy! Jesus, you guys need to lighten up a little.
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  10672.  @chevychase3103  ‘Cousin’? Not me, chummo. I don’t buy this ‘accident of birth’ crap which automatically determines what you are. Yes, I’m nominally ‘British’, but before that I am a human being, born on this 3rd rock from the sun, beholden to nothing or nobody but the integrity of my own mind.🤓
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  10673.  @jesuswasaliberal4778  Just for the record, I hope your name is ironic, for Jesus, if you take him at his word, was far from ‘liberal’. If the Scriptures are to be believed, he was rather strident and illiberal. His stance on Hell is rather no-nonsense. Jesus doesn’t only reference Hell, he describes it in great detail. He says it is a place of eternal torment (Luke 16:23), of unquenchable fire (Mark 9:43), where the worm does not die (Mark 9:48), where people will gnash their teeth in anguish and regret (Matt. 13:42), and from which there is no return, even to warn loved ones (Luke 16:19–31). He calls Hell a place of “outer darkness” (Matt. 25:30), comparing it to “Gehenna” (Matt. 10:28), which was a trash dump outside the walls of Jerusalem where rubbish was burned and maggots abounded. Jesus talks about Hell more than he talks about Heaven, and describes it more vividly. There’s no denying that Jesus knew, believed, and warned about the absolute reality of Hell. Of course, any human being on this planet knows that so many of its own species are going through ‘Hell’ as we speak. No supernatural baloney needed. As Aldous Huxley insightfully put it: “Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.” Indeed.
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  10674.  @jesuswasaliberal4778  Just to point out that the USA observing its navel is frequently an unedifying sight.😉
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  10675. Hmm … 🤔Avenge Putin. All very well and while the Bible may have one or two decent ideas the main trouble with the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is that it puts a whole load of opticians and dentists out of work. 🦷
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  10676. Expecting the Ukrainians to tolerate without resistance the occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces is a bit like asking anyone to tolerate an uninvited guest to come your house and set up a camp in the house and asking you to live by their rules under your roof.😳
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  10677.  @deborahfreedman333  I would also politely add, apropos your reply here to Ben; I don’t think ‘world domination’ is anywhere near the Russian radar. Putin, the old Cold War relic, just has a vision of how the now Russia (then USSR) should be. He just wants that kind of sphere of influence, geographically-speaking. All the Marxist/Communist stuff plays no real part in this vision. Putin is ex-KGB, ex-Communist, yes, but I’m willing to bet that even he sees that ship as having sailed back in 1989. No, what he wants, I think, is a purely spatial/geographical sphere of influence, answering broadly to the old Soviet Union.
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  10678. Not quite as ‘catastrophic’ as Johnson’s barnet. 💇‍♂️
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  10679.  @stiiizyjones14  🙄
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  10680. This is quite remarkable. An asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth and humans manage to land on it, while I have trouble finding my wife’s clitoris!
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  10681. @0:35-0:40 🐸 👄 🐸 👄 🐸 👄
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  10682.  @PunguinYoga  👍
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  10683. Don’t be a silly tart, Bradley. There is, as we speak, precisely zero credible evidence for God’s existence. Try again, hun. 👍🤡
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  10684. ⁠​​⁠•1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  10685.  @ijumpjudyy Serious point, groomer: your parents ought to be ashamed of the horrendous, intolerant, hypocritical wee madam they’ve raised. You’ve been ruined by your parents’ invisible sky daddy baloney (essentially, child-abuse) and I fear there is no remedy for you, groomer. 😢
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  10686.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Calls out others for having ‘several accounts’. Hypocrisy? 👍😉😂
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  10687.  @ijumpjudyy  👈”I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. ​​⁠Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  10688.  @veraluxmundi2032 ”Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaallllll, boy!” 🐷 😂
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  10689.  @Flunky000 ​​⁠ Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  10690.  @Flunky000  Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  10691.  @Flunky000  Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  10692. “That’s interesting, as the parliament explained all the reasons behind the bill, and none of them included personal dislikes for these behaviours.” (Jegamespeed3599) Q. “Do you personally dislike homosexuals?” A. “Of course. They are disgusting.” Rearrange these words: goal, own. 👍😂 ​​⁠
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  10693. Jegafud 🤡: “These behaviours, blah, blah, blah.” 🥱 As if millions of heterosexuals the world over don’t engage in ‘these behaviours’ every single moment of every single day and are, rightly, not criminalised for ‘these behaviours’. 🤦‍♂️
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  10694.  @Spacelove360  Cuz you posted them and they’re manky af! Sort it! Yer putting me off all my meals! 😣
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  10695. Check out his wifey. 😉👍
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  10696. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  10697.  @idkman3210 Put it away, darling. It’s not big and it’s not pretty. Good grief. 🤦‍♂️
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  10698.  @idkman3210  Uh huh, but can we have that in basic English pls, flower…? 🤷‍♂️
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  10699. Well, this is obvious. Until it isn’t. And has to be defended against morons who can’t accept the rather basic principle that the sexual lives of individual consenting adults are simply no one else’s business. You know that when the state needlessly and unnecessarily and irrationally involves itself directly in the sex lives of consenting adults, that you are living in a dictatorship.
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  10700. FYI Jegamemoron: I’m not a homosexual. 🤡 Since I’m a man just use ‘he’/‘him’. Oh, and in your case, ‘Sir’. 👍
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  10701. *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  10702. Here’s what’s particularly weird about this whole shebang: those who have an issue with consenting adults being left to have sex with whomever they want, tend to be the very same people who are all for the least State intrusion possible in individuals’ lives. I think I see a contradiction. 😊
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  10703. •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way on the matter of homosexuality. 😊
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  10704.  @stopcensorship7705  Boring. 🥱
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  10705.  @stopcensorship7705  *have Doofus.
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  10706. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399, aka ‘JayBits’)🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  10707. Jeremy is tall enough. He doesn’t need to gro any more.
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  10708. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  10709.  @jegamespeed5399 I refer you to my post (re: Groundhog Day) of some moments ago.
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  10710.  @LilChris228 Lol.
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  10711. The lady doth protest too much, methinks! 👍🤣
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  10712. Dunno, dude. Why is anything? It’s all a deep mystery. All I know is that there is zero reason to be criminalising consenting adults having sex. 😊
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  10713. Lol. “Wwwwwwhat sort of people are they? IIIIIII never knew what they were doing.” Yeah, right. 👍😂
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  10714.  @jegamespeed5399 I’m still waiting for your ‘case’ to be made, genius.
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  10715. Blah, blah, blah. 🥱
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  10716. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10717.  @Stella-z4p Lmao@“there are negative health consequences from the death penalty.” 👍😂 There’s really no possible comeback to that one. 👏
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  10718.  veraluxmundi2032 It’s another Jesus freak. 🤦‍♂️ Last time I checked, Jesus said precisely nothing about homosexuality. These walking zombies. 🧟‍♀️
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  10719. Banning homosexual people from performing the exact same acts that heterosexual people perform in their millions every day, is clearly nonsensical. In other words, the act isn’t the issue here: raw, visceral hatred of a minority is the issue. 😊
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  10720.  @reginageorge4 ​​⁠👈This is the last person on Earth who ought to be using the word, ‘frustrated’! 😂🤡
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  10721.  @reginageorge4 👈This is the last person on Earth who ought to be using the word, ‘frustrated’! 😂🤡
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  10722.  @mithat91  Moreover, what’s with the weird, half-naked man/beast gay avatar?
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  10723.  @mithat91 Completely irrelevant, dude. Consenting adults. 👍
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  10724. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10725. Ok, Gayjessy! Thanks for that! 🙏
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  10726. This is just pearl-clutching outrage. Being ‘offended’. Personally ‘disgusted’. All supremely irrelevant. I’m personally ‘offended’ and ‘outraged’ by a ton of things but I wouldn’t dream of banning them, let alone actually imprisoning (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex. 🤦‍♂️ Stephen Fry nailed this: It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.
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  10727.  @ijumpjudyy  “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. ​​⁠Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer! I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 ​​⁠
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  10728.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Not complaining about anything. You’re all over place, son. No argument. No debate. Just crappy personal feeling based on nothing and a Bible. Uh huh.🤡
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  10729. He’s a moron just trying to stay in power by appeasing the other homophobic cretins in Uganda.
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  10730. Uh huh. And your second video is a semi-naked Freddie Mercury. Well done, son! 👍
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  10731. Jegawazzock 🤡: “There has always been opposition to homosexuality, yet it has never hindered our progress.” Lol. ‘Progress’, he says. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Keep on keeping up with that ‘progress’, dude! 👍✊🤦‍♂️
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  10732. Hey Little Miss Virgin/Asexual, FYI, I have one account, numpty. Always have had. Bad luck.😢
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  10733. @charlielackscommonsense999
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  10734. C’mon Peter, petal. Yer fooling no one with all those ripped, sweaty, muscly men dominating yer playlists. 🏋️‍♂️
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  10735. Not once in my life have I ever come across (pun intended) gay men soliciting for sex in a public toilet. Clearly I’m not visiting the same ones as you, Anthony.😉💩👍
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  10736.  @Jonas-ej7id Don’t be silly, son. You can’t ‘teach’ being gay, any more than you can ‘teach’ being hetero or bi. You just are! 🤦‍♂️
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  10737. No. It’s Uganda.
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  10738.  @juliuscesar4176 Yes, like Mohammed.
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  10739.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Do I? Pure coincidence, my child. Pure coincidence.😉👍🤫
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  10740. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  10741.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Er, given that we weren’t in a battle, I don’t think you have. Bad luck. 😭
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  10742. Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  10743. Jegamoron 🤡 : “Titteryenot4524 is upset because I told him and his cult would never have the same access or authority over blah, blah, blah…” 🥱 Wrong. Again. The Cure was always my band.
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  10744. It’s astonishing that this is even controversial at this point. If you are an adult, and you want to f*ck another adult who wants to f*ck you, then this is quite obviously no one else’s business. Uganda clearly never got the memo. 🤦‍♂️
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  10745.  @koala5054 👈Watch the squirm and backtracking. 🤡
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  10746.  @JonathanFromJefferson ​​⁠*Rotten Ok? 🤡
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  10747.  @koala5054 Aussie thickos clearly lost their wee bag of apostrophes when all those criminals from Britain invaded and brutally occupied it. Sad. Australia? A place I once had the deep misfortune to visit. Nae culture, nae mountains, nae real interest. Even the supposedly ‘attractive’ cities weren’t. They were deeply underwhelming, modern, largely ugly, soulless carbuncles. Sad. Australia is, essentially, just one endless beach. If you like beaches, visit Australia. Nothing else to see or do here. 😊 😢
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  10748.  @koala5054 *Jonathan’s Ok? 🤡
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  10749.  @JonathanFromJefferson *Rotten Ok? 🤡
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  10750. *Jonathan’s Ok?
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  10751. Can you roll me a big fat doobie too, sweetheart?
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  10752. In 99.99% (recurring) of cases, if I, an adult, ask you for sex, and you, another adult, agree to this request, then this is no one else’s business. Quite obviously. Case closed. 😊
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  10753.  @TheFaySchoolKids  You never type anything stimulating or funny or witty or true or just anything. Yer a dead loss. Are you not ashamed of this?
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  10754.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Serious question: Why are you ppl so boring?
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  10755.  @JonathanAKaren Many thanks! 👍
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  10756.  @Flunky000  🐶
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  10757.  @JonathanAKaren Does he? Ok. Can you tell Mr Stilton from me, as a festive gift, that he’s quite possibly the most tedious twat I’ve had the deep misfortune to encounter this year? Ty. Don’t get me wrong; we’re all ‘tedious twats’, but Stilton takes it to a whole new level. And the sub-literate shit is just off the charts. If he has a pass with dyslexia, or something, I might be forgiving… but with Stilton, I just get the sense of a lazy fuck who has genuinely not read a book cover-to-cover. That’s rarely a good sign. 😊
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  10758.  @Flunky000 Huh? As per usual, yer all over the joint, darling. Nae cohesion. Get a point. Then make it. Otherwise, stfu. 😊
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  10759.  @Flunky000  Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! 🤡
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  10760.  @melaleuca5665 *Jonathan’s 🤡
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  10761.  @Flunky000 Cringe.
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  10762.  @melaleuca5665 Cringe.
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  10763.  @Flunky000 Cringe.
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  10764. Those who are against gay sex often cite the ‘harm’ it does, although that’s actually irrelevant if we are dealing with privately consenting adults just having sex and not directly affecting others. However, what they never seem to consider is that, given that loving relationships are such an important part of leading fulfilling, happy lives, people with homosexual orientations are profoundly ‘harmed’ when other people/the state irrationally and unjustifiably tries to prevent them from forming relationships and condemn them to live their whole adult existence on their nerves in fear of imprisonment (or worse) for just having consenting sex. Quite simply, there is no rational basis for trying to interdict consensual relationships between people with homosexual orientations. Personal ‘disgust’ and ‘outrage’ won’t do if you’re going to blithely walk into the private bedrooms of consenting adults like some kind of weird, creepy sex cop. Homosexuality exists, has existed and will exist for as long as there are humans. People’s bedroom habits (gay, straight and everything in between) are quite simply none of anyone's business. The real question to ask here is why do so many people have a problem with that?
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  10765. BuffyTheJonathanSlayer is obsessed with my farts and wants to smell them. I had to turn her down, as I was otherwise engaged. 💨 😊
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  10766.  @Cyrus_the_viral Dear sweet Jesus, I do hope English isn’t your first language, petal. 🤦‍♂️
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  10767. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is bizarre, indeed. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10768. Sorry, where’s the joke? I think I missed it. 🤔
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  10769.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Still seething. 🤡 😂
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  10770. His ‘wifey’. The same ‘wifey’ who got a nice electric shaver for Christmas. 🎅
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  10771. Lmao. Look at you Andy Pandy, pretending to not be homosexual underneath those gay sunglasses. 👍 😎
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  10772. ⁠”Your disapproval is a strong indication we are doing the right thing.” (Jegamespeed3599) Seemingly never occurred to the dude that there are millions of non-westerners who also happen to think that criminalizing consenting adults for just having sex is a deeply weird, unthinking, primitive, backward thing to do. Moreover, they argue their case. Yeah. More non-argumentation. Just a seething bitterness. Very boring “I don’t like you and therefore anything you might say is wrong! It is! But it is, mummy! But it is, mummy!”
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  10773.  @veraluxmundi2032 lmao@‘hawking his ass in downtown Entebbe’. 😂
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  10774. @ If they wanna do that in the privacy of their own space it’s simply none of your business, pal. Bad luck. 😢
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  10775.  @kimdiez2681  Kim, just stop it, dude. You have a girl’s name and you’re in here trying to prevent gays having sex. Stop it. Even your face looks a bit gay. 👍
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  10776. Indeed, and, hitherto, no one has given a single credible, rational reason as to why 2 gay lads or 2 gay lassies having a good old consensual jolly roger should be criminalised! It’s just nonsensical, and bespeaks a scary irrationally I cannot comprehend. 😊
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  10777.  @wombat010 Yes, but it’s all consensual, wombatbore. How many times, dearie? 🤦‍♂️
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  10778.  @Possum-010 Hi Possum/Wombat.👍 👋😉
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  10779.  @666_WP Nah, dude. All hetty here. Seethe.
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  10780.  @ijumpjudyy  No one cares if you have hurty feelings apropos homosexuals and homosexual sex and are unable to cope. Trot on. Cry more and run to mother and sniff her apron in yer deep tragedy! No one cares. The sexual business of consenting adults is no one else’s business. Case closed. Uh huh. 😊
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  10781.  @stopcensorship7705  “Resourceless”?! Lol. I’ve got all the resources I need, son. You may need a mirror to check out your raging projected homosexuality, though. 🪞😊
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  10782.  @rabbidcrazy787  Uganda, and most African countries are primitive benighted jokes.
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  10783. ‘Chad’? I think you’ll find it’s Uganda.
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  10784.  @siddyplayz1738 🤣
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  10785.  @StopCensorship4--03 No lefts for idiots. 💩
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  10786.  @AceTheDriver1990  I think Jonathan might be hiding under your Adam's apple. Yvw. 🍏👍
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  10787. It’s a process. It’s a process whereby gay men and women simply gain the right to have consensual adult sex free of fear of criminalisation involving fines, imprisonment or worse, wherever they are on the planet. The following is a timeline list of when and where homosexuality was decriminalised. This list is interesting as it gives the lie, somewhat, to the idea that decriminalising homosexuality is a wholly (or even a mainly) ‘Western thing’, so apparently feared by lube-head here. To pick some examples at random to demonstrate this: Turkey decriminalised in 1858; Japan in 1882; Taiwan in 1912; Thailand in 1956… while it was as late as 1967 in England/Wales and, remarkably, even later in the country of my birth, Scotland, in 1981. Equally remarkably, it was as late as 1993 before it was decriminalised in Washington DC, another 10 years after this before all the states had decriminalised. Added to this is the notable fact that in the list where homosexuality has never been illegal, almost every single country, without exception, is non-Western. •Never been illegal Aruba, Netherlands Benin Burkina Faso Cambodia Central African Republic Cocos (Keeling) Islands Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Christmas Island, Australia Curaçao Curaçao, Netherlands Djibouti Equatorial Guinea French Polynesia, France Indonesia Ivory Coast Laos Madagascar Mali Mayotte, France Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia, France Niger North Korea Rwanda Sint Maarten, Netherlands South Korea Philippines Vietnam Wallis and Futuna, France •18th Century 1791: Andorra France Kingdom of France (includes Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, San Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Haiti Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1793: Monaco 1794: Luxembourg 1795: Belgium 1798: Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Ticino, Switzerland Vaud, Switzerland Valais, Switzerland •19th Century 1811: Netherlands 1822: Dominican Republic El Salvador 1830: Brazil 1832: Bolivia 1853: Argentina 1858: Turkey 1864: San Marino 1869: Suriname 1871: Guatemala Mexico 1882: Japan 1890: Italy Vatican City 1899: Honduras •20th Century 1912: Taiwan 1924: Peru 1933: Denmark (includes Greenland and Faroe Islands) 1932: Poland 1934: Uruguay 1940: Iceland 1942: Switzerland 1944: Sweden 1951: Greece Jordan Palestine 1956: Thailand 1961: Hungary 1962: Czechoslovakia Illinois, United States 1967: England and Wales, United Kingdom 1968: Bulgaria East Germany 1969: Canada West Germany 1971: Austria Connecticut, United States Costa Rica Finland 1972: Colorado, United States Oregon, United States Norway 1973: Delaware, United States Hawaii, United States Malta North Dakota, United States 1974: Massachusetts, United States Ohio, United States 1975: East Timor New Hampshire, United States New Mexico, United States South Australia 1976: Australian Capital Territory Bahrain California, United States Indiana, United States Maine, United States Washington (state), United States West Virginia, United States 1977: Croatia Montenegro Slovenia South Dakota, United States Vermont, United States Wyoming, United States 1978: Guam, United States Iowa, United States Nebraska, United States New Jersey, United States 1979: Cuba Spain 1980: American, United States New York, United States Pennsylvania, United States 1981: Colombia Scotland, United Kingdom Victoria, Australia 1982: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1983: Guernsey, United Kingdom Northern Mariana Islands Northern Territory, Australia Portugal Wisconsin, United States 1984: New South Wales, Australia 1985: Virgin Islands, United States 1986: New Zealand 1988: Israel 1989: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Liechtenstein 1990: Jersey, United Kingdom Paraguay Western Australia 1991: Bahamas Abkhazia Hong Kong Queensland, Australia South Ossetia Ukraine 1992: Estonia Isle of Man, United Kingdom Kentucky, United States Latvia 1993: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia, United States Gibraltar, United Kingdom Guinea-Bissau Republic of Ireland Lithuania Mongolia Nevada Nevada, United States Norfolk Island, Australia Russia 1994: Kosovo Belarus Bermuda Bermuda, United Kingdom Serbia 1995: Albania Moldova 1996: Bosnia and Herzegovina Portuguese Macau North Macedonia Romania Tennessee, United States 1997: China Ecuador Montana, United States Tasmania, Australia Venezuela 1998: Cyprus Cyprus Georgia, United States Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rhode Island, United States South Africa Tajikistan 1999: Chile Maryland, United States 2000: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United Kingdom Azerbaijan Georgia (country) •21st Century 2001: Anguilla, United Kingdom Arizona, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands, United Kingdom Minnesota, United States Montserrat, United Kingdom Saint Helena Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom 2002: Arkansas, United States Transnistria 2003: Armenia Tokelau, New Zealand United States (nationwide) 2004: Cape Verde 2005: Marshall Islands 2007: Nepal Vanuatu 2008: Nicaragua Panama 2010: Fiji 2012: Lesotho São Tomé and Príncipe 2014: Northern Cyprus Palau 2015: Mozambique 2016: Belize Nauru Seychelles 2018: India Trinidad and Tobago 2019: Botswana 2020: Gabon 2021: Angola Bhutan 2022: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Singapore Saint Kitts and Nevis 2023: Cook Islands, New Zealand Mauritius 2024: Dominica Namibia
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  10788. Jegamespeed5399 appears to be labouring under the rather bizarre notion that all that counts as ‘having sex’ is man-to-woman intercourse. Anything else doesn’t qualify as ‘sex’, according to him. He then applies this to what he terms ‘unnatural acts’ (oral, anal sex etc.) and uses this as a rationale to criminalise gay sex, on the basis it isn’t ‘natural’, all the while being apparently unaware that in millions of heterosexual bedrooms every night all over the planet there are heterosexuals indulging in oral/anal sex with gay abandon. The day he is willing to imprison (or worse) every single heterosexual having oral/anal sex, along with all the gays, is the day he would still be a complete f*cking idiot, but at least he would be being consistent and not ‘one rule for the homos and another rule for the hettys.
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  10789. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is bizarre, indeed. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10790.  @fahjawjfwujswu I prefer figs. 👍 😉
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  10791.  @fahjawjfwujswu Are you, sweetheart. You couldn’t ‘tear’ yourself out of a paper bag, hun! 😂
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  10792. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 😂
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  10793. *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  10794.  @Peep-010  Not sure why you are unnecessarily capitalising stuff but I’m sure you are in your sub-literate state. 👍
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  10795.  @Peep-010 Ok. 🥱
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  10796.  @Peep-010  Huh? Kinda irrelevant if it’s consensual, darling. Sawree 2 disappoint u. 😢
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  10797. 👏
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  10798. Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  10799. Huh? Sorry, none of that is relevant. Consenting adults, bro. Cope.👍
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  10800.  @ijumpjudyy Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run! 😂 🐇
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  10801. Q: “Do you personally think consenting gay adults having sexual relations is immoral?” Jegamespeed5399: “Yes.” Q: “Why?” Jegamespeed5399: “For the fun of it!” 🤦‍♂️ Dude has the brass neck to suggest others don’t ‘engage’ in ‘moral debate’. The hypocrisy is strong with this one. 🙄
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  10802.  @veraluxmundi2032 Lol.
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  10803. ⁠ @veraluxmundi2032 Lmao@“start again but this time say nothing.” 😂
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  10804. What’s ‘sane’, exactly, about criminalising adults for simply having sex? Do tell, Willie… 🤔
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  10805. ‘Cute girls’ and ‘weightlifting’, huh? Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
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  10806.  @TheFaySchoolKids Lol@choc o pan. 😂 Sic. That was funny! 👍
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  10807.  @TheFaySchoolKids He pays you, doesn’t he? Admit it. Favours and naked cash are exchanged. I’m right, aren’t I?
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  10808.  @TheFaySchoolKids See? There you go again. Bemusing.
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  10809.  @TheFaySchoolKids No. I categorically deny I am a sociopath.
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  10810.  @TheFaySchoolKids Does he pay you, or something? 🤔
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  10811.  @TheFaySchoolKids ​​⁠The thing with Stilton that bemuses me more than anything is all you wee cocksuckers flocking like flies flocking round a freshly laid turd. So, that’s 2 things that bemuse me. 👍
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  10812.  @TheFaySchoolKids No. Piss aff!
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  10813.  @TheFaySchoolKids Well, that’s his opinion. I disagree, natch.
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  10814. Uh huh. Says the gay-looking young Paul McCartney. Nice one, son! 👍 🎶 Yestogay / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yestogay 🎵
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  10815. Says the dude with the avatar of the pumped homoerotic warrior riding his throbbing stallion. 🐴
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  10816.  @jegamespeed5399 And? Which bit of the quote do you have a problem with exactly, bud?
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  10817.  @muhamedgabe6707  👈”I am a rizzler.” Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  10818. Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  10819. So is your basic spelling and punctuation.
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  10820.  @Spacelove360 Just pick those tatties outta your disgusting nails, dude. 🥔
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  10821.  @reginageorge4  More worthless ad hominem. Not an argument. You’re defeated. Now get lost.
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  10822. ⁠Scenario: Ugandan about to face death penalty. “So, Mr/Ms Ugandan, we are going to execute you for having consenting gay sex.” “Er, why?” 🤦‍♂️
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  10823. One vowel and that could’ve been so different. 😉
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  10824. “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399) 🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? That admission alone demonstrates where you are at. 🤦‍♂️Can you not think for yourself, for once, dude? I suggest to you, aged 12, that we chop off your cock for no reason. Do you consent to this? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid; •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.). •death. “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️ ​​⁠​​⁠
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  10825.  @ijumpjudyy  👈 “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. ​​⁠Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer! I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉
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  10826. Backstreet Boys? Really, hun? We’re expected to take you seriously as a str8 dude and your first choice off the grid is Backstreet Boys?! C’mon Gregory.🤦‍♂️
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  10827. But darling, that’s irrelevant. It’s just consenting adults, petal. That’s all. 😊
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  10828. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  10829.  @ijumpjudyy Not the point. If it’s consenting adults, it’s quite simply no one else’s business what they get up to. Case closed.
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  10830. Yup! The actual wording of the law is ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX; to prohibit the recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the SAME SEX.’ It appears the Ugandan legislators accept that ‘sex’ is more than just man-to-woman intercourse, as they have explicitly stated SAME SEX SEXUAL RELATIONS are, in fact, a thing. 😊
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  10831.  @fahjawjfwujswu ​​⁠Nah, no abuse. Just don’t think adults having consenting sex should be criminalised. Perhaps you can tell me why?😢
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  10832.  @JEAUJIW25U27 Nah, no abuse. Just don’t think adults having consenting sex should be criminalised. Perhaps you can tell me why?😢
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  10833. Dude, just put yer baloney projection in one post, ya deep bore and save yourself the trouble of looking like a desperate twat. 🤡👍
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  10834.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  10835.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Nicely edited, thicko! 🤫
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  10836.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Nicely edited, thicko! 🤫
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  10837.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  ​​⁠ Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  10838.  @Shane_Diesel_2010 *you’re 🤫
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  10839.  @Shane_Diesel_2010 ​​⁠ Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  10840.  @Shane_Diesel_2010  Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  10841.  @Shane_Diesel_2010 ​​⁠ Just for the record, you have the gayest thumbnail on YouTube! 🤣👍😉🤫
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  10842. You’re right. This one’s on the gayroll. 👍
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  10843. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10844.  @Spacelove360 Is English your first language, dude? 🤦‍♂️ I hope for your sake, it isn’t. Jeezo.
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  10845. Lmao. Ok, dude. Your one and only video of yourself on YouTube and we’re expected to believe you’re not gay Jim in the gym?! 😂 🏋️‍♀️
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  10846. … ⚓️
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  10847. “God wants, God says blah, blah, blah.” Sorry, this won’t do. Before you start all that nonsense you have to establish your unverified, unverifiable sky daddy. Because you can’t, you have no right to bring this into the debate.
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  10848. Nice avatar, dude. 😉 That lovely, well-conditioned, wavy, walnut-whippy hair. Straight outta a boyband! Say no more. Yer secret’s safe.👍
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  10849. No. This is Uganda, bruh. Get an atlas. 🤦‍♂️
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  10850. Well said, Adey! You got the sensible memo. 👍
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  10851.  @veraluxmundi2032 Little Miss Virgin/Asexual clearly isn’t ‘getting it’ hence her perpetual frustration! 👍😂😉
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  10852. Why do so many of you boys have cocked, erect guns in your profile? 🤔
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  10853. Utterly irrelevant, my darling. Your hurt feelings don’t matter a jot here, sweetie. Yeah? Yeah. This is about consenting adults, lovey. If you’re gonna to interfere like a frustrated spinster then you need to justify it, sweetheart. Hey! How about this? You get to dictate the terms and conditions of my sex life, and I get to dictate the terms and conditions of your sex life. Deal? 😊
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  10854.  @veraluxmundi2032 Never met a dude more owned by a random accident of birth they had zero say in! 👍
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  10855. You stick to delivering pizzas, son, and leave the important sociological debate to the big boyz ‘n’ gurlz. I’ll have a pepperoni & Pepsi! 🍕 🥤
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  10856. @stopcensoring.7959 *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  10857.  @JonathanCunty Ok, Mason. Keep stalking, dear. 👍
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  10858.  ijumpjudy. You’re a loon, hen. Seek help. Seriously. Seek help. You’re lost. No Jesus would have the likes of you, sweetie. Yer on yer ain, hen. Muahahahahahaha! 🤣
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  10859.  ijumpjudy. Oh, I once bagged a guy in Baghdad and dominated a Damascene, Judy pet. Seethe and seethe again. 🤓😋🤓
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  10860. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  10861. The way you can tell this law is unjust is by the rank double-standards in full view. Museveni thinks that homosexuals and their deeds are ‘disgusting’; if in the next breath he’d said that all heterosexuals having anal sex are also ‘disgusting’, it would still just be an opinion and not able to be rationally justified in being made illegal, but the fact he homes in on the homos proves the prejudice, intolerance and willingness to criminalise a minority for doing exactly the same thing as millions of heterosexuals do every day.
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  10862. It’s always the ones with gayest thumbnails, it seems! 😮 Suits you, Sir! 👍😉
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  10863. Ha ha. 👏 Ty for your stunning, intelligent, erudite, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  10864. @Hassan8907-y1v y1vYou’re missing the point Eric Morecambe. 👓 No one said you weren’t allowed to have an opinion on it, all they said was you shouldn’t be marching into bedrooms policing the sex lives of consenting adults. Uh huh. 😊
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  10865. Moreover, we all know you dig a ‘hot rod’, as your profile tells us that! 😂👍😉
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  10866. FYI, Jegamespeed: I’m not a homosexual. 🤡
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  10867.  @stopcensoring.7959  I think the OP was making the rather good and brutal point that Uganda affects to disdain “Western values” and they are doing it according to the very playbook (Bible) the West gave them! Some would call that staggering hypocrisy.😉
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  10868.  @ijumpjudyy  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  10869. ‘Esteban Michaels’ has to be the gayest name I’ve read today! 😂 It’s even gayer than ‘Sir Hugh Janus-Cockburn’! 😮
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  10870.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Well, that would be impossible given I’m not gay. 🥱
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  10871.  @TheFaySchoolKids  🥱
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  10872.  @benjiisagoodboy  He, like you, is crushingly boring and easily wound up. You are slightly less wound up. Perhaps.
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  10873.  @benjiisagoodboy  The fact you think he ‘defeated’ me shows the level you are operating at. Just stating stuff doesn’t make it true, Benji boy. It doesn’t work like that, son. 👍😉
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  10874. Uh huh. Another dude with a semi-naked fella flashing his buffed 6-pack prominent in his playlists. Aye. 👍
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  10875. The whole thing here is rather simple: consensual adult sex. That’s all it is. No one, state or individual, should be directly messing with consensual adult sex. The only caveat to this is the case where a child may result from incestous sex. Aside from this one exception, I can think of zero reason to intrude in the sexual lives of consenting adults. Those who do this are, invariably, unacknowledged gays themselves, deeply religious, and/or just general trouble-makers. Often, it’s all of the above!
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  10876. Avec chocolat! 😂👍
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  10877.  @StopCensorship4--03  ‘Out of this planet.’ Skill issue. 🤭
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  10878. Jegamespeed: “So, what do you mean when you say there’s no such thing as homosexual acts?” Of course, Jegamespeed, again 🥱, selectively quotes. He missed out the vital word EXCLUSIVELY in my original quote. More bad faith argumentation from the moron.
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  10879. *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  10880. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  10881.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  So don’t watch CNN then. Simple. 🤡
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  10882. Many thanks! I’m now officially fluent in 7 languages (9, pending the verification of my Portuguese and Greek before year’s end!), so ty muchly for recognising this! 👍🇪🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇷🇵🇹
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  10883. Yes, you are.
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  10884. Yeah, but it’s all irrelevant, sweetie. Your sensitive feelings don’t matter here, pet. Consenting adults. That’s all.👍😊
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  10885. If this grotesque, sweaty eejit pitched up at my bedroom 🚪 with a view to monitoring my consenting adult sex life, he could expect a swift fist in his ugly fizzog! 🥊
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  10886.  @jav9945 ​​⁠ ‘Pykes’? Wtf. 🤦‍♂️ I thought it was dykes you had an irrational, unfounded prejudice against. No? If it’s pykes you don’t dig, then this takes it to whole new level…🤔
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  10887. Lol. No cares what you personally think. Put away your sense of self importance. There’s a good lad.👍
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  10888.  @reginageorge4  Hi Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You whippin’ out yer ‘magic wand’ this evening, sweetheart? Make sure it’s well charged now! Wouldn’t want any ‘anticlimaxes’, would we? 🪄😮 😉 😂
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  10889.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Once met a Roald Dahl fan, but freaked out when he showed her his wonky willie! 🎩 😂
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  10890.  @ijumpjudyy So, they have raw, hot, consensual gay sex, groomer. Sope and ceethe, groomer. 😂
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  10891.  @ijumpjudyy I wasn’t talking about marriage, doofus. This was just about having sex. Try again. 🤫
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  10892.  @ijumpjudyy •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. 2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. 😢 👋 😂
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  10893.  @ijumpjudyy Serious question: what issue do you have with 2 women having sex? I’m genuinely interested… 🤔
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  10894. I bet you’ve locked a bit of wood in your time eh, Locky? 🪵👍😉
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  10895. Here’s the deal: the day this grotesque sweaty bollock-head let’s me police his sex life with his mannish wifey, is the day he can ask me if he wants to enter my boudoir and watch the shenanigans. Quid pro quo. C’est simple.
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  10896.  @jegamespeed5399 No it doesn’t. Not sure what you dinny get here, son. Once more for the hard of thinking: my sex life is none of your f*cking business, in the same way that your sex life is none of my f*cking business. Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  10897. Jegamespeed: “In the West, homosexuals are treated like gods and homosexuality is considered sacred. It’s glorified and worshipped to the point where homosexuals seem to have more parental rights than parents themselves.” Utter piffle and spoken like a chump who clearly has zero direct experience of ‘the West’. Here’s the actual truth: 1.The vast majority of non-homosexuals are quite simply indifferent to homosexuality. To say “homosexuals are treated like gods” and it’s considered “sacred” is pure baloney. Personally, it’s not my taste but I wouldn’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex. This opinion is held by 99%+ of the people in my social orbit. 2. It isn’t “glorified” and “worshipped”. There is a minuscule, tiny, highly politicised rump of activists who are heard out of all proportion to their actual (<1%) size. Try again. Try better or not at all. 🤡
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  10898.  @Ownmylifee Just to confirm: you support the execution of gays? A simple yes or no will do…
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  10899.  diddyphukkingkong393  Huh? You can say exactly the same about heterosexual couples, dummy! 🤦‍♂️ Are you going to stop them from having consensual sex and if not, why not? You’re really not very good at this are you?
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  10900. Ok, Mr Bean. 👍🤡
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  10901. Er, you need to establish your unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy before you start all that piffle.👍🤡
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  10902.  veraluxmundi2032 Absolutely. I just lost the 🤡 when I realised the consenting sexual business of adults is no one else’s business. I commend you for entertaining him this far. 👍 It’s good copy. But I do admire your patience!
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  10903.  veraluxmundi2032 Indeed, so what? If you’re gonna send gays to jail for oral/anal sex, then you need to send heterosexuals to jail for exactly the same acts. Otherwise, we know this is just an irrational targeting of a minority. I say that as a heterosexual. It’s the deep nonsensical injustice of the whole shebang!
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  10904. Yes, but you clearly waisted (sic) that English dictionary Granny gave you for Christmas. Why does it not surprise me you’re a fully hypnotised, fully paid-up member of the God Squad? You don’t have to think anymore when you have a big book with all the answers, eh? Lazy. Very lazy. Get your basic English sorted out, dear, before you start making flip comments about killing people for just having sex. 👍
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  10905. Cringe.
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  10906. Says the dude whose first video is quite literally a group of men piling on top of each other and groping each other. Way to go! 👍👌😉
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  10907. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  10908.  @VictorMadristas  Ty for realising you’re stealing comments for likes, Victor.👍😉
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  10909. Stolen comment.
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  10910.  @albankokonozi6790  Man alive. 🤦‍♂️ Yer babbling again. Look, m8, if 2 (or more) consenting adults wanna f*ck then you can do f*ck-all about it, darling. Jesus. What is this? Why you are you people so repressed? Genuinely. It’s none of your f*cking business. It’s just sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10911.  @ijumpjudyy And I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers. 😊 🥒
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  10912.  @stopcensorship7705  And? I’m gay. So what? You picked the wrong guy, sweetie.
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  10913. And tell me you’re not a lesbian anyway. There’s a bit of a whiff. 👃
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  10914. Oh, get a grip you pearl-clutching Cassandra! Ffs. 🤦‍♂️ The sexual life of consenting adults is quite simply none of your business. Re-read the script.
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  10915.  @SCROTUMM Lmao. A dude called ‘scrotum’ is against gay sex! 😂
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  10916. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything (let alone telling consenting f*cking adults what they can and cannot do and with whom in the bedroom!🤦‍♂️) from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  10917.  @TheFaySchoolKids 👈Lol. Still stalking. And projecting. 😂 Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  10918.  @TheFaySchoolKids 👈Got triggered cuz was called out as a stalker. Truth hurts. 😢
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  10919.  @TheFaySchoolKids FYI, changing your moniker doesn’t work, darling; I have all the info in front of me. You’re a key stalker. You might wanna check that, going forward. Just sayin’! 😊
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  10920.  @TheFaySchoolKids And you’re still stalking. Reports may have to be written at this point. Just leave me alone, ffs! 😊
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  10921.  @TheFaySchoolKids Don’t be silly, darling: everything you come in contact with every day contains bacteria! Cringe. The is the level, folks. 🤦‍♂️ Nice stalking, though. 👍
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  10922.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Actually, no. This is purely a gaseous thing 💨, not a solid thing. 💩 Nice try though, stalker! 👍😉🤡
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  10923. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to twenty years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ makes zero sense. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death for this? 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is hilariously irrational. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  10924.  @reginageorge4 ​​⁠​​⁠Hey, groomer! Check it:👉 •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. Suck it and cry harder, groomer. 😢 👋 😂
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  10925. Not gonna happen, dude. Most of America has zero problem with consenting adults getting jiggy in the bedroom. Bad luck. 😢
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  10926.  @TheFaySchoolKids Aye. Victor digs the gay boyz.
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  10927. Will Smith allegedly once had sex with White Men Can’t Jump actor Duane Martin. 😮
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  10928.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Little Ms. Virgin/Asexual is clearly so frustrated she doesn’t want anyone else to have sex! 🤣
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  10929. If God is so against gays why did Jesus say: “Satan, get thee behind me”?🙃
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  10930.  @reginageorge4  Just for the record, in every single statement you make you just state your opinion. You never engage in argument. That’s the first sign of someone unable to defend their position.👍😉
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  10931. 1. All hetero here, Peepbore. 2. Agnostic 3. You’re a fine one to talk about ‘badgering’ with your monotone, never-changing tedious baloney! 🦡
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  10932.  @TheKrikCameronKids That’s harsh. I far prefer women to men. Men are horrendous.
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  10933.  @fahjawjfwujswu Have we? Well, for starters, we don’t have basic spelling and grammar ‘in common’. Nice try though, bruv.👍
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  10934.  @ijumpjudyy Florida 2003: Gay sex is legalised. Hope carder, groomer. 😢😂🙃 👍🤡
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  10935. ‘Damn the President’? Really? You want to damn the President? Commas are your friend. You might need an edit. 🤡🤭😂😉
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  10936. Yours and his feelings are utterly irrelevant, sweetheart. Consenting adults. Case closed.👍
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  10937. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  10938. It’s irrational to want to unreasonably intrude into the sex lives of consenting adults when it doesn’t directly affect you. What people mean when they say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ is that the idea of (particularly male ) gay sex repulses them. The idea of eating jellied eels repulses me, I deal with it by not eating jellied eels. I don't declare that jellied eel eaters are ‘wrong’ and should not be allowed to engage in something as repulsive as jellied eel eating. Think what you like about gay sex, feel free to be repulsed by the idea, deal with your disgust by not doing it. Leave everybody else alone.
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  10939.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠ 👈Asexual/Virgin bint is pretending to know about ‘love’. 😂🤡
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  10940. Are you sure that’s not 2 lezbos in yer thumbnail, chum? 😮 Conflict of interest, perchance? 😉 I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. 😊
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  10941.  @Jobanivrodnachui 👈”Whe i see how many homos and woke people are i only see western IQ ho downawards.” C’mon, dude, when you pick on others for their IQ you can’t be getting away with typing sentences like that. English may not be your first language but Google Translate is there for you, sweetie. Try and use it next time, darling. 💩
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  10942.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Hey, groomer, you’ve just contradicted yerself in a single sentence, groomer. You say he didn’t want the make-up and then blamed CNN for badly lighting his unmade-up, sweaty bald napper! Make yer mind up, groomer! 😂
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  10943. No idea wtf that means but I know it’s deeply cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  10944.  @teri_ccc5160  Hopefully you were drunk when you created that extensive playlist as you have an awful lot of crap in there. 🥴 Wtf.
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  10945.  @teri_ccc5160 Perfectly sober, my dear. Clear-sighted. Looking at ‘Mrs’ Museveni’s ever present 5 o’clock shadow. 🪒 😊😉
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  10946. So, you agree with fining, imprisoning and executing adults for having consenting sex? 🤦‍♂️
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  10947.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Lol. Says the dude that constantly stalks me on here. 👍🤣
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  10948.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Big Brother is watching you, Jordy. Orwell’s ghost is right on my shoulder with his dead eyes lasered in on you, Jordy! 👻
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  10949.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Just glad you got it sorted, darlin’.👍😉 📕
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  10950.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  I’m just glad you got that library nonsense sorted out back in the day, Jordy. Coulda been a toughie, that one, son.👍😉
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  10951.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Awright, Jordy. You stick to sitting on yer porch waving at the passing vehicles and leave the important chat to the big boys, sonny. There’s a good lad.👍
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  10952. You fancy him, doncha? 👍😉
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  10953. 0:40 “I,I,I,I,I … n,n,n, never knew what they were doing.” 😂 👈This has to be one of the greatest “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” moments on YouTube!
    2
  10954. Lol. A dude who digs The Deftones (who all look like they haven’t showered in a week!) is barking about ‘hygiene standards’! 👍🤦‍♂️🤡
    2
  10955.  @ijumpjudyy  Btw, I didn’t order a crappuccino. 😂
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  10956. Aye! So’s his exceedingly mannish wifey with his permanent 5 o’clock shadow! 🪒👍
    2
  10957. K, Gordy baby. Put it away, son. It’s not big and it’s not pretty! 😮
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  10958. Jegamespeed:”To tolerate something means you disagree with it but are willing to let it exist.” Lol. He ‘disagrees’ with homosexual sex and ‘let’s it exist’ by fining, imprisoning and executing gays for just having sex. That’s some ‘toleration’, dude. 🤦‍♂️
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  10959. Don’t be such a snowflake, petal. It’s called ‘free-speech’. It’s a duty to wider humanity to call out dumb, irrational laws, no matter where those laws are implemented. Grow a pair.
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  10960. Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  10961. C’mon, dude, yer giving more than a whiff of the effeminate in your channel, m8. Strong feminine energy. 👍
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  10962. Yeah, because it’s eminently ‘sensible’ to criminalise consenting adults just for having sex, Andy. Well done. 👏
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  10963. Reasonable comment. But the onus (anus? 😮) is on you to lay out the case as to why to criminalise consenting adults just for having sex. The burden of demonstration is on you here (as with God, for example) as it is you who is angling to interfere in the lives of consenting adults. If you are going to take this step, you need to demonstrate very clearly the rationale behind why you support criminalising gay people for just getting jiggy.
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  10964. 👏
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  10965. I once met a ‘Nash Slon’. American Deep South. He was tending a gas station at the time and gave off the distinct whiff of a Deliverance extra! 🐷
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  10966. Pmsl@“who else would turtle wax his head”! 🤣
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  10967. Well, a good 50% of Sabre clearly look it, hun! Check urself. 👍😉
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  10968. Well done, Adey! You got the sensible memo. 👍
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  10969. The way you can tell this law is unjust is by the rank double-standards in full view. Museveni thinks that homosexuals and their deeds are ‘disgusting’; if in the next breath he’d said that all heterosexuals having anal sex are also ‘disgusting’, it would still just be an opinion and not able to be rationally justified in being made illegal, but the fact he homes in on the homos proves the prejudice, intolerance and willingness to criminalise a minority for doing exactly the same thing as millions of heterosexuals do every day.
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  10970. FYI, you can’t ‘turn’ anyone gay, just as you can’t ‘turn’ anyone straight. Nice try, though. 😊
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  10971. Says the dude with a Denzel Washington fetish! Mwah! 💋
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  10972. Tbf, dude, that’s irrelevant. It’s consenting adults here. 👍
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  10973. Aye. No lie also detected in the very obvious fact that millions of heterosexuals engage in anal/oral sex every day! The day you criminalise this is the day I will listen. Otherwise, it’s just double-standard, rules for thee but not for me. 😊
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  10974.  @ijumpjudyy *groomers’ Dearie me. 🤦‍♂️ Hey! But I never ordered a crappuccino, groomer, but I did order an apostrophe, groomer! 😂
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  10975. @stopcensoring.7959 *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  10976. @stopcensorship7705That’s why you keep deleting when called out on your basic spelling issues. 😂👍😉
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  10977.  @Teesroad  And you have no grounds telling people who they can and cannot f*ck, fascist.
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  10978. Questionable. His wifey’s definitely a man, though! 👍🤣
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  10979. Michael Jackson was a homosexual. 😢
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  10980.  @ijumpjudyy  👈The non-coping is strong with this particular Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 😂🤫
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  10981.  @ijumpjudyy  Nah, you’ve got it all wrong Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. Do better. 😂
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  10982.  @ijumpjudyy It’s just me, hen! Unlike your multiple identities, hen! Bad luck. 😢
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  10983. Really, Dylan? Why do all you dudes have playlists dominated by semi-naked men in the gym? Discuss… 🤔
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  10984.  ijumpjudy. You’ve just betrayed yourself, Jude. ‘Gae’. One word was all it took stopcensorship. 👍😉
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  10985. Count yourself lucky to not have the sound. Looking at the greased up loon it’s times like this I wish I were deaf and blind! 👍
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  10986.  @jegamespeed5399  What, like you are ‘completely impartial’ you crazed, hypocritical loon!? 🤦‍♂️ 😂👍
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  10987. @StopCensorship4--03*possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  10988.  @wombat010 Hi possum.👍
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  10989.  @melaleuca5665  Hi possum. 👋
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  10990. Omg! The gaie icky poohness of it all is just too much to take, possum. 🥱
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  10991.  @TheKrikCameronKids Obviously.
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  10992. Is that a man or woman with the braces, Alex? 🤔
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  10993.  @ijumpjudyy  Lol. The deep hypocrisy of someone like you talking about ‘damaged brains’! 👍🤣
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  10994. @Jazc-mp889 Is it? There’s one in Texas, too. That makes it all the more weird then. Liberal Massachusetts and we have odd people like Tonya, Judy etc. holding these strange views. It’s a constant mystery to me why anyone thinks they get a say in what consenting adults do in the bedroom. Not only is it sinister, it’s ultimately pointless, as if by saying 2 men or 2 women can’t have sex that will stop them being homosexual. They always use the ‘choice argument’ but even if we did choose whom we are sexually attracted to (we don’t) it would still be none of anyone else’s business. So what do we have left to justify it? Ah, yes, a big unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. As Hitchens said: ‘Religion poisons everything.’
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  10995.  @koala5054  No. But your parents clearly made you f*cking mental, hen! Given you’re American, I’d sue if I were you. 👍
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  10996. @Jazc-mp889 She’s got many aliases. A religious freak. I blame the parents.👍😉
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  10997. @Jazc-mp889 I know. I was just backing you up in that call, dude.👍
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  10998. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  10999. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Trot on. 🤡
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  11000. C’mon, Stevie. Don’t hide it. You picked a gay icon as your moniker. Unless that’s 4 real. Truth? 🤔
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  11001. Tooley by name, tool by nature.
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  11002. Irrelevant. Consenting adults, Dikwad.
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  11003. Uh huh. But you’re lacking an apostrophe. 🤦‍♂️
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  11004.  @jegamespeed5399  I didn’t ‘claim’ anything. You claimed that I ‘claimed’ something. Get it right. 😊
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  11005.  @veraluxmundi2032 He’s mental. Needs certifying. 😉🤣 The whole thing here is rather simple: consensual sex. That’s all it is. No one, state or individual, should be directly messing with consensual sex. The only caveat to this is the case where a child may result from incestous sex. Aside from this one exception, I can think of zero reason to intrude in the sexual lives of consenting adults.
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  11006.  @jegamespeed5399  Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter what you want to call it if it’s between consenting adults. Semantics are irrelevant here, sonny. Bad luck.
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  11007. Lmao. Brett, you couldn’t make it any more obvious if you tried, ducky! 😂
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  11008.  @Hispanocel ​​⁠Just for the record, the incest thing (with the potential production of a child) is the only case I can think of where interference in the consenting sexual lives of adults may be necessary. However, this isn’t about that at all. It’s about irrational idiots deciding gay men can’t have sex. The day this dude calls for the imprisonment (or worse) of the millions of heterosexuals having anal sex on a regular basis is the day we can have a conversation. As it is, he just clearly reeks of a dude that might easily dig the dudes. 🤡
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  11009.  @Hispanocel Huh? Wtf are you on about, dude? This is simply about letting consenting adults f*ck whomever they want. Stop making this more complicated than necessary. There’s a good girl. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  11010.  @Peep-010 ​​⁠Y r u not calling for the imprisonment (or worse) of millions of heterosexual dudes who have consenting anal sex on a regular basis? The day you do that, is the day I might listen to what you have to say. 😊
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  11011.  @Peep-010  Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Do better. 🤦‍♂️
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  11012.  @Peep-010 Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Do better. 🤦‍♂️
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  11013. “I like to live in a culturally Christian country, even if I don’t believe a single word of Christian faith.” (Richard Dawkins - 2024) 😊
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  11014. Indeed. He epitomises Shakespeare’s insight: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” 😉
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  11015.  @dyscotopia  Yeah. Decent call.👍
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  11016.  @richardincm  I don’t call 10,000 variations on ‘it was a INSERT WORD HERE operation’ original; particularly if people are just copying and pasting others. I call that unoriginal and tedious.
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  11017. Why is everyone writing a variation on this same joke? It’s soooo boring now.
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  11018.  @Raptorman0909  Just for the record, as this is important given your level of complete and utter humourlessness in this case. Someone in this thread called @carlinetessier5500 wrote: “When will it be Putin’s turn to have heavy metals in his system? I really hope soon. Very soon.” Now, do you know how many have, hitherto, upvoted this comment? 72. I repeat: 72. Are they all psychopaths, for by your amateur psychology they should be? For if it’s not ok to mock one incident it shouldn’t be ok to mock another similar potential incident involving a different human being. My opinion? It’s fine to mock both. This is the definition of black humour: laughing in the face of death and human folly. Now, it appears to me that you are utterly sans humour. The true psychopaths are more likely to have no humour than those of us who are well-adjusted members of society who can laugh. Think about this a little. You really do appear scary in your po-facedness and moral sanctimoniousness; almost as if you, and only you are to be the arbiter of what we are to find funny, or not funny. A self-appointed ‘humour policeman’, by any other name. That’s how you are coming across.
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  11019.  @Raptorman0909  It’s called black humour, m8. You Yankee Doodles often lack this. Gets one through the day in times like this. Think on and quit being such a sanctimonious fool. It won’t wash with me.😉
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  11020.  @Raptorman0909  👈 Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11021. Lol. You don’t have to actually poison Biden at this point; he’s a walking corpse!🤣
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  11022. Can’t make the bond. Trump’s clearly shaken and stirred.
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  11023.  @mile_high_topher  Let’s hope we don’t have to find out, mate.
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  11024.  @george2113  Oh, they will. Alas.
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  11025. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  11026. Some might say they got the wrong vowel in that ‘watch’.🙄
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  11027.  @honorladone8682  Er, no. It’s a reference to Nielsen’s best-known work, you dummy!
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  11028.  @broncostearsaremostsavory2041  Look man. I literally have no skin in this game. I’m simply an impartial onlooker here. Agnostic, apolitical, anational. What I see is a man to whom nobody has said ‘no’ for 22 years, a man drunk on his own power, a man possibly half-crazed, a man wanting belated revenge for losing the Cold War in 1989. The key point in all this for me, however, is the invasion of a self-governing, sovereign territory. We have to take each case on its individual merits, regardless of the faults of either side. I, as it stands, do not think the USA/NATO should enter the fray directly in a military sense, as I, like countless others, simply fear this will trigger a nuclear nightmare no one wants. Putin, at 70, with not much to lose, I suspect doesn’t give a shit at this point. One final point: Zelensky is not some Christ-figure, as he appears to be for so many other uncritical observers. I repeat, he has silenced critics, has blood on his hands in East Ukraine and has closed certain media outlets unfavourable to his cause. But here, he’s doing right by the majority of Ukrainians it seems, and standing up to Putin and the Russians. But it really is just Putin here, I suspect.😳
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  11029.  @icecold9511  User1990 is right about the killings in the east. You need to look into this.
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  11030.  @whitesandandreef4919  He’s repressed opponents. Closed media outlets. Wants East Ukraine back in the fold, and is not afraid to use violence to this end. I’m just saying, nobody’s perfect, and you need to look honestly at everyone here. I have no skin in the game either way. I just want a peaceful world.👀
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  11031.  @bretnoecker758  Where did I ‘make light of a tragic situation’? Huh? I never even referenced the shooting, you pillock! Now go away.
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  11032.  @bretnoecker758  And still you are triggered, dozens of hours later. Perhaps you need to get a life. Find some other things to ponder. All advice free at the point of use.
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  11033.  @bretnoecker758  yawn
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  11034.  @sdrfz  Nah. I just cried when I encountered you, Douglas.
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  11035.  @bretnoecker758  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert! Jeez, mate, are you always this sanctimonious and po-faced? You must be hell to live with.
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  11036.  @sdrfz  “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” (Mark Twain) Mark wrote this for you, Douglas.
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  11037.  @sdrfz  One other thing, the plane actually isn’t ‘getting closer to us’; it quite clearly is travelling more or less on a parallel plane. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, eh, Douglas? Now, go away and bore to death someone else.
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  11038.  @sdrfz  Oh Jesus, Douglas, you’re such a bore. Your ‘curvature’ argument only works at certain distances. Here, the camera filming the plane is clearly rather close to the plane. Therefore ‘curvature of the Earth’ doesn’t come into it, son. Basic stuff you should have picked up in elementary school but, alas, clearly didn’t. No. The 2 planes you see are simply on a climbing trajectory because they have both just taken off. Now, give it up, son, as you are coming across as a desperate, pitiful, egregiously crushing dullard.
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  11039.  @bretnoecker758  Life is tragic, son. Deal with it. No one gets out of here alive. The other thing I would say here is that I’m a Brit: we (most of us) tend to have a sense of humour. Having lived in America, I can tell you, for all its plus-points, having a raucous, ironic, anarchic sense of humour isn’t one of them, as a rule. Just sayin’.
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  11040.  @sdrfz  So why are both planes on a trajectory which looks EXACTLY like they are taking off? Huh? Jeez. Just drop it. It’s boring.
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  11041.  @sdrfz  Wow! I’ll say this for you, Douglas, you’re persistent. Perhaps in one of these replies you’ll just do the honourable thing, admit defeat and acknowledge that these were TWO DIFFERENT PLANES! ✈️
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  11042.  @sdrfz  You ignored the second part; she’s saying completely different things in the 2 clips.
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  11043.  @lamiagumbo  No. I mean 9 other people. And counting. 😉
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  11044.  @noravanwyk2748  Lol.
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  11045. Surely ‘to baldly go’, no? 👨‍🦲
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  11046.  @theultimatereductionist7592  No.
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  11047.  @Redspittingcobra  Google is clearly your friend.😉
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  11048. @UCiWT9uEReCeyUit0ryge-JA Er, I ‘believe’ you. 😉🥸
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  11049.  @humbertsmith8864  I’m just giddy with joy that there is a Canadian going by the name of ‘Humbert’!🤣
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  11050.  @humbertsmith8864  😉
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  11051. So this is what Paul O’Grady gets up to on his days off.
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  11052. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  11053. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  11054.  @pinecedar7748  Crap! I’ve posted the OP precisely 3 times on the Net so get yer facts right, sweetheart.
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  11055. @North London I was kinda joking, but thanks for the ‘insight’ anyway.
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  11056. Just like Trump makes a beautifully ugly man. 👍
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  11057. Or ‘hair time’.
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  11058.  @brianbachmeier34  Er, that’s 3 words. 🥴
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  11059.  @SLJShortt  Did it? I’m not American, so quite frankly my dear, I couldn’t give a flying fuck.
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  11060.  @lavendereucalyptus3225  But it isn’t, though. Not for those who are living there. You need to realise this, sweetheart.😉
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  11061.  @lavendereucalyptus3225  Oh, I don’t doubt Western shenanigans in the East and elsewhere. However, this issue was about the zero Covid policy of China. I’m fully aware America is the greatest ‘rogue state’ this planet has probably ever seen, but that was not the debate here.
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  11062.  @lavendereucalyptus3225  Huh? Wtf are you on about? No one forced me to get a vaccine. I chose to get one. China has no effective vaccine; therefore it can use this as a way to herd people like sheep and tell them what they can and cannot do. China is a dictatorship. There are dozens of dictatorships on this planet. I will say this: the West isn’t perfect (far from it), but if the choice is between a life in France, or Spain, or the UK, or America, or Canada, or just about any other Western country you care to mention, or a life in Iran, or China, or Russia, or any other benighted dictatorship you care to mention, I’m choosing the former 100 times out of a 100.
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  11063.  @lavendereucalyptus3225  Indeed. So how about China just get some decent vaccines and control Covid that way?🤓
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  11064.  @renzadefoe8046  ‘Zero Covid’ is just code for you know who’s in charge.
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  11065.  @familyshare3724  I wrote ‘nothing to do with zero Covid’ because China’s draconian lockdowns are nothing to do with zero Covid! It’s about controlling people; not a virus.
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  11066.  @dylanharper1274  That may be so. However, your lack of full-stops is astoundingly disappointing.
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  11067.  @dylanharper1274  Huh?
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  11068.  @dylanharper1274  Lol. Ooh, er, missus! 😂
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  11069.  @dylanharper1274  Lol.
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  11070.  @dylanharper1274  Lol.
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  11071. A bit insulting to all the ugly girls out there.
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  11072.  @yaoreivashi9971  How about you get a job, dude, rather than being a pettifogging net cop policing what people can and can’t say? Huh? Who do you think you are? Vladimir Putin?🙄
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  11073.  @yaoreivashi9971  Just for the record, I’ve posted this precisely 3 times on the Internet. I don’t call that ‘time and again’ on every Russia-Ukraine video.😉
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  11074.  @knowledge3563  Here’s Tom with the weather!🤠
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  11075.  @ChosenOne6666  Exactly? I asked you for suggestions ya thick tart!
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  11076.  @MachonyLeeoun  My ‘mom’ died in 1998. Deal with it.
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  11077. Can we just reduce this to mathematics? Westerner (us) killing one non-Westerner = 0 Westerner (us) killing one Westerner = 1 Now, why the double standards?
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  11078.  @sorciak  I repeat: Putin is evil. However, what about the millions the west have killed over the decades in illegal invasions? You need to look at both these cases equally and not cherry pick your cases. If Putin is evil, then so has the west been and countless times more than Putin/Russia have ever been. This is so obvious to anyone not partial for one side or the other. Try to be less tendentious and open to the idea of the west’s heinous, egregious war crimes. Think about this a little more.
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  11079.  @AHighManBerPig  Incidentally, throwing around the lazy word ‘whataboutism’ is just an admission of guilt on your part as you have no argument, clearly.
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  11080.  @sorciak  I think Putin is evil. However, he has been no more evil than America and her partners throughout the years. That’s all. You can’t condemn Putin and completely ignore the west’s war crimes.
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  11081.  @AHighManBerPig  No. It’s called being honest with ourselves. *argument
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  11082.  @sorciak  No. Settle down, stop ranting and quietly consider the facts I have set out. There is no dodging these, no matter how much you want to.
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  11083. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  11084. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  11085.  @ryann2710  Americans, statistically, stab more shit out of each other. Just sayin’!😉
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  11086. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  11087. Justin Trudeau’s socks alone confirm what I’ve kinda suspected all along. I’ll say no more as he has better lawyers than I.
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  11088. ‘Secy Pete Buttigieg’? Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but he is mildly attractive if you look at him in a certain light and squint a little. 🤓
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  11089.  @mikewagner1614 That’s her choice. How are you gonna police that one, Mike? You gonna stand guard over her 24/7 and make sure she doesn’t light up or have a glass of wine?
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  11090. Wow! This is Zelensky’s best use of green screen yet! Kudos.👍
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  11091.  @AL-mc9ht  Moi? Here, look in this: 🪞. ‘Twas you who foolishly, ignorantly, idiotically pegged me as a ‘Republican’ when I’m not even a Yankee Doodle Dandy! Methinks the ‘brain damage’ is across the Pond! 🤣
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  11092. Yes, you are.
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  11093. @Simulation L What’s lies, petal?
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  11094. @Simulation L Party membership. About 150,000 voters.
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  11095. ‘Cedric’: last time I encountered the name was in a Walter Scott novel, ‘Ivanhoe’. Last time I encountered ‘Ivanhoe’ was down the docks in Frisco.🤓
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  11096. I’m no natural conspiracy theorist by nature, but there is a school of thought that America essentially lit this particular geopolitical fire by constantly goading Putin since the 2014 CIA/USA-sponsored coup where a pro-Russian democratically-elected government was overthrown and a US proxy installed, and knowing this, and seeing that NATO seems to just stand in the sidelines watching Ukraine burn for as long as possible whilst it in turn weakens and destabilises Russia, the endgame being that NATO/US only entering the conflict at the last minute to administer the final thrust to the severely weakened Russian bull, one can see a certain mileage in this theory: Ukraine sacrificed on the altar of NATO/US ambition against Russia (and in the future, China - over Taiwan - so the theory goes). However, all of this is predicated on the very dangerous idea that Vlad the Mad won’t have let his finger stray too near that red button of which, of course, there is no guarantee.
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  11097. Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell . (A Huxley)
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  11098. Although it was a bad day for black Chris Rock, it looks like Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch backfired. On the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking to him for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars .
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  11099. … the rest is silence. ⚰️
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  11100.  @HotJonathan I do. 🍛 💨 Seethe, stalker boy.
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  11101.  @diggiejohns  Yeah, and that means we tend not to have random nutters accessing assault weapons and massacring other people every day.😊
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  11102.  @djx7134  K, Mr Kubansky.
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  11103. No matter how I try to get my head around this, I just can’t understand how, essentially, one man, one fucking man , can cause so much trouble for millions of other men and women. After 300,000-odd years of Homo Sapiens, how we haven’t established a viable mechanism whereby we can remove a single dictator from power, is a bit of a mystery. If a kid in a kindergarten rides roughshod over the will of all the other kids, the staff step in. Why are we not doing that as adults?
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  11104.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Were you bullied at school, son? Cos you’re certainly the wee bully-boy here. Just calm down, prick, and we can agree to disagree. Stop giving it large. It’s incredibly boring.
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  11105.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  You’re actually boring, m8. One note. Batter someone you disagree with. Tedious in the extreme.
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  11106.  @kenwhite6449  It’s complicated, Kenny. It always is. Think on.😉
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  11107.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  You’re a biased prick, son. Learn to see others’ points of view as you come across as a complete tosser. Arrogant.
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  11108.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  I bested you, son. That’s why you shut the fuck up 10 minutes ago.
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  11109.  @kenwhite6449  *its
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  11110.  @peterpain6625  No bot, m8. Just a human spitting facts. For the record, I hate Putin.😉
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  11111.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  Most of Ukraine fell to the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine the Great; in 1793 right-bank Ukraine was annexed by Russia in the Second Partition of Poland. Cope better. 😉
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  11112.  @O-SNOOPY-SNOOP  Google it, son. It’s all documented.😉
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  11113.  @JohnDoe-vy5hh  It’s all documented, mate. Google it.😉
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  11114. @1:22 Nice to see Sandra Bernhardt getting some extra work. 🥸
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  11115. Pmsl
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  11116.  @rigelb9025  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11117. @0:07 “2 years under house arrest.” To be fair, from 2020-2022 I also spent 2 years under ‘house arrest’. 💉
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  11118. Indeed. All European descendants out of America now!
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  11119. This is just geopolitical karma. The current inhabitants of the USA are descendants of brutal occupiers of others’ lands; these people are just the Universe’s karmic representatives here to teach these descendants a lesson. What goes around, comes around.
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  11120. The Oscars 2022 Best Original Score: Volodymyr Zelensky for that good shit he got from Colombia, the country, not the film company. Sniffs Best Original Song: Crimea River . Best Supporting Actor: Hunter Biden for My Beautiful Ukrainian Money Launderette . Best Supporting Actress: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for The Spy Who Came Back to the Cold . Best Actor: Volodymyr Zelensky for Citizen Ukraine . Best Actress: Greta Thunberg for Robocop 26 . Best Director: Vladimir Putin for From Russia Without Love . Best Picture: Tsar Wars: The Russian Empire Strikes Back . Lifetime Under-Achievement Award: Boris Johnson.
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  11121.  @nikolatanev3293  It’s mine. She stole it.https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  11122.  @layer4down  She stole it. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  11123. And imagine having your own comment stolen by another who posts it continually on here. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  11124.  @peweemorris693  Mine. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4 She stole it.
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  11125.  @rox8677  It’s mine. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  11126.  @Dlee45  Yeah, she stole it from me, the thief. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  11127. Hey, you stole my quote! I made that up you bloody thief!
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  11128. Although it was a bad day for black Chris Rock, it looks like Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch backfired. On the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking to him for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars .
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  11129. The rest of the world looks on this and weeps. Why do so many other developed nations not have America’s baleful gun culture? Germany, the UK, Japan, for example, don’t seem to have this terrible issue with gun crime, and yet there is relative peace in terms of general society, and certainly mass killings are rare. America needs to seriously look at its Second Amendment. There are only three countries that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution. After the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, it inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. However, only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) ever included an explicit right to bear arms. They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms. So, America is the outlier here in terms of citizens’ rights to bear arms. Does it want to continue this, and put up with its horrible mass killings? Or does it want to consider repealing the Second Amendment, thereby allowing the average American citizen to breathe that much easier in the ‘land of the free’?
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  11130. He’s also a stain on many a woman’s skirt. 🤓
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  11131. Duck.
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  11132. I’m more of a winker.😉
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  11133. @3:30 Wow! That’s spooky. If British ex-Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard ever makes a biopic of his life, this Ben fella’s a shoo-in for the lead role. It’s uncanny. Doppelgänger territory. ⚽️
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  11134.  @joeg9112  How much what, you triggered little fellow? You really should chill, man, you’ll give yourself a cardiac arrest.
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  11135.  @joeg9112  Still triggered, huh? My, my. That guilty conscience is clearly getting the better of you today.
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  11136.  @joeg9112  My how we’re triggered, dear boy. Clearly rattled your cage today. There, there.
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  11137.  @joeg9112  I think you just mean “the form of government that has millions begging in America.”😉
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  11138. The real question in all this crap is how humans have created a system which allows mass accretions of wealth to accrue to one person. As my dear departed grandma used to say: “Money is like muck; no use unless it’s spread.” If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had $44 billion to throw away on something that probably won’t even exist in 25 years, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  11139. 2 words: nuclear weapons.
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  11140.  @markinson8019  Who? Me? Nothing I have said is factually incorrect. Deal with it.
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  11141.  @bryanb3352  Actually, I’ll give you the source: 2017 - London 1.2 New York 3.4 … looks like you’re wrong, son. Nice try though.👍
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  11142.  @urbanabrandon  Looking good for 74 there, Brandon. Could pass for 35!
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  11143. Lol. Well, if it’s a ‘fake set’ it’s a cold fake set as he is more or less writing his name with his breath there! 🥶
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  11144.  @horatiocaine9758  ‘Hemisphere’? Thought the Earth was flat.🤔
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  11145.  @swabby913  You talk like there are no big cities in Europe and we all live on rural farmsteads!😂
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  11146.  @swabby913  The stats back it up, son. Wtf are you on about? You are 4x more likely to be murdered in the US than in Europe. No ‘feelings’ there, chum; just facts. How do you feel about that?🤓
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  11147.  @truthwarrior1489  The single principle reason you are touting the Bible is that you were brought up in that milieu. If you had been born in Iraq, say, no doubt you’d be boring on about the Koran. If born in India, Hinduism would’ve been your accident of birth bag. The merits of Shinto no doubt would have been proffered if you were Japanese. Buddha would’ve been your thang if you’d been Thai. I think you see my point, sweetheart. All organised religion is merely a random accident of birth. Roll that up in your doobie and smoke it, sonny. 😉
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  11148.  suundiial4907  Biden ‘impeached’? Strawberry blondes are more his thing. Sniffing them, specifically.
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  11149. Ah, that old desperate tune, ‘nationalism’, causing all the trouble again. When will we, as a species, get beyond random, arbitrary accidents of birth as key markers of our identity? Along with organised religion, nationalism is the greatest self-destructive, baleful blight we ever had the misfortune to invent as a species. Other civilisations from galaxies far, far away look at us and weep for us. We are primitive children in the kindergarten of the Universe. One day, we shall graduate to adulthood, and a certain maturity and look back in time at how silly we were. As it is, we have murder, mayhem, internecine destruction all on an accident of birth or an imagined daddy in the sky. Really? 🌌
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  11150. Putin’s just greedy. He wants the old USSR, yet he already has that and two extra vowels!
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  11151. It’s not ‘ballot drop boxes’ America needs, but ‘ bullet drop boxes’!
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  11152. Presenter is like a weird genetic mash-up of Tim Robbins + Matthew Modine.🤓
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  11153. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  11154.  james Deer  Having scanned your other ‘comments’, Jimbo, you’re just triggered as a Putinite who knows he doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Cope better.😉
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  11155.  james Deer  Ah. But are you sure?🥸
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  11156.  @Crashed131963  Strawdogs 😉
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  11157.  @Crusader-777  Yup! America is the biggest rogue state this planet has ever seen.👍
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  11158.  @pauloaka697  sniffs
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  11159.  @pro-choicemom  Or ‘terrorist’. All about point of view.
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  11160. These 2 lads are just symptoms of that arrogant, entitled American mindset: ‘we are the righteous’. No. It’s not your fight. Leave it to the Ukrainians. Sure, supply a few weapons, but quit the glory-hunting crap. America really needs to get back into its box. Since 1776 it’s been getting far too many ideas above its station. The greatest troublemaker on this planet, par excellence, bar none. Including Putin’s despicable Russia.
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  11161.  @hks2377  Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11162. Well, I’m more of a ‘mosquito magnet’ than I am a ‘babe magnet’, alas. 🥸 🦟 🧲
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  11163. ‘Hurricane Ian’, huh? Could be worse, I suppose. Could be hurricane Iran.🥸
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  11164. Well, on the bright side for Russians, that’s a whole lot less diabetes and tooth decay!
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  11165. Lol@ tropical storm ‘Ian’. Why do they name these monsters with such innocuous names like Ian, or Fiona, or Katrina, or Irma. These things aren’t coming round to your house for a chat and a coffee. These things are coming for your fricking house! They should be naming them ‘Megadeath 1’ or ‘Apocalyse 2’ or something. That way, folks will get the message and get the hell outta there!
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  11166.  @gregkump3639  😆
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  11167.  @gregkump3639  I have a theory: Obama is sooooo skinny, that he appears about 3 inches taller than he actually is! The basketball connection also may be planted in people’s minds here. 🏀
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  11168.  @gregkump3639  Actually, Greg, having checked this, it appears that Mandela was 6ft1: same as Obama!
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  11169.  @gregkump3639  👍
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  11170. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  11171. @0:28 Can we be sure Paula Reid isn’t the ‘smoking gun’ alien amongst us? 👽
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  11172. Scene: The Putin household. After a hard day at the war office, Vladimir relaxes in a chaise-longue, glass of vodka in hand, his feet attended to by one of his ‘boys’ giving him a sensual foot massage. The phone rings Puppet-master: “Good evening, Vladimir. All going well, I trust?” Putin: “Yes, Sir. We ramped things up a little today. Threw in talk of chemical weapons into the fray. Just softening them up a little.” Puppet-master: “Quite. Remember: divide and conquer. Always the mantra. The ‘good’ guys versus the ‘bad’ guys. You are playing your role quite perfectly, Vladimir.” Putin: “Thank you, Sir.” Puppet-master: “I will shortly be in touch about next steps. Let’s just say this is going to be one helluva ‘fireworks’ display. Well, I’ll say goodbye for now. A bit of Netflix and chill is it, tonight?” Putin: “Not sure, Sir. I may listen to a bit of ABBA.” Puppet-master: “Ah, how apt. Your ‘Waterloo’ is imminent. Good-night, Vladimir.” Vladimir: “Good-night, Sir.”
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  11173. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  11174. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?” ☕️
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  11175. Michelle’s another lost soul to manmade religion and manmade rules. If God existed, he/she/it wouldn’t give a sh*t if you were straight, gay or anything in between. These brainwashed religious maniacs ruined our world for centuries and they continue to do so. 🤦‍♂️
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  11176. The irony of Putin wanting to put together a new USSR when the Russia he oversees is falling apart. He can’t even manage a corner shop properly and he’s looking to create a supermarket empire.
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  11177. Putin is patently a paranoid, sociopathic control-freak to whom no one seems to have said ‘no’ in 22 years, and suddenly about 35 million Ukrainians are saying ‘no’ to him and his hitherto unchallenged fantasies have just met hard, cold reality.
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  11178.  @davidmilton5887  Huh? Wtf are you on about, son?
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  11179.  @Angryvaper  ‘Traitor’ to what, exactly, sunshine?
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  11180. Wow! That’s spooky. Sarah Palin; Judith Ralston: separated at birth? 🤓
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  11181. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  11182. 2008 Putin invades Georgia with imputinity. 2014 Putin invades Crimea with imputinity. 2022 Putin invades Ukraine with imputinity? ???? Putin invades ?????? with imputinity?
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  11183. Putin's going to get some very nasty surprises on the battlefield. (Victoria Nuland - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States: Feb 2024) In the same speech, she specifically uses the phrase ‘asymmetric warfare’; ie. terrorism.
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  11184. Only those who actually voted for Putin should feel complicit; if you didn’t vote for the dipshit, your conscience is clear.
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  11185.  @PoppONayaShelly  ‘You people’?! Pmsl. I’m straight ya weirdo!🤣
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  11186. Just for the record, I hold no candle for either of them, but Murray is in a different intellectual league to Shapiro.
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  11187. That might explain Dahl’s racism if they were aliens of colour he saw who gave him a hard time.
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  11188. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  11189.  @ayoolukoga9829  You are so drunk on this stuff there is no hope for you, son.
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  11190.  @pparalaxx3014  Yeah, and you’d be wrong to do so. I’d also add that NATO is a far greater active military threat to Russia than Russia (under Putin) is to us.
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  11191.  @stereomtl9001  The other issue here you need to think about here is that NATO is not going to, in any scenario I can currently imagine, invade Russia. If you feel differently, that’s fine. We have to agree to disagree. NATO isn’t faultless, but it’s not an aggressor in the sense that it’s going to aggressively invade and subdue another’s sovereign territory and bend it to its will a la Putin. NATO invites you to join. It doesn’t stalk your house and threaten you with death on pain of not joining.
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  11192.  @stereomtl9001  I am a self-governing, sovereign country. That means you back off. If you’re insecure about shit on your borders, that’s not my fault as an independent nation. Putin needs to see this. I’m not responsible for your insecurities.
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  11193.  @stereomtl9001  No, they wouldn’t tolerate it, and I’d be against the US attacking Mexico in the same way I’m against Russia attacking Ukraine.
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  11194.  @ImmoralKoala  Well said.👍
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  11195.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Currently in ‘Windiana’, Jimbo. Sprouts. 💨🤢
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  11196. Seen this comment a million times. 🥱
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  11197.  @philippwanderer686  Ah. Gotcha! 😉
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  11198.  @barabbasrosebud9282  Sorry, mate, but by looking at the oldest stars and by measuring the rate of expansion of the Universe, and extrapolating back to the Big Bang, we get the age of the Universe.
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  11199.  @Romello_Pietersz  I would add that for you, a believer in Jesus Christ, for whom there is little historical evidence, beyond the self-contradictory gospels, and one or two jejune, unreliable mentions in the Judeao-Roman chronicles, it’s a bit hypocritical parading your double-standards, as you seek scientific evidence for something like evolution, but you don’t and can’t apply those same rigorous standards to your religious beliefs. As far as I can see, the Jesus believers believe in someone who actually, more than likely, never historically existed.
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  11200.  @Romello_Pietersz  Evidence for evolution comes from many different areas of biology: Anatomy. Species may share similar physical features because the feature was present in a common ancestor (homologous structures). Molecular biology. DNA and the genetic code reflect the shared ancestry of life. DNA comparisons can show how related species are. Biogeography. The global distribution of organisms and the unique features of island species reflect evolution and geological change. Fossils. Fossils document the existence of now-extinct past species that are related to present-day species. Direct observation. We can directly observe small-scale evolution in organisms with short lifecycles (e.g., pesticide-resistant insects).
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  11201.  @josephinebcmpatrick9207  What are you on about? I was brought up on the unholy book until I realised it was all garbage, invented by men, for men. Along with nationalism, organised religion has been the most baleful, egregious disaster humans had the misfortune to invent.
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  11202. Wow. You’re the perfect exemplar of the brainwashed individual. You have my commiserations to be trapped in such primitive thinking.
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  11203.  @chrissilk4093  No.
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  11204.  @chrissilk4093  No.
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  11205. *people’s Sometimes natural selection selects good grammarians from bad.
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  11206. Er, and … Jimbo? 🥱
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  11207.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. That’s like asking what do I like about heterosexuals, Jimbo. Meaningless. You’re such a f*cking 🦖 it’s painful to witness, son.👍😉
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  11208.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. That’s like asking what do I like about heterosexuals, Jimbo. Meaningless. You’re such a f*cking 🦖 it’s painful to witness, son.👍😉
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  11209.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Huh? Why would I have any issue with homosexuals, Jimbo?
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  11210. You trying this rainbow one again, Jimbo? I told you the other day, it’s crap, sonny. Moreover, I also pointed out the irony of you using the 🌈 when you loathe homosexuals! 🤣
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  11211.  @jenniferlawrence2701  So he isn’t ethnically Scottish. So? Tens of thousands of Scots aren’t ‘ethnically Scottish’. What do you want to do with that information? Ban all non-ethnically Scottish individuals from being able to say they are ‘Scottish’? In that case, you are going to have genetically test everyone’s DNA and then establish a base level for what qualifies as ‘Scottish’. In other words, you’re mad.
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  11212. WW3? This planet has been in WW1 for 300,000 years.
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  11213. He did. He had a window seat.
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  11214.  @Stancehall  No you haven’t. You’ve just exposed yourself as a poor close reader. So, one more time for the hard of thinking: all looted objects should be returned (where practically possible) to where they were looted from. No matter how much you stomp your feet like a child (“But mummy, I am right!”) won’t make you right. Can I suggest you source some better coping strategies going forward.
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  11215.  @I_Lemaire  As am I. For some reason you got aggressive with me. Inexplicably, you came at me unprovoked. I don’t take kindly to that kind of thing and you picked on the wrong person, chum. Think about this next time, before launching unprovoked attacks on complete strangers. This time, you got the instant karma your shitty attack deserved. Count yourself lucky you didn’t meet me in person, sonny. Yvw.🥸
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  11216.  @I_Lemaire  Moreover, having perused the kinda crap you’ve saved over the past 9 years, I’m glad I’ve no videos to show, bro! Respectfully. 😂🤣😅
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  11217.  @I_Lemaire  Just for the record, Letosser, I may have been here for just a year but I have 5 more subscribers than in your whole 9 years! 😆 You should stop focussing on the vids and start acquiring a few more subscribers you fricking sock! 🧦🤣
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  11218.  @I_Lemaire  How about just getting a dictionary dictionary and ditching the urban version as you ain’t fooling anyone, sweetheart. 😂 Bro.
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  11219.  @I_Lemaire  ‘Bro’, ‘Bruh’, they’re both from the cringe vocabulary stable that no one over the age of 8 should be using. Think on.😉🥸
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  11220.  @I_Lemaire  Oooh, ‘Urban Dictionary’. How edgy, bruh. Cringe.
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  11221.  @I_Lemaire  No, sonny. I’m 31. Think on. Toddle along. And stop calling me ‘bruh’ as it’s the cringiest thing in the Universe, bro.
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  11222.  @I_Lemaire  Pmsl. You are offended that I don’t have a single video on my ‘playlist’?! 😂🤣😅You need to get a life, sonny. Just like me! 🤣
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  11223.  @I_Lemaire  Huh? I fear you may have got the wrong fella, sweetie. I can’t stand Putin. Now shuffle along and stop imPUTINg crap to me that is untrue.
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  11224. Yes, but it’s not Cumbernauld.
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  11225.  @PikaPluff  Kill 2 birds with 1 stone: send them to the British House of Commons! 🥸
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  11226.  @FloridaMan69.  … is not in heaven.
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  11227. Not as much as a lack of food is going to confuse these people.
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  11228. That’s right, Jimbo. But let’s face it, son: thank Christ we arenae ‘homogeneous’ with you, son! ⭐️😄🤪😄😃
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  11229.  @robbomax1143  I didn’t avoid anything. I have read extensively about both countries, both in a historical sense, and in a contemporaneous sense, and I repeat, if it’s the West or there, West is best. As I say, off you pop, if you fancy it, and as you seem to champion both why don’t you just fuck-off there and leave the rest of us alone?
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  11230.  @robbomax1143  If you fancy going to live in Russia or China, off you pop, son. Count me out.
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  11231.  @robbomax1143  The operative word being ‘relatively’. If you’re giving me the choice of any western liberal democracy you care to mention versus Xingping’s China, or Putin’s Russia, I am choosing the West every single day of the week, for all its faults and obvious inadequacies.
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  11232. Carlin?
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  11233.  @lks6248  I disagree. You’re simply letting men off the hook. By your logic we accept that women also take more responsibility for bringing the child up simply because they give birth to them. That too, is nonsense. It’s 50/50 all the way here, otherwise you advocate an unjust, inequitable system.
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  11234.  @lks6248  Bollocks. It’s exactly 50/50 equal responsibility; you don’t let men off the hook that easily.
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  11235.  @c.9900  ‘Accountable’? I don’t follow.🤔
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  11236.  @trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952  Er, it kinda is, given they tend to take a slightly bigger ‘hit’ with the consequences. Didn’t they teach you this stuff in kindergarten?
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  11237.  @ArthurEastman  Lol. Touché.
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  11238.  @kiyanhakim384  I reckon Jefferson’s quote rather more accurate when one looks at history. Like now, in Iran. Nice try, though.👍
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  11239.  @shaunhutchinson4707  Given that your playlist is almost completely filled with homoerotic imagery of men posing in their knickers, I’m guessing you don’t engage the brain too much. Just a thought.🤐
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  11240.  @shaunhutchinson4707  Triggered, much?🤓
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  11241.  @k.tinder8905  Did he? Ok. The Bible’s good for something, after all.
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  11242.  @joe18750  My scruples are not in question. You need to lighten up your scruples. Just a suggestion.😉
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  11243.  @grisom5863  Lol.👏
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  11244. The way that plane torpedoed to the ground like a cruise missile makes me think ‘sabotage’; that was no mechanical fault a la the 737-Max, as this plane was a regular 737 and didn’t have that navigation system.
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  11245.  @spikey288  Spikey, son, I need to say this: you are deeply boring. There. I said it.
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  11246.  @spikey288  We both agree that the C.O. bears (<😉) the burden of responsibility. Where’s the issue, flower? I repeat: the wifey on strike tonight is she?😉
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  11247.  @spikey288  Huh? Wtf is your point? I agree with that, dipshit.
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  11248.  @spikey288  “I never said that the C.O. doesn’t bare (sic) the majority of the burden, in fact I actually agree with that premise.” Your words, Spikey, son. Your words. Read it and weep.😆
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  11249.  @spikey288  Pmsl. The transcript is there for everyone to see. Read it and weep, idiot.😆
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  11250.  @spikey288  Spikey, petal, we thrashed this out weeks ago. You agreed with me. Why are you coming back for more? Is the wifey on strike, or something?😳
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  11251.  @spikey288  *that were (<subjunctive detected)
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  11252.  @spikey288  Not a delusion,Spikey, son. Nice try though.
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  11253.  @spikey288  And still he goes on.🥴
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  11254.  @spikey288  What makes you think I left? I just said t’ra to you, son, as you were badgering me like a stalky, unwanted ex-lover.
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  11255.  @spikey288  Back for more, eh, Spikey baby?😉 You need to stop stalking me.
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  11256.  @0816M3RC  Hypocrite! You moan at someone for ‘liking’ their own comments and you consider yours the ‘only one that matters’. I call that egregious, double-standards hypocrisy.😉
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  11257.  @0816M3RC  In your opinion.
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  11258.  @0816M3RC  In your opinion.
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  11259.  @0816M3RC  In your opinion.
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  11260.  @0816M3RC  In your opinion.
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  11261.  @0816M3RC  I’ll like my comments if I want. They tend to be rather good.
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  11262.  @0816M3RC  Just for the record; if he wasn’t ordered, then he is 100% guilty. I have made that point throughout this thread. You need to read me back before imputing crap.
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  11263.  @0816M3RC  Of course I am. I’m just saying that I don’t personally hold this guy as guilty as his commanders, that’s all.
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  11264.  @0816M3RC  That’s a different question. I’m not saying this kid is completely guiltless, but in my opinion, those who ordered him are more complicit. I have made my argument above; you are not obligated to agree. I don’t want to rehash the whole thing once more.
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  11265.  @0816M3RC  You don’t know what consequences this particular kid would’ve faced if he had refused the order here, if indeed he did get that order. You’re just guessing at this point.
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  11266.  @spikey288  😉
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  11267.  @spikey288  G’night, mate.👍
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  11268.  @spikey288  Pmsl. So you do agree with me after all! Lmao.😆
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  11269.  @0816M3RC  Indeed, and if you don’t follow orders in the Russian army, do you know what happens to you?
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  11270.  @spikey288  In a way, he’s a victim here, too; a victim of humanity’s war machine. The key issue here is whether he was ‘following orders’ or not. If he wasn’t, he deserves what’s coming to him; if he was, then the one whose orders he was following is principally the guilty party here. Kafka would’ve had a field-day with this stuff. The above was my original quote, with an addition. Ok, I concede this: I should have included the word ‘principally’ in the original quote to obviate any misunderstanding in pedants such as you. However, this addition does not intrinsically alter my position, which is, if I were trying this lad and his C.O., I’d be penalising the latter more than the former.
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  11271.  @spikey288  I don’t have an issue with this. You seem to. You are the one pursuing me here, not vice-versa.
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  11272.  @spikey288  You yourself have admitted that guilt is shared here: the only question is establishing the burden of guilt. I happen to fall on the side of the commanding officer bearing more of that burden; you don’t. Fine. Let’s move on.
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  11273.  @0816M3RC  I’m simply stating that I don’t consider him as complicit as his commanding officer.
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  11274.  @spikey288  Why can’t you accept someone has a different opinion to you? What’s your issue with this? We disagree. Just deal with this and move on.
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  11275.  @0816M3RC  In your opinion.
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  11276.  @spikey288  He’s not intrinsically responsible. That’s my stance; that hasn’t changed. You appear to be reading someone else’s posts.
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  11277.  @spikey288  I don’t get your point as there isn’t one. For the final time for the dummy in the room: the burden of responsibility, in my opinion, lies with the commanding officer, if he/she did indeed command this. If the soldier acted of his own free volition, without this command then he, obviously, is the guilty one. What’s so difficult about understanding my position here?
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  11278.  @briancline7349  You will find in paragraph 347 of the Rules of Land Warfare the following statement: “Individuals of the armed forces will not be punished for these offenses [violations of the customs and laws of war] in case they are committed under the orders or sanction of their government or commanders. The commanders ordering the commission of such acts, or under whose authority they are committed by their troops, may be punished by the belligerent into whose hands they may fall.”
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  11279.  @briancline7349  How do you know he wouldn’t have been ‘shot or hung’?
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  11280.  @spikey288  What do you want me to say?
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  11281.  @spikey288  Yawn
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  11282.  @spikey288  I’m not, you fool! I’ve been trying to head you off at the pass for 2 hours now. Jeez.
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  11283.  @spikey288  Can I kindly suggest something to you, mate? The very fact you are pursuing this like a dog after a bone, simply betrays your doubt. I refer you to the words of Robert Pirsig on this score: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Your passionate pursual of this theme reminds me of these hectoring, passionate sorts, seemingly so justified in their cause, but really secretly doubting it. I repeat, you are not obliged to agree with me. Can we just leave it there? K, thanks.👍
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  11284.  @spikey288  I haven’t. I stated that this guy was not the culpable one here. I stand by that. His commanding officer was.
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  11285.  @spikey288  It does! 80/20 means that the burden of responsibility lies with the commanding officer; not ‘sole’ responsibility. As I said, we can agree to disagree here; if you think this kid is more guilty, fine; all I know, is that if I were in a court of law, and this guy and his commanding officer were up on trial and it was found that a war crime had been committed, I would be handing down the greater penalty to the officer. K, I’m done now as this really is tedious.
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  11286.  @spikey288  I never said ‘solely’; I said the split was about 80/20 in favour of the commanding officer. Have these 👓
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  11287.  @spikey288  What’s untrue?
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  11288.  @spikey288  I repeat, the burden of responsibility, in this case, lies with the giver of the order. You are free to disagree. I’m not demanding you do agree. I’d rate it about 80/20 culpability in favour of the giver of the order. Ok, points made. This is boring now. Can we move on?
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  11289.  @spikey288  And, in my opinion, the burden of responsibility in this case, lies with the giver of the order.
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  11290.  @spikey288  You will find in paragraph 347 of the Rules of Land Warfare the following statement: “Individuals of the armed forces will not be punished for these offenses [violations of the customs and laws of war] in case they are committed under the orders or sanction of their government or commanders. The commanders ordering the commission of such acts, or under whose authority they are committed by their troops, may be punished by the belligerent into whose hands they may fall.”
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  11291.  @spikey288  Murder presumes malice aforethought. This looks like manslaughter. I return to my original point: the giver of the ‘unlawful’ order should be in court here. Also charged with war crimes, along with this lad.
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  11292.  @spikey288  Not if he is following military orders. Looks like we’ll just have to agree to disagree, mate.
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  11293.  @spikey288  Lol. Semantics, mate. Nice try.👍
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  11294.  @ardianbakalov7186  If that were the case, there would be no war crimes, ever.
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  11295.  @spikey288  You’re not if you’re under orders to obey.
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  11296.  @darthukas  His excuse actually does stand; if he was under orders, he’s innocent. A victim of war games. Blaming him here in those circumstances is like blaming me because my grandfather was a mass murderer.
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  11297. 🥅 Yeah, Southgate’s squad Pickford the World Cup looks decent. Wilson see. England should Grealish the chance to Mount a Sterling effort for the trophy. Qatar can be a Dier place though, where they throw Stones at you for getting Kaned on narcotics and being a little Trippier than usual, an unsteady Walker. It’s very black and White. You don’t want to offeHend, erson you could be locked up. Alcohol is almost illeGal. Llagher is frowned upon. Maguire they like this? Religion. Follow the religious Coady the country. This all rings a Bellingham sure. Shaw, it seems Maddison against Allah in Qatar, but some of us believe in the Pope. We like a tipple, drinking some dRamsdales and other liquid Phillips, then getting some Foden. As to the football, let’s hope England aren’t too Rashford the victory. They need to rAlexander-Arnold on to their patience and not be rushed for quick results in a tRice. By the end of it all, Southgate will be hoping he’s not for the Saka. ⚽️
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  11298. Lol. True American ‘free-speech’ in action right there, folks! Dissenting voice speaks. Dissenting voice is summarily ejected! Smooth.
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  11299. If you ask me why , from me to you , on the long and winding road of life as we travel across the universe , you have to think for yourself for tomorrow never knows . What goes on is on the tip of my tongue , while the fool on the hill for whom happiness is a warm gun , is a nowhere man . A day in the life can mean misery for many as your mother should know . You know what to do , what goes on when in spite of all the danger you seek the inner light . For today, here comes the sun , and you have a ticket to ride , and that means a lot . Now and then we need a revolution where we twist and shout and everything feels like a helter skelter . Yesterday has gone; like being back in the USSR , but that was then and I’m glad it’s all over . The magical mystery tour of life you embrace as like a little child where you feel as a child of nature . If the taxman knocks run for your life , for he can’t let it be . Do you want to know a secret? . For the day tripper(s) amongst you, the beautiful dreamer (s), know that all things must pass . You may be crying, waiting, hoping , for everything to come together in your golden slumbers , or you may carry that weight , through the rain , but if you’ve got trouble , always remember Lucy in the sky with diamonds or a little junk , and soon you’ll be glad it’s all over . Every little thing is all part of the walk . Wait , tell me what you see ? A blackbird from a window . Like it you are free as a bird . So if at anytime at all you see a world without love , here, there and everywhere , and it’s all too much , and a day in the life feels like eight days a week , know that there’s a place called the end .
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  11300. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  11301. Yeah, but to be fair, you could’ve said ‘casualty is the first truth of war’, and this would’ve equally worked. Now where are my likes?😳
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  11302. Ukrainians should be asking how many Ukrainian lives the US is willing to sacrifice to feed her hegemonic ambitions.
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  11303. Revenge is never the best way. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  11304. Is this because you just want some Russians to boost your YouTube subscriber numbers? 🤓
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  11305.  @FLAMENCODELACOSTA  😉👌🐸
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  11306. I’ve often wondered that if Switzerland can maintain its neutrality in times of human conflict, why not the rest of the world? A neutral planet would, instead of the odd neutral country here and there, and more of us could have a bit of peace.🇨🇭
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  11307.  @dylaninpieces2  🎊!
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  11308.  @cloudincus4052  I say it about every single country on this planet. You take a referendum on self-determination and if the majority vote for this then that’s the matter settled. Democracy may only be the least worst political option but I can’t think of any better options.🧐
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  11309.  @johnpatrick1647  Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power.
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  11310.  @RandomPlayIist  No. That’s not the fundamental problem. I repeat: the fundamental issue is human nature itself.
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  11311. Jake, the past-master of manspreading.
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  11312.  @djx7134  K, Mr Kubansky.
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  11313. Kinda weak sauce, kid. Desperate, actually. NGL, chief.
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  11314.  @LindaC616  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11315. Where are the women fighting for Putin? Could it be that they have more sense?😳🤔
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  11316.  @parapencarinasibungkus2680  Yes, the very basic point is that if Ukraine wants to join NATO, then that is none of Russia’s business. Incidentally, if you read one of my other posts on this thread, I’m just as condemnatory of Western interventions. Don’t accuse me of stuff I’m not. Read me back before accusing.
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  11317. You may not know much about politics, but do you know much about history, biology or the French you took? All I know, is that right now this planet is far from being a ‘wonderful world’.
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  11318. Why would anyone be surprised by this? When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Trump showed himself from day 1: believe him!
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  11319. No! I want Thomas the Tank Engine to stay! 🚂
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  11320. Amber agrees.
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  11321. ‘Boots’?! Brothel creepers, more like.
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  11322. Projection?🤓
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  11323. Translation: “he disagrees with me.”
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  11324. Putin: “So, let me get this straight: Russia is to tolerate a NATO loaded gun pointing at it from Ukraine, but if America were to have a Russian loaded gun pointing at it from, say, Canada or Mexico, then that is intolerable?” NATO: “But of course, Mr Putin. You understand the double-standards modus operandi of the West perfectly. More coffee?” ☕️
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  11325.  @rathernotsay5629  Most Brits I meet can barely speak their own language! 😂 I will admit a vested interest here: I’m fluent in 5 languages.
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  11326.  @rathernotsay5629  As for the reporter; well, she may have a Brit/Yank ancestry, but vocally it’s quite clear where her loyalties lie. America.🥸
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  11327.  @rathernotsay5629  Lol@‘spoke multiple languages’! 😂 I’m 51. Lived in the UK all my life. Never met anyone who spoke ‘multiple languages’. Other Europeans do that. We Brits don’t.
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  11328.  @rathernotsay5629  Just for the record, Brits are notoriously awful at learning foreign languages. Don’t make that mistake. Just cos we speak with ‘funny’ accents to you Yanks, doesn’t automatically make us all Mary Poppins types. Far from it. You need to come here to realise this. In many ways, the UK is a deeply philistine, benighted place.
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  11329.  @rathernotsay5629  Sounds American to these British ears.😉 👂
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  11330. And that’s an insult to cows.
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  11331.  @bscott33  *you’re Well, I like to get basic spelling and grammar right, for starters.😉
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  11332.  @pnwdweler4100  It’s random! If you’d been born anywhere else, you’d be ‘proud’ of that! In other words, it’s an irrational stance to favour an accident of birth which happened over one that didn’t. It’s also been the cause of so so much trouble these past 500,000 years. Families, clans, tribes, nations; you name it. Take pride in your self-motivated achievements if that’s your thing, not the fact that your mother plopped you out here and not over there, for that is clearly insane.
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  11333.  @andreas0101  Staking your identity in a random accident of birth you had no say in is deeply primitive. If you’re going to be proud of being born within random, abstract entities drawn on a map, go ahead. Count me out.
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  11334. ‘Proud’? What? Of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  11335. As a Brit, thought I had just stumbled across Lord Sugar’s long-lost Yankee brother.
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  11336.  @barronridge5613  You said that already you senile fool. It was boring the first time. Back to school tomorrow. Apostrophe-use should be top of your agenda, son.
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  11337.  @barronridge5613  See above. I’ve laid it out, dipshit. 🤓
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  11338.  @1and3  Not at all. My stance is rather simple, fool. I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred. More copium?
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  11339.  @barronridge5613  You can’t even deploy the possessive apostrophe when it’s required, so if I were you I’d shut your mouth about ‘college educations’. 🤓
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  11340.  @boojee2893  Woosh! 🌬
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  11341.  @felixmadison5736  Lol. Touché!🤣
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  11342. You’ve clearly never read Freud.
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  11343. Sorry, but no matter how many of these ‘oh so sincere’ and folksy American speeches (British here) Biden trots out, those bizarre images of him grooming young girls and women and brazenly leaning in for hair-sniffing opportunities (in full public view! Imagine what he’s trying when the cameras aren’t pointing at him) just make me think that he’s actually a rather dark, dirty old man.
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  11344. And as long as they can ‘wank’ … they are good to come!👍😂
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  11345.  @savewater9836  Huh? Rusk? Bread? Is that it? Otherwise, ya got me! 🤔
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  11346.  @JeanetteFaith  America has more knife crime than the UK. Cope.
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  11347.  @JR-sz7dw  Red herring! America has more stabbings than the UK. Try again. Try better.
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  11348.  @Dean4511  Yes and the US would be wrong to take military action if nothing is being fired from Canada or Mexico. I’d also add that NATO, on the whole, is a defensive organisation, formed precisely to prevent the likes of Putin from throwing his weight around. Do you think Putin would have invaded Ukraine if it had already been a NATO member? I very much doubt it, as it would be a suicidal mission on Putin’s part.
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  11349.  @Dean4511  Yeah, but, quite frankly, it’s none of Putin’s fucking business if a self-governing, sovereign nation wants to join NATO. Notice that all the pressure here is one way: Putin violently wrests Ukraine his way like a spoiled child, while NATO quietly lets Ukraine make up its own mind, acting like the adult here.
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  11350. Interestingly, Voltaire also had a rather nasty anti-Jewish streak.
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  11351.  @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS  Shades of grey. Zelensky is as murky as his unwashed khaki gear. Look into it.😉
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  11352. I love how throughout this whole thing you are either Ukraine or Russia, as if there couldn’t be dozens of shades of grey. From day 1 of this debacle, as someone neither Russian or Ukrainian and with no intrinsic skin in this game, I’ve felt very confused by the black and white polarised terms of the debate. For me, this whole thing has been a bit like watching a guy in the school yard you’re neither here nor there about, getting a kicking by the school bully who mostly everyone hates; but because you are not in the friendship group of the victim you are happy to stand and watch, and occasionally try to trip up the bully if he comes near you.
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  11353. Putin’s never going to accept a ‘retreat’. He’s spent the last 9 months raping a country. He’s not going to pull out now.
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  11354. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  11355. Saying Trump built his career on lies, is a bit like saying Jesus built his career on miracles. So what’s new?🥸
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  11356. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  11357. The Oscars 2022 Best Original Score: Volodymyr Zelensky for that good shit he got from Colombia, the country, not the film company. Sniffs . Best Original Song: Crimea River . Best Supporting Actor: Hunter Biden for My Beautiful Ukrainian Money Launderette . Best Supporting Actress: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for The Spy Who Came Back to the Cold . Best Actor: Volodymyr Zelensky for Citizen Ukraine . Best Actress: Greta Thunberg for Robocop 26 . Best Director: Vladimir Putin for From Russia Without Love . Best Picture: Tsar Wars: The Russian Empire Strikes Back . Lifetime Under-Achievement Award: Boris Johnson.
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  11358.  @zivaradlovacki2666  Lol. Patronising cow. Moo! 🐮
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  11359.  @zivaradlovacki2666  No. Not sure I do ‘know what you mean’.
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  11360.  @justacinnamonbun8658  True. Oi! Do I get a coffee with that cinnamon bun?
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  11361.  @rtorres4132  All I’m saying is that no matter how many battle victories the Russians may have, in the long run the resistance of 40+ million who do not want to be part of Russia will be overwhelming. I repeat: you come to my house; you may kill me, but you will have my children and their children to deal with after this.
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  11362.  @notentirelyapathetic9458  For the dummy in the room: fed, watered, loved. There now, darling, that wasn’t too difficult, was it?
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  11363.  @thebull3206  Yeah, bread and milk, man. If you’ve got that and the love of a good man (you seem gay), then where’s the issue?
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  11364.  @Doc_Holiday  Here, have an ‘l’. No charge.
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  11365.  @dickjones8119  Not at all, Dickie. I’ve been on this planet long enough to easily discern the essential difference between wants and needs and adjusted my life accordingly. Watts’ words ring all too true for me, pal.😉
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  11366. The only real issue here, is just how far can a foetus, or a bunch of cells feel pain? If these pro-lifers were really on the game, they would ban masturbation. If it’s a bunch of cells there is no real issue, as every man on this planet aborts a child, on that basis, every day, more or less. The issue comes down to pain. Can a bunch of cells feel pain? This is the moral question.
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  11367. You fancy him a bit, don’t you? The door of that closet is about to swing open. 😉
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  11368. And Putin came up with a deluded fairytale about his Slavic Ukrainian ‘cousins’ just rolling over and having their stomachs tickled as he rolled in his decrepit tanks. It was never going to work. His biggest mistake in this whole farrago is quite simple: Ukrainians are defending their home. Putin can’t and won’t get this. But because Ukrainians are literally fighting for their own home, Russia can never win this thing.
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  11369. You are aware that Trotsky (the atheist) has buckets of blood on his hands? 🩸 I say that as an agnostic, so have no skin in this game either way when it comes to theism versus atheism.
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  11370. They should rename it ‘Pussy Island’; that would get a few more day trippers. 🐈
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  11371. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  11372. Cool. As someone in Florida, I’m on a seaweed diet. I see weed and smoke it! Some say I need to sea kelp.
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  11373. @1:44 “There’s no sign of Jewish and/or Ukrainian heritage.” However, there are clear signs of Lieberian heritage. 😏
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  11374. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala ( yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK This list doesn’t include the dozens of other sovereign nations in which the US has interfered in the internal affairs of by overthrowing democratically-elected governments and installing proxies favourable to US/western interests. Including in 2014 in Ukraine itself. Also, I don’t condone Putin’s actions in Ukraine one iota. However, he is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t been doing for decades. It constantly bemuses me how the west completely and utterly ignores the buckets of foreign blood they have spilt, while pointing the finger at the likes of Putin. The double standards hypocrisy is staggering as Putin is merely apeing the geopolitical modus operandi of the west and simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  11375. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
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  11376.  @TheTmcabral3  James Bay? Matchbox 20? Nickelback? Pmsl.
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  11377.  @TheTmcabral3  👈Has a tragic, ghey name.
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  11378. Could use a feed though. She’s like a bag of twigs.
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  11379.  @NazriB  Nope. Nothing fake here. All real.
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  11380.  @Max_Mustermann  See Donald Pleasance 1967. Uncanny.😉
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  11381. NATO laps like a toxic tide onto Russia’s shores, in the same way the Russian army is eating into Ukraine like a cancerous growth. Until we see that both sides have a point here, there will be no peaceful resolution, unless Putin shuffles off this mortal coil, or is pushed by a putsch from within.
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  11382. Green or red? 🥸
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  11383.  @spiritfirewalker1  Not sure what your point is, fool. You may have the wrong fella here, son. Back to school for you methinks as you appear to be unable to identify a point and respond relevantly. Get to the back of the class.
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  11384.  @Deb_BG  You assume a lot there. People are complicated. Blatantly caricaturing and lazily generalising about masses of people you happen to disagree with is not worthy of the thinking person. I’m aware of many Trump voters who are all, some and none of those things you lazily list. Think on.
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  11385. No matter how I try to get my head around this, I just can’t understand how, essentially, one man, one fucking man , can cause so much trouble for millions of other men and women. After 300,000-odd years of Homo Sapiens, how we haven’t established a viable mechanism whereby we can remove a single dictator from power, is a bit of a mystery. If a kid in a kindergarten rides roughshod over the will of all the other kids, the staff step in. Why are we not doing that as adults?
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  11386. What Israel has done these past 5 months is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 5 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  11387. While no particular fan of Kearse, this woman just proved the following piece of wisdom outlined by Pirsig: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
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  11388. I feel it’s important to put the non-meat eating case here, as while Leo has some fun with this lady, it’s an important issue for us all. For full disclosure, I eat fish and occasionally some meat, so I’m in no way coming at this as an ardent vegetarian/vegan. I just felt it important to lay out, as objectively as possible, the case for vegetarianism. One of the major arguments that killing animals for food is wrong is that animals are actually incredibly sentient and remarkably intelligent. Animal welfare, therefore, should be a major concern of humans. While animals might not have achieved the same level of community or civilization that humanity has (and while yes, they are below humans in the food chain), this should not diminish their intelligence and their ability to feel. Animals not only feel pain but have memories, family connections, and connections to humans too. We see some animals (such as dogs or cats) as worthy of our protection, whereas other animals of equal intelligence, such as pigs, are killed for food. The reality is that humans have distanced themselves from their own food chain, and therefore from the suffering caused to animals through meat-eating. We see eating meat as a human tradition; however, we are no longer hunter-gatherers living off the odd animal that happens to cross our paths. The meat industry has been industrialized, and it uses masses of land, grain, and water to produce meat for our supermarket shelves. The problem is that with more meat-eaters, the land where beef can be reared or where chickens or pigs are kept is fast diminishing. The argument is that raising meat for slaughter is simply not sustainable because it’s inefficient. Beef is the worst culprit, and the amount of food and water that goes into its production could be used to produce a higher quantity of plant-food, which gives humans the same number of calories or nutrients. As the human population increases, this problem will only become more noticeable, as there is more competition for ever scarcer resources. Another environmental argument against meat-eating is the huge contribution livestock has towards CO2 emission. Methane gas is a byproduct of raising animals (particularly cattle), and eating red meat has a large carbon footprint that’s not always obvious to consumers. Cutting down on red meat lowers the demand for meat and can contribute towards a lower carbon footprint and fewer CO2 emissions. Are humans designed to eat meat? In part, we have evolved to eat cooked meat; however, we have also evolved to eat plants. Despite how conditioned we are to consuming meat, our bodies don’t need us to keep eating meat to survive. All observing Hindus and Sikhs, for example, avoid eating meat, and often all animal products altogether. In fact, we can find all of the essential nutrients (including proteins and B12) that we traditionally source from meat in many different plants and plant-based products. For instance, soy is a huge source of plant-based protein. If humans do have dominance over the animals and are top of the food chain, shouldn’t we make a moral decision to help our planet and help our animals? Rather than using our intelligence as a right to kill other creatures, the argument is that we can use our intelligence as a force for positive change and a move towards sustainability and improved animal welfare. Should humans take the moral high ground rather than justifying questionable existing moralities? Perhaps with the onset of lab-grown meat we will be able to continue consuming meat guilt-free. The reality of eating animals is that many of the ethical and moral arguments that defend it are, in fact, rather weak in the face of the pro vegetarianism argument. While sustainable farming practices can eliminate the environmental arguments against meat-eating, you still have the cost factors to consider and the morality of killing animals. The tradition argument has no real logical basis either; after all, just because humans have been doing something for millennia doesn’t make it the right thing to do (you can justify slavery with this very same argument). Ultimately though, the question of should I eat meat is currently a personal one. We each have our own belief systems, our own reason(s) to not eat meat or to eat meat. However, with an ever-crowded world and shrinking resources, environmental factors may prove to be an overpowering argument for plant-based diets in the future. The key for me in all this is education. People should be free to make up their own minds and not coerced one way or the other. 🐮
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  11389. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson, which captures perfectly the predicament of those toeing a party line, come what may: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  11390. @silverfoxeater Sounds about right for Kearse.
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  11391. @0:49 It was an unpaid debt the UK owed Iran; Kearse conveniently omits to mention this key point. @0:55 So only working-class people go on hunger-strikes? Staggering inverted snobbery. @1:15 Kearse again talks of the £400 million pounds like it was a ransom; it wasn’t; to repeat, it was a debt we hadn’t paid for 44 years, and although this was unable to be paid due to EU sanctions relating to Iranian nuclear weapons, this doesn’t absolve the UK of money they should have returned to Iran at the earliest opportunity decades ago. @1:53 For the third time Kearse talks of the money as a kind of ransom; it wasn’t, but that for him to admit that would be to let the facts get in the way of his tendentious narrative. @2:32 Yes, she was kidnapped by Iran but they made it explicitly clear from the outset that the price of her release would be the money the UK owed Iran; so, technically she’s being held in Iran, but because the UK didn’t pay a debt they should have decades ago, and if they had paid this debt, she would have been released. Ergo, the UK is actually very culpable here. @6:19 I think that’s the 5th time Kearse repeats this as if it wasn’t money we already owed the Iranians - it’s a bit like me lending Kearse hundred quid back in the day, requesting my loan back, him refusing, so I kidnap his mother until he pays me what I’m due. If he pays me my money back, he can have his mother back. Simple. @6:30 Yes, but why Leo? You’re really not very good at this, are you? @6:52 And again. @7:18 Wow! Spectacular case of patronising your audience there, Leo. You might not know what Farsi is, but don’t presume that for the rest of us. @7:32 Hypocrite alert! ‘Classism’ in others, when Kearse has just laid into Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband for his ‘fast’. Pot, kettle, black doesn’t cover it. @10:14 This point is Kearse’s Achilles Heel; with a script he’s like a C-rate Frankie Boyle without the real insight; on GB News he comes across as laboured, uninformed and clearly not able to operate well without a script; ad-libbing wittily seems to be beyond him. Even on stage he embarrassingly reads about 10 minutes of a routine which is on YouTube; someone with 23 other hours in the day who can’t be arsed learning his lines smacks of laziness at best, cocky arrogance at worst.
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  11392. Not sure I’d help out either. Would you? Honestly?
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  11393. I’m with whitey.
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  11394. Most of the police in the UK are unarmed.😉
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  11395. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  11396.  @FvtvreClvb  Well, as to the Bible, in my opinion, that is just a repository of tales to humour those who need a bit of liveliness in their lives, and who may not have access to other fantastical means of satiating their appetites. 😳
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  11397.  @zackharris8373  Wasn’t ‘lecturing’. Just indulging in a little deduction. Was meant in, er, good faith.👽
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  11398. 0:23 Yes, you did. And stuck your cigar where the sun don’t shine, Bill!
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  11399. Back in the day, if you were ‘confused’, you were just gay. You didn’t wanna pretend you were actually a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’ when you clearly weren’t (unless you were just a transvestite: and then we were all in on the joke). For some reason, this stuff has infiltrated culture so much that it’s somehow ‘wrong’ to suggest that a person born with a c*ck will always be a man and a person born with a vagina will always be a woman. 🤦‍♂️
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  11400. James Bondage? 🤔
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  11401. The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. (Frank Zappa)
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  11402.  @crystalaustralia  Nah, disagree. It’s freedom of speech. No incitement to violence. No real transgression. No crime. Totally unfunny and crass and offensive to many, yes, but that’s no reason to step in and censor. This was telly. Just switch it off if you don’t like it, and if someone says it in your company just call them out there and then if you feel the need, but don’t police others’ speech on behalf of others just because you happen to be offended.
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  11403.  @dazjackson1972  “Male necrocracy, Every child worthy of a better tale…” Says it all! 👍
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  11404.  @lsbfilmproductions  Look mate, can I be frank with you? Ok, thanks. I happen to think much of what Icke says concerning ‘elite control’ of the military industrial complex is more than likely true. However, on a day-to-day basis I don’t feel constrained. Icke has never had my full respect quite simply because he asserts so much without doing his due diligence and supplying the corroborating evidence. As Carl Sagan said apropos ‘alien visitation to Earth’: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Icke has been conspicuously remiss in providing the proof for his now 30-year claim that we are all ruled by a cabal of shape-shifting reptilians; if he makes such outlandish claims then he needs to come forward with the evidence, otherwise absolutely everything he says becomes suspect and one cannot trust him on any matter or subject.
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  11405.  @lsbfilmproductions  I repeat; I don’t feel remotely controlled in my everyday life. If you do, that’s fine. Just pointing out the reality of my situation.
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  11406. @23:21 He talks all the time about ‘humans being controlled’. I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t feel ‘controlled’ by any of what he describes. Who , therefore, is being controlled?🥸
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  11407. Does he drive on the Metropalestine line?
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  11408.  @paulroberts7544  That’s fine. You don’t have a problem with Andrew Tate’s misogyny. I do.👍
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  11409. How does the ‘pain and suffering’ manifest itself, exactly?
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  11410.  @ArkadyRenko1  Fair play. 👍
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  11411.  @moos5221 ’Dixi’? Apparently that’s Latin for ‘I have just spoken’. In this case it’s Latin for ‘I have just pooed’! 😮 💩
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  11412.  @mrst7787  Was it? Didn’t seem like it. You seemed to be saying that Britain isn’t in the continent of Europe. Did you do basic elementary geography? That’s not rhetorical.
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  11413.  @mrst7787  Are the British European? Is that even a question? 🤦‍♂️
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  11414.  @sinisterthoughts2896  Who’s ‘judging an entire nationality’? I fear you have the wrong fella, petal. 👍
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  11415.  @sprout5606  ‘Deep voices are less likely to make people feel comfortable on the phone’. Huh? 🤔 Isn’t it the other way round and high-pitched voices are the ones that set folks on edge? I’m confused by this. Here in the UK, deep Scottish accents are seen as the most trustworthy. Think Sean Connery. High-pitched stuff is seen as suspect. The voices in this case don’t even seem that different.
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  11416.  @Heroas_Hamseros  Hehe.
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  11417.  @sam5694  Prove it. You say they are shapeshifting lizards; I say prove it. If you can’t do this, just shut the fuck up as it’s boring already.
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  11418.  @sam5694  Don’t patronise me, mate. Icke just states stuff without doing the due diligence of supplying the corroborating evidence. Anyone can do that. He has never really had my full respect as he, to this day, continues to promulgate the theory of the world being ruled by a cabal of shape-shifting lizards, and not supplied a scintilla of evidence for this claim. As Carl Sagan said: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence . Of course, there is an influential military-industrial and media complex that most of us are under the influence of, but that’s not news to me. He needs to come forward with evidence. For 30 years he has not done this. That just makes him a curiosity piping his theories in from the sidelines, but nothing more than this.
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  11419.  @sam5694  Nah. The pedo thing is so easy to claim, and it would be out in this current climate if there were any real egregious shit going down. You need to supply evidence; something Icke singularly fails to do on so many issues.
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  11420.  @satanicbbc5090  Wow! You got some serious sh*t going on there, man. Ok, deep breath: When you say Icke is an ‘obvious controlled opposition’, I have no idea what you are on about. Who is ‘controlling’ him and what is he ‘opposing’? Before you answer these questions you need to think about the credible evidence you’re going to supply, and not just assert stuff willy-nilly, because I don’t operate like that. ‘Every single BBC presenter looks like a transgender’. Well now. Even accepting your dubious assumption that there is a transgender ‘look’ we can all agree upon, how about I throw out a few names at complete random as they pop into my head: Dan Walker; Naga Munchetty; Jane Hill; Kirsty Wark; Huw Edwards; Martine Croxall; Fiona Bruce; Sophie Rayworth; Victoria Coren Mitchell. Ok, with the best will in the world I look at every one of these people and to me they look to a man and a woman what they are. In other words, I have no idea wtf you are on about when you say every BBC presenter looks transgender. To then state with no apparent shame that this is ‘scientifically observable’ is clearly patent nonsense, and I suspect you may know this, notwithstanding your apparent ingenuousness. But here is my main point: every single BBC presenter is transgender. So what? As to Icke himself? To me he just looks like any other ordinary middle-aged bloke. The reason I suspect Icke has undergone certain mind-expanding experiences is quite simply I speak from direct experience here, and when he discusses some of this stuff it chimes remarkably closely to what I underwent. As to Icke’s family ‘looking transgender’, well, let’s see: Gareth - from the pictures I have seen he appears to look like an everyday bloke. Ditto Jaymie. Similarly, his daughters look like ordinary women. Your point about certain religions and genital mutilation I concur with and I, personally, abhor the practices, if they are done without the consent of those being operated on. To then bring in the BBC on this theme? No idea again wtf you’re on about. Asserting stuff without corroborating evidence doesn’t cut it with me as I’m sure you’ll have gathered by now. I agree that media and entertainment have an influence on our behaviours but I, for one, don’t feel unduly ‘manipulated’. If you do, then that’s your issue. Your penultimate point just sounded like the ramblings of a pub bore so I’ll skip that. Your final 3 points are simply incorrect. 3 of my close family are in the medical profession and I can assure you there are such things as ‘viruses’. You are free to believe what you want. Nuclear weapons exist as I’m sure you’ve seen the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings and their aftermath. Again, if you reject this credible evidence you are free to do so. Space exploration again gives us overwhelming evidence that this has occurred and continues. If you choose to refute this, that is your prerogative.
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  11421. Icke is brilliant at (seemingly) thinking for himself and throwing out a few theories. What’s he’s been guilty of his whole life (after he gave up interviewing snooker players), is not providing a scintilla of evidence for these said theories.🤓
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  11422. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 😳
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  11423. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  11424. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘‘war on ignorance’ but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  11425. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  11426. Can we just reduce this to mathematics? Westerner (us) killing one non-Westerner = 0 Easterner (them) killing one Westerner = 1 Now, why the double standards?
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  11427. You’re clearly one of the good guys. Respect brother.👍 Or sister. I can’t tell!😳
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  11428. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  11429.  @GM-cj1qf  Fried. Served on your head.
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  11430.  @albaptiste8691  Yeah, but that’s tough titty for Putin, isn’t it? If a majority of Ukrainians want to become part of NATO, and they seem to do so, then Putin doesn’t have a leg to stand on. The main issue here, however, is that boring old baleful blight on humanity that we just can’t seem to shake: defining ourselves as a result of an accident of birth. Unless, and until we can ditch primitive ideas revolving around meaningless, arbitrary, random accidents of birth, along with unverified, unverifiable daddy’s in the sky, then we have little chance of getting out of here alive, given what we can now do to each other with advanced technology.😳
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  11431.  @noriyakikakoyin2787  He’s doing the ‘right thing’ from your angle of view, perhaps. What he’s not doing, is the right thing from humanity’s point of view. The main issue humanity has here is patently simple: right now, we ditch any kind of self-identity linked to a random, arbitrary accident of birth. Unless, and until we can get over this hurdle of hitching our individual stars to a frickin meaningless accident of birth, there will be no peace on this planet. Nationalism, after organised religion, has been the most egregious baleful blight on our species we have ever had the misfortune to invent. Unless we ditch these primitive ideas then we are probably doomed as a species, given the harm we can now do to each other with advanced technology.🧐
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  11432. Why not just say ‘respect human beings for helping other human beings’? When you nationalise this you are guilty of perpetuating a large part of the very problem that started this in the first place. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  11433. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  11434. Economic Gain. Territorial Gain. Religion. Nationalism. Revenge. Civil War. Revolutionary War. Defensive War. Of the 8 main commonly-agreed upon reasons for war, I was curious as to how many of these may apply to Putin. Economic gain? Check. Territorial gain? Big check. Religion? Not so much, if at all. Nationalism? Oh yes. Revenge? After 1989 and the USSR’s defeat? Are you kidding me!? Civil War? Interesting one. As they are all Slavs then there is a strong element of this. By the way, ‘Civil War’ has to be the most egregious oxymoron ever invented by humanity. Revolutionary War? Well, maybe in the sense Putin wants Ukraine to look primarily to him and a Greater Russia. Defensive War? Indirectly, perhaps. A defence against the creeping encroachments of NATO. However, there appears to be a ninth cause here: one man so engorged and drunk with power that it’s addled his reasoning and critical faculties somewhat. Ultimately, the main cause of this war could just be an evil bastard. 👿
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  11435. A willingness to die for an accident of birth is merely a sign of how primitive we still are as a species.
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  11436. Scene: NATO headquarters. Putin is meeting with NATO members. Putin: “I’m not happy with having a state bordering Russia that will have missiles directed at Moscow, capable of hitting in minutes.” NATO: “I’m sorry, Mr Putin, but this is a case of a sovereign nation taking its own decisions.” Putin: “Mexico has agreed to sign a pact with Russia allowing us to station missiles on the US/Mexico border directly targeting Washington DC. What are you going to do?” NATO: “We will move to remove these missiles, and invade a self-governing, sovereign nation to do this if necessary.” Putin: “Oh really? How interesting.”
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  11437. What I don’t get here is why can’t Ukraine, for the time being at least, just become a neutral state until Putin shuffles off this mortal coil? He’s akin to a drunk ex pitching up at yours demanding you back. Humour the fuckwit. He’ll pass, along with his primitive Cold War fantasies he’s been stewing since 1989. Just tolerate him for a while. If only to spare the planet the biggest conflagration based on what is no more than a whiff of geopolitical jealousy that one repressed freak never managed to overcome. It’s like me going to my ex-wife’s house and causing merry hell because she ran away with the milkman. 🥛
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  11438. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🧐
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  11439. Humans are doing what they have always done since time immemorial. Family feuds; tribal tiffs; clan conquests; religious ructions; national nefariousness … the difference being, since 1945 we have had the means to literally incinerate this planet ten times over in a day. 💣
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  11440. This came through on the wires from Kepler 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👀
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  11441.  @indiannumis3718  Look, mate, I don’t know how you operate, but I tend to go with the idea of self-determination. I don’t care what country you are, NETO, NATO or whatever, if you vote for something on a majority, then that vote is carried. I will repeat this once more in case you didn’t get it the first time: there are no real geopolitics involved here in the traditional sense. We are dealing here with a power-crazed, unchallenged, murderous bully. There is no reasoning with their kind. They don’t respond to the softly, softly approach. That is the worry. Unless a ‘lone wolf’ takes him out then I’m not exaggerating when I say that I don’t think this freak will hesitate to spark a nuclear conflagration. He’s 70. He, personally, has little to lose. We are at a very dangerous moment in the world’s history.👀
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  11442.  @HarleyQuinn-yt9vx  Yes? And? If a majority of Ukrainians want to join NATO, you’re going to invalidate this on the whim of one man? Really? 👀
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  11443. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  11444. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  11445. If you want to know what 22 years of not saying ‘no’ to one man looks like, this is it.👀
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  11446. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👀
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  11447.  @cruzancoconut  Part of some of these countries might have asked for help; the part that just happened to support the West’s best interests, funnily enough.
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  11448.  @kevin6293  Don’t you see that the world’s problem is people like you? Don’t you see this? Ok, let me spell it out: The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? As to you, Kev, you are an accident of birth, born somewhere. You could have been born anywhere, so why are you taking unearned credit just because your mother plopped you out here and not over there? Huh? You seem to limit what you are. Many (most, alas) others do this and that’s what causes the world’s problems, fundamentally. Can I direct you to the wise words of that great philosopher, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us. 👀
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  11449.  @kevin6293  No. There is something wrong with your brain for hitching your identity to an arbitrary, random accident of birth. You need to think about this some more.
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  11450.  @kevin6293  So I come to your house and embed myself there for a few months without your permission … you happy with that?
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  11451.  @jpc6712  I’d put it like this, and in the wise words of that great philosopher, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us.
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  11452.  @megabazus1775  Well said that person. More folks like you and we should be ok.👍
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  11453. It’s an eternal mystery, not to mention just plain weird and inappropriate, why anyone feels it’s their business to be interfering with what 2 consenting adults get up to in the privacy of their own space. Utterly bizarre. Another thing: if some random, uptight busybody can dictate to another (on pain of imprisonment or worse) who they fall in love or sleep with, why isn’t the boot on the other foot? Why can’t I force you , heterosexual person, to get with whom I decide?
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  11454. Full disclosure: I’m agnostic, apolitical and anational. I just don’t want to be incinerated in a thermonuclear annihilation scenario, that’s all. But this needs to be said, if we are to have any understanding as to what is going on here: Putin is not mad; rather, he considers NATO/USA/West an encroaching mortal threat, and I think he has a point. It’s too easy to label him as Vlad the Mad, the unhinged, sexually repressed freak (he’s that, all right - if he just came out he could save us a whole lotta trouble here), but he’s simply acting according to his vision of the world. Where I and Vlad part company, is where he invades self-governing, sovereign territories, no matter how much he may think he has a claim on them, like in some geopolitical version of a child-custody battle. However, it’s vitally important we don’t paint Putin as this non-human ‘monster’; he’s far from that.😳
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  11455. The Ride of the Vladkyries
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  11456. Two beers, or not two beers, that is the question/Whether Wetherspoon’s is nobler in the mind for supper/The gin slings and Arrow beers of outrageous fortune/Or to the Guildford Arms for a seabreeze with bubbles/And after much dozing, upend them./Bleary eye, counting sheep; To count sheep, perchance sea bream,-aye, there’s the chub/For in that sleep with sheep, what bleats may come/When we have scuffled with that immortal gargoyle/Must give us cause-there’s the respect that makes Calamity Jane a good trouble and strife/For who would buy the Walnut Whips and Blackthorns before bedtime?/The transgressor’s thong, the loud man’s costume/The hunger-pangs of no pies, bruv, the in-law’s dismay/The insolence of Microsoft Office, and the burns/That in-patients merit if blameworthy rakes/When peeing oneself when a night-bus brakes/On a bare Bodmin/Dr Who would Daleks fear/To grunt and sweat under a weary wife/Such that the bedspread heave with every breath/The undiscovered pantry, from whose Bournville chocolate/No wanderer returns, befuddles the willpower/And makes us rather take those pills we have/Than buy others that we know not of?/Thus non-science doth make blowhards and those in thrall/And, thus, the non-native hue and cry of revolution/Is Wikileaked o’er with the frail mast and bought/And Starship-Enterprises of weight, myth and (spur-of-the-) moment/From the mouth of this Bard, their direct-currents turn and fly/And choose the name of inaction …
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  11457.  @sassagrass7095  No probs, chummo. Pay me on your way out.😳
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  11458. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  11459. With Putin, we have to be careful around any ideas of revenge, for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  11460. Putin: “But, brother, we are fellow Slavs, speak the same language, you must be with me, no?” Ukrainian: “‘Brother’ is overstating it. Cousins, at best, is how I would put it. Yes, I speak your language, but you don’t speak mine, and no, I must go where my conscience dictates, not where you dictate. Understand this and we can get along.
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  11461. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: if every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
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  11462. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for A Fistful of Molars .
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  11463. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and stupid as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  11464. Physical slavery, perhaps. Not mental slavery, however.
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  11465.  @pepegalego  Hey Pepe, man. I felt you were a sound guy, and this has only been confirmed upon my doing a little research and discovering you dig trains! 🚊 From one trainspotter to another.😉
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  11466. She was, as I see it, saying that when most women have been raped at some point, this was to include all the non-consensual nonsense that goes on in marriages and long-term committed relationships, and also the prostitute/client transaction. If you add all that up, then yes, most women probably have been raped at some point.🥸
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  11467.  @Lurch685  Some of the natives are confused, too. 🤨
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  11468.  @Lurch685  The point is that English is far from a ‘horrible, stripped down’ language. It’s one of the richest on the planet.🧐
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  11469. A little harsh, perhaps. It’s got some nice buildings and that.🧐
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  11470. See Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus.
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  11471.  @gillisleighola  No ‘false sense of guilt’ here, son. Think on.😉
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  11472.  @dylanblack8487  British are known the world over for being the some of the worst at ‘integrating’ since time-immemorial. Just a fact, son. Given this, the idea of Britons demanding more than obedience of the law, learning the language and paying your taxes is outrageous, egregious hypocrisy. Moreover, the Brits who bore on about immigrants here, are more often than not, the thick numpties that make virtually zero attempt to integrate when they are the immigrant.
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  11473.  @memeticist  Are victims and survivors of rape more likely to have been attacked by a stranger or someone they knew? Most female victims and survivors (86%) are raped by someone they know. Nearly half (45%) are attacked by a partner or ex-partner. You were saying, apropos ‘mathematics’?👀
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  11474.  @memeticist  Calling Freud, calling Freud! Ole Ken has a ‘rape gang ‘ issue. Really? You’re picking on something committed by less than 0.01% of the population to bolster your argument? Really, Kenneth? You are surely better than this, son.
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  11475.  @memeticist  I never once said I wanted ‘mass immigration’. Read me back before putting words in my mouth, mate.
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  11476.  @memeticist  Just for the record, I have travelled extensively in Muslim majority countries: in not a single one of them did they ask me to wear what they were wearing. I’d have been horrified if they had. Also, I lived in the middle-east for a year in a very Jewish-inflected place, culturally and religiously, and not once did anyone there ask me to ditch my agnosticism for Judaism, for that would have just been fascist madness on their part. If you want a certain level of immigration, and I would imagine you would, given our ageing, stagnating population, then you have to accept them in toto. If they are speaking English, paying their way, and obeying the law, and yes, performing the social niceties most of us do anyway, then you have no right to demand any more than this.😳
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  11477.  @memeticist  You need to be more specific as to whom you’re referring as I’m at a loss to grasp who you are talking about. I’ve lived and worked with people from all sorts of cultural backgrounds (born both in these places and born here: Indians; Chinese; Pakistanis; Japanese; French; Spanish; Americans etc.,) and all of these people were just peacefully living their lives, paying their way, obeying the law, going about their day, as that’s how it goes in 2022 UK. Yes, there are elements of the Muslim population who seem to want to live slightly separately, but, my fundamental point throughout this whole thread pertains here too: if they are breaking no laws, you can do jack about it. You can’t have a pluralistic, free, liberal society without a certain messiness. Put it this way: I’d rather have what we have with all the colour, interest and, yes, messiness that entails, than the horrendously monocultural alternative you appear to be championing. 👀
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  11478.  @memeticist  Aside from an infinitesimal, minuscule minority, I can’t think of anyone in my 50 years on the planet who didn’t do these basics things. If you’re talking of some Islamic people, and I suspect you are, then these are a minority. I live in Glasgow, it has a well-integrated Muslim population (but they still honour their cultural traditions), and in my living and working with Muslim men and women I can’t think of a single one, man or woman, who didn’t shake hands upon meeting another. As to the burka thing, the principal point here is the woman’s choice to wear what she wants. There are no laws being broken if she chooses to wear a burka. I would go further, though, even if she were being peer-pressured into this, you can do nothing about it, unless laws of the land are being broken. If I force my wife to wear jeans every other day, are you going to stop me? No. Therefore you have no right to interfere with the lives of others if they are obeying the laws of the land, as 99% of us do anyway. 😳
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  11479.  @memeticist  Exactly, you are talking about the things 99% of us do most of the time, anyway. So, if this is all you’re asking, fine. Say hello, be polite, try to get on. All this is self-evident; so self-evident we, most of us, do it anyway.👀 If a few don’t do it, are you going to constrain everybody else’s freedom to behave how they choose if they are not breaking any laws, on the basis of these outlying rogues? I certainly hope not.
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  11480.  @memeticist  I don’t see what you’re asking of me beyond language, taxes and laws. What do you want me to do exactly?
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  11481.  @memeticist  So you’re going to ban immigrants from coming here on a basis of religion? Really? And you call yourself ‘left wing’?!
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  11482.  @memeticist  I agree. I’m for controlled immigration, not open door. I said this to someone else, but you can have it too, as this is an important issue of personal freedom that you seem to be blithely ignoring. Here goes: I repeat, if you come to live here, you learn the language, obey the laws and pay your taxes, that’s all I ask of you, so why are you asking for more than this from me? You call me ‘arrogant’; I’d call you arrogant and presumptuous to assume other people want to think, feel and live as you do. If I'm not harming you, and I’m not, as I’m obeying the law, then where’s the problem?😳 If you think about this a little you’ll see how fascistic it is to demand others conform to your random, arbitrary checklist of ‘how to be’. What are you going to prescribe for me? That I worship your God? What if I’m agnostic? Last time I checked there was such a thing as freedom of religion/worship and freedom to not worship any God(s) at all. Are you going to demand I eat what you eat? Don’t be daft. That’s just hypocritical, as in today’s Britain everyone eats everything anyway, and from all corners of the world as you might have noticed. Are you going to demand I wear what you wear? Really? You’re going to be that authoritarian that you’ll prescribe what I wear? That’s not the sort of society I want to live in. Are you going to tell me what to read, or that I must listen to the music that you like to listen to, or have the same hobbies as you just to make me ‘fit in’ with your staggeringly arrogant rules as to how I should live? Get real. Human beings are more complicated than your cramped Kenland vision of them. You need to think again. I will say this once more, as it bears repeating: if I am speaking the language, paying my taxes and breaking no laws you have absolutely no right to demand anything more of me. You need to deal with this basic fact of freedom in a pluralistic society. If you can’t then that’s just tough. Go and create your own Kenland republic if you must; just know that I won’t be joining you. You sound far too narrow to me, only wanting ‘people like you’ surrounding you; only people speaking with the same accent as you. I’ve lived in several other countries and travelled extensively in every continent, learning to speak 4 other languages along with my native language, and in not one of the places I visited/lived, did I do any more than I ask of others: language, law, taxes. You need to get over a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a marker of your identity. It means nothing. And if you’re going to mould your being to an accident of birth, fine, you are free to do what the fuck you want within the law, just don’t presume to dictate this for others, as it’s nothing less than a kind of fascism. I don’t know your politics, but I’m willing to bet you’re right-wing. I can usually smell this at 10 paces and I’m scenting that here with you. I’m not going to be told by anyone how I am to live my life if I’m harming no one. How you even feel you have the brass neck and temerity that you can demand this of another person in a free society is beyond me. It’s also mighty sinister, so think on. First and foremost, I’m a free-thinking, free-feeling, autonomous human being. I would not dream of arrogantly, haughtily, fascistically asking any other person to change their behaviour/way of life just to suit me. If I invite you to my home, all I ask is that you are polite (obey the laws), try to speak the language therein, and if you’re feeling generous, pop a few pennies into the donation jar. Wear what you want, eat what you want, read what you want, worship whatever God you want, listen to what you want, do what you want, within the law. Given all this, and in conclusion, you need to hold your peace if I’m obeying the law, paying my way and speaking the language. Anything else I’m doing is, quite frankly, none of your fucking business.😳
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  11483.  @somebloke13  All I think is live and let live. I’m not asking you to behave as I desire, as I’m not a fascist fuckwit; therefore why are you asking this of me?😳 Just for the record, I consider Marx a tosser; much like you, even although you’ve never read a line of Marx. 😳 Some Bloke went silent. I wonder why.😳 Actually, I don’t wonder why. He’s got to defend a fascist ideology and he got cold feet. Yes, even I, a non Marxist, has sympathy with the poor semi-literate numpty. 🤧 Having checked your record (cuz I do my homework), you are just one of the barely-literate goons the world over. You just happen to be wherever you are from and you’re such a wee scaredy cat you can’t tolerate anyone different from you entering your orbit if they’re not from where you’re from, and if they don’t speak with your schemey accent. The very definition of a fascist. 😳😉
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  11484. @Mcgilead Mcgilead I rest my case.😉
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  11485. @Mcgilead Mcgilead Is that all you have? Really? Wow. 😳
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  11486. @Mcgilead Mcgilead I repeat, if you come to live here, you learn the language, obey the laws and pay your taxes, that’s all I ask of you, so why are you asking for more than this from me? You call me ‘arrogant’; I’d call you arrogant and presumptuous to assume other people want to think, feel and live as you do. If I'm not harming you, and I’m not, as I’m obeying the law, then where’s the problem?😳 If you think about this a little you’ll see how fascistic it is to demand others conform to your random, arbitrary checklist of ‘how to be’. What are you going to prescribe for me? That I worship your God? What if I’m agnostic? Last time I checked there was such a thing as freedom of religion/worship and freedom to not worship any God(s) at all. Are you going to demand I eat what you eat? Don’t be daft. That’s just hypocritical, as in today’s Britain everyone eats everything anyway, and from all corners of the world as you might have noticed. Are you going to demand I wear what you wear? Really? You’re going to be that authoritarian that you’ll prescribe what I wear? That’s not the sort of society I want to live in. Are you going to tell me what to read, or that I must listen to the music that you like to listen to, or have the same hobbies as you just to make me ‘fit in’ with your staggeringly arrogant rules as to how I should live? Get real. Human beings are more complicated than your cramped McGilead vision of them. You need to think again. I will say this once more, as it bears repeating: if I am speaking the language, paying my taxes and breaking no laws you have absolutely no right to demand anything more of me. You need to deal with this basic fact of freedom in a pluralistic society. If you can’t then that’s just tough. Go and create your own McGilead republic if you must; just know that I won’t be joining you. You sound far too narrow to me, only wanting ‘people like you’ surrounding you; only people speaking with the same accent as you. I’ve lived in several other countries and travelled extensively in every continent, learning to speak 4 other languages along with my native language, and in not one of the places I visited/lived, did I do any more than I ask of others: language, law, taxes. You need to get over a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a marker of your identity. It means nothing. And if you’re going to mould your being to an accident of birth, fine, you are free to do what the fuck you want within the law, just don’t presume to dictate this for others, as it’s nothing less than a kind of fascism. I don’t know your politics, but I’m willing to bet you’re right-wing. I can usually smell this at 10 paces and I’m scenting that here with you. I’m not going to be told by anyone how I am to live my life if I’m harming no one. How you even feel you have the brass neck and temerity that you can demand this of another person in a free society is beyond me. It’s also mighty sinister, so think on. First and foremost, I’m a free-thinking, free-feeling, autonomous human being. I would not dream of arrogantly, haughtily, fascistically asking any other person to change their behaviour/way of life just to suit me. If I invite you to my home, all I ask is that you are polite (obey the laws), try to speak the language therein, and if you’re feeling generous, pop a few pennies into the donation jar. Wear what you want, eat what you want, read what you want, worship whatever God you want, listen to what you want, do what you want, within the law. Given all this, and in conclusion, you need to hold your peace if I’m obeying the law, paying my way and speaking the language. Anything else I’m doing is, quite frankly, none of your fucking business.😳
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  11487. @Mcgilead Mcgilead I’ll learn your language, obey your laws and pay my taxes. I’m not going to ask anything more than this from you so why are you asking this from me?😉
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  11488.  @sirierieott5882  I couldn’t have put it better myself!👏
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  11489.  @Raahiba  Furthermore, I’m not sure what you mean by ‘ their country’ beyond the notion of living and working there. And if you go to live and work there, which you have, then it’s just as much your country by virtue of living/working there, no? I don’t buy this idea that just because of an accident of birth you have a first dibs claim, as it were, on the territory you were randomly, arbitrarily born into. For this same reason, I don’t get the idea of nationalism and national pride. Everyone could have been born anywhere, so to take a kind of unearned ‘pride’ or credit for this accident of birth I’ve never understood. I’m not willing to hitch my identity to a politically drawn line on a map, I suppose.😳
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  11490.  @Raahiba  You are entitled to your opinion, but all I would say is that if you move to another country, you learn the language, obey the laws and pay your taxes. If you are doing these three essential things, as I see them, then no one, in my opinion has any right to demand anything more from you. If you choose to change to ‘fit in’ better, then that, of course, is different. But for there to be a kind of enforcement of this, then this I can’t countenance. Of course you try to swing along with the culture of a country as best you can, for why wouldn’t you? Most people in the real world (including me) do alter our behaviours, subtly and not so subtly, for a quiet life, whatever culture/country we happen to live in. However, my fundamental point is about freedom and on this basis why should someone, anyone impose on me about anything if I’m breaking no laws, speaking the language and contributing to the economy? In the same way that I wouldn’t dream of telling any other human being, whoever they are, and wherever they are, to radically or even mildly alter their behaviour to suit me, just to make me more comfortable (assuming they are not threatening me), then I don’t expect others to demand this of me. 😳
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  11491.  @somebloke13  What? A referendum on the basic human right of freedom of movement? Get real, mate. That has been happening since the first tribe left Africa. Get with the gig.😉
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  11492.  @simonmuhamed1071  Which enclaves? My opinion isn’t based on fantasy. I’ve lived abroad. All I’ve said on this matter is above so for the last time all I ask is taxes, language and law. The rest is free. It’s not a fantasy; just common sense. Please don’t bother me again as I’m bored of this now. All I’ve said on this matter you can read above if you want.😉
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  11493.  @VelkePivo  How is it a ‘non-answer’, precisely? If you are Muslim and move to live somewhere where there is no mosque, then what problem do you have with them paying for one and building it? Just because you don’t share that faith doesn’t give you any right to deny it to others. If you are going to go down that authoritarian route you will have to look at every non-Christian religion in this country? Are you willing to do that? I suspect not.🧐
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  11494.  @jamesmason8436  I don’t fear offending anyone, mate. I happen to think all organised religion is a barbaric, primitive relic that should have been consigned to our past aeons ago. There you go: I’ve just offended 95% of the world’s population. Don’t come at me with that ‘afraid to offend others’ crap cos it just won’t stick, mate.🧐
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  11495.  @gazlives  👋
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  11496.  @jamesmason8436  Yeah, man. But again you’re missing my point (wilfully or otherwise). If I’d gone to live in Iraq I would have learned Arabic, kept the laws, but not ditched my agnosticism and converted to Islam. If I’d gone to live in India, I would have learned Hindi, obeyed the laws but not chucked my agnosticism to convert to Hinduism. If I had gone to Japan, I would have learned Japanese, kept the laws but not discarded my agnosticism and converted to Shinto. If I had gone to Thailand, I would have learned Thai, kept the laws, but not jettisoned my agnosticism for Buddhism. If I had gone to China, I would have learned Chinese, followed the laws, but not chucked my agnosticism for atheism. Neither, in any of these places would I feel the need (unless I freely wanted to, of course) to bend my very being in a cultural sense to fit some pre-conceived, abstract, nebulous notion of ‘Iraqiness’, ‘Indianness’, ‘Japaneseness’, ‘Thainess’ or ‘Chineseness’. I am a human being, not some robot ready to be culturally moulded to fit some sinister, top-down imposed idea of how I should be when living somewhere, anywhere. Just for the record, in all the places other than the UK I lived in I was able to be an independently-acting, self-contained actor. I don’t identify with a ‘tribe’, and I feel that’s where you and I have our biggest difference. As I see it, you seem to have pretty set notions as to how others should behave (and particularly how they should behave on the patch of land you were randomly, arbitrarily born on). I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t work like that. What’s more, if there is an element of ghettoisation with some Muslims in the UK, then so be it. No one said the world was a clean-lined, perfect sort of place. What are you going to do about it? Force them to live and think as you do? You don’t dig multiculturalism. That’s fine. I just wish you’d been a better-faith player and baldly stated this much sooner. Beyond this there is nothing much more to say as I fear, like planes going around Heathrow after an aborted landing in a storm, we are merely repeating ourselves ad nauseam.😳
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  11497.  @VelkePivo  Have you never heard of the basic human right of the freedom to practice one’s religion?😳
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  11498.  @jamesmason8436  Where do you diverge from the liberal definition I gave? If you don’t, then you too are a liberal.👀
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  11499.  @gazlives  Yeah, but you know what your problem is, mate? It can be spotted from 10 paces. You have an extremely limited definition of yourself, and by extension others. You are in your little cave, with your Union Flag flapping like a limp rag on a stick, and you’re just not going to countenance anyone sharing your little patch unless they subscribe to your idea of the world? Am I right?🧐
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  11500. @Camelot House ‘Privileged visitor’?! What are you on about? Do you realise how racist and exclusionary that sounds. How am I, a Muslim, born here in the UK a ‘privileged visitor’? Huh? ‘Rules and standards’? Well, if you mean obeying the law that is self-evident. What else you could be talking about I have no clue. I’m 50. Been around the block. Worked with Muslims, lived with Muslims, been friends with Muslims. In not one of these cases were any of them ‘fighting to change their adopted country to their previous way of life’, as you put it. Apart from anything else they were mostly born here, so they had no previous fucking way of life to resort to. But even the ones that weren’t born here were doing nothing of which your scaremongering epithet suggests. It seems you see Muslims as a monolithic entity. They are not. If you are a racist and suspect Islam itself, no matter the Muslim in question, just admit this and we can save a lot of time. I, personally, have no time for any organised religion, but I have no right stopping another from practising ‘freedom of worship’, and that’s as it should be. Reading you, it’s almost as if Muslims should have to forfeit their faith as a condition of entry to the UK. If you’re going to go down that authoritarian road then you’re going to have to look at all the other non-indigenous faiths in the UK. Are you prepared to do this? 🧐
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  11501.  @olasmith8132  Get real. I lived in Belgium for 2 years. Beyond speaking French and obeying the law I did nothing consciously to assimilate/integrate. Why do people assume other people should have to radically change their very way of being if they go to live somewhere else? If you’re not harming anyone and, as I say, breaking no laws I argue that you are free to live as you wish. I lived in France for a year. Are you going to force me to sing the Marseillaise and salute the tricolour? No. And that’s as it should be. So why are you asking people who come here that they have to bend every sinew to be some non-existent, abstract version of a ‘Brit’? I was born in the UK. As far as I can see most Muslims who were born here are no less ‘British’ than I am, whatever the fuck that means anyway. I also spent a year in America. I had the language so all I had to do was keep my head down and obey the law. That I did. Now, if you are telling me there are some rogue, some outlying Muslims who come to the UK with nefarious purposes, then, yes, there are. However, there are dubious people from every creed and none, of every race and none, who come here for nefarious purposes. The vast majority of my dealings in my life with Muslims have been dealings of nothing but mutual tolerance, friendliness, and, if you’re talking ‘nationalism/patriotism’, in the majority of cases these people were more strongly ‘British’ in that sense than I am, as I see an accident of birth an utterly pointless, random, arbitrary, and very, very dangerous thing to hitch my identity to. I, like you, like every Muslim who happens to come here could have been born anywhere. Why you, or anyone else, are claiming territorial rights over others who were also born here is bizarre indeed. If they are living within the law, you need to hold your peace, otherwise you become a very pernicious factor in stoking unnecessary bad faith between different people. If, I, a Muslim, am born in the UK, pay my taxes, and I live within the law then you have nothing to say to me. If I happen to pray to Mecca 5 times a day, and you have an issue with that, well, tough; get over it.😳
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  11502.  @jamesmason8436  ‘Liberals like me’ - lol. Massive assumption there, chummo. However, I’ve just gone to the dictionary definition and: Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), democracy, secularism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and a market economy. Now, pal, which of these, if any, do you not espouse, and if none, are you not a liberal, too?😳 Also, you’re being slightly patronising assuming I can’t have a qualitative experience of Muslims within a culture/society just because there are a few fewer up here in Scotland. I’ve lived in France, USA, and Belgium, and in all these societies, I was in contact with Muslims. I would also add that in the USA I was pleasantly surprised at the way most Muslims were integrated into society, but I’m sure this is mainly due to that country’s emphasis on patriotism/nationalism, something I generally look askance at as I place utterly no truck in an accident of birth as a determiner of my identity and in terms of ‘pride’. Pride, for me, is something you earn the right to feel; not something handed to you just because your mother plopped you out somewhere and not somewhere else. I’m sure this will be anathema to you, dare I say, the conservative amongst us.
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  11503.  @jamesmason8436  Your principal problem as I see it, mate, is you’re having issues with the concept of a multicultural Britain. You’re just going to have to deal with this as this is how it’s going to be for the rest of your and my life. Personally, in general, I find the UK to be a pretty successful example of multiculturalism in action, notwithstanding the inevitable deficiencies. We have built our economy for the past 70 years on migrant labour, so you can’t have your cake and eat it. These immigrants from all corners of the world have, in my opinion, indubitably enhanced the UK, making it a relatively prosperous, far more interesting and diverse place that it would be without the colours, foods, languages, customs and, yes, religions, brought by these incomers. If you’re not a ‘believer’ in the multiculturalism of 21st century Britain, and I suspect you’re not, then you should have stated this from the outset and we could have saved ourselves a whole lot of trouble. I will repeat this though, you do seem to have a real bee in your bonnet about a part of the Muslim population, and perhaps the Muslim population in toto. That’s one of the things with multiculturalism: you get all the wonderful variety, and so inevitably within that pick and mix variety there will be flavours more to your taste than others. Like you, I have no time whatsoever for organised religion, but the only reason you’re not picking on Christianity, as far as I can see, is racial. You are culturally closer to Christianity, I’m assuming, so you’ve picked on the ‘funny foreigner’s’ brand. Why not go for Sikhs or Hindus or any other of the UK’s religions? You’ve picked Islam, I would suggest, as you’re intolerant of some of their cultural practices, and what’s more, they are carrying out these practices within your sight-line. That’s what living in a multicultural society means: looking at others and tolerating the difference. You should try it some day, pal.😉
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  11504.  @jamesmason8436  ‘Their ideology is migrant in origin then inherited by/imposed upon successive generations’, you say. I say, so what if it’s ‘migrant in origin’? And? Your point? I don’t believe it actually is for the majority of 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation. I live in Glasgow and we have a sizeable Muslim community here completely integrated, living and working in the community, very often holding the top jobs in medicine and the law. You just sound downright racist when you blithely say their ideology is ‘migrant in origin’. Even if it were, so what? You can’t do anything about it as far as I can see. Islam in the mainstream form doesn’t ‘impede human rights’ and the issues you mentioned earlier are, in my experience, in the minority. I, personally, work with 3 individuals who are Muslim, one is married to a white Scotsman, another is openly gay, and another is single, but has been partnered with non-Muslim people in the past. You seem to be monomaniacally focusing on a small sub-set which you have noticed and magnified this out of all proportion to the way the majority of Muslims live in the UK today. As I say, here in Scotland, there is little to no sense of ghettoisation and the Muslim community is well integrated. Yes, I do believe that if laws aren’t broken then, yes, that is hunky-dory. Let’s flip this. I’m a Muslim and can’t stand the prevalent drinking culture of the UK. What can I do about this? Nothing. Ditto you with cultural/religious practices you disdain. You have no right to stop anything on this score within the law. You seem to be implying that if you could you would step in here. If Muslims commit crime disproportionately you need to quote that statistic, not just assert it. Even if they did, again, so what? Whites commit lots of crime, too? Why focus on Muslims? Again, I suggest that if they commit crime and are caught and brought to justice, where’s the issue? As I say, crime is committed by all sorts, from all backgrounds. If there is a small radicalised element then, again, your point is? Are you going to demonise all the followers of a religion for a few black sheep? Your personal experience appears to have tainted your opinion of our Muslim community in the UK, but from my point of view, I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. 🧐 You seem to have the Muslim population of the UK as an obsessive hobby-horse to an almost unhealthy extent judging by the fixation you betray in this thread.
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  11505.  @jamesmason8436  How about this, mate. Why don’t you make a move to incorporate parts of their culture? Huh? Why has it got to be them doing all the work to ‘fit in’, eh? As I say, they were born here so why aren’t you assimilating/integrating by making the move towards them? Why is the onus all one way?
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  11506.  @jamesmason8436  But they’re here. You clearly don’t like them. Tough-titty.😉 Also, and I’m going to repeat this as it’s the key point: if no laws are being broken what right have you, or anyone else, to pronounce on the cultural values/practices of another? Eh? What are you going to do about it? Nothing. That’s right, nothing. Simply because under the law there is nothing amiss. If they do break laws then of course prosecution should follow; but if they’re going about their business then that’s none of your business. You just don’t like them, mate. You don’t like the fact that they have beliefs/customs radically different from your own and you can do sweet Fanny Adams about it and this is the source of your evident frustration. Deal with it. They ain’t going anywhere, and nor should they have to.🧐
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  11507. @Eli Ubaldo Look, son. Just heed my advice. Take your primitive shibboleths and go and bore someone who cares. Why you nutters feel the need to pummel us with Scripture crap is a mystery. Go and sit in a corner and read Emerson or something. Just stop with ruining this planet with your garbage.😳
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  11508. @Eli Ubaldo Ok, I’ll throw in the more militant Hindus, as well. Buddhism, as a rule, tends to be a bit more peace-loving. Hmm … now why might that be? Ah, yes, they don’t believe in a frickin God! I think we could learn a lesson there.🥸
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  11509.  @jamesmason8436  Nothing you have said refutes the basic point that most of the people you mention are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of this country, most of them 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation so you can’t give me that crap about ‘sending them back’. Have you thought about the idea that they may look at aspects of the culture they were born into and not be particularly enamoured of it? Huh? I’m sure you have ‘beliefs’ and ‘practices’ that are anathema to them. But in the final analysis, chum, none of this matters for the quite simple reason that many, if not most, were born here, pay their way, and have just as much right to be here as you do. You might have to just take this one on the chin, pal.🧐
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  11510. @Eli Ubaldo Islam, Christianity and Judaism are primitive belief systems positing an unverified, unverifiable pie in the sky God. As I say, if you have intimations of divinity, fine. Just don’t band together with others for that’s where the madness begins. Be a hermit. Or just have your own belief and go about your day. Don’t bother the rest of this planet with your fucking nonsense as many of us are sick and tired of it.🧐
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  11511.  @teuzza23  Good points, well made. 👍 I would just add this: I used to be sensitive to criticism about many things I once saw as ‘important’ but through many years have trained myself to not be offended by anyone about anything. I mean that. I used to be unthinkingly patriotic, unthinkingly religious, unthinkingly this or that, and then I re-examined everything and found that the secret to feeling ok with others coming at you for this or that was simply to expand your boundaries of self-definition. I know it sounds a bit sanctimonious so sorry, but it’s literally how I feel now after all these years of breast-beating and shaking my fists at those who ‘offended’ my then God, or my football team, or my country of birth etc. I understand where you are coming from when you talk about being part of an environment where one grew up and forming an emotional attachment, and I do have that, but if someone comes along and slags off Scotland, say, I genuinely am not bothered by it. So what? The not being offended is actually independent of the intent of the individual btw. Even if they intentionally come at me I can remain above it. It’s taken years of mental training though! 😳
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  11512.  @teuzza23  Yes, but, frankly mate, the only real loyalty I feel is to family. Why? Blood. Even then it’s random and I’m certainly not going to blindly defend them if they commit a heinous crime. For me the 2 greatest disasters for humanity have been national pride and organised religion. Why am I to show more loyalty to people from Edinburgh (my birthplace), than people from Glasgow? Just because I was born in the former? Makes no sense. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, race, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓
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  11513.  @janedoe3648  Lol. Tell that to the millions who were massacred at the hand of the Inquisition.
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  11514.  @mogznwaz  Well, how very convenient. You ‘don’t define British culture, if you’re British you know it, recognise it and feel it, it doesn’t have to be explained.’ Really? If it doesn’t have to be explained why are certain people bending over backwards to defend some perceived British culture in the face of others whom they perceive, rightly or wrongly, to be ‘less British’ than the next person? You don’t have to explain it because you can’t fucking explain it. Britain and the idea of Britain is a thousand and one different things and more depending on who you speak to, but not one of these things is ‘intrinsically’ British, and could just as well be found in some other part of the planet. I was born here, have lived in France, Belgium, Israel and the USA, and I’m here to tell you that there is nothing you can name as some perceived part of a ‘British culture’ that you can’t also find in these countries and elsewhere under various similar but different guises. Just asserting that there is a ‘British culture’ without demonstrating it won’t do, sunshine. Every country, as far as I can see in this globalised, interconnected world, is a mix and match version of a whole host of multifarious stuff, but nothing you could necessarily pinpoint as intrinsically, say, ‘British’, or ‘French’ or ‘American’, for example. Tea? Well, you get that in China. Fish and chips? Belgium does these rather well, too. Football? Just about any other place you care to mention does this. I could go on and name every supposedly ‘British’ thing, and could also name this as a thing in more than one other country. I suppose you could argue the case for a kind of collective history, but an actual uniquely distinctive culture? Nah. You might have got away with arguing for distinctive national cultures 100 years ago, but not today. As to me being a ‘British self-loathing twat’, well, that just makes no fucking sense to me. Why anyone takes some kind of unearned pride or unearned credit in a random, arbitrary accident of birth is beyond me. You’re actually, with a straight face, telling me you're ‘proud’ your mother plopped you out on a random, arbitrary patch of territory and not some other random, arbitrary territory? You’ll be telling me next you’d have been ‘proud’ of the moon if your mother had miraculously managed to plop you out there, I suppose? I reserve my feelings of ‘pride’ for self-driven, self-motivated achievements: learning a few languages; learning a few musical instruments; raising a happy, healthy family; that kind of thing. Things that, like, y’know, I’ve actually put some fucking effort into. Being born somewhere and not somewhere else is not an achievement last time I checked. And anyway, why should I be forced to stand up in some kind of weird accident of birth pride, privileging those others who were randomly, arbitrarily born in the same plot of land as I? You’re going to force me to put them before some other people who weren’t born on the same plot as I? I don’t operate like that, pal. That’s just irrational and thinking for the unevolved amongst us. It’s like saying I’m ‘proud’ to be 6ft2 or proud I have size 11 feet. You want me to privilege 6ft 2 people over 6ft1 people? You want me to privilege people with size 11 feet over people with size 10 feet? You have no say where you are born so why the fuck are you taking random credit for this? If you had been born in France, you’d be trumpeting France, if you’d been born in Ukraine, you'd more than likely be willing to kill a few Russians just because they were randomly, arbitrarily born in the land we currently call ‘Russia’? If you’d been born in La La Land you’d be boring on at me about some non-existent La La ‘culture’, that you can’t seem to define but you just somehow magically ‘feel’. Get real. Nationalism, along with organised religion, has been the most egregious baleful blight on our planet that we ever invented as a species. Ideas around it are currently threatening our continued existence as a species as we speak. You need to look at the history books, son. Unless we have a critical mass of people defining themselves as first and foremost a human being we’ll be doomed to repeat this crap on an eternal loop ad nauseam. This doesn’t mean to say I’m not willing to defend myself when attacked, but it most certainly does mean that I’m not going to be murdering my species over random acts of birth or random, unverified and unverifiable daddy’s in the sky.😳
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  11515.  @PibrochPonder  I’m still not sure where you’re coming from on this. As I see it, the UK is already a kind of ‘melting-pot’ of different cultures, languages and customs, all held together under the notion of being ‘Brit’, however you want to define that term. Most people are just getting along with their lives, obeying the law and paying their way. If you are saying that there are extremist elements of certain groups, then yes. But just because of a few bad apples, are you going disbar the vast majority of others from being able to live their life in a culturally multifaceted UK? My main three points have always been learn the main language, pay your way, and obey the law. Hasn’t the vast majority of this country been doing this since time immemorial right up to the present day? Human beings are messy. No one said it’s easy to swing along with people of your ‘own’ skin colour/faith/tradition, let alone someone else with different ideas about these to yours. The vast majority of the UK population is integrated/assimilated according to your terms. So where’s the issue? Aside from the well-known extremist elements of Islam (a minuscule minority), where exactly is the UK not integrated/assimilated? Where are these fault lines, exactly, as I’m struggling to see them?🧐 You can’t have it both ways. The UK is a free, open, pluralistic, liberal democracy, which permits a certain level of immigration. If you want to stop all immigration at source, that’s fine. It’s just not the world I want to live in; that is an insular world where we each define ourselves as tribally and narrowly as possible and looking askance and with mistrust at everyone who happens to not tick the cultural/racial/religious profile boxes that I happen to tick.
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  11516.  @PibrochPonder  Can you point out exactly who is not assimilating/integrating, as you see it?
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  11517.  @PibrochPonder  Ok, it looks like ‘indigenous’ is our bone of contention. All I’m saying is that if you are a citizen and you have a referendum on anything , then every citizen has a say. In that case my sister-in-law would have a say. You appeared to suggest, under your indigenous stuff, that she wouldn’t. Fine. She, and others like her get a vote. The whole ‘indigenous’ thing is invidious, for it depends how you define it. You’d have to look at the genes all the way down the line. To me, that’s just a open door for racist theory. I don’t give a fig about your ‘indigenous’ state or otherwise, however you want to define this. I don’t see British citizens as indigenous or non-indigenous, as you appear to. I just see a human. I take each person individually and try not to box them into this or that ethnic/cultural group and I have found this has served me well. As to immigration, I happen to think this is, on balance, a good thing. I am not for open doors, but I’m certainly for substantial controlled immigration and, frankly, as long as they are prepared to work, learn/speak the language and obey the law, I don’t really care where they come from. On balance, I think having a multicultural society is preferable to the alternatives. I don’t want anyone constraining me and asking me to assimilate, so why would I demand that of others? People need to be left free to think and act for themselves and not feel they are being straitjacketed into some assimilated mush. Give me the colour, difference, vibrancy and messiness of a multicultural society than a bland, gray, monocultural one any day of the week. Of course, you will disagree with this. Anyway, I think we’d better stop here as we are just at the risk of repeating ourselves.😳
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  11518.  @PibrochPonder  My bottom line in all this is rather simple. If you pay your taxes, obey the law and speak the language then you are just as ‘indigenous’ as the next person. You are a citizen. And if you are a citizen, you have citizen rights, along with the next person. Given this, in any referendum they would also have a voice. It’s not going to happen anyway as multiculturalism is here to stay for the medium term at least.😳
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  11519.  @PibrochPonder  Answer me this question as I’m curious as to just how openly racist you are prepared to be in all this: how many generations do you need to go back to count as ‘indigenous’ in your little England? Is 1 generation not enough? 2? How about 3? Or is it only 4, 5, 6 or more before a person gets to qualify as ‘indigenous’ in your proscribed little world? It seems so, well, arbitrary. Almost, dare I say, random. You, Jim, just seeming to make it up as you go along, one might say. My sister-in-law has children. Do they get a say as to who gets in? Well? 🤔
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  11520.  @PibrochPonder  Yes, but I just happen to consider my sister-in-law as ‘assimilated’ and ‘English’ and ‘indigenous’ as you. More importantly, she think she is these things, too. If you are honestly excluding her and others like her that they get no say in your little England, your sickly Jimtopia then I have no time for you. You stated earlier that she wasn’t indigenous and wasn’t English. Your issue is that you seem to only want a certain indigenous type, a certain white person deciding the fate of others. That’s just outright racism. My dad is French-born, lived in England much of his life, married to an Irish woman, my mother. Are you honestly telling me that after living in this country for 60-odd years he would he excluded from having a say in your weird inbred indigenous Jimland? You’re a narrow-bandwidth little man hunkered down in your monocultural boring little enclave, assailed on all sides by a multicultural tide that you can’t stop. Deal with it. 😳
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  11521.  @PibrochPonder  I’m done with you as you remind me of these deluded God-botherers with whom their is no reasoning whatsoever.👍
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  11522.  @PibrochPonder  Yes, but there were people in America before the Native Americans you idiot! Read your history and then get back to me. For decades archaeologists thought the first Americans were the Clovis people, who were said to have reached the New World some 13,000 years ago from northern Asia. But fresh archaeological finds have established that humans reached the Americas thousands of years before that.
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  11523.  @PibrochPonder  You have said you want ‘indigenous’ people and only indigenous people to have a say who stays here. I say there is no such thing and so therefore you are being exclusive and racist to suit your agenda. You’re just utterly frustrated that you’ve lost this debate, man, so you’ll fabricate any old poppycock to shore up your defences. I repeat, me, my family, my families-in-law are just as ‘indigenous’ as you or the next sad old fart, so don’t come at me with your balderdash as I’m better than that and you know it.🧐
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  11524.  @PibrochPonder  Just exclusive and racist, Jimbo. You just want your tribe. People like you. People who think what you think. People who don’t have ‘funny’ customs, or clothes, or foods, or Gods, and I’m here to tell you it doesn’t work like that and for the simple reason not everyone wants to be like you. Sorry.😳
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  11525.  @PibrochPonder  I just think the advantages of a multicultural society outweigh the disadvantages. You seem to want to force people into a mould of your making. You decide what’s what. It doesn’t work like that mate. People are complex and different, and I would argue that you have to let them breathe and express themselves; not put them in an assimilated straitjacket of your making. You don’t seem evolved enough simply to tolerate difference and so you feel the need to tell everyone what’s what. You have no more of a say than the next native-born Brit in the running of this country. You seem to think your voice carries more weight than, say, my sister-in-law’s voice; it doesn’t, and she would be horrified and perturbed if you suggested it did. We don’t all want to live and think like you. Anyone, I repeat, anyone who is paying taxes, speaks the language and is obeying the law has 100% the same right to be here as you or l. Their voice counts as exactly the same as yours or mine. Think about this. Cheers.👍
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  11526.  @PibrochPonder  Look, man. We’ll have to agree to disagree. Your ‘indigenous’ argument is just an excuse for racism it seems to me. There is no indigenous, pure, English person and there never has been. Arguably, the only people in history (if you believe their historicity, and I don’t) who can claim that title are Adam and Eve. You’re one of these ‘tribal’ guys that are actually quite sinister. All the best, however.👍
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  11527.  @PibrochPonder  Look, I’ll spell this out for you as you seem to be having a hard time there. Anyone who is paying taxes, obeying the laws and speaking/learning the language has as every right to be here as you or I. If they have customs/practices you don’t like, well, tough. This really isn’t that difficult. That’s how a multicultural country operates.😳
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  11528.  @PibrochPonder  We seem to disagree on ‘indigenous’. For me, anyone born here is ‘indigenous’.🧐 Wow! ‘Repatriation’. Just because someone doesn’t want to marry who you decide? Wow. Scary stuff.
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  11529.  @PibrochPonder  You’re going to have to face it, mate. This England of yours is just going to have more lovely immigrants from all corners of the world in the next 50 years and all you can do is stand by and clap them in.👏
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  11530.  @PibrochPonder  What? Just as all those English people in Raj India mixing it with the lower castes? What? All those English in Africa living in their well-appointed living quarters while the natives could go whistle Dixie? Those English that ‘assimilated’? Gimme a break.🤠
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  11531.  @PibrochPonder  You’re also on the run from multiculturalism, but you can’t do a flying fig about it, sunshine. You feel powerless. Tough, ain’t it?😉
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  11532.  @PibrochPonder  ‘English is an ethnic group’ made up of all the groups I stated above. She defines herself as ‘English’ . It seems to me you are just an ill-concealed, ill-thought out racist.🥸
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  11533.  @PibrochPonder  How about I tell you my sister-in-law is English Asian? Born in England to Indian parents. Is she a second-class citizen in your land of the ‘indigenous’ English person?🧐
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  11534.  @PibrochPonder  What? What are you on about, man? I just described an English person and that includes Asian English, too. What are you not getting here? If the English are not a mixed race, what are they? Define them.😳
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  11535.  @PibrochPonder  Yes, but the Clovis people were in the USA before the Native Americans; the ‘English’, as you put it, were/are a mixed race of all sorts: Jutes; Anglo-Saxons; French Normans; Viking Normans; Irish; Scots; Celts; Asians; Africans etc. You’re all over the place, mate. There is no indigenous, ideal ‘English’ person. Doesn’t exist. You need to get with the gig, sunshine.😉 By your logic, no white people should be allowed in Australia, as they are not ‘indigenous’. So, are you going to ask for the deportation of all the white, non-indigenous people of Australia? And New Zealand? 😳
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  11536.  @PibrochPonder  Why are you wilfully misrepresenting what I’m saying? I never said you go somewhere and unlawfully, forcibly install yourself. I’m saying, that within the law, and where circumstances allow, people should be free to move wherever they want. Of course, immigration rules of individual countries will restrain this, but that’s why I said within the law and the prevailing circumstances. Now, I don’t call this ‘colonisation’ in any historical sense of that term, for as far as I can see people are not violently landing somewhere and imposing their will. So, once again, a bunch of Muslims come and live peacefully and lawfully in the UK: where’s the problem? And by the way, you still haven’t cleared up the vital question of just who is ‘indigenous’ to any place you care to mention. For example, I was born in the UK to a French father and an Irish mother. Does that make me ‘indigenous’? I fear you are just making this stuff up as you go along to suit your agenda.😳
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  11537.  @PibrochPonder  I’m ‘pro’ going wherever you want to live and work within the law, where that will allow? Where’s the problem?🥸
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  11538.  @PibrochPonder  ‘Indigenous’? So how far back do you go, son? Dryopithecus? Ramapithecus? Australopithecus? Homo-Erectus? Homo-Sapiens? Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens? Adam and Eve? Clovis people? Any Native American tribe you care to mention? Where, exactly, does ‘ownership’ come into this timeline? If you’re telling me people own a house within a nationally defined territory then, yes. But I, ‘born’ in the UK, don’t ‘own’ the UK anymore than Emmanuel Macron ‘owns’ France, or Joe Biden ‘owns’ America. And if you consider that I do own the UK, then you need to do more than just assert this, you need to demonstrate it, as from where I’m sitting, I no more ‘own’ the UK than I do the moon.👀
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  11539.  @princegoro6840  Yeah, but you spoke of the ‘devastation of British culture’ and I’m asking you, what has been ‘devastated’, exactly? Asserting things doesn’t make them true. I’m putting it to you that there has been nothing of the sort when you speak of a devastation of British culture. You need to demonstrate that or forever hold your peace on the subject, as you’re just a menace, otherwise.😳
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  11540.  @PibrochPonder  Yeah, but it works both ways, mate. What about the British ‘colonisation’ of the Spanish costas, for example. You don’t ‘own’ your country any more than anyone else willing to pay taxes, obey the law and learn the language. So, given this, where’s the issue?🥸
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  11541.  @Petal4822  ‘Diluted’? That makes no sense unless you are upholding a kind of invidious race theory. How are ‘we’ being ‘diluted’ precisely?😳
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  11542. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  11543. Peterson only ‘sometimes’ loses you. You’re doing better than me then with that consummate Canadian piffler.🤓
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  11544.  @SA-vz7qi  Just for the record, I’m not an atheist. You need to verify your facts before impugning others.
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  11545.  @outshout1054  *Leaves book
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  11546.  @outshout1054  *Hell
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  11547.  @outshout1054  *philosophical
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  11548.  @outshout1054  *above
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  11549.  @outshout1054  *Peterson’s
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  11550.  @outshout1054  You have the distinct whiff of the very type I describe above; these self-appointed arselickers who come at a person if that person deigns to suggest Peterson is not all that. You’re all scary. Go away, read your 12 cookie-cutter ‘rules for life’-crap but don’t trouble the rest of us, and if the rest of us can see through it all, deal with it.
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  11551.  @outshout1054  What are you going to do about it? Shoot me? Fuck off.
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  11552.  @outshout1054  Look. I’m bored. It’s Sunday. I have said all I need to say on this. Leave me alone. Just read me back above if you want to know what I think.
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  11553.  @outshout1054  Incidentally, no one is going to ‘burn in Hell’ quite simply because there is no Hell of that kind. If you’re operating at that level then I fear for your sanity, but then given that a majority on this planet do appear to believe in that kind of Hell it wouldn’t surprise me. That kind of Hell was clearly invented by sadistic fuckwits who knew they couldn’t easily make people swallow their invented crap, so they had to use the strong-arm tactic. If religious beliefs were worth believing, they wouldn’t have to come with horrendous, horrific, blood-curdling threats of eternal Hellfire.
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  11554.  @outshout1054  My principal issue with Peterson is not the man himself (he, and his ideas are all stolen; have all been said a thousand times before, and been said a thousand times better, more wittily and with more humour); no, my main issue is the gobble-boys (as it seems to be mainly boys, plus a few girls), who are so hair-trigger sensitive whenever their hero is critiqued that they use this criticism to launch into the most vitriolic attacks on whomever is doing the criticising. That’s all. Look, I’ve said all I need to say on this above so I’m not going to repeat myself here. Yes, I have read Maps of Meaning and all the other derivative oeuvre of the man, and I repeat, he is saying absolutely nothing the likes of, say, an Emerson, for example, hasn’t said before, and said much better. As to Peterson and God? Well, on this question he’s just an embarrassment to himself if he expects us to take his crap of shoehorning a belief in Deity without any pretence of engaging the traditional arguments. Here, to me, he’s just a cynical sod, as he smuggles a God into his schema at the age of 55, having hitherto being an atheist, quite simply because he knew he could screw a few more dollars out of his arselicking acolytes.
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  11555.  @jamesespinosa690  No.
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  11556.  @actionflower6706  Lol. Touché 👍
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  11557.  @actionflower6706  Have you had your medication today? 💊
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  11558.  @actionflower6706  I haven’t read Spufford’s book, but on your instigation just spent a couple of hours on YT looking at what he has to say. It seems to me he believes in God as a poetic concept, a kind of feeling or awareness of something that is probably no more than just that, a feeling. I could be wrong, both about Spufford and about God. One of my fave writers on this theme is Alasdair McGrath.😉 Anyway, nice chatting. T’ra! 👋
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  11559.  @actionflower6706  Hey! This isn’t fair. The confessional works both ways. Where are you on God, Peterson, Spurs’ transfer policy, the Universe and all that? 🧐
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  11560.  @actionflower6706  Nobody’s perfect! 😉All the best, though.👍
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  11561. N.B. Please forward any (kindly received) donations to my amanuensis. Cash only, please. Anything over £10,000 I will automatically donate 10% thereof to a charity of my choice. The rest will go towards other ‘good causes’. The rest is silence.😳
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  11562.  @actionflower6706  No. It doesn’t really ‘approximate to my problem’, as you put it. I’m agnostic. Previously stated. I have no issue with people believing wtf they want: my issue arises when said people are unable to defend their stance. That’s all. If an unthought-out, cynical, dishonest, theory of God is promulgated by the likes of JP, then I’ll call it. All that said, my real issue, and for the final time, is the unreflective, uncritical, inadmissible hagiographic mass intellectual orgasm over one man’s words. He’s not right about plenty, is right about some stuff, but you can’t tell this from the mesmerised @rse-lickers, who buy his whole creed hook (book), (by)line and s(t)inker. Creeds and schools in abeyance . Ironically, they commit the error they putatively abhor in others, that is they come to the party with the idea that Peterson’s philosophy is a self-contained, internally-consistent credo to be taken in toto. A system in other words. Just like any other system: Marxism; Socialism; Liberalism; Conservatism; Petersonism. They don’t seem to take his ideas one by one, rather they approach every interlocution with another with the assumption, unacknowledged or otherwise, that whatever Jordy says, goes. I’m here to tell them that not all of it does go, and for some reason I can only put down to the fact they have personally invested their very moral/emotional/intellectual being with him (thus blinding themselves to his not so good ideas), they are unable to accept he might be wrong about something, anything. The horrifying misogyny is one of the main manifestations of their ire. The way they nastily, viciously strafe (often in the most personal of terms: looks, why would any man want her ?) any woman who happens to be interviewing Jordy (and thereby explicitly challenging his ideas, ie. just doing her job) is depressing and alarming simultaneously. If people want to follow the quack nostrums of a bloke who, it seems to me, doesn’t have an original thought, fine. Just don’t expect me to grovel in front of you and intellectually abase myself. I’m better than that. Finally, as to the whole religion thing, you seem to be implying I’m a lapsed Catholic. You’re right. But I was never a fully paid-up member of the God-bothering squad (thank Christ), so it’s not felt as a loss. I happen to agree with the following wonderfully coruscating, (yet true if you read it honestly), definition of the God of the Old Testament, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. To not believe in that monster is a blessed relief. As you will know by now, Pirsig is one of my faves., so what better way than to end with him on the subject of organised religion (note that, organised religion , I’m open to changing my mind about anything with new evidence coming in, and that includes God): When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Right now, it seems to me there are a few too many folks suffering from the ‘delusion’ that Jordan B Peterson is absolutafucking right about absolutafucking everything.🥸
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  11563.  @frankgradus9474  I don’t understand your point, and I’m bored even asking this: but, ahem, just what is your fucking point, pal?😳 Spell it out for the illiterate masses.
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  11564.  @actionflower6706  Aw, c’mon. Who has done the real work in this thread? Huh? And you’re asking me to do more? How rude.🧐
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  11565.  @frankgradus9474  Wtf are you on about, Frankie baby? Last time I checked, every transvestite I know (about 3) was the most kind, loving, pro-female person I’ve ever met. Where are you meeting your transvestites, man? Not under that dodgy bridge by the river again?😳
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  11566.  @actionflower6706  To be fair, I quite like the incense.👀
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  11567.  @Rhodiac  I charge for them. For you a special introductory offer/discount of £5 per word. Now, let’s see, I make that just over £100. Cash only please. No brown envelopes.🧐
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  11568.  @actionflower6706  Furthermore for the record, love, in case this hasn’t been clear, but I am aware the Jordy gobblers like to pile in and defend their man like valiant troops in a lost cause and one easily loses one’s bearings (and toupee) in the unseemly ensuing kerfuffle; however, my animus is not principally a JP-directed animus, so to speak - the man himself I find a bit of a wet-wipe, yes, could do with smiling/laughing a wee bitty more, yes (I’m almost sure he has a sense of humour, but like his God, it’s often missing-in-action), but essentially JP, the man, is just any other nondescript fella you might meet in Aldi on a wet Wednesday afternoon as he (and you, perchance) escapes ‘’er indoors’ for 5 minutes to peruse the fresh plums (in his case, possibly ‘’im indoors’, if the rumours are to be believed - debate for another day perhaps); no, my ire is specifically reserved for the gobbler (and gobbier) lads and lassies (mainly lads), who betray an almighty hair-trigger sensitivity to even the slightest criticism of Jordy’s ideas. If only they would take that big, veiny, hairy, throbbing, engorged monstrosity out of their mouths once in a blue moon and look up. I would only have to look askance at Jordy’s white wine and spritzer and they would be up in arms in the King’s Arms at how I had traduced the mortal character and the cut of the jib of the very saviour of western civilisation as we know it. A mere brush of tweed sleeve against the small Babycham their haloed hero was nursing quietly in the inglenook of the Shepherd’s Crook, and like a snarling bull about to charge at the taunting matador, they would be at my throat and other exposed bits (not to mention my tweed jacket!). Even on the days I had opted not to wear red! This simply shows how insecure these sycophants feel, for anyone sure of their terms, sure of their boy in the race, would not feel the need to come at me like a pack of slavering hounds at the local (illegal) fox hunt (very certainly the ‘unspeakable in full-pursuit of the un(b)eatable’!); no, they would calmly reason with me, and we could discuss this in a quiet corner, away from the fevered hurly-burly of the intoxicated crowd, while I could take the opportunity in the Gents cubicle to reglue my dislodged toupee atop my bonce away from the mad melee. Y’know, as I sit here pondering the marigolds in my window sill, and watching my pussy from afar licking his nether regions with feline gusto, this rather apposite little quotable gobbet hops into my mind like a sprightly rabbit in a Spring meadow; it’s from Pirsig, and in it he was principally going for the rigid, linear, - ‘I am right you are wrong, and what’s more, because you are wrong you are going to eternal Hell!’ - brigade, but I feel it sums up much of the unthinking, scary, impassioned, frankly bollocks, that our man Jordy attracts: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Or as Yeats put it, along similar lines: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. On a final point of order, what you have against that esteemed institution, the University of Sussex, one can only surmise, (yes, the pebbly Brighton beach is horrendous for one’s haemorrhoids, but this is hardly the fault of the Women’s Studies department of that university) but I fear the trauma it may have caused you might need looking at. Before you ask, no, I don’t have Jordan Peterson’s telephone number. ☎️
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  11569.  @actionflower6706  By the way, just for the record, my name’s ‘Donald’, not ‘David’, and how do you even know I have a dick? In this age of non-binary, non-gender specific, gender-fluid (urgh! So sticky. And so messy.), cisgender, intersex, agender, anyfrickingenderyouhappentomakeupthatday-gender … to attempt to make the egregious, unverified, and almost certainly unverifiable (in your case) assumption I even dangle a wanger where the sun occasionally shines (in the warmer months when the neighbours are away in Lanzarote), is one mighty presumptuous supposition.🧐
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  11570.  @actionflower6706  Date? Where did I mention dates? I care not a fig about dates, 1066 or otherwise.😳
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  11571.  @cordlefhrichter1520  One of my guiding axioms in life is that I take no advice from anyone whose name resembles an anagram of a bisexual German tennis player. At the very least, I want my tennis players serving their, ahem, balls straight (German or otherwise). At least one knows where one stands with Boris Becker. 😳 🎾 That’s usually in a cupboard. New balls please!
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  11572.  @zimzob  If you’re considering giving me a payment, make it enough to cover my expenses, and then some. My accountant will help you with any money-transfers over £50,000 and, bearing in mind I don’t get out of bed for less than £25,000, please consider your offering before inadvertently insulting my intelligence. Before you ask, yes, I do have a secret bank account in Switzerland. Jimmy Carr manages this for me when he’s not causing a furore with his potty mouth.😳
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  11573.  @cumbriatreesurgeons8943  Grew up in Kendal, oddly enough.😳
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  11574.  @cumbriatreesurgeons8943  Cumbria Tree Surgeons (‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you’) @Action Flower 🌺’Fancy a date, dear? I’ll bring along my, ahem, special bush trimmers, if you like.’😳
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  11575.  @zimzob  As to the Whitman stuff. And? Your point is? I merely pointed out that the bulk of Peterson’s fans may be (are) gay men. There was no judgment involved there. Mere observation. I slightly resent your implication that there is something sinister about this. After all, for all you know, I may be one of the gay boys.😉
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  11576.  @zimzob  Between you and me, Chris, most of Jordan’s fans want to give him a good seeing to but they have Tammy (Tommy? Timmy? Well, have you seen him, I mean her?) blocking their way and this is the explanation for all their misogynistic rage. Keep that to yourself.😉
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  11577.  @zimzob  I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a grimmer, more self-important bunch of twats than Peterson and his acolytes (right up there with every rigid monotheist I’ve had the misfortune to encounter). And because he is like this beneath all the faux humility, his rabid followers feel free to pile in with astonishing misogyny and staggering rudeness on anyone who happens to merely suggest that St Jordy may not actually be right about anything , let alone everything. It’s weird and scary in equal measure. Most of these boys (and a few girls) have had nothing and they spot a father-figure (think God) they can latch onto, and they defend him and his ideology (ironically, given that one of his Cracker Barrel ‘rules’ was to jettison the idea of ideology), as if their life depended on it. Frightening stuff.😳
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  11578. Jordan Peterson‘s 12 more (God help us all!) rules for life - an appraisal. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Oh man. Come on! If I can’t slag off the mother-in-law you’ve thereby instantly removed 5% of my reason for getting up in the morning. Similarly, if I see a post-post-modern, abstract-expressionist post-impressionist painting in a gallery I reserve the right to draw a cock and balls over it. I want my artists figurative. Or at the very least, Italian. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. Hmm … I’m imagining I could be Jordan Peterson. Oh, wait. The world isn’t big enough to contain TWO identical egos that large! Do not hide unwanted things in the fog. Especially if John Carpenter is lurking somewhere in that fog. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. Ok, I think that makes sense. Are you saying that if I refuse to wash the dishes and decline to put the garbage out I’m on a blow-job promise that self same evening? Sounds good to me! Do not do what you hate. Yay! Jordan Peterson himself is telling me I don’t have to read a single thing he ever writes ever again! Thanks Jordy. 🙏 Abandon ideology. What, abandon the ‘ideology’ of condensing the incredible complexity of human life and existence into 12 cookie-cutter platitudes I once read in a bunch of fortune cookies? That ideology? Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Well, since the age of about 13 I’ve been actively fulfilling this injunction and it’s nearly fallen off.😳 Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. Can we agree on a corner of one room? A whole room just sounds extravagant and, frankly, a waste of my time when I’ve got rule 7 to be getting on with.😳 If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. Yes, they do. However, not sure writing them down will help. Can I not just do the more obvious, sensible thing and, er, like, well, forget them? Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Yes, I buy my dick flowers at least every other Friday. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Ha! Ya got me. While I resent no one but the milk-man who ran away with the wife back in 1987 (I’m still working through it), and I have deceived no one since that time I pretended I was Jesus at a convention of atheist/agnostics, the ‘arrogant’ one still niggles. Yes, I have to admit that when in an almighty pickle, I do sometimes think: ‘What would Donald Lamont do?’ Sorry. Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Well, one of my avatars kinda said this about 2,600 years before Saint Jordan palmed it off as one of his own. But hey! plagiarism never hurt anybody when you’re trying to fool most of the people most of the time!😁 Note: Jordan Peterson will publish 12 more rules for life when he’s spent all the money he got from gullible fools buying the first 24. 🤔
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  11579. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What, ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  11580.  @pedanticlady9126  Thank you for laughing.😉Would that your fellow posters could do the same. Laughter sometimes really is the best medicine.😆Well, when all the other options have been exhausted. One final thing folks. Someone here, I forget who (you all meld into one giant Peterson gobble-machine after a while and distinguishing the sound sorts becomes futile), accused me of not getting out enough, communing with nature, that sort of thing. They suggested ‘grass’. Well, how clairvoyant and spooky as my guiding text for 30 years (such that I have such a thing) has been Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .However, it’s not a piece of wisdom from that poem/book I would like to leave you all with, but a little prose number he rustled up in between meeting the ‘trippers and askers.’ You might know it: This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. May I kindly, and quite ingenuously, suggest that there is more wisdom in those few lines than the likes of Jordan Peterson can hold a candle to. 🕯 One final, final thing. Ok, I admit it, the 4 degrees malarkey was a lie. I don’t even have that diploma with distinction. However, none of this prevents me from engaging my intellectual critical faculties as and when required. Remember to laugh, children. Good day and fare thee well. 🍁
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  11581.  @pg3811  How do you know jziffi is left-leaning politically?
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  11582.  @Jianju69  One other thing is you all fatally lack the only thing I can think of as indispensable to the human beyond food and shelter: a sense of humour. Your cult-like po-facedness reminds me of the God-botherers. It’s like you’re all hypnotised and have become so vicious and deadly serious about one man it’s truly terrifying to behold. Lighten up all of you ffs. There is also a British/American thing going on here: I’m British, and we have a dry, joshing, sarcastic type of humour, whereas North Americans tend to be very straight to the point of utter humourlessness in my dealings with them. Just an observation; but one made on years of cross-Pond experience.😳
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  11583.  @Jianju69  Everything you quoted was about his ideas. Jeez. What’s with you people? Seriously.😳You’re more rigid in your blind defence of Peterson you cannot even debate properly, and instead of seeing a simple criticism of ideas and intellectual stance you personalise the whole thing as you have all invested your very being in the fella. Depressing to behold.
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  11584.  @Jianju69  Where? The man himself I haven’t touched. Can you not distinguish between a person and a person’s ideas? Is this mental task too tricky to accomplish?🤓
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  11585.  @MTech07  What’s the ‘atrocious assumption’ please? It’s not good to be imputed with stuff unjustifiably.😳
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  11586.  @Jianju69  You’ve not heard anything I’ve said, have you? I happen to like the man himself. He’s charming and quite funny. It’s his pervervid fanboys, and it mainly is boys, who uncritically hero-worship him and denigrate anyone who has the temerity to criticise any of his frequently flaky ideas. The excuse to enter into a disturbing misogyny also depresses me as I’ve stated above.🤓
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  11587.  @MTech07  It’s a bit disingenuous to suggest Peterson is not driving an ‘overt political agenda’ when his sycophantic flag-bearers leap into the breach whenever any perceived (rightly or wrongly) left-leaning challenger of his ideas questions any of what he says. Yes, Peterson himself may not be overtly political (actually, that should be party political as he certainly is political - as far as I can see he is a traditional British-type conservative thinker with liberal trimmings), but in my experience his feverish defenders most certainly are overtly political in their disdain for anything even remotely left of centre. As to his fans worshipping him, well they do from what I read. It’s sycophantically hagiographic in its obsequiousness towards what is, after all, just a failed, flawed human being. His supporters talk of him as the Second Coming. If you don’t believe me I urge you to go to as many YouTube Peterson videos as you can and read the Comments: they are nauseatingly weird in their blinkered devotion to their saint Jordan. As you point out, he’s a flawed human in many ways, just like the rest of us, but you wouldn’t necessarily know this from these comments. One of the most distasteful tactics I have discerned from the Peterson fanatics is a dreadful, depressing misogyny. The bile and vitriol they dispense to, say, Cathy Newman, or Helen Lewis, to take two salient exemplars, is egregious in its bitterness. The hatred, yes hatred, of the distaff-side they evince is disturbing and depressing in equal measure. As to the notion of defending ‘themselves’ when defending Peterson, well, I dig and semi-idolise a whole host of writers, poets, artists, philosophers, but with none of them, am I so hair-trigger sensitive if someone calmly comes along and points out a flaw in their thinking or way of seeing the world. It bespeaks an exaggeratedly unhealthy sense of identification if these people are so sensitive to their hero being criticised, that they feel the need to lash out like children in the playground. A perfect example of this for me is Peterson’s woolly, unthought-out, frankly embarrassing (for a supposedly ‘key’ contemporary thinker) defence of the existence of a God. He’s also disingenuous on this score as he attempts to have his cake and eat it, for he says he doesn’t believe in God per se, but he ‘acts as if God exists’. Well, sorry, but this nebulous, immature thinking will not do. He doesn’t even make a pretence of broaching the traditional arguments for God’s existence: he just blithely declares ‘I act as if God exists’. It’s the type of thinking worthy of a 10 year old. When this is pointed out the rabid Peterson gang pounce, coming to the defence of their hallowed Master (of the University?). In my opinion, the Peterson apologists need to take a chill pill. Yes, he has a few good ideas (although hardly any that are scintillatingly original), as he should, for don’t we all? However, they should learn a little humility when someone comes along and points out the many holes in Peterson’s thinking. One of my theories about many of his more pervervid idolaters is that actually they don’t know much about his thinking at all, and for whatever reason, they have latched on to Peterson, the man, using him as a surrogate father. I’m willing to bet very good money that many of the Peterson fan club are homosexuals (unacknowledged or otherwise) who have lacked a strong father-figure role model in their lives. How else to explain that about 80% of his core followers are male? Women, I suspect, have more intelligence. Ironic really, given the massive misogyny betrayed by many of the Peterson playthings.🥸
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  11588.  @MTech07  Look man, it’s a step of staggering arrogance to presume that only the ‘godly’ can behave well and value the highest virtues. Peterson has relatively recently added this garbage to hook in a few more of the unthinking masses who want to gobble at his altar of ersatz offerings. To imply that atheist/agnostics cannot value life without believing in an unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky suggests you may need to think about this a bit more. I would argue the opposite: organised religion has been the greatest disaster for humanity after that other bizarre thing humans inexplicably value: an accident of birth. I’m agnostic. I don’t know. That daddy might exist. My research has not uncovered him/her/it/insert pronoun here as yet. But I’m going to tell you something you might not like: even if we accept a divinity, this doesn’t preclude a person living an exemplary moral life if they don’t acknowledge this deity. To suggest otherwise is deeply insulting to every humanist who ever tried to live a good life.🤓
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  11589.  @Vragnarax  Lol.👍All the best, man.
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  11590.  @Vragnarax  My ‘majors’ are in Lee, Bobby, Brenda and Clarence and my main field of study is corn. Special interest in crop circles.👽
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  11591.  @Vragnarax  I have 4 degrees and a diploma (with distinction). Think on.🤓
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  11592.  @pedanticlady9126  Bring it on Pancake Lady! Extra syrup!
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  11593.  @MrFox101  Don’t mess with me, brother. Some of my best papers are peer-reviewed. You wouldn’t like me with a peer-reviewed paper.🤓
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  11594.  @actionflower6706  Yeah, mutha. Me got all dem lines.😳
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  11595.  @actionflower6706  What? ‘Ancient verities’ such as ‘God exists, because I act as if he does.’ Can you not see the staggering hubris here? (Peterson doesn’t really believe in God, of course, but to sell a few more units he’ll sell his non-existent soul). God does not exist, unless Mr Peterson acts ‘as if’ it exists. Man alive. My pet canary has more internally cogent arguments for the existence of a great canary in the sky.🤓
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  11596. And she’s just as unfunny.🤓
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  11597.  @iansmith8783  Ok. Perhaps not always, but the vast majority of the time. Ask yourself this: if it were purely and simply a matter of sex do you really think men would greatly risk prosecution and possible jail for a bit of nookie? 😳 Rapists don't rape because they can't "get" sex elsewhere. Rapists don't rape because they're uncontrollably turned on by the sight of some cleavage, or a midriff, or red lipstick, or an ankle. They rape because they're misogynist sadists, and they flourish in places where misogyny is justified as tradition and maleness comes with a presumption of violence.
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  11598. Cheer up, mate. You can always go for a walk.🤓
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  11599.  @jannisarie  My God. Your taste is mighty questionable but that is your prerogative.😉
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  11600. Really? All 4? Are you sure? 🤓
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  11601.  @farmerned6  Yeah, but if you don’t identify with a ‘tribe’ you are free to be everyone and no one.
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  11602. Yes, he smokes Winstons.😉 His own brand.
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  11603. Yeah, but it’s pretty easy to quit something when it’s made you a multi-millionaire, and you could comfortably live off the interest for the rest of your life. Willing to bet, he very well may not have quit if the band were still playing dives and cadging smokes from fans.
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  11604.  @ngrovotny  Hello? Politics. Britain. Do keep up, child.
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  11605. “Why in hell’s name would he be tweeting political stuff?” Hello? Have you, like, seen his name?
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  11606.  @Swift_Jr And y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  11607.  @iiyyxxnn  Ah, the old ‘auto correct’ excuse, eh? Covers a multitude of spelling sins. 👍😉
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  11608.  @beverlyarcher3744  What do you mean? As a Brit, on a scale of 1-10 for ‘poshness’ this is only about a 6. It’s just a regular middle-class, middle-England accent spoken by about 5-10% of the population. Read my second post here for more insight into UK accents.
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  11609.  @ApeClips1 😝
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  11610.  @ApeClips1 ✌️😝
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  11611.  @k_zelite4921  I repeat yet, yet, yet again: I see no victims here. 😝
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  11612. A cabbage somewhere is mortally offended by your words. 🥬
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  11613. The Oscars 2022 Best Original Score: Volodymyr Zelensky for that good shit he got from Colombia, the country, not the film company. sniffs Best Original Song: Crimea River . Best Supporting Actor: Hunter Biden for My Beautiful Ukrainian Money Launderette . Best Supporting Actress: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for The Spy Who Came Back to the Cold . Best Actor: Volodymyr Zelensky for Citizen Ukraine . Best Actress: Greta Thunberg for Robocop 26 . Best Director: Vladimir Putin for From Russia Without Love . Best Picture: Tsar Wars: The Russian Empire Strikes Back . Lifetime Under-Achievement Award: Boris Johnson.
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  11614. “Stand up for the stupid and crazy.” (Walt Whitman)
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  11615.  @ApeClips1 😝
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  11616.  @jo2832 ​​⁠ I repeat yet again: I see no victims here. 😝
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  11617.  @Doreen287  Doreen, Doreen, Doreen, dear, you seem to have missed a vital point: not all of us believe in invisible sky daddies and primitive crap written 2,000 years ago by men. Just sayin’! 😉
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  11618.  @logbuzz  Er, why? 😝
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  11619. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and idiotic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  11620. So did I. Until I researched it. It’s not.
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  11621.  @thetransporter5993  Are they?😉 🚽
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  11622. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  11623.  @KhalilSonic  Puntastic!🤣
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  11624.  @yuval1716  Yep, there’s been some nasty stuff going down, to be sure. But we are dealing with humans here, so it comes with the territory.
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  11625. 0:57 If you hadn’t told me this was father/daughter would’ve automatically guessed boy/girlfriend. Dude doesn’t look like her dad.
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  11626. S’ok. Dude went down in a Virgin helicopter. He’s being consoled on the other side by 72 helicopters. 🚁
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  11627. It was a joke about how/why we see certain groups in society in a different way to others. It wasn’t an attack on Gypsies, per se, but a nudge to you, the listener, to ask yourself how you feel about Gypsies. Carr was looking you squarely in the face and asking: well, are you one of the racists?🤓
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  11628. If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a Bigfoot surprise.
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  11629. I don’t know if Luke Mitchell is guilty or innocent but my instinct, having watched this (and other stuff about this case), is that he’s innocent. One thing I’m sure about is that it’s cases like these that are my no.1 reason for not supporting the death penalty.
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  11630. Everyone needs to calm down. The salute is just how Musk heils a cab from his favourite taxi service: Uber Über Alles! 🚖 🖖 For his next public appearance, Musk is planning to wear a white robe with a pointy hat, while carrying a burning cross, but, don’t worry folks, all he’ll be doing is keeping warm in the cold North American winter! 👍
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  11631. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Jane Austen)
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  11632. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  11633. When I look at these guys, I can’t help but recall that greatest of philosophers, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us.
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  11634. With Putin, we have to be careful around any ideas of revenge, for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  11635. Yeah, but he’s often a ‘grifter’ hard to refute, I find. Virtually everything he utters on matters philosophical rings true to these ears. He reminds me a lot of Krishnamurti.
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  11636. Rather have the self-doubting ‘umms’, than the justified, divine certainty of the rabid ‘believer’.
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  11637. @25:55-26:00 I was wondering when this girl was going to nod off.😆
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  11638.  @stevemorse108  Fair play, your honour. No further questions. 👩‍⚖️
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  11639. Well, this could be a case of not so many full bottles in front of me, but definitely a full-frontal lobotomy.
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  11640. Pmsl@“this great country”. Yeah, so great, it allows any random nutjob to buy an assault weapon like they are buying a candy bar, and to walk into a school and massacre 10 years olds for sick fun. Yeah, a ‘great’ country.
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  11641.  @Emiliapocalypse  👽
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  11642.  @robinmcara793  Look, man, you wanna know my real stance on all this UFO business? Until the day I get some incontrovertible evidence (vague nebulous lights blinking in a night-sky don’t count) I believe none of it, if ‘believe’ implies ‘visitors from star systems light-years away’. Sorry. Call me rational. Call me evidence-based. Show me a big f*ck-off mothership at 10 paces and I might revise my opinion; but even then I would want more verification than just ocular evidence. As I say, they are (almost undoubtedly) ‘out there’, it’s just that I doubt they are ‘in here’. Now, if you have some evidence hitherto undisclosed that can be peer-reviewed, I’d be interested, but to ask me to believe in ‘alien visitation’ on the current evidence is something I’m not prepared to do. This goes for ghosts and Bigfoot, too, btw. Show me the evidence! I will say this though, and call me irrational and unreasonable if you must, but I do , for some reason, think there is something spooky about certain Crop Circles. Whether it’s alien-based? Well, that’s too much of a leap for me to make.
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  11643. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
    2
  11644. What, like life you mean?
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  11645. Ok. I’ll order the carpets from Turkey right now.
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  11646. Yeah, but he’d be a bit saggy in the bollock-region for my liking.
    2
  11647. Only another 750km and these guys can storm the Kremlin and finally take Moscow for good.😆
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  11648.  @paulgibbon5991  I agree. Just making the point that Clarke’s quite clearly tendentious.
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  11649. I find it fascinating that so many people say this Clarke fella is an ‘honest John’, wholly objective and impartial blah, blah, blah, when it’s clear for anyone with ears to hear that he’s partial for one particular side, and his bread is getting buttered in Kiev.
    2
  11650.  @mrc391  Now brown cow?
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  11651. BREAKING NEWS: Full Cabinet announced. Prime Suspect Minister ~ Rishi Sunak💩 Deputy Time Serving Minister ~ Dominic Raab 🕰 Wealth Secretary ~ Rishi Sunak (Obvs) 💰 Chancer of the Exchequer ~ Jeremy Hunt 💴 Purreign Secretary ~ Larry the cat 🐈 Row Row Row Your Boat Home Secretary ~ Suella Braverman 🛶 Giving Offence Secretary ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg 🤓 There is no Justice Secretary ~ Obvs ⚖️ Business as Usual Secretary ~ The Tory Party 👩‍💼 👨‍💼 Fair Trade Secretary ~ Greta Thunberg 🌲 Shirk and Dissensions Secretary ~ The Tory Party 😴 Private Education Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🏫 Dishevelling Up Secretary ~ Boris Johnson 🤪 Environmental Disorder Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🌳 Transdeport Secretary ~ Suella Braverman ✈️ 🌎 < Rwanda Northern United Ireland Secretary ~ Michelle O’Neill 🇮🇪 Scotland Independence Referendum Secretary ~ Nicola Sturgeon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wails Secretary ~ Most of us! Argh!!! 😖 Leader of House of Boreds ~ This post won’t be filled as they are all asleep anyway. 🛌 Counterculture Secretary ~ Swampy 🥾 Chief Whip ~ Neil Parish (🚜 & gimp mask supplied.) Breeder of the House of Commons ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg (with an honorary Breeder without Portfolio role for Boris Johnson.) 🤓 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶
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  11652. Bollocks! England/Britain has been the loser in many campaigns. 1066 ~ Battle of Hastings 1297 ~ Battle of Stirling Bridge 1314 ~ Battle of Bannockburn 1337-1453 ~ Hundred Years War 1372 ~ Battle of La Rochelle 1429 ~ Battle of Orleans 1453 ~ Battle of Bordeaux 1667 ~ Battle of Medway 1741 ~ Battle of Cartagena de las Indias 1775-83 ~ US War of Independence 1879 ~ Battle of Isandhlwana 1916 ~ Battle of the Somme
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  11653. While I don’t consider myself a naturally violent person, one thing I sometimes wonder about in these situations, where quite literally, it seems, one man has the world to ransom, and blunders his way into others’ countries and others’ homes just because he can, is why don’t we just put a bullet in his head?😳
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  11654. @0:05 ‘This is a mute clip’ … I think the actual word they were looking for is ‘moot’.
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  11655. Well, Hitler only had one to mind, which may have been why the arse was so angry.
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  11656. The Lunatic has Taken Over the Asylum policy.
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  11657. My sac is fully functioning, ty.
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  11658. IMO this is an SOS from the IMF, but FFS, you’d think from a reasonable POV they could sort it ASAP, but AFAIK it may not be easy. HTH. AFK.
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  11659.  @marsyasinternational2420  Lol. Talk about looking for something where there is absolutely nothing ! 🤣
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  11660.  @Curmudgeonist  As for NI, well, we can all see that that place is on a one-way road to reunification with Ireland. 😉
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  11661. @Völkisch Anglo Patriot Indeed. So where’s the issue? Everyone has been invading everyone. Where’s the problem?😉
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  11662. @Stone *won’t
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  11663.  @alittlehouseinlancashire6347  Consent, Tony. Consent. All about consent.😉
    2
  11664. Well, Amber has.
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  11665. The trouble with humankind is that too often they forget the ‘kind’ bit. ☮️
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  11666. Tim Burgess would agree.
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  11667. Which is ironic, as most of the rest of the world should be asking for an apology from the British, after the egregious nonsense they have perpetrated around the world these past 500 years.
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  11668. The man in the white suit needs to be carried away by the men in white suits.
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  11669. Yes, Mason Mount is finding the 33° temperatures in Qatar tricky. 😰
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  11670. So many clowns, more like!
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  11671. Commonwealth led by a non-Royal? Sounds about right. As with those arguments for the existence of a deity whereby no one believes in Zeus, or Odin, or Osiris anymore and have gone that step further and followed the logic where it leads and ditched all primitive ideas of God(s); the surely if Wills is arguing that the Commonwealth can do without Monarchy, then why can’t the UK itself? This is surely the direction of travel and I reckon within about 100 years we shall, along with the French and the Americans amongst others, consigned the primitive idea of inherited, unearned privilege to the dustbin of history.
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  11672. Great news! Now they just need to capture the mafia’s most feared Phil, Pete and Dave and we’re done.
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  11673.  @johnbuie9195  An election is not going to dramatically alter the numbers voting yes or no in a Scottish Independence Referendum. We’ve already had Brexit and current polls suggest that a vote tomorrow would yield more or less the same result as 2014.
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  11674.  @johnbuie9195  Huh? No idea wtf yer on about, m8. All I know is this: in 2014 there was a referendum. The noes lost. Currently, polls suggest that there is no real difference in 2022 in terms of support for either side. If there were a dramatic lurch to ‘yes’ in the polls, then a new vote might be justified. There isn’t. The pro-independence folk need to suck it up.
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  11675.  @dalecrocker3213  Or just maggots.
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  11676. About 50 on a blind bend.
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  11677. While not a fan of the Tories, Labour doesn’t do that much for me either. No, this whole thing is bigger than tribal party politics: it’s a crisis of democracy. Why is it that we essentially just have 2 choices every time we go to vote? For some it’s a Hobson’s Choice; 2 sides of the same coin. The voting system needs a radical overhaul. When I go to the supermarket, I don’t expect just a choice between bread or slightly staler bread.
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  11678.  @IrishLadASMR  Your case for an all Irish state incorporating Northern Ireland is magnificent. Facts don’t lie, and I say that as someone who is not for one side or the other here.
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  11679. Cringe.
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  11680.  @winniewingnut2169  🚽
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  11681. Labour’s not working.
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  11682. Title typo correction: ‘Why was Mariupol so important?’
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  11683.  @casperwallace9685  Lol@ ‘an unexpected umbrella or a spray of perfume’.😂 We need lines like that in all this madness.👌
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  11684.  @casperwallace9685  I agree. I think he’s got nothing to lose. A last hurrah before he goes to the great Kremlin in the sky.👀
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  11685.  @Usiwoghene  Not at all. He was just being rigorous. Stop being such an overly-sensitive wet-wipe. 😭
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  11686.  @avae5343  Until it isn’t and it doesn’t matter what your opinion over that is.
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  11687. Yes; just add water and he really becomes a nutjob.
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  11688.  @jgt_  👏
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  11689.  @seagullclub3236  Aside from the gospels, which of course don’t really count, there is scanty evidence, if any, of the historical Jesus. Josephus’ mention was cursory. The whole Jesus story was stolen wholesale from the foregoing pagans and their myths of dying/resurrecting gods. The Christian story is a clear case of plagiarism, and unlike Ed Sheeran, it’s not a case they would win in a court of law if they were ever to legally contest it.
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  11690.  @theunchallengedking7175  The Koran, like the Bible, is a primitive, often barbaric text unworthy of thinking human beings. It was written by men, for men, and has been used to control humankind ever since.
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  11691. I can’t believe any Christian is a Christian in the first place.
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  11692. Yep. They’re a wild bunch down at Sky! 🤠
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  11693. *their
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  11694.  @nicksavov9523  Spellchecker is your friend.😉
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  11695. They are no more ‘amazing’ than the average Russian, or the average human being anywhere. What they have to tolerate with bully Putin though, is intolerable, so kudos to them for dealing with that.
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  11696.  @Silver-st2zq  👍
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  11697.  @vitoravila9908  Yeah, just saying that to say he fully ‘won’ 3 World Cups is stretching the facts a little. For me, those who win a World Cup actually play the vital games, notwithstanding the importance of the wider squad.😉
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  11698. 2 and bit World Cups, m8. Get it right. He was crocked after 2 games in ‘62.
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  11699. If the Tory government were to be miraculously re-elected at the next GE, and were to continue to block a Scottish referendum on independence, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were to be serious civil unrest in Scotland.
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  11700.  @shinywarm6906  Yvw.
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  11701. That’s no way to talk about Sarah Jane.
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  11702. @0:20 “Poles come and go and I’m afraid I don’t actually take a lot of notice of them.” Racist.
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  11703.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Sandra? 🤓
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  11704. *Starmer’s *Labour Party *Labour *.
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  11705. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  11706. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  11707. News alert: Islamic Terrorism’s coming to get ya! News alert: COVID-19’s coming to get ya! News alert: Russia’s coming to get ya! Future news alert: China’s coming to get ya?
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  11708. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  11709. The key numbers are pointing to Spain. Their manager has just turned 42. Multiple of 7. Key age. Douglas Adams thought it the answer to life, the universe and everything. He also began his international work in 2009; 14 years ago. Based on these numbers alone, I predict a Spain win. Edit: the numbers were right.
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  11710. Because once a woman hits 41, she tends to remain there if she can get away with it.
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  11711. ‘Fly Formula’? Yuck! There’ll be maggots and everything in that formula.
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  11712. It’s ersatz. A kind of mock Hollywood Catholic Cathedral. The kind of thing John Waters or Andy Warhol would dig. Chartres, Durham, Leon, Burgos are the real deals. La Sagrada Familia is worth seeing but not worth necessarily going to see.
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  11713. Paris.
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  11714. W.E.F. hasn’t sanctioned this. Yet.
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  11715. And one hand to slap.
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  11716.  @HowDoYouUseSpaceBar  Lol. Touché!🤣👌👍
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  11717. Lol. They should show the first part of this video to tv journalism students as a perfect example of ‘how not to do it’! 🤣
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  11718. ❄️ ⛄️ Crazy stuff! With all these extremes from season to season, they may have to alter the State names accordingly: Squallabama 🥶 Alabalmy 😎 Alaskia 🥶 Baked Alaska 😎 Arizsnowa 🥶 Ablazeona 😎 Arkanthaw 🥶 Arkansawdust 😎 Califognia 🥶 Tropicalifornia 😎 Coolorado 🥶 Swimmingpoolorado 😎 Connecticold 🥶 Airconnecticut 😎 Delaglare 🥶 Delaflare 😎 Flurryda 🥶 Torrida 😎 Georjackfrost 🥶 Scorchia 😎 Thawaii 🥶 Hafryii 😎 Slideaho 🥶 Humidaho 😎 Chillinois 🥶 Grillinois 😎 Windiana 🥶 Indianaked 😎 Iowhiteout 🥶 Fryowa 😎 Kansice 🥶 Tansas 😎 Godforsakentucky🥶Kensunstrucky😎 Louicyana 🥶 Loubeesiana 😎 Mainedeer 🥶 Mainesteam😎 Buryland 🥶 Marysand 😎 Massachillsetts 🥶 Massastewsetts 😎 Michighandwarmers 🥶 Mitchygan 😎 Mittensota 🥶 Manitshota 😎 Missiceslippy 🥶 Missicecreamy 😎 Missfury 🥶 Blissouri 😎 Montanavalanche 🥶 Montfana 😎 Nebbbrrraska 🥶 Nebaska 😎 Nevada ~ already means ‘snowy mountains’ 🥶 New Hampshiver 🥶 New Hampfire 😎 Blew Jersey 🥶 Phew! Jersey 😎 New Mexicool 🥶 Stew Mexico 😎 Snowshoe York 🥶 Tennisshoe York😎 North/South Barrelina 🥶North/South Casolina 😎 North/South Dacoata 🥶 North/South Dakhota 😎 Snowhio 🥶 Ohsigho 😎 Oklabomba 🥶 Sunstrokelahoma 😎 Thawregon 🥶 Oregoneoff 😎 Pennsylweathervania🥶Pennsgrillvania 😎 Rhode Iceland 🥶 Rhode Dryland 😎 Tennessleet 🥶 Tennessteamy 😎 Texice 🥶 Texass 😎 Uthaw 🥶 Blutah 😎 Shivermont 🥶 Heatwavermont 😎 Frozen Riverginia 🥶 Virginiasling 😎 Washingtoboggan 🥶 Washingsun 😎 Rawest Virginia 🥶 Sweat Virginia 😎 Wicesconsin 🥶 Wisconsun 😎 Wysnowing 🥶 Dryoming😎
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  11719.  @sataboom  No.
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  11720. How apt that these two should be caught in Bristol, the centre of the British slave trade, along with London and Liverpool.
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  11721. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  11722.  @Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty  I looked at your video. All I saw was conformist robots. Just sayin’.😊
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  11723.  @AirplaneDoctor_  Slightly disingenuous. Football club fans are just another form of ‘tribe’ like these Hindus and Muslims. When they fight, they are fighting for their ‘tribal’ belief in their club or country. Another form of racism by any other name.😉
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  11724. Quelle surprise!
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  11725.  @express9080 Cringe.
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  11726.  @frausilver2741  I quite like mint imperials, though.
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  11727.  @dgnash  Silly? Vraiment?
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  11728. Aww, diddums. 😢
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  11729. Ironically.
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  11730.  @tamiwillems6094  My maths teacher always told me that XY doesn’t go into XX.😉
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  11731.  Misericordia  *Allah’s
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  11732. Carpet bombing, huh? How about Putin gets some and we could just kilim.
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  11733. Indeed. However, on the bright side, if she’s ousted she’ll be inundated with offers of a work as a Lewis Capaldi tribute act.🥸
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  11734. Of course, Teflon Bozo sticks around, as he and his party have such weak opposition, that even a self-acknowledged lying, law-breaking shyster will have a fighting chance of being re-elected.
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  11735. No. But thankfully, I’ve got a few magic mushrooms.
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  11736. And lock-up Boris Johnson now.
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  11737.  @wleon4068  A Marksist Chaball? 🥸
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  11738. If a bunch of Just Stop Oil activists glue themselves to a road, will we get a ‘stopoiler alert’?
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  11739.  Insane Ukraine war videos  *sausage No capital required, darling.
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  11740.  Insane Ukriane war videos  Yawn
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  11741.  Insane Ukriane war videos  ‘Woman’ is many things; the main one being 100x more interesting than the male of the species, in my experience.
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  11742.  @OrangeT3am  *woman’s *another’s
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  11743.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Cool it with the egg and chips, Jimbo.
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  11744. John Parrott agrees.
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  11745.  @piratesswoop725  👏😆
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  11746.  @teovu5557  Whoosh! 🌬
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  11747.  @rodtukker1904  I like to suck on a Fisherman’s Friend, but I draw the line at being actual friends with them.😳
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  11748.  @ivanminayev2044  👍
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  11749.  @JelMain  Nor have we forgotten the Incoherent Rahere.😉
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  11750.  @cluelessjoe5745  Could be.
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  11751. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  11752.  @panchopuskas1  Indeed. Just shows that Jefferson was speaking from ‘inside knowledge’. Well said!👍
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  11753. He’s a proxy puppet installed by the West. Wake up ffs!
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  11754. Pmsl.
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  11755. William Wragg ragging on his boss? Naughty boy.
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  11756. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! (R Burns)
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  11757. 😂
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  11758. Argh! Not Penny. More daunt ing news for the country.
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  11759. Jesus Christ, he’s so fucking awkward, it hurts. Cringe. 😬
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  11760.  @turboterminator7  *anyone
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  11761.  @brittany1370  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11762.  @ohwiseowl9163  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
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  11763.  @johnp515  Lol.🤣
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  11764.  @californiadreamin8423  Lol. It’s well documented. Do some research, lazybones.😉
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  11765.  @popples50  🙄😉
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  11766.  @j7ech402  Huh?🥸
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  11767. Recycle or landfill? ♻️ 🗑🥸
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  11768.  @stuartannetts300  🙄
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  11769. The ‘Tony Bliar Party’?🙄
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  11770.  @BossySwan  Lol.
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  11771.  @lordgarion514  👏
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  11772.  @Chicago48  Putin was hardly unprovoked though. Not justifying his actions myself, but from his point of view he is doing precisely nothing inappropriate.
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  11773. He’s a French footballer. So no.
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  11774. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  11775.  @karenmbbaxter  The longer they hold off, the more they will be hammered. And if they re-install Bozo it wouldn’t surprise me if there was civil disobedience.
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  11776. I’m not a natural conspiracy theorist but the more this war goes on the more I get the feeling that strings are being pulled by a select few. Almost as if NATO/Ukraine ‘agreed’ to provoke Putin into retaliation. Almost as if Putin is ‘playing’ his part perfectly. The ‘evil’ dictator. Zelensky is a professional actor. It’s hiding in plain sight. What is going on here, who’s really the puppet-master, and what is their endgame? 🤔
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  11777. Arselicker.
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  11778. ‘Our values’? What? 500 years of marching around this planet enslaving, stealing, murdering, colonising; those values?
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  11779. Yeah, but he’ll have to await until at least Christmas. 🦃
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  11780.  @GokhanGursel-eu1xm  Vegetarian?
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  11781. @Aytuğ Çataklı 👍
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  11782.  Citizen  Ok, ok, smartarse.
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  11783.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  Thenks for thet.
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  11784. Sad to hear this. Still doesn’t make Foo Fighters’ turgid stomp-rock any more appealing, however. Dave Grohl: how one rather talented man threw it all away post-Nirvana.
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  11785. Looks like the designer brands have gripped fair Scotia, hooever, eh hen?
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  11786. ‘Thermobaric’ bombs? A misnomer. Surely it’s ‘thermobarbaric’. 💣
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  11787. Well, this gives the lie to the notion that it’s only the woke left who ‘cancel’ people.
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  11788. st
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  11789. ‘Lord Allah’?! Pmsl.🤣I’m more likely to follow ‘Lord Allan’; at least I know he actually exists!
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  11790. And I don’t remember any consideration given to the lives of the vast majority of Ukrainians when Putin invaded about 600 days ago.
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  11791.  @cryptobroskis545  *it’s
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  11792.  @cryptobroskis545  *apes
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  11793. There is so much claim and counterclaim in this war that, as a neutral, one is left with a head spinning more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist . One almost begins to doubt there is actually a real war taking place at all! It couldn’t be, could it? A fake war? A counterfeit masquerading as the real thing being played out on green screens. We are all so many Truman Burbank's in a gameshow made for the sadistic delectation of we know not who. Or, Zelensky and Putin are not really flesh and blood humans but kind of Westworld cyborgs created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. All this talk of ‘puppet regimes’ should’ve been the giveaway: they are going to install Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy as an interim measure until the Ukrainians have a goddamn referendum on partition, thereby obviating a lot of unnecessary bother for the rest of us. None of this is real. Is it?
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  11794. @Randy Knox Depends how one looks at these things. All about perspective.😉
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  11795. Or freedom fighter.😉
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  11796. *a lot
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  11797.  @memyselfandi2506  Is it? Could’ve fooled me, sunshine.
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  11798. In my experience, the vast majority of people in my orbit are pro carefully controlled legal immigration and obviously giving sanctuary to genuine asylum seekers/refugees. The main issue here is simply that a good proportion of the UK population currently thinks (rightly or wrongly) the bulk of these migrants are those seeking illegal entry for economic reasons. Until the government (any government) demonstrates it’s got a grip of those people entering the UK, this animus towards migrants generally, regardless of their true status, will only increase I fear. As someone once said: if liberals don’t enforce borders, fascists will.
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  11799. Good grief. 🤦‍♂️
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  11800. He’s the most hillbilly double-barrelled named person ever.
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  11801. “Thomas Bradley. Sky News. Kyiv.”
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  11802.  @brianferguson7840  25 years?! Lightweight. My old grandpa was fighting flames for 70 years. Old flames, mostly, but flames nonetheless.🤓
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  11803.  @whattwowhat  They avoid burgers.
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  11804.  @katys.7767  Oh, I agree, Switzerland is hardly bordering a Putin-like figure; yet, for Le Pen may win. Just making the point that if we made everyone neutral we could live relatively peaceful lives. Personally, I’m not for centralisation, as a general rule, but what I would have is a UN army made up of all nations as a proportion of their population. Every country would be neutral in practice. If any fuckwit, and there’d be many, I know, got too big for their boots, the UN army steps in and removes them, and violently, if necessary. Just a thought.
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  11805. @0:03 Presenter looks like a genetic mash-up of Anthea Turner and Holly Willoughby.
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  11806. It’s the same guy as yesterday. He’s a cross-dresser on the weekends.
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  11807.  @MiscellaneousMike81  What like the ‘democracy’ America has ‘committed’ to these past 150 years, where she blithely walks into countries and causes mess, or overturns democratically-elected governments from within and installs her proxies. That democracy?
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  11808. They will lose more than a ‘single soldier’ if they put boots on the ground; they may very well lose whole cities, incinerated in a nuclear whoosh in a matter of seconds.
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  11809. There are no fashists (sic) in Ukraine. Of that, one is very certain.
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  11810.  @UsmanGhani-zg5ge  Huh? 🤔 What’s that got to do with being ‘proud’ of an accident of birth?
    2
  11811. Sharia Law? Who’s she?😳
    2
  11812. But can we christen butchers? 🍖
    2
  11813. Mark Everett agrees.
    2
  11814. 🪖 Poland should stop procrastinating and just send those Leopard tanks: they’ll knock spots off the Russians! 🐆
    2
  11815. Disagree. But I’ll stop there or we may fall out. ☢️
    2
  11816.  @ad_astra468  Lol. It was a joke!🤣 Was commenting on the notion of the UK being an island, and thereby relatively protected, you’d think, yet thousands pour in undocumented every year.
    2
  11817. In other words: Ukraine is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the West as many of us suspected all along.
    2
  11818. Tommy tanks? Relieves the tension, I suppose.
    2
  11819. Major Boost? Who’s he? Commander in Chief?
    2
  11820. Lol@‘where this is heading.’ Into the basket beneath the guillotine. That’s where the head was heading for that unfortunate lady.
    2
  11821. News alert: Islamic Terrorism’s coming to get ya! News alert: COVID-19’s coming to get ya! News alert: Russia’s coming to get ya! Future news alert: China’s coming to get ya?
    2
  11822. Fair play to Michelle. She’s putting herself in the line of fire there in front of those artworks. At any point she could have a Victoria sponge shoved into her face. 🍰
    2
  11823.  @LauRoot892  Lol.
    2
  11824.  @LauRoot892  Laura 😉
    2
  11825. Relax everyone: these may be Communist jets but they can never get their Engels right. Marx my words.
    2
  11826.  @axldave9940  Why not what?
    2
  11827.  @axldave9940  No.
    2
  11828.  @obama_beans7948  Not necessarily. Just applying the same standards as the inbred ‘indigenous’ twats apply here in the UK.
    2
  11829.  @incognito_.  Is it? I’m only applying the same rules as the ‘indigenous’ idiots in the UK apply, when they waffle on about having more entitlement than others. S’all.
    2
  11830.  @bottleofvodka1927  Who are?
    2
  11831.  @theonly6359  I agree that the West has an awful record of invading other countries and/or overturning democratically-elected governments from within, but none of this makes what Putin is doing right.
    2
  11832.  @dieselscience  My ‘mom’ died in 1997. Deal with it.
    2
  11833. There is not a lie-detector in existence that would survive the onslaught of Boris’ duplicity, where he ever to be strapped up to one.
    2
  11834. Remember, politicians are essentially self-interested and looking out for themselves and their party. This fella has resigned, and on the face of it, it looks like the honourable thing to do. However, he’s simply made the calculation that Johnson could be a grave liability for Tory re-election at the next Election, and he would be right to make that calculation.
    2
  11835. And not just for Raheem!
    2
  11836.  @chrislegg  Yep. Probably.👍
    2
  11837. Prisons don’t just come in bricks and mortar.
    2
  11838. Isn’t it curious that we always seem to have something to worry about? For quite a time Islamic terrorism was on the radar, as we were all told to be on the highest alert for possible terrorist attacks. Then comes Covid-19 and we’re stuck inside for over a year, on government orders. Now, that seems to have receded and the ‘new’ cause of concern, the new enemy at the front door is Russia, and specifically Putin. Almost makes one think there is a certain underlying method to all this apparently random stuff. 🤔
    2
  11839. 😉
    2
  11840.  @bkessel77  Lol.😃Great minds …
    2
  11841. 🥱
    2
  11842. 🥱
    2
  11843.  @liukin95  She’s just another fake politician trying to appeal. I get that. They are essentially hawking themselves and their wares. But people can see through this crap. As for what she’s actually saying ? Well, what’s new pussycat?
    2
  11844. Not sure. But looks like the Tories will soon be getting rid of their white dwarf. To be replaced by …? Perhaps a brown dwarf. Or maybe the return of a red giant? It’s all up in the air.✨ 🔭
    2
  11845. What, worse than incest or Morris dancing?
    2
  11846.  @hermanwooster8944  I repeat: So Putin concentrates a massive build-up of troops and tanks encircling Kyiv for nothing? Pmsl.
    2
  11847.  @hermanwooster8944  So Putin concentrates a massive build-up of troops and tanks encircling Kyiv for nothing? Pmsl.
    2
  11848.  @oliveryt7168  Lots of sources. Try Businessinsider: March 15, 2022. “Putin thought Russia's military could capture Kyiv in 2 days, but it still hasn't in 20.” Loads of others from around this time; Google is your friend, son.🤓
    2
  11849.  @MMCV963  *a lot
    2
  11850.  @OreoSponge  That may very well be the case; however, there will probably be a few more hundred thousand dead at his hands before then, alas.
    2
  11851.  @hollowparagon1102  Yeah, but in this case there is clearly a sizeable enough minority (30-40%) to make a referendum viable. Of course one wouldn’t have a referendum on each and every issue, but in the case of Ukraine, given the language/cultural differences which clearly obtain between the East and the West, to me this seems a way to be seriously looked at. If only to spare the rest of us nuclear annihilation.
    2
  11852. How about having a Republic where it is ‘ruled’ by the individual women involved?
    2
  11853. ‘Abortian’? No, they don’t abort Martians.
    2
  11854.  @Jay_in_Japan  What’s so sacred about a human life? Given the choice of whether most humans on this planet wanted to exist or not, I’m willing to get a lot of money the vast majority would rather not. The Buddha didn’t say ‘life is suffering’ for nothing.
    2
  11855. It’s rather amusing that Russia expected to take a country the size of France with 44 million people at the start of this war, and yet here they are, unable to take a steelworks after weeks at it.
    2
  11856. … and spark WW3.
    2
  11857. Putin: often seen riding horses. Macron gifts Xi Jinping with a horse. Kim Jong Un very publicly riding a white horse in a recent North Korean propaganda film. All I’m saying is if we ever see Iran’s Supreme Leader on a horse, we may just have our 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 🐎 🐎 🐎 🐎
    2
  11858.  @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz  Tbh mate, I’m more scared of not having the vaccine than having it. This said, there is something just a little fishy about how they keep on exhorting us all to have a third, a fourth, and probably a fifth and a sixth in fairly short order. Where there’s vaccines there’s brass.😉
    2
  11859. Indeed. Comes across as an unthinking automaton who’s had a full frontal lobotomy. I much prefer a full bottle in front of me! 🍷
    2
  11860. Hmm … 🤔Avenge Putin. All very well and while the Bible may have one or two decent ideas the main trouble with the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is that it puts a whole load of opticians and dentists out of work. 🦷
    2
  11861.  @secretmantiis6464  *off
    2
  11862. @0:48 Yes, there appears to be a great cleavage in the UK between the ‘haves and have nots’. Our current government may have gone tits up, and yes, the UK has its knockers, but we do our best. The government has a big enough chest of cash to help here. Yes, we may have some financial difficulties as a country, but we’re not bust.
    2
  11863.  @JannJhankx  1640-1807 167 years. I’m closer, I think.
    2
  11864. Not sure. He’s definitely gripping something down there, though.😳
    2
  11865.  @hailhydra7959  I wouldn’t be so sure about having that confidence in the EU; to me, it’s a deeply undemocratic, dictating, unaccountable, expensive, bloated thing. However, in theory, I’m kinda for European integration; alas, the practice these past 30 years has not lived up to the promise, and I can totally see why folks want naff-all to do with it.🤓
    2
  11866. That ‘em’ may be not needed. Check it.🥸
    2
  11867. Chris ‘Pincher’: nominative determinism in action, people.😳
    2
  11868.  @jeycalc6877  No, false equivalence.
    2
  11869. Yes.
    2
  11870.  @finlaybiddlesden2426  Ok, soft lad.
    2
  11871. That’s a terrible way to talk about Kay Burley, ffs.
    2
  11872. 🎶 “Why are we waiting? We are done debating. Slating and hating. There is no placating. Get the Tories out!” 🎵
    2
  11873. If Cromwell were here, I’d be scared for my neck!
    2
  11874. They chose Liverpool to host Eurovision.
    2
  11875. Bunkers are bonkers but this could be a banker.
    2
  11876. BREAKING NEWS: Finalised Cabinet. Prime Suspect Minister ~ Rishi Sunak💩 Deputy Time Serving Minister ~ Dominic Raab 🕰 Wealth Secretary ~ Rishi Sunak (Obvs) 💰 Chancer of the Exchequer ~ Jeremy Hunt 💴 Purreign Secretary ~ Larry the cat 🐈 Row Row Row Your Boat Home Secretary ~ Suella Braverman 🛶 Self Defence Secretary ~ John Prescott 🥋 There is no Justice Secretary ~ Obvs ⚖️ Business as Usual Secretary ~ The Tory Party 👩‍💼 👨‍💼 Fair Trade Secretary ~ Greta Thunberg 🌲 Shirk and Dissensions Secretary ~ The Tory Party 😴 Private Education Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🏫 Dishevelling Up Secretary ~ Boris Johnson 🤪 Environmental Disorder Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🌳 Transdeport Secretary ~ Suella Braverman ✈️ 🌎 < Rwanda Northern United Ireland Secretary ~ Michelle O’Neill 🇮🇪 Scotland Independence Referendum Secretary ~ Nicola Sturgeon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wails Secretary ~ Most of us! Argh!!! 😖 Leader of House of Boreds ~ This post won’t be filled as they are all asleep anyway. 🛌 Counterculture Secretary ~ Swampy 🥾 Chief Whip ~ Neil Parish (🚜 & gimp mask supplied.) Breeder of the House of Commons ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg (with an honorary Breeder without Portfolio role for Boris Johnson.) 🤓 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶
    2
  11877. Aww, diddums. Der, der. Here’s your dummy. Suck on that.
    2
  11878.  @georgiedenvis3756  😉
    2
  11879.  @hyhhy  Uh huh.🤔
    2
  11880. Seethe.
    2
  11881. Kylie was.
    2
  11882. Edward Woodward might have something to say about that.
    2
  11883. He would think about it if they were under 35, with a nice rack.
    2
  11884. ‘Sexes’; two sexes, arguably (due respect to the hermaphrodites amongst us). There are as many genders as there are liars in Parliament.
    2
  11885. Come again?🤔
    2
  11886. Not quite as bad as the Russian government, however.
    2
  11887. Yes, but a few brave ones have ridden a few broomsticks. 🧙‍♀️ 🧹
    2
  11888.  @wildebeeste  Er, not sure ‘tough titty’ is the best phrase to use in the context of a chat about Ann Widdecombe’s physical attractiveness. 🥴
    2
  11889. Er, it does. Last time this happened a couple of weeks ago, it was all over Western media.
    2
  11890.  @tams805  In a very real way, it kinda is.
    2
  11891.  @bluefallon6374  As if there aren’t ‘Ukrainian trolls’. All’s fair in love and war, petal. Think about this.
    2
  11892. @MrLaci0110 If any of that stuff lands and maims then beware!
    2
  11893. Can I stay seated for freedom? Bunions.🤓
    2
  11894. I can. France; Thailand; Mexico; New Zealand; Morocco are just 5 that instantly spring to mind. There are dozens and dozens of other ‘more beautiful’ places than Scotland, and those who claim Scotland the most beautiful place are invariably, in my experience, those who haven’t seen that many other places. Scotland I would describe as mildly attractive. As Dr Johnson said of the Giant’s Causeway, I would equally apply to Scotland: “worth seeing but not worth going to see.” I say all this as a born and bred Scot. If I were not from here it’s only really Edinburgh I would be drawn to, in terms of making the effort. The rest? Not so much.
    2
  11895. That’s ok then. Normally ‘that big yellow patch at the top’ means I’ve pissed the bed again.🙄
    2
  11896. Give a fool a gun and a fool will gun a school. Or supermarket. Or nightclub …
    2
  11897. Another day, another mass shooting in the USA. The question America has to ask itself is whether it wants to protect its Second Amendment Rights, and ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,’ in the face of a country with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. Personal freedom to protect one’s liberty with a gun, or collective freedom to live relatively free from fear of gun death at the hands of a homicidal maniac?
    2
  11898. You’d have to kick them in first!😉
    2
  11899. Islam, like all the rigid monotheisms, is a benighted, primitive relic and should have been consigned to the dustbin of history long before now.
    2
  11900. UK, along with America and other western interests, has ‘changed regimes’ rather a lot in the past. I don’t think Russia would be beyond them, if the will were there.
    2
  11901.  @Friday0891  Yeah, right. That’s why England/Britain is the 5th biggest economy in the world.😉
    2
  11902.  @adamkennedy7297  👈Sense of humour bypass alert! Sense of humour bypass alert!
    2
  11903. Well, ‘Jesus Christ’ is fake and propaganda.
    2
  11904.  @wayneb9530  Last time I checked, her corkscrew curls were still gracing the airwaves. 👩‍🦱
    2
  11905. He’s not having the time of his life.
    2
  11906. @Johann Pretorius Sense of humour bypass, much? 😳
    2
  11907. @fab I agree.
    2
  11908.  @hsdsaunders  They do.
    2
  11909.  @gearoidt4017  This is about the 100th time I’ve seen this copied & pasted meme. Yawn
    2
  11910. In all this polarised debate about Zelensky being a NATO/EU/US stooge and Putin being a new Napoleon trying to bring Ukraine back into the mother Russia fold, one can quite lose one’s bearings. One ends up, as ever in these situations, in believing half of it is true for both sides. Putin is not all devil and Zelensky isn’t all angel.
    2
  11911.  @Hanyao8  That’s precisely why an East/West Ukraine may be a way to go here. East and West seem too culturally/politically incompatible go live together in same sovereign nation.
    2
  11912. Indeed. It’s like that time Ant & Dec swapped sides, and I was confused for days.
    2
  11913.  @DP-ic2lz  Respect to your integrity. ✊
    2
  11914. Cue the ghost of Leslie Phillips: Ping pong.
    2
  11915. The Glazers were at the wrong club all along; they should have been running the Potters: Stoke City! 🏺
    2
  11916. Well, looking on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
    2
  11917. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
    2
  11918.  @20alphabet  Who said I was an atheist? It was Jesus in question here.🤓😉
    2
  11919.  @JelMain  Lol.
    2
  11920.  @JelMain  Ah, but Susie knows where her ‘vowels’ are.😉
    2
  11921. I bless the grains down in Odessa. 🎶
    2
  11922.  @sjoerdtheemperor5229  👍
    2
  11923.  @hamuagilmore7902  Not to be pedantic, but I never said Einstein split the atom.😉
    2
  11924.  @VanceWarren83  I never said Einstein split the atom.😉
    2
  11925.  @crusminions  There is humour in everything son. Think on. 🐸 < “Read it! Read it!”
    2
  11926. Kermit’s brother? 🐸
    2
  11927. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
    2
  11928.  @AnnesleyPlaceDub70  Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
    2
  11929. For about 7.9 billion people, this is ‘international news’.
    2
  11930. @0:33 “Special constitutional powers” - aka dictatorship.
    2
  11931. *Never mind
    2
  11932. No.
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  11933.  @seanolusina6058 It’s to do with general antipathy to mass immigration in a large and growing cohort of Brits (and Europeans, more generally). The recent massive swings to the right in the European elections are a sign of the times and a sign of the interesting times to come.
    2
  11934. Ah, so they’ve cloned John Swinney. Cool.
    2
  11935.  @tigerskatemom  👍
    2
  11936. *those
    2
  11937. Dope, dope, dope, dope, dope is better.
    2
  11938.  @Awibrahor  Lol.
    2
  11939. How many shots? Well, if it’s a weekend, at least 20. 🍹
    2
  11940.  @joyfullone3968  What difference does it make what it’s called? It’s a pox. Deal with it.
    2
  11941. Gerard Butler agrees.
    2
  11942. ‘e’.
    2
  11943.  @Dawe957  Nice try. A bit late, however, with that particular comment.
    2
  11944. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (William Shakespeare) 🐠
    2
  11945. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
    2
  11946. That might not be the only place she’s got balls.🙄
    2
  11947. Pffff, dear oh dear.
    2
  11948. Ah, the Incoherent Rahere strikes again!
    2
  11949.  @vanshookme6531  I stole it myself!😆
    2
  11950.  @britishrose9417  I repeat, he was a legal immigrant, thus rendering your point null and void. When he arrived, he was a legal immigrant. Cope better.
    2
  11951.  @britishrose9417  I’ve looked into this. Her dad is actually a legal immigrant to the UK.
    2
  11952.  @britishrose9417  That’s my very point! The legals (and obviously genuine refugees) I have no issue with, and neither does most of the rest of the population.
    2
  11953. Says the person who can’t spell ‘muppest’. (sic)
    2
  11954. Triggered, much?🥸
    2
  11955. Here is your publishing deal. 📚
    2
  11956.  @a.t.c.3862  I’m not American. I disagree.
    2
  11957.  @Jay_in_Japan  No; I’d rather there were stricter controls on who legally gets a gun and what type of gun this is. This ain’t rocket-science to most every other nation on this planet. This is a peculiarly American problem, and we all know why that is.
    2
  11958.  @wasidanatsali6374  The gun crime in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico is overwhelmingly linked to intra-criminal gang turf wars. Between 2009-2018 there were 0 school shootings in Uruguay, 0 in Argentina, 2 in Brazil, 8 in Mexico. In that same period there were 288 in America.
    2
  11959. Yeah, and like those two recent nutters in Buffalo and Uvalde were full paid-up gang members protecting their territory, right?😳
    2
  11960.  @Fluffyslippers128  We’re all only 3 meals away from murder. Given the right conditions, the veneer of ‘civilisation’ is liable to crack very easily and we descend to the amoral swamp.
    2
  11961. I don’t even need my phone. I carry a portable sundial everywhere I go.
    2
  11962. Militarian you’d like to f*ck? That’s Sean Bell.🥸
    2
  11963. That’s no way to talk about Sean’s manboobs!
    2
  11964. Roger by name, roger her by nature?🥸
    2
  11965. Yes, it was called ‘Big Ben’. ;)
    2
  11966. Really? You’d do Michael Clarke? Weirdo.
    2
  11967. Indeed. Until they become ‘nerds’ there is no hope for the jocks.
    2
  11968. 🍻
    2
  11969.  @flashfm7456  Disagree. I’d used ‘snow’ too much already and ‘mittens’ just work.
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  11970.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Says the chump that copies and pastes every one of his comments 1,000,000 times over! Oh, the double-standards egregious hypocrisy! 🤣😉
    2
  11971. Slightly different in east Ukraine though, as there is a large pro-Russian contingent; unlike in west Ukraine.
    2
  11972. ThermoBARBARIC flame throwers, more like.
    2
  11973.  @harleydavidson3586  There is no God. Deal with it.
    2
  11974.  @omegadomega  Yeah, but right now it is; this sorta stuff is fluff; should be kept for the locals and the sheep.
    2
  11975. Thousands of Ukrainians massacred and living a hell on Earth on a daily basis, and some folks on a wee island no one had heard of until now are having sleepless nights over a cable car out of commission. To paraphrase Jane Austen: one half of the world cannot understand the problems of the other.
    2
  11976.  @czerwonadupa9547  No they didn’t. I didn’t. Wtf does ‘being a Scouser’, have to do with not getting justified criticism for illegally cheating the system?
    2
  11977.  @msjujuz266  No. I’d rather still be alive, ty.
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  11978.  @greattime860  I agree to a great extent. America has invaded other sovereign nations and/or more overturned democratically-elected governments from within that just about any other country I can think of. However, as it has carried the biggest geopolitical spear for the past 70 years or so, this is partly understandable.
    2
  11979.  @Robert-cu9bm  I disagree. The politicians get disrupted as well. They earn a bit more than the average Joe, yes, but I’m sure they stress out just as much as the next Jill.
    2
  11980.  @gaz3602  ‘Shrooz-buh-ree’. Kay and this fella are both wrong then. I was told it was only pretentious sorts that plumped for ‘shrows-buh-ree’. Doesn’t surprise me in Kay’s case then.
    2
  11981. Kay says ‘shrowz-buh-ree’, I say ‘shrooz-buh-ree’, shrowz-buh-ree, shrooz-buh-ree, shrowz-buh-ree, shrooz-buh-ree, let’s call the whole thing off. Kay says ‘traanch’, I say ‘tranch’, traanch, tranch, traanch, tranch, let’s call the whole thing off.
    2
  11982. Er, no.
    2
  11983.  @LilzForever123  George Carlin. His later stuff, mainly.
    2
  11984. They all have colons.
    2
  11985.  @famalam943  Yes, I get that but am just a bit perplexed about a bunch of tanks being that much more than what we’ve been supplying Ukraine since the start of this war. If these tanks were being driven by Germans, Brits and Americans, then that would be a “major escalation” for me, but as it is? Nah. Not really.
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  11986. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power, is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔 Really? Why do we collectively allow this?
    2
  11987. Er, I think Western jets ‘bombed’ the bridges.
    2
  11988. They do. Boys, quite often.
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  11989. Yes, it’s called ‘The Ministry of Silly Talkers’.
    2
  11990. I’ve just confirmed it with Gerard Butler. Yes, it was 300.
    2
  11991. And flame-proof underpants.
    2
  11992.  @Love_N_Let_Live  Allegedly.
    2
  11993. Yes. Rains a lot. Puddles everywhere. Take an umbrella. Or a dirty Mac.
    2
  11994. Yes, but only when the train is, er, entering a tunnel.😳
    2
  11995. Has your college recovered from the trauma yet?
    2
  11996. Thus spake, er, Zippy.
    2
  11997. ‘Hancock’s 5 minutes’?
    2
  11998. The Queen?! Trust?! Lmao. She’s a shapeshifting lizard, part of the cabal that rules us all. David Icke told me to say that.
    2
  11999. Really? Thought it was Orthodox Christian. Do they have ‘masses’?
    2
  12000.  @larrybuchannan186  I was talking urban spaces, Laz. I agree: your natural beauty is stunning and far more impressive than the UK’s. My point was the cities/towns - as a rule, America’s are monumentally bleak, ugly and soulless.
    2
  12001. @0:25 Blimey! Max Clifford’s ghost lives! 👻
    2
  12002.  @farmerbob139  👍
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  12003. ‘Methusala’? Is that Biden’s choice of beverage in the morning?
    2
  12004. There is no God, there is no heaven, and these very well may not be people. 🦎
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  12005.  @ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid  😉
    2
  12006.  @ButchCassidyAndSundanceKid  He’s not a turkey, though.
    2
  12007.  @stevebrightmore4937  I disagree. Millions don’t. From my own anecdotal observations, much of this is agenda-based political shenanigans. My own apolitical opinion is rather simple. 1. This planet is rapidly warming. 2. Human activity is largely responsible for this warming.
    2
  12008.  @williamshakespeare2550  S’ok, for now, though. I’m gonna light up a Hamlet cigar and take it easy.
    2
  12009. That’s part of the issue. No one sent them. There is no return address.
    2
  12010. Not sure about that. “Allan” may be able to lend a hand, though.
    2
  12011. Brazil is essentially the USA of South America: *Huge landmasses *Huge levels of racism *Huge issues with ‘democracy’ *Huge wealth disparities *Huge levels of crime *Huge colonial pasts *Huge historical slavery issues *Huge tossers as current and recent Presidents: Trump and Bolsonaro
    2
  12012. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: is every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
    2
  12013.  @tastypymp1287  He ran the same route every day, petal, along with others! Cope better.
    2
  12014. He actually did in this case, sweetie. Cope harder.
    2
  12015.  @donaldfarmer8421  Yeah, if rumours are to be believed Putin would ask Klitschko to turn round and bend over.😳
    2
  12016. “Siamese fighting fish. Fascinating creatures. Brave, but on the whole stupid. Yes, they’re stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here, who lets the other two fight while he waits. Waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself. And then, like SPECTRE, he strikes.” (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) ‘The occasional one’ = USA/NATO?
    2
  12017. He’s wearing the British and Ukrainian flags on his lapel; all I’m seeing with this inept Tory government are red flags.
    2
  12018. @skinjim123 Er, yes.
    2
  12019.  @chrisrye5892  Er, yes.
    2
  12020.  @foreveremoatheart  Sense of humour bypass alert?😳
    2
  12021.  @peeeep766  Says someone called ‘Pee eeP’. Oh, there’s a pot and kettle.
    2
  12022. Yes. If she Bj’s BJ.
    2
  12023.  @LSD77777  My point is it’s fake. A bit like the lady herself. I do quite like her, though.
    2
  12024. The Documentary Channel?🤓
    2
  12025.  @glorytorussia1608  Yawn
    2
  12026.  @glorytorussia1608  Pull yourself together, man!
    2
  12027.  @evonerfin3  I beg to differ.
    2
  12028.  Z  I agree.😉
    2
  12029.  @jimbojimbo6873  Yes, they do, Jimbo. 46 odd million voters in UK. 60% average turnout. I make that ‘several million’ to win a majority.
    2
  12030. The Monarchy: an unelected, unaccountable, money-grubbing tribe of hangers-on. Free from public scrutiny, what have they ever really done for us? A symbol of ‘Britishness’? Not my idea of Britishness. The Queen is in a bind, as she can neither truly speak for herself or Britain. She cannot hold herself to account, or politicians to account. Ah, but the Monarchy promotes Britain abroad. Does it? How are we supposed to ‘promote’ democracy abroad through a deeply undemocratic institution? The internal contradiction is insurmountable. Finally, the monarchists chime in with ‘but they are so good for tourism’, but that idea may be demolished in a jiffy: look at France; a Republic for 250 years, and the Versailles Palace is the 3rd most visited tourist site in the whole of France, so the point that the tourist stream to Britain would run dry if we abolished the monarchy is a non-starter.
    2
  12031. … it up and start again?
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  12032. I did. She told me Jimmy Krankie.
    2
  12033. Wow! That had to be the quickest sex-change in history! One second, Wilfred is a female in the thumbnail, the next he’s a bloke!
    2
  12034. BJ is blowing hard these days, it seems.😳
    2
  12035.  @steveparker8065  I agree. But she said we only get 5% from Russia.
    2
  12036. It’s only 5% from Russia.
    2
  12037. They were going to call it ‘Helsinki’ but that might have given the Portland locals ideas. 😉
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  12038. Yes, but does it taste like a false flag?
    2
  12039.  @umenhuman7573  The other thing I would say on the ‘resources’ question is why Russia should be blundering into other nations and plundering their resources when nature has abundantly gifted Russia with more than enough of these: Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates, and gold … not to mention it being the world’s second largest oil and gas exporter. The ‘resources’ argument doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny to any impartial observer.
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  12040.  @umenhuman7573  Yes, but this is a strategic land grab for the purposes of controlling the Black Sea.
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  12041.  @eliasziad7864  That leaves 6, 800,000 km squared of Russia that isn’t permafrost. That’s about 14 times the size of France.
    2
  12042. I know, it’s ridiculous, right? All these people from Warsaw illegally entering the US.
    2
  12043. Wow! Really? The barely concealed racism in that image, given cows are sacred to Hindus. 🐄
    2
  12044. I find that lispy thing that she does vaguely attractive. Not as nice as Lisa Nandy’s lisp, though.
    2
  12045. *a lot
    2
  12046.  @wolfiestreet6899  Well, some of Boris’ lockdown parties look a bit dodgy.
    2
  12047.  @professorpancakes6545  Nah. Get those lugs syringed, mate.
    2
  12048. No.
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  12049. Major Tom died. Too much walking.
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  12050. No. No baldness. It looks like a desperate attempt to cover it. But it’s not. His hair is strong. Even if his principles aren’t. Look at his brother and dad re. hair. No baldness.
    2
  12051. A man about to potentially lead us into war and he looks like an albino rabbit pulled through a cheese grater backwards. Jesus wept.
    2
  12052. Chris ‘Pincher’: nominative determinism in action, people.😳
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  12053.  @Radiationville  The ‘solution’ is quack, quack. 🦆
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  12054.  @nomadiclapse  But it has 4x fewer homicides per capita.😉 Pmsl & Lol.
    2
  12055. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddy’s in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  12056. Says someone with a Thai surname. More noodles? 🍜
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  12057. USA + Iraq/Libya/Afghanistan/Yemen/etc = OK Russia + Ukraine = Not OK Impartial observer: all of it not ok.
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  12058. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  12059.  @UlickMcGee-Mo  👍😉
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  12060. *a lot
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  12061. I am in blood/Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more/Returning were as tedious as go o'er . This is where Putin’s at, it seems. Might as well wade in for some more murder and mayhem.
    2
  12062. So we have an epidemic that becomes a pandemic but that’s all academic if there is no endemic.
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  12063. Possibly. Probably. Wrong. Not really. Won’t happen. It’s not.
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  12064. Uh huh. And we live on a planet with finite resources. Most recycling is indeed, “a scam”.
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  12065.  @gerhardkotze7235  Yeah, but Stone’s a well-known is a conspiracy theorist and supporter of communist dictators, so he’s coming at this from as polarised a position as the Right-wing of America/NATO/EU. Two Left-wing dictators don’t make a Right.
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  12066.  @XJ0n3s  I’m agnostic. There is precisely zero credible evidence for God’s existence. I leave the option open as I can’t 100% rule it out. But I’m 99% sure there is no God.
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  12067.  @seewhatifound  That’s fine. We can agree to disagree. I happen to think that humankind’s burning of fossil fuels these past 250 years is directly contributing to the rising temperatures on this planet. 😊
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  12068.  @schrodingerscat1863  That’s fine. We can agree to disagree. I happen to think that humankind’s burning of fossil fuels these past 250 years is directly contributing to the rising temperatures on this planet. 😊
    2
  12069. *a
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  12070. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  12071. Kamala Harris demands summit meeting with whomever is in charge of US immigration policy.
    2
  12072. Yes. Including every single European who went to North/South America since 1492. Send them home!
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  12073. Kinda ain’t. Planet’s warming. The only real debate is if this is manmade or not.
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  12074. It’s all fairytales, sweetie. Move on. It’s so boring at this point. 👍
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  12075. ‘Tavistock Clinic’? ‘I have a cock clinic’, more like. 😳
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  12076.  @patsimpson7834  £12 million? Hello?😉🤓🥸
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  12077.  @ronniemackenzie6699  Er, he shelled out £12 million already.😉
    2
  12078. No. But TYPING IN CAPS LOCK FOR NO APPARENT REASON is a monkey pox symptom. 🐒
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  12079. If he went to the Middle East, they’d double his current wages.
    2
  12080. Yes. More copium? 🤓
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  12081. Er, former Yugoslavia, anyone?
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  12082. While observing the bedlam being played out daily on our screens, I couldn’t help but be struck by how eerily similar this whole farrago is to Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove , with a slight tweaking of point-of-view, and flipping of roles, in which America is Russia and Russia is America. In Kubrick’s masterpiece, American Brigadier General Jack D Ripper (Putin), has been driven insane with paranoia by events of the Cold War, (in Putin’s case insanity and monomaniacal Post-Cold War paranoia at a loss and diminution of his beloved Russia, as was USSR.) Ripper has become convinced that there is a plot by the ‘Commies’ (USA/NATO in Putin’s case) to ‘sap and contaminate our precious bodily fluids’. (In Putin’s case to sap and contaminate the minds of the Russians, and the idea of a Greater Russian Empire.) Ripper decides to take pre-emptive, first-strike unilateral action by striking the USSR. (Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine, and by extension the West in general.) The B-52s, under Ripper’s command, go in and hydrogen bomb the USSR. (Mercifully, Putin has not yet gone this far.) The US president along with his back-room staff attempt to stop the bombers from delivering their payload. (We can only pray Putin has back-room staff strong enough and prepared to step in if he tries to fulfill his nuclear threat.) Here’s the rub, however, the only way to stop the bombers in Dr Strangelove ,is a recall code which only Ripper knows. (We must pray, even the atheists/agnostics amongst us, that with Putin, it’s not only him that has access to the button.) The US government tries to capture Ripper to get the recall code from him, but Ripper gets away. (Will we be able to stop Putin?) The really scary kicker in Kubrick’s film, however, is that the Soviets have built a doomsday machine that will launch enough missiles to destroy all life on Earth if an American nuclear bomb hits them. (I’m pretty confident Putin’s enemies - us - won’t go this far.) Eventually, Ripper is overpowered, but shoots himself before the recall code can be given. (An inside job on Putin, perhaps, before he can incinerate the planet?) One man ignores the recall code and piles headlong towards Moscow. (A member of Putin’s inner team, perhaps?) He attempts to drop the bomb (On Ukraine? On Europe? On America?) After some door-jamming black humour he opens the doors and rides down on the bomb. 💣 Moscow retaliates with horrifying consequences for the planet. (Surely the West won’t go this far.) Let’s hope that, in this case, life won’t imitate art.👀
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  12083. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  12084. @0:30 “Because hydrogen has been the fuel to save the world ever since the 19th Century.” Indeed. And it’s only the various elements of the fossil fuel industry in cahoots and protecting their interests, that has blocked this. It’s only now, with global warming and uneconomical fossil-fuel stocks, that hydrogen is being touted.
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  12085. He’s like a bizarre out-of-touch human stick insect that is more interested in his pencil ties, several houses, and making sure he and his corrupt party of shysters cream it while the real workers like the nurses, the firefighters, the postal workers, the rail workers, the teachers et al do the stuff that keeps this country going.
    2
  12086. Talk of WW3 always amuses me. As if Homo Sapiens haven’t been at war since the year dot. We’ve always been in the midst of World War 1.
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  12087. Look him up, Bri. Some decent choons.👍
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  12088. Thanks for that, Citizen Layne.👍
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  12089. Vladimir’s input is Putin troops in east Ukraine while sleepy Joe’s in bed, Biden his time … 🛏 💣
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  12090. Correct. I never eat gravel, either.
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  12091. It’s a Tsnurseami of strikes. 🌊
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  12092. Not only do men seem to have all the dictator roles filled; it appears that they make up all of the gamblers, too. Coincidence?
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  12093. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.” 🧐
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  12094. As are the mosquitoes! 🦟 Ouch!
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  12095. Rodge is now officially a FedEx-tennis player. New balls please. 🎾
    2
  12096.  @stealthy3000  *God’s
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  12097. Donald Lamont.😊
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  12098.  @cann0708  How about skipping them all and throwing the throne in the dump?
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  12099. Lizard tears, if the rumours are to be believed. 🦎😳
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  12100. Yes, and some of those watches are made in China by slaves.
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  12101. Never like Mourinho from day 1, when he came to the Premier League back in 2004. His combination of cocky arrogance, sore loser and “park the bus” anti-football never enamoured me to him one iota.
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  12102.  @Petal4822  Well, that’s one bunch of fascists being murdered and murdering another bunch of fascists. Win win!🥸
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  12103.  @deeznutz8320  No. But it is in this case, deezy baby! 😉
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  12104.  @Fogaata  😳
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  12105. My ex-wife was much the same.
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  12106.  @methos1999  Meaning that the Cold War never really ended and USA/NATO/EU are deeply suspicious of Russia and China. NATO has a first-strike policy in its charter.
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  12107.  @Ofasia777  I’m coming round more and more to the idea that NATO/EU/USA have rather sinister intentions. However, this in no way excuses Putin from invading a sovereign, self-governing nation.
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  12108. *have
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  12109. Most of them are just fiddly kidders.
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  12110. I prefer ‘Love Rears Its Ugly Head’ ~ Living Colour.😉
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  12111.  @1stPrinciples455  Oh, I’m not defending Putin; just making the point that Zelensky will have been well-protected throughout this whole thing. That’s all.
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  12112.  @1stPrinciples455  Not sure about that one, matey. Pretty sure Zelensky has spent much of these past 6 weeks in a secure bunker somewhere, such that his vitamin D levels will be in sore need of topping up.
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  12113. Double standards, rank hypocrisy alert! US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Iraq (again) 2003 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (and yet again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK Putin’s an arse. But he’s simply playing the exact same tune America and her partners have played from 1776.
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  12114. That’s a gross insult to 8 year old girls’ football teams.
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  12115. ‘Bread and Circuses’? Darts? More like kebab and karaokes.
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  12116. Putin’s more than movable. He’ll be dead soon, anyway.
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  12117.  @jadler457  Well, my point is that ‘Adler’ isn’t a “great British name”. Yeah.
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  12118. *talking *mispronunciations
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  12119. She’s gonna do her telekinesis party trick. 🔪
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  12120. Well, Berlin is a bit of a dump.
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  12121. Never? Not necessarily. It will take aeons but I reckon we can evolve beyond the primitivism of war.😳
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  12122.  @sleelofwpg688  Just for the record, India and Pakistan had more than a contretemps back in 1999. So it can and does happen.
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  12123. Someone had to be.
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  12124. *a lot
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  12125.  @renatovonschumacher3511  Not sure it’s really to do with that. NATO, for me, is a bit of a red herring here. Putin, I feel, would’ve gone for Ukraine regardless of the NATO influence. As it is, he can use that as a pretext. However, like a spurned lover, he was going to go for Ukraine come what may as a fulfilment of his mad greater Russia project. At this point, at 70, all bets are off as he has nothing to lose and could go down in history (for those of us who are here to read it) as the man who instigated the obliteration of life on this planet as we know it, Jim.
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  12126. From Putin’s point of view he is doing precisely nothing inappropriate. I disagree with him, but he’s simply acting on his model of the world. As do we all.
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  12127.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  What’s ‘rehabilitation’ got to do with anything here? This should surely be about justice for a given victim’s family and if a given family asks that the defendant be in court for sentencing, there is a strong case to be made they should be there.
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  12128. Yeah, but not sure one can ever trust a fella who’s the son of a man called ‘Neville Neville’.😳
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  12129. Triggered. Hehe.
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  12130. Lol.
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  12131. Ye yo ar righ.
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  12132. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  12133.  @ricco3480 Well, the current one is 74,000 and if they’re going to build a new stadium they’ll probably stick on (at least) another 10,000.
    2
  12134. S’ok. The only fatalities were a couple of hibernating hedgehogs. They are now in hog heaven. 🦔 🦔 RIP.
    2
  12135. It was a ‘minor thing’ for Jimmy Savile, too. 🤓
    2
  12136. Why? Were they all illegal Albanian immigrants or something?
    2
  12137.  @LondonTraveler358  Who?
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  12138.  @LondonTraveler358  Styles? Yeah. Blame him: for crimes against music and fashion. 👍
    2
  12139. Kane? A bit harsh.
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  12140. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’. 🛸
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  12141.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *biased Back to summer school tomoz, Jimbo?😉Hope so, son.
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  12142. Tough titty, Bobby.😉
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  12143.  @eddyd63  Woosh!
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  12144. Wes Streeting is clearly a collage graduate.
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  12145. I’d rather be sucked-off, frankly.
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  12146. Reminds me of Loyd Grossman.
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  12147. Yes, he’s a right Tommy Tanker.
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  12148. With spelling like that, not I! *who’s
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  12149. Do spiders carry rabies?😳
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  12150. Ridiculous, isn’t it? In some edited stuff the reporter talked about ‘paulio’, ‘gordonrrhea’ and ‘anthonythrax’.🤓
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  12151. On this basis, why isn’t every European from the US and Australia being picked up and deported back to Europe?
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  12152. *They’re *they’re *.
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  12153. Ok, that includes Britons emigrating anywhere as well then. Oh, and all the Europeans who have colonised North America, South America, New Zealand and Australia, thereby displacing the native populations need to be returned to Europe now.
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  12154. Ok, only if the UK allows the plantation of thousands of Irish into Cornwall, displacing the indigenous community and allowing it to be ruled from Dublin.
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  12155. And while Americans are shooting themselves up every day, it seems, the global 👓 turn to the 🇮🇱-🇵🇸 conflict. Well, the first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  12156. Pass me another Granny Smith. 🍏
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  12157. Well, to be fair, as a neutral the Watford Gap sounds a mite more alluring than the Bolton Gap. Just sayin’. 🤷‍♂️
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  12158. *their
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  12159. *whom
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  12160.  @danielwebb8402  S’ok, Daniel. Jesus never existed anyway so we’re all wasting our time here.
    2
  12161. Not if the court is a tennis court in Iceland and the coffin is in a crematorium.
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  12162. Johnson looks like a hedge that’s been dragged through a hedge backwards.
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  12163. And that is why I’ve never trusted men called ‘Roger’.
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  12164. That’ll be about 3 seats then.
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  12165. All this talk of ‘windfall’ and ‘inflation’ leads me to believe Keir should be monitoring his prune consumption more closely.
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  12166. Hear, hear!
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  12167. That might be too xx-rated a question for Keir.
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  12168. Yes. Bet Lynch.
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  12169. 🕉 Brahma Mia here we go again and in all this dRama, we have Hanuman in Downing Street. The first Hindu PM. Kali he do any better than Truss? Shivas a disaster. She had all the Krishna of a wet lettuce. The lettuce lasted longer. Let’s Vishnu Sunak doesn’t Varuna the economy. Shakti do that, it could be a tragic Dharma. Brah, man, the whole thing is a mess. 🕉
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  12170.  @coasterhockygamingboy9549  *.
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  12171.  @iejejduc8379  *Get
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  12172.  @tastypymp1287  One final point: he wasn’t armed. Ta da! Engage your brain before engaging me next time, fool.🥸
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  12173.  Hobby 700  Never voted Labour in my puff, chump. Try again. Try better.😉
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  12174.  @acthompson9983  No it doesn’t. I said, let’s wait for the evidence. The racist goons have piled in on little to no real evidence.
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  12175. CAPITAL! 👍
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  12176.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  It won’t starve, but will be severely weakened and then America will step in and finish her off. All assuming conventional conflict; if nukes get sparked then all bets are off.
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  12177. Zelensky’s in an invidious position. He’s the leader of a country being used as a punchbag between Russia and America. The more this desperate farrago continues, the more it appears that America is perfectly happy with Ukraine being their ‘human shield’ as Russia pummels them, while in their turn, Ukraine weakens the potency of the Russian army to be able to sustain any future campaigns once they have done what they needed to do in Ukraine. It’s a bit like a bull fight where the Ukrainian matador gets gored, whilst still managing to inflict considerable damage to the Russian bull, and America will step in at some future point to administer the final thrust to Putin’s Russia. Then there will be a false calm for a while, and then suddenly China will feel provoked to move on Taiwan and a feeling of deja vu will be felt by all.
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  12178.  @RUTHLESSambition5  *a lot
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  12179. Poor old Anoosheh; he never stood a chance against the photogenic Nazanin in the media scrum upon their combined release.
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  12180. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  12181.  @Recusant_  Yeah, tell that to the raped woman.
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  12182.  @neverobey1477  Yeahhhhhh.
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  12183.  @dustersinternational221  Diabetes alert! 🍫
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  12184.  @dustersinternational221  It’s a film.😉
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  12185. Er, he looks like a Mexican Drug Cartel Member in his sleep, bud.
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  12186. They all say anything to get power. Wake up.
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  12187. Day 15 in the Big Brother nightmare. Some more Ukrainian/Russian cannon fodder were sacrificed. For what?
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  12188.  @Tibor860  Who said it wasn’t?
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  12189.  @stretfordender11  Good point. Was almost destined in a way, that Madrid would win this, as soon as they turned that 2-0 game around against City.
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  12190. Back in line, Schofield.🙄
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  12191. No.
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  12192. God also doesn’t exist. Seethe more.
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  12193. @0:16 I think she means change of ‘tack’. Schoolgirl error. Easy done. It’s like those people who say ‘uppermost’ for ‘uttermost’ and off my own ‘back’ instead of off my own ‘bat’ and ‘tinkling’ the ivories instead of ‘tickling’ the ivories.
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  12194. “Please mind the crap.”
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  12195.  @elnino9772  Or maybe they just haven’t been educated out of their ill-concealed, unthinking, primitive racism.
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  12196.  @randomguy4116  Huh? Don’t be a tit, m8. Inner city here, son. Don’t give me that ‘frontline’ crap as it just won’t wash. Asylum seekers and legal immigrants are welcome, in that order. This is rather simple. Immigration, done right, works. Britain simply needs to get control of its front door. We should assess what kind of skills we need to import and these people should be the first pick. Genuine asylum seekers should also be justly heard. The trouble at the moment, is that Britain has left its front door unlocked while it popped to the shops for a pint of milk, and some unwanted squatters have moved in.
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  12197.  Russian Live Leaks  👈 🐵 💩 👨‍⚕️
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  12198. No, I’m a fishmonger.
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  12199.  @acthompson9983  Lol@‘Party Members’ Precisely 0.3% of the total electorate. Wakey wakey! ⏰
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  12200. Conmen never con a good, honest person because it’s impossible. Lol. What utter, utter drivel. It’s the ‘good, honest’ people who are more likely to be conned! 🤦‍♂️
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  12201.  @shtyry7150  Same, aren’t they? 5ft7. Given this physical similarity, maybe we could hire a ring and watch them slug it out. 🥊 Either that, or a game of rock, paper, scissors. 🪨 📄 ✂️ Or even noughts and crosses.
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  12202. Totally agree! We definitely need more homos! 👍
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  12203. Bring back nationalised rail and Jimmy Savile and soggy egg sandwiches! But not necessarily in that order.😳
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  12204. Because baseball’s just rounders and American football’s just rugby for p*ssies.
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  12205. *women’s Oh, look it’s edgy illiterate boy again who doesn’t seem to be aware of something so basic as the possessive apostrophe.
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  12206. Lol. Rules for thee but not for me.🤣
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  12207. @@toreeliasson6145 Promises to buy Toree a spellchecker for their next birthday.
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  12208. @@toreeliasson6145 *can’t *control *Americas *Sorry *.
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  12209.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  Yeah, facts aren’t convenient here are they?😉
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  12210. All roads (and flight paths) don’t lead to Rhodes.
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  12211.  @isay207  Earth?
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  12212. You’d think he would be ‘rainbow-friendly’, given he’s ‘I rain ian.’
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  12213.  @TomNook.  That’s just an outright lie. America has more per capita emissions than China but the 2018 figures show China 8.0, France 5.0 and UK 5.6. Moreover, these per capita figures in Europe have halved since 1980, while in China, in the same time period, they have increased eight-fold!
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  12214.  @Ruscococo1  Pmsl.
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  12215. There probably is no God. Deal with it.
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  12216.  @Zei33  He’s not lost it yet. I agree he completely miscalculated the mood of most Ukrainians, the Ukrainians who look west and not east. He appeared to think that the non-overtly pro-Russian Ukrainians would somehow roll over and have their stomachs tickled by him based on ‘Slavic brotherhood’ and all that jazz. This has been his biggest mistake. He’s not mad though. Drunk on power but paradoxically clear-eyed simultaneously.
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  12217. The virtual reality, reality reality law :that exact point where we play out our violent video games for real, is where we know human beings have truly lost their marbles.👀
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  12218. Isn’t it interesting that, as a rule, we wouldn’t allow someone to knock on our door and demand they forcibly take our property; yet, for some reason, one individual, with enough agglomerated power is able to knock on a neighbouring country’s door and force their way in and aggressively claim it as theirs? 🤔
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  12219. @0:55 “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.” Perhaps. But also 🎶 “She’s a joke(r), she’s mediocre, she’s a midday choker, she sure does want to hurt someone. She’s a picker, she’s a grinner, I’m a lover, but we need to bin her, I play my music in the sun.” 🎶
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  12220. The other day. She stopped breathing.
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  12221. How rude!
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  12222. @DeeZ Almonds In your opinion, chummo.
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  12223.  @busty960  Sense of humour bypass, anyone?😳
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  12224. We’re pretty hot on the fish, though. 🐠 🍟
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  12225.  @TomNook.  Wrong.
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  12226. The bottom line is that the vast majority of people hold liberal, democratic values such as the support for individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), democracy, secularism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and a market economy. Putin is an old relic who will pretty soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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  12227. If all the world were a conscientious objector war would be ended overnight.
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  12228.  @deejay5860  Yup. And when it lays an egg. Riotous! 🥚
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  12229. This should be pinned. Bravo! 👏
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  12230. Not for the ethnic minorities it wasn’t. They got in!
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  12231. Yeah, but tbf, the ‘boarded-up’ thing was always gonna be inevitable everywhere given that you can buy everything from your sofa and have it delivered in a jiffy!
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  12232.  @MyPronounIsGoddess  Yes, there is hypocrisy there. I repeat: he says it’s ok for him to live elsewhere, but not ok for others to live here. Pure hypocrisy. Look up the definition, Bev, as you appear to be struggling with it. It’s really a very simple concept demonstrated perfectly by the OP.
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  12233. Hawk: ‘I’ll do the same for you some day, bud.’ Rescuer: ‘Don’t mention it.’😉
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  12234. The fact he isn’t one of these ingratiating ‘love me, love me’, waggy-tail kind of dogs, actually makes me like him all the more! 🐕
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  12235. Way to kill the mood. 😢
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  12236. Peace talks in a fantasy world Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Ok, we want Russia to de-nuclearise and committed to not militarising the Russia/Ukraine border.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine (or anyone else)” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in eastern Ukraine.” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Russia to emerge from communist dictatorship and come into the light of free, liberal democracies.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg to be recognised as free Ukrainian cities.” Peace talks in the real world Putin: Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done” Putin: “I want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “Done.” Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.” Ukraine: “Done.” Moral of story: Sometimes bullies just get a little of what they want, but never mess with someone by pitching up at their home expecting to take it forcibly, for as Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs has shown: you are unlikely to win.
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  12237. We have to be careful around any ideas of revenge for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  12238. Jesus. By the end of this, I was losing the will to live. His delivery is so pompously supercilious it’s almost unbearable. Just get on with it, man ffs!🧐
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  12239. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  12240. @24:31 Lol. ‘I did an awful lot of laughing’. In watching about 25 interviews with this guy I don’t think I’ve seen him laugh once!🧐
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  12241. Would have been ironic if Macron had been hit with a few Brussels sprouts.
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  12242. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  12243. The way that thing has come down looks like a pilot has aimed it like a torpedo head first into the ground. Looks like some kind of sabotage to me.
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  12244. The Ride of the Vladkyries
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  12245. The Ride of the Vladkyries
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  12246. No matter how I try to get my head around this, I just can’t understand how, essentially, one man, one fucking man , can cause so much trouble for millions of other men and women. After 300,000-odd years of Homo Sapiens, how we haven’t established a viable mechanism whereby we can remove a single dictator from power, is a bit of a mystery. If a kid in a kindergarten rides roughshod over the will of all the other kids, the staff step in. Why are we not doing that as adults?
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  12247. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  12248. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  12249. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  12250. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  12251. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  12252.  @alexiveperez4687  In my experience, you’re rare. People creating self-identity around the primary fact of an accident of birth is really what most of this planet’s population upholds. You’re the first individual I’ve heard in some time seeming to express that you hold no truck with this; that you don’t take ‘pride’ that you were born somewhere and not somewhere else. Refreshing to hear. Thanks for your comprehensive replies.
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  12253. @Mon Cherii What? Crabs?
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  12254.  @phoenixrisin2269  Depp? You said it.👍
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  12255. My theory is that Mexicans are no ‘nicer’ or ‘kind-hearted’ than almost any other nationality you care to mention. Yes, some other cultures are perhaps a little more reserved than Mexico, but to suggest they are not as nice or kind is invidious, to say the least. A country, which last time I checked, was ranked the 18th (Statista: 2021) most violent country in a world of 195 suggests there is something very rotten and deeply unkind in the state of Mexico, notwithstanding the apparent warmth and ostensible friendliness of the populace.
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  12256.  @mickjager5974  Yeah, I can’t imagine not being able to read or write in your mother tongue. In the world we live in that just curtails your life chances point blank.
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  12257.  @mickjager5974  How’s Keith, btw? 🎸
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  12258.  @mickjager5974  Lol.🤛
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  12259.  @disarmsox  Indeed. Slightly hyper-judgmental if that’s not too oxymoronic a phrase.
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  12260.  @ragnarok283  Just what I was thinking about 99% of you nutters in here. You are all scary. Must be the American water, or something. Too much fluoride.
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  12261.  @phoenixrisin2269  Yes, you’re right; Depp is a strong case for cluster B. Good call.
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  12262.  @ryanmichaelangelofavale5863  Good call, Ryan. Hanna’s one of these unbalanced bints who can only see one side of things. Dangerous fool.
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  12263. @Ulrika Lundgren *whole
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  12264.  @ToddJumper  There probably is no God, so have no clue how an imaginary daddy in the sky is going to help anyone here, sonny.
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  12265. When it comes to Putin, we have to be careful around any ideas of revenge for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  12266.  @strider1237  I was exaggerating for comic effect. I kinda was with him, more or less, until yesterday. To say I’ve flipped 180 degrees was an exaggeration. Maybe 20/30 degrees has just gone over to Heard’s side, as it stands. I never thought I’d say this, but Johnny Depp is a right royal fuckwit. However, Heard may be worse. That is yet to be established. But Depp comes across as one of the most self-absorbed, and actually deeply dull, uneducated people I’ve seen recently. He’s massively disappointed the image I had in my head of him. He appears to think that druggies and drunks regaling us with their trips is interesting. It ain’t. It’s the second most boring thing in the world, second only to those numskulls who tell us about their dreams in minute detail. He just seems a massively disappointing human being, that’s all. And for 58, he acts like he’s about 11. Extraordinarily childish. Not attractive, not clever, not interesting. He’s made a couple of decent movies though.
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  12267. I think, on balance, the Internet is probably a good thing. For me, its principal boon is the democratisation of opinion. We are able to post and are able read the posts of those who in a pre-Internet age would’ve had no public voice. Of course, the downside of this is that every man and his dog can post about the minutiae of their lives and, realistically, this is going to be of no interest to 99.9% recurring of the population. However, I would argue that just the fact of anyone with access to the Internet having a voice and that being ipso-facto a good thing, regardless of the content they post. It’s down to the consumer to discern and sift the wheat from the chaff as they see it. My main gripe against the Internet, however, has to be the drastic deterioration in our individual/collective attention spans. This inevitably bleeds into ‘real life’ and manifests itself as an intolerant impatience in one’s interlocutor as soon as they feel that urge to be distracted by the next thing/person. Paradoxically, I find that people who are not so in thrall to the Internet in their day to day lives are the people most likely to listen, to truly listen to another, whereas those who seemingly have the most practice at listening to others in the cacophony of Internet chatter are often disastrous at being able to listen and interact in ‘real life’.
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  12268.  @pijcab  How about you take your meds, small boy. Something looking a little small from where I’m standing, petal. There, there.
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  12269.  @rxvengxrl  I don’t side wid anyone, darlin. I fear you may have the wrong person. I operate on the evidence; not like everyone else in this thread who have hung, drawn and quartered Heard before she’s even spoken. Echoes of a witch-hunt and very, very disturbing in a supposedly ‘free’, ‘innocent until your proven guilty’ country like America. That’s all.
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  12270.  @alader0786  Well, I’m good. No point ignoring that now, is there?😉
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  12271. I think, on balance, the Internet is probably a good thing. For me, its principal boon is the democratisation of opinion. We are able to post and are able read the posts of those who in a pre-Internet age would’ve had no public voice. Of course, the downside of this is that every man and his dog can post about the minutiae of their lives and, realistically, this is going to be of no interest to 99.9% recurring of the population. However, I would argue that just the fact of anyone with access to the Internet has a voice and that is ipso-facto a good thing, regardless of the content they post. It’s down to the consumer to discern and sift the wheat from the chaff as they see it. My main gripe against the Internet, however, has to be the drastic deterioration in our individual/collective attention spans. This inevitably bleeds into ‘real life’ and manifests itself as an intolerant impatience in one’s interlocutor as soon as they feel that urge to be distracted by the next thing/person. Paradoxically, I find that people who are not so in thrall to the Internet in their day to day lives are the people most likely to listen, to truly listen to another, whereas those who seemingly have the most practice at listening to others in the cacophony of Internet chatter are often disastrous at being able to listen and interact in ‘real life’.
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  12272. I think, on balance, the Internet is probably a good thing. For me, its principal boon is the democratisation of opinion. We are able to post and are able read the posts of those who in a pre-Internet age would’ve had no public voice. Of course, the downside of this is that every man and his dog can post about the minutiae of their lives and, realistically, this is going to be of no interest to 99.9% recurring of the population. However, I would argue that just the fact of anyone with access to the Internet has a voice and that is ipso-facto a good thing, regardless of the content they post. It’s down to the consumer to discern and sift the wheat from the chaff as they see it. My main gripe against the Internet, however, has to be the drastic deterioration in our individual/collective attention spans. This inevitably bleeds into ‘real life’ and manifests itself as an intolerant impatience in one’s interlocutor as soon as they feel that urge to be distracted by the next thing/person. Paradoxically, I find that people who are not so in thrall to the Internet in their day to day lives are the people most likely to listen, to truly listen to another, whereas those who seemingly have the most practice at listening to others in the cacophony of Internet chatter are often disastrous at being able to listen and interact in ‘real life’.
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  12273.  @alader0786  You forgot the non-binaries; stop discriminating!
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  12274.  @alader0786  Have you never heard of exaggeration for comic effect? You need to get out more; perhaps buy a sense of humour while you’re at it.
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  12275.  @raulelenes4194  Yes, in law, as we speak, Catalonia is part of Spain but in the souls of quite a few Catalonians I have met over the years their loyalty was clearly for Catalonian independence as they are a language & distinct culture in their own right. On this topic I totally understand why the Basques, as well, would be pushing for outright independence on a similar basis to the Catalonians. Me? I think all nationalism is just crazy talk, quite literally it doesn’t make sense to take any kind of pride in an accident of birth; to me it’s like being proud of the colour of my eyes or the fact I have a brother & sister; with these, as with being born somewhere I had absolutely no say in the matter so being ‘proud’ of being Spanish or Catalonian or Basque or anything like that is just meaningless & very very dangerous as witnessed in human history over the past 200, 000 years. Religion & nationalism have so so much blood on their hands that I thank God every day I’m agnostic & am very grateful that I feel absolutely no impulse to harm another human being on the basis of some nebulous, meaningless & actually irrational nationalism. Be proud of your achievements, if that’s your sort of thing, but invisible deities in the sky & accidents of birth? No thanks. No flag waving for me.
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  12276.  @theovermansailor5519  No, I agree. By the letter of the law, Depp will probably win this thing. Just good to point out that he’s a bit of a dickhead, too, in all this.
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  12277.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  We’ll see. You seem to have it all pre-judged, too. Remind me never to have you in any jury I may be being judged by. I repeat, it looks like both are to blame here; who has the burden of blame, if anyone, has yet to be determined.
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  12278. Yeah, but you can have your mind in the gutter so long as you’re looking at the stars.
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  12279.  @alangarxia8291  Tasteful.
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  12280.  @christofro661  Look mate, no one really knows anyone. All I’m saying is that Depp looks like a squalid, petulant, aggressive, childish nightmare to live with. I’ll make my decision on Heard when more evidence is in. We are dealing with Depp at this point. It’s called ‘not prejudging the issue’.
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  12281. To be fair, mate, he outrageously cheated in the 1986 World Cup. If they had had VAR then, he would never have won the World Cup. No doubting his footballing ability, though, just questioning the content of his character.
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  12282.  @monicawilson8075  Controlled Chaos deserves respect: Mexican, but speaks English like Jane Austen. He/she could be authentic, but I’m mighty suspicious, as being British, and educated, he/she seems too good to be true vis-a-vis speaking English. Put it this way, having taught English lit. undergraduates, I can safely say that this ‘Mexican’ has a far better grasp of the language than many I have taught. Odd, but true.
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  12283. One word: Messi. Cheats don’t deserve plaudits.
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  12284. Yes, it’s amazing how an accident of birth can sway one’s opinion one way or the other, isn’t it?
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  12285. A little patronising; how do you know he doesn’t have a rich, varied life apart from just football?
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  12286.  @matiasbrachini8741  Chill out, man. This guy just happens to like a genius footballer; that’s what he was asked about. For all you know he could be a professor of astrophysics at Buenos Aires University. Stop patronising and judging him. I happen to dig Maradona, but I dig 10,000 other things, too.
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  12287. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  12288. That dynamic between the 2 will be interesting. Egos involved and all that. Will Jude accept the Beta role when the supposed Alpha arrives? 🤔
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  12289. How I escaped from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me of all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco . 🏃‍♂️
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  12290.  @euroesc5013  Then why do so few Catalans, it seems, actually speak French beyond the obvious basics?
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  12291.  @eoseguinte7529  I understand what you are saying. For the record, I’m not French, but Scottish.😉
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  12292. Er, I think we knew this already. 🤦‍♂️
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  12293.  @jamiejones7805  Ah. Jealousy. Everyone hates the biggest boys in the playground.
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  12294.  @MS-gk6cl  No.
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  12295. If you think it’s easy mixing up the words in French and Spanish it’s even more so when it comes to an English speaker learning Spanish & Italian. I’m fluent in French and semi-fluent in Spanish and Italian and, while I found mastering French relatively easy (largely as it was the foreign language I studied in school), it has taken me so much more time to grasp Italian and Spanish and keep them disentangled. Keeping French in a separate box is easy enough. Doing this with Italian & Spanish is quite tricky, to say the least.
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  12296.  @Caedus696  My instinct is sabotage.
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  12297. Look, the easiest way to settle this debate as to whether Zaragoza is in the north of Spain or not: Extreme point north is 43’47 N and extreme point south (on the mainland) is 36’00. Zaragoza? 41’65. Therefore, I hereby declare (drumroll) … that Zaragoza is indisputably *NORTH*. It feels vaguely south, however, and methinks this is due to the Islamic heritage redolent in many of its most signature buildings.
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  12298. It can’t just be me. Surely. Paulina and Sara are clearly separated at birth. Can we see the birth certificates? If not related, they are as close to proof of the doppelgänger theory I have seen in quite a while. 👯‍♂️
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  12299.  @evab2274  Marvellous input. Moral of story: unless for professional interests, no one in Barcelona will learn French. P.S. As an Edinburgher, you have my deepest condolences for marrying a Weegie!😆
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  12300. Is it me or is the dude in the red sweater constantly drunk? The way he slurs his speech makes it sound so or is this the regular Argentine accent?
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  12301.  @jguillermooliver  Thanks for confirmation!😂
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  12302. What’s remarkable about this insightful wee film is after 14 enlightening minutes of exposition they didn’t even give us the money shot of one if the paragliders taking off from hillside with an onboard camera!!! Missed opportunity, surely.
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  12303. An English-language version in a similar style that I’ve always liked is: I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me, than a full frontal lobotomy. Or one that’s quite well-known usually seen outside stores that sell camping equipment: Now is the winter of our discount tents.
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  12304.  @quico522  I recall getting the TGV from Perpignan to Barcelona quite recently and, from memory, it took 1h20. Back in the day (I’m old enough to remember) I did this same trip and think it took about 3h, taking the scenic route and winding its way through Portbou. I just assumed that with increasingly speedy transport connectivity, along with the quite strong cross-cultural Catalan intermixing, that most people within a boundary, say, from just south of Narbonne on the French side, to Barcelona, would be, almost as a matter of course, trilingual in French, Spanish and Catalan. Put it this way, if I were of either Basque or Catalan heritage I would almost feel it my duty to know French, Spanish and Basque/Catalan, if not fluently, then at least to an advanced level.
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  12305.  @roxercita  Yeah, I get the whole Franco suppression of minority languages thing; but surely there were ‘underground’ Basque and Catalan resistance movements promulgating their respective languages. Also, I find it slightly ironic that Franco suppressed these minorities when he himself came from Ferrol, Galicia, a place with its very own language more akin to Portuguese than to Castilian Spanish!
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  12306.  @alexiveperez4687  I accept your rejoinder and the statistics therein. Reading between the lines, however, and correct me if I’m wrong, I’m sensing that you are quite strongly anti-Catalan national independence, and if so, this will inevitably be colouring your stance, and you’ll be quoting me the statistics to bolster your argument. Could you confirm or deny whether you are for or against Catalan independence?; I’m assuming you’re Spanish and if so, you’re bound to have an opinion on this. I have no Spanish heritage and am coming at this from objective a stance as possible in these terms, that is, I have no real opinion either way as to the desirability of Catalan independence, whereas, most, if not, frankly all, non-Catalan Spaniards I have ever met are quite vehemently (yes, I would use that tendentious a word) anti-Catalan independence. I know the Spanish constitution, as it stands, forbids any kind of nationalist secession, but this doesn’t necessarily dampen the separatist fires burning in the souls of many a Catalan, and, come to this, many a Basque and, to a lesser extent, a fervent, albeit non-mainstream, Galician cohort. As I said somewhere else, language is power, and, of course, these 3 regions have their own distinct language, much to the chagrin of many a non-Galician, non-Catalan, non-Basque Castilian-speaking Spaniard I have met through the years, and I’ve met a fair few.
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  12307.  @eddiegesch8645  Er, what are you on about? Sweden has just as many freedoms as the US. One of the most important ones being that, as a rule, you can go to school every day without fear of being blown away by a disaffected homicidal nutjob who can access assault rifles like he can buy a candy bar. It’s ridiculous. Can you people not see this? Just regulate your guns. Vet. Background check. Monitor the types of guns you are dispensing willy-nilly. Every other country on this planet, more or less does this. America is an outlier. Wake up!
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  12308.  @alexiveperez4687  Just fluent in gibberish, mate!😆
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  12309. I’m also willing to bet that most of Spain’s lack of national chauvinism, if the, often invidious, surveys are to be believed, is rooted in relatively weak national economic performance. I can’t account for it, otherwise, can you? Maybe also a lack of trust in the national institutions as well; perception of widespread corruption? I would add that Spain is consistently rated higher in these surveys by non-Spaniards, so it could be a case of Spain proving Burns’ insightful words: O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us; To see oursels as ithers see us! (Oh, would some Power give us the gift; To see ourselves as others see us!)
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  12310. Normally I love these videos. This one was off from start to finish. Stressed mother cat clearly visible. Let them grow a little before doing this stuff.
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  12311.  @alexiveperez4687  Understood. But … Barcelona and its wider metropolitan area is hardly representative here, as it’s an international city with a strong admixture of internationals and non-Catalan Spaniards. I have traveled fairly extensively in the region over the years (Lleida, Vic, Puigcerda, Tarragona, all over really) and what struck me in all these places was the strength of Catalan feeling for, yes, full independence. Most were speaking the language, and most were not wealthy elites, which, as you suggested, was the part of the Catalan society most in favour of independence. For example, I was in Girona about 5 years ago for a few weeks, and everyone, and I mean everyone, was as the default setting, speaking Catalan (to me, Castilian, as a non-Catalan speaker); young, old, wealthy, not so wealthy. I think this is more representative of what’s going on rather than the slightly anomalous city of Barcelona. You didn’t really answer my question though. So, again, tomorrow, Catalonia, the Basque region and Galicia all become independent: what would your feelings be about this? You say you’re not political, and I respect this, but you will have feelings either way, I’m sure. Part of the reason I ask is that over the years I have sensed a strong emotion, almost fear, of the aforementioned regions’ secession from the wider Spanish state, in the rest of Spain. Yes, they grumble and mumble in public about those pesky people in the northern regions talking independence, affecting an air of insouciance, but when it comes down to it, if the Spanish state were to split, as we currently know it, these non-separatist wider Spaniards would almost feel it like the loss of a limb. I don’t just mean the wider economic implications of regional secession and independence but I mean an almost metaphysical sundering of their very being and identity; like losing a brother or sister.
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  12312.  @alexiveperez4687  Ok, this is fascinating. I’m British (Scots-born) and my feeling is, as I said above, a sense of strong civic pride and cultural confidence in Spaniards. Here, I detect the opposite. In Scotland in particular perhaps, but also in the UK in a wider sense I detect a sense of a lack of confidence based on bad climate; poor food; questionable national historical legacy (empire and all that ignominious jazz); poor general education, indeed, in many quarters a kind of actual disdain for the idea of the life of the mind (how many of us, aside from those self-motivated linguists among us, learn other languages?); poor, atomised, family lives; tribal politics; alcohol abuse (and drugs; here in Scotland we have consistently had the highest European drug death rates for aeons); misfiring national sports teams (mainly football), and so on. For me, when I travel in Spain every person I meet with, more or less, radiates this glowing self-confidence; of course, many will be putting on an act, for whatever reason, but it’s not arrogance; I associate that more with France, a country I’m fond of in many ways. No, as I say, Spain doesn’t radiate weak confidence vibes to me but you and I could just be meeting different types of Spaniards!
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  12313.  @alexiveperez4687  I find it funny you say that you think Spaniards don’t have a very good opinion of themselves; I am old and have visited your country literally dozens of times and if there’s one thing I didn’t detect, ever really, it was lack of civic (I hesitate to use the word ‘national’) self-confidence. What I perceived, rightly or wrongly, and I’m willing to be corrected, was an extraordinary self-confidence based around the following: language; food; natural beauty of the landscape; climate; appearance (most Spaniards I have met would be mortified, I suspect, if one dared suggest they were anything less than impeccable in personal appearance); beauty and rich culture of Spanish cities; sporting achievements; artistic legacy, in architecture and painting and literature; the list could go on. I find it fascinating that you, a Spaniard, are telling me that actually, despite appearances, Spaniards actually lack self-confidence!
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  12314.  @alexiveperez4687  Yeah, but in Girona, in Vic, in Puigcerda?
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  12315. That’s a deep insult to a shower of sh*t.
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  12316. Hmmm … countries supporting Russia, that well-known one-man dictatorship. Belarus: one-man dictatorship. Syria: one-man dictatorship. North Korea: one-man dictatorship. Eritrea: one-man dictatorship. Yes, I think I see a pattern here. 🤔 And another thing, why are all the dictators a one-man band? Where are all the female dictators? Or even the occasional hermaphrodite dictator? One could almost say men were being a little greedy with the concept of ‘dictatorship’.
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  12317.  @paulwally9007  Yes, if they are too large they can give me indigestion. 🤢
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  12318. Dunno. Geoffrey does though. 🏏
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  12319. Adam and Eve agree. 🍏
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  12320.  Ian Whetstone  10 years, 1 comment, Ian, and it was worth the wait!😆
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  12321.  Ian Whetstone  😂
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  12322. That’s the point. They aren’t, in the main. Nor do they want anything to do with Putin’s Russia, in the main.
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  12323.  @SebsWorld  Lol@‘it provokes male behaviour’.🤣 That’s not women’s fault, that’s the fault of some men not being able to control themselves. The problem is with the men. No one in my orbit that I’m aware has ever used violence on a woman ‘because of what they wear’. You have the problem. Let the women wear what they want and control your own behaviour.👍
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  12324. Huh? How does the way a woman ‘dresses’ justify violence? Do tell… 🤔
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  12325. Source?
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  12326. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  12327. *? Belendtens.
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  12328.  @lucieerazimova5260  Yes. Fair point. Ok, let me revise this: we are all neutral until some arsehole decides to rain on the parade. Then we get the nukes out and incinerate them to kingdom come. How’s that?
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  12329.  @jumantewashington8715  It is indeed a fact. Read it and weep. Particularly if you’re a Yank.
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  12330.  @jumantewashington8715  Yeah, well arguing the facts would be folly now, wouldn’t it?😉
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  12331.  @jumantewashington8715  At least. And consistently.
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  12332.  @sosoable  Whey freedom, too.
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  12333. Mohammed.
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  12334.  @graphosxp  You are completely missing my point. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  12335. I asked the abominable snowman, but he melted before he could reply. ☃️
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  12336.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jesus never existed, Jimbo, son. Get with the gig. Soz to burst to burst your deluded bubble, petal.😉
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  12337.  @aaronfahr9  Lol.
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  12338.  @janesmith8831  Lol. Bravo! 👏
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  12339. Cringe.
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  12340. No. They mentioned it’s cos you is fick.
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  12341.  @blackpanthar906  Lol. She went to Islam and an old guy who was betrothed to a 6 year old, and married her when she was 9!🤣
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  12342. Nah, no one is willing to pay for your hurt feelings, Belendtens.
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  12343.  @NoMementoMori  Lol. Have you glanced at the Koran, lately?🤣
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  12344. Not again, son! Ffs. Have you never heard of the phrase: “Change the f*cking record!”
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  12345. Lol. And it’s not as if Putin has disturbingly violent fascist tendencies.
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  12346.  @JamesC785  Well put. Agreed more or less 100%. Dark climate change gag earns you bonus points for artistic merit.👍
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  12347.  @JamesC785  I think that’s slightly disingenuous. America, it seems, to maintain her hegemony, really does want Russia fucked. And the more I’ve looked at this war, the more I’m coming round to the idea that America is simply getting Ukraine to do her dirty work for her. If and when America needs to step in, Russia will be a mightily weakened bull at that point and all America will need to do is administer the final thrust. All the foregoing assumes the non-use of nuclear weapons; if they enter the equation, then all bets are off and that will probably be curtains for civilisation as we know it, Vladimir.
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  12348.  @theloki72  Yes, send Russia back to the Middle Ages (although it’s debatable that it isn’t already there), and create the dangerous conditions for another fascistic Putinesque figure to step into the breach as the nation’s ‘saviour’. The sooner Russia comes in from the cold and just adopts even a semblance of liberal democracy the better for them and the better for the rest of us.
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  12349.  @renek243  Not a troll. Simply can see this thing from both sides, unlike so many others.
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  12350.  @Richard_L_Y  You also need to read me back better as well, otherwise I may have to charge you with slander. Not once in this thread have I defended Putin, and I never would. He’s wrong, evil and committing war crimes; just like America and her partners have done countless times. That’s all. Able to see both sides. Not impartial. Unlike some, Rich.
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  12351.  @Richard_L_Y  People who lazily sling about the word ‘whataboutery’ simply betray the fact they have no argument. That’s you, Rich; devoid of an argument. You either fully recognise and acknowledge the wholly valid points I make above or you just admit you are a staggering, double-standards hypocrite. It’s your choice, mate.
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  12352.  @Richard_L_Y  What about all the invasions I listed above, Richard? You going to casually ignore these in your impassioned plea for ‘fragile democracy’, are you? Get real, you rank hypocrite. Or the hundreds of times America and her partners have overturned democratically-elected governments from within and installed their own proxy governments to suit their own self-interests? You going to ignore these in your ever so one-sided plea for democracy, are you? Staggering double-standards on your part old boy. Think about this a bit better and apply the standards you are applying to Putin to the side of the fence you just happen to sit on otherwise every single argument you make in your desperate plea for delicate, oh-so-fragile democracy is rendered null and void. Think about this a little more, pal. I’m sure you have it in you.
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  12353.  @Richard_L_Y  Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin/Russia’s point of view.
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  12354.  @Richard_L_Y  Nope. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I don’t support Putin, but neither do I support any country invading other sovereign, self-governing nations and/or overthrowing democratically-elected governments from within; as was done by the USA/CIA in Ukraine in 2014. In my world you ‘do as I do’, not ‘do as I say’ and Putin is simply doing as the west has been doing for literally centuries. Your issue, sunshine, is that you’ve nailed your colours to the mast and are subsequently unable to see the wood for the trees. Putin is wrong. As was America and her partners since about 1492. You do not throw stones in glass houses, chum. Think on.
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  12355.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Not quite, Jimbo. But I did once spend 6 months on a kibbutz not far from Tel Aviv, as it happens, if that counts. 😉
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  12356. He mistakenly thought the Ukrainians wanted him.
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  12357.  @TheTalkWatcher  Lol. The USA could crush Russia in a week in a conventional military war. Add the rest of NATO to that and I give Russia 3 days, tops. $650 billion doesn’t lie.
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  12358.  @TheTalkWatcher  And to be fair, mate, if you had Putin on your doorstep, be honest, wouldn’t you seek protection from an umbrella coalition such as NATO? Be honest now.
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  12359.  @TheTalkWatcher  True. Still doesn’t justify invading sovereign nations however. Makes these invasions understandable; but doesn’t justify them.
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  12360.  @TheTalkWatcher  It’s just not in American interests, when all the pros and cons have been weighed, to seek to destroy Russia and China. If they pick a fight with China they will get a nasty shock (as will we all), and that kind of MADness I don’t foresee. It’s in these countries interests to maintain economic/diplomatic good relations. Putin’s an outlier here. There would have been no stopping him with or without NATO. He would have gone in regardless. That much is clear. NATO, in this case, is a bit of a red herring.
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  12361.  @TheTalkWatcher  I see that. But if you don’t cross the border then Putin should just back off. But I get the point and am not defending America’s dreadful record of invasions and/or overturning of democratically-elected governments and installing their proxies; I get that. Putin is still in the wrong here more than NATO.
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  12362.  @TheTalkWatcher  Whatever it is I don’t see it as militarily aggressing against Russia and China. Only when provoked, as a defensive measure. The USA might go in alone in a fit of madness, but not under the NATO banner.
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  12363.  @TheTalkWatcher  Not militarily.
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  12364.  @TheTalkWatcher  I doubt it. We may see sometime soon.
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  12365. Pause for Santa Claus? 🎅
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  12366.  @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917  Nothing triggers me, sonny. Nice try though, bud.👍
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  12367.  @gunterthekaiser6190  Not triggered by anything, m8. Just pointing out that Russia was hardly ‘unprovoked’. Another glass of copium? 🥛🤓
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  12368.  @China_Secret_Police  Doesn’t negate my point, sweetheart. If Mexico and Canada were in a ‘defensive’ alliance with Russia, do you think America would just sit on its hands and eat ice cream and watch baseball all day? Yeah, that’s right, it wouldn’t. It would put the ice cream down, switch off the baseball and get the fisticuffs out. Exactly like Russia is doing right now. I say all this as one who happens to think what Russia is doing is wrong, but if you think America would do anything different in comparable circumstances, think again. History shows this. Arguably, America is the greatest rogue state on this planet, historically.
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  12369.  @UserUser-ww2nj  Triggered? Thought you were.
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  12370.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  I loathe the Putin regime. But this notwithstanding, I can see that they were hardly ‘unprovoked’, given the lapping of NATO onto its shores since about 1994.
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  12371.  Victory_Will_Be_Ukrainian  Mexico and Canada align on American borders in a military alliance and America doesn’t react, and react rather violently? I don’t think so. 😉
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  12372.  @gandalfstormcrow8439  How about Russians defending themselves from Ukrainian backed terrorists? Works both ways. Just sayin’.
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  12373.  @dangerousbrains  You! 🥴
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  12374.  @emm_arr  Triggered, much? Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12375.  @cryptobroskis545  I never said anything about USA helping/not helping Europe in event of Russian attack. They will, because they are treaty-bound to do so. Article 5. They’d do so anyway, with or without Article 5, for if America had any inkling that Europe was going to be taken over by Russia, do you honestly think they would sit back and let that happen? Get real.
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  12376.  @cryptobroskis545  I agree about the USA. That doesn’t make what Russia is doing right. I’m sure even you can see this. I happen to think the double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  12377.  @cryptobroskis545  You still haven’t told me about the Ukraine/Russia thing. Get on with it, son, as you have already had more of my attention that I normally grant witless, thick, fuckwits like you …
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  12378.  @cryptobroskis545  You tell me about the Russia/Ukraine situation, then?
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  12379.  @cryptobroskis545  Ok, son. Just have those tissues handy, as you might need to offload quite a bit, judging by your irrational, pointless, incandescent frustration. 😉
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  12380.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Copying and pasting was never your strong point, Jimbo, you Gypsy tart!🤣
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  12381.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *Schnapper Every single time, Jimbo, indeed.😉
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  12382. Jimbo! You’re a pacifist now?! Wtf! Those Gypsy tarts have been doing you some good!🤣
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  12383.  @davidwatson2399  I didn’t. Can you read? I said that I kinda go with the accepted wisdom, dipshit.
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  12384.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  My caveat stems from human agendas; we are very good, as a species, at creating agendas to suit our ends, but in this case, as about 95% of climate scientists are in agreement that this 1 Celsius rise is principally attributable to human activity, I can go with this. Actually, even anecdotally it’s quite easy to see that this planet is warming, without actual statistics to prove this. For example, I live on the 55th parallel, and as a youngster we had guaranteed weeks of snow every winter; in the past 25 years or so, I can count on the fingers of one hand just how many ‘proper’ snowy winters we’ve had. So, anecdotal evidence in this case is quite powerful.
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  12385.  @davidwatson2399  I’ve answered that question twice.
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  12386.  @davidwatson2399  Yeah, but if you look into this a little more, it can make you think. There are many vested interests whose funding relies on the thesis of manmade global warming. Now, as I say, the scientific consensus seems to say that manmade warming is significant here but The United States government has spent enormous sums on global warming/climate change issues, including science research, although the ocean of funding is so large, fed by so many rivers of tax dollars, that it's hard to tally it all up. Now, if my funding relied on the theory that current global warming is primarily human driven, I might be inclined to promulgate that very theory. Just sayin’.
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  12387.  @davidwatson2399  I said that I more or less agree with the thesis that humans are a significant contributory factor. Have these 👓.
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  12388.  @michaelrch  The scientific consensus clearly agrees with you. Sometimes though, I’m not 100% convinced. Mostly am, however.
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  12389. Liar?! That’s outrageous! How dare you call the prime minister a liar! Get thee to the Tower this instant you fool!
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  12390.  @CGplay186  Huh? You make no sense.
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  12391.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12392.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12393.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12394.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12395.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12396. Triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12397.  @Kurauone__  Er, last time I checked the male England team was stuffed with black players. And rightly so, as they are the best at this point. Sometimes, I feel there is a baseless reaction to the lack of non-white people. In this case, I repeat, perhaps the cream rose to the top and it wasn’t primarily black.
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  12398. NATO laps like a toxic tide onto Russia’s shores, in the same way the Russian army is eating into Ukraine like a cancerous growth. Until we see that both sides have a point here, there will be no peaceful resolution, unless Putin shuffles off his mortal coil, or is pushed by a putsch from within. 🌊
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  12399.  @TheTaoofEternalWar  Stop insulting rats.
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  12400.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No, they were supporting the death of gays for just being gay, Jimbo. 👍😉
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  12401.  @TheAArmstrong  I’m bored, m8. You’re sub-literate and, frankly, I have better things to be doing with my life. If it’s any consolation I’ll concede you this: as an agnostic, I’m wary of all organised religion, but the one I’m most wary of these days is Islam. Now, that’s not a ‘blood thing’; that’s an ‘ideas thing’: this is where you are going wrong. Nuttin 2 do with ‘blood’; everything 2 do with ideas. Now can we just end this as I’m done here, son.👍
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  12402. ‘Genes’ also tend to get ‘blurred’ in some places. Deliverance hit a truth.
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  12403.  @fka_the_body1542  Huh?🥴
    2
  12404. Yes, a little Richard Sharp.
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  12405. @19:17 Reporter: “President Macron, what’s your message to President Putin?” Macron: “Fous le camp d'un autre territoire souverain autonome, connard.”
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  12406.  @Then.72  The Irish were fighting back against a colonialism they didn’t ask for, you twit.
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  12407.  @Then.72  Wtf are you on about now, son, you babbling fool?
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  12408.  @Then.72  I said that the British aggressively planted themselves in Ireland without the consent of the colonised Irish. Fact. Deal with it.
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  12409.  @martinrye712  If it’s not a majority, then obviously it’s not carried. That’s called ‘democracy’.
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  12410.  @jayjay-zb8zg  NOT SURE ABOUT THAT; ALL I KNOW IS THAT UNNECESSARY CAPITALISATION SHOULD BE MADE A THING OF THE PAST.
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  12411.  @gladtownghost  Yes, but a publicly-funded school.
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  12412.  @jamessmith84240  *elsewhere Sorry. Hope you weren’t teaching English! 😂
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  12413.  @jamessmith84240  So Phil Mitchell is talking out his bahookey then.
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  12414.  @gladtownghost  Am I missing something? Where did the OP say he worked in a ‘public school’?
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  12415.  @repentbeforeitstoolate..8239  Kinda did. There are conspiracy theories and there are ‘conspiracy theories’; yes, there have been suspiciously huge Big Pharma profits to be made with vaccines etc. but as someone who has 3 close family working in the health field, Covid did happen. How it happened is a whole different question.
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  12416.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nicely edited the “Africans”, Jimbo. Frankly, at your age, son, to make such a basic egregious error my 3 year old pet monkey wouldn’t make is embarrassing indeed! 🐒🤣
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  12417.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Frankly, Jimbo, I don’t give a flying f*ck! 😉
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  12418.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You are pardoned, Jimbo. But don’t count on another pardon, sonny.
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  12419.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  *Africans
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  12420.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Er, wot? 🤔
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  12421.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  You’ve been found out, son. Was all about the likes. Tell them I’m Palestinian and I’ll get the likes. You tragic, tragic fellow. 🤦‍♂️
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  12422.  @hollow9846  Lol. Are you honestly triggered by the epithet ‘invisible sky daddy’?! Wtf. 🤦‍♂️
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  12423.  @Nige.  Yes, Nigel, but my basic point was what message does it send to your slaves, sorry employees, when you’re literally earning about 100 times more than them, eh? Kinda makes a body think, doncha think, son? 🤔
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  12424.  @lukemoses8020  They agreed the terms and conditions within a system they didn’t necessarily agree the terms and conditions, dipshit. Think about this a little more and get back to me.
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  12425.  @thomasc5443  You appear to have completely missed the point; Goodheart’s thesis dispenses with Left and Right altogether, in traditional terms. He doesn’t talk of this farmer or that farmer as being Left or Right, but rather as being a Somewhere or Anywhere. That was the whole point; to do away with these traditional binary terms.
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  12426.  @comanchio1976  What? What kind of family are you from that it takes the intervention of a youth club not to stab someone else?
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  12427.  @comanchio1976  What? Wtf are you on about? All I suggested was something rather simple: the lack of youth clubs isn’t causing the death by stabbing of teenagers. I am telling you what this is about, not a lack of youth clubs, but a lack of decent parents! Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  12428. 🃏 Ah, the seemingly never-ending shuffling of the Tory pack. Truss as PM meets the Queen, before Queen shuffles off this mortal coil. Truss is pushed out of the Club, as she had incompetence in Spades. Now Rishi. Does he have a Heart? Wealthier than the King. Worth more than Diamonds, but does he give a Jackshit about the ordinary person? Will he have an Ace up his sleeve for the country? Ultimately, for me they are all just a bunch of Jokers. 🃏
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  12429.  @rutgerb  Essentially Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia all decided to join NATO’s gang and not Putin’s/Russia’s gang. Now, I’m 100% for the right for to self-determine and decide to join NATO; all I’m saying is, if I were Putin, ex-KGB, a Cold War relic, then I would feel this like a betrayal, that’s all. However, I would like to think I wouldn’t be as nakedly evil as Putin appears to be and invade a neighbouring sovereign, self-governing territory. As far as I can see, a big part of why he has done this is because Ukraine has been strongly flirting with the West for about 3 decades.
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  12430.  @rutgerb  You say ‘Russia moves away’, I say, ‘NATO moves closer’ and never the twain shall meet. Just for the record I don’t support Putin’s actions. So I’m not a Russian propagandist so you can stop with your libellous slander. I also get what you are saying: the likes of Latvia and Estonia, for example, self-determinedly chose to join NATO. I get that. I’m just making the point and you need to get this: from Putin’s point of view it looks like NATO is coming towards Russia like an unstoppable tide. That’s how he would see this. Putin feels betrayed by the likes of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine for all choosing to look west and not east. If you don’t consider this from his point of view we are not going to get very far here.
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  12431.  @chestikov2011  NATO wants to end Russia? Really? Surely this is just America really. I mean NATO just tags along for the ride like a poodle in the basket of America’s bike, no?
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  12432.  @irynadobenka5454  Ty.👍
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  12433.  @---------c5741  You’re mistaken if you think China and Russia are very close. They are simply a marriage of convenience, and when it’s purely Russia’s self-interests on the line or purely China’s self-interests on the line do you really think they are going to be as thick as thieves? As far as I see, China and Russia have precisely nothing in common aside from being Communist one-party dictatorships. When push comes to shove, that’s precisely one too many, and they’d eat each other alive for their own national self-interest.
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  12434.  @z6445  Wrong again. You’re not very good at this, are you? First you say that Britain did nothing in WW2 and now you are saying there is no such thing as Ukrainians. Er, well, I hate to tell you this buddy but at least 30,000,000 Ukrainians would beg to differ with you on that one. Possibly more. You must invest in some better history books, son. Try a few impartial ones that don’t tell the story you want to be told.
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  12435.  @1salahudin  America is the world’s greatest meddler in other countries’ internal affairs, either directly militarily or from within by proxy and the subversion of democratically-elected governments. However, all this notwithstanding, this doesn’t justify a single thing Putin is doing in Ukraine. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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  12436. To be fair, Christianity has a fair record of oppressing people through the ages. Inquisitions, Crusades, homophobia, non-Christians etc. No, it’s only really in the last 250 years or so in the post-Enlightenment West that Christianity has been defanged. Prior to this, you mob were just as irrationally violent and bloodthirsty as the Islamic mob seems to be in so many parts of the world today.
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  12437. Organised religion poisons everything.
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  12438.  @Laparganjikhn  Lol@‘on on the contrary’ 😆Did you not watch this report with these morons?
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  12439. Because he has the mental age of a 5 year old.
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  12440.  @sebastianlucas704  I’m no more an ‘expert in the field’ than you or Peterson is, chummo. Therefore have just as much right to pronounce as he does on this matter. Also, point of order, I’m not going to take lessons in anything from anyone who digs PewDiePie ( yawn ), some crap aimed at 10 years old boys. Think on.😉
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  12441. Er, why would there be a lament for human population collapse? Aren’t we the most egregiously destructive thing to ever inflict this planet in its 4.5 billion years? If it sees us as bad tenants it will just evict us like a bad case of fleas.😳
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  12442.  @chadgaston8615  *Their
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  12443. 0:36-0:39 shudders Creepiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Weird, and not in a good way.
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  12444.  @dendradwar9464  👍
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  12445. Facts.
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  12446. Interested enough to tell us all that you’re not the slightest bit interested, however.
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  12447. Can we have that in English now, please?
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  12448. @0:59 Nope; it ain’t the Benefits System, as they have more generous ones in France and Germany. Such a lazy argument.
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  12449. It’s the pensioners’ fault for living so long. If they don’t want £7,000 p/a they should die sooner.
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  12450. @Fredrik Pardon?
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  12451. Yes, better options for Brittish (sic) people, including remedial basic spelling classes. You’re right.
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  12452. To be fair, we all came from Africa, son.
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  12453.  @jamescollins3647  In your opinion.
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  12454. How irrational. You dismiss a person’s whole set of opinions on the basis of one opinion you don’t agree with? How bizarre.
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  12455. Back in my day, confused fellas just ended up being homosexual. When did being gay get confused with wanting to be a ‘woman’?
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  12456. It’s so obviously not them in that Windsor Farm clip and I love how everyone is pretending it is.
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  12457. @P JL Really? And why are you so seemingly angry? A little frustrated, perchance?
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  12458. @P JL Why? You want his number or something?
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  12459. I know it’s a slightly tangential point, but Nana Akua is a bit of a smokin’ hotty for an older bint.
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  12460. Yes, it was a bad day for black Chris Rock and Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch wasn’t his best; however, on the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking for the lead for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars.
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  12461.  @christinalayzelle832  Oh but I have. Alas.
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  12462. Yeah, but to be fair, 82% of Americans still believe in America, so wtf do they know? 😳
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  12463. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  12464.  @TheFiremansam22  No. I’d rather those in power were democratically-elected .
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  12465.  @LabRat6619  I don’t want to be the ‘subject’ of a bunch of unelected hangers-on. Call me modern.
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  12466. Mixed metaphors ahoy!
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  12467. @leh3827 Oi! That’s my line! 😡
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  12468.  @NiceLoki  Huh? Who said I was denying others the right to watch it? I was just pointing out that it was staggeringly pretentious and cringe. S’all.👍
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  12469.  @adamcraig1468  Humans also gave us God. Probably. 👍😉
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  12470.  @adamcraig1468  Er, wot? The clue’s in the name: hooman rights.
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  12471.  @jonwoodmass2849  Lol. All my own work, pal. Ty for agreeing with them.👍
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  12472.  @salford6  Kinda agree.
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  12473.  @salford6  It was a relevant question, but perhaps not the right target. It should’ve been put to the lawmakers of Morocco as to why they moronically outlaw what 2 consenting adults get up to.
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  12474. @@SpookyDjinn So don’t answer it. Simples.
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  12475.  @sambrooks7862  What? But when we take a dump publicly we don’t do it with the cubicle door open for all to see!🤣
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  12476. What’s bizarre about this is that we were all born in our birthday suits, and yet here we are, some of us, getting our knickers in a twist over a penis. Do all the holier-than-thou bores in here not realise that all over the tropics there are tribes, men and women, who walk around starkers, day and night? I blame Christianity for this uptight, prudish nonsense. You came into this world naked; you will exit this world naked.
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  12477. That’s nothing! I once played the tromboner with my penis.
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  12478. Thank fuck you didn’t ‘lol’ this comment.
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  12479.  @seadee7821  Not in ‘denial’ about anything, m8. I don’t want the state unnecessarily interfering with something so basic as what I choose to wear every day.
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  12480. Nurse will be with you shortly. 👩‍⚕️
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  12481. Utter, utter bollocks. We’ve just had the BBC giving wall-to-wall coverage for 10 days of the Queen and the Monarchy, and most all of the people they interviewed were favourable to the Institution.
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  12482. Oliver’s a lost cause. Anyone fervently adhering to imaginary sky-daddies, of whatever stripe, are always, always mighty suspicious in my book; particularly if they get organised. Luckily, Oliver is one of a tribe of the defanged; a watered-down organised religion that, thank Christ, cannot touch me in my quotidian life.
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  12483. I find it hilarious how polarised this debate always is, as if ‘nuance’ were a dirty word. Anyone looking at it dispassionately, can see that there are pros and cons on both sides. Personally, I’m right on the fence, but the thing that ultimately will probably sway me is quite simply the democratic one: currently, and for quite some time in Scotland, we don’t get the Westminster government we vote for, and by quite a long way. Anyone with a scintilla of respect and sensitivity to the idea of a fair democracy surely sees this. My main reservation about an independent Scotland is, predictably, the economic one. Unsure whether we could thrive and prosper long-term independently. Ultimately, however, the ‘democratic deficit’ question is watertight. As an onlooker in the debate, I get exasperated with those far, far too passionate (no matter which side of the issue they stand), as those sorts always seem to be protesting too much, thereby betraying their own radical feelings of doubt, for as Robert M Pirsig said, in one of my favourite all-time quotes: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” Amen.
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  12484. Lol.😂
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  12485. Lol@‘university types’ < inverted snobbery of the very first rank. Imagine if some ‘university type’ said it were time to ‘stop the council house skanks’? They’d get pulled up on it. That’s why an inverted snob like you needs to be called out.
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  12486. Pmsl.
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  12487. “A gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.” (Oscar Wilde)
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  12488. It’s to do with basic democracy. Scotland has consistently not voted, by quite a large majority, for Westminster governments. The root of this question is how much respect you give to the idea of basic democracy beyond mere lip-service. With the 2014 Referendum, it was close, but the Noes had it. Democracy respected. With General Elections, democracy isn’t respected, as the pro-independent voices would have it. As one on the fence, I can see their point and it’s irrefutable and powerful no matter where you stand on the whole issue.
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  12489.  @shelleyphilcox4743  I’m fully aware that Scots played a massive role in British Imperialism. 🥸
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  12490.  @shelleyphilcox4743  Incidentally, reading between the lines, you appear to have me pegged as some sort of Scot Nat. Big mistake. Just sayin’.😉
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  12491.  @shelleyphilcox4743  English/British Imperialism. It’s all much of a muchness and most of it stinks.
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  12492.  @shelleyphilcox4743  Huh? Where did I ever say it was just ‘English Imperialism’? I fear you have the wrong fella, love.
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  12493. I think the ‘English Imperialism’ thing kicks in more post the 1707 Union of Parliaments.
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  12494. Well, to be fair she talks of doing what the majority of voting Scots want, and Scotland is a putative democracy, after all.😉
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  12495. As I understand it, if there is no good reason (eg. illness) why a defendant refuses to attend, the judge can make an order to compel them to attend. Rather bemused why the judge didn’t do that in this particularly heinous case.
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  12496.  @yggdrasil9039  Who said a potential psychopath needs a motive?
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  12497. *Labour Jesus, get the very basics right and you might have an audience. It’s really not that difficult.
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  12498.  @hazelnut975  Do you? That means you’ve bought the irrational folly of an accident of birth. As George Carlin said: Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer. Nationalism, along with organised religion, are the 2 most baleful blights humans ever had the misfortune to invent.
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  12499.  @hazelnut975  Yeah, but that’s just the primitive thinking that is called ‘nationalism’; foolishly believing in an accident of birth as a key marker of your identity.
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  12500. Cringe.
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  12501.  @Ruby16663  ‘Jealous’? Of what, exactly? 🤔
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  12502. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
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  12503. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
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  12504.  @tomrichards4956  The key for me is I have my strong doubts Southgate can get this thing over the line. He may be the weak link here. He’s far too conservative and cautious with his team’s play given the attacking options he has at his disposal. It’s obvious he was a defender. Imo, in the Euro final, England could have, and frankly should have wiped the floor with what was a very mediocre Italian side.
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  12505.  @tomrichards4956  We’re not talking about the “Rooney generation”; we’re talking about Southgate and what he’s doing with arguably the best squad of players England has ever had. Arguably.
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  12506.  @tomrichards4956  But England haven’t beaten anyone when it really mattered.
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  12507.  @ancietman  He won a couple of League Cups as a player, tbf, and won 1st Division with Palace, but these are hardly big wins. He may prove me wrong and go on to win the Euros but I have my doubts.
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  12508. You really should care less about people you don’t know and will never meet. You’ll give yourself bad angina the way you’re going.😉
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  12509. Terrible behaviour! This is no way to treat our Oil Family!
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  12510. My great escape from the Middle East and North Africa. Iran. Oman the whole story is ridiculous, when Iraq my Bahrain to think about it. Without warning I Sudan ly had to Qatar cross the border. I had to stay anonymous, so I picked Somalia s. Just like Bon Jovi, I was basically Lebanon a prayer the whole time. At night I navigated by the star Syria s, and slept out in the el Yemen ts. To keep me going I hummed to myself my favourite song; that Tunisia great one to shake Djibouti to. In Cairo I met an unscrupulous man and Egypt me of all my money. I know it sounds like I ad-Libya story, but I assure you Israel. I have such a nost Algeria for those days. Honestly I could tell you more but it Kuwait until to Morocco . 🏃‍♂️
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  12511. Er, y r u upvoting urself, sweetheart? 🤔
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  12512. @Thomas Louis Whatever he is, it’s all power-tripping poppycock unworthy of thinking human beings. These unverified, unverifiable beliefs are fine on an individual basis, if that’s your thing; no, the danger enters when humans band together. This would not matter if organised religion, any organised religion, were not a clear and present danger to all those who are party to its orbit. Nietzsche saw all this clearly: Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. Ordinarily sane, reasonable individuals all too easily become ‘drunk’ and crazed with religion as they see others believing in the same stuff and this emboldens them. I say all this as a non-atheist.
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  12513.  @chachatruth3534  Oh, I most certainly can judge the Catholic Church, and I’m going to thanks very much. That goes for all organised religion btw; this is not solely an anti-Catholic bias; it’s an anti-human stupidity bias.
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  12514. Speaking as a Catholic (very lapsed), it’s my observation, based on years of experience, that many, if not most, of those who enter the priesthood, Catholic or otherwise, do it principally for one of two reasons: 1. authority; it provides them with a little ‘parish power’ they may otherwise feel they are lacking. 2. They lazily fall into it as they are invariably unqualified for doing much else. I suspect Calvin falls more into the former category. There is something about him I distinctly don’t trust, and I’d trust it even less if he were to wield any real power, religious or otherwise. Christianity, but particularly Catholicism is a wounded, defanged (at least in this part of the world) beast, but make no mistake about it, if we ever got too lax and let it rise again to dominate in the public sphere, it would a benighted return to the Dark Ages for us all. I count my blessings every day that, for all Britain’s faults, I don’t live in any kind of theocracy, Christian or otherwise.
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  12515.  @brianwalker4540  Oh you poor deluded fool, Bri. You need to look at this a little closer and you’ll come to the view that Jesus is a made-up story nicked by the plagiarising Christians from the foregoing pagans. Keep dreaming.
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  12516. Gawd help us all.
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  12517.  @djbogz1921  But with exactly the same rights as you. Hehe.
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  12518. She’s still a British citizen with exactly the same citizen rights as you, chum. Hehe.
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  12519. They were right not to give a shit. Anyone, anywhere, holding a national flag with a straight face is a moron.
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  12520. Groveller.
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  12521.  @triffic5588  It’s called ‘immigration’.
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  12522.  @triffic5588  That’s a non-sequitur. If you colonise anyone without their consent then that’s immoral. No matter who you are and who you are colonising.
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  12523.  @triffic5588  I think you’ll find it’s not been debunked at all. The vast majority of cultural anthropologists believe that this is, indeed, our origins. You need to get with the gig, mate, and stop saying stuff to suit your racist agenda. There, there.
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  12524. Yes. We are all from Africa.
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  12525.  @philwragg9529  Only if Fanny sues you, m8.
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  12526. Elliot? Did you fake your death, after all? Please say you did. I miss you so.
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  12527. Joanna, till the morning sun?
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  12528. Yes, but have you factored the multi-storey car parks into your patriotic equation?
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  12529. Wtf are you on about? She was born in England, you fool. And why do you get to decide if ‘she’s one of us’. She might want nothing to do with you you presumptuous wally.
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  12530. Look on the bright side, that 1 flag of St George was bigger than all the rest of the Ukrainian ones stitched together. Small blessings.
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  12531. Give Vicky my regards. I miss her.
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  12532.  @turntheblueiris4626  I’m not black, y’know. Well, my humour is.
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  12533.  @turntheblueiris4626  My nether regions personal hygiene is not in question, ty.
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  12534.  @turntheblueiris4626  National flags are the preserve of primitive unthinking fools; an accident of birth determines which flag you will hold. Irrational poppycock. The only flag I have in my life is Black Flag.
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  12535. Are you sure you haven’t got a few ‘rogue’ genes in there? A little Turk, perchance? Or a smidgen of Mongolian? After all, last time I checked we were all out of Africa, so at the very least you will have a nice bit of Egyptian in you. Possibly.
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  12536. Yeah, but don’t forget the millions murdered and enslaved by England, too, when you’re wearing your St George’s frilly knickers.
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  12537. Yes, it was a bad day for black Chris Rock and Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch wasn’t his best; however, on the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking for the lead for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars.
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  12538.  @Sarah-hm3vi  Maybe. Just the hysteria over a fella in a frock is hilarious. S’all. You’d think Boy George and David Bowie had never existed ffs! This is way more than it appears. This is homophobia writ large. I agree that drags shouldn’t be swinging from ropes in a classroom in stripper heels. What I have utterly no issue with is a story being read by a bloke in a dress. It’s so boring to even focus on this when there are so many other more important issues. I’d also add, that any sex ed should ideally be done by a teacher au fait with the prescribed curriculum on these matters. But, Jesus, the hysteria over gays, dressing not to your biological sex, man woman or hermaphrodite is beyond silly at this point.
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  12539. @JoeM You sound awfully invested in all this, Joe darling. Got a dirty little secret you wanna tell us all?🤓
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  12540.  @DarrylHart  K, Darryl. I’ll just make sure I’m never beaten to death in your paranoid presence, pal. Tinfoil hats ahoy!
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  12541. Wow! So many assumptions. So little time.🥸
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  12542. That’s no way to talk about Liz Truss.
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  12543.  @rightherethereeverywhere  It’s about class, mate. Which tribe are you? All the denigrators on here don’t identify as part of this toff’s tribe. Proof? Witness all the narky comments about his appearance and speech, which have naff-all to do with the arguments. You need to get wise to this situation, Kevin.
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  12544.  @Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist  Oh the irony of some loser telling me to get a life when all they do is come on here and tell me to get a life!🤣
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  12545.  @petew8388  “Needs seriously stamping out”. Wow! You’re an aggressive little fascist aincha? Gonna don your jackboots and start marching around doing funny salutes are ya?
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  12546.  @jimsim8736  Which concept, son? You just type stuff and make no sense. You talk nonsense. Make your piffle clearer or forever hold your peace.
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  12547.  @petew8388  I worship nothing but the integrity of my own mind. Would that others would do something similar. Think on.
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  12548.  @mike02439  You sound as intolerant and fascist as those you condemn.
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  12549.  @andrewelliott4436  *you’re Better basic orthography too, petal.
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  12550.  @heatherpeterson1114  I get the stinking rank hypocrisy of folk like you, love.
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  12551.  @mike02439  Who says? You? You’re the arbiter here, are you? Get real you double-standards hypocritical fool. You only want people who agree with you, just like the anti-Livingstone crew, and that, son, makes you a carbon copy of the very thing you affect to disdain.
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  12552.  @heatherpeterson1114  I was pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards of someone who suggests others be ‘driven out’ of public life; exactly the thing the anti-Livingstone brigade want to do with old Davey. If you can’t see this hypocrisy, then you may need a little more education in the basics of double standards and brazen-faced hypocrisy.
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  12553.  @kendaniel8601  So let’s have the conversation then, and stop being overheated hypocrites like the numpties you can read above me.
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  12554.  @NigelJackson  Lol.
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  12555. The UK government’s ‘solution’ to this issue smacks of nimbyism. They are deluded if they think this will prevent the people traffickers. They are deluded if they think this will prevent refugees attempting to get here. All the billions, yes over £1 billion, should be spent on better processing the claims here. After all, over 90% of these asylum claims are granted. If it were the case that only, say, 25% or less, were granted, there might be case for Patel’s plan. But as the vast majority of these Channel crossers are indeed asylum seekers, it seems sensible just to hire a few more staff and rent a few more offices here and get on with processing them.
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  12556. *bollocks *it’s You never heard of a spellchecker, dummy?
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  12557.  @grief1  Look mate, panto dame or drag queen? Take your pick. There is no essential difference. If drags are going into schools with an overtly sexualised act, I’d be against this. But if they are just doing the ‘man in drag’ schtick I don’t really have an issue with it, in the same way that when I go to a panto with my kids and men are doing the ‘man in drag’ schtick, I don’t have any problem. In both cases, the kids know what’s going on. You need to give more credit to the average child’s intelligence. Let’s leave it there, shall we?
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  12558. Liz Truss just comes across as the highly medicated batty auntie you see once a year at Christmas.
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  12559. So, if it’s 10 people, I make that 50 quid a person. It’s hardly the life of Riley. Are we really gonna be so petty that we quibble about £50, Paddy? Ffs. Crack on, I say. 👍
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  12560. Comment of the day! 👏 💐 🏅
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  12561.  @gamriii  Do they have double-locked doors in North Korea?
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  12562.  @gamriii  How do you know?
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  12563.  @gamriii  Kim’s.
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  12564. The thinking man’s Michelle Dewberry.
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  12565. Another of the eternal ‘offence’ versus ‘harm’ debates. I, personally, am not offended by this advert. The lady who had the mastectomy was offended. Is her being offended enough to ban this advert? Answer: no. As to puberty blockers: for me this is a decision to be taken between the child taking the blocker and their parents along with the medical practitioner. No one else should be interfering.
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  12566.  @tonyjones9442  I have been to Wales and I just don’t buy the theory that there is a greater difference between North Wales and South Wales than there is between Wales and England. I think you might be talking about a Cardiff metropolitan elite that has nothing (or little) to do with North Wales, but the cohesion of the actual Welsh people (leaving out the elites) North to South is some of the strongest I have encountered on these islands.
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  12567. Gay? Just sayin’.
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  12568. @Vv Lol. Touché.😆👍
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  12569. @Vv You just did respond to my response of your response of my response of your response. Looks like that’s a hypocrite talking. Time waster.
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  12570. @Vv So you’re posting your response to my response of your response are you? Time waster.
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  12571. @Vv So you’re posting your response to my pun are you? Too much time on your hands if you ask me.
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  12572. Translation: she agrees with me.
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  12573. This watching porn in Parliament may explain why Boris’ hair is always a sticky looking mess. There’s something about Boris?
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  12574. Pearl necklaces, perchance?😳
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  12575. Tony Parsons looks like a foetus with alcohol problems.
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  12576. Facts.
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  12577.  @jonny1872  Well said that man.👍
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  12578. Forget grooming gangs. Rishi needs to consider grooming that ferret on Michael Fabricant’s head first!
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  12579.  @Sam-zu5mr  No she doesn’t. She’s like most normal people who haven’t been brainwashed into believing you can change biological sex. Nice try, though.👍😊
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  12580. They are included. It’s just trans women (ie men) who seem to cause all the trouble here, which is what Rowling is getting at. 🤣🤣🤣
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  12581. Well, if pensioners don’t want £7,000 p/a, they should have the good grace to die sooner.
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  12582.  @deanpd3402  You lot also wear bad clothes as a badge of honour.
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  12583. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  12584.  @MercyKat  No she doesn’t. I can’t stand her, but she doesn’t look “much older” than 47. She looks 41. Her actual age.
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  12585. She’s sexy. Yes, annoying, too. But sexy trumps annoying in this case.
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  12586.  @careytitan9097  Lol. So Jude Bellingham isn’t allowed to tell you he’s English and plays for England. Or Bukayo Saka. Or Kalvin Phillips. Or Fikayo Tomori. Or Trent Alexander-Arnold. Or Kyle Walker. Or Reece James. Or Callum Wilson. Or Marcus Rashford. Or Ivan Toney. Or Eberechi Eze. Or Ollie Watkins. Or Joe Gomez. Or Tyrone Mings. Or Marc Guéhi. Or Kobbie Mainoo. Gotcha! 👍🥱
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  12587. Oh, I thought you were talking about the book.
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  12588.  @thespian1961  *won’t ‘Non-thinkers among us’? Here’s a mirror. 🪞
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  12589. Love all the comments on here by folk saying how outraged they are by schools prescribing what kids should be wearing, yet these same people seemed to have zero problem with exactly the same premise just last week in France when the French state banned certain clothing for girls in schools. It seems if you’re a Muslim, schools can tell you what to wear. If you’re not, they can’t. Oh, the double standards hypocrisy is marvellous to behold! 🤣
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  12590. Clearly the Tory party are quite literally grooming Fabricant as Johnson’s future replacement as leader; and failing that, his hair stunt doubles for Robert Redford.
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  12591. Was he wearing a vest? 😳
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  12592.  @rjones6219  Fact: I have an idea. Fact: Pinker isn’t a “climate crisis activist”. Fact: there were warming periods but that is a non-sequitur in this debate as the clear warming of the past 100 years directly correlates with carbon emissions. Fact: I am a centrist. Fact: you need better coping strategies.😉
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  12593. This was highly entertaining, but as ever with these things, we have the extremes of the debate, which is anathema to those of us who like to be a bit more balanced. Whenever the topic of climate change/global warming comes up, as someone neither particularly right nor particularly left politically, I despair at how tribalised and polarised this debate becomes with each camp ensconced in their respective corners, equally convinced that their case is watertight. As ever with these things (and the reason I’m a centrist in almost everything), the truth lies somewhere in the middle. One of the most reasoned and balanced paragraphs I have ever read about this topic is the following from Stephen Pinker: If the emission of greenhouse gases continues, the Earth’s average temperature will rise to at least 1.5°C above the preindustrial level by the end of the 21st century, and perhaps to 4°C above that level or more. That will cause more frequent and more severe heat waves, more floods in wet regions, more droughts in dry regions, heavier storms, more severe hurricanes, lower crop yields in warm regions, the extinction of more species, the loss of coral reefs (because the oceans will be both warmer and more acidic), and an average rise in sea level of between 0.7 metres and 1.2 metres from both the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater. (Sea level has already risen almost eight inches since 1870, and the rate of the rise appears to be accelerating.) Low-lying areas would be flooded, island nations would disappear beneath the waves, large stretches of farmland would no longer be arable, and millions of people would be displaced. The effects could get still worse in the 22nd century and beyond, and in theory could trigger upheavals such as a diversion of the Gulf Stream (which would turn Europe into Siberia) or a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets. A rise of 2°C is considered the most that the world could reasonably adapt to, and a rise of 4°C, in the words of a 2012 World Bank report, “simply must not be allowed to occur.” The planet is warming. Fact. Humans (according to the overwhelming scientific consensus) are the principal cause of this warming over the past couple of centuries through fossil fuel burning. Now, given this, and given the consequences eloquently outlined by Pinker, we have to collectively decide whether we want to continue on this trajectory or not. For me, given the data, and given the projected consequences contingent upon that data, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  12594. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  12595.  @hayleylongster4698  I just did. The runner was over 16 when he worked with Pip. So, er, like, well, where’s the problem, Hails? 😐
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  12596. Often, it’s the ones who say that someone else needs their hard drives checking, who need their hard drives checking. It’s called ‘distraction’, Adam. Or projection. Take your pick.😉
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  12597.  @paulroberts7544  As a man, it wouldn’t bother me one bit if my current wife/girlfriend had consensually slept with Russell Brand in the past. You seem awfully prim and proper, dear. 🥴
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  12598.  @paulroberts7544  What? But we all have relationships before we settle down. What are you? A nun?
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  12599. Source?
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  12600.  @uknewsuncut  And, triggered, much?🤣
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  12601. Triggered, much?🤣
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  12602.  @ByronHawk  ‘Twas a joke, dipshit. You ever been to Bradford?
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  12603.  @AlwaysEngland  I don’t read fairytales. I left those behind in childhood.
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  12604. Ok, thanks for that John Marthy.
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  12605.  @MrBluebirds22  “Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.” (N Machiavelli)
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  12606.  @matthewpounder9938  That’s not the point here. The point was Wooton calling out lefty bias. He’s a hypocrite, as he spends 2 hours every night spouting rightist claptrap. He’s more obviously biased and partial than Murthy can dream of. I can’t stand the hypocrite. He can believe what he wants; that is not the issue; the issue is his egregious, double-standards hypocrisy. It stinks.
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  12607.  @Jen-lg4hp  We’re not debating senses of humour here; we’re debating journalistic impartiality. Wooton is just as biased in his own way as Murthy is. As for the humour thing, I wouldn’t be too sure Danny boy is all that. He can be quite humourless when the notion takes him, particularly if you hit his trigger points, as you will see if you watch his stuff for any length of time.
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  12608. Aww, diddums. Cope. Cope better.
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  12609. 1. Lily Savage was filthily sexual live. 2. You seem to be confusing transvestites with trans people - every drag act/tranny I’m aware of in 2023 also, just like the fellas you mention above also ‘entertain at night’ and ‘go home to real life’. 3. There are different kinds of drags. Not all are sexual as you seem to imply. I’m against sexualised drags in schools but these recent high-profile cases are a minuscule proportion (0.01%) of the total drag population. 5. Again, like the people you mention above, drags today are also ‘not living their characters’. It’s a job. They go home and are a different persona just like Humphries et al were. Again, you are conflating trans women with drags.
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  12610. Is it cuz he is Asian?
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  12611. A bit insulting to Maggie’s Botox work.
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  12612.  @Magneticitist  But they’re not good enough to compete with men. That’s the whole point, and why there is a furore when they change sex/gender and muscle in on the biological woman’s territory.
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  12613. @dogs aren't dangerous ‘Dogs aren’t dangerous’ is clearly a lie; especially if you don’t feed them and introduce them to babies.
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  12614. @dogs aren't dangerous What?
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  12615. @dogs aren't dangerous They are if you don’t feed them and introduce them to babies.
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  12616. Yes, but have they asked the wolves what they think about this? 🐺
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  12617.  @chkldstgee2433  Ah, sorry dude. Misunderstood.👍
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  12618. *dinghies
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  12619.  @briansmith2328  Not sure, Bruan.
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  12620.  @yeldaRooBTKAM  Who said I was an atheist? I just said Jesus quite probably never existed historically, that’s all.
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  12621.  @ifmusicbethefoodofloveegc986  Prove what?
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  12622. The slag heap.
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  12623.  @wundurra24  You know what you’re talkin’ ‘bout.😉
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  12624. He’s a bit of a wet rag, to me.
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  12625. *in suits?
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  12626. Apparently Kearse has had a ‘hair transplant’. I’d ask for a refund if I were him.
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  12627.  @charlescawley9923  Disagree. It’s a simple binary left/right politico-cultural battle. These have been going on since time immemorial. You’re being too melodramatic and apocalyptic about it.
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  12628. Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  12629. Looking at tractors? Presumably a few backhoe loaders. 😳
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  12630.  @pauldavies4522  Can I ask you a straight (pun intended) question, m8? No one has yet to give me a remotely rational and satisfactory answer as to why I should disapprove of homosexuality; so, Paul, I’ll see if you can do it: why should I disapprove of homosexuality?
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  12631. 👏
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  12632. Aye, Stevey, cos fancying other people clearly is weird. Not that it’s any of your business who others do or don’t fancy, is it now, petal?
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  12633.  @petersmith2522  I’m a human being. On my passport it says British. I personally don’t identify myself in nationalistic terms as it’s primitive to do so, and very dangerous.
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  12634.  @petersmith2522  The English haven’t been trying to make Scotland ‘English’ for centuries. Those days are over for good, I think. The Catalonia/Spain thing I see as more akin to a Scotland/UK thing. Most Scots also see themselves as UK citizens, and also Brits. Most Catalonians I know also see themselves as Spanish. Ditto Galicians; ditto Basques. Of course, these identities subtly vary from person to person but these general trends I outline obtain. As for Pep, well I’m willing to bet when Spain won the World Cup he wasn’t disowning that victory by claiming he wasn’t Spanish; but I’m aware his primary identity, in nationalistic terms, appears to be Catalonian. For me, all this stuff is meaningless as accidents of birth, and taking pride in these is stupid. I’m with George Carlin on this: Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer. So, I was born in Scotland but in no way feel more ‘Scottish’ than I do feel any other nationality you claim to mention, as I see being ‘proud’ of an accident of birth as below thinking human beings, and very, very dangerous, as history has shown, and continues to show.
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  12635.  @petersmith2522  Depends how you define yourself. I’m a human being. That’s my primary identity. We can then break that down into smaller components. I was simply making the point that most Catalonians I have been aware of in my life also identify as Spanish. The guy in this thread who doesn’t is an outlier in my experience, but I respect his right to claim he is not Spanish, if he doesn’t feel Spanish.
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  12636.  @lluisboschpascual4869  Not me, mate. It’s Catalonians themselves telling me that. I lived in Girona for 6 months and virtually to a man and woman they identified as Spanish, along with their Catalonian heritage. That makes you the outlier in my experience, to state that you are not Spanish.
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  12637. Can we not just rename it Parky McParkface instead?
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  12638. They’re both a couple of tossers if you ask me.
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  12639. He hasn’t got much to cut. That’s the point of his ‘desperate combover’ attempt at a hairdo.🥸
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  12640. Ah, but you make 2 fatal errors to your cause: 1. You assume there is a single humour. 2. You assume you decide who has or who hasn’t a sense of one of these humours. In other words, you ain’t a leg to stand on, me old cocker.🥸
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  12641.  @a.l.rockliffe  Incidentally, your non-existent hairline doesn’t count as a ‘contribution’ as it’s, well, non-existent! Tada!😄
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  12642.  @a.l.rockliffe  Yes. It was tax avoidance, not tax evasion. If it were the latter Carr would’ve been prosecuted. Now, do you have anything worthwhile to add, chummo?
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  12643.  @a.l.rockliffe  It was tax ‘avoidance’; not tax ‘evasion’. You and I need to get our terms right, otherwise we’re going to have issues.😳
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  12644. You seem to be, wilfully or otherwise, missing the point of Carr’s joke. Carr, in my opinion, has no antipathy towards Gypsies. So what is going on here? He’s holding up a mirror to you, the listener, and asking you: are you one of the racist ones? He’s questioning the hierarchy we all (probably) hold in our minds concerning other races, and is simply suggesting that we may have rather ugly, unexamined opinions about Gypsies, such that they fall down the sympathy pecking order in a WW2 context. Carr may have not fully thought this through, as I see him as a bit of a trigger-happy ‘say anything to elicit a reaction’ comedian, but when you look behind the bald, blunt headlines and read between the lines, this is not meant as an attack on Gypsies; it was meant as an attack on your unexamined assumptions about Gypsies, and by extension, other historically persecuted groups.🥸
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  12645. No. I much prefer Maltesers.
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  12646.  @bene9472  Why, Benjamin, you appear to be a little disingenuous, darling. If you’d done your due diligence you would’ve known like me that Benjamin is a popular given name for males, derived from Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין‎, Bīnyāmīn, translating as "son of the right [hand]" in both Hebrew and Arabic languages. Yvw. ✌️
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  12647. If you want evidence that organised religion was made by men, for men, ask yourself why virtually no mosque on this planet has a female imam; why no woman has ever been Pope; not one Chief Rabbi in Israel has been a woman; not one Hindu temple has had a female priest; finally, out of 14 incarnations, not one Dalai Lama has been a woman. That last one is especially curious as, by the law of averages, there should have been about 7 to this point. Yes, indeed, organised religion, organised by men and controlled by men, so that they can control others.
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  12648.  @moni6290  I’ve no problem calling her by any name she wants. That doesn’t automatically mean I have to ‘respect’ the woman. As I say, she’s nothing to me. 👍
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  12649. *moot Fool.
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  12650.  @AcerbicDelicacy  I would point out that Islam is one of the 3 religions of the ‘Good Book’ and reveres Jesus as one of its prophets. Here’s the thing: In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this. So, as for Yousaf, he was born and bred in Scotland, as was I, and that makes him just as ‘Scottish’ as I am as far as I’m concerned.
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  12651.  @AcerbicDelicacy  Uh huh. And that’ll be why Protestants (Scotland) and Catholics (Ireland) have, historically, been at one another’s throats for centuries and why Celtic fans hate Rangers fans and vice-versa to this day. Even so, it’s not the point. You have to be logically consistent. If you’re going to say certain people aren’t ‘true Scots’ due to a certain ancestry, then you can’t just pick and choose the ones you personally dislike. It has to be applied consistently. I’m sure you can see this. 😊
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  12652.  @lillielangtry9652  All I was talking about was the concept of “seeking asylum”. Calm down, calm down, love. You’ll be having kittens at this rate.😂
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  12653. Triggered much?🤣 mic-drop
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  12654.  @S-North  😴
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  12655.  @Fan-nothing *you Nah, Al. Born ‘n’ bred here, petal. You may need to source a better coping strategy.👍
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  12656.  @norabarry7694 Lol. Not triggered by anything, darlin’. You could be projecting again, sweetheart.👍😉
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  12657.  @S-North  So, Bukayo Saka, or Jude Bellingham, or Marcus Rashford aren’t as ‘British’ as you or I? Really? Go on… I dare you to say it.
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  12658.  @mmins274  Well, they should’ve said that. Their lack of a basic education is not my problem. 👍
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  12659.  @S-North  Er, what? So, I’m Scottish, or Welsh, or Northern Irish, and you’re demanding I fly the St George’s flag?! 👍🤣
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  12660.  @jrobs1133  Oh, I’ve got integrity all right, petal. Dig your own chutzpah of not just ‘lolling’ your own comments but ‘LOLLING’ them! 🥸
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  12661.  @jrobs1133  Why are you ‘lolling’ your own comment?🤔
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  12662.  @jrobs1133  Because I’m good.😉
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  12663.  @Spacebadger  Dream on, son.
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  12664.  @krtcampbell9007  Yeah, but your categorical mistake, and the mistake of others like you is to take an unearned, irrational pride in the fact your mother plopped you out here and not over there. If you can’t see this, I feel only pity for you. I refer you to the words of George Carlin: Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer. As far as I can see, Carlin was bang on the money about this, and if a critical mass of people actually acted on this very simple notion, half of humanity’s nationalist-based problems would be wiped out overnight. National pride, along with organised religion are the 2 most egregiously baleful disasters human beings ever had the misfortune to invent.
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  12665.  @rorynicholson8558  If you want to adhere to primitive, dangerous, stupid poppycock like taking ‘pride’ in an accident of birth, go right ahead. Just count me out.
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  12666.  @rorynicholson8558  By your logic, everyone who has arrived in America post-1620 are not legit; ditto Australia and New Zealand; so are you going to ask those ‘indigenous’ folk about how they feel they have been brutally sidelined by the newcomers over the centuries? What if they turn round and tell you and your other European descendants to fuck right off out of Australia and New Zealand? Are you going to give up how you live for them and leave what is, by your logic, ‘their’ land, and have you been doing this in Australia and New Zealand historically? No. You stuck around and brutally subjugated them and shoved them off into the sidelines and imposed your ‘non-indigenous’ mores and standards. You double standards hypocrite.
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  12667.  @rorynicholson8558  Yeah, but it’s all about definitions. I don’t consider myself any more ‘indigenous’ than anyone else who was born here. If you do, fine; just don’t presume that for others.
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  12668.  @jrobs1133  You are a very primitive human being if you hitch your identity to a random, arbitrary accident of birth.
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  12669.  @hughjohns9110  Yeah, but you only really uphold that idea if you’re willing to hitch your core identity to random, abstract lines drawn, and redrawn on a map. I’m not, chummo.
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  12670.  @hughjohns9110  It smacks of stuff and nonsense, Stevie boy. After all, are you any more ‘indigenous’ than I, and if so how and why? Dangerous talk, boyo; always has been, always will be for tribal humanity.
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  12671.  @elkpaz560  ‘Elk Paz’ sounds like the name of a Scandinavian indie band to these ears.
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  12672.  @elkpaz560  Elk peace. Interesting concept.
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  12673.  @elkpaz560  Yeah, but as I said above, no one picks on any of the other ‘non-indigenous’ religions to Britain. Islam always gets it in the neck, when as far as I can see it’s a small sect of radicalised arseholes who cause all the trouble. It’s like blaming every Irish person for the Troubles.
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  12674. Thing is, Biden is a doddery old fool, and they talk about his ‘authorisation’ for this, but you can be sure there are others in the US administration pulling his strings on this one.
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  12675. Purple Haze made that point already.
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  12676. Did they? I couldn’t have given a flying fig. Never knew her. Didn’t care. As with the Queen.
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  12677. @@TB-mj1kn Sorry, I can’t let that one go: “stay in your own country”?!?! Lol. What like Europeans have been doing since at least 1492?🤣
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  12678. @Don't Look Up Actually, the comma was optional there, chum. Nice try, though.😉
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  12679.  @stevenham1937  Sorry, chum, but I spotted another blunder, alas. *others’ lives. If you correct these then we’re good to go.👍
    2
  12680.  @stevenham1937  😉
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  12681.  @stevenham1937  *their - you may need to run that one through a spellchecker too, hun.😉
    2
  12682. *bear
    2
  12683. Well, that was weird. Wasn’t that supposed to be Kearse’s script Ben was reading? Agree 100% with everything he said. 👍
    2
  12684.  @shapexdd2164  FYI, that was the original gag. 🥴
    2
  12685.  @discombobulate12  You’re another one missing the point: offence versus harm. I don’t care if you’re offended. You chose to be offended. Don’t offload your ‘offendedness’ onto those who are in no way offended. Can’t you see how dangerous this is?
    2
  12686.  @wendycutts9734  Lol again.
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  12687. And the fella was hired because of colour and his rightist views.
    2
  12688. Even to the gents’ toilets? 🚽 😷
    2
  12689. If migration, Harry & Meghan and trans people didn’t exist, GBNews wouldn’t exist.
    2
  12690. *Never mind.
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  12691. The irony of that comment is that Carlin was an atheist.
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  12692. Yeah, but what about the millions of lives which were saved by having the vaccine? All very well harping on about the adverse effects of the vaccine (yet to be proved), but they are minuscule compared with the lives saved.
    2
  12693. Can Dolan just come out once and for all and we can end this tragically embarrassing arselicking?
    2
  12694. How is this “degeneracy”?
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  12695.  @markscript5746  I do respect their right to choose. I just don’t understand why they are offended. Big difference.
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  12696.  @ukar69  Yeah, but here’s the thing: no one, hitherto, has given me a single rational reason why I should hate (or even mildly dislike) homosexuality.
    2
  12697.  @arfahkhan5250  It’s called free-speech, m8. Cope.👍😉
    2
  12698.  @arfahkhan5250  I don’t have a problem with you finding laws “ridiculous”. As long as you tell me why and are able to justify it as I have.😊
    2
  12699. No. Move on. This is soooooo boring.
    2
  12700.  @umeng2002  Lol. 1. I’m not gay. 2. You’re projecting. 3. Marriage should be between 2 consenting adults whether they are gay straight or anywhere in between. You need to realise that vast swathes of humanity hold zero truck with organised religious baloney. Heterosexual people get married without any religion as it stands. Why can’t gays? It’s legal anyway, so you lost this battle, sweetie. You might want to man the barricades for the next thing the Bible told you to hate. How about not mixing fabrics, as I believe Leviticus tells you, right next to that bit about gays? Huh? I’ll bet my f*cking life you don’t follow that particular bit, m8. Eh? I’m right, aren’t I? You are the cherry picker par excellence. 👌 🍒
    2
  12701. With all that ‘banging’ you must be exhausted, mate.
    2
  12702.  @joschmoyo4532 What? Wtf. Did you even watch the report? It is the parents parenting. As I say, you appear to be projecting rather alarmingly your own twisted desires. Think on …
    2
  12703. Huh? It’s the 2 biological parents involved. I think you might be projecting your own base desires again.
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  12704.  @dixienormous2440  I just told you the ‘She’s’ was the original correction; it’s only sub-literate chumps like you who can’t see this. As you were.
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  12705.  @dixienormous2440  Nothing wrong with my statement grammatically sunshine. The initial word was the correction, followed by a perfectly grammatical sentence. Cope harder.
    2
  12706.  @simonking195  Er, not sure wtf to ‘believe’ at this point. What I know is that nationalism and this primitive belief in an accident of birth as a key marker of identity has never served humans and we need to get beyond these unthinking tropes if we are to get out of here alive, as a species.
    2
  12707. Pmsl.
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  12708. Cope. Europeans made the Indigenous peoples of the Americas a minority rather swiftly. Not only that, Europeans killed them. Last time I checked, Brits are not being massacred en masse.🙄
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  12709. Becky’s twigged.
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  12710. Yeah, but to be fair, what about all the brutal murders Europeans have committed since at least 1492, as they ‘illegally immigrated’ to other places? The double-standards hypocrisy here stinks to high heaven, given the historical record. One illegal Algerian atrocity in France cannot hope to compete with the buckets of blood on European hands down the centuries.
    2
  12711. Why anyone is giving a flying f*** about this is beyond me. It’s totally meaningless to anyone but those involved.
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  12712. Truth is, this unrest in Hartlepool, the Southport riots (and tonight’s in Downing St.) are a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally. (Just for the record, Rebecca was once accused of advocating open borders on GBNews and she didn’t deny it. In other words, with her in charge, things here would be even worse! 🤦‍♂️)
    2
  12713.  @LadyStudio1  Call me old school but in my world in terms of sex, not gender, xx=man and xy=woman.
    2
  12714. K, Joe. Put it away now. We don’t want any unnecessary spillages.
    2
  12715. Truth is, if you think the immigration issue is bad under a Tory government, it’s going to be 10x worse under Labour! It’s an open secret that a good proportion of Labour MPs are pro-open borders.
    2
  12716.  @beavis6838  I always preferred Butt-Head anyway.
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  12717.  @roncatton7101  I do, actually. They can be ornery fuckwits, but as a general rule, I do like the French.
    2
  12718. Of course, Farage doesn’t mention that the benefits systems of Germany and France are more generous than the UK; but hey, let’s not let facts get in the way of a good story.
    2
  12719.  @petergreen6897  Get a grip, fannybreath!
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  12720.  @petergreen6897  Fleetwood Mac?
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  12721.  @Mistermopar  Er, why? Sometimes people need to be told certain things. I’m not impugning her character, just pointing out that she has that ‘trout-pout’ look that didn’t exist 25 years ago.
    2
  12722. Not sure her Botox surgeon deserves many awards, though. 👄😳
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  12723.  @run2cat4run  I also heard it on BBC TV news the other day.
    2
  12724.  @1chish  He paid £12 million. Fact. Deal with it. Commonly reported by various reliable sources. As has been said, ‘innocent’ people don’t shell out vast sums like that unless they have something very deep and dark and heavy weighing on their soul. For if he’s innocent, as you insist, he’d have had no need to pay a penny now, would he? There, there. That wasn’t too difficult now, was it? Take yer cocoa. Pop off to bed for an early night, and like a good sheep get up tomorrow to worship your beloved dear departed Queenie.🥸
    2
  12725.  @1chish  Triggered, much? Calm down, calm down. Your hectoring tone betrays you, sonny. Simmer down now. Settle. It’s the night before Her Maj’s funeral, so have some respect and stop ranting like a rabid drunk on a street corner.😉🤓
    2
  12726.  @barbararice6650  This.
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  12727. As ever with these things, this is already so binary, so black and white, so he’s 100% guilty, he’s not guilty at all. What if … both are true? Certain MSM wants to silence Brand and he may have been a very naughty boy.
    2
  12728.  @paulhank7967  He’s so depressing, all the fucking time. He needs to lighten up. Smile once in a blue moon. He has the look of a man that has just had his last fiver nicked and his cupboards are all bare.
    2
  12729.  @sammim7657  Bollocks! Most people I know now work from home, and they produce what they need to without issue.
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  12730.  @TchHry  Heh, heh.👌
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  12731. Ah, but you haven’t factored the hermaphrodites into your neat equation.
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  12732.  @mindcraft4362  What I find interesting in this whole debate, as a neutral onlooker from the sidelines (neither “trans” - whatever that means - nor biologically female) is that the trans community, like you here, are always banging on about your “rights” and “freedoms”, when surely the key thing in this whole debate is the preference and rights of biological females as it's they who are potentially having their private spaces occupied. My guess (but it’s a guess based on extensive experience) would be that the vast majority of women (ie with cervix) wouldn’t want biological men in their private spaces, regardless of whether these men self-identify as “women”, and even if they have fully transitioned through physical/chemical castration. Put it this way: if I were a young mum taking her pre-teen child to the public swimming pool, would I want biological men (regardless of their trans status) sharing the changing rooms with me? Answer: no. This does not mean I’m “anti-trans”; it means I am pro-protecting safe spaces for biological women. I don’t care how you self-identify, just as long as your chosen identity doesn’t adversely affect my life. The analogy would be with organised religion: I’m agnostic; believe in and worship what you want, but when this unfavourably impinges on my life, that’s when my hackles are raised. Religion should be a private matter and not pervade the public sphere and potentially adversely affect the lives of others. With trans people, they can do what they want within the law, express themselves how they want, call themselves what they want (and I will honour this), but if the majority of biological females don’t want them actually physically invading their private spaces (which seems to be the case), then this majority wish should be honoured in practice.
    2
  12733.  @padiedo7213  🎄
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  12734.  @postscript67  I would add that it works the other way: that is, I expect no one to respect me until I’ve earned it, just as I don’t expect them to be randomly rude to me, unless I have provoked them in some way.
    2
  12735.  @postscript67  Not my modus-operandi, sunshine. I approach everyone suspiciously until they prove their mettle. Yes, I’m not randomly rude, but not being randomly rude is something completely different to automatically according someone respect. That latter is something much more profound and you earn starting at base 0.
    2
  12736.  @Sarah-ft8jr  I never said I didn’t respect the Queen. I was commenting on her stupid, fascistic, sinister comment that we automatically accord respect. We don’t. To anyone. It’s earned , in all cases. Non-negotiable.
    2
  12737. Yes, it was a bad day for black Chris Rock and Will Smith’s audition for The Mild Punch wasn’t his best; however, on the bright side, Clint Eastwood is looking for the lead for his upcoming A Fistful of Molars.
    2
  12738.  @vulkanofnocturne  The big difference is that baguettes, pizza and paella were all created by the French, Italians and Spanish. Boiling some water and pouring a cup of tea was something the Chinese were doing way before PG Tips was invented! 🤣
    2
  12739.  @purplehaze8557  Most of it is. China as well. My point is actually very valid and bang on point, it being for the mentally-challenged: tea is not a British drink. It’s an imported drink that British people drink. Big difference. As I said earlier: cope harder! 🤣
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  12740. Indeed. The East, North, South can have him. I agree. 🧭
    2
  12741. Chicken? 🐔
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  12742.  @barryjohn6101  Lol.
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  12743. Yes, but not the tractor stuff. He’s more of a ‘beer’ porn fella. 🍺
    2
  12744. C’mon, mate. Admit it. You secretly fancy her.
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  12745.  @marblerun5149  I’m rather happy ty. You may have the wrong person here, pal.
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  12746.  @marblerun5149  Yes, he is, you are right. 👍
    2
  12747.  @musicians_with_gunts  I have nothing against the fella, personally; it’s actually more to do with GB News. I’m not party political and am neither here nor there about tribal politics which so many seem thirled to (if you’re not ‘left’ you must be automatically ‘right’ and vice-versa blah, blah, blah), but on this channel even the overtly non -political guests are invariably quite clearly leaning to the right politically; like this guy who, as I’ve said I must’ve seen about 4 times this year, and, quite frankly, he’s not worth the air-time, in my opinion. That’s all.
    2
  12748.  @wundurra24  No. Just irritated a little at the same old, same old mouthpieces popping up on this channel, that’s all. Wouldn’t mind if they were actually inherently interesting, but this guy?
    2
  12749. Never understood why the UK doesn’t just use the Isle of Wight for this stuff. Turf out the resident whiteys and just rename it the Isle of Black and everything’s tickety-boo!
    2
  12750.  @mostlypixels2975  Actually, ‘gotta’ is perfectly acceptable in this context, son.
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  12751. @gnorweb’Gotta’ is perfectly acceptable in light written banter in my world. It’s the written equivalent of the spoken word. A missing apostrophe at any time, however, is unforgivable.
    2
  12752. @gnorweb Wtf are you on about?! It was the missing apostrophe I was pointing out.
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  12753.  @imadandylion  I did. I repeat, you sounded like you were Jesus, or something. Pipe down and get back in yer box.
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  12754.  @imadandylion  I did read it; you just sounded holier than Graham, s’all.
    2
  12755. I find it rather ironic that on GB News, a right-wing operation, that everyone who comes on here rips into the SNP. Surely, as proud English patriots, the watchers of GB News wouldn’t deny another country her right to self-determine as a sovereign, independent nation, now would they? For if they would, that rather smacks of double standards hypocrisy. If it’s good enough to be ‘proud’ of England and all that accident of birth crap, why would these English nationalists deny another country its freedom?
    2
  12756. He’s gay. You ok with that?
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  12757. I find it interesting all these Calvin sycophants; Calvin, a gay man; yet all his supporters often show prejudice against homosexuals. Go figure.
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  12758.  @shelleyphilcox4743  You didn’t really read any of what I said, did you? I’m not pro willy-nilly (pun intended) letting trans women into female spaces. However, if a person born with male genitalia is proven to be fully castrated I wouldn’t have an issue. You disagree. That’s fine we can agree to disagree. My other thought about all this is that perhaps there should be a 3rd category set-up for public spaces such as toilets, changing rooms etc., so that we have: Male/Female/Trans. Logistically, this would be a lot of work, but it may be the only real way forward here.
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  12759.  @emperorsnewclothes9405  Just kidding! No, I’m serious, if you can’t cite the exact reference, you shouldn’t be throwing around stats willy-nilly.
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  12760.  @emperorsnewclothes9405  Currant bun offences?
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  12761.  @emperorsnewclothes9405  I did. And when I did, the figure of 41% came up, not 80%. You should be able to supply your direct source if you’re going to casually throw stats around.
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  12762. Source?
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  12763.  @jasondevon481  You can be an atheist and have faith in something more than yourself, dipshit. Also have you never heard of the Crusades, or the Inquisition, or the general horrors the Catholic Church perpetrated before the Reformation and the Enlightenment? Islamism is no better. The only reason you Christian mob aren’t still throwing your weight around is because you have been domesticated, at least in the West, and thank God for that!
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  12764.  @personal8966  All of it is primitive, barbaric nonsense as far as I can tell, and I’ve looked into this stuff extensively. Manmade crap, most of it.
    2
  12765.  @hTyKn1  Indeed. It’s impossible to offend someone against their will. 👍
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  12766.  @capella5783  🤣👍
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  12767.  @PointNemo9  What’s ‘immoral’ exactly, about blocking a road?
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  12768.  @doris.from.pinner  I’m saying you do not put your foot on the accelerator pedal when you know you have 2 people sitting on the road right up to your bumper. For me, this lady was out of order. She should have just got in her car and driven the other way.
    2
  12769.  @PointNemo9  But it is legal. They were not breaking the law; the driver was.
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  12770.  @Grenbestyie  You can take the girl out of the Council Estate but …
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  12771. Can we just reduce this to mathematics? Westerner (us) killing one non-Westerner = 0 Easterner (them) killing one Westerner = 1 Now, why the double standards?
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  12772. So the national tube opens a new Tube line. As usual Johnson talks out of his Arsenal , a clearly Barking PM, a pure Chancery Lane with his ridiculous High Barnet talking at us like we were Holborn yesterday. When he’s not dissing Islam where he Maida Vale a laughing stock, he’s going all Orwellian on us with his levelling Upminster . He’s a renowned ladies’ man, all nationalities, a French woman and his Marylebone ® for her was considerable. A bit of Swiss Cottage (ing) wasn’t beneath him, either. However, we all knew he was punching well above his weight when he attempted to en Snaresbrook Shields. Not surprising that with a name like ‘Johnson’ he likes to spend much of his time at Cockfosters . His Waterloo may be yet to come and they won’t be Clapham in the Common (s) if they discover a drugs scandal surrounding Boris, and if that were to happen, well he’d be off to Highgate . Please mind the crap.
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  12773. Brazier tries too hard. There’s more than a hint of pretentiousness about him. He needs to just forget himself and try not to ‘compete’ with Hitchens.
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  12774. @31:29 Hitchens: “Have you ever broken a limb?” Brazier: “Wrist. When I was about 8 or 9.” Blimey! Colin was an early starter.😳
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  12775. All very bizarre: we have a fat presenter telling us what to eat. Hypocrisy doesn’t cover it, Dan.
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  12776. Simon really needs to shave that ridiculous pubic triangle off his chin. 🪒
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  12777.  @piratejack2469  No. I was criticising the fact he’s a holy roller. There is no evidence for Neil’s bollix. We all know he’s talking: “believe in me.” He’s a fake. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. 😂
    2
  12778.  @mariarosolemos7468  Lol@ Neil Oliver is “near perfect in every way”. You need to get out more. 🤪Wot? Again, just random shit. Nice try though,😅.
    2
  12779.  @peterflynn7083  Oh, ffs, Peter. You are clearly homosexual. Stop it! Stop being gay! I mean that.
    2
  12780.  @timg1246  Not at all. I’m here to call it as I see it, Timbo. Seethe.
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  12781.  @geoffreymollart7311  Massive anti-Schofield thing. That’s what’s driving this.😉
    2
  12782.  @geoffreymollart7311  Well, if it wasn’t, then that’s when I fall into line with the rest here. For me, that’s key. Work? No problem. No work? Wrong. There’s also an anti-Schofield thing here. I bet if this were Holly on her own, there’d be far, far, far less fuss about this.
    2
  12783.  @geoffreymollart7311  My stance is actually if they were there to work they were entitled to get through.
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  12784.  @headron66  There were working you idiot. Get over it ffs. This so boring and agenda-based. Y’all just don’t like P & H and want something on them. Ya got it. Move on.
    2
  12785. Did they f*** you drama Queen! There are whole swathes of this country that give not a fig about this, love. Deal with it.
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  12786. Aww, diddums. 😭
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  12787. Takes scum to know scum. Just sayin’.🤓
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  12788. Pmsl@‘Blondey appears on a very rude TV show at night.’ Aww, der, der, I’m sure you’ll be tucked up in bed by then so why would you care?🥸
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  12789.  @apebass2215  I don’t believe you. If you had been in P & H’s shoes and someone says you can walk up to see the coffin, I think you’d take it. I also think most people would take it. If they hadn’t been there on a work assignment then back of the queue. Otherwise, I have no issue with it.
    2
  12790.  @MELLYBOY58  Judging by your shitty grammar, older than you, son. *it’s They not teach you the apostrophe in nursery, prickface?🥸
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  12791.  @raxa45  Yawn
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  12792.  @raxa45  Yawn
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  12793.  @raxa45  You’re a divvy, m8. On yer yer bike ya fanny! 🚲
    2
  12794.  @raxa45  You’re a divvy, m8. On yer bike ya fanny! 🚲
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  12795.  @raxa45  "And Steph has been the most incredible foundation of support and rock throughout my whole career and my girls, I couldn’t be more proud of. We are a family and it works." < Once more, for the benefit of the backward. This is a Philip Schofield quote. Now sod off.
    2
  12796.  @raxa45  Look, just look online, knobhead. Pictures of them everywhere. That doesn’t look like an unhappy family and it doesn’t look like they’re acting either. Now, do one fannyface.
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  12797.  @raxa45  "And Steph has been the most incredible foundation of support and rock throughout my whole career and my girls, I couldn’t be more proud of. We are a family and it works." There, I did the work for you. Next time, I won’t be so kind. Now get out of my box. Yer cramping my style.🥱
    2
  12798.  @raxa45  It’s out there, son. You never heard of Google, dipshit? Do some searching, muppet.🥸
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  12799.  @raxa45  You tell me? All I know is that they are still good friends. Cope.
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  12800.  @Englandforever555  Stayed with him for decades. Still best of friends to this day. Kids seem perfectly alright, too. As I said, never let the facts get in the way of an agenda.😉
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  12801. Don’t most of us? I’m sure you have quite a high opinion of you, too.
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  12802. London Loves for PM! 👏
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  12803. Pmsl. You gonna get yer wee whippy out, Mr Punisher? Don’t get too excited now.🤓
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  12804. 👏Best comment ever.
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  12805. She looks like Adele; the puppy-fat version, crossed with Angela Rayner.
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  12806.  @tommyboy1653  No. It doesn’t make it ‘ok’. It makes it understandable. I speak as someone for whom all this is anathema. But it needs to be pointed out. Otherwise, we just fall into that trap of the devils versus the angels. Putin sees himself as an ‘angel’. Think about this. I mean that. Think about this. Then get back to me.🤔
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  12807. Or diapers.
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  12808. No, you may not.
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  12809. Well, some of the altar boys are.
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  12810. Coronations have never been up my street.
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  12811. ‘Rages’ my fucking arse.
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  12812. Why are we still boring on about this? This is utterly ridiculous and agenda-based. The sanctimoniousness is staggering. Willoughby and Schofield were on a working assignment. They got the chance to see the coffin. They took it. They weren’t holding anyone up. Secretly, I bet most of us would, no matter what folk are saying here. If I were there on a working assignment, I repeat, a working assignment, and I could breeze past the coffin in 2 minutes as an addendum to this, instead of waiting 20 hours in a queue, I would, and I suspect most people would in these circumstances. Beckham and his ilk are exceptions, I suspect. The other thing is that Beckham wasn’t on a specific work assignment. For me, that latter fact allows you a fast track to the coffin, and if it had been offered to me I would have taken it and admitted it afterwards if a ruckus were created. I suspect the real issue here is Schofield and Willoughby being disingenuous about what they really did. The other, perhaps bigger issue, is people just want something on the pair as they don’t like Schofield. If this had just been Holly, there’d be far, far less of a ruckus here, if anything at all. The usual agenda that you always get with GB News folk, when they don’t like someone. They skipped the queue. They were working there. So what? No big deal. Get over it.
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  12813. @jamesw2414 Not the point. Wootton is alleged to have done what he called others to be cancelled for. As I said: rules for thee but not for me. We shall see. I wouldn’t trust Dan Wootton as far as I could throw him.
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  12814. With a name like yours, you need to sod off back to Ireland. Get outta my country!
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  12815.  @thespian1961  Ty. They call me Mr Script.
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  12816. Oh the irony of a man with a French name wanting to block people from France coming to the UK. You honestly couldn’t write this stuff.
    2
  12817.  @bewilderedbrit8928  Just for the record, I was never too enamoured of the Bolsheviks, either. Just sayin’. You might wanna log that before you come at me with baseless, pointless crap. yawn
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  12818.  @bewilderedbrit8928  Is it? I’m not sure I’ve used the word ‘fascist’ in literally months. Perhaps you can point me to some examples. Otherwise, I fear you may have the wrong person.😉
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  12819. That title is so utterly fascist. But that’s to be expected on this channel. The right moan about the left banning things, and here they are calling for banning 2 people who have committed precisely 0 crime. Go figure.
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  12820.  @888ssss  Er, yes.
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  12821. Unless you’re wee Jimmy Krankie, and then it just sounds wrong.
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  12822.  @barneymagee3285  Both senses. Ignorance knows but one meaning, surely.
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  12823. Sandra. Help me here darlin’. All these f*ckwits seem to worship this Neil feller. And he worships an invisible being who probably doesn’t exist! Arghhh!😂
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  12824.  @cocos8903  Cool. Nice to know you support gays. 👍Well done. I stand corrected.
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  12825. @@wearedoomed4838 Who isn’t? That wasn’t my point. My point was that this family is paying out their own pocket and it’s none of anyone else’s business what another decides to do with their own money! 🤦‍♂️
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  12826.  @tonysheerness2427  Dunno. Why are you getting your knickers in a twist over what someone else chooses to do with their own money?
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  12827.  @mtlicq  It looks like you who is lacking understanding here, m8. As well as making an official apology for John Gladstone’s ownership of Africans, the 21st-century Gladstones have agreed to pay reparations to fund further research into the impact of slavery. As I have said to others, stop getting your flowery panties in a twist as this is really none of your business what someone else does with their own money. 😊
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  12828. Er, they can. And, actually, they are. Where have you been, lameass?
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  12829. Says the man with one more Campbell than he strictly needs.
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  12830. No. But his bank balance more than compensates.
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  12831.  @supreme_overlord  Doesn’t it? I’ve seen and heard enough of Simon to think he might be a bit of a fascist.👍🤔👌
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  12832.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Why do you laugh at your own unfunny gags? Cringe.
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  12833.  @DeathToZioWarPigs I don’t. 🥲
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  12834. No it won’t, as paedophilia has f*ck-all to do with gender theory. Nice try, though.👍
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  12835. Sue would offend this particular head.
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  12836.  @sabinekoch3448  German. No sense of humour. Computes.
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  12837. One. Thatcher doesn’t count as ‘female’.
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  12838. Ugh. 🤮
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  12839.  @stringer-ik1pc  Uh huh. And you leapt right in and took the bait, darling. 👏😉
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  12840. Gay? Just sayin’.
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  12841.  @ClactonCuun  K. Just checkin’! A little insecure, are we? 🤔
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  12842. More self-upvoting? Have you no shame, son? 🤦‍♂️
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  12843.  @cliffthatcher4574  If you are seriously suggesting that organised religion should have anything to do with politics then you might need a head test, mate. Every history book demonstrates that when these two mix, it becomes toxic for almost everyone. Think on.
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  12844.  @wundurra24  I return to my original, original point in this, however; having quite extensively looked at this, I’m about 90% sure (more, on some days), that Jesus wasn’t historical and was just a rehashed, reheated Christian version of the dying/resurrecting Pagan gods.
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  12845.  @wundurra24  Yeah, I agree. To all intents and purposes they had a feeling (and reality) of forced exile from where they lived, so yes, were refugees in that sense.
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  12846.  @wundurra24  They never left the Roman Empire in the episode you cite; ergo, they aren’t technically ‘refugees’ in the modern sense by which we understand that term.
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  12847.  @wundurra24  I was curious. Wasn’t sure myself. It looks like Jesus wasn’t a refugee as we understand that term today. Merriam-Webster defines refugee as “a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.” Refugees are typically forced to leave their country because of some impending violence directed toward them. Under that broad definition, it may seem that Jesus and His parents might have qualified for a time as refugees. However, there is a difference between the dictionary definition of refugee and its use as a political term today. In the New Testament, Matthew records the following: “An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.’ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son’” (Matthew 2:13–15). Jesus was not a “refugee” in any sense meaningful to today’s world. For one thing, Jesus’ family never left the Roman Empire; they simply fled from one region of Roman territory to another Roman territory. That would be like someone moving legally from one state to another within the USA to leave the jurisdiction of the governor of the first state. Also, Luke makes it clear that Joseph and Mary went out of their way to follow Roman law in adhering to the census (Luke 2:1–5). Everything they did was legal. Jesus and His family moved to Egypt in order to escape King Herod’s murderous intentions, but they had a plan, and they had supplies and support. Their trip was entirely self-funded, due to the gifts of the magi. And their sojourn in Egypt was short. The family remained there until the death of Herod, at which time they returned home (Matthew 2:19–21). Given these details, there’s no real parallel to the modern, indigent refugee who asks permission to enter a new country to avoid some calamity. There is some truth to the idea that Jesus was a persecuted and poor man, and so we need to consider how we treat those who are displaced and impoverished. However, in the interest of accuracy, Jesus was not what one would consider a “refugee,” either then or now.
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  12848.  @wundurra24  Ok, fair point.
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  12849. Jesus is a made-up story the Christians nicked from the Pagans before them; clear case of unacknowledged plagiarism.
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  12850.  @Mat-sc3kt  You wouldn’t know it’s not a ‘real thing’ judging by the amount of times I hear it every day, these days. You might need to listen a bit more.😉
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  12851. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  12852.  @lks6248  Not the point. They are foreigners in a foreign land. You can’t start bending the rules just to fit your own personal agenda. Uh huh.
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  12853. Uh huh. On that basis, I hope you’re going to call for the immediate repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living abroad. This thing works both ways, m8, but I’m sure you’re already aware of that. 👍
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  12854. *Lowlives Try to catch the drift.
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  12855.  @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559  Disagree. I know many biological men who ‘feel’ they are women and vice-versa. They aren’t biologically, of course, and that’s what I gently point out to them.
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  12856. But only if someone is there to hear it.
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  12857.  @shka-n1t  I find all of Laura Kuenssberg’s coverage to be about herself.
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  12858. Wife? Really? Till this point I could’ve sworn Sunak was gay. I may have to reset my gaydar.
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  12859. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  12860. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for A Fistful of Molars .
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  12861.  @dmytrogalan1005  It’s quite simple, mate. It’s called ‘self-determination’. If a majority vote for something, anything , then you honour this vote. It’s called ‘democracy’. I don’t give a shit about the history blah, blah, blah. If today, a majority vote says Ukraine should be an independent sovereign state (and it does), then not Putin, nor anyone else has a leg to stand on. The only reason he is doing this is because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and because he can.😳
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  12862.  @haku_kz4586  All very well. But if a majority of Ukrainians want no part of the old Russian system (and they don’t), then morons like Putin should recognise this and go home. My theory about all this is quite simple: Putin is pushing 70, he’s nothing to lose, and he’s having a last hurrah at everybody else’s expense, quite simply because he can. 😳
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  12863.  @manwithnousername9779  It was a joke. sighs
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  12864. I genuinely don’t get homophobia. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating on someone for whom they’re dating isn’t one of them. For one thing, no one consciously chooses who they fancy, but even if it were a conscious decision, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota a man getting with another consenting man or a woman getting with another consenting woman. What I resent is other people being able to dictate by law what another must do or not do in this matter. I always think in these cases: How would the lawmakers/homophobes like it if they were told with whom they could or couldn’t get? I don’t think they would like it at all and they’d be right not to like it. To me, being homophobic is as pointless, irrational and moronic as feeling resentful of someone for digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  12865.  @Piqueblinders11  ‘Christianphobic’?! Er, wot? Not ‘Christianphobic’ at all. When it comes to manmade unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddies I’m 100% equal opportunities: I dislike them all equally! Why? Cuz they’re nothing more than tribal politics. “My invisible sky daddy is better than your invisible sky daddy! Na na na na na!”
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  12866. “From Allah we come … to Allah we return.” You have precisely zero credible evidence for that statement. Nice try, though. 👍
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  12867. She stopped breathing.
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  12868.  @Chloeabzzz  Did you read my response? There is no age of consent in Saudi today if you are married.
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  12869. Personally, I find this pretty repulsive, too, but 2 things to point out. Life expectancy in the 7th century was about 30. Moreover, even today in some countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Pakistan, and Qatar, there is no age of consent but people must be married. The tradition Mohammed followed in Saudi in the 7th century doesn’t appear to be all that different from today.
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  12870.  @sabtaingopinath9652  Why are you addressing that one to me? If you look at this OP’s other posts, she appears to be rather anti-Islam. Moreover, nothing I have stated is factually incorrect. Nice try, though. 👍
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  12871. I’m guessing when you become a GP you won’t be treating any Muslims! 🤣
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  12872.  @strangemagic5502  She was 16. Anne.
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  12873.  @memetopia5130  Er, how do you define ‘Europeans’.
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  12874. Bit random.
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  12875. Yes, just like Paolo Nutini.
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  12876.  @AMpufnstuf  Look, mate. My point is quite simple: America clearly needs to regulate better who is permitted to legally have guns. Most others, who are not in the US, can see this clearly.
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  12877.  @AMpufnstuf  Source?
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  12878.  @AMpufnstuf  Pmsl@“taking their food sources away from them.”😆Really? Is that your argument?
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  12879.  @wolf-ls7jx  Because you talked about me not re-editing stuff, when you do that yourself, fool.
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  12880.  @AMpufnstuf  The idea that an 18-year-old could walk into a store and buy weapons of war designed and marketed to kill, no questions asked, it seems to me, just violates common sense. If people want to legally own guns, then strict vetting, mental health checks, the type of gun owned, should all be strictly monitored. You know something, I have lived in 6 countries, including a year spent in America; I have never felt more ‘edgy’ and nervous for my personal safety anywhere, more than I did in the US. Restricting access to legal firearms obviously won’t solve everything overnight, and contrary to your jibe, I’m no utopian, but that this guy in Texas can buy a gun as easily as he can buy a candy bar, it seems, with few, if any, questions asked, seems to me, plain insanity.
    2
  12881.  @AMpufnstuf  France, Belgium, all of Scandinavia, UK, Ireland, Australia, China, Greece, Syria, Taiwan, Portugal, New Zealand, Spain, Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Morocco, Israel, Canada, to name a few, all consistently have a homicide rate at 4x lower than that of America. Most, if not all of these countries, have stricter gun laws than the US. Coincidence?
    2
  12882.  @AMpufnstuf  So, take the legal guns out of the equation then. Simple.
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  12883.  @wolf-ls7jx  *rebut Looks like the hypocrite may need to do a bit of his own editing. American education ain’t what it used to be.
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  12884.  @AMpufnstuf  So, why does virtually every other comparable nation on this Earth (leaving aside the lawless ones), not have an issue with regulating guns, then?
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  12885.  @JeepCherokeeful  My original comment made no mention of ‘machine guns’ dummy. Machine guns, are indeed used in US homicides, as they are legal in 37 States, dipshit.
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  12886.  @wolf-ls7jx  I said that below the original comment, dipshit. The original comment made no mention of ‘machine guns’, so nothing needs to be edited, pal.😉
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  12887.  @wolf-ls7jx  I never said it was a machine gun. I was making a more general point.
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  12888. Sorry. My bad. Got my hopes up there. Read ‘Kreminna’ for ‘Kremlin’, there. As you were.
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  12889.  @deenieteenie3934  I was half-joking; but only half.😉
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  12890.  @spicylemon8501  Lol. 🥚 Pricey, I bet, though!
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  12891.  @Nefariously_ignorant  Sense-of-humour bypass?😳
    2
  12892.  @andrewjones-productions  Er, I think Boris does most of the, ahem, ‘stuffing’.😳
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  12893.  @Syndie702  Stop trying to be pretentious and wanky and just write yer own words, ffs. Stop Googling cookie cracker bollix for hits, love. If you write others’ words, attribute them. Be honest.👍
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  12894. *at *.
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  12895.  @asmrpillow457  Why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  12896.  @SadBoysCollectiveCirca96  Sorry? How does any of that invalidate my OP? Yah. It doesn’t. I simply said that the UK doesn’t place nearly enough emphasis on rehabilitation in its justice system. I didn’t say it was gonna be the panacea for all criminal ills. I just suggested it would help. Massively. Cope better. 👍
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  12897. To be fair, she’s making her marmalade sandwiches. 🥪
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  12898.  @tiffanyclements9673  That way rampant inflation lies.
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  12899.  @hjoydulocg8r76ip7  Lol. Are you telling me I need to be ‘taught’ that theft and murder are bad?! That’s just kinda common sense, bud.
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  12900.  @hjoydulocg8r76ip7  I’ve had a perfect ‘basic morality’ all my life with no religion required. 😉
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  12901.  @ankitdubey459  Look mate, you are one against billions here; billions of Hindus, followers of a faith upholding deity and deities. If you consider Hinduism to be a non-theistic faith, you are deluded. If you want to go for one of those, I kindly recommend Buddhism.
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  12902.  @ankitdubey459  1. I don’t have a God. 2. Most forms of Hinduism are henotheistic, which means they worship a single deity, known as “Brahman,” but still recognize other gods and goddesses. Followers believe there are multiple paths to reaching their god. You appear to be talking of Buddhism, not Hinduism. You seem confused. Hinduism is very much a theistic faith.
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  12903.  @ankitdubey459  Do what you want. All you religious nutters want locking up. Leave me out of it.
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  12904.  @ankitdubey459  Wtf are you on about? They are polytheists.
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  12905.  @sandesh9240  Yes, and all this stuff is based around primitive human beings hitching their core identity to this god or that god, and it’s all very depressing, but all too familiar, to watch.
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  12906.  @Nic1963D  What? You keep making baseless statements. Try again. Try better.
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  12907.  @Nic1963D  Choose sides? What? Between Muslims and Hindus? Why would I do that?
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  12908.  @alexanderangelo7284  I would add, I’m not an atheist, my animus is just reserved for all organised religion in its more egregious aspects.
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  12909.  @alexanderangelo7284  Agreed. Very often political ideologies are just as much to blame as organised religion; or rather, the humans that passionately uphold these ideologies. However, while religion has done some good, the evil done in its name far outweighs this historically. I’ve never quite understood why people can’t just have a faith without getting together with others. Then I’m reminded of Pirsig’s words: When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion .
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  12910.  @brendonrookes1151  Ricky was making the point, I think, that we don’t have knife massacres in the UK. Yes, we have knife crime where one or two are killed, at a time, and this is bad enough; but you don’t get random homicidal nutters wandering into schools and stabbing 19 children and 2 teachers to death in one fell swoop.
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  12911.  @dkrawk8309  Er, remind me who invaded whom, again? 🤔
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  12912.  @dkrawk8309  *west’s *Ukrainian *.
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  12913. K, Kermit; simmer down.
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  12914.  @UAM-  Nothing wrong with my arguments, sonny. You could learn a few lessons by following them closely. Think on.🤓
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  12915.  @Yaya-vv9lp  The root , I repeat the root of this whole issue is organised religion going back thousands of years.
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  12916.  @mikeOnTheChoob  The root of this issue is religion. Without religion, we wouldn’t be here.
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  12917.  @MH-ms1dg  The root of this issue is religion.
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  12918.  @ShogunHull Ok, Morgan. I’m guessing you’re not from Paris, Edinburgh, Toledo or Venice? Yeah? Yeah. 👍😊
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  12919.  @user-High-IQ769  Your biggest error in that post was ‘we’. We ?!Really? You’re defining yourself on a random, arbitrary accident of birth, something in which you had no say? Really? I call that primitive and unthinking. Moreover, I call it very, very dangerous given 300,000 years of squabbling human beings murdering each other over accidents of birth. I’d direct your attention to the wise words of that great philosopher, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us.
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  12920. Go fry an egg, Jimbo.😂 Boil yer heid while yer at it, son.🤢
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  12921.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  My name’s Hugh, Jimbo, not Normie. To you it’s always Sir Hugh Janus-Cockburn. Don’t you forget this, son.👍
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  12922.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I bet you open yer back-door more than just on a Sunday, Jimbo! 🤫👍 😯 😖
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  12923.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Sorry, Jimbo, but the last f*cking thing I want in my life is your ‘hot take’. Think on, Jimbo. Moreover, trot on, petal! 👍 🐴
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  12924.  Swift BMF  *taken *didn’t *haven’t *I’m *they’re Yawn
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  12925.  @krafterzdavid1757  Nah. I’d rather ‘do worse’, Davey baby. Careful now.😉
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  12926.  @sherrillwhately7586  Lol. No, you twit! GEARÓID! 😆
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  12927.  @sherrillwhately7586  He’s Irish. Fyi.
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  12928.  @DTM_329  Who says I ‘hate free speech’? Not me, son. Get it right or not at all ya presumptuous fannybreath!
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  12929.  @belkentens  Too long and too boring to read.
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  12930.  @black5f  Ronald McDonald got pretty fucking close though, bruh.
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  12931.  @scooby1992  It’s about critical masses. Think of the voting patterns here in termsEuropean countries such as Sweden with 30% Muslims. There will be trouble ahead. That is a sure bet.
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  12932. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  12933.  @ActuallyHoudini  *separate
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  12934.  @ActuallyHoudini  Ok. Well, at least we’ve cleared that one up: you consider him 100% guilty. Thanks.👍
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  12935. Thanks Einstein.
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  12936. Thanks yet again, Einstein. 🕶
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  12937. I don’t buy you are Superman.
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  12938. Putin is patently a paranoid, sociopathic control-freak to whom no one seems to have said ‘no’ in 22 years, and suddenly about 35 million Ukrainians are saying ‘no’ to him and his hitherto unchallenged fantasies have just met hard, cold reality.
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  12939.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Yawn
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  12940.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol.🤣Jimbo, you really are the epitome of ‘never let the facts get in the way of an agenda’: Arctic Sea ice has been decreasing for decades! What fucking planet are you living on, son?!🤣
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  12941.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Farts in Jimbo’s general direction
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  12942.  @DR3ADER1  I’m kinda right in between you and the warming deniers. They are wrong. You are too bleak. It’s not that bad, if we act.😉
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  12943.  @DR3ADER1  Not sure we’re ‘doomed’, tbh. Those areas prone to the effects of 2 degree warming are certainly doomed, however. It’s patently obvious that those most vehemently arguing against global warming are those least affected by it: ie. those generally not living between the equator and about 35 degrees North and South.
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  12944.  @mikeatcora  It’s just a scientific fact that the planet has warmed by just over a degree these past 250 years, pal. I’m old. As a kid, we had bitter winters with lying snow almost every year. In the last 30 years, I can count on the fingers of one hand the winters we have had where snow fell and lied for weeks on end. I live on the 55th parallel North. So, even anecdotally folks can see this 🌍 is warming. They don’t actually need the stats to verify this. The issue here is the complicity, or otherwise, of humans in all this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  12945.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  I refer you to the comment I gave some moments ago, Jimbo. How many times do you have to post the same thing? Ever heard of ‘changing the record’? 🤓
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  12946. No it’s not. Every day there are blizzards and heatwaves going on. It’s only the abnormal ones making the news.
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  12947.  @TheConduit10  I have no time for any organised religion. They are all dubious. They are all based on Chinese whispers. They are all based on not very much to substantiate them as “the word of God”. That could be why I have been a lifelong agnostic.😉
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  12948.  @BG-oj6zt  White.
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  12949.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  One word, Jimbo: Hitler. 👍😉
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  12950.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Uh huh, Jimbo. And white people never commit crime. 👍🤣
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  12951. Look on the bright side. They aren’t getting their heads blown off by Russian sniper fire.
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  12952. And if you lie with shellfish you get crabs.
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  12953. Cmunism
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  12954. Yes. We have lost a fleet of ferrys. A nation mourns.
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  12955.  @cluelessjoe5745  Yeah, and even in 9 months you couldn’t learn how to spell ‘Mosul’ properly.
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  12956.  @paulgibbon5991  I’m not ok with you automatically assuming someone you disagree with is a bot, and therefore censor that voice. Much better to have these points of view, for without them one is unable to test one’s own position on sundry matters. Aside from anything else, it makes the self-chosen censor (you) look rather dangerous.
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  12957. While the death of Ruth Perry is obviously tragic, I recall not so long ago looking at my school report: Inadequate. Must do better. Tragic. Needs remedial measures. Hopeless. Disaster. The saving grace was the art teacher gave me a ‘tries hard but is a obviously an untalented *rsehole’. The point? Life is hard. You need to work at it. You shouldn’t be called good if you’re not good.
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  12958.  @jamessurnamepending1239  Er, I think you might have missed the word ‘net’ in my OP. Look it up.
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  12959. ‘Middle class’? Last time I checked, he was a Chippy. Nice try, though. 👍🤡
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  12960. *what’s Pretty sure his IQ is high enough to ensure he can correctly deploy an apostrophe.
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  12961.  @rando42069  Putin’s no new Hitler. He just wants the boundaries of Russia to conform more or less to the old Soviet Empire.
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  12962.  @bluecanary9417  US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan (again) 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK You were saying? Can you not see the staggering doubles standards hypocrisy of the west? Putin is doing precisely nothing America and her partners haven’t done these past 250 years. The west has not a leg to stand on here.
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  12963.  @ericyuan9718  All 5 things I have outlined above are official requests/demands by Putin. See John Simpson BBC.
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  12964.  @direwolf7491  Lol. If you can’t see it, you’re a bit thick. “My people” implies there are people who aren’t my people, and outgrouping, either by accident of birth or religion has been the greatest cause of humanity’s problems.
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  12965. So, why do no other comparable nations have this homicide issue to the same extent? I would say that why they don’t, is because they limit access to legal guns. This 18 year-old freak would, arguably, not have done this if he were not able to walk into a gun store and buy one, no questions asked, no vetting, nothing. If you make guns so free and easy, you are going to get people being free and easy with guns. Other nations recognise this, and legislate for this. America doesn’t. Why? The archaic, primitive 2nd Amendment. No other nation on Earth allows its citizens this kind of legal access to deadly weapons. They don’t allow this for a very good reason.
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  12966.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Huh? My comments have several likes, son. At least I’m not voting myself like a desperate tart! 👍😂
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  12967.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Yes, President of a state not fully recognised by the UN.👍
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  12968.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  More self-upvoting? What a right tart you are, son! 👍🤣
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  12969.  @FontaineDerby  And …? 🤷‍♂️
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  12970.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  It’s not a UN recognised state, mate. You need better coping strategies.👍
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  12971.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  I think you may have missed this one, sweetheart 👉 Um, nice try. While it is true that a number of states have recognized Palestine as a state, legally it is still not considered one. Individual states' recognition of Palestine, does not amount to statehood. 👍😉
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  12972.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  So, you are upvoting yourself. 🤦‍♂️
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  12973. I’m from Edinburgh. In 2017 they erected some supposedly ‘temporary’ horrendous barriers at each end of part of the Royal Mile. A reaction to Manchester Arena bombing, amongst other things. They are still there, ugly as ever, 7 years on. This will only get worse, btw. It’s the new norm. We, and those who follow us, will he living under this kind of security, and worse, for decades to come. All because of 1 demographic.
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  12974. Palestine comprising Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Why is this so seemingly difficult? Before 1948, the state of Israel didn’t exist. A huge part of the reason it still exists is massive military backing from the west. That’s fine; I agree that the state of Israel has a right to exist. However, on a similar basis, so does Palestine. Until this is acknowledged by the relevant parties and properly implemented (with justice and freedom and dignity for both sides), this nightmare will be doomed to be repeated on a loop ad infinitum into eternity.
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  12975. K, Hitler.
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  12976. Hey! Stop being a dinosaur, Jr.!
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  12977.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12978.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12979.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12980.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12981.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12982.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12983.  @belkentens  😉
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  12984.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12985.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  12986.  @methanedirigible  Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea." Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!" (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
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  12987.  @TBFI_Botswana  Yah! 😳
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  12988.  @markb9983  Anti-vax? Moi? I fear you have collared the wrong person for the crime you have in your head.
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  12989.  @stephenwalker2924  I reserve my hyphens for put-puts; tut tuts get a pass hyphen-free, unlike ‘hyphen-free’, which should really be hyphenated; at least in my book.
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  12990.  Bob Bobby  Go Bobby! Cheerleader for the anti-vax brigade! 📣
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  12991.  @stephenwalker2924  All he is doing is what we should all be doing: apportioning our beliefs according to the evidence. I disagree with the ad hominem thing; he’s actually remarkably humble in the face of human stupidity. He and Hitchens, and to a lesser extent Sam Harris, are all laser-accurate in their strafing of the unverified, unverifiable poppycock humans are deluded into believing in the face of death. As I said, I’m no atheist (agnostic, rather) and hold myself constantly open to the idea of God’s existence, but hitherto the evidence has just not been good enough. All that said, I do consider that there is a mystery here that some lucky ones intuit; best way I can put it, is to quote Shaky: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in (anyone’s) philosophy.
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  12992.  @stephenwalker2924  Dawkins is spot-on about a great deal of things. And I say that as a non-atheist.
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  12993.  Bob Bobby  Yes, Bob Bobby, and you are so all-knowing, that you know not to take a jab in the face of a pretty deadly disease. Good luck with that, son.👍
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  12994.  @ayoolukoga9829  Richard Dawkins summed up the horrendous monster that is the Old Testament God better than anyone I have ever read on the subject: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. You want me to believe in that God? No thanks.
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  12995.  @ayoolukoga9829  Poor deluded fool. You’re devoting your existence to a non-existent entity; a complete figment of the human imagination, and because you fear death too much you just can’t let it go. Be brave. There probably is no God, and if there is it’s certainly not the scaremongering, threatening, egregiously unjust one humans have created in their own image in all these primitive, barbaric, medieval monotheistic texts. Think about this a little more, if your religion-addled mind is able to.
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  12996. Yes, and that stuff has been going on since the very day those lines were written. Your point is?
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  12997. That t-shirt Cecilia is wearing is apt: these companies are just feathering their nest! 🪶
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  12998.  @pauln6803  K.👍
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  12999.  @pauln6803  Sense of humour bypass?
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  13000.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Heh heh. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13001.  @MrBeautifulmountain  No. I want to condemn people for fighting and killing others for having a different religion, ethnicity and language.
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  13002.  @theotherone8036  I agree. Just not the Reform Party.
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  13003. No.
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  13004. Lol.
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  13005. All this talk of a New World Order, where all I can see is the usual Old World Disorder.
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  13006.  @jadams60  *you’re
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  13007. *you’re
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  13008.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe.
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  13009.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13010.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe.
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  13011.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13012.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13013.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13014. Triggered. Hehe.
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  13015. I asked for Pepsi. 🥤
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  13016. *can’t - part of the reason we descend to the level of barbarians is carelessness with what makes us human. ‘Cant’ and ‘can’t’ are two very different words and if you use them interchangeably, and lazily omit the apostrophe, then you can’t be surprised when we start grunting at each other across the war lines.
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  13017. USA/West + Iraq/Libya/Afghanistan/Yemen/etc = OK Russia + Ukraine = Not OK Impartial observer: all of it not ok.
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  13018.  @mugikuyu9403  That’s fine. We can agree to disagree.😉
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  13019.  @gintasvilkelis2544  It’s the economy I was referring to. The money the fossil fuels bring in for Russia.😉 This money procures the weapons.
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  13020.  @assertivekarma1909  Word salad. ‘To’ and ‘too’ are quite distinct and if you are not willing to uphold this, then you are sliding on that slippery slope into barbarism. Again, think on.
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  13021.  @assertivekarma1909  Not at all, son. Words are all we have. If we mess with them we descend into barbarism. Think on, and next time, don’t fucking patronise me.😉
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  13022. Marvellous stuff! It’s great to see John Parrott a free man! 🦜
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  13023.  @zen7349  It’s called ‘knowing’ illiteracy, sonny. The fact you have no reply of any substance says it all.👍😉
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  13024. It’s an accident of birth, m8. You coulda been born a lady in Cornwall and you’d a been a ‘daughterofcornwall’. What are hoomans like, eh? 🤔
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  13025. @@user-hf5bl1fs2f Never got it. Want another go? 🤔
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  13026.  @faroukabdellah4216  Says the guy with the Egyptian/Arabic name. You talk like ‘they’ aren’t you! Go figure. 🥴
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  13027.  @belkentens  Oof! Thanks.
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  13028.  @belkentens  And that comment tells us everything we need to know about you. Thanks.
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  13029.  @Sana-ik8fo  Good points; well made.👍
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  13030.  @joni8090  Planet Earth = 4 billion years old. At least another 4 billion years to go, and to quote George Carlin: The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas .
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  13031. I prefer 69.😉
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  13032. Uh huh. And are Europeans the ‘indigenous people’ of Australia, New Zealand and the whole of North and South America? 🤔
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  13033. In the grand scheme of things, Trump’s conviction alters precisely nothing. He can still run for President even if he’s imprisoned - he won’t be imprisoned. Essentially, aside from finding him guilty and now a convicted felon this changes nothing in terms of the Presidential race. How do I know? All the major bookmakers have him odds-on to win. I’ve never yet met a poor bookmaker.
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  13034. Cry some more for me, sweetheart. 😭
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  13035.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  More facts, Jimbo, and this one might sting you a little 🐝: the immigrants I know have better basic English language skills than you! Who’d a thunk it, Jimbo? Eh? 😉👍
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  13036.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Just for the record, Jimbo, I can count about 25/30 immigrants I’m aware of and not a single one of them is “sponging off the host nation”, Jimbo. Facts. More facts: in my experience, it’s more likely the whiteys who are the workshy dossers, hence why immigration is required, Jimbo. I’m sure you can see this, pal. 😊👌
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  13037.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Vast majority of immigrants here aren’t “sponging off their host nation” either, Jimbo.👍😉
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  13038.  @marknewbold2583  Not always. They could be on bail or in a hospital. Do you know anything?
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  13039.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Most of us wish you had never existed, Jimbo.🤣
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  13040.  @KiwiGraggle  I’m more of a Maltesers guy, myself.
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  13041.  @luckyluke1503  *even mean Dummy!
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  13042.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13043.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13044.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13045.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13046.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13047.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13048.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13049.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13050.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13051.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13052.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13053.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13054.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13055. Hi Jimbo. You been boning up on those 2,000 Indian ethnicities and 56 Chinese ethnicities, son? There’ll be a test, later. 🤪
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  13056.  @ashroskell  Yeah, when it suits the audience. If the audience take a dislike to someone they are merciless in their ugly racism and misogyny; that was only the point I was making.
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  13057.  @belkentens  No. But the key point in this debate is would anyone give “you one”? They all said no.
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  13058. It’s a fact this planet is warming, and warming rather rapidly in historical terms; this cannot be gainsaid unless you are blind to facts; the issue to be resolved is just how much is humanity complicit in this warming. Of course, this is where it gets nasty, and tribal and political. My gut tells me (along with looking at the data) that humanity is largely responsible for this warming over the past 200 years.
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  13059. Not sure I can trust anyone who appears to have been ‘educated’ to think you need a capital letter for every word.🤨
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  13060.  @gailplatt1  *a lot
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  13061.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Heh, heh. Settle now. They all do.
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  13062.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Heh, heh. Settle now. They all do.
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  13063.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Heh, heh. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13064.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Heh, heh. You’ll settle down. They all do.
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  13065. Well said, Mr Burns. The American Empire has been one of the wickedest since, well, about 1776, with its invasions of sovereign, self-governing nations and/or the overturning of democratically-elected governments from within and the installation of proxies favourable to American interests. Hello Zelensky. Too much to detail so I’ll take it from 1945. Read it and weep at the staggering, egregious, dreadful hypocrisy of a nation that has not a leg to stand on when criticising others playing the tune America has played these past 250 years, given that it has meddled aggressively in the affairs of virtually every sovereign nation on Earth at one point or another: US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (and yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Iraq (again) 2003 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (and yet again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
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  13066. How are you defining ‘working class’ though, Rodders? Often, I find, it’s to do with basic spelling and grammar. *their *companies *they’re Just sayin’.
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  13067.  @wolfiestreet6899  Not you again , you monomaniacal loon. Don’t you have any other hobby-horses? You are tedious in the extreme.
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  13068.  @royfr8136  Lol. It wasn’t a spelling mistake: it was a pun! Weigh/whey?🤣
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  13069.  @carpetsonline3718  Don’t worry about Belkentens. He can’t even spell his name right. It’s Belendtens! 😬👍😉
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  13070.  @nosuchthingasshould4175  The saving grace in this whole thing may be that Putin pops his clogs, sooner rather than later.
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  13071. Ah, that old desperate tune, ‘nationalism’, causing all the trouble again. When will we, as a species, get beyond random, arbitrary accidents of birth as key markers of our identity? Along with organised religion, nationalism is the greatest self-destructive, baleful blight we ever had the misfortune to invent as a species. Other civilisations from galaxies far, far away look at us and weep for us. We are primitive children in the kindergarten of the Universe. One day, we shall graduate to adulthood, and a certain maturity and look back in time at how silly we were. As it is, we have murder, mayhem, internecine destruction all on an accident of birth or an imagined daddy in the sky. Really?
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  13072. Could it be Jordy that has such a downer on ‘equality of outcome’ is because he’s never experienced mutual orgasm?😳
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  13073.  @110hutch  Actually, I would argue that, as a journalist, you are supposed to be rigorous and robust. If I see the next 12 cookie-cutter platitudes (stuff I could scribble down on the back of a cigarette packet on a toilet break) being rolled out by Peterson, I’ll call it. And so should the journalist.😳
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  13074. @harry hale What? She’s a journalist. ‘So you’re saying that’, to me is simply a stock phrase a curious journalist would use to probe their subject. My main issue here is not Peterson himself, it’s the online bullies who pile in to trash and traduce the (very often) female journalist in a staggeringly misogynistic manner. Too many Peterson fanboys, take any criticism of his ideas as a free pass to weigh in, in the most ugly manner. If you don’t believe me, take a cursory look here and at other interviews (Helen Lewis) and you will see what I mean. Peterson quite simply doesn’t have an original thought in his head. His 12 rules stuff is cookie-cutter level embarrassing in its jejune thinking. It’s the type of stuff I could scribble on the back of a cigarette packet in a toilet break. He states everything oh so portentously as if he’s the first person to ever think of, say, ‘equality of opportunity’ or, say, ‘let’s try to keep ideology out of debates’, both ideas I happen to agree with, incidentally. He attracts a type of fan(boy) as vicious and bullying and nasty as I have ever encountered on the Internet.😳
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  13075.  @steveblade1416  You need to beg, borrow or steal a sense of humour, man. I’m not saying that you’re a God-bothering, po-faced, misery guts, but I might be. Don’t take that wrong.😳
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  13076.  @steveblade1416  Not trying to win anything, chummo. Just calling the shots as I see them, that’s all. Doesn’t everybody do this anyway? 😳
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  13077.  @sbesh622  Fair play, pal.👍
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  13078. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  13079.  @TheWebstaff No rightest here, Dave. Centre-left liberal, but I wouldn’t trust Islam as far as I could throw it.
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  13080. Triggered, much?🤓
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  13081. They do.
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  13082. No. Covid deniers are just dickwipes.😉
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  13083. @UCIM11fNcUvvGLnxcBy3Dy8w Didn’t realise you were Muslim. Cool. Lol@atheist gangs😂Pretty sure these gangs who are atheist are not fighting in the name of atheism! A little ridiculous to suggest this methinks. Look, I, an agnostic, have no issue with the concept and practice of freedom of worship, and am pro-controlled immigration, but I do think Britain has a serious issue with ghettoisation, as certain communities don’t mix with other communities, and this non-mixing is done on an ideological/cultural/religious basis. I don’t not mix with anyone based on colour, creed, sexuality, gender or anything really. I will judge you, as Luther King said, on the content of your character; my issue is these self-identified cultures we have imported who are not able to do the same it seems. No, they see a label and act accordingly. They don’t see the person. And so, we see this playing out in Leicester. I fear this will only get worse if we don’t address it. Interesting you’re a Muslim. Didn’t realise. In my experience of non-indigenous cultures Britain has imported, the vast, vast majority seem integrated and getting on with their lives. Like you. Like millions of others. However, I need to say that I have detected over the years a minority of your religion unable and/or unwilling to make the requisite effort to integrate as fully as 99% of others (as you say) do.
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  13084.  @Ashleii  I agree they are not debating the finer points of scripture. But they are arguing the toss coming from 2 specific religious traditions, which appear totally incompatible, and this is carried forward and manifested in each ‘side’ seeing each other as the ‘enemy’, something which wouldn’t happen if they didn’t self-identify as ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’. Proof? I’ve read several comments in various threads from ex-Muslims commenting on how ashamed and embarrassed they are for their former faith, and what these idiots are doing in its name. In other words, if this isn’t a fundamentally Hindu/Muslim clash (it is, of course), then I’m not sure what it is. Yes, frustrated young men. But we’re not getting gangs of frustrated agnostics, or Jews, or Buddhists, or practising Christians causing ‘gang’ trouble, as you call it, under these rubrics. No, it’s ‘Hindus’ and ‘Muslims’ specifically we are dealing with here, men who self-identify as Hindu and Muslim and this nonsense is, in a very real way, underpinned by organised religion.
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  13085.  @darkflighter100  Platitude (noun) a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. I don’t consider Pirsig’s statement in any way ‘overused’; underused more like. If more folk heeded the sentiment therein, and what he’s hinting at, this world really would be a better place. N.B. The last 8 words above were a platitude.😉
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  13086.  @michaelring6077  *they’re I kindly refer the speaker to what is called a spellchecker if he can’t get stuff my 7 year old wouldn’t trip up on. My 7 year old is a chimpanzee. 🐒
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  13087.  @Ida-Adriana  To be fair, which country isn’t corrupt on some fundamental level?
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  13088.  @EpicCrust  Aye.👍
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  13089.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  That may be so, but you don’t seem to know that there is no such word as ‘alot’. You can have ‘a lot’ or ‘allot’ but ‘alot’ doesn’t exist.
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  13090. *have Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Should of (sic) stayed in school.
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  13091.  @bladerunner16  No, it’s not a “hanging offence”; it’s just deeply inappropriate that you can presume to kiss a relative stranger on the lips without their consent. S’all.👍
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  13092.  @omrxblah4572  F*ck-all to do with “spontaneous kissing”; everything to do with kissing a relative stranger on the lips without express consent.
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  13093.  @rosegreensummer  Yeah, but parts of Scotland just look like they’ve been blown up.
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  13094. No, they’ll probably lob a few nukes over the fence.
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  13095.  @user1qaz2wsx3edc  Yes, but you can’t apply double standards and rant about ‘western warmongers’ with a straight face, given Putin’s depredations these past 8 weeks.
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  13096.  @trr4488  No. What I’m saying is that Putin sees Ukraine as blood-brothers. He’s hurt that they, mainly, are looking West and not North. He’s gone in there for 2 main reasons as I see it: 1. The historical/cultural one of bring back Ukraine into the embrace of mother Russia. 2. He’s simply protecting his borders. If Ukraine joins NATO, and it seems to want to, on a majority, then clearly having a Ukraine in NATO affects his defensive situation. I will repeat this: if Mexico agreed a pact with Russia, allowing the latter to install missiles on the US/Mexico border, directly targeting Washington DC, do you honestly think America would just sit back and let that happen? No, of course they wouldn’t. They’d initially ask for the missiles to be removed, and if that didn’t happen, they’d invade a sovereign, self-governing territory in order to remove these weapons themselves. My main point here being, that the double standards of the West are staggering. America, and her partners have invaded and/or overturned more democratically-elected governments that Putin can only dream of. Just think about this a little before blundering in on a ‘let’s trash the evil Vlad the Mad’ mission.
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  13097. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  13098.  @porkysharma8423  Civil War . Slight difference.
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  13099.  mike fox  Lol.
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  13100.  @petrolhead28  Yup.👍
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  13101.  @olivergrumitt2601  War=$😉
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  13102.  @da90sReAlvloc  Jaffa? You don’t know your bananas from your oranges, clearly.
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  13103.  @leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget  If the likes of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania can embrace democracy; why not Russia? However, there does appear to be a polarity thing going on in geopolitics where enemies are needed to justify all sorts of things; not least $650 billion military budgets. You can’t spend that kind of money without creating a few boogeymen around the world, and it looks like Russia and China are destined to be these two ‘enemies’ of the America/west for the foreseeable future, alas. Personally, I’m a live and let live kinda guy. Stay outta my face and I’ll return the favour. This world, however, has others who seem to want to throw their weight around come what may. Sociopaths. Psychopaths. Those unwelcome sorts.
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  13104.  @leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget  I was seeing it as a gamble, assuming he’s not long for this world. Then, perhaps, at last we might see a more open democratic Russia; but I won’t be holding my breath.
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  13105.  @nancywages7029  If reports are to be believed he already is terminally ill, and this reckless 3 weeks is, in part, to be seen in relation to that.
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  13106.  @vasilemarcoros443  Good grief. “The existence of the fatherland”. Are people still talking like this in 2023? There is no hope for humanity if that is the case. 🤦‍♂️
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  13107.  @stephenwalker2924  Ah, it’s you, Stephen. You were flirting outrageously with me a few months ago. 😉I’m not even ghey!😳
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  13108.  @stephenwalker2924  He’s all over the Union, yet here he’s banging on about being the Scottish Labour leader, as distinct from the UK Parliamentary Labour Party. He can’t have it both ways. He’s either a Unionist or he ain’t.
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  13109.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Strictly speaking, Germanic.
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  13110.  @SA-ff9uc  Lol. ‘Bushism’ 😆
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  13111.  @avalanche816  *Never mind
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  13112. *in France
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  13113. There is no “Allah”. Cope.
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  13114.  @MokkaMatti  Who?
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  13115.  @emm_arr  Just as a point of interest: why are you so dull, lacking in wit, unfunny, devoid of intrinsic interest? I mean that. Can you not raise your game even for a second? Are you that much of a vacuum?
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  13116.  @emm_arr  Jesus. There is no saving you, is there? You really are as thick as you seem. My condolences. 💐
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  13117.  @emm_arr  Just in case you were blowing your second cousin twice removed first time round, I will repeat what I said at the beginning of this thread (word to the wise: take that engorged, veiny monstrosity out of your mouth and look up. 👀) Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  13118.  @emm_arr  Are you my designated stalker? Is that it?
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  13119.  @emm_arr  You haven’t got an argument. That says it all. You are stating the bleedin’ obvious when you say that all right-minded people condemn Putin for invading and trying to subjugate a sovereign self-governing territory. I agree. He’s doing wrong. However, if you look at history any impartial observer can see that the West has an awful record of invading sovereign, self-governing territories and overturning democratically-elected governments. Given this fact (and it is a fact, impartially documented in countless texts), then why are you so surprised when Putin does this? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but we can hardly be surprised if we just take a cursory look at history: Putin is just behaving as the West has done for centuries.
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  13120. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  13121.  @Scscsc345  Yes, it’s called ‘uns-table salt’. Volatile.
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  13122. Those of us old enough, know even anecdotally from direct personal decade-on-decade experience that the planet is warming. No stats needed.
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  13123. Ty for that, Archimedes.👍
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  13124.  @Jackie-wn5hx  Jackie, darling, you are an utter hypocrite. I have read several of your previous posts (only because you came at me) and you make frequent and egregious grammatical blunders. I already quoted one of these back to you. Look in the 🪞 at some point, as all you seem to do is call out people for the very things you commit yourself.👍
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  13125. Krishnan Guru-Murthy is, arguably, the most hated telly journalist working in mainstream media today. Why? All because he asks tough questions to self-important twats like Quentin Tarantino. 🤔
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  13126. *A lot
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  13127.  @manoo422  Lol. It’s nowhere near, you moron! And to think I share the planet with the likes of you. 😞
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  13128.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  It’s all bollix, Jimbo. Written for bollocky men like you. 👍😉
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  13129. Will the Tali ban allow a school for girls? Lol. Of course they won’t. Clue’s in the name. They don’t allow very much, it seems.
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  13130.  @GrandpaVince  Me too, Shirl. Reminds me of an American version of the best Ealing comedy: The Ladykillers!
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  13131.  @julianshepherd2038  Shugs had some ‘scientific papers’ but he deep-fried them and ate them.
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  13132.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Orthographhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I saaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Jimbo. 😉🤡🌈
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  13133. Wtf are you on about, mate? It’s an army base, not “inner-cityesque project style housing”. Just for the record, I once visited the American Midwest; once was enough: it’s has to be the most boring, featureless, cultureless, ugly place I can possibly think of. As one of your own put it: “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
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  13134.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You’re calling yer wifey a dog now Jimbo?!?! 🤦‍♂️
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  13135.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Lol. Now why am I not surprised that Jimbo can’t even cook himself some eggs and chips? 🥴
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  13136.  @zammmerjammer  I wasn’t arguing it. I was suggesting the dudes up in court might be arguing it. Get it right or not at all, petal.👍
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  13137.  @carnaud  👍
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  13138. Since when did Putin get the Arsenal job?😳
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  13139.  @tryingtocorrect  Mad with reading all these tired, samey, samey, gags.
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  13140. @jim rogers You need to get out more, Jimbo, sonny.
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  13141. @jim rogers No! Stop them at source! They are tedious and unimaginative in the extreme at this point.
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  13142. How do you know I’m, ahem, ‘big’?😳
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  13143.  @hypocrisyrules3768  Look, mate. I’m aware of all this. Read my thread; it’s constantly caveated by the idea that NATO could flatten Russia in the conventional sense. If NATO goes into a hot war directly with Russia, then of course it’s quite likely Putin will spark a few nukes. We all get that.
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  13144. @fangurl33 Oh no, fangurl, don’t agree with me! I’m with Oscar Wilde when he said: “🤨Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong!”
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  13145.  @puta6688  Take nukes out, and Russia would be incinerated in a fortnight. It’s the school bully who picked on the much weaker kid, because it’s a coward. Let it mess with the big boys and it will get a proper lesson.
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  13146.  @puta6688  Well, there is the nuclear threat. My point is quite simple: in a conventional conflagration, Russia would be crushed like a ripe grape in a jiffy.
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  13147. Thanks for that, Kermit.
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  13148. Yeah, but he’s no William Wordsworth.
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  13149.  @默-c1r  Anywhere. Say what you want. Anywhere. In public. In private. Sure, there may be consequences contingent on living in a society (as with Clarkson and the Sun here), but my basic rule is that I allow anyone to say anything, anywhere. For the last time: I understand others have different views and draw the line elsewhere. I also understand that I have to toe-the-line myself and not slander/libel others if I don’t want to face the consequences, but unless I become a hermit, I shall just have to live with this. However, none of this alters my own basic, personal position: I allow anyone to say anything. Now, can we just end this now, as it’s becoming mighty tedious? K, ty.👍
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  13150.  @默-c1r  Where did I say newspapers were ‘compelled’ to publish his articles? Yeah, that’s right; I didn’t. My point is quite simple: I, personally, would uphold the right of anyone to say absolutely anything . My personal line is drawn where you lift a finger and touch me. ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones etc.’ I repeat: I accept others have different lines drawn in different places. To me, Clarkson’s words were crude, crass, childish, worryingly obsessive on his part, but all this notwithstanding, I wouldn’t have prevented him from saying them. I understand that commercial operations like the Sun newspaper are going to have different views on this as they have different considerations to me, a private citizen.
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  13151. As per usual with these things, this whole conflict boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race/ethnicity (Palestinian v Jew - notwithstanding that both groups are Semitic in that they speak a Semitic language), organised religion (Islam v Judaism) and language (Arabic v Hebrew). 2 of these aforementioned (ethnicity/language - mother tongue) are given to us by accidents of birth; the other (religion) we kind of choose but, that said, the overwhelming majority of those who follow an organised religion follow the one which predominates in the culture in which they are born and raised, so this could be argued to be an accident of birth, too. So, essentially, we commit internecine conflict predicated on 3 accidents of birth. It seems human beings cannot cope with too much difference.
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  13152. Is that a euphemism?
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  13153. To be fair, given their dwindling numbers, you shouldn’t really be hunting elephants. 🐘
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  13154. It is based on facts. When Labour left Office in 2010 they themselves infamously admitted ‘there was no money left’. Not very ‘fiscally responsible’. I say that as a non-Tory voter.
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  13155. Cup of tea and a scone? 🤓
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  13156. 4:00 Lovely to see Barry Took still with us, having his ‘point of view’. 👍
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  13157.  @belkentens  Belendtens.
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  13158.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Therein lies the problem, Jimbo. When you presume to speak for “we”, son, you need to bear in mind that 18% of your potential readers are ‘non-whiteys’. 😉
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  13159. @Primal Fish Aye.
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  13160. @Primal Fish We are. 😉
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  13161. Heck, Becker’s pecker is down concerning this career-wrecker. Silly fecker.
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  13162.  @fredmercury1314  Yes you did. You said “you can’t just assert correlation is causation for something”; I never asserted anything of the sort. You can’t even close read your own stuff, dipshit.
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  13163.  @fredmercury1314  I said it can ‘be rather strong evidence’; never said it proved anything. You need to be more forensic with your close reading, m8.😉
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  13164.  @treadstone1970  Er, if you’d taken the trouble to read my post, I kinda made that point.
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  13165. @azurus fr Lol.
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  13166.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Look at yourself, Jimbo? An old guy, barely literate, bitter about everything and everyone, intolerant, nasty, racist, homophobic, sexist … why on Earth would anyone want to be ‘homogeneous’ with you, son? Serious question … 🤔
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  13167.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  But Jimbo, in that foolish quote you’re making the fatally wrong assumption that I’m one of yours ! Jesus, man. Get some self-awareness. You’re so up yourself it’s unreal, Jimbo.👍
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  13168.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Who, Jimbo?
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  13169.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Who said he was hairy? 🤣
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  13170.  @Diana1000Smiles  I agree. You seem to be suggesting I’m for air pollution, somehow. Of course, I’m not.
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  13171. *Jewish Jimbo spreading general illiteracy again. 🤦‍♂️
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  13172. Amputate that ‘leg’, attach a ‘bell’ and, ding! ding!, you have it right.🤓
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  13173.  @paulmessenger9836  My society? Which society is that, then? 🤔
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  13174. Roberta Flack, Jimbo? But she’s a woman, black and an LGBTQIA+ icon, son. 👍😉
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  13175. Karen Carpenter, Jimbo? But she’s a woman, son. 👍😉
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  13176. Barbra Streisand, Jimbo? But she’s Jewish, son? 👍😉
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  13177. The Commodores, Jimbo? 🤔 But they’re black, son.👍😉
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  13178.  @TheRealGenieJack  Who are you speaking to? I’m not even on Twitter?! 😂
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  13179.  @dragoneyeshatesg00gle76  Yes, but no one, I repeat no one , did work $44 billion’s worth more than the next person. It’s all relative m8. Me giving away $750 of my $1000 is gonna sting me far more than Musk giving away $43 billion of his $44 billion. That’s why, it’s far from BS. You need to engage the brain, sonny, before spouting idiotic BS yourself, fool!😂
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  13180.  @uemackay1592  Look mate, we’re gonna have to agree to disagree here. However, I’m gonna post my OP as it’s my first and last word here:If I were an alien who had just landed on this planet, and you told me that 1 person had £44 billion, while 10,000 people die of avoidable hunger every day, my instant thought would be that this planet is deeply, deeply primitive. 👽
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  13181.  @uemackay1592  Aliens also know how to use the apostrophe. *It’s *it’s *it’s You have no idea how much respect you lose in the eyes of those with even a basic education when you can’t even deploy the apostrophe, whether out of ignorance or laziness.
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  13182.  @uemackay1592  Not denying the ‘techy’ progress. Just deeply questioning the moral progress. One person: $44 billion. 10,000 people: dead. Even a person with the most insensitive moral compass can see there is something wrong here.
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  13183.  @juditszabo8751  Hmmm … 🤔
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  13184.  @manatee2500  What right-thinking, sane, self-possessed individual isn’t ‘anti-imperialist’? It’s only the human troublemakers throughout history who are the imperialists.
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  13185.  @elleygray02776  My problem? Not my problem, sunshine. I’m fully aware of the egregious double-standards of the west. Would that my fellow ‘westerners’ were equally aware and then we could stop hearing all this stuff and nonsense about the mad, evil dictator Putin, as if America and her partners haven’t been just as equally dictatorial and just as equally evil. He’s evil alright, but in my book he’s doing absolutely nothing the west hasn’t been doing for centuries.
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  13186. It’s not that, m8. They simply don’t see the threat posed by Islam. Europe needs to wake up to this.
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  13187.  @lowwfeh  I understand all that. I suppose my point is this: I have no problem with strictly controlled legal immigration. My issue arises when millions enter Europe and demographically alter certain places out of all recognition to the exclusion of everyone else. Marseille is now, essentially, a North African enclave. As is Grasse. Now, before you jump down my throat, I have zero problem with North Africa and North Africans; my issue arises where formerly mixed European towns/cities become unrecognisable and predominantly one kind of place. Go to Marseille and tell me it doesn’t look and feel like Tangiers, or Algiers or Tunis. If you do, you’ll be lying. Or walking with a white stick.
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  13188. Well, they are where obesity is an issue.😳 Manchester, for example.
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  13189.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Woof! Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo. Woof! 🤣👍
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  13190.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nah, Jimbo, I just believe in calling a tool, a tool! 👍🤣
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  13191.  @loudorchen183  Yeah. That’s me. I’d rather follow other ‘teachers’ than the barbaric monster that is the God of the Old Testament. Dawkins nailed him when he wrote: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. You’re asking me to use this creep as a ‘teacher’?! Get real. I have enough brains to see that this is man made claptrap to instil fear into illiterate unthinking morons.
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  13192. Yes. So right about that unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky.😳
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  13193. Utter waste of capital letters too, m8.👍
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  13194. Ouch!
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  13195. “Banging” ain’t the best word to use in this context, m8. 😳
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  13196. Jesus. Are you still doing this? Ffs. This must be the longest unchanged record in YouTube history. 🤦‍♂️
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  13197.  @reubenhunter609  Actually, right on one count, wrong on the other. It’s still an immortal quote, however. Cope some more now, Reuby. 🦊
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  13198.  @strangemagic5502  It’s more than just about the environment: it’s about importing millions and making the UK unrecognisable as somewhere where Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Irish live. It really does feel like there’s some kind of manufactured replacement going on.
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  13199. *you’re
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  13200.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  THE THREE RULES OF GROUPTHINK 1. ILLUSION - a group of people come to share a belief that is not based in reality; an illusion. 2. CONSENSUS - As the belief does not match external reality, the group of people resort to hanging onto the only thing they have, a consensus between them that the illusion is reality. From this point, the illusion’s main justification becomes this “consensus”. 3. INTOLERANCE - Any external person to the groupthink with a different view needs to be silenced because the “consensus” becomes the only defence of the illusion. Therefore the groupthink group resorts to censorship, intimidation and “cancelling” all critical opinions. Um, now what does this remind me of? 🤔 … oh yeah, organised religion! Ta da! 🎉 Oh dear, Jimbo, your invisible sky daddy does get you into so much trouble, doesn’t he? 🤡🐒😂
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  13201.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, if you’re going to copy and paste whole passages of others’ 👈(note: a possessive apostrophe, Jimbo! A possessive apostrophe, I sssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy! 🐒) work, the intellectually-honest thing would be to attribute and show your sources. Christopher Booker wants the royalties for the stolen passages out of your state pension! 👍😉
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  13202. He looks like a ned from Govan.
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  13203.  @stevec6427  I said the Ukrainians hate Putin , not the average Russian. You need these: 👓.
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  13204.  @bid84  https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4 😉
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  13205.  @nuntana2  https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  13206.  @nuntana2  “Inside Russia. Anguish as men are enlisted to fight in Putin’s war.” CNN 3 days ago. Check it. Others stole it from me! Tonight’s lines are freshly minted.
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  13207.  @nuntana2  I made it up. Was stolen from me. Go to CNN 3 days ago and the Russian story about folks fleeing. That was me. 😉
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  13208. Yes, because an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Yes, you’re right. We should do that.
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  13209. 🐵
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  13210.  @natenae8635  It’s random. You had no say in it. Ergo, you shouldn’t be taking ‘pride’ in it. Case closed.
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  13211.  @japanesespiderman1326  I comment on it, quite simply, because there is a multitude of individuals who have caused trouble based on accidents of birth since time immemorial. To that extent, I care. To that extent, I also despair. What do you think is going on right now in Ukraine, if not some random accident of birth baloney? Huh? We are all humans. Where you are born does not matter, until it does, and if it does, I would argue that you are a primitive human being. 🤓
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  13212.  @japanesespiderman1326  Yawn. Bored. If you wanna identify with an accident of birth, go right ahead. Count me out.
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  13213.  @japanesespiderman1326  What’s your point, man? All I’m saying is that to take ‘pride’ in an accident of birth is like taking ‘pride’ in your shoe-size, or eye-colour or the fact you have a genetic predisposition for piles. I.e. nonsensical. I’m sure you can see my point.🥸
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  13214.  @japanesespiderman1326  It’s all random, mate. Your family you’re born into is random. Your country. The fact you were born on Earth. It’s all random, as far as we know. Taking ‘pride’ in this stuff is stupid beyond belief. Take pride in your achievements; not accidents of birth. That’s all.
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  13215.  @natenae8635  You’re basically saying you’d be ‘proud’ of anywhere you were born and therefore that renders your pride in a particular place of birth to the exclusion of other places you weren’t born in, null and void; for you could have been born anywhere! So why are you taking pride in being an abstraction? Makes no sense. Think about this. Seriously think about this. Why are you not ‘proud’ of Earth in toto? Huh? You were born on Earth after all. So why does your ‘pride’ stop at Wales?🤡🥸
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  13216.  @natenae8635  Based on an accident of birth? How primitive. Not to mention, random.😉
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  13217.  @02ladydamned  I refer you to my comment of some moments ago: really? Proud of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  13218.  @jaydee143  Pumpy, petal: not sure how you are so thick that ye canny see this, sonny. If you say you are an ‘internationalist’, then embedded a priori in that concept is the notion of being a ‘nationalist’. You can’t claim ‘inter’-nationalism as a concept if you don’t buy ‘nationalism’ as a concept. Are you really that thick, son? 🥸
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  13219.  @jaydee143  Pumpy, sonny, I hate to tell you this but the concept of ‘internationalism’ pre-supposes the notion of ‘nationalism’. In fact, Pumpy, darling, you can’t have ‘internationalism’ without ‘nationalism’ as they imply each other. Ta da! Back to kindergarten after the Monday bank-holiday, m8.🥸
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  13220.  @jaydee143  Yes, er, ‘Pumpy’ babey, that is logically how it works. If you’re calling yourself an ‘internationalist’ then ipso facto you have to be a prior ‘nationalist’. Did they not teach you basic logic in kindergarten, Pumpy?🥸
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  13221. sniffs
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  13222.  @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg  Yes, Anthony, but the OP was typing a word salad we could type for any country to suit an agenda. My point was he has a Jewish name so he’s hardly likely to type Islamic ‘facts’ now is he? 😉👍
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  13223. The title is a tad disingenuous. In 1991, Rodney King was beaten up by 4 L.A. cops, 3 of whom were white. Here, this poor man was killed by 5 black officers. To equate the 2 cases is more than off.
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  13224.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, that tinfoil hat certainly suits ya, ya numpty! 🤪 🌚 🚀 You need to invest in a wee 🔭, sonny, as then you can see the Apollo landing sites for yerself before you settle to yer 🥚 & 🍟! Egg & chips, I saaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy! 🤪
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  13225.  @franceleeparis37  Well, if Frankie were First Minister, question time in the Scottish parliament would be a whole lot funnier, that’s for sure!
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  13226.  @gardenjoy5223  I condemn it all, mate.😉
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  13227.  @gardenjoy5223  Another thing: Putin is only playing the most commonly-played tune from the west’s songbook since about 1492. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Iraq (again) 2003 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (and yet again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK America, and her partners, have a record Putin’s Russia can only dream of when it comes to invading other sovereign nations. The above list doesn’t include the dozens of times America has overturned democratically-elected governments and installed their proxy regimes to suit American self-interests. Including the US/CIA backed coup in Ukraine itself in 2014. It’s a fact that America has meddled in the affairs of virtually every sovereign nation on Earth at some point; some 180 countries. America, quite simply, has more innocent blood on her hands than any other nation on this planet.
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  13228. You have NEVER been to school in your life. Just bussed in for the sub-literates.
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  13229.  @appletree6741  You die instantly or are irreparably mangled for life by spent munitions.
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  13230.  @liberalis7624  ‘Twas a joke you humourless fuckwit.
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  13231. This has to be the longest unchanged record in YouTube history. 🤦
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  13232.  @pjl8119  It’s not trolling, son. Think on.
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  13233. Jesus never existed, m8. Move on.
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  13234.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do. They do. You’ll settle, child.
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  13235.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do. They do. You’ll settle, child.
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  13236.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do. They do. You’ll settle, child.
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  13237.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do. They do. You’ll settle, child.
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  13238.  @emm_arr  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13239.  @emm_arr  Triggered. Hehe.
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  13240.  @falconblack  Lol. 😂
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  13241.  @hawsrulebegin7768  😆
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  13242.  @SA-ff9uc  I mean all the people with no discernible teeth! 🦷
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  13243.  @belkentens  Oh, I go down on a regular basis, too! 🤓😉
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  13244. The more this conflict goes on, the more one gets the feeling that this war literally just was the whim of a vaguely angry, vaguely repressed fool. As far as I can surmise, none of these poor boys and girls (fighting for him )want any of this. Why do we tolerate it as a species? 🤔
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  13245. Where are the women fighting for Putin? Could it be, that they have more sense?😳🤔
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  13246.  @pucapower2505  We’re all tribal m8. Why are you telling me this? It’s common knowledge. We’ve all got some kind of family. It begins there. Here’s the difference: some of us have been educated into realising accidents of birth are meaningless. We had no say where, and to whom, we were born; and human beings have spent far too long believing in accidents of birth.
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  13247.  @jaydee143  Not that old, sonny. 😉🥸
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  13248.  @jaydee143  Lol.
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  13249.  @jaydee143  Pmsl.😆
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  13250. *queuing *respects Yvw, Pumpy darlin’. As I said elsewhere, son, the sooner you’re back at kindergarten the better.🤓🥸😄🤡😆
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  13251. How dare you call Boris, ‘Doris’! You slanderer! I’m outraged.
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  13252.  @hmq9052  🙇‍♂️
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  13253. Pukka tucker from the havering, Clavering f*cker. 🍱
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  13254.  @owenflynn7417  *friend - it’s ‘i’ before ‘e’ usually; not always, but usually.
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  13255.  @owenflynn7417  *friend🥴
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  13256.  @slartibartfast7921  Incidentally, looks like you’re carrying a couple of extraneous chinny, chin, chins yourself, son, underneath that disgusting face fuzz. You sure you’re not a wee porker yourself, for if you are then it’s a bit rich to talk about ‘obesity’ in others. Just sayin’, like.
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  13257.  @slartibartfast7921  I enjoy a nice bitter, if that’s what you mean, son. Only 11 stone as well. No beer gut here, pal. 🍺
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  13258.  @PhillCurtis  You also need a capital for the proper name, btw. Check it, then we should be good to go.
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  13259.  @PhillCurtis  You should be grateful to me for taking the time out my busy day to correct your orthography. You’re lucky I don’t charge for this service. Have a little more gratitude in your heart, man.
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  13260.  @PhillCurtis  No excuse mate. Spellcheckers are ten a penny these days. You have utterly no excuse.
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  13261. Unlike your non-existent apostrophes.
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  13262.  @vettemuziekjes  Who hasn’t seen Indiana Jones? It’s not exactly an esoteric cultural reference.
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  13263. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: is every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
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  13264.  Artoria Pendragon  Education isn’t a strong suit of American education.
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  13265. That could be part of the issue here. Ukrainian identity crisis.
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  13266.  @carpediem7654  Ah, well, yes, Zelensky is hardly completely free of complicity in terms of the invasion of Ukraine; however, the simple fact of Putin invading a sovereign, self-governing nation trumps any Zelensky culpability you care to suggest.
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  13267.  @carpediem7654  Unlikely; and for this reason looks like Odesa will take a Mariupolesque hammering.
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  13268. He’s not. He’s just an old guy with nothing much to lose and that makes him very dangerous.😳
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  13269. His heart stopped beating.
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  13270. Wrong. 13:42.
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  13271. BREAKING NEWS: Finalised Cabinet Prime Suspect Minister ~ Rishi Sunak💩 Deputy Time Serving Minister ~ Dominic Raab 🕰 Wealth Secretary ~ Rishi Sunak (Obvs) 💰 Chancer of the Exchequer ~ Jeremy Hunt 💴 Purreign Secretary ~ Larry the cat 🐈 Row Row Row Your Boat Home Secretary ~ Suella Braverman 🛶 Self Defence Secretary ~ John Prescott 🥋 There is no Justice Secretary ~ Obvs ⚖️ Business as Usual Secretary ~ The Tory Party 👩‍💼 👨‍💼 Fair Trade Secretary ~ Greta Thunberg 🌲 Shirk and Dissensions Secretary ~ The Tory Party 😴 Private Education Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🏫 Dishevelling Up Secretary ~ Boris Johnson 🤪 Environmental Disorder Secretary ~ The Tory Party 🌳 Transdeport Secretary ~ Suella Braverman ✈️ 🌎 < Rwanda Northern United Ireland Secretary ~ Michelle O’Neill 🇮🇪 Scotland Independence Referendum Secretary ~ Nicola Sturgeon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wails Secretary ~ Most of us! Argh!!! 😖 Leader of House of Boreds ~ This post won’t be filled as they are all asleep anyway. 🛌 Counterculture Secretary ~ Swampy 🥾 Chief Whip ~ Neil Parish (🚜 & gimp mask supplied.) Breeder of the House of Commons ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg (with an honorary Breeder without Portfolio role for Boris Johnson.) 🤓 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶 👶
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  13272. Yeah, but with the greatest will in the world, you are making the mistake that human beings have made for the past 300,000 years by referring to other human beings as ‘my siblings’. Really? Based on what? An accident of birth? Really? You’re going to take credit for an accident of birth, something which you had no say in. Random, arbitrary, your mother plopped you out somewhere on this planet and you are going to privilege those who were plopped out on this same part of the planet to the exclusion of others? Really? Do you not realise that that kind of thinking has contributed to the internecine tribal disasters since time immemorial? You are a human being. So is every other human being who was ever born. Why, therefore, are you narrowing who you are and who you identify with to a random accident of birth?😳
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  13273. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  13274.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Pmsl.😂Countries the UK meddled in, you dummy!😆
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  13275.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Nice British name you’ve got there, btw.👍We accepted your forebears, clearly. You gonna pull up the drawbridge now that you’re in? You may need to look at yourself in the mirror, son. 🪞
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  13276.  @gintasvilkelis2544  All very well. Did you ask the average Rwandan how they felt about accepting our migrants? Moreover, the majority of these migrants come from countries where we have meddled. It’s a kind of geopolitical karma, in a way.
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  13277.  @gintasvilkelis2544  You tell me. All I was saying is that the double-standards are egregious. We send migrants to random countries, but that would cause uproar if the boot were on the other foot. As it is, the boot is on the other foot, as we are accepting Rwandan migrants in return.
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  13278.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Huh? That was my original point, dummy. We send our migrants to Rwanda without consulting the average Rwandan.
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  13279.  @ChangesOneTim  Er, well the UK actually is entertaining the idea, more than entertaining the idea, in fact, as we are taking some of Rwanda’s migrants as part of the deal! Ta da! * If the boot were (<subjunctive detected)
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  13280.  @ChangesOneTim  Not sure what your point is. Mine is that the mob that clamour loudest for this farming out of migrants to other sovereign nations would be in uproar if the policy were the other way. As it is, it’s two-way, but not sure that makes it any less barmy!
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  13281.  @Andrei-hq9jd  Again, another idiot completely missing my point. It’s not about Rwanda, per se, you dummy; it’s about the idea of farming out migrants to any country, and this same mob who are clamouring passionately for this would be the first to be up in arms if the boot were on the other foot. That’s all.
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  13282.  @peteranderson3956  How about you do a search of ‘people who are easily triggered cos they know they’re on shaky ground’. You, too, have a good night, sonny.👍
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  13283.  @peteranderson3956  Wtf does that have to do with the Wilde paraphrasis I cited?! You’re making no sense, Petey, son. Way past your bedtime, methinks. Off you pop now!😂
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  13284.  @mr.skeleton3190  Still triggered. Hehe. You’ll settle. They all do.
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  13285.  @peteranderson3956  Yes, Petey baby. Liking oneself is the beginning of a wonderful love affair, to paraphrase the great Oscar. Think on, petal.😉
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  13286.  @peteranderson3956  Oh, so you’re just gonna ignore you were wrong again are you, son?😉
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  13287.  @peteranderson3956  Er, they actually stay in Rwanda in most cases if granted asylum, Petey baby. Once again, nice try Bonzo.👍
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  13288.  @michaeltunnicliffe4935  Another oaf who can’t read and understand my basic point.
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  13289.  @kirkhunter146  Yes, we have established that one, Kirky baby.
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  13290.  @peteranderson3956  Nice try, Bonzo.😂👍
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  13291.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  Those who are ‘certain’ of their beliefs, when it comes to God, are the most dangerous of all. Think on.
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  13292.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  The difference between me and you mate, might very well be that you’d fight, and possibly kill, for your daddy in the sky. As I don’t have one of these, there is nothing to fight, and possibly kill, for.😊
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  13293.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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  13294.  @peteranderson3956  Of course we accept migrants. Your point is? My point was the one of farming these migrants out to other sovereign nations, and the natives here being up in arms if the migrant traffic were the other way. S’all. This really isn’t that difficult, sonny.
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  13295.  @peteranderson3956  Yes. I didn’t realise this wasn’t one-way. It’s two-way. Doesn’t make it any more barmy, though. And I’m fucking paying for it!
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  13296.  @peteranderson3956  Doesn’t Rwanda not also have ‘issues’ with migration? Huh? And have you asked the average Rwandan how they feel about accepting our migrants?
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  13297.  @cropcircles5697  Just for the record, the double-standards I was referring to were the ones of those who think it’s ok for us to farm out migrants to others, but not to accept them. Those very convenient double-standards. However, it’s all been settled, as I said.
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  13298.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  FYI, you can be a rationalist non-atheist.
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  13299.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  Yeah, but Newton wasted half his life investigating the ‘paranormal’ so wtf does he know?
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  13300.  @cropcircles5697  You are so bad faith it’s unreal. Ok for us, not ok for them. Gotcha.😉
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  13301.  @cropcircles5697  Lol. How convenient! 😆
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  13302.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  How about just realising there is no Allah and moving into the light of rationalism instead?
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  13303.  @Nefariously_ignorant  Indeed.
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  13304.  @sineadmurtagh943  Yawn Another, humourless, Catholic god-botherer cramps my style. 🥱
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  13305.  @Redfvvg  It’s not ‘my’ civilisation, chum.
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  13306.  @seanscully4347  Said rather a lot, actually. Read it again. Read it better.
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  13307.  @xyzcord ​​⁠​​⁠That’s wishful thinking, m8. There’s no way Hamas were ever gonna release the hostages, or leave Gaza. That’s why we’re still here talking about this today! Truth is, vast majority here would support a 2-state solution, I’m sure. Palestine and Israel, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. How many more have to needlessly die before we achieve this? 🤦‍♂️
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  13308. This is a bit scary, for as far as I’m aware, aside from Cuba ‘62 no two nuclear-armed nations have properly issued direct threats like this. Biden’s ‘off-script’ sally may just mean curtains for the planet as we know it, if we’re not careful.
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  13309. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  13310.  @svin7987  Your actual comment says it all: ‘what happens is cute’. With this Canadian perv, it’s quite clear to everybody watching, what happens isn’t ‘cute’. The other thing I would say is that the vast vast majority (95%+) of sexual predators predating on children are male. What Kylie did here was quite clearly not sexually motivated. You yourself saw that. That’s why what she did is ok when compared to this creepy gameshow.
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  13311.  @svin7987  So why are you advising caution against Kylie’s behaviour then? You are contradicting yourself.
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  13312.  @svin7987  “What happens @3:03 is cute, but also dangerous.” If that’s not advising caution, I don’t know what is! As I said, you’re contradicting yourself.
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  13313.  @svin7987  So why do you say “people are apparently ok with parents kissing their kids on lips too” if this isn’t about the idea of adults sexually engaging with children? You betray the idea that you are not ok with this idea.
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  13314.  @svin7987  Just for the record, can you confirm or deny that you are ok with this Canadian game-show? Also, can you confirm or deny that you think that what Kylie is doing is motivated by similar feelings? One has to take each on a case by case basis: the Canadian creep is clearly dodgy. Kylie clearly isn’t. If you can’t see this then I suggest you are in a minority of 1.
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  13315.  @zblus  Yes, he’s going to send Peterson a ‘stay well’ card. 😳
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  13316. Source? If you’re talking about Jack & Diane then that ‘girl’ was clearly of the age of consent. Nice try, though.👍
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  13317. What are you implying? Tommy? Timmy? Tummy? Temmy?
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  13318. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  13319. Scene: A NATO meeting with Putin on a conference call NATO: “Now look, Vladimir, this invading of a sovereign, self-governing territory just will not do.” Putin: “Really? I was under the impression the West had been doing this sort of thing since about 1492.”
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  13320. What, as opposed to that well-reasoned, well-evidenced stuff we read in the religious texts?😳
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  13321. It’s just to do with someone else inviting en masse millions of people into your house that you never asked for. Most people have no issue with 1 or 2 guests. When 1 or 2 becomes a virtual free-for-all it starts to look less like an invited party and more like a gate crash!
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  13322. How do you know the sound-person is a man? Could’ve been a female getting her revenge on all the men called Brian who ever wronged her!
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  13323.  @rustycherkas8229  Nice one. 👍 However, bit surprised you’re quoting a line about ‘being misunderstood’ in the context of an Emerson discussion. 😲For, as you may recall he had a rather pithy, witty take on this subject: Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Ok, I shall now take Emerson’s advice and quote at second/third hand no more. For now.
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  13324. Stolen.
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  13325. Rebel Wilson was sexier and funnier when carried a few more pies. She’s morphed into one of those people who you know likes her food but just can’t. Won’t. All her allure and comic timing has vanished in a puff cream.
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  13326. Charles: “So, Justy, care to meet one after all this guff for a quick snifter old boy?” Trudeau: “I’d like that very much Your Majesty, but keep your sausage fingers to yourself.”
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  13327. You say that like they all have scabies, or something.🎟
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  13328.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ 🥱
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  13329.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ Not ‘brown-nosing’, m8. It’s just calling it as I see it. There are loads of sh*t female pundits, too, but my point was one’s sex doesn’t necessarily determine the quality (or otherwise) or one’s punditry.
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  13330.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ  Totally disagree. Even Wrighty is too often just an obvious pub bore. Some of these female ex-pros have far more insight. You’re just jaded and prejudiced and nonsensically thinking that if you are a woman you, ipso-facto, can have no insight into football. It doesn’t work like that. Bad luck.
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  13331.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ The women/football bit is harsh, m8. Give me a Karen Carney punditry session over a Rio (Mr Obvious) Ferdinand, or an Andy (Mr Even More Obvious) Townsend any day of the week!
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  13332.  @Noel-ji8nm  Merry early Christmas, Noel! 🎅👍
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  13333.  @Noel-ji8nm  💋
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  13334.  @Beowolf5388  Nothing to do with “man hating”; everything to do with respecting others’ boundaries. 👍
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  13335. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  13336.  @katong1953  ‘Racist’?! Moi? I fear you have wrong the dude, chummo. Bad luck. 👍
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  13337.  @johneliadis9689  Wtf are you on about? The BBC didn’t translate any Greek person using the phrase! 🥴 Have you been at the ouzo again, Johnny?
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  13338. As a Brit, I can categorically confirm that Johnny Depp does not have a “UK accent”. Next.
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  13339.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13340.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13341.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13342.  @tastypymp1287  Try getting a dictionary for beginners.
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  13343.  @Pshafer126  I know, that’s why I said it wouldn’t be winning it. 😉
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  13344.  @MancMilitia  Another “bye” yet still here. Even North Korea doesn’t want blacks. 👈This is what we are dealing with, folks. 🤦‍♂️
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  13345.  @MancMilitia  Just out of interest, why are you so hostile to blacks? 🤔
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  13346.  @MancMilitia  You keep saying “bye” but never go. Having read your other comments, I don’t believe you about a slip of the finger. It’s more a slip of the 🧠.
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  13347.  @MancMilitia  A “space error” is what most of the rest of us call semi-literacy. 👍
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  13348.  @MancMilitia  You get back to Butlins, m8, and leave the serious social analysis to the big boys.👍
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  13349.  @MancMilitia  *a long *educate You were saying? 🤔
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  13350.  @MancMilitia  Even North Korea doesn’t want blacks. 👈This is what we are dealing with, folks.
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  13351.  @MancMilitia  You’re clearly not aware of Jimbo’s work. Get back to me when you are, son.👍
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  13352.  @Ass_of_Amalek  A species brighter and less preachy than you. 👍🐒
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  13353.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Well, tbf, m8, she’s brighter than you! 🐵
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  13354.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Nice try, m8, but that ain’t going to work with me. Your preachy essay was something my 3 month old pet 🐒 could’ve explained. Uh huh.
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  13355. Thanks for that, mum! 🙏
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  13356.  @khanhamid3744  🥱
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  13357.  @khanhamid3744  Which places?
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  13358. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  13359.  @harimauindia5775  Why the ‘hmm…’ ?🤔
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  13360.  @flamezodiac5736  There is that in many cases here. However, I don’t consider myself racist (the colour of your skin bothers me not one iota), but I don’t trust Islam for one second. This isn’t ‘racism’, of course, because Islam is an ideology.
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  13361.  @guff9567  Point me to an article about this. Any article. I looked but couldn’t find one… 🤔
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  13362.  @TragicGFuel  Steady now, sweetheart. No need for rank lip like that. 😖
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  13363.  @Mangaoreader  *. When you’ve learned to deploy a full-stop at the end of a sentence, get back to me, shweetie. Until then… 🤫😉
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  13364.  @Mesopotamia-v6d  It’s per capita. 🤦‍♂️ Per capita, India regularly has one of the lowest rape rates on the planet.
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  13365.  @user-wj4pr8cv4g  Huh? Wtf are you on about? Protests? What’s that got to do with reported rapes?
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  13366. @caba3995 Yes, and 83% of cases go unreported in England because women feel it won’t be taken seriously. Uh huh. So, unreported cases in India and England are about the same it seems. India reported 2 per 100,000, England 117 per 100,000. Seems like England, and in fact wider Europe (see Sweden, Iceland) has a bigger rape problem than India. Yep.👍😉
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  13367.  @DilakshiSN  Uh huh. And over 80% of rapes go unreported in the UK. So, even factoring these in (as I’ve repeatedly said), India still has a comparatively low rate of rape compared to England. Uh huh. 👍
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  13368.  @oscarhehe0428  Huh? ‘My India’?! Lol. Scotland here, son. Bad luck. 👍😢
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  13369. @caba3995 I factored in that point earlier. Moreover, 5 out of 6 rapes in the UK go unreported. 83%. Nice try, though.👍
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  13370.  @supermanbobby007 Huh? I’m not Indian you divvy! 🤣 You need a much better researcher as your current one is 💩! 😮🤫
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  13371.  @AnnaBrown-h4e  Africa, generally, has a far lower rape rate than European countries. Even the outlier, South Africa, has a lower rate than England. Uh huh. 😉
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  13372.  @ThatCarGuy1983 *ridiculous You stick to your silly cars, shweetie (a bit short somewhere are you, darling? 😉 😢) and leave basic statistics to the adults. 👍🤫
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  13373.  @ThatCarGuy1983 But India is regularly at the very bottom of the worldwide rape stats. It’s true! I’ve checked them. You might wanna do the same, petal.👍🤫😉
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  13374.  @chocoballz4634  Not true. Complete missiles have got through lots of times.
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  13375.  @Zojaam-21  Indeed. Who knows? Neither you nor I, that’s for sure! 👍
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  13376.  @barbaramalamut5151  Perhaps. I’m still leaning towards this being an Israeli strike at this point, though.
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  13377.  @carinagarcia5433  Didn’t “conclude” anything; quite the opposite: I asked a question.👍
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  13378.  @hodiyaeyal7259  No. I’m not “a little racist”. Nice try, though.👍
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  13379.  @hodiyaeyal7259  Says the guy with the Jewish moniker. Quelle surprise! 👍
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  13380. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”
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  13381.  @RabbiMalahkYah Yeah, but let’s face it, mate, you don’t give a flying f*ck they are Nigerian. You only care that they are Christians. If they were ‘Nigerian agnostics’ you would’ve held your peace.
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  13382.  @andyquelch5754  Look at the OP’s thumbnail. ‘Born English’. I suspect he’s one of these people who sees anyone without 100% English genes as not being truly ‘English’. By his logic, Jude Bellingham isn’t English and can’t play for England.
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  13383.  @turnip5359 Whoever it is, Islam, for me is the issue, not the colour of someone’s skin.
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  13384.  @RittingsTN I think you misunderstand me. I wasn’t condemning all Muslims. I also have Muslim friends/acquaintances and they just get on with their day, by and large, bothering no one. It’s a vocal 5/10% who are clearly here to cause trouble. I would say this, though, given the prevalence of one particular religious demographic in the more recent European immigration stats: If you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath, it changes it instantly forever. There’s something to be said for gradualism. Here’s a stat I read yesterday which somewhat startled me: by 2050, little more than 2 decades away, Sweden is projected to be 30% Muslim. That means, in yours and my lifetime, a European country is likely to be one third Muslim.
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  13385.  @NovemberTheHacker tsdr
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  13386.  @emissary_of_aldebaran  How can anyone impose anything if there are literally dozens of ethnic origins and ethnic genetic strains? Moreover, I don’t see Indians/Chinese/Poles etc trying to ‘impose’ anything. I only see it in a cohort of Muslims. Nice try, though.👍
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  13387. What’s been more than a little perplexing to the neutral onlooker in all this is Israel’s completely disproportionate response and, frankly, bludgeoning of a whole people in its quest to get at those who hit them on October 7th. If my nasty next-door neighbour attacked my family whilst I wasn’t looking, I certainly wouldn’t take out his innocent wife and children to get back at him, even if he were hiding behind them. This has more than the stench of Netanyahu using October 7th to massacre as many ordinary Palestinians as he can get away with. In an alternative universe, if the boot were on the other foot, and Israeli militants attacked Palestinians on October 7th, and this was followed by the massacre of 50,000+ ordinary Israelis (proportionate to the Palestinian population) to get at the Israeli militants, there would rightly be a world outcry. There’s more than a whiff here that the Palestinians are, somehow, dispensable. One Palestinian life doesn’t appear to be worth one Israeli life in this scenario.
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  13388. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  13389.  @desire_002  You can’t stop it. The technological wave is gonna engulf you, but I dig your resistance.
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  13390. 🤣
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  13391. Breaking News: Zahawi has just sacked Jimmy Carr as his Chief Financial Advisor.
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  13392.  @dtoles20  But you haven’t, as they aren’t repeated. Try harder.
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  13393.  @dtoles20  Yeah, but I don’t copy and paste and repeat others’ stuff.😉
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  13394. No we didn’t and no we won’t.
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  13395.  @عبداللهالمطيري-س5غ  What do you mean where was I? I abhorred Assad. 🤦‍♂️
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  13396.  @YouCanCallMeReTro We’ll see if his, and his regime’s actions live up to his words. 👍
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  13397. Joyce? 🤓
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  13398. I loathe Hamas but they aren’t the disease here. They are the symptom of the disease; a particularly nasty and vicious symptom but a symptom nonetheless. Militarily taking them out won’t kill the idea that bred them. It will emerge again. And again. Until the underlying causes of this situation are properly addressed this hell will continue into the future ad infinitum.
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  13399.  @adriancaldwell  Huh? Not strange at all. A beard ages a fella. Whoever that fella may be. Just a fact. Dead or alive. Cope. 👍
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  13400.  @nixxxon18  It’s not an “infantile attitude”. I happened to know there were about 2.3 million blocks in Giza, as I know more about this subject than you appeared to think. You patronised with your “meh” attitude, m8. Your “I’m right with my superior knowledge and you’re wrong.” Well, I wasn’t wrong it turns out. Also knew about Houdin as well. He’s been more or less debunked but his theories are nonetheless quite interesting. 👍
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  13401.  @nixxxon18  And still you go on after having placed the evidence in front of you. Just swallow your pride and admit defeat, m8. Some things just aren’t a conspiracy. I used the site you chose. The site also gave the average measurement of the blocks (about 1.3m), so I suggest unless you’ve got any other sites to direct me too, you’re barking up the wrong tree here, son. It indeed appears that the Great Pyramid of Giza does contain about 2.3m blocks of average size 1.3m. Cope better now. 😉
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  13402.  @nixxxon18  Ok, I went to the very site you told me to and I did the calculations. The following is a direct quote from the site, and underneath is my working: *Number of stones per stone layer: Oskar M. Riedl [6] calculated the number of stones per stone layer if you take an average stone of 127 x 127 x 69cm (median height of 0.69m and median weight). He calculated in the first layer 32'000 stones (not including that there are less stones because of the rock outcropping), with 25'000 stone blocks in the 26th course, 20'000 stone blocks in the 46th course, 15'000 stone blocks in the 68th course, 10'000 stone blocks in the 95th course, 5'000 stone blocks in the 128th course, 1'000 stone blocks in the 174th course and 500 stone blocks in the 184th course.* So, 32,000 in first layer. 25,000 stones in 26th layer. So, between the first and 26th let’s say there’s an average of 28,000. So that’s 28,000 x 24 = 672,000 + 32,000 + 25,000 = 729,000 In 46th layer there are 20,000. Between the 26th layer and 46th layer let’s say an average of 22,000. So that’s 729,000. Add 18 x 22,000 = 396,000 + 20,000 + 25,000 = 441,000 So, we now can add 441,000 + 729,000 = 1,170,000 In the 68th layer we have 15,000. Between the 46th layer and 68th layer let’s say an average of 17,000. So that’s 17,000 x 20 = 340,000 + 20,000 + 15,000 = 375,000 So, 1,170,000 + 375,000 = 1,545,000 In the 95th layer we have 10,000. Between the 68th layer and 95th layer let’s say an average of 12,000. So that’s 12,000 x 25 = 300,000 + 15,000 + 10,000 = 325,000 So, 1,545,000 + 325,000 = 1,870,000 In the 128th layer we have 5,000. Between the 95th layer and 128th layer let’s say an average of 7,000. So that’s 7,000 x 31 = 217,000 + 10,000 + 5,000 = 232,000 So, 1,870,000 + 242,000 = 2,112,000 In the 174th layer we have 1,000. Between the 128th layer and the 174th layer let’s say an average of 3,000. So that’s 3,000 x 44 = 132,000 + 5,000 + 1,000 = 138,000 So, 2,112,000 + 138,000 = 2,250,000 In the 184th layer we have 500. Between the 174th layer and the 184th layer let’s say an average of 750. So that’s 750 x 8 = 6,000 + 1,000 + 500 = 7,500 So, 2,250,000 + 7,500 = 2,257,500 So, what did we say? 2.3 million? What did I calculate using the very site you directed me to? 2,257,500? Well, what’s 42,500 stones between friends! Looks like 2.3 million is pretty spot on mate. Nice try though. 👍
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  13403.  @nixxxon18  Also, you yourself claim above that the likely figure was “a lot more than” 2.3 million so you’re contradicting yourself here, mate.
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  13404.  @nixxxon18  99% of reputable sources claim 2.3 million blocks. You’re in a minority of 1% in this case. I’m putting my money on the 99% but nice try, though.
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  13405.  @nixxxon18  Sources? Aside from you, of course. If what you say is ‘true’ you should be easily able to direct me to your sources.
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  13406.  @davidrobertson5700  You’ve been, what is called in common parlance, ‘owned’, Davie, son. Stop digging now. I’m only telling you this for your own sake and to save you further embarrassment! 🤣
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  13407.  @davidrobertson5700  Another self-upvote, huh, Davie? You tragic, tragic boy! 🤣
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  13408.  @davidrobertson5700  Fyi, upvoting yourself is so not a good look. Desperate, in fact! 🤣
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  13409.  @davidrobertson5700  No you weren’t. Digging yourself out now ain’t gonna work, sunshine. Nice try, though. 🤣👍
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  13410.  @nixxxon18  It’s commonly accepted by those who know more about these matters than you, petal. The Great Pyramid was built by quarrying an estimated 2.3 million large blocks weighing 6 million tonnes in total. Cope better.
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  13411.  @davidrobertson5700  Lol. You win the Internet medal today for “missing the bleedin’ point”! 🤣 🥇
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  13412.  @Maasa_FIN Np, my vassal.👍
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  13413. *Fewer
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  13414. Source?
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  13415. Still posting the same sad-sack, unoriginal crap for the 1,000,987,452,765,867th time I see, Jimbo. Time for a new and much better scriptwriter methinks. 🤣
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  13416.  @The_Reality_Filter Wtf is bro babbling on about? Why is it so hard to believe fella proposed to his wife on Vesuvius? Vesuvius is an active volcano. Dude walked up there and proposed. Cope and seethe some more. You’re behaving as if the dude had said he’d proposed to his wife on the surface of the sun or on Uranus! You sound paranoid, m8.🤦‍♂️
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  13417.  @The_Reality_Filter  Er, wot? What have you been smoking today, sonny? You been skinning up that strong stuff from Jamaica again? You’re all over the shop. Talking to me like I’m not the one backing science here. Go away. You’re just boring at this point. 🥱
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  13418.  @kr8972  China was far more repressive when they locked down. My wider OP stands, however, I’d far rather live in the US than China.
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  13419.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Huh? Again, another goon off at a tangent. I’ll repeat my OP for the hard of understanding: if it were a choice of living in Biden’s America or Xi’s China it would be Biden’s America all day long. This really isn’t that difficult, sweetie.
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  13420. G
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  13421.  @spat3305 Tragically, I think she’s real.
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  13422.  @thinkwithvideos2238 Julia is a backward, uneducated, intolerant bigot. Don’t entertain her, m8.👍😉
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  13423.  @julia2k8 Uh huh. And consenting homosexuals have a right to have sex. 👍😉🤫
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  13424. Uh huh. And consenting homosexuals have a right to have sex. 😮
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  13425.  @Daisy-023.  You stick to frying your brain with games, darlin’, and leave the important social commentary to the adults in the room, sweetheart. 👍🤫
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  13426.  @Daisy-023.  Huh? Ok. None of that addresses the point to hand. I guess you’ve conceded defeat. 👍😉
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  13427.  @Daisy-023.  Did you actually read the OP. Dude lives in Spain. They know what they’re talking about. Now go away.
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  13428.  @Daisy-023.  Er, what? No. I’m saying hundreds of thousands of young (and not so young) Brits go to Spain and cause all the problems outlined by the OP. Spanish tourists in the UK, by and large, cause no similar problems. Why? They don’t get pished and cause trouble for everyone else around them.
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  13429.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Look, Ryan son, just admit you were wrong. Why is this so difficult for you, dearie? 🤔
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  13430.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  But I never claimed to be ‘English’ Ryan, petal. Why would I? I’m Scottish. I thought about this, and the confusion could be you read a post where I said I was British, but I would never have claimed to be English. Hope this clears it all up, sweetie.👍😉
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  13431.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Note for future self, Ryan: don’t start sh*t you can’t back up. Simple life lesson. All the best now.👍
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  13432.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Note for future self, Ryan: don’t start sh*t you can’t back up. Simple life lesson. All the best now.👍
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  13433.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Note for future self, Ryan: don’t start sh*t you can’t back up. Simple life lesson. All the best now.👍
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  13434.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Note for future self, Ryan: don’t start sh*t you can’t back up. Simple life lesson. All the best now.👍
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  13435.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Note for future self, Ryan: don’t start sh*t you can’t back up. Simple life lesson. All the best now.👍
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  13436.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  😉👍Well done. We got there. Congratulations for admitting defeat.
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  13437.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Ryan, just for the record, it doesn’t work like that. If you claim something, in the normal world, you need to supply the evidence. Having a meltdown when you are called out is not supplying the evidence. ‘Trust me, bro’ won’t work. 👍🤣😉
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  13438.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Lol. ‘…basically having a meltdown.’ More projection Ryan, hun? 👍🤣
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  13439.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Just for the record, I’ve been on here for more than 2 years, chump. That ‘plug-in’ doesn’t seem to be doing it for you son, eh? 👍😂
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  13440.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Where’s the ‘deleted’ post that said I was ‘English’, Ryan, honey? Huh? You haven’t got it have you? Can you guess why? 👍🤣🤫😉
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  13441.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Why can’t you just accept you are wrong Ryan, son? Is it really that difficult to admit you were wrong to score a point? 🤫👍😉
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  13442.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  No I didn’t. Once again. Desperate tactics. For the third time, where did I say I was English? You’re flailing like a chump here, lad. Bold strategy.👍🤣
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  13443.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Huh? Again, why are you directing that one at me? You’re all over the shop here, son. Do you have no quality control? 🤦‍♂️ Btw, you still haven’t supplied the quote where I said I was English. Who’s looking like the liar now, eh? 😉Bold strategy.
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  13444.  @franciscopineda2594  True dude. I never got this hypocrisy from certain Brits. The ones who who are most likely to moan about immigration into the UK are exactly the breed who up sticks and head to the Costas, not bothering to learn the language, not really interested in their host country, they just wanna have sum fun in the sun, hun! 👍
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  13445.  @franciscopineda2594  Yeah, Cornwall’s dodgy. Strawdogs taught me that. 👍😉
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  13446.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  I’ve never once said I was English, because I’m not English. Of course, you’re looking like the liar now. Bold strategy.👍🤫😉
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  13447.  @julia2k8 Nah, m8. It’s just about consent. S’all. 👍😉
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  13448.  @simco7473  That’s most of us, then, as most of us aren’t ‘really invested in the situation’.
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  13449.  @EG-gq1fn  No I’m not. Not sure where you got that idea.
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  13450. Yeah, but the alternative? Really? USA/NATO go in all guns blazing like the Wild Bunch? Really? Don’t be silly. They do that and this planet will be incinerated in thermonuclear annihilation; and that includes you, bud.😳
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  13451. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  13452. As a planetary citizen, I am also ashamed of your country.
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  13453.  @sorkenyo  Just for the record: I’m not an atheist.
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  13454.  @sorkenyo  You are dangerous. And deluded.
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  13455.  @sorkenyo  Lol. Who has established this “God” you speak of?😳😉
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  13456.  @susanmarch1661  Lol again.
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  13457.  @susanmarch1661  Lol.
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  13458. As long as it’s not precinct 13 I’ll think about it. 👍
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  13459.  @truthbetold4178  Why are you upvoting yourself? 🥴
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  13460. You nasty piece of work.
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  13461. Well, to be fair, it’s ‘a lot’ if you’re on your own.🤓
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  13462.  @jimreily7538  No, they didn’t. Not in the modern sense of a document facilitating travel across borders. It’s a faux-ami. passport (n.) ‘document authorizing foreign travel’ This word came to be increasingly used in its present-day meanings during the 16th century, as people increasingly travelled abroad. But Shakespeare uses the word differently. When Cerimon opens a chest washed up on shore and discovers Thaisa’s body, he exclaims ‘A passport too!’ (Pericles, III.ii.64). As Thaisa was thought to be dead when Pericles had the chest thrown from his ship, it can hardly be the modern sense. Rather it refers to a document giving an account of who she is. And when Helena shows Bertram’s letter of rejection to the Countess saying ‘here’s my passport’ (All’s Well That Ends Well, III.ii.55) – meaning that she will use it as a reason for following him – it has a more specialized sense. She is comparing the letter to the licence given to an inmate of an institution to travel as a beggar, and her choice of the word speaks volumes.
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  13463. With Putin, we have to be careful around any ideas of revenge, for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  13464.  @Mezorie Uh huh. And why a ‘he’? 🤔 Asking for a female friend.
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  13465.  @2Different4MeOwnGood  Have another tinfoil hat. Suits you, Sir.
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  13466.  @MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch  Indeed.
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  13467.  @MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch  Er, wot? 🥴
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  13468.  @prypiatshadow  Wise second paragraph.👍
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  13469.  @wakabayashigenzo4373  Who?
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  13470.  @DucadiBorgogna_  😂
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  13471. Well said.👍
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  13472. It’s always amusing watching British weather. Whenever anything slightly out of the ordinary happens, it’s always exaggerated. Wind gusts of 100mph are treated like hurricanes where in actual hurricanes sustained winds are at 150mph. 3 consecutive days of over 25°C are classified as a ‘heatwave’ when other places on the planet have 30°C+ every single day of the year, and many places have summer temperatures topping 40°C for months on end! A ‘severe cold snap’ is a few days of about 0°C when proper ‘cold snaps’ are in places like Canada or Siberia where for weeks on end it can be -20°C and below. British weather is beige. Even when it’s ‘extreme’, it’s beige. Why? Latitude. Mainly. And sea. Oh, and Gulf Stream. For example, Calgary, Canada is at almost exactly the same latitude as London, England, yet London is a good 8-10°C warmer in the winter months!
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  13473. Beck would concur.
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  13474. Scene: NATO headquarters. Putin is meeting with NATO members. Putin: “I’m not happy with having a state bordering Russia that will have missiles directed at Moscow, capable of hitting in minutes.” NATO: “I’m sorry, Mr Putin, but this is a case of a sovereign nation taking its own decisions.” Putin: “Mexico has agreed to sign a pact with Russia allowing us to station missiles on the US/Mexico border directly targeting Washington DC. What are you going to do?” NATO: “We will move to remove these missiles, and invade a self-governing, sovereign nation to do this if necessary.” Putin: “Oh really? How interesting.”
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  13475. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🧐
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  13476. Confucius says: Beware anyone over the age of 65 with egregious destructive power in their hands, for they have fuck-all to lose. 😳
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  13477. How bizarre? Putin, so desperate to have Ukraine (fellow Slavs) under his dictatorial roof, that he’ll actually kill them if they refuse? The very definition of a toxic, paranoid spouse.😳
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  13478. Suddenly those countless recent reports of RAF jets being scrambled to intercept Russian bombers buzzing UK airspace, become even more ominous than they were at the time. Almost, one might say, they knew something we didn’t.😳
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  13479. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  13480. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  13481. That’s just western-biased lie. Bollywood has produced dozens of masterpieces. Moreover, I tried to watch Titanic 3 times and fell asleep 3 times. 💤
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  13482.  @CianMcsweeney You completely missed my point. The depth of water was irrelevant to my point. Read it again.
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  13483.  @pyeltd.5457  Huh? You’ve just pedantically confirmed my point. 🥴
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  13484.  @alexwatson5507  And why would I want to do that, Al? 🤔
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  13485.  @mikalliz2112  You’ve got it completely the wrong way round. Israeli occupation and repression gave birth to terrorism!
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  13486.  @superoldgamesaturday3277  Uh huh. So the 3,000+ massacred Palestinian children are Hamas, are they? Gotcha! 👍
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  13487.  @spadelives2  Get real m8. As far as can be seen, since October 8th, Netanyahu has been lobbing bombs into Gaza willy-nilly. It’s quite clear he doesn’t give a rat’s arse about the average Palestinian life. Nice try, though.👍
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  13488.  @bigbinji6145  Oh dear oh dear, another child unable to spell ‘silliness’. 🤦‍♂️
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  13489.  @V1489Cygni  Uh huh. And I’m willing to bet far fewer than 58% of interviewed Palestinians would support armed confrontation and intifada against Israel if they hadn’t been oppressed and occupied for 75 years.👍 If you come to my home and occupy it against my will, you might expect resistance.
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  13490. This is one small step for a naan, one giant leap for naankind. 🫓
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  13491.  @DFenV  Nationality?
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  13492. “Cream if you don’t wanna be a faster!” 🎢
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  13493.  @ИльяКовригин-й9ы  Yeah, but you’re justifying things from your one-sided perspective and the above clearly betrays where your loyalties lie.
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  13494. A Russian person is hardly going to be unbiased here.
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  13495.  @mg5685  Just wot I sed.
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  13496. Russia: “We want Ukraine neutralised and not seeking NATO membership.” Ukraine: “We want Russia neutralised and fully committed to seeking NATO membership.” Russia: “We want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” Ukraine: “We want Russia disarmed to ensure no threat to Ukraine and anyone else she happens to take a dislike to.” Russia: “We want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want protection for the Ukrainian language in Ukraine.” Russia: “We want the deNazification of Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want the dePutinification of Russia.” Russia: “We want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with Donbas and other parts of east Ukraine.” Ukraine: “We want Moscow and St Petersburg formally recognised as free Ukrainian cities.”
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  13497.  @kathydent2116  Yes, I understand that; was just making the point that Russia has nearly twice the landmass of the next biggest country. That’s all. I would also add that for Putin, this was very much a question of land; Ukraine’s resources are almost an afterthought here.
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  13498.  @petesmart1983  Yes, I get that it’s all about resources; I was just making the point about space, really. Russia has lots of it, so maybe it should be thinking about donating a little to some of its smaller neighbours; give Ukraine some of the border territory that currently comprises Russia, for example. After all, these are just lines on a map and have been and are open to revision at all times.
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  13499.  @Just_another_Euro_dude Man, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Southern Europe, relatively speaking (and particularly those places next the Med), is not cold. Chilly nights, yes. But most places down there have very mild day after day. 10°C or higher. Nice, for example, rarely falls below this temperature. Inland and at altitude things are a little different, but you’re just betraying your soft Southern provenance if you think it’s genuinely cold down there. Bad luck. 👍😉
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  13500. @ Lol. How many times are you gonna post that?! 🤦‍♂️
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  13501.  @Just_another_Euro_dude You’re repeating yourself, dude. 👍😉
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  13502.  @Just_another_Euro_dude Wales? Mountains? Don’t be silly. Nothing over 1,000m for goodness’ sake! 🤦‍♂️ They’re called ‘hills’ dear boy.
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  13503.  @Just_another_Euro_dude As to your mountain point, well the capitalisation betrays you. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 😉 Writing capitals won’t alter my opinion that any mountain under 3,000m isn’t really that SPECTACULAR. I repeat, Everest is 8,000m. 3,000m? Do the maths. 👍
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  13504.  @Just_another_Euro_dude My point? Well, I already made it. You said Southern Europe had ‘cold’ winters. It doesn’t, really. It’s generally mild most of the time, and particularly if you’re close to the Med. Incidentally, I would advise you not to patronise me, mate, as I have lived in Spain, Southern France and Italy in my time. You don’t know real cold if you think Southern Europe is ‘cold’ during winter. You sound like a southern softy to me! 👍😉
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  13505.  @Just_another_Euro_dude Well, when you consider Everest tops out at 8,000m+, 3,000m is quite conservative to qualify as a proper mountain. It’s my own definition. I don’t find ‘mountains’ under about 3,000m all that.
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  13506.  archon879  Not at all. I’m kind to animals and old ladies at all times. Anyway, all I’ve said on this subject can be read above. No more to say.
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  13507.  archon879  The implication is there, though, or else why is so much heat being created in this comment section?
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  13508. Yes Honey Bunch, we all know. 🤓
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  13509.  @jsemplefelton5348  Whit dis?
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  13510.  @honeybunch6473  All know what?
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  13511.  @SlappoLS  I think I smell someone struggling to cope. 👃
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  13512. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 😳
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  13513.  @GreaterPakistanEng It’s not common in the Middle East because in the Middle East Islam runs the show! It’s precisely because they don’t (yet!) run the show in Europe that you get idiots like this wanting to violently impose their ideology on everyone else. And although too many people are scared to admit this, a large (probably the main) motivating factor in the UK riots is the mass, uncontrolled importation of Islam. An importation, incidentally, which has been ongoing for well over a decade and shows no signs of slowing.
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  13514. I agree, to a point. The political class will continue to ignore the Islamic elephant in the room at their peril. However, most people have no real issue with controlled immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe.
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  13515. Tbf, I watched the full conference and the question about his appearance was asked but the cops said because they didn’t have a full, clear description yet they didn’t want to say anything concrete on this.
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  13516.  @ZensRightEar  Er, who said I was “atheist”? 🤔 What a deeply foolish assumption to make, sonny.👍
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  13517.  @sandraalex2055  Based on ethnic, linguistic and religious differences.
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  13518.  @arrore Why are people so literal? Jesus Christ. If Serbs and Kosovans shared the same language, ethnicity and religion there would be no issue here. All I was suggesting was that some of us on this planet see human beings hating others for ethnic, religious or language reasons as deeply, deeply primitive. S’all.👍
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  13519.  @Dani-px1jy  Ty for that.👍
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  13520.  @Dani-px1jy  Thank you for that insight into Albanian life. Only thing I would say is this: in all my life I have never (and I mean never ) met a genuine Muslim who drinks alcohol. Sounds like you are ‘culturally’ Islamic rather than ‘religiously’ Islamic in the same way many people in Britain, say, are ‘culturally’ Christian rather than strict observant ‘religious’ Christians. 👍
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  13521.  @ttii9  Blah, blah, blah. Get real, m8. This is the real world.👍
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  13522.  @armandpelivani3227  Oh, you seem to misunderstand me. I’m not saying you have no right to believe in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies and accidents of birth; I was just pointing out the trouble they tend to cause. 👍
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  13523.  @fkyouezekiel  It’s simple, for hundreds of years serboslav states have killed, raped and ethnically cleansed native Albanians without a reason. I think the clue might be in the ‘ethnically cleansed’ bit.👍
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  13524. Ironic comment given God has been ‘hiding’ since at least the Big Bang!
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  13525.  @hmq9052  Ok, grandad. You stick to the pipe and slippers and the 1850s Neanderthal attitudes, and leave the art criticism to the experts, pal. 🥿 🥿👍
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  13526.  @hmq9052  No.
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  13527.  @bbcisaids6727  What? Triggered by a little observation? Awww, diddums, did yer mammy never bring you up to appreciate artistic sensibility? She was otherwise engaged shagging yer best mate, prolly! 👍😉
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  13528. Ice Age with a side-order of global warming. 👍😉
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  13529. Is she? Mine’s rather tepid. But, tbf, I do keep her in the fridge.
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  13530.  @NHLblkgurl  You’ve been had, darlin’! 👍😉
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  13531.  @NHLblkgurl  LA sits between 8°C (low)-18°C (high) on an average January. First 9 days of 2024? 19, 20, 18, 19, 19, 18, 14, 17, 18. Seems pretty normal to me! 👍😉
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  13532.  @NHLblkgurl  Where, exactly, in Southern California?
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  13533. Dang! Wish I could say the same about my hairline! 👨‍🦲
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  13534.  @Dirgis-66  That all you got? I’ll take that. Have a nice day! 👍😊
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  13535.  @Dirgis-66  Projecting again, dearie?😉👍
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  13536.  @Dirgis-66  You did great in this debate. It was an honor meeting you. Fact deniers are a tough crowd. Cringe.
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  13537.  @Dirgis-66  No it’s not. I repeat: you have absolutely no clue how I live my life. Get a researcher and do your due diligence before imputing stuff to me you clearly know nothing about.
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  13538.  @MrQuestful  Yes it is. It’s my alternative theory. You buy it, I don’t. 2 different alternatives.
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  13539.  @MrQuestful  My alternative is that I don’t fully buy the 100% manmade global warming script. That’s all.
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  13540.  @MrQuestful  Not at all. I just don’t particularly like your holier-than-thou tone at the point where you appear to be foisting it on others. As I say, you live your life, I’ll live mine, just don’t dictate what I can and cannot do in the same way I’m not doing this to you. 👍
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  13541.  @MrQuestful  “Health implications”? Uh huh. So your diktats stray into people’s personal health now, do they? All sounds remarkably controlling and “live like me, folks, or else!” Sinister.
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  13542.  @Dirgis-66  Not denying anything. I’m suggesting an alternative. Humankind’s activities may play some part in warming, but no one has credibly established the scale of this human complicity, for me. As I say, I tend to have a low carbon footprint anyway, so either way, I’m guilt-free! 😉
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  13543.  @Dirgis-66  Huh? I don’t drive. Wtf. 🤦‍♂️
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  13544.  @badman1481  It’s “kind of true” in your opinion.
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  13545.  @MrQuestful  Nah. Not convinced of humankind’s substantial impact here. Doesn’t mean I don’t try to walk gently on Earth, if only because everything is finite (including the sun itself!), but I’m still not sold on humankind’s large impact on the temperature rises we are experiencing.
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  13546.  @Dirgis-66  “Grandpa”?! Lol. Off beam once again, chumpster! 🤣
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  13547.  @MrQuestful  “I think we can all start the journey of driving less and riding alt-vehicles more.” ~ Again, too preachy, dare I say, vaguely hectoring. I don’t drive. Walk everywhere or use public transport, but I know many people who do not want to “drive less” for reasons of enjoyment, practicality and a combination of the two. To speak of the larger theme here (ie. global warming), I believe the planet is warming (I know dozens who don’t), my only real question is just how much is humankind complicit in this warming?
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  13548.  @tastypymp1287  *you’re 🤦‍♂️
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  13549. Roman Ambramovich looks like a genetic experiment mashing up the genes of Tim Roth and Damon Albarn.
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  13550.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. Tasty’s getting triggered. Again ! 😄🤣😂😄🤣😂😄😂😂😄😄😃😅😄😄😃😁😆😁😀😀😃😃
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  13551.  @sambhavgaur8417  Tasty has taken the coward’s way out by blocking me. He can’t cope (or spell basic words), so is seething and crying 😭 in the corner. 🤣 No loss, though, as he’s a thick, boring doofus anyway! 🤪😉
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  13552.  @sambhavgaur8417  Tasty blocked me cos he couldn’t take being called out for not being able to spell “a bit” cos he’s a bit thick.😉
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  13553.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13576.  @BikeJackass  Tell that to a moron called Tasty Pymp, mate.😉
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  13577.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13578.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13579.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13580.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13581.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13582.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13583.  @nostro1940  *that’s *humour *.
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  13584.  @nostro1940  No. I call it ‘humour’. 🤓
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  13585.  @cameron6770  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  13586.  @leefrancis2221  Have you never seen Deliverance ?
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  13587.  @deborahminter6231  Translation: I disagree with your point.
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  13588.  @deborahminter6231  I stated I have no problem with consenting incest if no children are produced. I think you misunderstand me. If 2 sisters or 2 brothers or a brother and sister want to have consenting sex, I have zero issue with it if no kids are produced. Now, please can you stop stalking me. You’re clearly triggered. Just get over it and move on.
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  13589.  @deborahminter6231  I was on a side-topic raised by the OP. You need better coping strategies, Deb.
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  13590.  @deborahminter6231  K, Debs. You do that.👍 I repeat: I was focusing on the incest thing. Moreover, there is no YouTube law whereby you have to discuss exactly what Debs dictates. Just saying. 😉
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  13591.  @deborahminter6231 Do your conversations with others always have to stick to one point? The OP mentioned incest and that’s what I chose to focus on. Now go away, as this is getting tedious.
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  13592.  @deborahminter6231  Yes they do. I think you’re trouble, Debs, is that you just disagree with the points and because the points are rationally argued and sound, you’re struggling to cope.👍
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  13593.  @deborahminter6231  I think you’ll find incest was mentioned in the OP, Debs.👍I think you’re trouble, Debs, is that you just disagree with the points and because the points are rationally argued and sound, you’re struggling to cope.
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  13594.  @deborahminter6231  No I’m not. You missed this bit: Frankly, my only real issue is having children in all this. 👍😉
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  13595. Anonymously.
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  13596. You just did.
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  13597.  @random_an0n  Do they? Ok. Lots of poverty in Pakistan and they are just seeking a better life, then. You would, too. As would I. Try to cope a little better now, sweetie. ;)
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  13598. @@Pierrespere-vm5of How do you know their circumstances? They are hardly likely to be fleeing a life of Riley, son. What poverty? The poverty that has been recorded by the World Bank at 39.3% using the lower middle-income poverty rate of US$3.2 per day, and 78.4% using the upper middle-income poverty rate of US$5.5 per day, for the fiscal year 2020–21. As I said, cope a little better, Pierre. ;)
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  13599. @@Pierrespere-vm5of “Poverty” also applies. 2 out of 4 ain’t bad. Cope a little better, Pierre. ;)
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  13600.  @goldfinga786able  Look man, I don’t care. If I were living dirt poor and saw a chance somewhere else, I’d take it. As would you. You need better coping strategies, sweetie.
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  13601.  @goldfinga786able  Not in my arse, sonny. An acute economic crisis, rising food insecurity and a lack of jobs are forcing many Pakistanis to embark on dangerous journeys to reach Europe. You can’t cope with all these funny foreigners, can you? Seethe and seethe again. 🤪
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  13602.  @goldfinga786able  Dunno. All I know is that there’s a lot of it about, son.😉
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  13603. Uh huh. And Britons are whiter than white and never migrated and colonised half the world without the consent of that world colonised.
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  13604. @JohnAnders-no4vg But u r.
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  13605. Just for the record, it’s perfectly grammatically-correct to say ‘how this Finland city…’ Cope.👍
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  13606.  @IansOddInterests  I said I didn’t care about my, or anyone else’s, ethnicity or genetic make-up. You need better close reading skills.👍
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  13607. Cause 5: The victim was black; the murderer wasn’t.
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  13608. A bit like saying the Earth belongs to earthlings. Meaningless. We are all mere temporary renters here. Accidents of birth linked to random lines drawn on a map by a bunch of men are meaningless and arbitrary and to hitch your core identity to such poppycock bespeaks deep primitiveness.
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  13609. Aye, spoken by a true deluded Oirish Catholic. 🤦‍♂️
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  13610. Lmao. And those Mohammedans believing in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies are not brainwashed, I suppose. 👍😂
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  13611. Lmao. And those Mohammedans believing in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies are not brainwashed, I suppose. 👍😂
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  13612.  @HarryF-tz5fo Er, ‘compliance’ of what exactly? 🤣 You’re either gay or you aren’t. You can’t be forced to be gay, ya numpty! 🤦‍♂️
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  13613. Not all of it. With you on the gay thing. Just don’t get it. What consenting adults get up to is no one else’s business. I get the anti-Islam thing, though. Suppose I’m very liberal with homosexuality but more right when it comes to the infiltration of Islam. It’s important to remember that humans are complex and can be on any part of a given spectrum depending on the topic.
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  13614. Never happened. Fairy story most of us grew out of before we turned 5.
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  13615.  @mugenmugen9632  Er, but it doesn’t work like that. You don’t force gays to the front first because they ‘won’t repopulate the country’. That’s essentially just more discrimination but then I’m sure you already know this.👍😉
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  13616. Bellingham’s not a 7, he’s a 5! Get it right, ffs.
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  13617.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu  Huh?
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  13618.  @VIPER276  Seethe about my not being gay! 😭
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  13619.  @VIPER276  All straight here, bruh. Seethe on like a good one! 👍🤫
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  13620.  @sleepyjoe7843  🥱
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  13621.  @sleepyjoe7843  Yeah, just primitive, son. It’s none of your business what consenting adults do. Seethe. 👍
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  13622.  @sleepyjoe7843  Wtf is your problem? You just can’t stand gays. Admit it. Move on. You are boring. 👍
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  13623.  @sleepyjoe7843  Yeah, just primitive, son. It’s none of your business what consenting adults do. Seethe. 👍
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  13624.  @HarryF-tz5fo Er, wtf are you on about, son? I must have about 50 gay friends and acquaintances and not one of them is a ‘groomer’. I’ve always found it bizarre this supposition gays are more sexually attracted to children than straights. It’s a baseless slur coming from people unable to cope.
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  13625.  @haelleah369livelovelaugh  Huh? How is a woman having sex with a woman or a man having sex with a man, ‘depravity’? 🤔
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  13626.  @haelleah369livelovelaugh  🥱
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  13627. @orinscrivello1976 Guessing.
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  13628.  @GUINEAPIGPOPPER Projecting again? 🤔
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  13629.  @AccountFour-w2o  Are your feelings that sensitive you can’t cope with someone saying they are gay/bi or whatever? Why are you such a fragile flower? I’m bemused. 🤷‍♂️
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  13630.  @AccountFour-w2o  Lol. We just had a rainbow Pride parade in my home city and I saw nothing wrong. You seem to think you can ‘catch’ being gay. Relax, dude. You can’t. It’s all ok. Stop causing problems where there aren’t any, son.
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  13631.  @zonkbadonk3937 Just for the record: we can’t control whom we fancy. If someone is attracted to a minor, they aren’t consciously choosing that, just in the same way I’m not choosing to fancy curvy ladies with big tits. I just do! Obviously, it’s wrong to act on the attraction to the child, which is why I emphasised consenting adults in the OP; the bit you conspicuously ignored to suit your agenda.
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  13632.  @johnq.8889  Huh? Hate what act? Why is it any of your business if a dude chooses to stick his todger in the behind of another consenting dude? 🤔
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  13633. @orinscrivello1976 Uh huh. And… what if the Bible is a pile of manmade 💩? Ta da! 🎉
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  13634. Seethe more.
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  13635. Pulling a few knobs, too! 😮
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  13636. Ok, groomer. 🥱
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  13637.  @tastypymp1287  👈*Zelensky’s Salty because he’s an illiterate numpty who’s abit (sic) embarresed (sic) for being buthurt (sic). 🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣 Knobhead.😐
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  13638.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13639.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  13640.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Dunno. No.
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  13641.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  No it doesn’t.
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  13642.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  No.
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  13643.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  What? You seem to be under the delusion you are actually offering anything of substance for debate.
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  13644.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Projecting yet again, Georgy? 😊
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  13645.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Projecting yet again, Georgy? 😊
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  13646.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I already accepted yours 23 hours ago. 😊
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  13647.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Incidentally, George, you’ve changed. Last time I checked, you yourself were a “lefty”. P’rhaps you need to think about a rebranding sunshine.😉
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  13648.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That’s a crude attempt at lefty-style reductionism. Clear implication I’m a “lefty”. Again. Watch. Your. Words. Ol’. Sport.
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  13649.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  By attempting to associate this article with the current hot topic of Ukraine is indeed the act of a propagandist. You just directly accused me of being a propagandist. Watch your words ole sport.
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  13650.  @dominic197733  And your comment is straight out of the “I can’t cope with what I’ve just read” handbook.
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  13651.  @yo2trader539  If you read my OP you’ll see that I identify Serbs and Ukrainians as Slavic and Orthodox (mainly). I was just making the point that about 95% of Serbs look to Russia while far, far fewer than 95% of Ukrainians do. Most Ukrainians look west, not east.
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  13652.  @jmhorange  Can I politely suggest for future reference, if you’re going to specifically direct a comment at someone, at least take the time to perhaps investigate their views first.
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  13653.  @jmhorange  Wtf.
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  13654.  @jmhorange  Yes, but you directed it at me? Why? You appear to think I’m a Nato apologist.
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  13655.  @jmhorange  Why are you telling me this?
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  13656.  @tastypymp1287  👈Salty yet again because he hasn’t got the mental capacity to discern that just being born somewhere doesn’t automatically sign you up ideologically to the political systems obtaining. 🥱
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  13657. Rubbish! I only tell white lies; and we all know they don’t count.
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  13658.  @petsmart1000 Indeed. It’s all invented bollix. No evidence. All the evidence we have is that we all die. If we didn’t all die there would be no organised religion. 👍😉
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  13659.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13660.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13661.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  13662.  @borapobangpo  I told you in the OP, and believe me, it’s not total BS. This list is actually being kind to India as I looked around after posting it and in many other surveys, India actually comes out as the number 1 most dangerous country for women. Nice try, though.👍
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  13663.  @MaxwellJonny  The report I was quoting was covering attitudes/domestic violence/murder/rape in toto; not just rape on its own. Moreover, I suspect there will be a serious underreporting of rape in countries where male physical aggression towards females is normalised. India ranked as the most dangerous on three issues – the risks women face from sexual violence and harassment, from cultural and traditional practices, and from human trafficking including forced labor, sex slavery and domestic servitude.
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  13664.  @internetmail3888  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  13665.  @MochaPhilanthropist  Yes, but can we have that in basic English please, Mr Yapper? 🤔
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  13666.  @MochaPhilanthropist  Yes, but can we have that in basic English please, Mr Yapper? 🤔
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  13667.  @MochaPhilanthropist  Nice to meet you, too. You can’t. 👍
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  13668.  @MochaPhilanthropist  The prime minister of yapping. The golden Olympic winner of yapper. 🥇
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  13669. Huh? But it doesn’t. If the “whole nation” stood with Khan, there’d be no need for elections.
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  13670.  @wumbleisthebest3270  Way! Doooood!
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  13671.  @richardgallagher4880  You have no chance, Richard. Here in Scotland, the Scottish ‘Natzis’ shall not be overcome. 😉
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  13672.  @hizzlemobizzle  Bluddy Hell! Mitchell, too! Not only that; but one of her early ‘shivers’ choons, Free Man In Paris. Wow! Kudos.👍
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  13673.  @hizzlemobizzle  🤣😉 That’s better!
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  13674.  @hizzlemobizzle  Has George Carlin taught you nothing ? 😉
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  13675.  @hizzlemobizzle  Huh? 🤔 Now you’re just jibber-jabbering. Move on.
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  13676.  @hizzlemobizzle  Didn’t insult anyone. Stop being so touchy, petal.
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  13677.  @hizzlemobizzle  That’s more or less what I was saying, but thanks for the pedantry.
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  13678. Any scenario is plausible here: *ISIS-K have legitimate anti-Moscow grievances. *Russian false flag. *Ukraine. *US trying to destabilise Putin from within. It’s anyone’s guess. My instinct is that this probably was a straight-up attack by a disgruntled ISIS-K.
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  13679. It’s his wife.😉
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  13680. The ‘baby sitter’ is his wife.😉
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  13681.  @easymoney8535  Yeah, and you still have no argument.
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  13682.  @easymoney8535  You’re done with me because you have no argument.
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  13683.  @keiolge  I will politely concede this, though: you are named for one of my favourite Spanish cities. Lovely place. Would that you could live up to it.😉
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  13684.  @easymoney8535  Incidentally, just for the record as this needs stating as well: nothing in the affairs of human beings is ever black or white. Don’t you know that the human brain is the most complex thing we are aware of in the Universe? Black and white?! Get real.
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  13685.  @keiolge  I will concede this point: the direction of travel does seem to be in favour of aligning with NATO/EU. I’m just pointing out there are quite a few not looking this way. That’s all.
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  13686.  @keiolge  No. You don’t seem to get it. A majority in East Ukraine look North to Russia. You need to acknowledge this and stop arguing in bad faith. I don’t deny that a majority in Western Ukraine look West to NATO/EU, but a large part of why Putin is in Ukraine (wrongly, in my opinion) is to win back at the very least East Ukraine for his weird Russian motherland project. I actually think this might be a way to some kind of peace. National referendum on the partition of Ukraine into East/West Ukraine: 2 sovereign states. I’m rather surprised I don’t hear this talked of more as a way to go here. Of course, Putin is a dictator so there is no saying where he’ll go (Hell?), but this should be considered more, unless you want to hold East Ukrainians in a current Ukraine they don’t appear to want to belong to: that is, a Ukraine mainly looking West and not North.
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  13687.  @keiolge  ‘Ukraine is a democratic, peaceful sovereign nation’. Really? Peaceful? I don’t call 14,000 dead in a 7 year civil war ‘peaceful’, but then you may just have a different definition of ‘peaceful’.
    1
  13688.  @gmailvfone  That’s not the point if we are counting up buckets of blood, now is it?
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  13689.  rt lies  And the American Empire? What was that built on, sunshine?
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  13690.  @gmailvfone  *its *its *their
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  13691.  @tastypymp1287  Oh shut up, you triggered little idiot.🤣
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  13692. Yeah, but they’re awfully, um, samey. 😐
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  13693. You know what’s even more hilarious; I had a dream last night that tonight I would meet Scarlett Johansson and she would agree to sleep with me. No joke. 😋
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  13694. In a straight fight between Israel and Iran, the bookies would close the betting on an Israel victory. It would be like putting Tyson Fury in the ring with an amateur flyweight.
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  13695. Kellogg realises his boss can be a bit of a froot loop! 🥣
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  13696.  @alexsilent5603  Indeed. You have just proved you are a victim of your accident of birth and are unable to think for yourself, sweetheart. 👍
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  13697. *They’re Your comment is straight out of the sub-literate, barely educated in the basics handbook.
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  13698. Hope they find them alive.👍 What’s quite interesting here and my coincidence of the day is that apparently the Earth’s oceans have an average depth of 3,800m and the Titanic lies at exactly a depth of 3,800m!
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  13699. Seen this comment 10,000,000 times. 🥱
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  13700.  @massimookissed1023  Lol.
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  13701.  @Valdek65  He’s pretty close. 👩‍🦲
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  13702. Most of the fellas are munters, too, to be fair.
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  13703. 🤣
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  13704.  @paul7TM  I read you, petal, but as per you make f*ck-all sense, son. Do try harder.
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  13705.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13706.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13707.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  13708.  @tastypymp1287  Say what you want, m8. I know what I am and am happy with that. 👍
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  13709.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  13710.  @WhichDoctor1  👍
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  13711.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Projecting again, Johnny? 😉
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  13712.  @nsbd90now  I disagree. I think the Greta gang are too hectoring and alarmist and the right-wing manmade global warming deniers are just wrong. I’m fully on board with the fact of global warming, but even among the scientists there is strong debate at to just how much humankind is contributing to that warming. 10%? 25%? 50%? 75%? 100%? This is not really settled. Hence the “centrist” stance on this topic.
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  13713.  @tastypymp1287  No. I’m just correcting a thick numpty. Get it right. 👍
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  13714. The Universe itself doesn’t actually spin, TastyTwat. You really are such an unreliable, hectoring, thick, stoopid moron, aren’t you, petal? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣
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  13715.  @tastypymp1287  It shows to me, son. 😉
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  13716.  @tastypymp1287  You’re deluding yourself if you believe any mere mortal alive today has any real knowledge or expertise on the subject . Are you including yourself in this grand piece of ‘wisdom’, TastyTwat? I sincerely hope you are, sonny.😉
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  13717.  @tastypymp1287  Put away your ‘bigoted zealot’ hat, TastyTwat, and accept the fact others don’t agree with you. Move on. Cope. Seethe. Cry. 🥲🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  13718.  @tastypymp1287  Yes it is, TastyTwat.😉
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  13719.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. I’ve heard it all now. TastyTwat is actually accusing others of being a “bigoted zealot”?!?!?!?!? Pmsl. Lmfao. Lol. 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  13720.  @terryhoath1983  No more than you, Tel son.👍
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  13721. Aww, diddums. Did the “stupid strap” and “foreign presenter” upset your feelings, sweetie? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better. 😢
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  13722. Cringe. Just cringe.
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  13723.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “Cope.” 👈 Not an argument. 🤡
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  13724.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “Cope.” 👈Not an argument. 🤡
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  13725.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Love, sex, hate, intelligence, wit, humour, kindness, evil … all “not driven by revenue”. Uh huh.😊👌🤡
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  13726.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “Not an argument.” 👈Not an argument. 🤡
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  13727.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “Ah, the modus operandi of repetition rears it’s (sic) head again.” 👈Not an argument. 🤡
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  13728.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *its 🤡
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  13729.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes, you do. 🤡
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  13730.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  13731.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument. 🤡
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  13732.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yah. 🤡
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  13733.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  How so? Because they can. 🤡
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  13734.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Guilty of being an incel? Moi? I fear you have the wrong fella, 🤡. But I’ve noticed you rather often make these egregious blunders. Uh huh.😊
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  13735.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Just for the record you’ve never seen me. I’m rather good-looking. 🤡🤓👍
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  13736.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument. 🤡
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  13737.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “It wasn’t hugely successful.” 👈Lie. 🤡
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  13738. Really? Quite like hedges myself.
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  13739. “All” on the decline? Arsenal aren’t. Up the arse! Up the arse! Er, come to think of it, going up the arse may be contributing to China’s population issues.🤓 ⚽️
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  13740.  @MrJonezy541  Does it? So why have I been reading that line for decades then?
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  13741. I must’ve read that line about 10,000 times these past 20 years. So when, exactly, does ‘it’ begin?🤓
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  13742. But wind and fire, too?
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  13743.  @niblet112  Yup.
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  13744. If it’s a fully democratic process with no voting interference/corruption then people just have to suck this up. What was that quote often attributed to Churchill? “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
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  13745.  @nameofthepharoah2202  Aye, but if yer a Republican, she was a meaningless leech.
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  13746. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  13747. Missing the point, man. Choice. This is about freedom to wear (or not wear) something you have been forced to wear.
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  13748. Huh? 🤔 Wtf are you smoking? This was a bunch of rich c*nts scratching an itch. You need a major readjustment of your moral radar.
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  13749.  @JimSmith-e2g  Where did I say I would “sleep with a 14 year old boy”, Jimbo. For one thing, I’m not even gay! 🤣 Just for the record though, son: I’d warn you to watch what you are saying as you’re treading a very shaky line, chummo. You’ve just basically slandered me. Trust me, son, if I could care I would take this further, but a thick moron like you isn’t worth the trouble.😉
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  13750. ‘He’? So it’s not a post-op sex change Creator then? It’s a proper dude?
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  13751. @Napoleon1123 Seems to me the Netherlands has a system which better reflects the actual choices and concerns of the populace. Wilders’ 2023 win shows this. A huge part of many western Europeans’ concerns at present centres on out of control immigration, and particularly Islamic immigration. Wilders’ winning reflected that. Aside from the obvious (education, the economy, health), immigration (and specifically Islamic immigration) is the greatest concern of everyone I know. As someone who is generally pro legal, strictly controlled, targeted immigration, it’s a constant mystery to me why so many secular western liberal democracies allow such an influx of those with values diametrically opposed to western, secular liberal democracy. It’s a sure-fire recipe for future disaster. Unless, of course, it’s all planned… 🤔
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  13752.  @SubwayLoyal  No wonder you hate everyone: yer a feckin’ Gers supporter, ya fud!
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  13753.  @NigelDcosta-uz6jk  It was kinda a joke, man. 🤦‍♂️
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  13754.  @nizampareekutty  An “afterlife” based on what evidence? Yeah, that’s right, precisely zero evidence. 👍
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  13755.  @islamisthetruewaytogod6812  Uh huh. 🤔
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  13756. This, to me, is as bad as those primitive Taliban morons in Afghanistan enforcing the hijab/burka on women, only it’s the other way. For goodness’ sake, just let individual people individually choose what they do or do not want to wear and stop with this fascistic poppycock. After all, it’s not as if banning abayas, large crucifixes and kippahs is suddenly going to stop people being Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
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  13757. Not sure about ‘Francistan’, but I once knew a Stan Francis if that counts. Nice lad, he was.👍
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  13758.  @isobeljohnshoward  I was talking negatively about what the French secular State is doing here, but as a rule, I’d far rather live in France than the Taliban’s Afghanistan.👍👍
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  13759.  @isobeljohnshoward  Why are you so angry? Just chill a bit, dear. Ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  13760. That’s an outrageous statement! Wholly prejudiced against naturists.
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  13761. I like he looks rather sexy and I’m not even homosexual.
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  13762. You’re right about the 2nd point. Dog poo everywhere. 🐩 💩
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  13763.  @aristides2005  No. All I want is consistency: if you’re demanding the return of the Elgin Marbles, you need to demand the return of every other artefact everywhere in every museum that doesn’t come from the place/country it’s in. It’s just about being consistent. For some reason, you give the Elgin Marbles a free pass. That’s fine. What about all the other invaluable artefacts in every museum on this planet which are not in their original place? Just be consistent.👍
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  13764.  @aristides2005  Lol. If Stephen Fry says it’s right, it must be right.🤣
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  13765.  @aristides2005  Yes, you have explained. You gave the Elgin Marbles a free pass. Arbitrarily. But that’s your prerogative.👍
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  13766.  @aristides2005  Ok. At least you’re honest: the Elgin Marbles get a pass here. Ty for your honesty.👍
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  13767. @2:30 Well, to be fair to Harris, as US Vice-President, she should know a few ‘crimes against humanity’ when she sees them.
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  13768. Fact check: vast majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia.
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  13769. Well, this will put Mozambique on the Maputo.
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  13770.  @Fluffybullets2  For someone just firing fluffy bullets you’re pretty warmongerish, dude.
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  13771. Well, to be fair to Putin, he’d know a “terrorist attack” when he sees one.
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  13772.  @EBLMarch31996  That would be far easier. 🥴
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  13773.  @HoutPateta  After reports emerged that temperatures in Delhi hit a record-breaking 52.9 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is now inspecting the temperature sensor at Delhi’s Mungeshpur automatic weather station to ensure it is functioning correctly. The weather station at Delhi’s Mungeshpur reported a record 52.9 degrees Celsius on May 29, the highest ever in India. IMD Director General M Mohapatra noted that of the 20 monitoring stations in Delhi, 14 recorded a temperature drop, with the average across Delhi ranging between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius. This 52.9°C needs to be confirmed. I smell a dirty rat.
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  13774.  @MsYoutuebchen  Er, in lots of countries 41°C, 42°C in the summer is the norm and has been for decades. Your point is? 🤔
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  13775.  @KungFuWizardOfJesus  Disagree. The planet has seen this kind of warming before. The only reason we’re all getting antsy is that there are 8 billion of us to talk about it, and it seems 4 billion of those are with the Greta gang, while 3.9 billion of those are with the anti Greta gang, which the leaves the rest of us. I happen to think the planet is slightly warming; I don’t necessarily happen to think this is 100% down to human activity.
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  13776. Said by a man, no doubt. A man who can freely go for a walk in the park, can freely get an education, and freely his get his bawsack waxed when the fancy takes. Your self-satisfied, staggering smugness precedes you, Sir.👍
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  13777. Really? Last time I checked, Jesus said zero about homosexuality. 🤔 Yet you seem so confident of his apparent homophobia.
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  13778.  @TheDemonarta  👏
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  13779.  @varoonnone7159  Personally, I find all organised religion anathema. Islam generally “evil”? Well, it has loads of barbaric stuff in the texts, just like in the Old Testament. Taken together, to this agnostic, the Koran is no more “evil” than the Bible, if taken literally. Difference with much of Western Judao-Christianity is that it underwent a Reformation and was massively influenced by the European Enlightenment. Islam is still benighted, and as long as anyone is taking these texts at their literal word, then there will always be religious-based strife in this world.
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  13780.  @MovieGuy808  100% facts! 👏
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  13781.  @motivated_center  Lol. Are you actually aware of how women have to live in Afghanistan?! 🤣 Fool. 🤡
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  13782.  @69sakibkhan  Huh? Not sure what your point is.
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  13783.  @motivated_center  They don’t have time for women’s rights. You yourself even admit this! 🤡 Of course, they have all the time in the world for men’s rights and their own rights. 🤡
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  13784.  @motivated_center  Have you asked the women if they want these brutally repressive, barbaric, primitive “rules”? No. Thought not. 🤡
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  13785.  @julia2k8  Ok, groomer. 🥱
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  13786. @lifesbutastumble Uh huh. Perhaps. Actually, you’re right! One needs to realise that the vast majority one deals with on YouTube are morons. On that basis, I shall return to better things…
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  13787. Why are you apparently unaware of the full-stop?
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  13788.  @selvamthiagarajan8152  Makes sense does.
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  13789. “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” (Alfred Hitchcock)
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  13790. Mohammed? 🤓
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  13791. Well, if they want to “live with Russia”, as the planet’s largest nation, Russia has more than enough room to accommodate them!
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  13792. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day”😳
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  13793. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  13794. This is what you get when human beings are foolish enough to believe in accidents of birth and lines drawn arbitrarily by men on maps.
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  13795. sis
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  13796.  @curiositycloset2359  I notice that all your comments are always stupid and semi-literate. We no who u is. Lol.
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  13797.  @curiositycloset2359  *stopped
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  13798.  @curiositycloset2359  It’s so not a good look to be as sub-literate as our Jimbo, m8. Just sayin’! 😉👍
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  13799.  @curiositycloset2359  *one’s
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  13800.  @curiositycloset2359  Brits (and Europeans generally) have gone all over this planet since 1492, and continue to migrate all over this planet so get yer heid oot yer airse, pal! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.👍
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  13801.  @fukyutube2279  Uh huh. 🤔
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  13802.  @tastypymp1287 Correction: you’re “irrelevant to the debate at hand”. Cope better, seethe harder, cry more. 😁🤣😅😄🤣😂🤣😂😁🤣🤣😄🤣😂😁🤣😄🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😁😂🤣🥲😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😁🤣🤣
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  13803.  @tastypymp1287  Says someone who 3 times in a row couldn’t spell “a bit”. Even when they were told they were ballsing it up they still couldn’t take the hint! 🥲🥲😆😁🥲🤣😂😅😄🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😄🥲🤣🥲😂🥲😁🤣😃🥲🤣🤣🤣😂😅🤣🤣😂😅
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  13804.  @tastypymp1287  🥱
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  13805.  @tastypymp1287  And still you go on. Cry more.🤣
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  13806.  @tastypymp1287  But I’m not. I’m perfectly calm, petal, whereas you with your hectoring phlegm throughout this whole exchange have betrayed nothing but a triggered stance. You talked of “projection” earlier on? Here’s a mirror: 🪞😉
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  13807.  @tastypymp1287  For the third time: *a bit. There is no such word as “abit”. Just for the record, it’s “a lot” and not “alot” as well, as you strike me as the type to make this blunder, too. If you can’t get basic kindergarten shit like this correct, why should I trust you on anything? Huh? Now, I’m going to quote you one of my favourite quotes of all time by a fella called Robert M Pirsig; you would do well to read it, absorb it and just accept the fact I happen to disagree with you. You seem perturbed by this fact of disagreement. I’m ok that you don’t agree with me. Here’s the quote: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” To spell it out: your own radical doubt about your own thesis is prompting you to get overheated and betray an alarming “fanatical dedication” forcing you to spend your day badgering me with this thesis. I disagree with your thesis. Now just deal with this and move on.
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  13808.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. *a bit The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  13809.  @tastypymp1287  No. *a bit
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  13810.  @tastypymp1287  I said what I believe. You need to deal with this. Seek help. 😉
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  13811.  @tastypymp1287  Here’s what I believe: the last 200 years have seen a 1.5° rise in temperature. I believe this is largely as a result of human activity. Cope and seethe.
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  13812.  @tastypymp1287  Wow! Another one just got triggered!🤣
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  13813.  @markvdz3130  Unfortunately it does. And it’s been letting us know it’s “triggered” for rather a long time.
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  13814.  @andylewis7360  PewDiePie?! PewDiePie?! Pmsl. What age are you, Andy? 3?! 🤣 Another thing, Andy sweetie: someone following Rudy Guiliani calling someone else a “looney” is a bit rich, son. 😉
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  13815.  @Nefariously_ignorant  Yeah, I tend to agree, having looked at the evidence, and going with well over 90% of the scientific consensus, that humans are a (perhaps the ) major contributor to the 1.5° increase these past 150 years. I just like to hedge (pun intended) my bets sometimes, as when it comes to global warming there are so many variables involved.
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  13816.  @andylewis7360  Huh? What does that question have to do with a warming atmosphere? 🤔
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  13817. @itube027 Lol. Says someone called “itube”, owned by YouTube, owned by Google! Hypocrite! 😉
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  13818.  @CharlieTooHuman  Google is your friend, Charlie. 👌
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  13819.  @ayoolukoga9829  🥱
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  13820.  @ayoolukoga9829  Again, this stuff can be applied at almost any point since it was written. Written by men. 👍😉
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  13821. No it hasn’t. Bad luck, Al.
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  13822. Really, Jimbo? You’re sending the FA to Ukraine? Maybe they could use VAR to fact-check the whole farrago! 😉
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  13823. 🤣
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  13824. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  13825. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  13826.  @Nefariously_ignorant  Yeah, but secretly you’re just annoyed that you weren’t the ‘quotist’. Admit this and we can move on.😉
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  13827. Oh, the bitter, egregious irony of a freaknut, nationalist dictator invading another sovereign territory calling others neo-Nazis!?😳
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  13828.  @alanarmstrong6460  Er, wtf are you on about Al, petal? There has been constant change for hundreds of years. Get a history book ffs and stop bothering me with your illiterate balderdash! 👋
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  13829.  @alanarmstrong6460  Britain. No violent political revolution has occurred in Britain since the civil wars of 1642-51. The changes that have occurred have, by and large, been through evolution, not revolution. Bad luck. 😭
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  13830.  @alanarmstrong6460  Absolute rubbish. You can have balance and change. They are not mutually exclusive.
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  13831. It’s partly his looks. If he looked like Jim Bowen he’d have a much smaller fan club.
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  13832. 🤣
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  13833.  @layla1796  Agnostic, actually, love. Get it right or not at all.
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  13834.  @quillo2747  Huh? You’re making no sense at all, son. Agnostic here. Never had a religion, never needed a religion, never wanted a religion. Moreover, never committed a crime, am kind to animals at all times and help old ladies across the road. In other words, you’re spitting poppycock and piffle!
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  13835. To be fair, given it’s in Israel, it’s all but an American shooting.
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  13836.  @adrianlouw2499  It is. More or less. Keep reading that Bible, Adey baby! 👍
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  13837.  @FaceFcuk  What? And 2 wrongs make a right now? 🤡
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  13838.  @janeslater8004  So was every other place Europeans immigrated into. Cope better.
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  13839. What I always find amusing about those individuals who bore on about “indigenous” this and “indigenous” that is that they are almost without exception the last people on Earth I’d want to share my genes with!
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  13840. No. He’s a Lord Sugar impersonator.
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  13841.  @nicholawright317  And that’s why I look at other sources.😉
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  13842.  @nicholawright317  Huh? 🤔 I hear and read many contrary opinions on both sides of this debate. You need to look around for more source material.
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  13843.  @Challengerscatpack50  Literally no idea wtf you’re on about. Moreover, if English is your first language, not sure how much faith I can put in someone who is apparently unaware of the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’.
    1
  13844.  @sebastianguerre6868  The current scientific consensus is that: Earth's climate has warmed significantly since the late 1800s. Human activities (primarily greenhouse gas emissions) are the primary cause. Continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects. I’m happy to go with this. If you’re not, that’s fine. We can agree to disagree.👍
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  13845.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  I repeat: which country is the only country to date to have used nuclear weapons in anger? Yeah, yours. Moreover, they didn’t have to be used which makes what your country did all the more morally barbaric. So before you tell me I’m supporting ‘violence and terrorism’, I put it to you, that your country has been the most violent and terroristic nation on this planet, bar none. The true Rogue State, par excellence, among all the other rogue States.
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  13846.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  You keep waffling about ‘our country’ when you have precisely zero idea of where I come from. You’re arrogant, presumptuous, hypocritical, petty, tyrannical and so much more. Look in the mirror mate, before dispensing your tragic, uptight, misguided opinions to people who don’t want to hear them. 🤓😉
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  13847.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Lol. You tragic drama queen! 🤣Precisely nothing I have said supports ‘violence or perhaps even terrorism’ so put it away. You seem to have taken it upon yourself to be the dictatorial arbiter of others’ opinions, policing them like an old repressed granny behind a twitching curtain. I have an opinion you didn’t agree with and you threw your toys out the pram. Now, for the final time, trot on. 😉🤣
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  13848.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Excuse me? Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in anger again? Yeah. Now go away, m8, as you’re all over the shop here and I’ve better things to do.
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  13849.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  That’s ad hominem! How dare you, you rotter! “Ad hominem attacks are not worth respect and are not welcome.” Hypocrite! You’ve just been hoist by your own achingly sanctimonious, pompous balderdash! 🤣
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  13850.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Pmsl@“I try my best to learn from people with whom I don’t agree.”🤣 Yeah, just after you’ve reported them! 🤣
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  13851.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Another thing: who the f*ck are “our nation and our people” supposed to be, as you appear to be speaking for others when they haven’t asked you to. I repeat what I said to you before: I disagree with the sentiment of the OP but I defend to the death their right to say it.
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  13852.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Just for the record, what’s the categorical difference between saying North Korea wants to “develop hyper-sonic weapons, ones that can travel further” and, say, the UK wants to upgrade its nuclear arsenal? Yeah, there isn’t one. *will Get it right.
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  13853.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  Lol. You’re talking like North Korea has hyper-sonic missiles and the rest of us have spears! 🤣
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  13854.  @EngageYourFrontalLobe  “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” (William Blake) Think on, petal! 😉
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  13855. How primitive. You humans in thrall once again to the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth, on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings. After a million years of Homo Sapiens, in 2023 we have 2 nations, North and South Korea, who share 99.9% of their ethnic heritage genetically and culturally, and yet here we are. At loggerheads. The possible spark point for a nuclear conflagration. Can you imagine what would happen if you met us and we didn’t like you and decided to do something about it? 👽
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  13856. I can foresee Moscow getting all Bolshoi over this one.
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  13857.  @PaulOniel534  You are part of the problem; not the solution.
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  13858. *its My dear departed granny always said never trust anyone who can’t get the basics right in their native language, Jimbo. How old are you? 65? 70? You’ve got to near the end of your life and you still don’t know the difference between ‘its’ and ‘it’s’? Wtf.
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  13859.  @skontheroad  Just for the record, I’m half-Jewish. Smoke on that little doobie before you jump in next time, son. 😉
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  13860.  @skontheroad  Calm down, calm down ffs! You’ll give yourself a hernia at this rate. I don’t converse with presumptuous, hotheaded numpties accusing me of things I’m not. Good day. 🤓
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  13861.  @skontheroad  Katzrin. Golan Heights. 1993-95. Kibbutznik.
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  13862.  @skontheroad  I actually lived in Israel for 2 years. Nice try, though.👍
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  13863.  @christelpaul3851  Well, whomever is reporting it, they seem to be wrong according to Accuweather. My feeling is MSM are playing the ‘climate change’ card here, as they so often do these days.
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  13864.  @Btval  Then why didn’t the BBC make this clear? It states it was 51°C. No mention of any ‘heat index’.
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  13865.  @Gmthekiller  I’m not bothered about the ‘heat index’, here. The issue at hand is official temperatures and none of those were recorded anywhere near the 51°C quoted by the BBC.
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  13866.  @UtopiaBiker40  And? Your point is?
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  13867.  @Isclachau  Better still, just delete your posts and no one’ll know how stupid you really are! 🤣👍
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  13868.  @Isclachau But you’re not right and amount of insisting you are will make you right. You really do need better coping strategies, petal, as yer current ones are clearly shit.👍😉
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  13869.  @Isclachau Er, I think it’s you who needs to go to school. Facts don’t care about your feelings, sweetheart.👍
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  13870.  @Isclachau  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  13871.  @Isclachau  It’s facts. Seethe.
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  13872.  @bleibtreufan  Or it could just be the BBC pushing its ‘global boiling’ narrative.
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  13873. Last time I checked, Arizona was hotter than Mecca! 👍
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  13874.  @davidmurphy563  Lol.
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  13875.  @davidmurphy563  RuPaul pays me ! 😉
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  13876. We’re just talking about the local slug that died. 😢
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  13877. Rwanda?
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  13878.  @what8562  I repeat: There is a reason that, after 10 years, you still have no frickin’ subscribers!🤣😂🤣
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  13879.  @what8562  No. Tracy. I already told you. Now get in your Fast Car outta here ya triggered numpty! 🚗
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  13880.  Mia L  Not American; not narcissistic; not psychopathic. Try again. Try better.😳
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  13881. Yeah, but tbf, government corruption around the world is hardly rare. It’s the norm, alas.
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  13882. Mackenzie’s cool. His Worzel Gummidge is a treat!
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  13883.  @SerBallister  What an odd reply to a sound reply. Do you need some of Seb’s meds? 🤓💊🤡
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  13884.  @sebastianwrites  Are you gonna copy & paste this under every comment? 🥱
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  13885. Don’t want to necessarily start any conspiracy stuff but to the naked eye it looks like the copter is seeking out the plane and going for it.
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  13886.  @Bob-l4q6f  You’re the problem here, m8. Re-read the OP. It’s people like you who are contributing to the problem.👍
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  13887.  @MKR5210  Tough crowd.
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  13888.  @jimzenglish1  Good lad, Jimbo! Nice self-awareness, there. 👍Now just tell Agency_Anon to put their twisted knickers away and we’re all good. 🩲
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  13889.  @Agency_Anon  I think you’ll find Jimbo just received what the yoof call these days, ‘instant karma’. The universe doesn’t lie.
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  13890.  @disobeytoday4685  Well, they are primitive if they are indiscriminately killing their own. Not sure what definition of ‘primitive’ you live by, but I call one person killing another person, ‘primitive’. 😳
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  13891. If there was ever more proof of just how primitive we are as a species is the fact that 300,000 years after we appeared on the scene we cannot simply stop one unhinged, weird creep from quite possibly taking us into mutual nuclear annihilation. 😔
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  13892. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  13893.  @knwgt5426  😁🤠🤓🤣😂🥱👽🗑🐑🙏🏡😭🐷🍭🚨🤦‍♂️🍌🤑😉🤔👍🙏🚨… no.
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  13894.  @LegendaryName  Why can’t you people spell right? You always have shit spelling and shit grammar. You really should not be taking lessons from ole Donny when it comes to orthography, sweet pea. Just sayin’! 🤠
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  13895.  @LegendaryName  *doesn’t
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  13896.  @LegendaryName  Huh? I’m not like you, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  13897.  @LegendaryName  K.
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  13898.  @LegendaryName  Aww, diddums. Are your feelings hurt, sweetie? 😭
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  13899.  @Jakub2  Lol. No I’m not. I’m responding to people trying to get me worked up! Ain’t it funny how human beings will see what they want to see? As you were.😉
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  13900.  @Jakub2  Huh? 🤔 You appear to have the wrong fella, son. Nice try, though. 👍
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  13901.  @LegendaryName  As we speak, 50 currently disagree. Cope and seethe more. 🤣
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  13902.  @hijack2478  Wow! Aren’t you triggered? Der, der, mummy will be along to kiss it better soon.😉
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  13903.  @kevinb9830  13. Get it right or not at all you misguided moron! 🤣
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  13904.  @kevinb9830  My, my, Kev, are you a triggered sweetie. Der, der. Mummy will be along to kiss it better soon. 🤣<inane smiley!
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  13905.  @hijack2478  Pmsl.🤣
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  13906. You could be spot on there, mate! It’s been found that giant pandas living outside their normal latitude—specifically, 26 to 42° N—were more lethargic and likely to display abnormal behaviors, including pacing. Edinburgh’s latitude? 55°N! After all, these are not polar bears. Good call! 👍
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  13907. One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second. Think about it yourself. Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you?... But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. (Yann Martel)
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  13908. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is one of perspective. We have narrowed our vision such that are unable to see the universal wood for the exclusive trees. We have hitched our star to this or that family, clan, tribe, nationalism, religion, such that have become deluded, unable to serenely see what actually is. We are cosmic dust on a grain of sand, one of trillions of grains of sand, whirling around a nuclear reactor, one of trillions of nuclear reactors, and we are willing to abase ourselves to murdering one another for an accident of birth, or an imagined daddy in the sky? Has it come to this? There are alien civilisations who use this Earth as a cosmic pit stop on their intergalactic travels and they look at us and weep. They have perspective. They can literally see the Earth in toto. They cannot see the pettifogging, sanguinary squabbles over this or that imaginary line drawn on a map. They cannot see the ignorant ranters championing their imagined God, ranked against the ignorant ranters championing their imaginary God. The solution to all this nonsense is very simple. Expand your terms of self-definition. Refuse to accept a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a salient marker of your identity. Refuse to accept unthought-out shibboleths handed down to you to shore up your fear of death. Refuse to be proud, unless your pride is grounded in self-motivated, self-guided achievement, and not some random, bizarre, nonsensical ‘pride’ based on the fact your mother happened to plop you out here, and not there. None of this would matter a fig, but for a key point: we now, at this critical juncture in our cosmic journey, face the very real and present danger of incinerating this planet and everything on it. Really. We are better than that.😳
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  13909.  @JeffreyGoddin  It was a gag, Jeffey. Jeez, you yankee-doodles can be so po-faced and literal. 🤦‍♂️
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  13910.  @TheMercWithMouth  It was a joke you humourless plum! 🤦‍♂️
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  13911.  @Belisarius-nr3ty  “Allah”? I get most of my moral guidance from a fella called “Allan”. Each to their own.
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  13912.  @kareemdurrant139  K, m8. Woteva.
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  13913.  @kareemdurrant139  OK, I’ll make this even simpler for you, shall I? What business is it of yours (or anyone’s) what two consenting adults get it up to? Huh? Why are you even bothering about it? They are not bothering you directly, yet you are bothering them with your bizarre homophobic attitudes.
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  13914.  @HigherMorality  Just for the record, I’m not “Western”; nor am I an LGTB “activist”. 😉
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  13915.  @HigherMorality  Most “homophobes” in my rather extensive experience, are repressed homosexuals. If they didn’t fear they were one, they wouldn’t need to push it away from them, would they? Further proof of this is that this is mostly a man thing. Women, as a rule, don’t give a sh*t about homosexuality. Furthermore, it’s rather noticeable that many, many men who are homophobic appear to have no particular issue with female homosexuality, and indeed quite enjoy perusing a little lezza action when the wife’s back’s turned. No issues with gays there. No, the issue with a lot of men is male homosexuality. Why? They secretly fear they are one.
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  13916.  @kareemdurrant139  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  13917.  @bonnie7898  This to kareem: re. “repressed Muslims”. 👏
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  13918.  @dotmarceo  We can have it both ways: you go yours and I’ll go mine!
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  13919.  @kareemdurrant139  Me? Human here, bud.
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  13920.  @dotmarceo  That may be so, but that doesn’t negate my basic point that the vast majority of Catholic priests are homosexual and very drawn to the, let’s face it, rather homoerotic image of Jesus. All that sweat and blood and glistening skin. Yes, it’s easy to see why gay boys gravitate towards the Christian ministry. I speak from direct experience here btw: I spent a year in a Catholic seminary and 95% of us were gay boys. It’s pretty rife, man. So, yeah, you are actually worshipping a true gay icon, on a par with the likes of Judy Garland, Madonna and Freddie Mercury. 🥸
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  13921.  @dotmarceo  It’s a strong strain of thought in Christian epistemology. Consider this: why are the vast, vast majority of Catholic priests either open (but not acting: allegedly) homosexuals or non-self-acknowledged homosexuals hiding in plain sight. It’s no coincidence so many gay men are drawn to the figure of Jesus. Worth pondering, methinks. 😉
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  13922.  @user-zi3ee8oj1i  🥸😉
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  13923.  @beautifulempatheticliberal5204  Want scissors? Don’t be silly. I’m bald, you freak! 🤣
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  13924.  @beautifulempatheticliberal5204  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  13925. @ Yeah, I’d probably agree with that Derren Brown quote. However, I still stand by 2 essential points: 1) vast majority of Muslims I know would condemn this dude. 2) However, I’m wary of mass importation of a religion/culture(s) often wholly at odds with a free, liberal, open democracy. 2 pertinent examples I find rather distasteful are, for example, Islam’s attitude to women and their stance on homosexuality. One final thing: any philosophy that doesn’t dig dogs was always going to have a problem with me.👍
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  13926. Cringe.
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  13927. 🏴 = Islamic Caliphate?
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  13928. Don’t bring U2 into this ffs.
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  13929.  @bigbasil1908  It was figurative you literalist wally!
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  13930. Choppers do indeed go down all the time, but it’s nothing a little viagra won’t remedy.🤓
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  13931.  @thehandleisuseless  If your chopper comes down too often, pop to the chemists for some viagra and you will be up again in no time at all! 🤓 🚁
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  13932.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Indeed. Homosexuality, too.😊
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  13933. No it’s not. There is widespread homosexuality in the animal kingdom: i.e. nature. 👍😉
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  13934. A bit unfair on David.
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  13935.  @robertraimona1686  NATO has no real intention of actually aggressively invading Russia. If you think otherwise, fine. I’m far more afraid of a Putin-led Russia, than I am of NATO, for all the latter’s faults.
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  13936.  @serjbondarev4959  👍
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  13937.  @serjbondarev4959  What business is it of Putin’s if Ukraine wants to join NATO? I suppose you are happy to justify Putin’s actions then, are you?
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  13938.  @rosadacaro  Putin overestimated greatly the amount of support he would have in Ukraine. Bizarrely, he appeared to think most Ukrainians would just capitulate without a fight. For me, this clearly shows that a possible majority in Ukraine want nothing to do with Russia, notwithstanding the pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east of the country.
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  13939.  @rosadacaro  Oh, I fully uphold the right of Ukrainians to defend themselves. What I find a bit of a mystery, given the eight-year Civil War is why there isn’t a free and fair referendum taken on partition.
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  13940.  @janschkeuditz6065  Yes, but leaving aside the crook ask yourself what do the Ukrainians want? I’m guessing the majority are not looking to Russia.
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  13941.  @serjbondarev4959  Agreed. Yet not one jot of that justifies Putin’s moves.
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  13942.  @helenhollywood915  You came at me you hypocrite!
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  13943.  @helenhollywood915  I’ve been here all along. Where have you been?
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  13944.  @Doomguy-777  White supremacy: the belief that white people constitute a superior race. OP clearly thinks this. Cope.👍
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  13945. As Czech, we don’t want grain that doesn’t comply with EU regulations on pesticides and chemicals used. It is meant for Africa. Not sure I will read a more white supremacist statement today.
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  13946.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. “Cry more”?! Really? Really? What was that preachy, pretentious bollix you were claptrapping the other day about an “an unsophisticated range of responses”? Seems like an open and shut case of a hypocritical, double-standards, rules for thee but not for me , oaf! 👌 😉
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  13947. Yes, but can we have that in English, please?
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  13948.  @morleymobproductionz  Putin doesn’t trigger me at all. Want another go, schweetie?
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  13949. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  13950. Don’t talk about Macron like that.
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  13951. Fuck me, Roy. Here was me thinking, after our tete-a-tete the other day, that you were one of these ‘indigenous’ fools. Well said, son. You’re spot in with this one.
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  13952.  @tmmartinesq.6216  Interesting specs. From an ‘angular’ point of view. 👓
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  13953.  @DaleHartley  My basic point was to point out that this idea of being ‘indigenous’ as stuff and nonsense. I’m fully aware that there were people in places before what we term ‘aborigines’ today. So my argument actually wasn’t flawed. Talking of arguments, you really need to be more concise, stop making irrelevant points, cut out the rambling waffle and stop believing in irrational, arbitrary, random accidents of birth as a key marker of your identity, for that really is asinine, dipshit.
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  13954. Is that Ye’s new child?
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  13955. But are you? We could all be figments of some demon’s imagination in a kind of cosmic game. 👍😉
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  13956. Nah, Dallesandro’s best movie was ‘Heat’.
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  13957.  @dennisjones203 ’God bless’? Get with the gig, Dennis. You first have to establish the existence of that ‘God’ before you start bandying his/her/its name with gay Welsh abandon! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  13958.  @mwd331  Yes, mwd. Stop projecting your feelings of discontent onto strangers, schweetie. 👍😉
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  13959.  @steveparker8065  You’re living in cloud-cuckoo land if you consider Biden a corruption-free zone.😉
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  13960.  @gary637  My ‘point’, Gaz? What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all. 👈 That’s my ‘point’, son.
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  13961.  @alexwatson5507  Any temperature graph you care to mention. From about 1940 onwards the rise has been rather dramatic.
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  13962. @@dddayesq5061 I don’t drive.
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  13963.  @curiositycloset2359  I didn’t say that. You have the wrong fella, mate.
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  13964.  @curiositycloset2359  Lol. You yourself just said: … given we don’t have data to go off … So why are you quoting data? According to you we don’t have it!🤣
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  13965.  @lemdixon01  I disagree. 👍
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  13966.  @lemdixon01  Indeed. Global warming may be good for everything else except humans.
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  13967.  @curiositycloset2359  Dunno. Irrelevant. See my OP.
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  13968.  @lemdixon01  From an incredibly selfish point of view, global warming only matters because of humans. Yes, other species will be affected, but it’s because we are on this planet it ultimately matters. If you don’t really care about humans carrying on, global warming may actually be a good thing! As George Carlin wisely put it: We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. Personally, I happen to think it’s worth dealing with, particularly if we are the principal cause, notwithstanding that there are more stars/planets in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
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  13969. Putin reminds me of the human equivalent of a Cold War landmine that wasn’t made safe and cleared back in 1989. He’s been left to lie there in plain sight because we were too lazy/negligent to defuse him.😳
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  13970. You’re confused aren’t you, Johnny? If ‘she’s’ a man, you’re gay! 🤣👍
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  13971.  @AlexCookaacook  It’s ‘safe’, mate. Until Chernobyl. Until Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Until Three-Mile Island. Until Fukushima. Until it falls into nefarious hands to be made into bombs. I’d sleep better at night knowing there’s no nuclear, quite frankly.
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  13972.  @GothAtheist  I agree. Renewables are the way to go long-term. But in short to medium-term we need all the old alternatives as we make that transition.
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  13973. What a charming personage you are.
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  13974. Aye. And then the rest of the world uses “non-tactical” nuclear weapons on Moscow and St Petersburg and we’re equal! Ta da! 🎉
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  13975.  @TheAArmstrong  Your apology is accepted. 👍
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  13976.  @TheAArmstrong  Yeah, but you came in all cockier-than-thou and patronised me, m8. Moreover, you made assumptions that weren’t true. I don’t appreciate that stuff. Do your homework if you’re going to challenge me and don’t just blunder in like a blind buffoon. I stand by everything I have said in this thread, despite your weak attempts to paint me as something I’m not. 👍
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  13977. Is it cuz he was black, chump?🤓
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  13978.  @wwzzyyy  Oh, I think you’ll find it is in this case. Just sayin’.😉
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  13979. Hard cheese.
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  13980. Wonder if the drag haters would ban kids from watching pantomime dames?🤔 I’ve utterly no issue with drags around my children. RuPaul’s Drag Race is watched by dozens of under-16s in my orbit. They love it!
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  13981.  @idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533  You’re all over the place, mate. You talk of “white indigenous British” but this is meaningless. Since at least about the time the Romans invaded the British have been a mongrel breed; Romans; Normans; Vikings; Saxons; Celts etc. I was born in Scotland to an English-born father and a French-born mother. My grandfather was German and I have 7% Spanish blood according to a recent DNA test I did. If you are trying to protect some ethnic purity you lost that battle at least 2,000 years ago. But my wider question is why are you so hung-up on the “white indigenous British” thing anyway? Do you not think that Brits that go to live abroad don’t maintain elements of their “Britishness”, however you want to define that? If you’re going to call for all non-white, non-British born people to leave Britain (which you appear to be hinting at with your ethno-racist intolerance) you have to be consistent and demand that all British (and Europeans for that matter) leave North/South America, Australia and New Zealand and anywhere else they are currently settled around the world. I’ve lived in 6 countries in 3 different continents and all that was asked of me in those 6 places was 3 things: 1. Learn the language. 2. Don’t break the law. 3. Pay your taxes. This is all I ask of anyone who wants to come and settle here, for quite frankly, what more need we ask of anyone?
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  13982.  @idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533  Huh? What’s skin got to do with anything? Are you honestly telling me you judge other human beings over something they have no control over? Surely not, for that would be deeply, deeply moronic and primitive.
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  13983. 🤣
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  13984.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  But Jimbo, just the other week you were fully supporting black Ugandans. You can’t have yer egg and chips and eat them, son! 😉
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  13985.  @tomsaunders9944  PewDiePie?! Really? What are you? 3?! 🤣
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  13986.  @tomsaunders9944  Up to 71 now, chum. 😉
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  13987.  @GarryCarr56  K, ‘wickedwillie’! 🤣 Goes well with my huge anus!😂
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  13988.  @tomsaunders9944  Ask the 17 folk above, Tommy son.😉
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  13989. Bet Trump is hoping this is just a Stormy in a DD cup. ☕️
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  13990.  @joshwondra9821  Semantics, mate. Semantics.
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  13991.  @joshwondra9821  To a great extent, yes. The USA has had the most puppet governments looking after its geopolitical interests than any government in history. There is quite literally virtually no country it has not meddled with over the years, whether by direct invasion or by overthrowing democratically-elected governments from within (eg. Ukraine 2014), and ruling by proxy.
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  13992.  @kylenetherwood8734  Because Finns are not his Slavic ‘brothers’. Blood is thicker than water. Cain and Abel etc.
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  13993.  @guakip567  2004.
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  13994.  @abseiduk  Yup.
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  13995. And Putin would be banging on your front door the following morning.
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  13996. Aww, diddums, did the fella in a frock hurt your feelings? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better.🤣
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  13997.  @nsubuganaziru361  All I can say to that is this: thank F*CK I don’t live in your society. You’re welcome to it. Goodnight.👍
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  13998. Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo. We all know you like a big fat sausage up your jacksy so enough! 🤣
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  13999. 👏
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  14000. John D’oh! 🤣
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  14001. Lol.
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  14002.  @o.a4967  Lol. You appear to be labouring under the weird delusion that sexuality is actually a choice ! 🤣 You can’t ‘catch’ homosexuality, y’know. You either are or aren’t.🤓
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  14003.  @statisticshomework  Lol. You tragic drama queen! 🤣
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  14004. What a right Charlie! 🤣
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  14005. *what’s *can’t
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  14006.  @gaenaegga  Lol. Someone called “MrPokemonbey” is calling someone else “gaeee”?! 🤣
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  14007.  @CaribbyanDoll-xoxo  Poor brainwashed, deluded fool. And if God is a homophobe, I don’t wanna believe in it, as it’s primitive and nonsensical to hate on 2 consenting adults having fun.😉
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  14008.  KiselinaSRB  Not talking about religion here; just talking about my basic confusion as why people like you get your panties in a twist over something that is absolutely none of your business.
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  14009.  @DanielIsraelite  Genuinely not. Perplexed why people like you get your panties in a twist over gays.
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  14010.  @chthoniccannon5495  Lol. 🤣
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  14011.  @kevinkaragu1758  Serious question: what’s your issue with homosexuality?
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  14012.  @JackWhitby  ‘I don’t think one can choose their sexuality’ - so why are you vilifying and persecuting a whole category of people for something which isn’t their choice ? Your behaviour is deeply, deeply primitive. It’s like persecuting someone for having blue eyes or being over 6ft tall. You need to look at yourself, mate, as your attitude is a disgrace to yourself and your intrinsic humanity.
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  14013.  @JackWhitby  You appear to be labouring under the delusion we choose our sexuality. Get with the gig, man.
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  14014. The truth is that the main problem is you.
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  14015.  @dritemolawzbks8574  But still my basic point obtains: what right does anybody, I repeat, anybody have to interfere with what 2 consenting adults get up to? Answer: none.
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  14016. All very well, but can we cut to the chase here? So, let me get this straight (pun intended): some people get to order other people who they can and can’t have sex with, but the other people can’t order some people who they can and can’t have sex with? Lol. At best that’s just rude; at worst, it’s deeply fascist! 🤣 Whether that is happening in Uganda or anywhere it’s just indefensible.
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  14017. You win the Internet for today. 👏 🥇
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  14018.  @zacharygreen5584  👏
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  14019.  @luckysalys757  👏
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  14020.  @munmilks  👏
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  14021.  @justiniani9364  👏
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  14022.  @Eric-nu3wh  👏
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  14023.  @imisstoronto3121  👏
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  14024.  @MrFancyFingers  👏
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  14025.  @shardlake  👏
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  14026.  @Andrew-ob5ij  👏
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  14027.  @NigelThornberry-fs5rl  Lol. You’re another deluded fool who assumes so much yet knows so little. As I said to Tommy: how can I ‘hate’ something I’m not aware of?🤣 Logically impossible.😉 And another thing, Nigey, why is always you God-botherers who are the first to hate on homosexuals? Huh? Thought you lot were supposed to be filled with love and charity towards your fellow man. Huh? Shall I tell you why you hate on homosexuals? Ok thanks. You hate on homosexuals because you can and you use a ‘good book’ to justify your hate. Otherwise, you’d have utterly no reason to hate on 2 people who happen to fall in love. Now go away, you primitive little pond life.
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  14028.  @NigelThornberry-fs5rl  It’s called being brought up in a Catholic tradition, Nigey. 😉
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  14029.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Pmsl. How can I ‘hate’ something I’m not aware of?!🤣 Did you go to school, mate?
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  14030.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Jeez, man. You appear unhinged. Seek help.
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  14031.  @thomasmcintosh2977  You sound deeply troubled, Tommy. I mean that. I thought belief in God was supposed to bring the ‘peace that passeth all understanding’? Clearly not in your case, sunshine. 🤓
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  14032.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Ah, that lovely good Christian love just pours out of you, Tommy. 👌
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  14033.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Lol. You need to actually show me there is God before I get the chance to reject it, dummy!🤣
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  14034.  @thomasmcintosh2977  🥱
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  14035.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Typically, it’s the believer in the sky daddy dictating the terms and conditions for the rest of us. If God didn’t want gays why did he create them?🤓
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  14036.  @thomasmcintosh2977  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  14037.  @thomasmcintosh2977  Oh go away, ya basic tart. Yer a bore, son. Dae yin, ya fud.
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  14038. My, my. You’re clearly on a little rant about the ‘sexualisation of children’ the night, Tommy son. You got a durteeee little secret you wanna spill?🤣
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  14039. I don’t.
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  14040.  @JM-bx2vg  *a lot
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  14041.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  In my experience, ‘God’ is very useful to justify a whole lotta prejudiced things. 😉 Nice chatting.👍
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  14042.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Incidentally, the original debate wasn’t about ‘safeguarding children’; my OP specifically spoke of ‘homophobia’. 😉
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  14043.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Yeah, but you were going on about someone in skimpy clothing on a stage in front of kids. Doesn’t every young female pop star do this? Look. I’ll be straight (pun intended) with you: 1. No issue with homosexuality. 2. No issue with women in ‘men’s’ clothes and vice-versa. 3. No issue with drags in front of children (eg reading a story). If they are preaching a political agenda about 72 genders or whatever or are swinging from ropes in stripper heels (as in some UK schools recently) I’m against that. 4. No particular issue with ‘scantily-clad’ pop singers in front of my pre-teen kids as long as they aren’t performing overtly sexual stuff. 5. The lgbtq 🏳️‍🌈 movement is fine by me. Those who moan about them don’t have to listen to them. 6. End.
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  14044.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  K. 👍
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  14045.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Sorry, but I just cannot get heated by a woman in ‘men’s’ clothes or a man in ‘women’s’ clothes. By that logic, we’ll be banning panto dames next! 🤣
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  14046.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Agreed with everything you said there, aside from the last line.👌
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  14047. @Lisa Chambers Don’t have an issue with a fella in a frock, either, Lise. Seethe more.
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  14048.  @D1D2_  I’m not a fan of the woke stuff, either, but imo, this is just being used to demonise homosexuality in toto.
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  14049.  @thomasmcintosh2977  🥱
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  14050.  @techhawk1543  Excuse me? But who are you to tell me who I can and cannot gave sex with? Huh? You have utterly no right to interfere with what 2 consenting adults get up to. None. Now go away, you prissy little weirdo.
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  14051. 👏
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  14052.  @statisticshomework  Lol. ‘Evil’?! Being gay? Pmsl. If being gay is ‘evil’ then getting others to write your homework assignments for you cos you’re a bit of a thicko is also ‘evil’.🤣
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  14053. We aliens eat those who eat LGBTQ people, but we spit you out as we never swallow. 👽🤢
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  14054.  @jonnsonsam  I did understand it. This is a well-known speech tic, and you fell into it. I’d put my mortgage on the fact that you secretly are not a fan of homosexuality. Again, no charge. As you were.
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  14055. ‘Being gay is fine but …’ In other words, you’ve just fallen into the ‘but’ trap, negated your statement and told us you secretly are not a fan of being gay. No charge.
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  14056. Speak for yourself.😉
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  14057.  @mikedim4368  Er, but it did have something to do with what you said, you blabbering oaf. You were talking some crap and nonsense about ‘degenerates in dresses’. You need better self-close-reading skills, sonny. 😉
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  14058.  @mikedim4368  Aww, diddums, did the fella in a frock hurt your feelings? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better.🤣
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  14059. 👏
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  14060. It’s not only saddening, it’s f*cking alarming. The level of genuine hate is disturbing.
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  14061.  @jessicawinslet684  Depends how you’re defining ‘better lives’, I suppose.
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  14062.  @LastForeverMedia Honest question: can you please tell me what the issue is that you have with homosexuality? I’m genuinely curious …
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  14063.  @jamiehill2847  Imagine being Jamie Hill. 🤮
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  14064.  @gaenaegga  Yes, you are.
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  14065. Why not go live there then? Words are cheap, Nige.😉
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  14066. Pmsl.🤣
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  14067.  @JM-bx2vg  Pmsl. 10?!!? You are a late starter! Me and my mates knew that we either fancied boys or girls when we were about 5!🤣 What world are you living in? Sexuality isn’t a choice. You sound paranoid. I totally disagree with sexualised trans shows as recently seen in some UK schools, but I have absolutely no problem with people’s sexual preferences as long as they are between consenting adults. You are blowing this perceived ‘agenda’ out of all proportion. I have 3 (now grown up) children: 2 straight; 1 gay. All through their childhoods they experimented in terms of identity. So one of my boys was feminine. One of the girls was a tomboy. They discovered who they were in time. Yes, we shouldn’t be forcing ideas at such a young age, I agree, but in my opinion this overheated, depressing open homophobia in these Comments is just alarming and perplexing. Being gay isn’t a disease. You can’t catch it: you just are or aren’t, and if you are, who cares?
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  14068.  @deepblue2  Could be. Before today, I knew there were irrational homophobes out there, just never realised how many. How depressing. What on Earth are they scared of? I genuinely don’t get what this thing is that people have with gays. It can only be education and religion, I suppose.
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  14069. Why? 🤔
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  14070.  @cayde9859  Huh? That’s such a shit answer. What is it about ‘being gay’ that offends you ?
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  14071.  @yawarsaab  Er, wot? 🤔
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  14072.  koevirel8350  That’s fine. I’m not stopping you from believing in invisible sky daddies and placing so much stake in your “99% DNA”. 🤦‍♂️
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  14073.  @darthzackariusnickthenamethede  Np.
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  14074.  @darthzackariusnickthenamethede  I do. Ty for acknowledging that.👍
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  14075.  @tomchristianson858  Indeed we are. 🐒
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  14076.  @jimcourt9164  Aye. But it’ll not be to your phizzog ya miserable fanny!
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  14077.  @jimcourt9164  Ah, feck aff ya feckin bore.
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  14078.  @jimcourt9164  Who cares, m8? Stop being so triggered ya feckin’ numpty, ya!
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  14079. Apt name, Jimbo. For a tennis story. You were destined to be here with your homophobic pish, son. 🤓
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  14080.  @shanty6953  🌝
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  14081.  @crg-nh1we  Cheers! 👍
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  14082. Will it be sold by David Diplodockinson? 🦖
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  14083. Ur mom.
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  14084.  @goopguy548  Speech and mental faculties, mainly. But, tbh, he’s also looking mighty frail physically these days, too.
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  14085.  @isaacthegoat1432  Uh huh. And what makes you think I’m an atheist? You need a better researcher as your current one is shit. 👍
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  14086.  @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah  🙏
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  14087.  @Nxck2440 Tbf, the Christian invisible sky daddy was a ‘psychopath’ for thousands of years. It’s (mercifully) been defanged by Reformation and the Enlightenment and all that jazz. Islam is still a benighted thing, as those who believe it, believe it, much like the Christians did way back when. It’s not tea and scones with the vicar, with a jihadist. It’s “I’m right, you’re wrong and if you don’t convert, you die.” The Christians did this for centuries. They just grew out of it. It’s all deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking human beings.
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  14088.  @BondJFK  Huh? And your point is …? 🤔
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  14089.  @hambonejamboree7750  Selective quoting. Anyone can do that, m8. The government actually uses them currently as ploygraph examinations have been successfully used in the management of people convicted of sexual offences since 2014 in the Probation Service. So, I repeat, it’s quite commonly accepted that they are about 80-90% accurate but, of course, not infallible. 👍😊
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  14090.  @hambonejamboree7750  Disagree. It’s commonly accepted they are 80-90% accurate. 👍
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  14091. Although I wouldn’t want it admissible in a court, I’ve never quite understood why all cases like this don’t include a lie detector test. Given that Letby was convicted on circumstantial evidence and not direct evidence, I often think lie detector tests could clarify things a little, notwithstanding that polygraphs are accurate between 80% and 90% of the time.
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  14092.  @idrisali3947  Nah, m8. Let them stew in prison. Moreover, too risky in terms of executing the innocent.
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  14093. Yeah, because it’s an effective deterrent in the US.👍
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  14094. You can’t even spell ‘kareoke’ (sic) right, Alasdair, so I’d pipe down if I were you, son.
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  14095.  @elbibwen3019  All borders all over this planet have been fluid since time immemorial. Mere lines drawn on maps arbitrarily by men. That’s why Einstein said, “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” Indeed. He might have added organised religion to the roster of “infantile diseases”.
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  14096.  @eurohannah  Lol.
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  14097. Yeah, but get real, mate. We don’t all speak the same language.
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  14098. @emperorkalle301Too much rapid mass immigration, though. This is clear. It feels like a plan. I’m not anti-immigration, but I am anti importing 1%+ of the population that the UK (my country of birth) has been doing for the past few years. Too much. Too much stress on services. Too much stress on the ability to integrate all these people. Too much. People have had enough of this. This is why populist political Parties are du jour right now.
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  14099.  @zoeybella234 No idea, dude. All I know is this: most European people have no problem with strictly controlled, targeted immigration. The issue is Islam. Europeans are fearful at the rate at which Islam is being imported. Both legally and illegally. I say that as an agnostic. Critical masses will be reached in European countries this century when the given Muslim cohort will be angling for law changes geared to Islam. This is inevitable.
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  14100.  @HEOT652  If that’s the case, the OP proves your point! 🤦‍♂️ They’re not ‘insinuating’ anything; they’re telling you that mass rapid immigration of people with cultures/values wholly different from the host society is a recipe for future disaster.
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  14101.  @Ass_of_Amalek  I think you must have been dumped by a more talented than you artist girlfriend or boyfriend, as you appear unhinged on this topic. Get over it, man. Move on. It’s boring.
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  14102.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Called out cuz yer a pretentious wank yerself, son.
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  14103.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Incidentally, you talk of disdaining “pretentiousness”, yet having wasted 3 minutes of my existence today reading a couple of your interminable, waffly, piffly, flowery, pretentious bollocks, it seems you have a deep lack of self-awareness. Take a look in the mirror.
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  14104.  @yaaghobrahmani4928  Nurse will soon be with you with your medication. 👩‍⚕️ 💊
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  14105.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Nah, m8. It’s just your superior attitude that stinks. The guy that just owned you was right. You appear to be a complete self-appointed know-it-all, seemingly sure you are correct about everything, when you are actually talking bollocks much of the time.
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  14106. You’re 3 years 2 l8, m8.👍
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  14107.  @PhilipBaker-sf4yv  There is no Hell, Pip. You’ve been hypnotised by yer teachers again, son. All invented by men to control men and women. If there is a God, he/she/it is not going to waste he/she/its time inventing an eternal Hell for the poxy human beings he/she/it invented. 👍😉
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  14108.  @PhilipBaker-sf4yv  I just do , Pip. Simmer down, son. 🔥
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  14109.  @theotherside8258  Lol.
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  14110.  @julianshepherd2038  You appear to have had an irony bypass, Julian. Woosh! 🌬
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  14111. *Murcia It’s in Spain FYI.
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  14112.  @envisibleward2422  Yeah, it’s all just an ‘Asian cultural issue’ in a land with less than five percent of the world's population, having nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and making up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings. All just an ‘Asian cultural issue’.
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  14113.  @lbs7774  Er, that was my original point. 🥴
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  14114.  @behoover  Stop creating irrelevant scenarios. This is quite simple: aside from the woman and the father, this is no one else’s business and it constantly amazes me how people seem to think it is. But then it’s usually those freaks who believe in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies who cause all the trouble here. 🤦‍♂️
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  14115.  @behoover  And? How does that allow you to get involved? It’s in her body. What she does with her body, when it doesn’t directly affect you, is none of your business, so butt-out.
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  14116.  @wtfdidijustwatch1017  For a THIRD time (and please make an attempt to understand this this time, instead of just banging on like a monomaniacal nutter🤦‍♂️) Uh huh. So she chats with the father of the foetus. How does that make it your business? 🤔
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  14117.  @wtfdidijustwatch1017  Just for the record, even although the father of the foetus should be consulted, obviously, the final decision in this case must always rest with the person in whose body that foetus is.
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  14118.  @wtfdidijustwatch1017  Huh? I get that. You don’t seem to be understanding my very basic point, so here it is again: Uh huh. So she chats with the father of the foetus. How does that make it your business? 🤔
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  14119.  @wtfdidijustwatch1017  Uh huh. So she chats with the father of the foetus. How does that make it your business? 🤔
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  14120. Which ‘race’?! Lol. So Islam is a race now, is it? 🤦‍♂️
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  14121.  @ionutbalta6607  I’m not denying the assault is wrong. What I am saying is that at 16, I and most everyone I knew, were doing some crazy stuff, little different to this scenario. Yes, if there is no consent, that is an issue; but stop with the mock outrage when teenagers are just being teenagers.
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  14122. Straight outta Shaky!
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  14123.  @DolletteDarling  My bum is not in question.
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  14124.  @DolletteDarling  Jeez. Stop with the pious baloney.
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  14125.  @DolletteDarling  P.S. Pmsl@‘much more smarter’ (sic) 😆
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  14126.  @DolletteDarling  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  14127.  @DolletteDarling  You’ve no idea how old I am. 🤷‍♂️ As to being called ‘grandma’, well, you may not have the age of a grandma, but you sure do have the killjoy, thou shalt not attitude of one!😉
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  14128.  @DolletteDarling  K, grandma.
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  14129. Oh Dear God, no! Anything but the sight of Justin Rowlett’s hairy toes! 🦶
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  14130.  @Moth94  All the things you mention can be acquired without going through ‘big business’. No, you are not getting it. Why have you got a capitalist-produced phone? I’m aware of many people who don’t have phones. Stop preaching. It’s sanctimonious and, what’s worse, in your case it’s utterly hypocritical.
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  14131.  @Moth94  I bet you typed this on a phone produced by big business and capitalism. If you did, why haven’t you thrown this phone away long before now? Stop preaching what you yourself aren’t prepared to live. It won’t wash.
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  14132.  @tastypymp1287  33, Tasty. He he. Cope. Seethe. Cry. 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
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  14133.  @tastypymp1287  Still 32, chump. What you got? Not even “abit” of that. 🤣😂😅😅😂😅😃😂😂😃😃😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  14134.  @tastypymp1287  32, chump. 😉🤪
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  14135.  @tastypymp1287  30, son. Cope. Seethe. Cry.
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  14136.  @tastypymp1287  29, son.😉
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  14137. @dem08 Perhaps. However, Harry can do wtf he wants imo, as I don’t give a flying f*ck about any of it!
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  14138.  @tastypymp1287  8 disagree, currently, Tasty. Cope and seethe.
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  14139. It is rather notable that those who take the decisions as to where migrants are put up, never seem to do it in their backyard. 🤔
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  14140. While I can’t abide right-wing nutjobs, as a rule, they do have a point here and because the government appears to have utterly no control over illegal immigration at this point, demonstrations like this are as inevitable as night following day. This is rather simple. Immigration, done right, works. Britain simply needs to get control of its front door. We should assess what kind of skills we need to import and these people should be the first pick. Genuine asylum seekers should also be justly heard. The trouble at the moment is that Britain has left its front door unlocked while it popped to the shops for a pint of milk, and some unwanted squatters have moved in, and continue to move in.
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  14141. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  14142. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  14143. Pmsl.
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  14144.  @julia2k8  Lol. The outrageous, double standards hypocrisy of Julia calling out someone else for their lack of ‘sympathy’! 👍🤣 Just for the record, I’m not an ‘atheist’ nor a ‘nihilist’. Methinks you need a better researcher as yer current one is sh*t! 💩
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  14145.  @ijumpjudyy  🥱
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  14146.  @julia2k8  Groomer.
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  14147.  @julia2k8  Groomer.
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  14148.  @psalmhawkins1202  Yeeeeahhhhhh, dooood.
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  14149.  @ldsnurse9268  And you clearly can’t cope with an opinion you disagree with. 😭
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  14150.  @dannyquinn9128 Of course people feel a need to take a side. People are tribal. You can rise above this and see the nonsense on both sides. As can most people I know. 👍
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  14151.  @curiositycloset2359  You’ve swallowed too much anti-western propaganda chum.
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  14152.  @curiositycloset2359  He’s hardly a ‘great man’. He’s just a petty little tyrant as far as I can see. You never answered my question earlier btw: would you personally rather live in Putin’s Russia or the UK?
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  14153.  @curiositycloset2359  I meant ‘mad’ figuratively. Apparently Putin wants 5 key demands and if he gets them I reckon he’ll stop. 1. Putin: “I want Ukraine neutralised and committed to not seeking NATO membership.” 2. Putin: “I want Ukraine disarmed to ensure no threat to Russia.” 3. Putin: “I want protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.” 4. Putin: “I want the de-Nazification of Ukraine.” 5. Putin: “I want Crimea formally identified as Russian along with other parts of east Ukraine including the Donbas.”
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  14154.  @curiositycloset2359  Question: Ukraine or Russia?
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  14155.  @curiositycloset2359  Is he? Ok.
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  14156.  @curiositycloset2359  I don’t understand what your main point is. Just state it in a single sentence.
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  14157.  @curiositycloset2359  So you’re telling me Putin was right to invade a sovereign, self-governing territory, are you?
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  14158.  @curiositycloset2359  Don’t patronise me mate. I know more about this than you, probably, so don’t patronise me.
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  14159.  @curiositycloset2359  What right did Putin have to illegally invade another’s country?
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  14160.  @lorrainetaylor5894  Steady Lorraine.😳
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  14161.  @s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js  But I didn’t and you know that you have no leg to stand on.
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  14162.  JL  You tell me?
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  14163.  @curiositycloset2359  They can’t what?
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  14164.  JL  Yes. But part of a sovereign Ukraine.
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  14165.  @kateryna5284  Can you tell me something, please? Before 2014 and Russia’s invasion, was east Ukraine and west Ukraine mainly peaceful? Did most pro-Russian easterners get on with their western Ukrainian counterparts? I can’t quite understand why, if countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Spain etc. can exist peacefully with multiple languages, why can’t the ethnic Russians get on with the non-Russian Ukrainians? Especially if they are all speaking Ukrainian.
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  14166.  @s0vhjfe4SA08adc9js  Just for the record, son, blithely slinging around the word ‘nerd’ is not wise in your position. You do have access to a mirror I take it?
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  14167.  @user-zq5mr3jb7c  Tell us something new.
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  14168.  @silviashefa4097  😉
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  14169.  @no_se_nada_de_nada  And yet you are here, telling us that, using the Internet! Ta da! 🎉
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  14170.  @RoyalFlush1998  Rather than the age of the perpetrators, why is there rarely any focus on the fact that 99.99999% of mass shooters are male?
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  14171.  @rymacreeks2k07  Red herring. Knife crime is higher in the States. Nice try, though.👍
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  14172.  @MattyEngland  🥱
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  14173. The moronic comments in here saying “God saved you” are the best black humour I’ve read all year. What about the dozens of dead ‘God’ didn’t save? 🤦‍♂️ More proof, if proof were needed, that organised religious believers really can’t think. Give them a book with all the ‘answers’ and they switch their brain off for the rest of their lives.
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  14174.  @Sundae_Times  🤓
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  14175. @0:20 Francis apparently warned of the ‘dangers of nationalism’; I agree, it’s all an accident of birth so all nationalism is deeply primitive, the ‘measles’ of humanity as Einstein had it. But the hypocrisy of Francis stinks. What about the dangers of ‘religionism’? These, along with those of nationalism, have caused the vast majority of humanity’s problems over the centuries. Moreover, religion is a choice. You choose to become a Christian, ultimately. People are just this or that nationalist by a random accident of birth. Francis has no excuses. Believing in invisible tribal sky daddies should have been something humanity had got beyond hundreds of years ago, but here we are, alas.
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  14176. If you want the primest example of herd mentality largely based on an accident of birth no one has any say in, look no further than organised religion. 🐑
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  14177. It’s just a few more than the number of immigrants Britain imports every year! 👍
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  14178. She’s also got the squintiest wee, lopsided mouth I think I’ve ever seen. Short of a stroke patient.
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  14179.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Orwell got much right. Not sure he predicted this ‘war’ specifically, but the longer it goes on, the more suspicious I become. As I said, NATO could take out Russia in a week. Of course, nukes complicate things, but it still feels not quite right.
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  14180.  @PenguinFace32  Perhaps a Snickers instead?🤔
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  14181.  @thirly  More a ‘bruh’ man myself.😉
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  14182.  @thirly  ‘Bro’ certainly did, bro.
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  14183.  @thirly  You guys who are Minecrafty always make me laugh; and weep. Really? What are you? 5? 😭
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  14184. Just keep your religion to yourself. We don’t want Islam dictating the terms and conditions in the liberal, secular, democratic West. 👍
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  14185.  @BeGioBijoux Huh? Watch what? 🤔
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  14186.  @Zerpentsa6598  I was being playful. 🤦‍♂️ Why can’t people read between the lines these days?
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  14187.  @GIN.356.A  Ok, now you’re turning into pedant’s corner. It’s precise enough for observers on Earth to marvel at it. Now go away, as you’re boring.
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  14188.  @GIN.356.A  Ok, now you’re turning into pedant’s corner. It’s precise enough for observers on Earth to marvel at it. Now go away, as you’re boring.
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  14189.  @GIN.356.A  And? What does any of that have to do with my main point about the 10p over the 10p? Precisely sweet Fanny Adams.
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  14190.  @GIN.356.A  Er, whit? 🤔
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  14191.  @jetli740  Yes, it shall. But for now, let’s enjoy the miraculous coincidence! 🌚
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  14192.  @zhengyulu2346 Let’s hope for some new grammar get, too! 😬
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  14193.  @sirensynapse5603 Lol.
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  14194.  @sirensynapse5603 No. I know there is an atmosphere on Earth. It’s scientifically demonstrable. Here: have another tinfoil hat to do with your burgeoning collection! 🤫
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  14195. Er, but it landed on Earth where there is an atmosphere. 🤦‍♂️
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  14196.  @shamrock141  Give me England winning just one major tournament playing scintillating, attacking possession-based football than 10 lost finals where every game is a turgid mess of no patterns, no excitement, no real football, quite frankly.
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  14197.  @Emtrax.  One good 30 minutes against the Netherlands. Even in that game, the Netherlands bossed the second half because all Southgate knows is how to park a bus.
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  14198. Lol@ ‘you westerners’. When does a ‘westerner’ become an ‘easterner’ and who decides?
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  14199. Mamma Mia! 😖
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  14200. Yeah, tbf mate, you just state stuff without providing the source of your random claim when asked. Iow, you’re not to be trusted.
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  14201.  @sebastianguerre6868  Uh huh. And why are you directing that one at me? That was essentially the point I was making to Dumbo Jimbo. 🥴
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  14202.  @fredmercury1314  Lol. I’ll ask you again: source?
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  14203. That’s refreshing to hear. For the past 20 years I thought it was Islam.
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  14204. To be fair, at this point the Ukrainians don’t need German tanks; they need British tanks. Who doesn’t want a good Tommy Tank?🤓
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  14205. Quite right this nutter was lifted by the Fuzz. He’s no Caterpillar of the community, and he dug his own grave here.
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  14206. Coco Chanel is to blame.
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  14207. Some of my favourite snacks are crispy toenails! Full of protein. Good for the planet, too. Recycling. 👍😉
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  14208. … ivo La Coruna? Am I right? 🤓
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  14209. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 😳
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  14210. How about ‘rooting’ for human beings? That would be a start.
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  14211. If someone pitches up at my home one day and enters with force to occupy it against my will, they can expect to have a very hard time for all the while they occupy it, even if I am forced to live by their rules. 🏠
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  14212. What Putin’s engaging in is akin to building an extension to his already extensive house, having been refused planning permission. 🏠
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  14213. All this Trump talk of taking Greenland (and Canada) not only freaks out Canadians and Greenlanders, it freaks out so many Americans themselves as they are forced to confront their greatest ever adversary: Geography! 🗺
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  14214.  @mistershade7500  *you’re Why can you people never spell?
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  14215.  @Striker885  Yes they did. Seethe.
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  14216. Pmsl. You melodramatic drama queen!🤣
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  14217.  @mistershade7500  *you’re Why can you people never spell?
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  14218. It’s all bollix, m8. Fairytales for weak minds.
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  14219.  @mistershade7500  Lol. You just gave the game away and admitted he was a pig! Oink! 🐷🤣
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  14220.  @SERGIO-cr6uy  Huh? Did you read the second sentence? 🤔
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  14221. So’s his thinking.
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  14222.  @mistershade7500  4 typo call-outs and counting you triggered thicko!🤣
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  14223.  @mistershade7500  Ffs. You can’t even place a full-stop correctly! Did you actually go to school, sonny? You’re all over the shop! 🤣🤓
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  14224.  @sunnymederental3703  Lol.
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  14225.  @tomfromoz8527 Er, it was a joke, Tom. 🤦‍♂️
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  14226. Source: “trust me, bro”.
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  14227.  @kingofsaturn555  Truly spoken like someone with a bias who can’t be both/and.
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  14228.  @alanniven-qq6tj  Would it? You can’t seem to cope with it. Not my problem, sweetheart.👍
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  14229.  @alanniven-qq6tj  Is it? All I know is that I believe Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to Oct. 7th, Al.
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  14230.  @TC8787-yq7og  Er, last time I checked, mistrusting Islam wasn’t ‘racist’. Islam is a religion upheld by people of multifarious races. You’re really not very good at this are you? 👍
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  14231.  @TC8787-yq7og It’s quite easy to extrapolate that Sweden will be about 30% Muslim in 30 years’ time. Really not sure why you’re finding this so difficult to grasp. It’s just basic statistics, bro. 👍
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  14232.  @TC8787-yq7og  Source: Pew Research. And many others. Bad luck, bro.👍 It’s not difficult to find this, stuff, bro. Google is your friend, bro. 😉 P.S. I’ve never used Twitter, bro. Once again, bro, bad luck, bro. ✌️
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  14233.  @TC8787-yq7og  Source: Pew Research. And many others. Bad luck, bro.👍
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  14234.  chowtrump2336 That ship may have sailed, sweetheart. By 2050, Sweden is projected to be 30% Muslim. 👍
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  14235.  @ian_r125 *don’t
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  14236.  @ian_r125 *constantly
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  14237.  @ian_r125  *world’s
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  14238.  @sandbridgekid4121  What? Just because someone disagrees with you? Aww, diddums. Did the fella with a different opinion hurt your feelings? Mommy will be along to kiss is better soon. 😉
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  14239.  @jamelabdennebi3235  Lol.
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  14240.  @harrathifahd3533  Lol.
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  14241.  @graveperil2169  Lol.
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  14242.  @graveperil2169  How do you know that? You’re just guessing at this point.
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  14243.  @davidr3382  Huh? Not sure what your point is, m8. All I know is that Rublev explicitly, publicly denounced the war. In other words, to have a blanket ban on Russian/Belarusian players, without looking at each specific case is unjust and utter folly.
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  14244.  @DilbertWhitehead  It was an illegal invasion that resulted in the deaths and maiming of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Nice try, though.👍
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  14245. Stop upvoting yourself. It’s a f*cking tragic look, son.😉
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  14246.  @PaulHirst-og4uk Er, last time I checked, I was a liberal. Bad luck. 😭
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  14247.  @PaulHirst-og4uk  No. Clearly not the same.
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  14248.  @PaulHirst-og4uk  Huh? It’s the polar opposite of England’s rules, you chump.
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  14249. That manmade organised religion for ya! Made by and for men! 👍😉
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  14250.  @kockorzo  Moreover, ‘God’ is established; ‘God’ hates homosexuality; I’d still say it’s an eternal mystery why some people consider it their business what other consenting adults choose to do. I’d rebel against the ‘God’ as being being stupid and irrational for I can’t imagine any real God having any problem with homosexuality. If he/she/it did, I’d stick 2 fingers up to it! Do one!
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  14251.  @kockorzo  Er, whit?! 🤔 You first have to establish the existence of your ‘God’ before we go down that line, m8. 🤦‍♂️ And even if the existence of that God is established, we then then have to establish whether he/she/it is against gays.
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  14252.  @kockorzo  Or, in 10,000 fewer words: it’s an eternal mystery why some people consider it their business what other consenting adults choose to do.
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  14253.  @mikekane2492  Huh? But what does any of that have to do with basic point that it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do? 🤔
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  14254.  @hephzibal7442 Er, whit? 🥴
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  14255.  @Sir1626  Huh? That makes no sense. Are you a bit thick, or something? I’ll repeat this for the hard of thinking: it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do with each other. Ta da! 🎉
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  14256.  @Deus-Vult472  You’re deluded, m8. However, that’s not the point. The point is your delusion should have no say in what consenting adults choose to do. It’s downright creepy you’re choosing to insert yourself into the sex lives of others. Find another hobby.
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  14257.  @TheCaniblcat  Fair play dude. Rare as hens’ teeth for someone to admit they were wrong on YouTube.👍
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  14258.  @TheCaniblcat Huh? Where did I ask a question? 🤔
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  14259.  @keyser021 Religion will never die quite simply because we all fear death. Without the fear of death, no religion. No heavens or hells to bamboozle and control. The other thing is numbers and peer pressure. Because so many deluded people follow these cults, rooting it out is nigh-on impossible. However, none of that is the point: the point is no one should be interfering with what consenting adults choose to do with each other.
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  14260.  @TheCaniblcat  Yeah, but he’s stating the bleedin’ obvious! We all know religion meddles. My wider point was no one should be meddling.
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  14261.  @hoaxygen  And do you wanna tell me something I don’t know?
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  14262.  @TheCaniblcat  Religion has nothing to do with my basic point: it’s simply no one else’s business (religious or otherwise) what consenting adults choose to do. Case closed.
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  14263.  @_JollyJack_  That’s just pushing it back further and making it even more ridiculous. People shouldn’t be getting involved with consenting adults. Period. When they bring in imaginary friends and justify it on an invented, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy that makes it even more bizarre!
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  14264.  @leet3207  Lol.
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  14265.  @codswallop164 Huh? Wtf has that got to do with calling yourself ‘realitythroughmockery’ and having the temerity to call another ‘pretentious’? 🤔
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  14266. Source?
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  14267. Christians have literally been saying “Jesus is coming soon” for 2,000 years! His contemporary followers fully expected his return in their lifetimes. 🤣
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  14268.  @James_Barris  Source?
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  14269. @UCNvDVlnsk-IglLN9AtNDNXg Ty. Ttfn. Ilu.
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  14270.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Uh huh. You dodged the question. Quelle surprise! You also never say anything of substance about anything, hiding behind a bunch of pretentious words. You’re just a waffling windbag with nothing to say. Boring. StAgGeRiNgLy BoRiNg. 🥱
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  14271.  @sorkenyo  Nah. Not gonna float, son. You know why? I’ll tell you why: neither you, nor anyone else, has any right to prescribe what 2 consenting adults get up to in the bedroom. Now, you need to suck that up and trot on. There’s a good lad. 👍😉 Just for the record: if other men wanna get anal cancer, wtf does that have to do with you? 🤣 Are you that personally invested in other guys’ anal cancer at this point? 😂 So no, precisely nothing you have said is a good enough reason for me to hate (or even mildly dislike) homosexuality. What an embarrassment you are to yourself. 🥲Keep trying.👍
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  14272.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Uh huh. You dodged the question. Quelle surprise!
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  14273.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Uh huh. You dodged the question. Quelle surprise!
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  14274.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Moreover, I still haven’t heard a rational reason why I should hate (or even mildly dislike) homosexuality. Are you gonna supply that for me now, son? 😉 I dare you.
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  14275.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Uh huh. And the “core debate” was banning women from beauty salons. If you have a justification and defence for this, let’s here it, thicko …
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  14276.  @sorkenyo  I’ll ask you again: What’s your issue with homosexuality?
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  14277.  @sorkenyo  What’s your issue with homosexuality?
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  14278.  @sorkenyo  Just for the record, I’m not an atheist.
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  14279.  @sorkenyo  Organised religion is useless. 😊
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  14280.  @sorkenyo  I disagree. Cope.
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  14281.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  14282.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  K. 🥱
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  14283.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  No you haven’t. No it doesn’t.
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  14284.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I repeat: You haven’t offered anything to debate. Take a hint ffs.
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  14285.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You haven’t offered anything to debate.
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  14286.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That’s fine, but here’s the difference: I’m not forcing my views on others on pain of torture/death if you don’t accept them. You’re really not very good at this are you, George? This was the one that bowled you for a big fat zero, Georgy. You cope better now.😉 Suck on it and move on, Georgy.
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  14287.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Just for the record, you are staggeringly boring. I mean that. Staggeringly. You just pretend you’re intellectually superior but you have quite literally offered nothing of substance in any reply. You just waffle sh*t about “lame rebuttals” because you genuinely seem to have f*ck-all to say. You, my friend, are fish in a barrel. Bang! Bang!
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  14288.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes, you should know.
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  14289.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I know. I meant to. Here it is again: That’s fine, but here’s the difference: I’m not forcing my views on others on pain of torture/death if you don’t accept them. You’re really not very good at this are you, George? This was the one that bowled you for a big fat zero, Georgy. You cope better now.😉
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  14290.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That’s fine, but here’s the difference: I’m not forcing my views on others on pain of torture/death if you don’t accept them. You’re really not very good at this are you, George? This was the one that bowled you for a big fat zero, Georgy. You cope better now.😉
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  14291.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  That’s fine, but here’s the difference: I’m not forcing my views on others on pain of torture/death if you don’t accept them. You’re really not very good at this are you, George? This was the one that bowled you for a big fat zero, Georgy. You cope better now.😉
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  14292.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  And yet again you offer zero substance. 🥱
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  14293.  @user-qm6r81  Huh? Who said anything about the US?
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  14294.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not at all. You just say absolutely nothing with every comment you make, son. Moreover, I rarely trust those who steal names of individuals with genuine talent. You keep being an “asset of the infowar”, bud. 🥴
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  14295.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol@“An asset of the infowar”. Cringe. And you have the temerity to tell others it’s not about them, you hypocritical twerp?! 🤣
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  14296. Thought you said there was only ‘us’ a minute ago? 😉
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  14297.  @rosykatzCATS  That was part of my point. Do keep up at the back.
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  14298.  @MrNukedawhales  Points taken.🤔
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  14299.  @TheReferrer72  Oh, I can see that they don’t appear like the world’s 2nd most powerful military power, that much is clear; which makes it all the more worrying that Putin will raise the stakes to biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
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  14300.  @greattime860  Yes, yes, we all know to look askance at MSM; that’s a boring song now.
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  14301.  @TheReferrer72  Active frontline personnel: 766,055 Tanks: 15,398 Total aircraft: 3,429 Submarines: 55 The Russian armed forces are the unquestioned second strongest military power in the world. Russia has the world's largest tank fleet, the second largest aircraft fleet behind the US, and the third largest submarine fleet behind the US and China. The Kremlin's military spending has increased by almost a third since 2008 and is expected to grow 44% more in the next three years. Russia has also demonstrated its ability to project force abroad with its deployment of soldiers to Syria.
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  14302.  @TheReferrer72  Nothing to do with nukes. The rankings are all based on conventional forces.
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  14303.  @TheReferrer72  Russia is officially ranked 2nd militarily by most observers.
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  14304. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  14305.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  S’ok. My work here is done. 👍
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  14306.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Just take the Irish part of your name and loosen up a little, Xin. Stop being so Chinese and uptight.😊
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  14307.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  I have though. I think you’re twisting truth because if you admit the truth you’ll be skewered by your own logic.😊
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  14308.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  I just don’t believe you would show your child a picture of adults copulating with children. Call it a ‘hunch’.😊
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  14309.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Not asking “the wrong questions” at all. Asking the perfect question to hang you with your own logic. 😊
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  14310.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Censoring art and “denying culture”. Your quote, that is.😊
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  14311.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  I don’t believe you would show your child a picture of adults having sex with children. I think you’re lying. 😊
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  14312.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Really? So your child asks to see a painting of adults having sex with children and you take them to see it, do you?
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  14313.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  And allow children to see it?
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  14314.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  And if you wouldn’t, you’re censoring and “denying culture”. To quote you, that is.😊
    1
  14315.  @xinpingdonohoe3978  Answer the question. Would you let it be publicly displayed?
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  14316. So would you allow a painting of an adult having sex with a child or would you censor it? 🤔
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  14317. Ok, Mr Self Obsessed.
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  14318. Cool. I also dig angles, Steve. My favourites are obtuses and acutes but I do have a soft spot for rights, too!
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  14319. Pity the media don’t give him some carbon monoxide.
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  14320. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  14321. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  14322. *Savile
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  14323. 🤣
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  14324. He was a BBC you mean? 😳
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  14325.  @Tabby5899  No it’s not. Bad luck.👍
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  14326.  @CarlWheatley-wi2cl  Ok, Carl. You are for Israel and hate the Palestinians. We get it. 👍
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  14327.  @PeterG1975  Uh huh. K. I’ll let you off, then. For now. You have the “look” of someone I once knew who had wicked tendencies. 😉
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  14328.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  The Who most certainly are not Satanists. Roger Daltrey would be appalled at such a slur! Take that back you swine!
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  14329. “un aliving”?! Wtf. How about just “killing”.
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  14330.  @dntakemesrs  I don’t eat animals. 🤡 Find out whom you’re arguing with before you make yourself look like a complete tit.
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  14331.  @RonniePickeringMate  I suppose that makes it a cunning stunt. 👍😉
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  14332.  @IBTU  👍
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  14333. *gone
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  14334.  @EugWanker  Well, Daniel Kwan looks like a young Asian John Lennon in a wind tunnel! 💨
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  14335.  @peregrino9154  The capitalised ‘He’ bollix is so cringey btw, and just shows how in thrall you are to programming. Think for yourself ffs. Read some books. Do some research. Jesus never existed historically. It’s all made up for fools like you.👍
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  14336.  @peregrino9154  Er, I’m quoting what those who believe he existed believe he said. That doesn’t mean I believe it! Are you really that dense that you are unable to discern irony and distance? 🤔 Are you really so stupid to make the leap that I actually believe the dude existed and said this sh*t?! 🤣👍 If you can’t see it’s all made up there is no hope for humanity. ✌️
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  14337.  @forzaspeedster  Er, whom are you referring to, sweetheart? 🤔
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  14338.  @C2112-s7y  Of course she can’t, m8. Julia just believes in Jesus because she thinks he hated gays. The tragic thing for Julia is that Jesus never said anything about gays! 👍😉
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  14339.  @casey2782  I’ve looked into it, my love. Jesus didn’t exist. It’s all made up. Here’s the breaker, though: even if he did exist (he didn’t), he wasn’t the only son of God! 😝
    1
  14340.  @saltyjo7514  Blah, blah, blah. That’s fine. Believe what you want. My stance remains: Jesus never existed. 👍😝
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  14341.  @jameso  Yes, after looking into it, I ‘think’ Jesus never existed! Ta da! 🎉
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  14342.  @forzaspeedster  Coping fine here, dearie. It’s those sheep who were told Jesus actually existed who can’t deal with it. Ya got the wrong dude! Nice try, though.😉👍
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  14343.  @gzk6nk  Nah, I disagree. I don’t think Jesus historically existed. Ta da! 🎉
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  14344.  @communistshqiperia Er, who said I was an ‘atheist’? 🤔 You need a better researcher as your current one is clearly a pile of crap.👍✌️
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  14345.  @hwd7  Er, I mean reading about it, treacle. Wtf else did you think I meant? Just deal with it. Jesus is a stolen dying/resurrecting dude. Stolen from the pagans. It’s all made up. Miracles? I believe none of them. I’m with David Hume on all this stuff: When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.
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  14346.  @hwd7  Er, researched it, darling. You should try it some time.👍
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  14347.  @Smilejustsmilebby He never existed. It was all made up. Stolen from the pagans. A little shot of copium, dearie? 🥛
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  14348.  @hdot4258  He isn’t, sweet pea. He’s infiltrated his way into your noddle, honeybun, and you’re living a delusion. Another copium top-up? 🥛
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  14349.  @hdot4258 Not at all, darling, given he never existed. 👍😝
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  14350.  @julia2k8 He didn’t, sweetheart. Another glass of copium? 🥛
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  14351. In that shirt Matthew Amroliwala needs to come clean: is he a priest, or is he a sous-chef? 👨‍🍳 ⛪️
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  14352. Source: Urban Dictionary bro.
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  14353. Regarding the previous incumbent, she may Jacinda little, but haven’t we all? We shouldn’t be too Ardern her. As to the new boy? Three cheers for Chris: Hip hip HooKlaus! Hip hip HooKlaus! Hip hip hooKlaus!
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  14354. Really? I came just last night.
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  14355. “Rich pricks” ~ I’m sniffing jealousy.
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  14356.  @PaxBritannica34563  It’s not a “chick flick” in the conventional sense, man. Moreover, almost as many men as women dug it which isn’t the case with regular chick flicks. The fictional romance at the heart of Titanic has prompted some to dub it a “chick flick,” but the 1998 Gallup poll found men (56%) nearly as likely as women (60%) to watch it.
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  14357.  @PaxBritannica34563  For me, it’s not the fact it was a “chick flick” (it’s not really btw), it was the fact that the script was a dire sludgefest. Tedious and lifeless. The technical aspects re. the ship were excellent, though. Don’t knock chick flicks btw; some of my favourite films are bona-fide chick flicks: Bridesmaids; Clueless; Legally Blonde; Bridget Jones’ Diary; When Harry Met Sally etc. I say all this as someone whose favourite film genre is the Western.
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  14358. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  14359. Er, in 2006. And even then it was only 44% of Palestinians. 52% of current Palestinians are under 21. In other words, the vast majority of current Palestinians never voted for Hamas. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda. Nice try, though.👍
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  14360.  @strahlemann6248  What? Wtf are you on about? All I’m talking about here is legal immigration. I’m against all illegal immigration, no matter who is doing it. So, in the case of Europeans since 1492, they brutally invaded territories which they, hitherto, hadn’t been living in and violently imposed their ways. I’m sure if I came to your home, forced myself in and installed my rules you wouldn’t be all that happy.
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  14361.  @andymac7584  Projecting again, Andy? 😳🥱
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  14362.  @andymac7584  That’s right, Andy, you upvote yourself cos no one else will. 👍😉
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  14363.  @andymac7584  Yes, Andy. 🥱
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  14364.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You have a serious issue with people disagreeing with you, John. Can I suggest you address this and then get back to me? 😉
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  14365.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You just can’t deal with facts, John. 😉
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  14366.  @Native_Non-Gringo  *descendent
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  14367.  @ktool4855  It’s always semi-literates like you who moan about the “foreigners”. Can you guess why? They genuinely speak better English than you, man! 🤣
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  14368.  @URBeingLiedTo  What do you want me to address?
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  14369.  @URBeingLiedTo  “Legal migration and illegal migration are two distinct things” - I precisely addressed this in my OP! Now, go away as you are so boring.
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  14370.  @DisinfoWatch  I responded to every one of your airhead responses, and clearly you have no answer, so continue to resort to the ad hominem.
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  14371.  @DisinfoWatch  You’re just a liar. Uh huh. But you won’t be able to defend this one.
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  14372.  @DisinfoWatch  Huh? Not disingenuous at all. I’m for legal immigration both ways. Where’s the disingenuousness?
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  14373.  @Eechuta  What? Have you been drinking again?
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  14374.  @Eechuta  Huh? Agnostic here. Cope harder.
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  14375.  @public.public  Steady, sonny.
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  14376. Well, tbf, with a name like Combs there was always a chance we had a groomer on our hands. 😮
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  14377. Another dumb comment from a colour-blind brotha. 🙄
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  14378.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You’re about as ‘funny’ as a burning orphanage, Jimbo. Check yourself, son. 🤦‍♂️
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  14379. ABC on the BBC? Cool!
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  14380.  @ayoolukoga9829  🥱
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  14381.  @alexsilent5603  It’s an accident of birth you had precisely zero say in, dude. Get over it. 👍
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  14382. 🤦‍♂️
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  14383.  @codswallop164 Whoosh!
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  14384.  @user-cz1pk8ru2j Whoosh!
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  14385. Your coping pills with be with you soon, Sir. 💊
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  14386.  @hmmmmm2634  Hmmmmm 🤔
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  14387.  @madplanet3351  No. I understood it. It was just irrelevant. Do try to keep up at the back, son. 👍🤫
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  14388.  @madplanet3351  Huh? 🤔
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  14389.  @madplanet3351  You seem to think I’m pro banning all tourists. Big mistake, so that word salad was a total waste of your time.👍
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  14390.  @Dogfacedbloke  How can you when Spain has 3x as many tourists every single year, doofus? Last time I checked the Lakes were 2,362 sq. km. 18 million visitors per year. Barcelona 102 sq. km. 32 million visitors per year. Do the maths, dummy. 18m by 2,362 = 7,620. 32m by 102 = 313,725. Bad luck, petal. 😭
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  14391.  @avalancherose  Well, tbf, France is complicit in what you say. Because it didn’t mind its own business and went to Africa to convince the Africans that they are Frenchmen first, then Africans second, it’s hardly surprising that thousands of Africans would migrate to the country they were taught to put first.
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  14392. You forgot to point out the crucial piece of information: the “power addicted Axxholes” (sic) are all men.
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  14393.  @mrb2643  As an agnostic, precisely zero organised religion is going to “prevail” over me, m8.👍 You’re all just a bunch of robotic loonies in my book.
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  14394.  @bbcisaids6727  🥱
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  14395.  @bbcisaids6727  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤡
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  14396. 🥱
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  14397.  @mrannymus  Er, what’s wrong with ‘men dressing up as women’? 🤔
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  14398.  @romeob.8369  Well, if you aborted them, Daniel would clearly be out of a job.
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  14399.  @paulleach3612  It’s actually *100,000 - amazing what a PhD in Mathematics will get you.
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  14400. It’s hard to imagine the dude serving 5 minutes!
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  14401. @0:25 That’s a coincidence! I once knew a girl called ‘Mae Sot’. Constantly drunk, she was.
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  14402. So you presume to speak for the ‘public’? Not for me you don’t. Think on.
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  14403.  @christinehomer2185  I repeat, the Azov battalion makes up no more than 1500 soldiers. Less than 1% of the total Ukrainian force. Why then, do you and others like you focus on this minuscule number and ignore the rest? Anyone who is neutral in this game can clearly see this. Because you’re an embroiled, tendentious onlooker you have real trouble just looking at things objectively.
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  14404.  @christinehomer2185  I’d suggest that focusing on 1500 soldiers at the expense of a total official army of 195,000 is unbalanced reporting, to say the least. This 195,000 also doesn’t include the tens of thousands of citizen Ukrainian soldiers. Anti-Ukrainian propagandists always rant on about the Azov battalion but it makes up less than 1% of total Ukrainian forces.
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  14405.  @domitravel795  😉
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  14406.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  I can’t find it. I’ll ask you again if you can post the link.
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  14407.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  Post the link.
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  14408.  @christinehomer2185  Sorry? I don’t understand your point. Why are you telling me this?
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  14409. @callumward7503 I’m not blaming anyone! Jesus! Is English your first language? I’m just acknowledging this is a problem for the UK. This really isn’t that difficult, Cal. Now, sod off, as you’re boring me to death.
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  14410. @callumward7503 But it is our problem. There is no finger pointing about that; it’s just an acknowledgement of fact.
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  14411. @callumward7503 Yes, I know what it means but I wasn’t doing it. Cope.
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  14412. @callumward7503 Why are you upvoting yourself, Cal? 🤔
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  14413. @callumward7503 Huh. You’re making no sense, Cal, but that’s ok, you’ll be used to that, m8.👍👌
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  14414.  @LewisNuke92  🥱
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  14415.  @LewisNuke92  There you go again. “Shity (sic) comments.” You really do need some better coping strategies.
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  14416.  @LewisNuke92  I said take a hint, son, so just take a hint. There’s a good lad. 🥱
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  14417.  @LewisNuke92  You’re boring mate. The most boring people are people like you. ‘Right’ about everything and intolerant of anyone else who thinks differently. There’s more of a hint of the fascist about you in this sense. Take a hint. 🥱
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  14418.  @LewisNuke92  Lame.
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  14419.  @LewisNuke92  You come across as a know-it-all, smug, intolerant, self-satisfied eejit, quite frankly. Learn to tolerate other opinions once in a blue moon, son. Yeah, but you post everywhere so you’re hardly hard to miss.
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  14420.  @LewisNuke92  Your smugness is staggering, Lewis. Having read a good dozen of your posts today you literally think you’re 100% right about everything, don’t you? And you won’t brook another opinion which counters yours.
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  14421.  @LewisNuke92  Translation: I can’t deal with a contrary opinion.
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  14422. @callumward7503 No. It’s simply realising we are all involved with this by virtue of living in the country where these people are arriving.
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  14423.  @sigmaputin6888  I agree. That’s why it’s all our problem.
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  14424.  @LewisNuke92  I repeat: It’s actually all our problem. If you disown this then you can’t complain about future outcomes.
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  14425.  @ChitShatter  Not sure. Google is your friend. 👍😉
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  14426. @callumward7503 Yes. It’s the UK’s problem. Something we have to deal with. Now simmer down, simmer down, you’re getting mighty triggered there, petal. You need better coping strategies, sweetie. Go and have a cup of cocoa as you’re clearly not up to this, son. 🛌
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  14427. @callumward7503 Not gonna upvote yourself on this one, Cal, eh? Wise decision, son. Wise decision.😉
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  14428. @callumward7503 Huh? I’m not blaming anyone? I’m just acknowledging this is the UK’s problem. Acknowledging a problem isn’t necessarily apportioning blame. You’re really not very good at this are you, Cal.👍
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  14429. @callumward7503 What just because someone has a different opinion to you, Cal? Huh? Is that how you operate. Individuals are “problems” when they hold other views which may conflict with your own, eh? You got a touch of the fascist there, Cal. You might wanna check that, son. 😉
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  14430.  @t4tango519  *non What do you eat? It’s clearly not brains. 🧠👍🤣
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  14431.  @theabrosplay  I think you’ll find everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. The 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees elaborates upon this right. It provides an international meaning of 'refugee', which is a person in another country at risk of persecution in her, his or their own country.
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  14432.  @t4tango519  👈Needs to get back to kindergarten to learn the basics.😉👍
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  14433.  @t4tango519  *you’re No wonder you aren’t Mr Thicko.👍
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  14434.  @t4tango519  Mostly pasta, but occasionally fish. Many thanks for your kind words.🙏 🍝 🐠
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  14435.  @tinfoilhatter5318  Who?
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  14436. You bigger prat.
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  14437.  @alvaro701  In your opinion.
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  14438. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  14439. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  14440.  @tastypymp1287  I take no lessons from a Tasty Chump who can’t spell “abit” (sic)!🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😅😂😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣🤣😅
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  14441.  thomaswilliams1823  They were admitted 24/10/45, dipshit. Seethe.
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  14442. City? It’s a frickin country ya numpty!
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  14443.  @chinchin8269  Who?
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  14444.  @robertjackson5617  Wilco.👌
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  14445. Surely a human life is a human life is a human life; not sure why you’re privileging some lives over others.👀
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  14446. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left.💣
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  14447.  @odisseu5082  Lol. Yeah. Let’s just ignore the fact Argentina is an openly racist society and focus on the football. Yeah. Sounds about right.
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  14448. Didn’t know Shaun Maloney had a sideline in impersonating American political commentators. Clever lad.🤓
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  14449. Really? Did we both watch the same interview? Neil wiped the floor with the uptight, defensive, God-botherer.
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  14450.  @luanaforrest8306 Huh? You’ve confirmed my point. 🥴
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  14451. 2:48 Barry Manilow + Pete Townshend = Christopher Sabatini. Now that Mr Henry is jobless, he could get some extra work as a Samuel L Jackson impersonator! 👍
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  14452. Some of aren’t lazy, though, and actually learn the languages. In my own case, I’m fluent in 8 and working on my 9th. 👍
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  14453.  @johnp139  You a a moron? (sic) You were saying?
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  14454. I know right? And how poignant it would have been if there had been a fatality and Wham!’s Last Christmas had been playing on the radio at the time!
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  14455. I’m guessing you’re not a professor of comedy. 🤦‍♂️
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  14456.  @aerotechify  Huh? It’s not a ‘conspiracy theory’; we know for a fact this plane was disbarred from flying long-haul over water. Where’s the ‘conspiracy’? 🤔
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  14457.  @failtv5442  Ty for your kind words, Sir/Madam. 🙏
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  14458.  @retchie7355  😲
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  14459.  @Copiumgold  Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? 🤔
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  14460.  @nelsonchinasamy9857  👍
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  14461.  @nelsonchinasamy9857  Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? 🥴
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  14462.  @alunevans380  No, Alun. I’m not for those numbers. There is an optimal level of immigration. It’s not zero and it’s not the number you quote.
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  14463.  @taliabraver  FYI, white guys rape women, too! 😉👍
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  14464.  @fsufootball6984  Huh? Why would I do that?
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  14465.  @kathleenswift7979  How? 🤔
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  14466. @@AScottishLoyalist *you’re
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  14467.  @ontheslide2339  Huh? I’m not forcing anything on anyone. If he doesn’t want to f*ck a person with a different colour of skin, I’m not going to make him. 👍😉
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  14468. 28?! Ya old fecker! I’m only 8!
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  14469.  @ushojedi  Wow! You’ve really thought about this!🤣 Fair play. 👍
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  14470.  @johnnwako2488  Even if you do say so yourself.😉
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  14471. Really? Chuck has crocked it already?! Bring on Willie, then!🤓
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  14472. Here’s Gary with the weather! 🤠
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  14473. Nuts!
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  14474.  @douglasbrown1194  Triggered, much?🤣
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  14475.  @FI32690  Pmsl@Mbappé ‘is not a complete player!’ 🤣
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  14476.  @oldowleye3161  You wish, schweety. Nice try, petal.👍🤡😉
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  14477.  @harry.flashman  Too right you’re not worthy. Get the fuck outta my sight, peasant!
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  14478. @Ian Something like that, brother.👍😉
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  14479.  @foryounoname8392  No.
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  14480. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  14481. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  14482.  @Azune783  Nah, just basic nationalism, sonny.
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  14483.  @dianehghzn7670  You seem a little triggered there Diane, sweetie; you might want to seek out some better coping strategies, pet. ;)
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  14484. Sorry, but none of this ultra-modern gizmo stuff is ever going to trump the greatest technological invention of all time: the book! 📕
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  14485. When the newscaster talked of ‘super-sewers’ there, thought this was gonna be a report on the Paltrow case. 💩
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  14486.  @michaelburgess6556  4 people currently disagree. Cope.
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  14487. Lol. You say that like the BBC has any power to free Assange!🤣
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  14488.  @davidrobertsemail  🤣👍
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  14489.  @Ghost-pd1mz  Er, I think you’ll find the US has much higher per capita stabbings. Nice try, though.👍
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  14490. For all its faults, I’d rather live in America than Russia, every day of the week. It’s always interesting that those who most vehemently defend Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia.
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  14491. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  14492. While observing the bedlam being played out daily on our screens, I couldn’t help but be struck by how eerily similar this whole farrago is to Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove , with a slight tweaking of point-of-view, and flipping of roles, in which America is Russia and Russia is America. In Kubrick’s masterpiece, American Brigadier General Jack D Ripper (Putin), has been driven insane with paranoia by the events of the Cold War. (In Putin’s case insanity and monomaniacal post-Cold War paranoia at a loss and diminution of his beloved Russia, as was USSR.) Ripper has become convinced that there is a plot by the ‘Commies’ (USA/NATO in Putin’s case) to ‘sap and contaminate our precious bodily fluids’. (In Putin’s case to sap and contaminate the minds of the Russians, and the idea of a Greater Russian Empire.) Ripper decides to take pre-emptive, first-strike unilateral action by striking the USSR. (Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine, and by extension the West in general.) The B-52s, under Ripper’s command, go in and hydrogen bomb the USSR. (Mercifully, Putin has not yet gone this far.) The US president along with his back-room staff attempt to stop the bombers from delivering their payload. (We can only pray Putin has back-room staff strong enough and prepared to step in if he tries to fulfill his nuclear threat.) Here’s the rub, however, the only way to stop the bombers in Dr Strangelove ,is a recall code which only Ripper knows. (We must pray, even the atheists/agnostics amongst us, that with Putin, it’s not only him that has access to the button.) The US government tries to capture Ripper to get the recall code from him, but Ripper gets away. (Will we be able to stop Putin?) The really scary kicker in Kubrick’s film, however, is that the Soviets have built a doomsday machine that will launch enough missiles to destroy all life on Earth if an American nuclear bomb hits them. (I’m pretty confident Putin’s enemies - us - won’t go this far.) Eventually, Ripper is overpowered, but shoots himself before the recall code can be given. (An inside job on Putin, perhaps, before he can incinerate the planet?) One man ignores the recall code and piles headlong towards Moscow. (A member of Putin’s inner team, perhaps?) He attempts to drop the bomb. (On Ukraine? On Europe? On America?) After some door-jamming black humour he opens the doors and rides down on the bomb. 💣 Moscow retaliates with horrifying consequences for the planet. (Surely the West won’t go this far.) Let’s hope that, in this case, life won’t imitate art.👀
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  14493.  @OxtonSWA  Aye. And does any of that stop them from being a derivative, pedestrian pub band with precisely zero creativity? I think not. Think on…
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  14494.  @Gfw36026  Tbf, A-ha were miles better than Oasis.
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  14495.  @Man-From-Another-Place  Wake up! It’s a deeply average pub band. Can’t you see this? Are you stupid? Don’t answer that.
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  14496.  @Gfw36026  Ok, ‘no one who matters, cares’. Happy now? 👍😉
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  14497.  @Gfw36026  Ok, I rephrase that: no one with taste and half a brain cares. Seethe on…
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  14498.  @Gfw36026 About 2 billion ppl currently think Jesus is the bees knees, and about another 2 billion think Mohammed is the goat’s bollix. Does that make them right? Think on…👍😉 🐝 🐐
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  14499. Stop living in your freezer ffs!
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  14500.  @user-zo2rj2zi9g  Well said, pal.👍
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  14501.  @paulgibbon5991  😉
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  14502.  @BrownDaddy007  Nice sarcasm. 99.9% of climate scientists can’t be wrong, can they? 😮
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  14503.  @BrownDaddy007  I’m perfectly satisfied with my data + my own anecdotal experience to confirm that Edinburgh in the 2020s is about 1.5-2°C warmer than back in the 1970s. Again, nice try. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t necessarily buy the idea that we humans are 100% responsible for this warming (it could be 5%, or 25% or 75%) … but what I do 100% buy, is that the planet is warming. Hope the malamute is behaving itself! 👍✌️😊
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  14504.  @emilylee6018  I have ‘specific information’, sweetie: it’s called my own raw data. Cope harder, petal.👍✌️
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  14505.  @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885  Pretty sure that ‘DeNile’ has never frozen over! 🥶
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  14506.  @user-nq4dg4ot7n *you’re
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  14507. Lol. Another deluded automaton not only believing in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy; but a sky daddy that undoubtedly just happens to agree with him. Uh huh. Always seems to go that way, I’ve noticed.
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  14508.  @davecooper3238  Nae probs, Davey son. 👍
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  14509.  @davecooper3238  I was being facetious, Davey lad. 🤦‍♂️
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  14510.  @cheesekingofdenmark6910  It was just the spooky similarity of the way the spires collapsed. 👻
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  14511. Why are YT unnecessarily messing with it. Leave a time? Wtf. Also, why can’t we see latest comments?
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  14512.  @bharata_varsa  Huh? I don’t. Cope better.
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  14513.  @bharata_varsa  Jesus, man. You’re still at this? Really? Go touch some grass, sonny.
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  14514.  @bharata_varsa  🥱
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  14515.  @bharata_varsa  God you’re boring. No it doesn’t.
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  14516.  @bharata_varsa  No it doesn’t. Get over it.
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  14517.  @bharata_varsa  No it doesn’t. Cope harder.
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  14518.  @bharata_varsa  I am.
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  14519.  @bharata_varsa  I repeat: Lol. Wtf does that have to do with the looks of British people?! 😂
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  14520.  @JaimePatterson23  Uh huh. Having been around this site in the past 5 minutes, you are dropping this creepy sh*t wherever the fancy takes you. Creepy and desperate.
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  14521.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  👈Look at it constantly triggered because it can’t deal with others’ opinions.
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  14522.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Cope and seethe. Ya! 👍😉🤡
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  14523.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  You’re just triggered as I’m not the bot you thought I was and, moreover, have no fundamental issue with abortion or gay sex. Seethe and cope some more, now! 👍 🤠
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  14524.  @shadowmaydawn  The farther a pregnancy is into its gestation, the more trouble I have with aborting, for the simple reason of potential pain involved. However, as with many others, I don’t intrinsically have any issue with what some in this debate like to call a ‘potential human’. These same people often bring in ‘souls’ and all that guff. We may have a soul (I’m agnostic, I don’t know), but whether we have a soul or not doesn’t alter my fundamental stance that it’s absolutely none of my business if another woman wants to abort.
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  14525.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱 You’re just triggered as I’m not the bot you thought I was and you can’t cope because I have no issue with a mother aborting or a man sticking his willy up another man! 👍😉
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  14526.  @yanx4797  I have no issue aborting a foetus, provided it’s done as early in the pregnancy as possible. However, the key issue is not whether I consider it ‘just’ or the thing to do; the key issue is that it’s none of my business if a given woman wants to abort.
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  14527.  @yanx4797  Oh, the earlier the better, of course. I’m glad you’re ‘fine’ with it as it’s simply none of your business. 😊
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  14528.  @yanx4797  Which is the only sense that matters in this case. 👍
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  14529.  @shadowmaydawn  I think the father, if the baby was pre-planned with the mother, has quite a large say, as it happens.
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  14530.  @CosmicCanvas666  I was reacting to the report. Didn’t you watch it?
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  14531.  @CosmicCanvas666  How do you know I don’t live under a rock?
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  14532.  @AlfieDoug  Ty for recognising my victory. Very noble. Give yourself a clap, after clapping me.
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  14533.  @AlfieDoug  I’m guessing the landfill has ‘encroached’ over the years, and to begin with was probably a decent distance from the school.
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  14534. Cringe.
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  14535. Simmer down. You just disagree with a dude. Cope.👍
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  14536. Stolen comment.
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  14537.  @dawidos369  Ur mom.
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  14538. You seem to be forgetting that America was built on 2 things: the gun and the Bible. It just so happens that the majority American invisible sky daddy isn’t Catholic.
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  14539.  @Kevin-jc1fx  I’ll repeat this one last time: it’s none of yours of my business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting us.
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  14540. Why are you upvoting yourself, Danny? 🤦‍♂️
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  14541.  @Dan-zu5fd Still upvoting yourself, Danny? 🤦‍♂️
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  14542. Why do you upvote yourself? 🤔
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  14543. This reporter and these defenders of their territory are brave and deserve the utmost respect. However, today in his meeting with Biden, Zelensky used that word I’ve heard a lot this past year with reference to Russia: “unprovoked”. Full disclosure: I’m no fan of Putin. To the contrary, in fact, I disdain his illegal invasion of a sovereign, self-governing territory. However, this war was hardly ‘unprovoked’. Post the Cold War, NATO expressly promised not to expand “one inch” east towards Russia. For the past 30 years, like a slowly rising tide, it has been flowing towards the east and is now just about lapping onto Russian shores. We need to be honest here. NATO’s pledge not to expand, and the subsequent abandonment of that promise explicitly provoked Putin and Russia. This is an important context (perhaps the key context) to understand the Russian view of US policies, especially so given the ample warnings from US diplomats and foreign policy experts down the years that expanding NATO was liable to poke the Russian bear.
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  14544. Nah, I think a little dew might have saved LA. Lack of dew was a big part of the issue in such a dry zone. 👍
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  14545.  @michellearaujo.  Michelle? I adore you! Tell these humourless tits that I was trying to inject a bit of fun into life, but they picked me apart on my maracas. Help me, Michelle. And give these saddoes a sense of humour! 🙄
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  14546.  @OldRhino  Lol.
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  14547.  @wandson5410  Oh, man, just move on. Maracas are associated with carnival time, and carnivals are associated with Brazil. Just deal with it ffs.
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  14548.  @wandson5410  Last time I checked maracas are recognised around the world as a symbol of Brazilian carnival, amongst other things.
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  14549.  @vervetech9395  Wot? I never said the world “revolved around Ukraine”. All I said was that Russia illegally invaded a sovereign self-governing nation. Cope much better, sweetie. 👌
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  14550.  @conniekabasharira7084  I disavow your premise. You may want to rethink it and get back to me. 👍
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  14551.  @louisemann3306  Indeed. I wasn’t for those invasions either. 👍 I’m of the view that 2 wrongs don’t make a right. So, let’s condemn Putin and let’s condemn the West together! 😊
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  14552.  @davidprice4003  No. I have a full set of toes, ty.
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  14553.  @eli53973  Uh huh. So 2 wrongs make a right in your world. Gotcha. 😉👍
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  14554. Of course, this isn’t really Biden’s decision. As with every US President it’s the power behind the throne calling the shots. Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if there were an elite plan (WEF/NATO/USA) for it all to kick off. After all, that great reset won’t wait forever. (Just recently found out that Dutch MP, Fleur Agema, told Parliament that the Covid response was a ‘military operation’ and the Netherlands was taking direct orders from NATO.)
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  14555. Well, if he’s a ‘puppet’ it’s hardly his fault then, is it? 🤷‍♂️
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  14556. It would mean that if Putin ever thought about invading Finland or Sweden, that he’d get a NATO rocket up his jacksy, tout de suite.
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  14557. Not if the Islamic population of Finland and Sweden get their way.
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  14558. @Big Rah You got it, son.👍
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  14559. @Big Rah It could. That means we’re all shit doesn’t it? Well spotted.
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  14560.  @dibsdib3697  I didn’t say he was right about everything. Who is? Your implication was that because he had ‘issues’ as you term them (again, who doesn’t?) that that somehow invalidated everything he said, which is obviously patent nonsense. That’s all. Some of his insights are spot on the money.
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  14561.  @dibsdib3697  Huh? You’re making no sense. Try again. Try better.
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  14562.  @dibsdib3697  Yes, I have read Freud. I do my due diligence in these matters.
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  14563. *animal Leave the brainwashed North Korean people out of this. They’re not at fault here. Their dipshit leader is the “animal”.
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  14564.  @IonBit  Another thing: isn’t it convenient you adopt the religion that obtains in the culture were born into? Ever thought about that one? Huh? I recommend you do. 👍
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  14565.  @IonBit  Look, love, I’ve delved into this topic more than you know; all organised religion is manmade. That’s just an obvious fact. I don’t deny that there might be a ‘God’; hence my agnosticism… what I do deny is that the Bible is ‘divine’ with along all the other manmade religious stuff, and is nothing more than men writing sh*t. 👍
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  14566.  @doncampbell1961  K, Donnie. You keep believing in your unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy and I’ll stick to doing the honest thing and remain agnostic. 👍
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  14567.  @solitudeguard5688  This is also another marvellous exemplar. Can I use it, too? C’mon. You are essentially being a bit of a fascist and proscribing freedom of speech here. Quite sinister, if you think about it. My conscience is clear as no one that matters will read my ideas. Including you! So get over yourself. Puhlease!
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  14568. Lol. Can I show this to my Social Studies students as a perfect exemplar of virtue signalling? 🙄
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  14569.  @SGC90-t5y  I’ve removed comment. 👍
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  14570.  @catherinemacaskill1421  Or just not vote! Ta da! 🎉
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  14571.  @masterchuck8772  *far-right Feijóo leads a centre-right conservative Party.
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  14572.  @MadDragon76  Lol.👍
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  14573.  @MadDragon76  It’s food to prevent you from starving, son.😉
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  14574.  @MadDragon76  🍱
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  14575.  @MadDragon76  No. “Doing nothing” is, paradoxically, a very good way of protesting against the system. Imagine if everyone “did nothing”.😉
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  14576.  @MadDragon76  I was talking in a general political sense, not specifically related to this Spanish election. Many a time I have not voted because I don’t see one Party providing what I would desire. Also, because without proportional representation, the whole thing is just a scam anyway. In a UK context, if you seriously think Keir Starmer’s Labour is going to be that much different from Rishi Sunak’s Tories you’re living in cloud cuckoo land.
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  14577.  @SGC90-t5y  I would say this, mate. I’ve been on this planet long enough to know that political extremes (whether left or right) are rarely, if ever, the way to go. I’m not enamoured of conservative right-wing stuff with all their irrational baloney surrounding immigration; gay rights etc. but by the same token, in an economic sense, I’m not drawn to leftist socialism as that eventually invariably ends up bankrupting countries. Too much State with the strong left for my liking. I also am not drawn to the current strand of leftist thinking (wokeism, I suppose, but I hate the word), which seeks to automatically shut down any debate: eg. global warming (I believe in it but am not sure how much humankind is complicit); sex/gender (I’m all for gender equality before the law but happen to think that it is not possible to change biological sex) etc. I’m a centrist liberal in almost everything I can think of: progressive taxation; pro legal immigration (controlled by the host country); pro gay rights; anti-organised religion involved in any part of public political life; pro women’s equality (in terms of outcomes) etc etc.
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  14578.  @SGC90-t5y  Fair play. 👍 I stand corrected. I misread your comment. Apologies. Comment removed.
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  14579.  @SGC90-t5y  What’s that got to do with the specific quote, Stevie lad?
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  14580. Red herring. Some of the best, smoothest-running vehicles go way back. Often much older than 30.
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  14581.  @CarlosSalazar-io3py  He was correct here, mate. Nice try, though.👍
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  14582.  @TaxemicFanatic  Indeed, and that’s why I’m an agnostic! Ta da! 🎉
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  14583.  @billyb7465  That’s fine, mate. But we betray ourselves all the time, notwithstanding your claim that you weren’t stating any personal beliefs. You’re right, you weren’t explicitly stating these, but they can be read by those with eyes to see. Anyway, all the best.👍
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  14584.  @TaxemicFanatic  Huh? My definition of my own agnosticism is simply this: “there isn’t enough credible objective evidence for me to know there is a God.” I fear you’re unnecessarily complicating things here.
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  14585.  @billyb7465  I’m sensing you have some kinda religious belief, mate. Reading between the lines. I know some people fear the idea of oblivion, but they shouldn’t, if indeed that is what happens to us. That’s all I was pointing out.
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  14586.  @TaxemicFanatic  I’m agnostic. Who knows? Neither you nor I.😉
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  14587.  @billyb7465  The idea that I shall live forever is far more scary than the idea we are soulless pieces of meat and merely food for worms when we die. But we can agree to differ on this.👍
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  14588. This was America doing what America does since about 1776. At the time justified as being all about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies; the real reason the Bush administration invaded Iraq was the same reason Truman dropped (unnecessarily) the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima: its demonstration effect. As with this latter barbaric, immoral atrocity, which was intended to send a post-WW2 message to the rest of the world (particularly the USSR) of “don’t mess with us, or else”, a quick and decisive victory in the heart of the Arab world would send a message to all countries, especially to recalcitrant regimes such as Syria, Libya, Iran, or North Korea, that American hegemony was here to stay.
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  14589. *it’s
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  14590.  @1133saginaw  Yup! I get that it was a race at the time.👍
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  14591.  @1133saginaw  Oh, don’t get me wrong, I believe we did land on the moon, but I wouldn’t give a sh*t if we hadn’t.
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  14592. Ah, this rings a Belgrade. Troops called up to Serbia in the army. A possible Pristina new war between places most of the rest of us couldn’t give a Kosovo about. Oh well. sighs
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  14593. So many say this, but all I see are ugly dead fish eyes.
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  14594.  @Patrick-y4d1z  By your logic that means every European not currently living in Europe shouldn’t be wherever they happen to be living then. The game you’re playing is ridiculous and leads us nowhere. The vast majority of people (including many current Israelis) see the Palestinians as having just as much of a claim on the territory of Gaza as anyone you care to mention. Your agenda gets in the way of reasonable debate and is a large part of the reason we’re in this mess in the first place. There will be no peace without a 2-state settlement with a a secure Israel and a secure Palestinian state side by side. So, let’s hear your call for every European not currently living in Europe to get out of Australia, New Zealand, North America and South America as they are not indigenous to these lands.
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  14595.  @Patrick-y4d1z  Utter tosh. The indigenous peoples of Palestine are the Bedouin Jahalin, al-Kaabneh, al-Azazmeh, al-Ramadin and al-Rshaida, not the Jews. The Palestinians have just as much to a claim on Gaza as the Israelis on this basis, and indeed, arguably more of a claim if we’re going to go down the invidious DNA road. One other thing: if the Palestinians had been armed to the teeth over the decades and bankrolled, say, by China, in the way Israel has been bankrolled by America there is no way on Yahweh’s or Allah’s Earth Israel would be throwing its bullying (Israel state behaviour reminds me of the schoolyard bully par excellence) weight around in such a cavalier manner to this day. Imo, a huge part of the behaviour of the Israeli state since its founding can be explained that because of the Holocaust they feel they can do more or less what they want because of the natural sympathy the world has/had for their plight and what happened to Jews in WW2 and because they’re backed and armed to the teeth by America. That natural sympathy decreases by the day with Netanyahu’s reckless, scattergun actions.
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  14596.  @tomzed8696  Neither.👍
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  14597.  @NaturesGarlands  I think you misunderstand my “a little bizarre”. I was referring to the notion that a large tranche of Israelis appear to think their state’s behaviour over the past 75 years hasn’t contributed to what Hamas did in any way. Hamas is a symptom here (albeit a particularly nasty, vicious symptom), not the disease. That said, I’m aware that Hamas has in its founding charter the destruction of the Israeli state, so I’m in no way dismissing or underestimating their nastiness; however, I’m willing to bet very good money that the vast, vast majority of Palestinians would be quite willing to live peacefully side by side with Israel in their own state. Of course, even in these circumstances, groups like Hamas will still exist, no doubt, but a just peace granting the basic dignity and security and freedom that we all aspire to would go a long way to resolving this.
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  14598. @Real Aiglon Wow! You’re hardcore.
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  14599. Er, and how does that negate the fact millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration? I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia; Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
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  14600.  @nanikasan_  Go touch some Arab grass in Grasse and get back to me, as you’re currently not a reliable witness, sunshine. 👍👍👍
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  14601.  @nanikasan_  What am I talking about? ‘Is it me?’ 👈 You. Yes, it’s always you, petal. Now go away as this is deeply boring.
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  14602.  @nanikasan_  Huh? Again, that makes no sense. It’s you no one has the patience to read. You’re confusing other interesting people with yourself, darling. Fatal mistake. 👍👍👍
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  14603.  @nanikasan_  Just for the record, it’s always just you. Uh huh. 👍👍👍
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  14604.  @nanikasan_  But I did, darling. I just got bored after about 5 words of your holier than thou patronising lecture. Think on… 👍👍👍
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  14605.  @nanikasan_  Huh? Well, that makes no sense. But anyway… 🥱
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  14606.  @nanikasan_  One final thing, your patronising tone (“I’m clearly right and you have nothing of merit to say here”) is staggering and betrays a certain ‘the lady doth protest too much, methinks’. 👍👍👍
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  14607.  @nanikasan_  Incidentally, you completely missed my point about Grasse. It’s not I have a problem with Arabs living there; I have a problem when whole towns are, essentially, Arab. Or Jewish. Or Breton. Or whatever. No exaggeration. Everyone I saw was North African. No mixing. It was weird. And dangerous when you do this ghetto stuff.
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  14608.  @nanikasan_  Thanks for the long-winded, unnecessary history lesson. However, just for the record, no matter what you say, millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. Part (most?) of the reason Le Pen’s party almost got power here is people like you not honestly discussing this.👍I’m not anti-immigration; I’m just anti the insane numbers Western Europe has experienced/is experiencing these past few decades. It’s clearly out of control. Not targeted. A free for all. Immigration should should be strictly targeted to need. It shouldn’t be just some kind of ‘come hither and we’ll deal with you when you get here’. If you can’t see this, you are part of the problem.👍
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  14609.  @nanikasan_  I’m agnostic.
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  14610.  @nanikasan_  Just for the record, no matter what you say, millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. Part (most?) of the reason Le Pen’s party almost got power here is people like you not honestly discussing this.👍I’m not anti-immigration; I’m just anti the insane numbers Western Europe has experienced/is experiencing these past few decades. It’s clearly out of control. Not targeted. A free for all. Immigration should should be strictly targeted to need. It shouldn’t be just some kind of ‘come hither and we’ll deal with you when you get here’. If you can’t see this, you are part of the problem.👍
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  14611.  @nanikasan_  Islam. 👍😉
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  14612. Er, and how does that negate the fact millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration? I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia; Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
    1
  14613. Er, and how does that negate the fact millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration? I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia; Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
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  14614.  @ironbutterflyrusted  As I said. Just funny would be a start, son. As you were.
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  14615.  @ironbutterflyrusted  Just funny would be a start, son.
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  14616. God, that’s so 1975 it hurts. 🥱
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  14617. Yeah, but just be grateful your “newborn” isn’t transport.
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  14618. No it’s not. Seethe.
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  14619.  @astroboirap  Steady now. Sticking a 125 Inter-City up my bahookey could cause trouble. How about you take a chill-pill sweetie and get back in yer box.👍
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  14620.  @TN-ci4ox  And?
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  14621.  @Honking_Goose  Yes, I get that at the geopolitical level. I was just making the point that a great many Brits feel no real common ground with the rest of Europe. Brexit was a symptom of this, that’s all. If anything we look west to the Americans culturally. I get the point about NATO and, yes, 30 of us are under that protective umbrella.
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  14622.  @joshbentley2307  Tell that to the hardcore Brexiteers.
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  14623.  @joeblogs6598  *you’re And you’re an illiterate nobody.👍
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  14624.  @benbow7  Why is it that those who bore on about being ‘indigenous’ are almost without exception the last kind of people I would want to be indigenous with? 🤔
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  14625.  @joeblogs6598  Uh huh. So, in the same breath you have to demand the immediate repatriation of the millions of Europeans not currently living in Europe. Works both ways.👍
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  14626.  @MarchonWestminster  🥱
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  14627.  @MarchonWestminster  God, you’re boring. I’m done here, son.
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  14628.  @thematthew761  So, it’s ethnicity and language, then.
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  14629.  @alimohammad1934  Just for the record, Turkic-speaking Azerbaijanis (Azeris) make up some nine-tenths of Azerbaijan’s population; the remaining population comprises only small concentrations of minorities—among them, Lezgians (who speak a Caucasian language), Russians, and Armenians. You need a better researcher, as your current one is clearly crap.👍
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  14630.  @alimohammad1934  So it must be religion and language, then. Of course, the ethnic thing will be mixed in, too, notwithstanding what you say.
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  14631.  @vasudevsarvam6912  Well, there is that. 👍
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  14632. You people always say this stuff when you are not actually living in the country you are praising. Funny that. Dummy.
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  14633.  @Smellybridge99  White “grapes” or red? My mom is allergic to red. 🍇
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  14634.  @luckyluke1503  I personally would have no particular issue with people going around naked. Tribal peoples the world over do this. It’s a bit nippy here to do that, though. 🧊 Not sure why you say “especially women” though. Seems odd. Double standards. Rules for thee (a woman) and not for me (a man). Don’t be silly. Use your brain. Dummy.
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  14635.  @Smellybridge99  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  14636.  @HomeTravelGardenInspo  Er, I addressed that in my OP. Secularism was mentioned. You may have missed it.
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  14637. Yeah, but Murray still cuffed him at Wimbledon in 2013. New balls, please! 🎾
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  14638.  @The_Cadaver  Weird how all Arab nations are like Hell on Earth. 👈You. It’s not worth arguing with someone who has clearly made their mind up and won’t be swayed by anything. Your agenda blocks any way forward here.👍
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  14639.  @The_Cadaver  You’re confusing Hamas up with ordinary people who just want to live their lives in freedom and dignity like you or I.
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  14640.  @The_Cadaver  Weird how all Arab nations are like hell on Earth. 👈You. I was right. You have an agenda and that agenda isn’t just anti-Palestinian, it’s anti-Arab in toto! Ee bah gum!
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  14641.  @The_Cadaver  You sound like you have an agenda and that agenda is specifically anti-Palestinian. It can be smelled a mile off.
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  14642.  @The_Cadaver  That’s my point. Even then it wasn’t even 50%.
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  14643.  @The_Cadaver  Just for the record, Hamas polled just 44% of the vote in 2006. Worth thinking about.👍
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  14644. Have they looked for it in Meltbourne? ☢️
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  14645.  @hgbnkbggj2915  Seems like it.
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  14646.  @ian_r125  *That’s *beside
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  14647.  @richardgallagher4880  *you’re 🤓
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  14648.  @richardgallagher4880  Lol. It took you two full weeks to reply to this?! 🤣 Stop messing around with your boyfriend, Rich, ffs, man!😂
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  14649.  @James_Doyle83  Your cousin.
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  14650. People who can afford to pay.
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  14651.  @devianadkar7969  Lol. The police did a “great job”?!?! 🤣 24 days. Body 1 mile from the bench. A great job?! Yer ‘avin’ a larff, m8!
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  14652.  @Hocuspocus2718  That’s yet to be determined, Sherlock.
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  14653. 🤣
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  14654.  @juliebarks3195  “Equinox”: purveyors of “luxury fitness”; whatever the f*ck that might be.
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  14655. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. And, of course, those who lost their lives. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  14656.  @richardkent2014  Huh? And again, what does any of that have to do with my current feelings of distrust towards Islam? Yeah, nothing. 🤦‍♂️
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  14657.  @Chris-wyt  Huh?
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  14658.  @richardkent2014  For me, it’s got absolutely zero to do with nationality or provenance. I don’t care where Islam comes from. I just don’t trust it. That doesn’t mean I’m not civil to my Muslim colleagues and acquaintances, but if they start banning booze or dogs or dancing, they’re gonna have me to answer to. 😊 🕺 🍻 🐕
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  14659.  @alunjones3860  Huh? Why are directing that one at me? I’ve made it quite clear I see Islam as a threat to secular, liberal, democracy. I fear you have the wrong dude, Al.👍 I was just suggesting to the other dude that to moan about immigration as a paleface in a territory palefaces aggressively commandeered is a bit rich. It doesn’t work like that in a country built from scratch on immigration. You don’t get to pick and choose and pull up the drawbridge when it suits you in a country like Canada or the USA, Al. I’m sure you can see this, son.👍
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  14660.  @dipro001  Ok, son. You clearly know wtf yer on about even if no one else does. 👍🥴
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  14661.  @dipro001  I don’t even know what that means. But anyway. 🤦‍♂️
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  14662.  @dipro001 Yeah, but Canada and the US are slightly different, m8. These countries were both built on immigration. That’s part of the deal. To moan about immigration in these places is a bit like saying you don’t like Christians because they believe in Jesus! If you’re gonna have a country like Canada, you’re gonna have a few Indians and Chinese. It’s part of the deal. Paleface can’t have it all his own way in a territory he invaded in the first place. It doesn’t work like that.👍
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  14663. @MeshugaMatch-m6q One other thing: any religion/philosophy that doesn’t dig dogs is instantly suspect in my mind. Not only does it not dig dogs, but it actually forbids Muslims to own them. I repeat, if you’re gonna import that sh*t, keep it out of my life. There is a reason many Europeans are deeply suspicious of Islam and I’ve just outlined a few salient ones. Think on. 🐕
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  14664. @MeshugaMatch-m6q​​⁠Just learn to live without inventing an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. And if you’re gonna do this, just don’t impose that unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy on everyone else. It’s agnostic secularists like me in Europe who look askance at the en masse importation of a philosophy wholly at odds with secular liberal democracy. I don’t want you and your kind telling me what I can and cannot wear or telling me what I can and cannot drink or telling me I can’t have a boogie at my local nightclub. Representatives of your invisible sky daddy religion are imposing this sh*t wherever they go. I’m sure you’re bright enough to see there might be some kick-back to this. 👍
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  14665. Why should anyone be surprised by this? China is a Communist state run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Communism - theoretically, ideologically and historically - opposed God and all forms of religion. From the time of Karl Marx to today, communism is based on the abolition of religion. What did Marx say? “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.” Notwithstanding that the Chinese Constitution acknowledges freedom of religion and religious practice, when you have a specific region of the country that is almost majority Muslim (45% at the last census - the rest being Han Chinese), it’s no wonder Beijing is getting twitchy. This is a good example of if a country is going to have freedom of religion, it’s quite important that there is a broad and healthy mix. When one particular faith coagulates in one corner of the country, and this faith is anathema to the ruling regime, we can expect exactly what is happening; like the silencing of influential voices as with this lady. Add to this a strong Uyghur nationalist movement seeking independence and autonomy, and it only raises the stakes. It would be akin to having a Communist government in London and the whole of Scotland were Pakistani Muslim, say, and they were calling and agitating for a separate, autonomous Muslim state. Ethnicity and organised religion have so much to answer for.
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  14666. Most “Westerners” are enlightened and stopped reading fairy tales written by men 1000s of years ago in their childhood. Thank Christ.
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  14667.  @_ArsNova  Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨🙄 (Still upvoting himself, I see. 🤦‍♂️)
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  14668.  @Genessyss  You said: “Imho he shouldn’t even be allowed on EU soil on which he spat for decades.” So, what about all the Brexiteers who also ‘spat’ on EU soil for decades? Are they banned from taking a wee trip to the Costas? By your logic, they are. Maybe you should read yourself back every now and again before you type incriminating, foolish poppycock! 👍😉
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  14669.  @cliffhughes6010 Er, no it’s slightly different: these guys genuinely buy all the holy roller Islamic shit. Islam is different from Christianity. The latter went through a Reformation and was subject to the Enlightenment. Islam is at least 1,000 years behind, in this regard. Why it’s so dangerous is rather simple: its followers believe it uncritically the way Christians believed in Jesus at the time of the Crusades.
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  14670. That’s no way to talk about Volodymyr Zelensky!
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  14671. Most ‘far-right’ people I’m aware of just don’t trust Islam. It’s not necessarily a ‘far-right’ thing; it’s just not trusting an ideology that will take you over overnight if you let it. If that’s ‘far-right’, I’m far-right.
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  14672. ’Even’ if the state demands it?! More like especially if the state demands it!
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  14673. @0:50-0:59 Lol. Wakes up. Pouts. Looks quizzical. Sighs deeply. Lip-trills. Does Stan Laurel impression. Speaks! 🤣
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  14674.  @garthreid7114  Have you thought of a psychiatrist but not in that way? 🤔
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  14675. Comedian? Isn’t he the singer out of Manic Street Preachers? 🎸
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  14676. 🎵 Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow Shoot that Bolsonaro to my heart Shoot that poison arrow 🎶
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  14677.  svetozar milosevic  Uh huh. 🥸
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  14678.  svetozar milosevic  Righto, chum.👍
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  14679.  svetozar milosevic  Indeed. I concur.
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  14680.  svetozar milosevic  Lol.
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  14681.  Котлета Мудропутина  Quite frankly my dear fellow one needs no further ‘augmentation’; one is fine as one is: unaugmented.
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  14682.  svetozar milosevic  Er, quite.
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  14683. Wuhan !!! 🤧
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  14684.  @Onequietvoice  You got me, Charlie! 👍
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  14685.  @SeachGateINDIA  Er, where did I say India was ‘primitive’? That’s right: nowhere! Nice try, though. 👍
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  14686.  Dr.Kay_R  Lol. Says Mr Insecure Pretentious who wants randoms on YouTube to know he’s some kind of ‘doctor’. 🤦‍♂️
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  14687.  @riishith  It’s an accident of birth. You’ll be telling me next you’re more ‘proud’ of Earth than Mars. 🤦‍♂️
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  14688.  @vrutantshah7218  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  14689.  @jameschamberlain5817  As good a reason as any! 👍
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  14690. Because they could.
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  14691.  @tcphoto  Hmm… 🤔…
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  14692. Lol. I love how you’re bizarrely associating pompadours and thick-soled shoes with wealth. I’m aware of dozens of poor pompadour wearers wandering around in thick-soled shoes! 👍🤣
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  14693.  @jeffpliskin  🤣
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  14694.  @louderanimationTV  Lol@“the Bible is the sole source of truth”. 🤣 As far as I can see, the Bible is a barbaric piece of primitive manmade nonsense. Richard Dawkins summed this up rather nicely: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” He he. You still have a good day now. 👍🤣
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  14695.  @louderanimationTV  One final point: your hypocrisy is staggering when you talk of “brainwashing media”, for holy roller religious people, of any stripe, are possibly the most brainwashed people on this planet. You may need to rethink a few of your baseless ideas, son. 👍 Have a good day now!😉
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  14696.  @louderanimationTV  As for “God creating women after he created men”. Well, all I can say to that is that you precisely zero evidence for your claim. This makes you the most unreliable witness of all. Think on.😉
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  14697.  @louderanimationTV  Pmsl. 🤣You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be gay today having been heterosexual yesterday and vice-versa. You are the one “living under a rock”, pal.
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  14698.  @louderanimationTV  The very fact you have to assert that “women are gorgeous” as well as saying “I’m grateful just to be straight” also tells us you have deep doubts about your own sexuality!😂🤪 Freud would’ve had a field day with you, mate.
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  14699.  @louderanimationTV  “I am just grateful to be straight”: with that one line, you’re essentially telling us you’re intolerant of gays. Good grief. 🤦‍♂️
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  14700.  @louderanimationTV  Lol. Ok. Now I get it. Having looked at some of your other replies in other threads it seems we’ve got ourselves a holy roller. Ahahahaha. Well, you should have said that at the start. You believe in invisible sky daddies and adhere to primitive nonsense written by men thousands of years ago. That’s fine. Believe what you want. It’s a free world. Still doesn’t make sexuality a conscious choice and Leviticus just got this one wrong. 😉
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  14701.  @louderanimationTV  Wtf? 🥴 No idea what you are on about, mate; all I’m here to tell you is that no human being chooses their skin colour or chooses whom they fancy. This really isn’t that difficult.
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  14702.  @JeffreyGoddin  Triggered, much? 🤣
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  14703. 🤣 W⚓️ 🤌
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  14704. Lol. You are a right doofus, aren’t you, son? So, monkey-chanting is ok in your world is it? Jesus Christ. Seek help, knobhead. “Abit”?!?!!?!? 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😅🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅
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  14705. Er, why? Why is it any business of yours (or anyone else), what 2 consenting adults get up to? Stop twitching those grubby curtains, Bobby lad.
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  14706. *aren’t *you’re *? *.
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  14707.  @muckraker7942  “Pathetic”? Me? Lol. You hypocrite! There is absolutely no reason for you to get involved here. If you don’t like pizza, don’t eat it. If you don’t like coffee, don’t drink it. If you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one. Otherwise, a choice a woman makes about her own body is none of your damn business.
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  14708.  @Bungle-UK  👈Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  14709. Yes, but do you pray to Mecca 5 times a day Mo? 😉
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  14710.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😂😂🤣😅🥲😂🤣😂😂🤣😅😂😂😂😂😅🤣😂 Dipshit.
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  14711. You forgot 🦇 s.
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  14712.  @des_smith7658  Sam Matterface concurs.
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  14713.  @silver4831  Huh? 🤔
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  14714. *boy
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  14715.  @maggie6479  Most (all, actually) genuine dog owners I know, would not make their dog suffer. If this race attracts morons who mistreat dogs, I’m obviously against this. However, my basic point pertains: there is nothing the vast majority of dogs like more than a good run; on this basis, I have no essential beef with this.
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  14716.  @niblet112  Are you one of the shapeshifter lizard guys? Is that it? 🦎
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  14717.  @niblet112  If the reports are to be believed, already Russian soldiers surrendering.
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  14718.  @niblet112  Can I ask you something, mate? What do you think NATO wants? The NATO endgame? Subjugation and subsuming of Russia within its orbit, is that it? Is it looking to spread its tentacles as far as possible?👀
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  14719.  @niblet112  I didn’t say anybody could stop it. I think the only way this’ll end badly for Putin is an internal putsch, something of that sort. It’s clear the USA/NATO want/need Ukraine in its orbit of influence, and Putin knows this. It’s just a classic power struggle, to me. If there’s no deposition of Putin from within, the Russian army will crush Ukraine, but the aftermath will be no plain sailing for the Russians. All second guessing, really. For those not ‘inside’ it’s all guesswork, really. ☮️
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  14720.  @niblet112  Too conspiratorial for me, mate. I just don’t buy that narrative. No real evidence for what you’re claiming. I don’t deny a certain one-sidedness in our media but I shop around for my news and the narrative of Putin wanting Ukraine for the greater Russia holds for me.
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  14721.  @niblet112  I tend to disagree. I don’t buy the media narrative wholesale, of course, but for me there’s far too much of a conspiratorial attitude towards it. I see Putin going after what he feels is rightfully his. A majority of Ukrainians are looking west. This is the bottom line for me. The will of the people as far as we can institute it.👀
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  14722.  @niblet112  So the world lets Putin get on with it in Ukraine? If not, what do you suggest?
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  14723.  @niblet112  While the Americans have blood on their hands all down their timeline since 1620, to call Putin a ‘pussycat’ is stretching the credibility of even the most non-tendentious of onlookers. He expunges enemies with impunity. The list of people suspected murdered on orders from the Russian leader or people close to him is long. He imprisons dissenters without a second thought. According to a list from Russian human-rights group Memorial, there were 102 people held in Russian prisons for their political beliefs as of 2016. In this, Putin’s Russia was continuing Tsarist and Soviet traditions, sending political dissenters to Siberia or to work camps as in Stalinist days. He occupies foreign territory. He annexed Crimea in 2014 and started sponsoring rebels in eastern Ukraine. He quashes opposition ruthlessly, as befitting the dictator for par excellence. Russia has suppressed political opposition using an arsenal of techniques. These range from laws limiting free assembly and other civil rights 3, to jailing protestors for vague offenses such as “hooliganism,” to using the notoriously corrupt courts to convict opponents of embezzlement or tax fraud, to straightforward police intimidation, as well as murder. Prominent opponents have been forced into silence or exile. He abets some of the world’s most egregious bloodshed. For example, seeking to gain influence in the Middle East, Putin supported the murderous regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in what was then the deadliest war of the 21st century. Russia’s military help was priceless to Assad. Western powers and the UN accused the alliance of indiscriminately targeting civilians. And now he’s just launched a merciless offensive against a self-governing sovereign territory, while threatening the rest of us with nuclear annihilation into the bargain. Pussy cat? Nah. 🐈‍⬛
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  14724. If you believe some people we are a movie, playing for the grotesque satisfaction of some Master of the Universe. We are all Truman Burbanks. 🍿
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  14725.  @babalonkie *I
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  14726.  @babalonkie *I
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  14727. *should have
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  14728. Drone Jet and the Blackguards! 🎸
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  14729.  @Make_America_Native_Again_111  Doesn’t make him any less guilty, m8. Bad luck.👍
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  14730. Yeah, Jimmy Savile was a Muslim. 🤦‍♂️
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  14731. It’s not ‘ageism’ per se; it’s to do with Biden’s faculties. He could be 55 and still be a dithering, lost old(ish) fool. It just so happens that at 81 he’s far more likely to be a fully-certified dithering lost old fool and should not have his tired fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.
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  14732. He’s blind, you tit. Wtf is wrong with your eyesight? And grammar: *guy’s
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  14733.  @MahloudMahloud  Huh? 🤔 Have you read your Koran lately? You must have a different, bowdlerised copy to mine which says: (9:5) “And when the forbidden months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them and take them prisoners, and beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, then leave their way free. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.” Now call me “modern”, but I refuse to put one ounce of my faith and mental energy in a book which explicitly tells me to “kill the idolaters”. The sooner humanity can get beyond these primitive, barbaric texts penned by men thousands of years ago, the better.
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  14734.  @mxx369  “The only way justice will prevail on Earth is through the rule of Islam.” 1. Bollocks! 2. Over my dead body. 3. Leave those of us who are atheist/agnostic out of your religious dictatorship fantasies. I refuse the “rule of Islam”: what are you going to do?
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  14735. To be fair, in their home games, the Forest attacks were well covered on Match of the Day.
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  14736.  @sexynelson100  Btw, are you the fella that went viral filming the planes at Heathrow?
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  14737. I don’t have a brother.
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  14738. What’s even more bizarre is that someone called “ moon rosetarot” is telling us this. 🌝
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  14739. Quite right to lift martial law. Anthony Martial was always shit for Man Utd. Denis Law was better. Let’s have Denis Law, not martial law.
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  14740. Lol.
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  14741.  @ragerancher  👍
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  14742.  @ragerancher  Er, where did I say Trump was ‘better’ than Biden? I just said that America is likely to vote for Trump when faced with Biden at this point. I didn’t necessarily approve of this as I stated I don’t hold a candle for either of them.
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  14743. Lol. I thought you were gonna tell us all we “don’t fear death but the way we die”, for a second there.😳
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  14744.  @JeffreyGoddin  Huh? Wtf are you babbling on about now, Jeffey? I think, because you’re mentally-challenged, you missed my point about language. Read it again and learn, petal.
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  14745.  @kennarajora6532  Is that because Putin is a Pedigree Chump? 🐕 I’ll let myself out.
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  14746.  @rleriche5044  Low IQ comment on a basically spot-on comment.
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  14747. Walter Pidgeon.
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  14748. Yeah, that’ll be why, arguably the most famous scientist of all time, was one of the founding members of the German Democratic Party. 🤦‍♂️
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  14749.  @rosielee9973  Hmmmm …🤔
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  14750.  @Hexed_Precinct  Lol.
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  14751.  @fossils-z9d  Er, “Philip” and “Phillip” are different. One has an extra “l”. Yes, I judge people on their basic grammar and spelling and would that there were more like me in “modern society”. You, for example, need to learn about capital letters and full-stops, as you read like a 7 year old without a basic education. Seethe.
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  14752.  @garyjohnson..  Yes it is.
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  14753. *These Chaddy, I missed this one. You need to tighten up yer spelling and grammar, son.😉
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  14754. Lol. Because of a bit of spam “society is fucked”?! 🤣 You need to get out more, m8.👍
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  14755. Klimt died years ago, m8.👍
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  14756. @1:52 “Unprovoked”. Keep hearing that. I’m no fan of Putin. To the contrary, in fact, as I disdain his illegal invasion of a sovereign, self-governing territory. However, this war was hardly ‘unprovoked’. Post the Cold War NATO expressly promised not to expand “one inch” east towards Russia. For the past 30 years, like a slowly rising tide, it has been flowing towards the east and is now just about lapping onto Russian shores. We need to be honest here. NATO’s pledge not to expand, and the subsequent abandonment of that promise explicitly provoked Putin and Russia. This is an important context (perhaps the key context) to understand the Russian view of US policies, especially so given the ample warnings from US diplomats and foreign policy experts down the years that expanding NATO was liable to poke the Russian bear.
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  14757.  @jimohara  Lol. Not sure if you’re actually living on the same planet as the rest of us. You could be a loving, married couple, for example, and through no fault of your own, a condom could split. By your insane rules, you’ll be telling us next that married couples shouldn’t have sex unless they’re not prepared to risk a split rubber johnny and a possible unwanted pregnancy!? What a complete doofus you are mate. 🤣Just keep yer neb out of other people’s business would be my sincere advice, Jimbo, as you clearly have no idea wtf you’re on about.
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  14758.  @Robespierre-lI  👍I’m honestly ok with it. They have their right to their opinion. I just happen to disagree with the pro-life stance, and particularly the pro-life stance which would seek a blanket ban on all abortion, of which this case above isn’t one, I realise. The issue in these cases is often people just not being able to tolerate another’s different point of view. I’m fine that others have a different POV, but it often seems they can’t cope with someone else’s POV (and particularly religiously-motivated ppl in this particular debate), as this Comment thread witnesses.
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  14759.  @kevinb9830  Ok, it’s “clearly not her own body”. That your “fact”? Fine. I still have no issue with a raped woman choosing to abort a foetus before 24 weeks. You can disagree. That’s fine. I’m ok with that, Kev. Nice try, though, “factually-correct” or not, son.👍😉
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  14760.  @kevinb9830  K. I’ve said all I want to say on this topic. See above. 👆
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  14761.  @sebastianguerre6868  I wouldn’t. Because they are not unborn foetuses. Imo, aborting a foetus in the womb of a raped woman is 100% the right of that woman to choose. That is my opinion. I have no issue with it morally, aside from the one of causing unnecessary physical pain. You clearly disagree. That’s fine. I have no problem with that, either.
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  14762.  @Iconoclasher  Which bit? Lol.🤣
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  14763.  @kant.68  Just for the record, there’s good evidence to show that the prevalence of homosexuality in jails is actually due to the men in question having latent previously unacknowledged homosexual tendencies that are simply activated by the opportunity presented in the all-male tightly-closed community of a jail.
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  14764.  @Lilia.....  Huh? Have you never heard of objective philosophical debate? A large part of philosophy is moral philosophy like this debate. All I was asking in my OP is if there are no actual humans involved in AI generated imagery can we call it ‘immoral’? If we’re going to take the line you’re suggesting then we’re on a slippery slope where we’d be banning violent video games/movies and most of Western literature would have to be consigned to the flames. I’m presuming your “God” is a Christian version, and in that case, a case could be made for removing all imagery involving the violent, brutal crucifixion of Jesus on the grounds it’s an incitement to others.
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  14765.  @Lilia.....  K. I respect your right to your opinions but I wholly disagree with those opinions. That’s fine. We can agree to disagree. 😊
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  14766.  @Lilia.....  As to “God never giving you the wrong person to love”; tell that to the millions of women the world over who have been abused/murdered by the partners God “gave them” to love. 🤦‍♂️
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  14767.  @Lilia.....  Sorry. As soon as you bring “God” and the “Devil” into this debate, you lose me. Nice try, though.👍
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  14768.  @Iconoclasher  Yes, but the photo involves living human beings capable of pain/suffering; 100% AI generated stuff doesn’t. That’s the difference, morally.
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  14769.  @evonne315  Bs. If it’s 100% AI generated there are precisely zero victims here. That’s the whole point.
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  14770.  @gertrudelaronge6864  You are an enabler. You need to be very careful. That’s essentially libellous. You’re so triggered and stupid that you can’t engage in a simple philosophical debate without subjectivising it. At no stage of this debate have I said I have no personal problem with these AI images; on the contrary, I have stated that I am personally disgusted by it but you’re too lazy and stupid and have too much of an agenda to see this.
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  14771.  @gertrudelaronge6864  You’re not very bright are you? This is a report about artificially generated images. The clue’s in the title: AI image generators … No victims. 😉
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  14772.  @JeffreyGoddin  Wow Jeffey! And only a couple of months ago you were reporting me for my suggestive name. You’ve changed. 🤫😉
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  14773.  @kant.68  What are both mental disorders?
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  14774.  @MinkieWinkle  I never denied Russia started it. I just said it was a proxy war; convenient in many ways (politically, economically, socially) for NATO to have Ukraine hold the front line on its behalf. S’all.
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  14775.  @MinkieWinkle  It’s a proxy war. Get over it.
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  14776.  @danvincent2600  Well, that would be a difference. But a tank? Not really.
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  14777. Lovely to see this as the antidote to a benighted hellhole like Uganda. 👍 Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  14778. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 😳
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  14779. Really. Stop projecting. Pure: promises so much but delivers so little.
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  14780. Anyone with a Seoul has to be moved by these scenes.
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  14781. 🎶 Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like 🎵
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  14782.  @Knowledgeproduction448  Lol. At least you admit you upvote yourself!😂
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  14783. So much so, you upvote yourself.🤓
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  14784.  @julia2k8 Still a Virgin, Jools? 😉 Never mind. You keep grooming those young lesbians you so lust after, sweetie. 👍
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  14785.  @julia2k8 Not a bot. Tragically.
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  14786.  @TheAArmstrong  But I can provide a response. And I did. You may have missed it. 👍
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  14787.  @kimberlygarrett1485  Er, why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  14788.  @markwidgery1922  No I’m not. Humans migrate. We’ve been doing that since we came out of Africa. It’s a common theme. Get with the gig.👍*it’s
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  14789.  @annabellesapphire  No I’m not. Humans migrate. We’ve been doing that since we came out of Africa. It’s a common theme. Get with the gig.👍
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  14790.  @bartholomewdan  Good man.
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  14791.  @bartholomewdan  M8. This is getting boring. Move on. We more or less agree that a little immigration controlled by the host country isn’t a bad thing. 👍
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  14792.  @bartholomewdan  Just for the record: I live in a tenement of at least 25 people top to bottom. Of those people, I can count 7 nationalities. We all get on like a house on fire. My only ever issues with immigration were 2-fold: 1. It should be strictly controlled by the host nation. 2. As an agnostic, I wholly mistrust all organised religion, but it seems to me there is a certain cohort of Muslims who want to impose their ways and mores and religious laws wherever they go. I find that anathema. The rest? Poles, Spanish, Chinese, Indians, Americans, Malays, Thais, Japanese etc etc. I have zero issue with. One final thing, in my experience, those who bang on about ‘indigenous’ this and ‘indigenous’ that are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to share my genes with. Facts. By this I mean that they are, again almost without exception, badly educated, incurious, staggeringly dull and here’s the utterly ironic clincher: almost to a man and a woman they have worse basic English skills than those migrants they bemoan! Ta da! 🎉
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  14793.  @bartholomewdan  We basically agree re: uncontrolled immigration, m8. I think you have the wrong fella here.
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  14794.  @bartholomewdan  Another thing, just for the record: I feel in no way my identity culturally decreases with a bit of controlled immigration; on the contrary, it’s only enriched me as a human being and made me more interesting, at least to myself, if no one else.
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  14795.  @bartholomewdan  Just for the record: kebabs aren’t “Arabic”; they’re Persian via Turkey. 👍😉
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  14796.  @bartholomewdan  That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion.👍
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  14797.  @bartholomewdan  No. I never got this “let’s preserve some kind of ethnic purity” crap, whether it’s in the Amazon or anywhere else. 👍
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  14798.  @bartholomewdan  It isn’t, in my view. I give not a sh*t about your “indigenousness” or otherwise. 👍
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  14799. So? Ronald Reagan was a ham actor. John Major was the son of a trapeze artist. Very often, it’s those who have come from ‘civvy street’ who make the best statespeople.
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  14800. Who needs aliens coming to destroy us when we seem to be able to accomplish that for ourselves? 👽
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  14801. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, if one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddy’s in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  14802. I can’t be sure Putin is consciously channeling Blofeld, but if you see him stroking a white pussy anytime soon, we may be in even more trouble. It doesn’t help that the literal translation of ‘Vladimir’ is ‘world ruler’. Here’s hoping he hasn’t heard of the theory of nominative determinism. 🐈
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  14803.  @freshfrozen3035  Never mind ‘mixing’. Organised religion, along with nationalism, based on a random, arbitrary accident of birth is the most baleful blight on our species. Nietzsche looked this squarely in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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  14804. I swear human beings are the worst thing to happen to us as a species. Blaming nuclear weapons is like blaming guns for every person killed by a gun. 💣
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  14805. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  14806. @thecatcybelle All of it! The human predicament is terrifying! What are you? A robot?
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  14807. @thecatcybelle Wtf. are you on about? How can you change the human predicament? We are born, we die. That’s scary. 🤦‍♂️
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  14808. @thecatcybelle Oh, get real ffs. If you don’t think the world (and by extension, life) is a bloody scary experience, you’re not living on the same planet as I!
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  14809. @thecatcybelle Er, doesn’t make what right?
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  14810.  @TheAArmstrong  Yes, I think you care, Bobby! 🤣👍
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  14811.  @TheAArmstrong  Lol. You can’t take criticism, son. I called out yer animation thing and you cried all the way hame tae yer mammy! 😭
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  14812.  @TheAArmstrong  You were right to turn the comments off, Bobby. 👍
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  14813.  @TheAArmstrong  Lol. Got you, Bobby. I was trying to work out why you were stalking me, Bobby. I criticised yer ‘first animation’ and you couldn’t get over it. My God. You need a pair of balls, son. 👍 🏀 🏀
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  14814.  @TheAArmstrong  No. Anti-Israel v Anti-Jew? Big difference. You’re another moron who can’t see this, cuz yer leftist instincts won’t let you. 🤦‍♂️
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  14815.  @TheAArmstrong < Stalker vibes. 🤦‍♂️
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  14816.  @TheAArmstrong  Er, why should I delete stuff I believe in? Who are you? Hitler? 🤦‍♂️
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  14817.  @TheAArmstrong The bizarre thing here, Bobby, is that we essentially agree. You agree that being ‘indigenous’ with a moron like Jason would be terrible. Just admit this and we can all move on. 👍
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  14818.  @TheAArmstrong No, you sound triggered. You came for me, son. I was just making the very obvious point, Bobby, that being ‘indigenous’ with an unthinking, uneducated, uneverything moron like Jase is not something I’d be keen on. It’s only insecure, uneducated, thick morons who bang on about being ‘indigenous’, Bobby. Are you one of them? 🤔
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  14819.  @TheAArmstrong  Ok, so we agree. No one wants to be ‘indigenous’ with Jason. Why didn’t you just say that, sweetheart?
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  14820.  @TheAArmstrong Huh? I fear you have the wrong fella, dear. Have you missed a dose of your meds, m8? Get on it.👍😉
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  14821.  @TheAArmstrong You just can’t cope, Bobby, when I state that you are the last person I would wanna be ‘indigenous’ with! 🎉 And thank Christ, I’m not Bobby! 🤪
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  14822. Yeah, after Salmond and Sturgeon? Cod, it’s tough to say. I’m floundering. Not even sure Richard Herring qualifies. Most politicians are a bunch of looney tunas anyway. Whoever it is, the sole aim of the sharks on the opposite benches will be to trout the SNP at the next election; no halibuts about it!
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  14823. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  14824. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  14825.  @ImperatorOfCum  Majority will of Ukraine looks west, not east. Fact. Deal with it.
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  14826.  @jhanavkant3038  What is wrong with it is that the majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin’s Russia. That’s what’s wrong with it. See? That wasn’t difficult now was it?
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  14827. Tbh, quite surprised Yousaf ditched the Green Party. Let’s face it, they’re not the ‘White Party’, are they?
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  14828.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Uh huh. Straight out your playbook, Johnny lad. Hypocrite.🤣
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  14829. Lol. You are poorly educated and should probably stick to video games or Hollywood movies.
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  14830. Hope they find them alive.👍 What’s quite interesting here is that apparently the Earth’s oceans have an average depth of 3,800m and the Titanic lies at exactly a depth of 3,800m!
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  14831. Very very frightening. Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia figaro!
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  14832.  @dabblerdeluxe775 *Men
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  14833.  @davedaves3489  *mother’s Good grief, Davey lad. You’re a f*cking disaster, son. 🤦‍♂️
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  14834.  @davedaves3489  I don’t care wtf you’re doing, Dave. If you can’t slip in a basic possessive apostrophe when English is your first language, you need drastic remedial action, son.👍
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  14835. Not sure I can take anyone seriously who’s clearly unaware of the possessive apostrophe, Davey. *Don’t *Israel’s Are you not ashamed?
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  14836.  @S.H.A.D.O.Banner Yes, you were. You stand corrected. 👍
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  14837.  @evonne315  That’s just not true. Van Gogh was utterly ignored by everyone, died, got famous and now everybody loves him.
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  14838. It’s called ‘self-determination’, m8. 👍
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  14839.  @brunofernandez3117  Yeah, not “particularly”, huh? That was why you were insanely ranting against “sodomy” in a recent post, was it? I’ve never met anybody who rails against sodomy but those nutters that believe in invisible sky daddies! 🤣😉
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  14840.  @brunofernandez3117  And stop believing in invisible sky daddies, Bruno, as there are few things more “cringe” than that. 😉
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  14841.  @mathisyahu7945  The kind of “clown” that doesn’t believe in invisible sky daddies. 🤣😂🤣 🤡
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  14842. @Iridescent Better than you, son. 😉
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  14843. @Iridescent *. 👈 You really do need to learn how to deploy the full-stop, sweetie, as not using it makes you look a bit illiterate! 🤡
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  14844. @Iridescent I’ve said it twice today. Cope better.
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  14845. @Iridescent Did they not teach you the full-stop in your kindergarten, petal? *. *. *. *. Dearie, dearie me.
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  14846. Born?
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  14847. Really? I’m ok with it. 😊
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  14848.  @mathisyahu7945  “Atheist”?! Who said I was atheist? You need to get a better researcher, son.
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  14849.  @mathisyahu7945  It’s all about the non-existent invisible sky daddies, Matty. You are a such a weak individual that you base your life on a NOTHING ! 🤣😂🤣😂🤡🤡🤡🤡
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  14850.  @mathisyahu7945  Cope and seethe, Mathis. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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  14851.  @mathisyahu7945  DREAMONLOSER
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  14852. Dream on, loser.
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  14853.  @CelticSaint  Last time I checked, in 2006 44% of Palestinians voted for Hamas. Nice try, though.👍
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  14854. Why should you desire, like a fascist, that other people ‘dress like you’ or ‘act like you’? What makes your manner so desirable to others?
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  14855.  @oldcremehelian3708  Can’t be much worse.
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  14856.  @yasuke1280  Jesus, you are seriously boring, son. 🥱
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  14857.  @yasuke1280  Projecting again, petal? Uh huh.🤣🤡
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  14858.  @keithteach5649  There are my “facts” and there are your “facts” when it comes to history, Keithy; ole Bonaparte was just pointing this out for the likes of you. 😉
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  14859.  @yasuke1280  Who’s ‘simpin’ now, bruh? 👍🥸🤣
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  14860.  @josepha.r5839  It’s boring. We need to get beyond defining ourselves in religious and nationalistic terms. It’s petty, tribal, stupid, unevolved and not worthy of thinking human beings. Religion (particularly organised religion) and nationalism which are both essentially accidents of birth have driven the human species crazy for as long as they have been around. So M stated a few things that could be historically true? And? So what? I could state a few things on behalf of the other side that are equally true and we go on stating our respective “truths”, meanwhile forgetting we are both human beings and essentially exactly the same. All this tribal shit is killing us, has killed us and will go on killing us unless we grow and evolve and come into the sunny uplands where primitive texts written by men thousands of years ago mean nothing right now and nationalism is just a random accident of birth and to hitch your core identity to something so arbitrary is a sure sign of madness.
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  14861.  @thesalandarian3314  Incidentally, you are a rank hypocrite because I bet you wouldn’t tolerate radical Islam setting up its own independent constitution within the UK based on Sharia law, yet you do that very thing. Astounding double-standards. Separate rules for me but not for thee. 🛋
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  14862. Google’s great, eh?! 👍
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  14863.  @thesalandarian3314  Seethe more, son. 🤣
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  14864.  @thesalandarian3314  Yeah, you’re right. You don’t give a toss that it looks like Israel is just gonna have to live with the Palestinians! 🤣
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  14865.  @tastypymp1287  I never mentioned “Zionism”: get to Specsavers. 🤓
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  14866.  @MrG3ST  Well, given that the Israel/Palestine thing is rooted originally in organised religion (now overlaid with toxic nationalism) I thought it would’ve been bleedin’ obvious, mate.
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  14867.  @MrG3ST  What am I saying? Oh, did you miss it first time round? Ok, for your benefit: Organised religion and nationalism are possibly the two greatest disasters humankind has had the misfortune to invent. You’re welcome.
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  14868. 😂
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  14869.  @fernandosuba9163  “Allah”?! 🥴🤣
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  14870. 🤣
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  14871.  @tfhssn  At least I can spell basic words. 😉
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  14872.  @tfhssn  *to
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  14873.  @MelioraCogito  Omg. You completely missed the point. What a muppet you are. It means you can have a ferry system and it can be wonderful and beautiful and small af. Dear God, seek help for your literalist tendencies. 🤦 Google, in this case, isn’t your friend with your copy and paste crap! 🐒
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  14874.  @anglebars6084  Huh? You’re all over the places here, petal. I just said Scotland’s scenery, to anyone who has seen about more than 5 places, and isn’t automatically hypnotised by a random accident of birth, is deeply underwhelming. Seethe and seethe again.
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  14875.  @tessforbes8687  Oh yes I do, Tess, babes. Cope and seethe better.
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  14876.  @ewan8947  I refer you to the answer I gave to Celtic Boy 2 minutes ago.😉
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  14877.  @GlasgowCelticBhoy  You sound deeply triggered. Get over it. Switzerland just is at least 10x more stunning visually than Scotland. If you didn’t secretly know this, you wouldn’t be crying, Celtic Boy.😉
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  14878.  @GlasgowCelticBhoy  Australia is another underwhelming place. No mountains to speak of and when you’ve seen one beach you’ve seen them all. Also, why does it not surprise me that someone called GlasgowCelticBhoy would leap to the defence of Scotland when it’s called out for its relatively mediocrity visually. I know these things tend to be subjective, but if you ask 100 people which is more visually stunning: Switzerland or Scotland, willing to put my mortgage on it that about 95% would say the former. Some things just are more impressive than others however you wanna spin them, son. Nice try, though.👍
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  14879.  @ewan8947  Yeah, but with a name like ‘Ewan’ we all get where your loyalties are gonna lie. No, I meant what I said word for word; comparatively-speaking, Scotland’s scenery is deeply underwhelming. Just over the Channel you have the 4,000m+ staggering majesty of the Alps and the 3,000m+ sublimity of the Pyrenees: proper mountain systems with foothills and changes of scenery at every turn. Scottish scenery, to me, is just one bleak blob, really, sans majesty and sans sublimity. If you call yourself a mountainous country, for me the minimum is 3,000m or you don’t qualify. We have hills, at best. I see mild diversion when I look upon Scotland’s scenery; not the quite literally breath-taking, jaw-dropping beauty and sublimity of the Bernina Express route in Switzerland, for example, or the wonderful sense of sheer 3,000m walls of rock rising metres away from you as you take the train from Toulouse to Latour de Carol in France, as another example. I’ve tripped the West Highland Line a couple of times: it doesn’t compare to its aforementioned European cousins and so, so many other places around the world I could name in 25 seconds.
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  14880.  @ewan8947  When it comes to mountains, it is, chummo.😉 ⛰
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  14881.  @just_kos99  Yeah, but I don’t get those who rave about Scottish scenery. Comparatively, it’s deeply underwhelming. You mention Canada (or just over the border from Canada) where in that exact region you have several staggering mountains (including St Helen’s, although not quite as large and spectacular as the mountains surrounding it) towering over 4,000m while all Scotland can manage is a wee hill called Ben Nevis at about 1,300m. Never got the ‘Scotland is stunningly beautiful’ thang. It’s mildly attractive, at best.
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  14882. No.
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  14883.  @ivaneames4354  I agree with much of what you say, but the Christians were doing just the same for centuries. Christianity has been defanged (than God!); Islam hasn’t. I just wish humans would stop asserting and basing their being on some unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. 👍
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  14884.  @TexasHoosier3118  You’re just brainwashed, petal. Ain’t it convenient that you’re in a country where 80% of the folk believe in your particular invisible sky daddy? No doubt if you’d been born in Baghdad, or Beijing or Birmingham, UK, you’d be saying something different. 👍✌️
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  14885. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  14886.  @Krytern  ‘Twas a joke, m8. Have a good day.👍
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  14887. One look at that bloated, speccy, ghost-like face … “yup, that’s him.”
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  14888. Are you an idiot or are you an idiot? Can someone tell me?
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  14889.  @romorobloxkalubi5372  Huh? 🤔
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  14890.  @peakmiez7825  They tell me Switzerland is very pretty at this time of the year. 🏔 🇨🇭
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  14891.  @romorobloxkalubi5372  Yes, but can we have that in English please?
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  14892. This war just highlights the utter arbitrary nature of nation states. Just lines, drawn invariably by men, on maps. To hitch your core identity to an accident of birth, on an accident of a random line drawn on a map is deeply primitive and unworthy of thinking beings. The sooner humanity gets beyond nationalism and organised religion, the better.
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  14893. *It’s *It’s Get it right or stfu.👍
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  14894. He may be. Doesn’t prevent him from being quite possibly the best player who ever lived.
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  14895.  @engliterra355  Wrong again, sonny! 🤣 Anti-imperialist here! More copium? 😂
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  14896.  @engliterra355  Away you go, pal. Tail between your legs. 🤣 🐕
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  14897.  @engliterra355  Where did I say some countries were ‘bad’ and some ‘good’? Every country is surely a mix of the two to varying degrees. You’re just triggered that Russia has been called out for an illegal invasion. Cope better.🤣
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  14898.  @engliterra355  Where there’s a will, there’s a way. There’s clearly no will on the part of Poland, Hungary and Romania to invade another sovereign territory; if there were, they’d find a way.
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  14899.  @Falcon6598  *that’s
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  14900.  @dobrasilaomundo.8086  sniffs
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  14901.  @ami4302  What you get ‘out of it’ is protection from what Putin is currently doing, although, given how half-crazed he seems, even that is open to question.
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  14902. Don’t talk too soon, chum. I hate to put the frighteners on you, but if Putin ultimately gets his way in Ukraine, I doubt he’ll stop there. If he so much as lays a finger on any NATO country, Article 5 states that the rest go to the defence of the attacked. I don’t know if you were aware of the several reports over the past few years of Russian bombers buzzing British airspace and the RAF being scrambled to intercept; trust me, if NATO gets involved, then these bombers will be buzzing more than just our airspace: they’ll be buzzing the very bricks and mortar of our cities, just as they are doing to Ukraine as we speak.🤔
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  14903. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one: two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  14904. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  14905.  @thnktank1  Lol. Just checked you out! Are your, er, cock-rings handmade?🥸
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  14906.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower Last time I checked, the UK’s renewables electricity generation was 47%. That 14% is just a lie to support an agenda.
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  14907.  @ТатьянаИлющенко-ы5н  I don’t think anyone is a hero. You must be confusing me with someone else, pal.
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  14908. Is it? How tvactive is it?
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  14909.  @burntupretardporn  Lol.
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  14910. Well, tbf, if she’s straddling Jude, she is.
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  14911. Don’t be a silly boy, Brucie. Given that we don’t consciously choose our sexuality, homosexuality is naturally spread evenly throughout the world. Nice try though, sweetheart. You stick to your hats and all the homosexual connotations implied therein. Village People. Just sayin’! 🤠 👍 🤡
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  14912. Quelle surprise! Wherever there is the strong risk of electoral fraud, notably in more obviously corrupt countries, without a long tradition of free and fair elections, there is a strong case to be made that the whole process be organised and administrated by a wholly neutral team parachuted into the given country for a given Election.
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  14913.  @SenorSol Lmao. I’ve just read one of your other comments: you’re not a fan of Hindus are you? 😂👍
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  14914.  @Casper_7-7  Everything that is mentioned in the 7 seals has been happening ever since humans have walked the Earth anyway. It’s nothing new. If you guys read more than just 1 book once in a while you would know this.
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  14915.  @Casper_7-7  The trouble with you Christian literalists is that nothing you say can be taken seriously. Why? Because Christians, quite literally, have been telling us of Jesus’ imminent return for 2,000 years. It doesn’t work like that. You don’t spend 2,000 years telling the rest of us about the ‘imminent’ return of someone. The clue’s in the word - imminent: ‘about to happen’. Jesus’ return, according to you brainwashed sods, has been ‘about to happen’ for fully 2,000 years!
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  14916.  @Casper_7-7  Blah, blah, blah.
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  14917.  @Casper_7-7  Blah, blah, blah.
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  14918.  @TheSMR1969  Hmmm … 🤔
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  14919. She’s looking her age these days, though.
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  14920.  @NationalYouth677  Not at all. I just don’t dig illegal invasions of sovereign states by dictators.
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  14921. Trouble is, John, that this idea has been, as per usual, hijacked by the political right and the left and as with global warming, never the twain shall meet. As a liberal centrist, the 15-minute city is nothing more than what humans have been doing since we lived together in clusters of houses. Ever heard of villages? I have no intrinsic problem with the idea in theory; in practice, if my wider freedom to move is in any way curtailed, like you, my hackles will be raised.
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  14922.  @oldreliable60  You do. I draw many of my white lines in Amsterdam!
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  14923.  @burnaardnufc3173  Er, that was the original gag! Wtf. 🤦‍♂️
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  14924.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty for no apparent reason at all.
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  14925.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and triggered by absolutely everything.
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  14926.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and triggered by absolutely everything.
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  14927.  @tastypymp1287  Seriously though, man, are you not embarresed? (sic)😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣
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  14928.  @tastypymp1287  *Amsterdam’s You really don’t know what a possessive apostrophe is, do you? Good grief. 🤦‍♂️
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  14929.  @HattieMcDanielonaMoon  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  14930. Very poorly commented on. Unnecessary spelling mistakes my 3 week old pet chimp wouldn’t make. *speech *pronunciation 🐵
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  14931. Without sex you wouldn’t be here. As for dope, well, everyone smokes that quite openly these days.
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  14932.  @tastypymp1287  The 👿 can cite Scripture for his purpose.😉
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  14933.  @tastypymp1287  I only get “hung up” on spelling with numpties who can’t spell. 😉
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  14934.  @tastypymp1287 *appalling spelling, son.
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  14935.  @tastypymp1287  It’s just about any index you care to mention, TastyTwat. I just Googled ‘world’s safest cities’ and in every single survey Amsterdam’s in the top 10. Another shot of copium, sweetie? 😉
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  14936.  @julierogers1155  It’s also still to be enforced in Amsterdam. I repeat: Venice moved first on this; not Amsterdam. Facts.
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  14937.  @albertmarnell9976  Huh? Why are you telling me this?
    1
  14938.  @tastypymp1287  Uh huh. That’ll be why it's considered one of the safest cities in the world, ranking 6th in The Economist's Safe Cities Index. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, SaltyTwat.
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  14939.  @lawrencekling8598  I said that.
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  14940. @@user-er1fp9ez6y According to ‘WorldData’ in 2017, the Netherlands had 17.92 million international tourists; in 2018, 18.78 million; in 2019, 20.13 million; in 2020 7.27 million (Covid year). The vast majority of these tourists also visit Amsterdam. Just saying.
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  14941.  @lv__426  But I don’t understand if you are for the cruise ship ban or not?
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  14942. @@user-er1fp9ez6y Why are you telling me this?
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  14943.  @lv__426  No, not that; I mean in your original response to the OP about 3 million visitors?
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  14944.  @lv__426  So what, exactly, is your point? I’m confused.
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  14945.  @lv__426  Huh? Yes they do. They still have to stay in hotels and eat at restaurants.
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  14946.  @lv__426  Huh? What difference does that make? It’s still 20 million people.
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  14947.  @lv__426  3?! Closer to 20 last time I checked.@1:04
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  14948.  @Goldenretriever-k8m  I repeat: “Home in” means to locate and move toward something. “Hone in” means to focus on something. Here they are trying to locate and move toward something. 👍
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  14949.  @Goldenretriever-k8m  “Home in” means to locate and move toward something. “Hone in” means to focus on something. Here they are trying to locate and move toward something. 👍
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  14950.  @JittyJittyBangBang  Lol.
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  14951.  @HarHah …itta? Harsh.
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  14952. You people. 🤦‍♂️
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  14953. *fewer
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  14954.  @JeffreyGoddin  Aye, Jeffey. I’m sure it is, schweetie.👍
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  14955. Eey oop! The pedant patrol is out tonight. Led by Jeffey. 🤦‍♂️
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  14956.  @jarjarbinks3193  Lol.👏
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  14957. *a lot
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  14958. Polka dot pigs.
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  14959.  @malomredi4132  Lol. 🥴
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  14960. Fair point. Especially the ones on silly money. They can easily stick to their own pay perview. 💰
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  14961.  @luislourenco6720  I didn’t used to think it was all planned (thought that was a conspiracy theory), but I’m more and more coming round to this idea. It seems there is a determined political effort from globalists to intake as many non-Europeans into Europe as it can.
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  14962.  @anomonyous Interesting points. But your music tastes, son? Cliff? Rick? Where is your quality control setting?
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  14963.  @jesusyvictoria  ‘What is dangerous is the act of discriminating people for procedence, beliefs, colour of their skin, gender, sex orientation etc…’ ‘Procedence’? Not sure what that means here. ‘Colour of their skin’? Agreed. ‘Gender’? Well, if you mean biological sex, agreed. If you mean the idea of self-choosing to claim you’re a man/woman when your chromosomes say different, disagree. ‘Sex orientation’? Agreed. ‘Beliefs’? Totally disagree. If you can’t criticise beliefs/ideas we are on a very slippery slope to disaster.
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  14964. It’s not necessarily immigration per se people have a problem with: it’s specifically mass Muslim immigration.
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  14965.  @lauras1553  Ok. Whatever. Looks like ABBA were having a go at Napoleon. Napoleon is a great French hero. So, it’s just about time now, is it? 🤷‍♂️
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  14966.  @mina0653  You need to actually prove they are ‘singing about current events’, then.
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  14967.  @Jismysis  12?! 46 more like. Get it right, son.
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  14968.  @bignumbers  So that makes 3 mass shootings in 3 years. How many in the US in that time? The bottom line is quite simply that it’s far, far too easy to legally acquire high powered arms in America. In my experience, it’s only those with a politicised agenda who gainsays this. Everyone else can see that if, at 18, you can purchase a machine which can literally kill dozens of people in seconds without requisite background checks (or, at the very least, adequate background checks), then the outcome is what we see in the USA day on day. With these mass killings, a clear majority are committed with legally acquired weapons .
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  14969.  @bignumbers  Not quite a decade. About 4 years. Nice try, though. The reason gun crime continued to rise was because the definition was too wide-ranging; it included everything and anything, every single report where a victim reported that a gun was used, even if that gun was never fired, even if it was a replica, or a fake, or even a toy. So by 2003, the laws were refined. The use of air weapons and pellet guns, which made up a large number of gun crime complaints, was taken out of the Firearms Act and put under the auspices of the new Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, which meant gun crime figures purely under their Firearms Act definition began to decrease markedly thanks to reclassification taking air weapons out of the equation. Gun crime began to decrease for about 10 or 12 years after that, and it’s only in the last two years that we’ve seen it start to creep up again.
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  14970.  @Jismysis  Go away! You’re such an empty vessel. Just shut up now and don’t make even more of a tit of yourself than you already have.
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  14971.  @Jismysis  My argument is perfectly fine, numptychops. You’re just a flat, dull, Yankee simpleton. 😐
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  14972.  @Jismysis  “I would expected better grammar”?! Lol🤣Here; look in this🪞 ! You egregious hypocrite!
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  14973.  @Jismysis  Also mighty triggered and defensive about the sorry state of your States; this much is clear.
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  14974.  @Jismysis  God, you’re boring. Anyone ever tell you?
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  14975.  @Jismysis  You clearly do as you just spent a minute replying. Hypocrite!🤣
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  14976.  @Jismysis  Glad to get out, quite frankly. You have a very, very sick society. Lived in 6 countries, and only in America did I feel constantly on edge knowing that every man & his dog potentially has a gun on them at any given moment. The Wild West was supposed to have ended about 150 years ago but you wouldn’t have known this when I was there!
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  14977.  @Jismysis  Huh? Girl? I’m homosexual, dipshit!🤣
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  14978. Yeah, but tbf, m8, in human history, I’m thinking far more people have been brutally persecuted/killed for their skin colour than for their age. 👍
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  14979. Not sure. Possibly press the menopause button and see what happens? 🤔
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  14980. @Looper444 Lol. 😆 What are you? The moron police? 👍😉😂
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  14981. @Looper444 Er, huh? I thought you were suggesting the OP was a bit of a moron, no? Are you denying this? 🤔
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  14982. @Looper444 You said it, dude! 👍
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  14983. Don’t be a silly boy, Ian. He’s a general tech reporter. Cars are covered in that remit. It’s not as if he’s presenting Top Gear, ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  14984. Stolen comment.
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  14985. What Putin’s engaging in is akin to building an extension to his already extensive house, having been refused planning permission. 🏠
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  14986.  @trevorsutherland5263  Ah, the old ‘they don’t need me’ get-out clause, eh Trevvy, petal? Yer an armchair 🤡, Trevvy, lovey. Uh huh. 👍
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  14987. If it’s so good, Trev, get yer arse out there, son, and put yer money where yer mouth is. Words are cheap, darling.
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  14988. *hedging
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  14989.  @JeffreyGoddin  Really? So “Uranus” goes unreported by you, but “Janus” offends you?! Lol. You’re all over the place, son!🤣
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  14990. They were going explore Uranus’ gassy atmosphere but thought better of it! 💨
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  14991. Really? What would you do with it, exactly? 😳
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  14992.  @Moonscafe7  No. Don’t patronise me, sweetheart. I was fully aware of the back-story, darling. Gerwig and her movie doesn’t get out of this so easily. She was lazy ( deeply lazy) with her portrayal of men (Ken + his ciphers) in this film. Uh huh.
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  14993.  @bUklMusic  It’s funny.
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  14994.  @bUklMusic  Yes.
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  14995.  @bUklMusic  Nah. Disagree. Again, far too preachy for me.
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  14996.  @bUklMusic  Nah. Disagree. Far too preachy for me.
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  14997.  @cogitorium1089  Nah. That’s a crap answer. Gerwig has been far more subtle and nuanced in her other stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie, but the ‘satire’ vis-a-vis men was far too heavy-handed. We can agree to disagree. 👍
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  14998.  @cogitorium1089  Katharine Hepburn; Ava Gardner; Audrey Hepburn; Meryl Streep; Ingrid Bergman; Sandra Bullock; Sigourney Weaver; Grace Kelly; Julia Roberts; Natalie Portman etc etc. You’re just wrong about the best of Hollywood when it comes to women. It’s closer to 50-50 than you are suggesting.
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  14999.  @cogitorium1089  Yes. But I repeat, even we accept your premise (I don’t), why would Gerwig do exactly the same thing with men? Moreover, why would she do it in such a browbeating manner? There was absolutely no nuance in regard to this in Barbie.
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  15000.  @cogitorium1089  That’s just plain wrong. Moreover, even if we accept it’s true, and you’re presumably against it, why would Gerwig just unimaginatively ape the worst of how women have been portrayed in movies by doing the same thing with men? As it is, women in cinema, and in the best cinema (particularly independent/European cinema but also the best of Hollywood) have been portrayed as wholly rounded, complex individuals, in the main. Nice try, though.👍
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  15001.  @hudson194  Yeah, perhaps. But did it have to be quite so obvious and relentless?
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  15002.  @khadijahbegum3546  Huh? 🤔
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  15003.  @ArtistHusna_Tee  Yeah, but how hard can it be to put a full-stop at the end of a sentence? It’s weird how this has caught on. I see hundreds of people doing it all the time. Mostly those under 35, it seems, but that’s no excuse. Bizarre. And lazy. And deeply unattractive.
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  15004.  @imperialmotoring3789  What? I think you have the wrong fella and the wrong debate, son.👍
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  15005.  SnydersMemeZone17  Uh huh. And you have no right or say in what a woman chooses to do with her body. It’s simply none of your business. Don’t be stoopid. 🤡
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  15006.  @MeghanBrowning-cy3tm  Just for the record though, preventing legal access to abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening, it just prevents safe abortions as women will seek dangerous underground methods if the legal option is denied them. Another thing that’s always confused me in this debate is how the pro-lifers in the US are oh so keen to “protect the life of the unborn” by denying legal access to abortion, but are quite free and easy with the lives of the born, and are all for any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry buying a gun like they’re buying candy from a store and going out and shooting up a school every other week. Seems like there’s a contradiction there. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  15007.  @elcristoph7380  I don’t care what it is. It doesn’t matter to me. If a woman wants to abort a child that is her choice. It’s no one else’s business.
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  15008.  @elcristoph7380  Look, I’ll make this simple for you. Buckle in. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Simply no one else’s business. Those who bore on about the “rights of the unborn” seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we do as humans), the vast majority of them would decline the offer. Invariably, it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Preventing legal access to abortion doesn’t stop abortions from happening, it just prevents safe abortions as women will seek dangerous underground methods if the legal option is denied them. Another thing that’s always confused me in this debate is how the pro-lifers in the US are oh so keen to “protect the life of the unborn” by denying legal access to abortion, but are quite free and easy with the lives of the born, and are all for any Tom, Dick or Dirty Harry buying a gun like they’re buying candy from a store and going out and shooting up a school every other week. Seems like there’s a contradiction there. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  15009.  @elcristoph7380  I hate to say this yet again, but I have to because it’s true and you are just not getting it: “Why are you getting involved here? It is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.”
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  15010.  @elcristoph7380  I repeat once again: Why are you getting involved here? It is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.
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  15011.  @elcristoph7380  I repeat: Why are you getting involved here? It is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.
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  15012. Why are you getting involved here? It is simply none of your business what another woman does with her body if it is not directly affecting you.
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  15013.  SnydersMemeZone17  Uh huh. And you have no right or say in what a woman chooses to do with her body. It’s simply none of your business. Don’t be stoopid. 🤡
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  15014. Ok, ‘Rudyard’. You stop commenting and get on that frickin treadmill behind you, son. You have several excess chins you need to remove. 👍
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  15015. He believes in renewable energy. German. Bad luck.🤟
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  15016. But why would we kill people who kill people to teach people that killing people is wrong? 🤔
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  15017.  @natenae8635  I never said she was trying to overthrow the Iranian government single-handedly, you stupid numpty!
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  15018.  @natenae8635  She was training journalists covertly, with a view, the Iranians say, of subverting and ultimately overthrowing the Iranian government. Trumped up charges, no doubt, but when in Rome and all that.
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  15019. And so might sundry others. Your point is?
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  15020.  @nospoon4799  Not necessarily. They are used in certain areas with caution. I repeat, I don’t want them admissible in a court of law, but they can (in many cases) shed some light.
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  15021.  @robbogallagher3398  Huh? Far from it. You need better close reading skills, Robbo son.👍😊
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  15022.  @JaZy-0_0  You may have missed my OP. I don’t want them admissible. I stated they were only 80-90% accurate. This doesn’t invalidate my actual suggestion, however.👍😊
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  15023.  @greenjobs2153  Not just in zoos, m8. A good proportion of animals in the wild sleep and eat and do very little else with their time. Pandas behave like this in the wild 99% of the time, too.👍
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  15024.  @flyinghigh2701  💨 ☪️!
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  15025.  @AahFukIt  Lol.
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  15026. This is outrageous! Have people no respect for the choons James Dean Bradfield and the Manic Street Preachers have given the world?
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  15027. Yeah, but the point is, he still beat the next best candidate. Seethe more.
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  15028. Henry Ford: “The customer can have any colour they want as long as it’s black.” Putin: “The Russian people can have any leader they want as long as it’s me!”
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  15029. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  15030. Well, if it all does kick off and the world gets frazzled in a nucle@r conflagration, at least we were all cremated equal! 🤠
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  15031.  @JeffreyGoddin  Nah, Jeffey, it’s just a wee bitty karmic blowback for oor TastyTwat, as he is the hypocrite par excellence, never supplying a decent argument, yet calling out others all the time for exactly the same thing.👍 For example, Jeffey, TastyTwat abhors homosexuality such that he appears to think homosexuals should be unfairly discriminated against. Can you believe that, Jeffey? In 2023? Of course, we all know the reason TastyTwat finds homosexuality anathema but he’s too much of a coward to admit it and argue his case in a public forum, m8.😉
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  15032.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  15033.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  15034.  @tastypymp1287  *don’t
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  15035.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  15036.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  15037. Not an argument. Just a personal statement based on feeling.
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  15038.  @tastypymp1287  *country’s
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  15039.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. You never provide one, TastyTwat. I just gave you your right of reply but you HAVE NO ARGUMENT . 😂
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  15040.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.
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  15041.  @tastypymp1287  I don’t believe they attempted to assert an argument. Exactly! 👍😉
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  15042.  @soreeyez  if only u know how clueless you are. Projection? 🤔👍😉 Moreover, ad hominem is the last resort of those with zero argument. Uh huh.
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  15043.  @Robespierre-lI  I think you may have missed this bit: But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. Just saying …
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  15044.  @tastypymp1287  👈Hypocrites R Us.
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  15045.  @tastypymp1287  👈Hypocrites R Us.
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  15046.  @varoonnone7159  Actually, hold that. I found one.
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  15047.  @varoonnone7159  Got a better word? 🤔
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  15048.  @reginageorge4  Just for the record, in the same book (Leviticus), it also says you shouldn’t mix fabrics. Now, I’m willing to put my mortgage and my mother-in-law’s mortgage on it that you don’t follow that rule! Cherry pickers R Us. 🍒
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  15049.  @reginageorge4  Using the Bible and saying “groomer” repeatedly isn’t going to work with those of us who require a better level of argument.
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  15050.  @ジェリコ-RX12  I’d be against ‘teaching’ trans stuff too young. This should be tread very carefully. But gay stuff? I have no issue. You are or aren’t gay. At 5 I knew I fancied girls. 👍
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  15051.  @reginageorge4  Your ‘Christianity’ is bizarre. Last time I checked, Jesus loved everyone. Seems you’re not following your ‘saviour’s’ footsteps too closely here, Jules.👍 I’ve met more Satanists more loving and forgiving than you! 👿
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  15052.  @reginageorge4  Using the word “groomer” in every post isn’t an argument.
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  15053.  @ジェリコ-RX12  What? Wtf. Just legalising this stuff isn’t going to create more gays! 🤣
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  15054.  @reginageorge4  Not an argument.
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  15055.  @ジェリコ-RX12  lol@“western ideologies” 🤣You appear to be operating under the bizarre assumption that gays appeared yesterday when they have been here for as long as humans have been around! 🤣
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  15056. How? There’d still be loads of heteros. 🤔
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  15057. She’s the absolute spitting image of Greta.
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  15058.  @tastypymp1287  Triggered, much.🤣
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  15059. *Trump’s You’re using the wrong basic grammar book.
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  15060. There, there, now. Stop being so, coughs , ‘triggerg’.
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  15061. *have
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  15062.  @MagnaRedux  You win the Internet for today! 🥇 👏
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  15063. ‘Colored’?! Wtf. 🤬
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  15064.  @The_Reality_Filter  Fair play. Looked into a bit more. Looks like you’re actually against this baloney theory that’s only held by paranoid morons. 👍
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  15065.  @The_Reality_Filter  Flat Earther?! Pmsl.🤣Surely, surely you can do better than this! 🥸
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  15066.  @The_Reality_Filter  K, having looked into you, we clearly have our own ‘racist’ on our hands. Got your agenda, man. Say no more.👍😉
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  15067. This is just batty! 🦇 Y’know COVID is like fashion … We started hearing about it in Italy … Became popular in LA and NYC … Florida ignored it … And it was all made in China in the end!
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  15068. But Trump is a racist. He only digs white blockheads like himself. Actually, correction: he only digs himself. He’s like a trailer-park version of Boris Johnson.
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  15069.  @junjuncuizon  Yvw! 🤓
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  15070. $1bn of cocaine? Wow! This is to be sniffed at. sniffs 👃
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  15071. How ironic. People seeking shelter from the depredations of Vladimir Putin in Romania; the land of the original Vlad the Impaler!
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  15072.  @originalunoriginal4055  Because I’ve got better things to do.
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  15073.  @theonemesis5217  YOU WIN THE INTERNET’S “MOST TRIGGERED NUMPTY” OF THE WEEK! 🤣 🥇
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  15074. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  15075. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  15076. How bizarre. Putin, so desperate to have Ukraine (fellow Slavs) under his dictatorial roof, that he’ll actually kill them if they refuse? The very definition of a toxic, paranoid spouse. 😳
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  15077. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  15078. Simple suggestion: 1 bullet.😳
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  15079. This must be the most obvious marriage of convenience since the day Nicola Sturgeon married her ‘husband’! 🤣
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  15080.  @notjustforhackers4252 *lose Old boy. 👍🥱
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  15081.  @notjustforhackers4252  *lose Jesus, you’re a basic spelling grammatical and spelling disaster, aincha? Ffs. Get a grip. Are you gonna throw in the dyslexic card here? If you aren’t, you are a shame to yourself and your parents need a good slap.
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  15082.  @notjustforhackers4252  You’ve made yourself look extremely silly and I would recommend you delete your idiotic post to save face. 👍😉
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  15083.  @Dubjaxfilms  I made my point. You seem to be not coping. That’s fine. The bleeding hearts who want to let everyone into the UK, regardless of their status, tend not to be able to cope. You can be smart all you like, son, but unless Europe gets proper control of its borders, the recent vote in East Germany is only a precursor of things to come. Think on… 👍😉
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  15084.  @daughterofzion1083  Not ‘deceived’ by the wicked Catholic Church. That’s a safe bet! 🤓
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  15085.  @sj3530  😇
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  15086. ⛪️ As a Catholic (lapsed), beyond me why anyone should be hanging on the words of a wicked institution with terrible historical crimes on its record: # Pope Pius XII denying eyewitness reports of mass execution during the Holocaust. # Systemically covering up tens of thousands of cases involving sexual misconduct. # Terrorising Jews and Muslims for centuries. # The utter barbaric sadism of Pope Boniface VIII. # Burning of Joan of Arc for ‘dressing like a man’ (this one’s a particular black joke given that priests spend all day in a frock!) # Burning Tynedale for making a vernacular Bible for the masses. # Slaying countless women for being ‘witches’. # Taking cash for ‘absolving sins’. # Executing Jan Hus. # Executing Giordano Bruno. # Detaining Galileo and putting him under house arrest for Galileo’s suggesting science trumped God. # Various Inquisitions involving the torture and murder of thousands of heretics. # Persecution of homosexuals. # General ongoing misogyny. # General ongoing racism. # Utter hypocrisy in following a guy like Jesus who preached holy poverty while the Catholic Church is worth $30 billion. ✝️
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  15087. No. But to be fair he did give the altar boys a bit of ‘overtime’ after Mass.😉
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  15088.  @ChristianThePagan  Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? I’m not in the USA. 🥴
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  15089.  @tinacorsini It’s a stolen meme thing seen 10,000x before in various guises. Just Google it.👍
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  15090.  @ian_r125  ‘Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.’ Mark Twain coined that one specially for you, Chazzy. ✌️
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  15091.  @ian_r125  Where did I say it was ‘more common’? I just said I, and thousands like me, use it. Are you thick or something, son? 🤦‍♂️
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  15092.  @ian_r125  No they don’t, Chazzy. I’m British and I say ‘lounge’. Bad luck. 😭
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  15093.  @nicolajohnson1887  You tell that to Chazzy, Nic. 👍
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  15094.  @BrownDaddy007  You’re just stung sweetie, as you called called out along with yer malamute. Uh huh. 👍😉
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  15095.  @morphkogan8627  Have you never heard of the very basic concept of the ‘synonym’? 🤦‍♂️
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  15096. I know, right? I hear he’s back on the bevvy again.
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  15097.  @ayoolukoga9829  🥱
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  15098.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15099.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15100.  @ayoolukoga9829  ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15101.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15102.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15103.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15104.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15105.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15106.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15107.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15108.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15109.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15110.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15111.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15112.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15113.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15114.  @ayoolukoga9829  ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15115.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15116.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15117.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15118.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15119.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15120.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15121.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15122.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15123.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15124.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15125.  @ayoolukoga9829  Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15126.  @ayoolukoga9829  ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15127.  @ayoolukoga9829  ​​⁠Uh huh. And given that quote could apply to literally any point in human history, your point is? 🤔
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  15128.  @zeitgeist5134  👍
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  15129.  @sdfilmproductions4193  Lol. You’re splitting hairs again. Picking a fight where there isn’t one, for some reason. Ok, Patek isn’t/wasn’t 1 guy, it was 2. And? I’ve just seen one of their used watches for on sale for a million quid. That’s a pretty pointless outlay if you’re sane in the brain. And you, dear boy, are living in cloud cuckoo land if you seriously think you can’t get a decent wristwatch that’ll last decades for about 100 quid or less. I’m a case in point; I have a watch I’ve had for about 25 years. A wind-up thingy. I’ve just checked what it currently retails at: 75 quid! Ta da! Now trot on and go and produce some films, or something, cuz yer clearly outta yer depth here, son.🍿
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  15130.  @sdfilmproductions4193  Lol. I think you’ll find Armani’s pretty ‘luxurious’ comparatively, mate! Certainly if we’re talking clothes. Yeah, they might flog watches as well but that’s on the back of what they are mainly known for. 🤣👍 I think you’re splitting hairs here.😉 Just for the record: Patek charges £6.5m for one of his watches; if you’re paying more than, say, about 100 quid for a wristwatch you seriously need your head checking. After that, it becomes about conspicuous consumption, especially when it comes to something with one single very basic function.
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  15131. Really? Do they offer fat transvestites to prisoners these days? Sign of the times.
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  15132. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  15133.  @루루97  👍
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  15134. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day”😳
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  15135. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  15136. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  15137.  @ludiloizsenke11  You’re right, I don’t.🤡
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  15138. Easy to forget that the Russian Federation is the planet’s largest landmass by some distance at almost twice the size of second place Canada. Also, it has great ethnic diversity (190 ethnic groups) and is multinational. Huge swathes of the population will be loyal to Putin publicly (for fear of the consequences) but secretly hate him. Prigozhin’s bold manoeuvre will only embolden others and if a critical mass of the populace come out publicly against Putin, his days will be severely numbered. As Jesus stated:” And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
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  15139. These spy balloons floating over the US are China’s Shanghai in the sky. 🎈
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  15140. @Mark S Yes.
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  15141. @Mark S Again, your logic is all over the place, mate. There are ‘more mass shootings now’ and your response is not to move one iota about controlling how any random Tom, Dick or Garrys can get legal access to a high-powered assault weapon? Really? Is that you want to live in? Do you live in America? Have you had a 6 year old child murdered at the hands of an unhinged 28 year old who can easily source a machine that can kill 50 in less than a minute? Really? Am I sharing the planet with you?
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  15142. @Mark S You didn’t respond to his correct ‘back-pedalling’ statement. So …?
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  15143. @Mark S Btw, you conveniently ignored Seamus’ rather spot-on rejoinder; do you wanna address this now for us all? 😉
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  15144. @Mark S Logically that’s the end-point of your argument. As I said, cope.
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  15145. @Mark S ‘If there were law-abiding gun owners around, this could have stopped the shooter.’ The logical implication is that you want everyone armed. Cope.
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  15146. @Mark S How is it a ‘straw man argument’? Your reasoning logically leads to everyone going around armed. Nothing straw man about it, son. Just facts.😉
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  15147. @Mark S Utter crap, son. Mass shootings in the US have been a phenomenon for decades but never let the facts get in the way of a political agenda, eh?🤣👍
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  15148.  @joshzulu8444  Why do you keep upvoting yourself you insecure tart?🤣 Every comment. You’re so not worth it.😆
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  15149.  @davidrobertsemail  Better gun-control is the ‘solution’, dummy.🤣
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  15150.  @joshzulu8444  A full grown woman upvoting herself in a conversation. WTF.
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  15151.  @icontrolmyownguns2096  You didn’t read my second comment did you, son? Nice try, though.👍
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  15152.  @davidrobertsemail  American homicide rate 4x that of Europe. Just control guns better. Not saying they should necessarily be banned; just don’t put the really powerful stuff out there such that it can fall readily into the unhinged hands of a disaffected 28 year old. This really ain’t rocket-science. You guys always say this can’t be solved yet you guys are the only ones that seems to regularly see this crap.
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  15153.  @Theozzie11  No. But did.
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  15154. And so the nonsense emanating from organised religion goes on. When will humans realise that there might be a God, there might not be a God; what there most certainly isn’t is some guy in the sky backing your choices based on primitive books written thousands of years ago. Organised religion, in my experience, is just an excuse for men to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else. I’m not the most clever. I’m not the most bright. But I’m clever enough and bright enough to clearly, I repeat, clearly see that organised religion has caused humanity nothing but trouble for about 3,000 years.
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  15155.  @samrat_vrtrahan  Ready Assaulted.
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  15156. The current metro area population of Bangkok in 2024 is 11,234,000. Take a look at 0:42. You telling me that breathing that shit 24/7 isn’t gonna cause a host of health problems? And that’s just Bangkok. Put away your agenda and get real. 👍
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  15157.  @Native_Non-Gringo Lol. 🥴 Why are you picking on me here? I have no gripe with ‘Amerindians’. My only gripe here is with the mass importation of a philosophy at odds with secular, liberal democracy. 👍
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  15158.  @Native_Non-Gringo  Ok, I’ll add ‘Amerindian’ on your prompting. Happy to please! 😊
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  15159.  @tom4381 I disagree. Almost all the people I know have no issue with a bunch of Chinese, or Indians, or South Americans, or Japanese, or Thais etc. living in Europe. Why? They’re not seemingly actively trying to impose. Islam, on its extreme wing is. You just sound outright racist, Tommo. Just admit it and we can deal on that basis…
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  15160.  @tom4381  Lmao. And you chose Canada (a country created by and based on total immigration) and the US (a country created by and based on total immigration) to make this point?! What makes you think your paleface has any more right in Canada or America than someone a bit more dusky? 🤔
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  15161. Hungriest black hole ever? Must be a vegan black hole. They’re restricted to a planet based diet.
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  15162.  @RichardsReceptiveReality  No. We are flying through space on a 4 billion year old rock. The problem isn’t our ‘programming’; it’s your subliterate, scientifically-illiterate paranoid ‘ DE programming’. 😉
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  15163.  @RichardsReceptiveReality *you’re Sorry, Dicky, with spelling like that, son, you’re not to be trusted. Another of the tinfoil subliterates walks amongst us. 🤦‍♂️
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  15164.  @RichardsReceptiveReality  Wow, Dicky. Having looked at your videos, you really are paranoid, sonny. 🤦‍♂️
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  15165.  @RichardsReceptiveReality  Here have another tinfoil hat to go with your growing collection. Suits you, Sir.👍😉
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  15166.  @Cyborg_Lenin  But the majority of Ukrainians look west. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power. I don’t deny east Ukraine is pro-Russia, but taken in toto most Ukrainians don’t want to belong to Russia. Do we just ignore this?
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  15167.  @Cyborg_Lenin  I’m not claiming there aren’t double standards here. The West has a dreadful record of overthrowing democratically elected regimes. I’m not defending this. However, two wrongs don’t make a right, and Putin is just plain wrong in what he is doing. He’s invaded a self-administered sovereign territory. The other aspect of all this is that I’m willing to bet that most ordinary Russians don’t want this. He’s a nasty, evil dictator and threatening world peace as we speak. I repeat, I don’t think the West is blameless historically, far from it, I just think that we need to take action to try to stop Putin.👀
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  15168.  @Cyborg_Lenin  I don’t follow …? 🤔
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  15169.  @NicoleInga  No. Russia invaded Ukraine. America didn’t invade Ukraine. You need a better researcher as your current one is clearly crap.👍
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  15170.  @arcaakvira  I’ve got a total grip here, petal. Don’t call yourself a ‘boy’ when you haven’t been a boy for at least 5 years. Uh huh.
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  15171. Yeah, but tbf, 45°C is only 4°C above the late June daily high average for Phoenix.
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  15172. It’s very funny. North/South American indigenous peoples become European.
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  15173.  @dustinthewind3925  K.
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  15174.  @dustinthewind3925  Do you honestly think that given that there are more suns in the Universe than all the grains of sand on every beach on this planet (think about that: it’s truly mind blowing) and even more planets than that, that this wee backwater planet is the only place in the Universe with life on it? I’m willing to bet everything I have that the Universe is quite literally teeming with life.
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  15175.  @dustinthewind3925  I don’t know for a fact there’s life out there, but I’d bet my life on it. Er, that’s more or less what I said. 🥴 I fear you have the wrong fella, son.👍
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  15176.  @zapfanzapfan  👍
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  15177.  @zapfanzapfan  Do you honestly think that given that there are more suns in the Universe than all the grains of sand on every beach on this planet (think about that: it’s truly mind blowing) and even more planets than that, that this wee backwater planet is the only place in the Universe with life on it? I’m willing to bet everything I have that the Universe is quite literally teeming with life.
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  15178.  @zapfanzapfan  Just for the record, there are trillions and trillions of suns and trillions and trillions and trillions of planets. I think the Universe will be just fine if it loses a very minor planet in a very minor backwater of a very minor galaxy. Humans won’t be, but the Universe will.
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  15179.  @zapfanzapfan  Well, if it’s ‘the sun’s increasing power’ then that means humans get a free pass! 👍
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  15180.  @Pete-da-peter  🥴
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  15181. Uh huh. And stop writing sentences without full stops.
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  15182.  @S1lence_D  Bordeaux is nice, but Toulouse is nicer. 😉
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  15183.  @Bungle-UK  Nah. They don’t really care; they are just watching. Big difference. 😉
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  15184. Why are you piling human misery on human misery?
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  15185.  @pam4924  Lol.
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  15186.  JL  😳
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  15187.  @Landshark2020  Yw.
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  15188.  @account-now-closed  Huh? Wtf are you on about? I just said there was no evidence for a deity and you came at me like a spoilt child. Cope better ffs.
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  15189.  @justcallmebrian793  Yeah, but here’s the clincher, m8: would I wanna live where I live, with all its faults etc, or would I wanna live in a benighted African State? You guessed it. The answer wasn’t in Africa. Think on …
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  15190.  @vervetech9395  Just Google it, son. This ain’t that difficult. Now trot on cos you’re boring to me death, chum. You are on the wrong end of the debate here and you know it: admit it and move on. 😉
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  15191.  @vervetech9395  It’s not, though. It’s objectively verifiable from many, many sources and therefore has f*ck-all to do with my ‘head fuelled by delusion’. You need better coping techniques, sonny. Just get to it!🤣
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  15192.  @justcallmebrian793  Btw, it’s not a question of whether you consider Botswana a ‘flawed democracy’ or not; it’s down to independent observers, sweetie. Cope better now.🥲🤣😂😅
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  15193.  @justcallmebrian793  It’s officially ranked as a ‘flawed democracy’. Seethe more.🤣
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  15194.  @justcallmebrian793  All the ones you mention are officially ‘flawed democracies’. Only Mauritius qualifies as a ‘full democracy’. You were saying …? Hand in your democracy jotter tomorrow. 😉
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  15195.  @vervetech9395  You tell me, son.🤔🥴🤣😉🤓
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  15196.  @vervetech9395  Upvoting yourself again, Vervy baby?😉
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  15197.  @vervetech9395  Also, VerveTech, it doesn’t look cool upvoting yourself. Just sayin’!
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  15198.  @lisiastaa4539  So come into the sunlight, then. Stop having a go just because you can’t get democracy right. It begins with you .
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  15199.  @vamshik  👍
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  15200.  @account-now-closed  K.
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  15201.  @account-now-closed  Oh, so you’re a hand-dryer fetishist?
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  15202. Yeah, maybe. Too many ‘bull’ moments for my liking, though. 💩
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  15203. Their noses are remarkably similar.
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  15204.  @wettowelsandfirstaid  That’s not the point. The point is you were scorning the purchase of iPhones and most subscribers to your YouTube channel will access it through an iPhone. In other words, you’re perplexed by people buying iPhones yet are happy to have these same people subscribe to your channel through an iPhone.
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  15205. If everyone stopped buying iPhones you’d have considerably fewer subscribers to your YouTube channel. 👍😉
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  15206.  @kennykento2782  Ok, the fact there is there is only 1 full democracy out of 54 in Africa is 100% the West’s fault. Gotcha. 👌
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  15207.  @alhandeen474  Indeed. Just pointing out some home truths.👍
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  15208.  @kanoleausi4204  Ok. Niger. 1 failed democracy. The West to blame. You have a case. However, not sure you could use the same excuse about many of the other 55 non- full democracies in Africa.
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  15209. Hi Vick! Welcome to YouTube. Jump right in! 🏊‍♀️
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  15210. I prefer the corrosion of conformity.
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  15211.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported for blatantly questioning me in a peremptory and unnecessary manner.
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  15212.  @anacc3257  All nationalism is a manmade nonsense based on random things. I’ll decide who and what I am; it won’t be decided just because my mother plopped me out here and not over there.
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  15213.  @XXXTENTAClON227  👍NP, bruh.
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  15214. Lol. Says the sub-literate chumpster who, at the age of about 70, still doesn’t know what a possessive apostrophe is and how to deploy it! 🤣 Aren’t you ashamed, Jimbo? 🤔
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  15215.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  My pardon is granted, Jimbo. Now, brass tacks son: you’re stealing stuff and not attributing again. This is understandable as you, like TastyTwat, are somewhat of an uneducated thicko, but you really must not plagiarise in such a brazen manner, Jimbo.👍🤡😉
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  15216.  @tastypymp1287  Your levels of projection precede you, TastyTwat.👍😉
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  15217.  @TC8787-yq7og  Source: “trust me, bro.”
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  15218. Source: “trust me, bro”.
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  15219.  @maykolee Do they? Ok. 🥱
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  15220. I wouldn’t.
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  15221.  @Mrratongthailand *thing’s *.
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  15222. Uh huh. So Europeans are allowed to batter their way around this planet since at least 1492, but when some non-Europeans make their presence felt, that’s just not on? That’s hypocrisy of the highest order. Those who moan about incomers to Europe would have a leg to stand on if their forbears hadn’t marched across most of the rest of the planet. It works both ways. You cannot have it one way.
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  15223.  @maxwellthomas1220  And I just said they’re allowed to. There is no legal requirement to stop anywhere. Cope.
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  15224. Because they can. Why have hundreds of millions of Europeans migrated to every corner of this planet since 1492?
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  15225.  @azza_88-jl1rp  I repeat: the vast, vast majority of immigrants to this country speak the language, pay their taxes and obey the law, whether you like this or not, son. You really do need some better coping strategies here.
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  15226.  @azza_88-jl1rp  Just for the record: your double-standards hypocrisy is quite, quite staggering. Since at least 1492 hundreds of millions of Europeans have colonised huge swathes of this planet, and you have the fkn temerity to moan about a few non-Europeans washing up on Europe’s shores?! 🤣 You’re a piece of work.👍
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  15227.  @azza_88-jl1rp  Huh? Don’t know wtf you’re on about. I repeat: controlled legal immigration works. The only debate to be had is how many?
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  15228.  @azza_88-jl1rp  And the vast majority of legal immigrants to the UK, don’t “parasitize” the UK. Uh huh.😊
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  15229.  @azza_88-jl1rp  Not at all. Controlled legal immigration works. I never said I was pro illegal stuff. You need better close reading skills, sweetie.
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  15230.  @Random_cleans  Aye. No answer, son. The stance of the defeated, using the bedtime excuse to dodge the truth.
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  15231.  @Random_cleans  No I didn’t. You appeared to assume these were all illegals. I got the right person with the right comment, don’t you worry. 😊
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  15232.  @Random_cleans  I never said I was pro-illegal immigration. You appear to have the wrong fella, son.😊👍
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  15233.  @Random_cleans  And looting and murder and slavery. Moreover, vast majority of immigrants to UK pay their taxes, speak the language and obey the law. 😊
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  15234. Lol. I’m assuming you’re a Brit. You yourself live in another country yet you deny this to others?! You utter hypocrite.
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  15235. You’d probably find the ‘balls’ if you were in their shoes.
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  15236.  @JohnJaneson2449 👍
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  15237. *Pattinson
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  15238.  @hahahahahahahahahahahahaha64  Whit? 🤓
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  15239.  @hahahahahahahahahahahahaha64  ‘Germans’?! How very dare you, ya tart! Anymore of that kinda loose-lipped nonsense, and I may have to goose-step you out of here!
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  15240.  @vincentcheng7313  Totally dry-eyed here, sonny. Cope harder.
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  15241. @@angrykulla Another thing, ‘angrykulla’ (titter), your playlists are the type of things most 7 year old boys spend their free time looking at! 🤣 Oh, the irony!
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  15242. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  15243. @Kay Yeah, but you’re biased; you present one of the shows on Sky!
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  15244. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  15245. If you want to know what 22 years of not saying ‘no’ to one man looks like, this is it.👀
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  15246. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs . 😳
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  15247. Are you gae, Nqobile? 🥸
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  15248. 🤣
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  15249.  @joshuabetts2484  Joshua, mate. No Name isn’t worth the candle. He clearly flipped ages ago and seriously needs to seek help. Of course, in this debate, everything you have said is spot-on, as you are clearly rational and not a weird, repressed nutjob like No Name. 👍
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  15250.  @tedthesailor172  Lol. Have you read the hatred and bile spewing forth from most of the homophobes in this Comment section? There is bit more than mere “disapproval” going on here, Teddy! Just for the record, why do you “disapprove” of it then, as hitherto, I’ve yet to hear a single sound rational argument to make me need to “disapprove” of homosexuality. You got one for me Teddy, or like all the rest, are you operating on mere hysterical projected feeling and/or the proscriptions of an invisible sky daddy?
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  15251.  @jjyoutube82  You wish. 🤡
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  15252.  @tedthesailor172  Well, it’s true. As far as I can tell, these people “hate” homosexuality. Ta da! 🎉
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  15253.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  And the rest is silence.
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  15254.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15255.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Argument …? Nah. You ain’t got one have you, son? You have no argument, and you are so triggered and confused about this you can’t cope. He he.🤪
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  15256.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  👈When he upvotes his every post and no one else seems to you know you’re dealing with a numpty! 🤣
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  15257.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15258.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15259.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  You can’t find an argument, son. I’m still waiting …
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  15260.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15261.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  You really need to stop upvoting yourself No Name; it makes you look even more desperate than you already are! 🤣😂😅
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  15262.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Upvoting yourself again, No Name? 🤣😂😂😀😂😂
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  15263.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  No name and no argument. 🤡
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  15264.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15265.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15266.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15267.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  🥱
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  15268.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Pmsl. You’re actually picking on another for “not speaking English”?!?! 🤣😂😅🤣😅😂😅😀😅🤣😅😅🤣😅😂
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  15269.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Adam’s right, dipshit. You are a desperate turd with absolutely no argument. You still haven’t provided a single reason why I should hate homosexuality. Trot on, loser. 🥸
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  15270.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  *Let’s *who’s *Winnie Why are you people, always unfailingly to a man, crap at basic spelling and grammar?
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  15271.  @CensortubesOwnsRedcomet0079  Jesus. Give it up, son. Not only are you a moron; you are staggeringly boring.🥱
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  15272.  @IMMABUSTYOURASS  No one, Raskolnikov. Triggered, much? 🤣
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  15273.  @AMBROSENEN  Not imposing anything, sunshine. All I said was that I consider hating homosexuality stupid and moronic. Cope.
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  15274. Humans are overrated, anyway. Usually by themselves. Get over it.
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  15275.  @catamountmpls  You seem to be pushing back against me, but I’m pretty sure we largely agree on this.👍
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  15276. @@32RACorry As for males managing male teams and females managing female teams, well that’s just nonsensical as there are dozens of male managers managing female teams with no issue. Also, in no other walk of professional life would you seriously suggest only women should manage women and men manage men.
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  15277. @@32RACorry Oh, I didn’t say it might not have been part of the reason, given the toxic general culture; I just said he’d probably have been dispensed with anyway, regardless of Rubiales’ actions.
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  15278. He was actually massively disliked by a good proportion of the players, some of whom refused to play for the team before all this kiss furore. I strongly suspect he’d have been gone regardless of whether Rubiales kissed Hermoso on the mouth or not.
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  15279.  @PherPhur Apparently, Putin’s against the imbibing of alcohol (just another reason not to trust him), but your other point is well-taken. 👍
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  15280.  @Homeschoolsw6  Indeed. We seem to agree.
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  15281.  @Homeschoolsw6  Who said the world was ever an ‘orderly’ place? It’s been chaos since the year dot. You’re stating the bleedin’ obvious.
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  15282.  @Homeschoolsw6  But you blithely ignore the fact that becoming a NATO member is voluntary. You’re not forced against your will to join. Putin violently wrests Ukraine kicking and screaming against the majority’s will. Surely every sovereign nation has the right to determine their own destiny regardless of the whims of a petty little dictator nursing a grievance since 1989. If Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and all the rest all decide on a majority to look West and not East, then surely that is none of Putin’s business. It’s understandable why he is doing this, but understanding something is not condoning something.
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  15283.  @Homeschoolsw6  How does that explain Russia invading Ukraine? As far as I can see Putin, a dictator, just wants an ex-USSR territory back into the Russian fold, while he can’t stand the idea of Ukraine taking democratic choices for itself. This hardly fits in with your theory of ‘wealthier nation fighting for resources’.
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  15284.  @Homeschoolsw6  Huh? How does that explain Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Algeria, DRC etc? Hardly ‘wealthy’ countries, any of them.
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  15285.  @Homeschoolsw6  Er, and your point is?
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  15286.  @_________6761  Er, all very well. But Zelensky was democratically-elected. Russia invaded a sovereign, self-governing nation. Two facts you conveniently omitted from your list.
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  15287.  @KonstantinPobedonoscev  Whose God? Yours? My God? His God? Her God? Their God? Don’t you see the issue here, sunshine? Imagined daddies in the sky don’t serve us as a species. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. (R Pirsig)
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  15288.  @lorellaldos5263  I agree, NATO doesn’t have a spotless record over the years, and Putin will no doubt have spotted this, and become spooked by Ukraine’s flirting with NATO. However, in a general sense, I fear a Putin-led Russia far more than I fear NATO, notwithstanding the latter’s black marks on its scorecard.
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  15289.  @bennyacosta1560  What’s really bad, though, and the essential cause of all this trouble (and the trouble of mankind since the year dot), is hitching your core identity to an accident of birth. Main problem of humans is one of self-definition; before ‘human being’ too many of us want to put family, clan, tribe, nation, religion. This is, essentially, why we can’t tolerate one another. Most of us can’t raise our game to see that a random, arbitrary accident of birth, something in which you had no say, is a nonsensical, irrational, pointless, and very, very dangerous notion to cleave to, given 300,000 murderously squabbling years of Homo Sapiens. Along with imagined daddies in the sky to shore up our fear of death, nationalism is the most egregious, baleful blight human beings ever had the misfortune to invent. As we speak, insular human beings are murdering themselves over an accident of birth. The gods, if they existed, would look down on us and weep.
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  15290.  @son_of_stan  Tell that to the rest of the subliterates in here, not me! 👍✌️😉
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  15291.  @Corsayr22  Yes, but we wouldn’t generally call that an ‘atrocity’ which has strong implications of harm to others.
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  15292.  @littlewingmyoho  Yes, but this isn’t an atrocity. It’s more an unfortunate situation for the fella involved, but it doesn’t tally with the definition of an ‘atrocity’. October 7th was an ‘atrocity’. 9/11 was an ‘atrocity’. The Manchester bombing in 2017 was an ‘atrocity’. Some random setting himself on fire is not an atrocity. If he’d intentionally set other people on fire, that would’ve been an atrocity.
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  15293.  @moonshoes11 Look, you were just plain wrong and your stung sense of pride is preventing you from admitting this. That’s fine. I don’t care. You’re boring. Go away.
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  15294. I hope the ‘man’ got ‘laid’ after all that.
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  15295. Meoooooowwwww! 🐱
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  15296.  @StratsRUs  Ty, m8.👍
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  15297. You can easily add America to that list.
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  15298.  @Sundae_Times  Lol.
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  15299.  @Katerina.r  You can make a case for anything depending which side of fence you are standing. I’m just pointing out that, historically, Russia has been a tremendously aggressive imperialistic nation which continues to this very day. Cope better now.
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  15300.  @Katerina.r  Lol@“who did Russia steal from”? Anybody it could. From the 16th century onwards Russia conquered, on average, territory the size of the Netherlands every year for 150 years. As to the European conquest of the Americas, well Russia did something remarkably similar in its own backyard with the colonization of Siberia and conquest of its indigenous peoples has been compared to European colonization of the Americas and its natives, with similar negative impacts on the natives and the appropriation of their land. Just for the record, I’m an anti-colonialist when it’s not consented to by the colonised, no matter who is doing the colonising.
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  15301.  @daddyandy9591  Huh? So will Russia hand back all the stolen Asian territory it aggressively took under the Romanovs between 1613-1917? As I said earlier, you can make a case for anything if you have an agenda.
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  15302. Oh Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  15303. Woof, woof!
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  15304.  @shaw9908  Seek help. And not just for your terrible English. 👍
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  15305. ‘Literal’ unnecessary in that sentence.
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  15306.  @AbuBased731  Huh? 🤔
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  15307. So every death henceforth is to be attributed to the vaccine?
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  15308.  @bingbongbingbongbingbongbi4384  There’s no such thing.
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  15309. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  15310.  @angelacahill9460  It has never been established by anyone that “man has free will”.
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  15311.  @Droogs  It’s a glorious quote. As ever, Shaky nails it.
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  15312. As flies to wanton boys are we to the (rain) gods. They kill us for their sport. (William Shakespeare)
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  15313. Full disclosure: I’m agnostic, apolitical and anational. This needs to be said: Putin is not mad; rather, he considers NATO/USA/West an encroaching mortal threat, and I think he has a point. It’s too easy to label him as Vlad the Mad, the unhinged, sexually repressed freak (he’s that, all right - if he just came out he could save us a whole lotta trouble), but he’s simply acting according to his vision of the world. Where I and Vlad part company, is where he invades self-governing, sovereign territories, no matter how much he may think he has a claim on them, like in a child-custody battle. However, it’s vitally important we don’t paint Putin as this non-human ‘monster’; he’s far from that.😳
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  15314.  @Thea-gj2or  No it’s not. It’s a random accident of birth and utterly stupid.
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  15315.  @Pedant_Patrol  Translation: “I’m secretly triggered and don’t agree.” Cope. 👮‍♀️
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  15316.  @Belisarius-nr3ty  I’d rather ask ‘Allan’ for ‘repentance’ tbh.
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  15317. Great band! 👍
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  15318. *nun
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  15319. With men and hidebound organised religion colliding here, the Taliban are the definition of ‘toxic masculinity’ par excellence, justifying their primitive, barbaric crap against women by holding up a text where the main character married a 9 year old when he was 53! This latter issue is noticeably little remarked upon. No, as an agnostic, all organised religion is essentially poppycock and balderdash invented by men, for men. Put the religious boot on the other foot: a dictatorial, all-female regime holds power and dictates down to the minutest detail what men can and cannot do; do you think for one minute men would tolerate this? Of course not, and they would be right not to tolerate it. Whenever any organised religious crap pollutes my world, the wonderful wise words of Robert M Pirsig provide more wisdom and solace (and just plain truth!) than all the so-called ‘holy books’ put together: “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” Amen. 🙏
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  15320.  @glintongordon6811  Slight difference; those American troops you mention aren’t killing. It’s a presence.
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  15321. Justout Trudeau.
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  15322. My old taxi driver was called Al Jazeera. Nice fella.👍
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  15323. Oh jeez! Don’t bring Allah into this. He’s a big part of the trouble here! 🤦‍♂️
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  15324.  @anthonydoyle7370  Ha!
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  15325.  @user-ml1rv1jk3w  Er, where? 🤔
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  15326.  @aymenrafiaahmed  Religion is a large ingredient in this particular recipe, lovey. Er, wot? You do realise you can hold the view that all organised religion is manmade baloney made for humans fearing death and not be an atheist? These are not mutually exclusive ideas. Check it.
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  15327.  @arifnoor100  Er, who said I was an ‘atheist’? 🤔 You need a better researcher as your current one is sh*t.👍
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  15328.  @cinder-nu3pk  Yes … there is. Pmsl.
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  15329. *There’s *he’s *.
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  15330. Lol@“it all seemed extremely GAY.”🤣
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  15331.  @Nalam-dk8qg  Theology and specifically organised religion has been to blame for a huge proportion of humanity’s problems since time immemorial. Read a few history books. Hell, even your tribe is split into 2 branches (Sunni/Shiite) and you murder each other in your thousands over an unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky.
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  15332.  @keyboardmousewarrior6225  So having very basic spelling and grammar is the “1st sign of a nerd” now is it? Lol. No wonder you’re a dipshit moron then.
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  15333.  @keyboardmousewarrior6225  Actually, in non-Arabic Western media it’s commonly “Koran”. Once again, nice try, son.👍
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  15334.  @keyboardmousewarrior6225  Jesus, you’re boring, man. 🥱
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  15335.  @keyboardmousewarrior6225  *you’re No.
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  15336.  @abcdefghijk1024  Pmsl@“your own hereafter”. 🤣 The great brainwashed. Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  15337.  @abcdefghijk1024  The passages about killing non-Muslims.
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  15338.  @keyboardmousewarrior6225  I’m not an atheist. Nice try, though.👍
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  15339.  @IFAMILYIH  I have one simple question: why do you need a manmade textbook from thousands of years ago to teach you how to treat a woman? Also you’re in denial about how if women don’t toe the line sexually in Islam, then there can be deadly serious consequences: In a poll with respondents across countries in the Arab world such as Algeria (27%), Morocco (25%), Sudan (14%), Jordan (21%), Tunisia (8%), Lebanon (8%), and the Palestinian territory of the West Bank (8%) - all Muslim countries - it was found that honor killings were more acceptable than homosexuality. Oh, and since I mention it, what have you nutters got against gays anyway? I swear that try as I might I still cannot get anyone to provide me a remotely rational reason as to why I should hate homosexuality.
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  15340.  @abcdefghijk1024  Just for the record, I refuse to take seriously any religion, any religion that states the following: Surah 3:151: We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve (all non-Muslims) … Surah 2:191: And kill them (non-Muslims) wherever you find them … kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers (non-Muslims). Surah 9:5: Then kill the disbelievers (non-Muslims) wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush … You believe in a barbaric primitive text from the Dark Ages written by men. Also, why does it not surprise me that someone who believes this astonishingly nasty and poisonous manmade bull-crap is also an upholder of the death penalty. Oh yeah, and one other thing which I personally don’t think is highlighted enough about your oh so holy Islam: good old Mohammed’s future wife, Aisha, was just six years old when she was betrothed to ole Mo, himself in his 50s, and only nine when the marriage was consummated. Now I don’t know about you but in my world that makes your “prophet” a paedophile. Lovely role model stuff there for us all to follow.👍
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  15341.  @simoom58 ’You think the US cares how many Ukrainians die?’ No. That’s a big part of the problem. That, and Putin not caring how many Russians die.
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  15342.  @soggybadrongle *were
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  15343. Here’s Tom with the weather! 🤠
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  15344. What Putin’s engaging in is akin to building an extension to his already extensive house, having been refused planning permission. 🏠
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  15345. At that exact point where we play out our violent video games for real, is where we know human beings have truly lost their marbles.👀
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  15346. ‘Robot couriers’? Yeah, but can they deliver these, post-Brexit?
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  15347. @7:30 History tells us to beware any human telling us they are “acting under the instruction of God”. This is a quite chilling statement.
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  15348. Utterly baffled by the apparent popularity of this guy. He’s boring, arrogant, one-dimensional, ugly, status-obsessed and thick.
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  15349. *a lot
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  15350. You’re just falling into the same trap. 🤦‍♂️ Believing in an unverified, unverifiable biblical hell.
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  15351.  @clarkporter1340  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  15352. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  15353. Indeed. Notice the colour of the skin of both sets of ‘criminals’.
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  15354.  @keithlillis7962 Toleration is fine. To a point. When you import over 1% of your population in a single year (as the UK has done for the past few years - along with all the Channel illegals) then, for me, that’s unsustainable for harmonious integration. And that’s even before mentioning the burden on our already creaking services. As I said, I’m not anti-immigration, but a country as already densely packed as the UK should not, imo, be importing over 1% of its population year on year. It should be more like 0.1%. The general point, however, is that a government that appears to not have a proper handle on its immigration numbers (and unable to secure its borders) looks like a very weak government not doing its job properly.
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  15355. ⁠​⁠ @bobbyjj5372 That was half my point. The ones on the right who clearly have an underlying xenophobic/racist agenda. However, there are millions, like me, fairly central liberals, who can clearly see that having undocumented millions pouring into a country unchecked is an unsustainable situation in the long-run.
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  15356.  @1inchPunchBowl Really? I detect a lot of folk making comments which strongly suggest they have no real issue with hundreds of people illegally pouring into a country unchecked. There are an estimated half million illegal entries into the United States each year. Surely, any US administration (Republican or Democrat) should be on this. I regard Trump, generally, as an idiot, but am 100% for each country having safe, secure borders.
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  15357.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Ah, Johnny lad. Killjoy!
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  15358.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  Not all of us are as ‘common’ as you, Johnny lad. Think on.😉
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  15359.  @Ayraps  Do you mean Eastern Australia? Or do you mean East of Australia completely? 🤔
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  15360. Weird Science. 😉
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  15361. S’ok. God’s been on an extended tea break for 4 billion years, so He won’t mind. ☕️👍
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  15362. Uh huh. A racist. Ty.
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  15363.  @bbcisaids6727  🥱
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  15364.  @lukemurray4950  Twitter is “something we all need”? Lol. Utter bs. Humans had got on fine before Twitter came along and if Twitter died tomorrow the planet would still be spinning and it would be no great loss. Touch some grass.
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  15365.  @benjamindemontgomery6317  Lol. And that makes all the difference here. 🤣
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  15366.  @Mr_Rabbit  Er, last time I checked, I think $44 billion is a little more than $6 billion. You need a remedial Maths class, son.😉
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  15367. You say that like you almost want it to happen. 🥴 Do you not see there would be no winners in that scenario?
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  15368. Tbf to the wee Laura Bicker, for a Scot, she speaks with an extraordinarily crisp and clear accent; you wanna go to some of the rougher parts of Glasgow if you want a really thick, incomprehensible accent!
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  15369. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  15370.  @pieceofshitzu2  No. I’m saying he’s the walking dead. 🚶 ⚰️
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  15371.  @1990758  Huh? I’m here to tell you that “racism has gone away” with this soul. Tbqf, it was never here as you are speaking to a fellow human who never got the “hate another human being based on their skin colour” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing gays. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid, as no one chooses their sexuality, just as no one chooses their skin colour. And even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour and sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better.
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  15372.  @rleeg6744  Huh? Again, wtf are you on about? That’s just pretentious wank. The human record shows, for at least the last 300,000 years, that we judge others on the colour of their skin. Hell, America was doing this rampantly and openly until about 50 years ago. I also say to you, have you read a history book?
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  15373.  @1990758  It was a thought experiment. Cope.
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  15374. Looks like the Chinese dictators weren’t fans of Fan.
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  15375.  @Buttsy1  ‘Dont (sic) believe anything labour (sic) or the BBC tell you.’ 👈 You. You sound just as ‘indoctrinated’ as the person you condemn. I see a pot and a kettle and they are both black.
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  15376. Yeah, but my mom’s hotter than ur mom.
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  15377. Cringe.
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  15378.  @hgbnkbggj2915  K, so you have no clue, either. You’re just guessing. And yet we are to rearrange our whole economic system on the basis of a guess. Odd. I smell a durty rat. 🐀
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  15379.  @JohnofthefamilySmith Yes, Johnny, and anyone believing in invisible sky daddies should be sectioned.
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  15380.  @williambailey1712  🤭
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  15381.  @richardcummins5465  Just for the record, I actually said this: Ben Brown, Christian Fraser, Anita McVeigh, Sophie Raworth, Jane Hill, Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire… Quite a few, petal, but what the colour of someone’s skin has to do with reading an autocue escapes me. You may have missed it, Dicky. 👍
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  15382.  @richardcummins5465  K, Dicky. 👍😉
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  15383.  @richardcummins5465  Oh, Dicky. I’m sorry, but you’re clearly a dead loss. Even you must suspect this, son.
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  15384.  @richardcummins5465  Some of us speak several languages, Dicky. You’re struggling with your first! Are you not ashamed?
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  15385.  @richardcummins5465  I never trust anyone for whom English is their first language, yet they are as all over the shop as you Dicky, grammatically. Get the basics right, then come at me, sweetie.👍
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  15386.  @richardcummins5465  You had 6 words, Dicky. 🤦‍♂️
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  15387.  @richardcummins5465  *you’re 🤦‍♂️
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  15388.  @beaudilecaliste6545 Tell what to the Beeb, petal? I just listed all the whiteys. Seethe and seethe again. 🤪
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  15389.  @beaudilecaliste6545  Er, y r u upvoting urself? Cringe.
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  15390.  @subscriptions1586  Er, y r u upvoting urself? Cringe.
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  15391.  @aiglonducal314  Er, y r u upvoting urself? Cringe.
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  15392. @Rac-fpvWith that fashion sense and those hideous 🤮 hairy knobbly knees, you wanna watch whom you call a ‘weirdo’ , schweetie.
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  15393. I once visited Cairo. Stood next to the Pyramids right next to an Egyptian guy and we both farted simultaneously: we had a Tutankhamun! 💨
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  15394. Another Tehrannical move by the mad mullahs.
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  15395. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity. (WB Yeats)
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  15396. 🥱
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  15397. Lol. So we’ve all got to be compassionate about your depression and yet your stunning indifference to dying human beings in the Channel gets a pass?! 🤣 Are you for real?!
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  15398. Cringe. 😐
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  15399. No one cares what some irrelevant fart in backwoods America thinks!
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  15400. Yes, Tom’s there! 7000 Hollywood Blvd. 🎸
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  15401.  @jonnsonsam  Funny you didn’t name your source. Just ‘flight logs’. Show me the flight logs. 👍😉
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  15402.  @jonnsonsam  Debunked. 👍
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  15403. Source?
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  15404. They are all paid for.
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  15405.  @WoundedWarrior2012  Lovely standard, insular Yankee Doodle opinion, there. That’s been a major part of the US’s problem since 1776. Think on, chumpster. 😉
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  15406.  @susanadams-wauro6716  Lol.
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  15407. Yeah, but you’re ignoring the fact the the west has meddled in the internal affairs of Ukraine; namely, the 2014 west-backed coup. We are in this whether you like it or not. Why do you think Zelensky is so angry at the west not instigating a no-fly zone? He feels betrayed by his western puppet-masters.
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  15408. For a moment there, didn’t tink the Jerries were going to send the tanks to tonk the Russkis. That would’ve stunk! Just over ten? K. 👍
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  15409.  @DustyBarrels464  Woosh! 🌬
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  15410.  @puraLusa  He won’t see the Hague: William only sees people by appointment.
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  15411. “Abit” (sic) 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤥🤫🤥🤥🤫🤫🤫🤥🤥🤭🤥🤫🤫🤭🤫🤫🤭🤥🤭🤫🤭🤥🤭🤥🤫 Numpty. 😏
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  15412.  @superstormthunder3  Mentally lazy. I was right. Think on. Could be the reason why you were so salty yesterday. You knew the truth of yourself as a representative of Gen Z.
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  15413.  @superstormthunder3  *you’re *Earther Looks like I might have been correct about Gen Z laziness, after all. 😳
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  15414.  @superstormthunder3  🤣
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  15415.  @superstormthunder3  Most of us are still “in touch” with basic punctuation and the use of capitals and full-stops.
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  15416.  @superstormthunder3  Not me, mucker.
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  15417.  @superstormthunder3  Yes, I know I’m correct but ty for telling me I’m correct.
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  15418.  @pytek23  Stop cherry picking. Anyone can quote a 15 year thing and pass it off as the “truth”. Real truth is that over the past 150/200 years Earth’s temp has risen by 1.3°C.
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  15419.  @superstormthunder3  Uh huh. And that still doesn’t negate my basic point: over-reliance on tech has made Gen Z lazy. More copium, sweetie?
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  15420.  @superstormthunder3  Incidentally, I never said being “good” at technology makes one lazy; I said the mere existence of so much tech makes this generation lazy. Being good, or otherwise, at it is neither here nor there. You need better close reading skills.
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  15421.  @superstormthunder3  No.
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  15422.  @superstormthunder3  🥱
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  15423.  @superstormthunder3  No.
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  15424.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🥲😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Dipshit. 😐
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  15425.  @Matty18795  Nah. It’s just because humans are innately tribal.
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  15426. If someone pitches up at my home one day and enters with force to occupy it against my will, they can expect to have a very hard time for all the while they occupy it, even if I am forced to live by their rules. 🏠
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  15427. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👽
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  15428.  @footballfans3159  Yes, because he knew that if America didn’t, someone else would. A wiseacre once said: ‘if you want peace, prepare for war.’ 💣
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  15429.  @footballfans3159  The great problem of humanity is that we are clever enough to invent and develop marvellous technologies, but we are not wise enough to use them well.👀
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  15430.  @zhihechang9850  America undoubtedly has much historical blood on its hands, however, this doesn’t detract from the fact that Putin has invaded a self-governing sovereign territory, imposing his will against the majority will in that country.👀
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  15431. dar
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  15432.  @prodigalsun1678  *?
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  15433. @bar de Yes, but can we have that in English, please?🤓
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  15434.  @mobilusinmobili8321  👍
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  15435. Sounds exactly how most wars on this planet have begun! 👍
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  15436. Just as a minor aside, Starship’s top speed is projected to be 28,000 km/h. At that rate it would take about 160,000 years to reach the nearest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri. Just another little mind-blowing fact that puts Earth’s grain of sand in a vast, vast galaxy into a little perspective. Apparently, there are more than 10,000 stars in the Universe for every single grain of sand on this planet. Think about that for 5 seconds. It’s mind-blowing. And some say we might be the only (semi) intelligent life in the cosmos?! Yeah, right. I’d put my mortgage and everything else I have that the Universe is literally teeming with life; and teeming with life a darn sight more advanced than human beings. 👽
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  15437.  @Rafterman955  Not pro-murder; just pro-choice. 😉 You really do need better coping techniques, sweetie.
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  15438.  @Rafterman955  Not pro-murder; just pro-choice. 😉
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  15439.  @_ArsNova  I’m not a “leftist”. You’re not very good at this are you, arsenova? ☺️
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  15440.  @Rafterman955  Ah, so arsenova is also Raftergirl; makes sense.
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  15441.  @_ArsNova  Yeah, but we don’t all live in the US. Cope again.
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  15442.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  15443.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  🥱
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  15444. *airline
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  15445.  @LewisNuke92  Hair, side business. Who gives a f*ck when you’re clearly unaware of the possessive apostrophe? You do this all the time, btw. You make egregious grammatical blunders my 3 month old pet chimp wouldn’t make! 🐒
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  15446.  @LewisNuke92  You list all your ‘achievements’ like a desperate sod protesting too much, yet you genuinely appear unaware of the possessive apostrophe.
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  15447. Good grief. We’re at that level are we? 🤦‍♂️
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  15448. 🤣
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  15449.  @nineteen8026  The winner studies Physics and Philosophy. Cope.
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  15450.  @lukemurray4950  Pricing my point (sic) Good grief.
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  15451. Are you an Israeli fanboy? Or just a fascist?
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  15452.  @jonlenihan4798  Well said, that man.😳
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  15453. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  15454.  @CamperDurgesh  Huh? Wtf are you on about? I’m not for killing people just seeking a better life. Just deport. Just for the record, the very last thing you are, is a “liberal”. You weren’t fooling anyone, son.👍
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  15455.  @SeetheWorldIn360degrees  👈Pin this comment. 👏
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  15456.  @B.D.E.  👍
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  15457.  @lg206  Define ‘native Brits’. I’ll give you my definition: if you’re a legal British citizen you are a ‘native Brit’. Yes, yes, yes, you’re gonna bore me to death with yer grandmother twice removed blah, blah, blah, but here’s the deal with that: if you’re gonna go down the DNA road you need a cut-off point. You need a rule. If you have 49% ‘British DNA’ are you a ‘native Brit’? 48%? If you can’t supply a fail-safe test here you’re ‘native Brit’ theory folds like a pack of 🃏. Muahahahaha.
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  15458.  @DilbertWhitehead  Jimbo, for instance, genuinely appears to hate any non-white people (no questions asked), and I don’t think he’s in a club of 1.
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  15459.  @mrnumba154  Er, whit? 🥴
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  15460.  @gemm4793  If you obey the law, learn the language and pay your taxes, then anyone who is doing that has just as much right to be here as you do. Accidents of birth are meaningless. Everyone could have been born anywhere. It’s all random, arbitrary and, as history has proved, very, very dangerous, if you hitch your core identity to an accident of birth.
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  15461.  @gemm4793  You can’t seem to tolerate difference. You seem to want people around you who look like you, eat what you eat, worship the God you worship, listen to the same music as you, speak with your accent, read the same books as you, think the same thoughts as you. You’re intolerant and that, to me, makes you intolerable.
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  15462.  @gemm4793  In your opinion.
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  15463.  @gemm4793  In your opinion.
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  15464.  @gemm4793  No, I wouldn’t. You need to read me more carefully and not impute to me untruths. I said that 300 wasn’t enough. That’s all. I’m far from an open-door advocate vis-a-vis immigration. But I’m certainly for immigration at a healthy level. That’s all.
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  15465.  @gemm4793  By your logic btw, no country on this planet would help any person from any other country, with the honourable exceptions of Japan and perhaps Finland. Everywhere else has homeless people. You’re saying that that should be fixed before refugees are accepted? All the refugees would have to go to Finland and Japan, then, for there would be no room at the inn for them anywhere else.
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  15466.  @gemm4793  Heck, I can’t stand a whole host of folk for any number of reasons; however, I’ve never disliked or discriminated against another human being on the basis of an accident of birth. We’ll have to disagree on this one.
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  15467.  @gemm4793  Remind me never to knock on your door if I’m ever in a pickle. I’m afraid you might ask me if I’m ‘born and bred’ before you deign to help me. Last time I checked we were all born and bred on planet Earth. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced is one of perspective. We have narrowed our vision such that are unable to see the universal wood for the exclusive trees. We have hitched our star to this or that family, clan, tribe, nationalism, religion such that we have become deluded, unable to serenely see what actually is. We are cosmic dust on a grain of sand, one of trillions of grains of sand, whirling around a nuclear reactor, one of trillions of nuclear reactors and we are willing to abase ourselves to murdering one another for an accident of birth, or an imagined daddy in the sky? Has it come to this? There are alien civilisations who use this Earth as a cosmic pit stop on their intergalactic travels and they look at us and weep. They have perspective. They can literally see the Earth in toto. They cannot see the pettifogging, sanguinary squabbles over this or that imaginary line drawn on a map. They cannot see the ignorant ranters championing their imagined God, ranked against the ignorant ranters championing their imaginary God. The solution to all this nonsense is very simple: expand your terms of self-definition. Refuse to accept a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a salient marker of your identity. Refuse to accept unthought-out shibboleths handed down to you to shore up your fear of death. Refuse to be proud, unless your pride is grounded in self-motivated, self-guided achievement, and not some random, bizarre, nonsensical ‘pride’ based on the fact your mother happened to plop you out here, and not there. None of this would matter a fig, but for a key point: we now, at this critical juncture in our cosmic journey, face the very real and present danger of incinerating this planet and everything on it. Really. We are better than that. You, Gemm, are better than that. I hope.
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  15468.  @gemm4793  Wow! How right-wing. ‘Born and bred’, you say? How about this? Russia succeeds in Ukraine. Then it comes directly for us for supplying the Ukrainians with arms. You are made homeless, due to bombing, and you have to flee the country for your safety. You arrive in Sweden, the first non-NATO country you can, to avoid Russian attacks on all NATO countries. I, a Swede, tell you that you are not welcome here in Sweden as you are not ‘born and bred’. Do you realise how racist that sounds? Not to mention heartless and inhumane?
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  15469.  @gemm4793  Yes, but we are only getting blow back to a certain extent, given our egregious, terrible history of colonisation. You mention a ‘certain quota of refugees’; exactly! We accept a certain quota and the basic point I was making at the outset here was that 300 was a terrible, inhumane response when the likes of Poland, for example, are accepting upwards of 1,000,000. That’s all.
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  15470.  @Andrew-rc3vh  ‘The threat to their hegemony is the alliance of the Russians and Chinese’. Again, d’oh! You are stating the bleedin’ obvious again. We all know America was, is and clearly wants to be into the future, top dog geopolitically. Why are you stating this like you are the first to think of this? Also, stop patronising me. That’s not a good look, son. You still haven’t answered the basic point I was making about refugees. Well?
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  15471.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Just for the record, I’m not sure how a war over which they had no real say, allows you to shut the door in the face of refugee Ukrainians when they need help. You need to explain that one to me as a fellow human being as I can’t quite get my head around it.
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  15472.  @Andrew-rc3vh  Tell me about the ‘military and economic aims and interests’ of the USA, then? I’m all ears. If all you’re going to tell me is that America is protecting her national interests and because she wields the biggest spear (for now) she can protect them better than most, well, d’oh! That’s been the modus operandi of the USA since its inception. You’ll be telling me next the sun is going to rise tomorrow, will you? As to having a downer on democracy, well all that can be said to that is, you got any better ideas? No. Didn’t think you had.
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  15473.  @Andrew-rc3vh  As to the UK ‘strongly censoring free-speech’, well, I don’t doubt that goes on in mainstream media, but I access lots of non-mainstream stuff and it doesn’t feel censored to me. Also, if you are being ‘censored’ how come we can have a conversation here without fear or favour?
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  15474.  @Andrew-rc3vh  You just assert without corroborating evidence. I don’t operate like that, mate. Can do better. Must do better.
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  15475.  @gemm4793  I don’t actually turn a blind eye to the homeless here: I’ve worked for a homeless charity for 20 years. However, that is not the point here. Imagine this: France invades the UK tomorrow; you are driven from your house; you flee across the Channel as a war refugee; how would you feel if everyone you asked for refuge slammed the door in your face? Think about this a little and then get back to me. Just for the record, there are literally thousands of properties lying empty in this country, so your argument is a red herring. For example, I live in a tenement block, and as we speak there are 3 vacant flats out of 14, and they have been vacant for months. You telling me you wouldn’t put up a refugee mother and her children in one of those flats for however long it takes this situation to pass? Really? I repeat, you seem to have abdicated your essential humanity.
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  15476.  @gemm4793  Really? You’re abdicating your essential humanity that much that you’re going to baulk at accepting a few thousand desperate people? Really? Are you sure you want to be that person. I repeat, if we were talking purely economic migrants here, you might have a case. However, these are war-driven refugees. Looks like your heart has gone AWOL.
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  15477.  @Andrew-rc3vh  It’s also the height of bloody hypocrisy for you, a Brit, to moan about ‘manufacturing’ stuff given the meddling Britain, along with her partners, has done down the years. Britain has stuck her military oar into the affairs of others far too often for the likes of you to talk about ‘manufacturing’ as if it were the fault of refugees they are refugees.
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  15478. Lol. Dancing? For dancing ?! Wtf. And so the nonsense emanating from organised religion goes on. When will humans realise that there might be a God, there might not be a God; what there most certainly isn’t is some guy in the sky backing your choices based on primitive books written thousands of years ago. Organised religion, in my experience, is just an excuse for men to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else. Can you imagine an-female government dictating the lives of others down to the Nth degree? No. Of course you can’t, and if they did, all men would be up in arms. I’m not the most clever. I’m not the most bright. But I’m clever enough and bright enough to clearly, I repeat, clearly see that organised religion has caused humanity nothing but trouble for about 3,000 years.
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  15479. Yes, just last year I was arrested for performing a bad Paso Doble in Tehran. Luckily, I escaped: I ran! 💃 🕺 🏃‍♂️
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  15480. Prime Minister: “While Joe’s Biden his time, I’ll Putin a word with Vladimir.”
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  15481.  @jaaksavat7916  Live to live!
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  15482. Well, if you’ve had a particularly dodgy vindaloo, I’d imagine there is quite severe global warming caused by your ass. 🤓 💨
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  15483. Wow! That’s a whole lotta white. Last time I saw that much white powdery stuff in one place was that party I was at with Volodymyr Zelensky just last week! sniffs
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  15484. If you tolerate this, then your grannies will be next.
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  15485. Are you an Israeli fanboy? Or just a fascist?
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  15486.  @hermonberhe1889  Source?
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  15487. Source?
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  15488.  @briaredpath9386  Does she? And when her ‘prophecy’ doesn’t come true, what then? You latch on to another? Surely if you latch on to 10,000 conspiracy theories you’re bound to strike lucky with one of them.👍
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  15489.  @FoodwaysDistribution  Wtf are you on about? She was shot in the head in Pakistan in 2012, when she was 15, after being targeted by the Taliban for speaking out on education for young women. Go and educate yourself with your usual ignorant and out of context comment. 😉
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  15490.  @azarnakiros7002  Yw.
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  15491.  @glpmhkln6954  And you.👍
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  15492.  @justwatching5188  As a neutral here I’m more wary of a Putin-led Russia, than I am of NATO.
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  15493.  @kristinataylor8209  Yw.
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  15494.  @studyonislam3892  Huh? 🤔
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  15495. While observing the bedlam being played out daily on our screens, I couldn’t help but be struck by how eerily similar this whole farrago is to Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove , with a slight tweaking of point-of-view, and flipping of roles, in which America is Russia and Russia is America. In Kubrick’s masterpiece, American Brigadier General Jack D Ripper (Putin), has been driven insane with paranoia by the events of the Cold War. (In Putin’s case insanity and monomaniacal post-Cold War paranoia at a loss and diminution of his beloved Russia, as was USSR.) Ripper has become convinced that there is a plot by the ‘Commies’ (USA/NATO in Putin’s case) to ‘sap and contaminate our precious bodily fluids’. (In Putin’s case to sap and contaminate the minds of the Russians, and the idea of a Greater Russian Empire.) Ripper decides to take pre-emptive, first-strike unilateral action by striking the USSR. (Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine, and by extension the West in general.) The B-52s, under Ripper’s command, go in and hydrogen bomb the USSR. (Mercifully, Putin has not yet gone this far.) The US president along with his back-room staff attempt to stop the bombers from delivering their payload. (We can only pray Putin has back-room staff strong enough and prepared to step in if he tries to fulfill his nuclear threat.) Here’s the rub, however, the only way to stop the bombers in Dr Strangelove ,is a recall code which only Ripper knows. (We must pray, even the atheists/agnostics amongst us, that with Putin, it’s not only him that has access to the button.) The US government tries to capture Ripper to get the recall code from him, but Ripper gets away. (Will we be able to stop Putin?) The really scary kicker in Kubrick’s film, however, is that the Soviets have built a doomsday machine that will launch enough missiles to destroy all life on Earth if an American nuclear bomb hits them. (I’m pretty confident Putin’s enemies - us - won’t go this far.) Eventually, Ripper is overpowered, but shoots himself before the recall code can be given. (An inside job on Putin, perhaps, before he can incinerate the planet?) One man ignores the recall code and piles headlong towards Moscow. (A member of Putin’s inner team, perhaps?) He attempts to drop the bomb (On Ukraine? On Europe? On America?) After some door-jamming black humour he opens the doors and rides down on the bomb. 💣 Moscow retaliates with horrifying consequences for the planet. (Surely the West won’t go this far.) Let’s hope that, in this case, life won’t imitate art.👀
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  15496.  @sweetchinmusic801  Er, I think you might have the wrong guy here for that post, m8. Anti-imperialist here! 👍
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  15497.  @WasFakestCenturyAesthetics  I’m not an atheist. Please work on your basic reading comprehension.
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  15498.  @WasFakestCenturyAesthetics  I was mocking you . Please work on your basic grammar and orthography.
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  15499.  @WasFakestCenturyAesthetics  At least I’ve got basic grammatical skills.
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  15500. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  15501. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  15502.  @Kriegtime101  Yes. Do you? I’m here to tell you, you can have ‘conflict’ without this meaning conventional war. You need to stop thinking so literally, sweetie. Now, I’m bored with this as you’re clearly not up to it, so kindly just move on and bother someone else with your tedious kindergarten crap.
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  15503.  @Kriegtime101  But that’s the choice. You’re being wilfully obdurate, mate. Some choose conflict, some don’t. ‘Progress’, depending on how you want to define it, depends on the choices we individually and collectively make every day. Interestingly in no part of my OP did I use the word ‘conflict’; you threw out the word. 😉 Incidentally, you, ironically, just chose ‘conflict’ yourself with your talk of ‘bombing Russia back to the Stone Age’. And this just after you wrote the following: ‘Hatred is not necessary. Hatred is unnecessary and harmful to your own intellectual growth as a human being.’ That tells me 2 things: 1. You’re a rank hypocrite. 2. You sound very confused about your own stance. Ta da! 🎉
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  15504.  @Kriegtime101  ‘Progress’ is choosing the right thing. 😉
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  15505.  @Guesswhokk  Lol. Guessing you won’t be voting for the Communist Party anytime soon.🤣 You went all political on me when my OP was only really making the point that humans are doomed to live in a sublunary world of polarities.
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  15506.  @Kriegtime101  Without opposites, no progression. You’re living in cuckoo land if you think we can exist in this world with ‘hate’ and its opposite. You only know whatever ‘hate’ is by knowing what is isn’t . This isn’t some heavenly realm where it’s all fluffy love and choirs and cherubim. The question is: which do you choose?
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  15507.  @stevend1034  Lol. A bit random, but I’ll take your word for it! 🥴
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  15508.  @milkshakeplease4696  Reading your post you appear to be in tune with Blake’s very own non-materialistic description of our situation. You should read him, if you haven’t already.😉
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  15509.  @des_smith7658  With global warming, Polaroids are becoming a thing of the past.
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  15510. This war, until the Kursk incursion, wasn’t a real war in the sense both sides feel the pain. If Ukraine hits Russian territory the way Russia has been hitting Ukrainian territory, willing to bet Putin’s days will be severely numbered.
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  15511. Dull take.
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  15512.  @АлександрСиротин-ю8м  Repeat all you want. Putin wants Ukraine in toto. He won’t get it. Cope harder.😉
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  15513.  @АлександрСиротин-ю8м  Lol. 🤣 You do realise he’s been occupying another sovereign, self-governing territory for a year after a brutal invasion?! Kinda think he might want Ukraine as part of a greater Russia. You may need to rethink your deeply silly, infantile ideas before you speak! 🤣
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  15514.  joebaxi01  Huh? When did I think this? You’re making up crap again, dude. 🤷‍♂️ Nice try, though. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  15515.  joebaxi01  👈Needs to stop assuming and do better close-reading. 👍😉
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  15516.  joebaxi01  Er, where did I say it was? 🤷‍♂️
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  15517.  joebaxi01  Really? And the recent riots in northern England had precisely zero to do with religion/culture? 🤦‍♂️ Wake up, dude!
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  15518.  joebaxi01  Huh? Where did I say there would be a Civil war? 🤔
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  15519. @napolean_ragland What do you mean, ‘Just as I thought’? What bit of ‘Civil War (via too much immigration)’ don’t you get? 🤔
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  15520. @napolean_ragland You need to do some work. I’m not doing it all for you. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  15521. @napolean_ragland So, er, why might Elon be consistently talking about ‘Civil War’ in Europe? Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  15522. @ What? He’s persistently tweeted about an oncoming ‘Civil War’ in Europe. You may have been off that day. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  15523.  @blakepickett2209  🤣
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  15524.  @coolbreeze9713  Ty. 👍
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  15525.  @mexicanshawarma5971  No.
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  15526. Er, given that Wikipedia states that there have been well over 100 Islamist attacks on mainland Europe since 2004, I think we might have a problem here with a religion which is antithetical to a secular, free liberal democracy.
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  15527.  @waqarkayani8213  Well, given that since 2004, according to Wikipedia, there have been well over 100 Islamist attacks on mainland Europe, I wouldn’t be surprised. Added to this that reports suggest he was an Arab. You work it out.👍
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  15528.  @waqarkayani8213  Well, given that since 2004, according to Wikipedia, there have been well over 100 Islamist attacks on mainland Europe, I wouldn’t be surprised. Added to this that reports suggest he was an Arab. You work it out.👍
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  15529.  @Stan-v7g  Er, if this doesn’t turn out to be related to Islam in some way (i.e. the dude is a Muslim), and given Bild was reporting the witness description of an Arab-looking nutter, I will eat my Koran. Or, I would if I had one.
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  15530.  @waqarkayani8213  Well, given that since 2004, according to Wikipedia, there have been well over 100 Islamist attacks on mainland Europe, I wouldn’t be surprised. Added to this that reports suggest he was an Arab. You work it out.👍
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  15531. Blimey! Mastermind? That Clive Myrie gets around.
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  15532. Make me.
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  15533.  @dylanho8608  No I won’t. And that why the f*ck I’ll never live in Thailand.
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  15534. He’s made in Scotland. Balls of kryptonite up there, pal.😉
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  15535.  @paulleach3612  But the apostrophe isn’t needed in this case, Paul, darling. Every single source I’ve checked just has ‘cuz’, m8. 👍Nice try, though. Looks like that English M.A. was a waste of yer time efter aw, son. 😭
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  15536.  @richardmidson3407  But I used ‘cuz’ intentionally, Dicky. You never missed that full-stop intentionally, Dicky. Big difference, Dicky.👍
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  15537.  @richardmidson3407  I think you will find you required a full-stop after ‘because’, Dicky. Uh huh. Hypocrites r Us, Dicky? 🤣😂😅
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  15538.  @richardmidson3407  Lol. Just cuz you can’t cope with my comments, Dicky? 👍😉
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  15539.  @richardmidson3407  *were 😂
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  15540.  @narrativequestion  Uh huh. And you go back to yer Bible, m8. 👍 Leave me outta yer primitive crap.
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  15541. Yes, you are.
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  15542.  @curiositycloset2359 *a lot
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  15543. Just for the record: Che Guevara was a racist, homophobic mass murderer. Trump scores 2 outta 3, there. Tops!👍
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  15544. Initially thought the black flag was Mercedes Benz.
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  15545. Nah. Let’s keep homosexuality while we’re at it Jools. 👍😭
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  15546.  @graye2799  To say Christianity was ‘responsible’ for the West is a bit of a stretch. What about the Greeks? What about the Romans? What about the Enlightenment? No doubting Christianity is one of the big boys, I don’t deny that, but this whole notion of unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies believed in by humans has just been more trouble than it has been worth, all told. Take you, for example. I assume you’re a Christian. You can’t stand Muslims, it seems. Why? Because Muslims are a religious threat. My stance on Islam is that I don’t trust it in the same way I wouldn’t have trusted Christianity back in the day when it was rather nasty. Because it went through a Reformation and we had an Enlightenment, the sting was taken from Christianity. Islam has had none of this. It’s also notably very political. Another reason to deeply mistrust it. See Iran. See Afghanistan. Believe in any imagined sky daddy you want, just keep it to yourself.
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  15547.  @cestlextase Each to their own! 👍
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  15548. A white stick?
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  15549.  @Imperial_Boltgun  I’m against illegal immigration. Bad luck.👍
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  15550.  @FaceFcuk  Er, I don’t think they were all doing this. You’re a moron. Uh huh.
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  15551.  @graye2799  Nah. You’re totally wrong about the 99%, mate. For a start, Pakistanis represent the highest Muslim population (43%) and it’s not Pakistanis, by and large, on the Channel boats.
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  15552.  @graye2799  No. I wouldn’t deport law-abiding Muslims, I would just introduce strict quotas, if I were in charge of this stuff.
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  15553.  @graveperil2169 Yes, both are technically ‘crimes’. But I, and everyone else I know, doesn’t consider them comparable crimes. It’s like comparing a white lie to a big whopping lie. False comparison. But you also probably have an agenda to uphold so you’ll say anything to save face.
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  15554.  @Shazzkid  Ach. Yer aff yer heid, hen. Totally demonising a whole demographic. The stuff you describe is only being committed by a minuscule minority, but you’ve got an agenda and it seems you won’t be shaken from it.
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  15555.  @graveperil2169 Lol. So I gently steal a bag of crisps and I violently rob a bank of £1 million. I think we can all agree one ‘crime’ is slightly more serious than the other crime. 🤦‍♂️
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  15556.  @Shazzkid I disagree with allowing illegal economic migrants to stay but to compare them to bank robbers just shows you’ve completely lost the plot.
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  15557.  @Shazzkid To compare these people to bank robbers is insane. 99% of them just want a better life. They don’t want to go around robbing banks. 🤦‍♂️
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  15558.  @Shazzkid Ah, u took ur own upvote away, I see. 😉
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  15559.  @Shazzkid 99% of these people are just looking for a better life. You, or I, would do the same if the boot were on the other foot.
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  15560.  @Shazzkid Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  15561.  @djzrobzombie2813  What? All of it?! That would leave me gasping for breath.
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  15562.  @chestikov2011  Let’s hope not. ‘Boom, boom’ could end it for us all.
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  15563. Stolen comment.
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  15564. You do know that you can’t catch homosexuality? 🤣 You talk like it’s a disease. You either are or you aren’t, sweetie. Seethe on sweet child, seethe on. It’s hilarious to watch.🤣
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  15565.  @jonathandnicholson  You didn’t address the key point: why is the State getting involved with what 2 consenting adults are up to? Moreover, all they are ‘up to’ is having sex. It’s not like they are robbing, stealing, raping or killing. They are having consensual sex. There are no victims here; which is surely why we have laws in the first place: to establish justice for a victim (as well as punishing someone for wrongdoing). Now if you personally feel sticking your willy up someone else’s jacksy is ‘immoral’ and should be punished by law, that is your prerogative (I personally think you are insane). But whether I think you are irrational and stupid is not the point; the point is the State needs to know its place and keep out of my personal business which is affecting neither you nor anyone else. As do the curtain twitchers desperately grasping their primitive, antediluvian texts written by men.
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  15566.  @okellofrancis2218  Huh? You’re just talking bollocks at this point, m8. How does 2 consenting adults doing what they want to do affect you? Answer: it doesn’t. It’s quite literally none of your business . If you weren’t beholden to primitive texts written by men thousands of years ago you’d see sense here. There is no issue aside from the one you and your ilk are creating.
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  15567.  @JLW2004  Copy by name, copy by nature, son.👍😉
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  15568.  @tomasneel1980  Er, wot? 🤔
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  15569.  @JimSmith-e2g  God, you’re boring, son. 🥱
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  15570.  @JimSmith-e2g  Not even gay, Jimbo. Unlike you! 🤣
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  15571.  @JimSmith-e2g  Where did I say that, Jimbo? Yeah, that’s right. Nowhere, tosspot!🤪
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  15572.  @sithsidhe  Well, you clearly do, as it’s been nipping at my leg for the past hour, chummo.
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  15573.  @sithsidhe  Don’t know about you, petal, but in the real world I was fooling around at 13. We’re not all prissy little Victorians these days, sweetie. 😉
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  15574.  @sithsidhe  We’ll see. Seethe on now. 😉
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  15575.  @sithsidhe  Ok, that’ll be why the age of consent is 14 in over 30 countries. Not that “weird” at all it turns out. After all, what’s a year between friends? Cope.
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  15576.  @southlondon86  Stolen gag. Can do better. Must do better.
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  15577.  @JimSmith-e2g  Seethe on, Jimbo, you projecting tart! It’s always the ones who are most vocally telling others what they can and can’t do that are at it, Jimbo. Think on, son 😉…
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  15578.  @Flypidge  “A bit of a weird view on things” ~ Translation: “He disagrees with me.”
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  15579.  @Flypidge  You said that! It’s on your Home Page.🤣
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  15580.  @Flypidge  PS. I take no lessons from someone who thinks Braveheart is “the best film of all time”! 🤣 Think on …😉
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  15581.  @Flypidge  Nah, mate. They aren’t. They are just the Comments of someone who is sniffing a mighty anti-homosexual agenda. Nice try though, “Pidge”.👍
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  15582.  @HOSPlTALLER  No. *emigrate
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  15583.  @JimSmith-e2g  Lol. You utter tosser, son.🤣😂😅Could be your hard-drive we need to check, Jimbo, judging by how heated and passionate you are about all this? Huh? Gonna let us have a peek, pal? 🤡🥸
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  15584.  @JimSmith-e2g  You need to stop projecting, Jimbo; you’re betraying all your nasty dark secrets, son.😉
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  15585.  @JimSmith-e2g  Why do you say that, mate?
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  15586.  @seamusin1697  Just a “whiff”?!?! 🤣
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  15587.  @seamusin1697  Jill clearly has an agenda, mate. She reminds me of Mark Twain’s immortal quote: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
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  15588.  @CheshireCat6639  Not just Geishas and not just Japan. Last time I checked, 14 was the age of consent in over 30 countries.
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  15589.  @tardistime6857  Not “digging” anything, sweetie. I’m here to tell you that some guy that was the age of consent had consensual sex with some other guy. Cope, seethe and cry like never before! 😭
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  15590.  @jillmaltby  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  15591.  @jaded9247  In your opinion. Seethe and cope like you’ve never seethed and coped before!
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  15592.  @catherinemira75  🤡
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  15593.  @ShowMeCrows  Don’t particularly have an issue with 14 age of consent. At 14 I was sexually active. We don’t all have to live by your Victorian morality, y’know. Think on …
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  15594.  @PamelaGreen354  Evidence? Easy to tittle-tattle and just state crap because you’re anti-gay. We can all do that.
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  15595.  @brianlefevre9757  *man’s The grammar police check this man’s piss-poor basic grammar.
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  15596.  @agnes7297  How do you know he groomed him from the age of 10? Prove it. Don’t just state shit to suit your agenda, as that won’t cut it with me, love.
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  15597. @SubvurzIV Huh? Again, another numpty conveniently ignoring the notion of “consent”. Last time I checked, Schofield had sex with a consenting adult. Ta da! 🎉
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  15598.  @shonabeggs4640  Uh huh, Shona. And there’s always an agenda queen like you. Thanks for letting us know, chump. 👍
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  15599.  @pandrop490  *.
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  15600.  @rachelcookie321  Thanks for clarification. 🙏
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  15601.  @F0nkyNinja  How many languages do you speak then?
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  15602. Even if he was wrong, that’s how science is done. We have scientific theories until they are falsified. At least Einstein was operating in an intellectually honest discipline, unlike organised religion, where certain religious texts written by men thousands of years ago are taken as infallible and unalterable no matter what kind of evidence is presented to discredit them. Religious theories are immune to falsifiability as those who uphold them just use the lazy fall-back stance of: ‘God did it’. No further thinking required. Without Einstein and his scientific brethren, we’d still be wielding sticks and living by candlelight. 🕯
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  15603. *know Good grief, Dicky. 🤦‍♂️
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  15604.  @dwp912  Bradley? Walsh? 🤓
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  15605.  @babblo1389  You can take their freedom but you cannot take their Irn Bru!
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  15606.  @Johnkriller  What are you on about? Scotland already has the nukes!
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  15607.  @balthiersgirl2658  Yawn
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  15608. Dude, you are so gay.
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  15609. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  15610.  Vasy Vasy_1  Referendum on partition?
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  15611. Er, how? 🥴
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  15612. Strange. You’d think these mega-rich A-listers would be living in massive mansions and therefore have more than enough wombs themselves to spare. 👶
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  15613.  @Stevexnycautomotive  Wtf are you on about? 🥴
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  15614. Huh? Islam teaches fasting each day until sunset during Ramadan. They don’t fast continually for 40 days eating and drinking nothing! 🤣
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  15615.  @Romans8-9  Uh huh? And where exactly did I say I was pro-folk peeing in the street? 🤔
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  15616. As opposed to Faris Parts? 💨
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  15617. Er, y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  15618. Er, y do u keep upvoting urself? 🤔
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  15619. Ho
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  15620. War is a place where the young kill one another without knowing or hating each other, because of the decision of old people who know and hate each other, without killing each other. (Erich Hartmann) 🤦‍♂️ Easily the best one sentence quote I have ever read about war.
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  15621. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  15622.  @JeffreyGoddin  Interesting that you’re an American with your “Puritan roots” though, Jeffey; totally explains why you got freaked out by my name and reported it, Big Brother style, to “the authorities”. All makes sense now.🤓
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  15623.  @raf-bw  Tbf, there are thousands of non-lesbian female footballers.
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  15624. Uh huh. So you too are “inherently sexist”.🤫
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  15625. Bit saggy and soggy that one, mate.😉
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  15626.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported for harassment.
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  15627. “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” (Margaret Atwood) This more or less nails it. 👍
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  15628.  @davidrosaline455  Another who has clearly never had experience of a real totalitarian regime.
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  15629.  @rammingspeed5217  Huh? ‘Female privilege’? Wtf are you on about? You may have missed @0:55 😉
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  15630.  @rammingspeed5217  Lol. You utter inverted snob! 👍🤣
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  15631.  @sonk536  Uh huh.👍😉
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  15632. Does that include some ‘beautiful’ weather? 🤔
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  15633. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. (Henry David Thoreau)
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  15634.  @JeffreyGoddin  I repeat: as far as I’m concerned, don’t consider anything perverted between 2 consenting adults. Never got why the State, or anyone else, should be butting into the sex lives of adults. Well, I did. It’s mainly religion. But hey ho.
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  15635.  @JeffreyGoddin  Moreover, how can any sexuality be defined as ‘perverted’ if it’s between 2 consenting adults? That is the real question, Jeffey sweetie.
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  15636.  @JeffreyGoddin  Where, 180 years ago, was “hetero considered perverted”? Source?
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  15637.  @JeffreyGoddin  Don’t go reporting me to ‘the authorities’ now, Jeffey, just cos my heterosexuality deeply offends your Puritan American self.😉
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  15638.  @JeffreyGoddin  Lol.👍
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  15639.  @GoodDay36912  Why do you keep upvoting yourself you desperate person? 😳
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  15640. She was. I always try to catch her on The One Show.
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  15641.  @YarrowTV  The only “self-reflection” Jimbo does is looking in a mirror! 😉👍
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  15642. @UCd4Qqsvlpf3FOMxYnrnZBrQ I’m neutral here. Calling it as I see it from the sidelines.
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  15643.  @lidakum8161  Lol. There, there, dear.
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  15644.  @lidakum8161  Not sure what point you’re making.
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  15645.  @Lalo3g1  I will correct you: I support what Putin’s doing 0%, but as I have no skin in this game I can see both sides clearly and from his point of view precisely nothing he is doing is inappropriate.
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  15646. I can explain it: it was America. 👍
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  15647.  @RobertLewis85  Totally astonishing, Bobby. I agree. To be out of burgers and chicken is a deep stain against humanity. 🍔 🐔
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  15648. Well, tbf, what woman hasn’t been promised a ‘whopper’ 🍔 only to be met with a limp lettuce? 🥬
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  15649. Not as long as it took me to read that, Ivan. 👍
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  15650.  @mothratemporalradio517  It’s obvious. Next!
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  15651.  @HP-dx5ln  Isn’t it obvious? Next!
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  15652.  @F.U.B.A.H.O.R  Just for the record, ‘your people’ is just an accident of birth you had no say in. The Dominican Republic is very ethnically diverse. The majority of the population (around 70 per cent) are of mixed African and European (Spanish) descent, with the remainder black (around 16 per cent) and white (14 per cent). The sooner humanity can get beyond the primitive notion of investing their key identity in a random accident of birth, based on some arbitrary line drawn on a map, (any of us could have been born anywhere), the sooner humanity might evolve.
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  15653. Another recent one is pointing out when people can’t seem to type a full-stop at the end of a sentence.
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  15654.  @kingeling  Don’t look at the hobos, son. Look up. Look up at the beautiful architecture; easily some of the most beautiful urban architecture anywhere on the planet. Cope and seethe some more.
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  15655.  @kingeling  You’re completely missing my point: when I talk of beautiful cities, I’m looking at the architecture. Seethe.
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  15656.  @kingeling  Say what you like about Europe, but the continent has easily the highest concentration of beautiful cities on this planet, and Paris is up there with the best of them. 👈 That was the OP, son. 🤫
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  15657.  @kingeling  You’re completely missing my point: when I talk of beautiful cities, I’m looking at the architecture. Seethe.
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  15658.  @itsethanbradberry  It’s political. The trash view of Paris is invariably proposed by those who don’t want immigrants. It’s a political point they are making, as if whiteys never wever drop litter. Which they do. All the time.
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  15659.  @Oneofusagain  Yeah, and you can’t spell.
    1
  15660.  @kingeling  Huh? I’ve been to Paris about 100 times. Cope.
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  15661.  @adrianlouw2499  👍
    1
  15662.  @adrianlouw2499  “When travelling football fans don’t get attacked” … not sure why you’re bringing this irrelevant wee non sequitur into the debate, Adey petal, but as a football fan I can tell you that “football fans” getting “attacked” isn’t just a French thing. You need to get out more and touch some grass, dear. Maybe speak to some international friends who follow football, yeah? Good lad.👍
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  15663.  @adrianlouw2499  I said, “largely”; you need better close reading skills, darling, as you’re really not very good at this.
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  15664.  @adrianlouw2499  That’s better now, Adey sweetie; you’ve finally seen sense and rightly accepted that Paris wasn’t “burned down”. Well done, you. 👍
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  15665.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  No it’s not. I find both cities to be pretty decent examples of massive multi-ethnic conurbations. Nice try, though.👍
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  15666. That’s such a crap, obvious grandad comment, Jimbo. No insight. No wit. Not funny. Just boring, son. Must do better. Alas, in your case, Jimbo, can’t do better.
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  15667.  @ActuallyHoudini  No.
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  15668.  @dazblue5515  66 now, Dazzy sonny. Seethe some more, chump. 🤡
    1
  15669. Blocked me again, huh Tasty, son? You are such a weak, thick, stoopid, badly spelt numpty! 🎉 Ta da! 😂😂😂😃😃😂🤣😁🤣😄😁😂😃😅😅😃😄😂😄
    1
  15670.  @dazblue5515  Yes, Daz. “Always wrong”; that’s me! In this case, that’ll be why I have, well, um, er … 45 people in agreement with me and precisely zero agreeing with you ! 🤣Ta da! 🎉
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  15671.  @tastypymp1287  “abit”! 😁😄😂😂😂😃😀😅😄😄😂🥲🤣😂😄😄😂😄😁😂😅😄😁😅😄😄🤣😁😂😃😄😂😁😅😄😄😁😅😁😂😃😄
    1
  15672.  @tastypymp1287  👈Deeply triggered by someone who called him out for not being able to spell “abit”!!! (sic) pmsl. lmao. rofl. lol. 🤪🤪🤣🤣🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    1
  15673.  @tastypymp1287  👈Needs to comment on everything.
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  15674.  @aspirantananyakumari26  What is it? 🐄 💩!👈👌😉
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  15675.  @fredrik8500  Fredrik, you clearly have no idea wtf you’re on about, m8. Learn about what exactly ‘irony’ means and get back to me, son.
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  15676.  @martynraveybracey7202  👍
    1
  15677. Schopenhauer wants a refund.
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  15678.  @tastypymp1287  You “cope” all the time, son. Your hypocrisy is staggering. 👍👌
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  15679.  @tastypymp1287  Word salad. Just don’t kiss other people on the mouth without their consent, unless they are dying. 👍 👄 💋
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  15680.  @tastypymp1287  Again, you lack basic spelling and grammar and orthography, but hey, what’s new?! 😉👍
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  15681.  @tastypymp1287  And neither did I assert it “was always a deeply intimate act”. You need better close reading skills, TastyTwat.👍
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  15682.  @tastypymp1287  I have the sophistication and tolerance to recognise and appreciate the nuanced complexities of life and social discourse. Yet you seemingly aren’t aware of the basic difference between ‘abit’ and ‘a bit’ or ‘embarresed’ and ‘embarrassed’ or ‘buthurt’ and ‘butthurt’ or ‘its’ and ‘it’s’ etc etc etc. Well done you, TastyTwat. 😉👍
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  15683. Or a B cup in Hermoso’s case!
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  15684.  @alkismavridis1  “Males exhibiting predatory sexual behaviour is not sexism.” Really? I kinda think it might be. We may have to agree to disagree on this point. 👍
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  15685.  @gutz1981  Just for the record, I don’t support the “cancellation” of this guy; he just needs a little re-educating in other people’s personal boundaries.
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  15686. Anonymously
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  15687.  @RunicRhino22  3 packets of Lurpak and a cow. 🐮
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  15688.  @syncopatedfeb4770  Judging by your spelling, m8, the only one on the “krak” is you. Lmfao. Lolz. Pmsl. Etc etc.👍
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  15689.  @syncopatedfeb4770  He’s suspected of spying for the Iranians. Do keep up at the back.
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  15690.  @wjrasmussen666  Lol.
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  15691.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  You’re obsessed, Johnny lad. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is automatically an atheistic Communist. You’re paranoid, dearie. Here, have another tinfoil hat to add to your growing collection, sonny! 🎩
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  15692.  @jamm8284 ​​⁠ *etc. You’re not coping with this very well, are you, dearie? Can I politely suggest you source other, better coping strategies forthwith, my love. Uh huh.👍✌️🙄
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  15693.  @kevinh4869 *.
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  15694.  @kevinh4869  Not all, Kev. You can’t seem to make the basic distinction between a person and their faults. The sin and the sinner are different, Kev. Bad luck. 😭
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  15695.  @shashbot686  Pmsl.
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  15696.  @MustardSkaven  And you are just a triggered numpty. You need better coping techniques. Can I suggest a swift Tommy Tank? Think on.😉
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  15697.  @MustardSkaven  Oh jeez. We have a gamer on our hands here. This is not gonna go well for you, sunshine. I suggest you stick to FIFA fuckwittery and leave the real wit to the big boys.😉🤣
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  15698.  @MustardSkaven  👈Repeated incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  15699.  @MustardSkaven  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  15700.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *in If the comment “wasn’t for me” then why did you address it to me you utter tit? 🤣You’re such a pretentious piece of wank it’s unreal.
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  15701.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Disagree. And your superior smugness is very unlikely to make me agree. Nice try, though.👍
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  15702.  @occhiodisauron25  Ignore Jimbo; he’s got his head stuck up his arse: permanently!
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  15703.  @ginolatino91  Absholutely no problem, Shimon. (Sean Connery)
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  15704.  @Manu-ih7zf  Tell that to “First name (sic) Last name (sic)”, Manu. Someone apparently so slapdash they can’t even place a required capital “N” where it’s so clearly required.😉 On a serious note, when I see a person, anyone, disparage “old buildings” seemingly just because they are old, I’m filled with a deep sense of dread, for these are the types of cultural philistines who would have our world malled-over so they can pig-out on KFC buckets and McDonald’s double-whoppers. 🤡 Keep up the good fight. The more of us, the more we can resist the tide of barbarians at the gate.👍
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  15705. Lol. Nothing like pointing out what really matters.👍
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  15706.  @streuthmonkey1  So let’s have the trial then rather than idiots like you accusing someone of murder before it’s all been heard.
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  15707.  @visitor55555  Both charged, but the burden of guilt weighs massively with the armorer here imo.
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  15708.  @kiwichickie1975  I refer you to my OP. Cope harder.
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  15709. He was told the gun was ‘cold’. If this is true, he is innocent.
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  15710.  @HouseholdDog  Was that an apostle gag? 🥴
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  15711.  @HouseholdDog  Lol.
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  15712.  @HouseholdDog  No he wasn’t. He was being a snidey arse. I agree, the gag isn’t laugh out loud, but it’s not bad for half nine on a Tuesday night.
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  15713.  @davidnoelfranks1124  *Zelensky’s
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  15714.  @davidnoelfranks1124  *Zelensky’s
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  15715. Justout Trudeau.
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  15716.  @randgate  🤣
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  15717.  @Cosmic-Wanderer  Nah. Just part of the ‘basic education’ police. 👮‍♀️
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  15718.  @Cosmic-Wanderer  Plenty of “neck slaps” but seemingly no awareness of the apostrophe. Well done you. 👍
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  15719.  @Cosmic-Wanderer  Ok, so you are upvoting yourself. Ty for the confirmation.👍
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  15720. Why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  15721.  @GothAtheist  Yes. She said she didn’t like it. Cope. 👮‍♀️
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  15722.  @Michael-r3d  But I did. And I married her! 👍😊😉
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  15723.  @Cosmic-Wanderer  Yes. And I also know what an apostrophe is. 🚽
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  15724.  @Cosmic-Wanderer  *you’re *team’s *what’s *people’s *didn’t
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  15725.  @rich45davis  👍
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  15726.  @silvertoad8020  Oh, Jesus, I mighta known we’d have a holy roller believing in invisible sky daddies here. 🙈
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  15727.  @silvertoad8020  While not a complete non-believer in certain conspiracies, for me, this ain’t one of them. Nice try, though.👍
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  15728.  @silvertoad8020  He/she/it isn’t filmed wearing different shoes, but to go with this, let’s say he/she/it is wearing different shoes: what exactly is the conspiracy here? Spell it out letter by letter as I’d be interested to hear …
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  15729. Toulouse.
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  15730. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  15731. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  15732. They also laughed at Trump when he suggested (with a straight face) injecting disinfectant as a cure for Covid.
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  15733. Not all of us. I go to smoke pee and smell weed. 👃
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  15734.  @althepalno1164  👍Never underestimate the power of a ‘fisherman’s friend’.😉 They can blow you away if you play your cards right! 🤣
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  15735.  @althepalno1164  Lol. I was throwing the ‘joke’ back atcha! P’rhaps you should take your own advice. 😉🤣
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  15736.  @althepalno1164  4 people currently disagree. Seethe more my liege! 💨 🚬
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  15737.  @althepalno1164  Huh? 🤔
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  15738. No. But he can juggle 3 balls with his d*ck, though.
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  15739.  @HonkyReduction-b2g  Lol. Sounds like something America would do! 🤣
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  15740. Lots of countries do both.
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  15741.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  K, Johnny. 🥱
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  15742.  @JohnofthefamilySmith  No they’re not. It just resembles Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Do you ever take off the tinfoil hat? Not everything is a conspiracy, m8.👍
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  15743. Huh? Last time I checked, Russia/Ukraine weren’t in Africa. 🤦‍♂️
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  15744.  @Cimex090  I agree, to an extent. Putin, even if he can subjugate Ukraine and install a pro-Russian puppet regime, will have a mighty hard time keeping the Ukrainians quiescent. However, at this point, aged 70, he has little to lose, so I wouldn’t put it past him to head North and see what he can do with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Of course, at this point, NATO would have to enter and that could be curtains for life on Earth as we know it, Jim.
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  15745.  @springrollwang4441  I fear NATO will have to go in at some point, but it probably won’t be over Ukraine. Unless, that is, Putin is mad enough to go all Dr Strangelove on us.
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  15746.  @iglowinlight  Nothing to do with that, mate. To do with living in free, open societies, that’s all.
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  15747. @Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano Huh? Why?
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  15748.  @sweiland75  If only.
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  15749.  Joseph Isaac  NATO is a red herring. Putin would’ve gone in anyway to reclaim his ex-girlfriend lost to the clutches of America.
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  15750.  @Heat_6789  No.
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  15751.  @ewanschirripa08  Lol. Get real, son. Men are the biggest cry-babies of all. There is a reason why nature selected women to have the kids! You’re lost, sonny. 👍
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  15752. @ZANDACROSS7 Imagine not being able to correctly punctuate a basic sentence. 🤭
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  15753. @ZANDACROSS7 Er, I never liked my own comment. You want another go? 🤭
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  15754. @ZANDACROSS7 Steady, Zanda: we don’t need that kinda lip, sweetie.
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  15755. It’s quite simple: borders are there for a reason. The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens. If you’re allowing tens of thousands of unknown, undocumented illegals to pour in, how is that protecting your borders/citizens? It isn’t. Legal controlled immigration, yes. But if you break into my house illegally you can expect to be booted out, pronto!
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  15756.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported to the sense of humour bypass cops for not having a sense of humour and being an uptight netcop snitching on others because you have nothing else in your life. Reported.
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  15757.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported to the Michigan authorities for being an utter disgrace to the state. And to the nation.
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  15758.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported for taking God’s name in vain. You can’t fool us. We can all see you’ve stolen the Almighty’s name and passed it off as your own. Reported to the authorities. And the Pope.
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  15759.  @JeffreyGoddin  About wot, exactement? 🤓
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  15760.  @JeffreyGoddin  Reported for talking about violence to chickens.
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  15761. Nicola charges more. I’m told.
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  15762. And if humans were so ‘smart’ they wouldn’t spend 500,000 years killing each other. And octopuses.
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  15763.  @SOFISINTOWN  That’s fine. Not here to judge. I’m not one of these militant non-meat eaters (I eat some fish) who polices the diet of others. All liberal live and let live here.👍
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  15764.  @babalonkie  You are in a deep contradiction as you say you support the ‘morality’ of veganism/vegetarianism but you don’t think it’s wise. Really? You’re going to actively behave against you sworn ethical standards? Really? Surely if you consider it ‘immoral’ to eat meat, you need to stop eating meat, no? All the things I personally consider ‘immoral’ I tend to refrain from doing: lying, stealing, fighting, eating what I consider animals relatively advanced in terms of cognition and sentience etc. Are you not in conflict with yourself every day if you are eating animals and you consider it immoral, when you can quite easily live without eating them?
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  15765.  @babalonkie  You misunderstood. I meant ‘liable’ in the sense of willingly doing something autonomously rather than being liable for something imposed from the outside. In other words, I’m a great listener, but I won’t necessarily take heed of what you say. 😉
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  15766.  @JeffreyGoddin  Huh? What’s obscene. Hugh is my given first name. Janus is my surname and my wife’s a Rimmer. You appear to have a rather dirty mind, m8.
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  15767. Reported for telling people to shut up in an aggressive manner.
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  15768. @ShariqAlam-oo6nt I was curious. I did a bit of research. Edmundo Escomel reported on the case of Lina Medina in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to previous reports that she had had regular periods since the age of three or two and a half. So, she was menstruating before she was 1. Presumably this is fair game for you Muslims because, after all, a child is considered an ‘adult’ when she has her first period? 🤦‍♂️
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  15769. @ShariqAlam-oo6nt ‘In Islam the girl is considered an adult when she has her first period it can well happen at 9 years age.’ Ok. You’re openly telling me that Islam is peadoughphilic. And you seem to be suggesting that even today if a girl starts menstruating at 9, it’s fine for a dude to have sex with her. I mean, she is an adult after all. How low are you willing to go here? What if she starts menstruating at 8? Or 7? Or even 6? You’re ok with this, too?
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  15770.  @Artifis0743  🥱
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  15771.  @Artifis0743  Just for the record, someone who finds homosexuality ‘sickening’ is, to me, a bigot. It’s not name-calling. It’s telling the truth. And, of course, you will deny you’re a bigot, but that’s exactly what you are.
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  15772.  @julia2k8 K, groomer. 🥱
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  15773.  @dylansharkey6040  The reason you perceive things as ‘going backwards’ a bit (I agree) is the hectoring, vocal minority wing of the LGBT movement. The bit that shoves it all in your face and the bit that forces everyone to believe biological sex can be changed on a whim. Zero issue homosexuality. Zero issue with those confused about their identity vis-a-vis their sex/gender. My issue is when I’m forced to go along with the idea that boys and girls who have gone through puberty can suddenly claim to be the opposite. I’m with JK Rowling on this particular point.
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  15774. Chimpion! 🐒
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  15775.  @SvetlanaRakhim  Don’t get your point? 🤔
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  15776.  @WazNKylo  Don’t get your point? 🤔
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  15777.  @rjjcms1  Google is you friend, Ralphy!
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  15778. I was born in the UK. In the UK there is a common trope that the further north one goes, the friendlier the people become. I am here to say poppycock to that theory. For, I, a northerner, have met with just as equal human warmth and friendliness south of Sheffield, as I have north of that city. (I picked Sheffield arbitrarily to demarcate the ‘north’ from the ‘south’.) My observation is that this overt ‘friendliness’ claimed by northerners is contingent. It depends, too often, on your being and identifying with the tribe they belong to. This is to be expected. Human beings are terribly tribal beasts. One should speak a certain way and voice certain opinions before you can be ‘accepted’ by any self-defined tribe. Why do you think that those who go to live in another place, almost without exception, change their accent and speech patterns to fit into said place? To be accepted. Vaughan may, or may not, have said the comments imputed to him. All I can say is that it wouldn’t surprise me if he did say them. Does that make him prejudiced based on the colour of one’s skin? Perhaps. All I would say is quite simple: birds of a feather flock together. 🦢
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  15779.  @ijumpjudyy  Is that all you do? You’re like a boring monkey with no tricks. 🐒 🥱
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  15780. I have a question: why are you reading and writing your native language (Arabic) less fluently than English? 🤔 Confused.
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  15781.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  Nah, that doesn’t float, son. Last time I checked, the percentage of the UK’s energy produced by renewables was 41%. Once again, not the 14% you constantly quote with all yer other shitty statistics. 😭👍
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  15782.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  Nah, that doesn’t float, son. Last time I checked, the percentage of the UK’s energy produced by renewables was 41%. Once again, not the 14% you constantly quote with all yer other shitty statistics. 😭👍
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  15783. Yeah, but you seemingly didn’t know that the UK generated 41% of its energy via renewables and not the 14% you always quote for your agenda. Get it right or not at all, son. 👍
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  15784. Yeah, I get that. When I feel like I want a deep-fried Mars bar I’m Scottish and start speaking like Rab C. Nesbitt.
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  15785.  @catzov Tbf, most people anywhere don’t generally use more than about 500 words on a regular basis in their daily interactions. This isn’t just an African thing. I know lots of Brits who get by on far fewer words!👍
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  15786. Said the priest to the choirboy.
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  15787.  @alphsno472 Name them…
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  15788.  @maalikserebryakov  Says the dude who can’t deploy a full stop or a capital letter. Rank hypocrisy, petal.👍🥱
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  15789.  @feynstein1004 😉😬
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  15790. Sounds painful. 😮
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  15791. But yet you confuse a full stop with a comma. Interesting.
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  15792.  @thegoodthebadandtheugly579  You never die, you fuctard. Have you not realised this, yet? Really?😳
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  15793. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  15794. No we didn’t and no we won’t.
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  15795.  @bakimc4722  Yeah, because Tyson Fury is gonna let someone win because of ‘politics’! 👍🤦‍♂️🤣😅🤣
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  15796. 🤣
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  15797.  @_papaD_ 👈😭👋
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  15798.  @alexrz4196  👈😭😭😭🥔🥊🤣
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  15799.  @alexrz4196  Said by someone who truly knows when they are beaten, comrade! Well done for coming to your senses and seeing that Usyk is clearly the better fighter. 🥊✌️😉
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  15800.  @alexrz4196  Ok, comrade. Muhahahaha! 😭🤣🥔🥊
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  15801.  @alexrz4196  And you’re just not getting it. Usyk won, comrade. We can all see this, sweetheart. 😭 Muhahahahaha! 🥔
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  15802.  @alexrz4196 ​​⁠Usyk won. Cope and seethe some more then go and pick some more potatoes in that field, comrade! ✌️ 🥔
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  15803.  @alexrz4196 No. It’s defeat you smell. Muhahahahaha! 😭🤣😂😅
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  15804.  @alexrz4196 Usyk won. Cope and seethe some more then go and pick some more potatoes in that field, comrade! ✌️ 🥔
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  15805.  @alexrz4196  🪞👈😭🤣👋
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  15806.  @alexrz4196 Pmsl@‘he’s a paper champion’. 🤣😂😅 You win the Internet today for ‘dude least able to cope’. 👍😂
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  15807. Lol@‘vicious’.🤣
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  15808.  @MoStBlEsSeD I repeat: ​​⁠​​⁠And no one likes to talk more about something for which there is precisely zero credible evidence than the true believer. Kinda funny really. That’s the reason you deluded fools need faith. If you know, you know. When you don’t know, you grasp at straws and make up sh*t to suit yourself.
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  15809.  @alastaircrawley He also thinks there’s an old dude on a cloud in the sky with a big beard who hates gays like he does! 👍😂
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  15810.  @aranthos  Cringe.
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  15811. Er, y r u upvoting urself, darling? 🤔
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  15812.  @aranthos  Er, I think you’ll find the other dude started it. I just posted my OP, petal. You might want a better coping strategy at this juncture.👍😉
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  15813.  @alexsilent5603  Lol. A dude with a Russian flag exhorting ‘peace’ to me! 👍😂 How d’ya know I’m not Ukrainian? 🙃
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  15814.  @alexsilent5603 ’I don’t read anything serious’. I rest my case.
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  15815. Ah, gaming… it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the amount of games played is in inverse proportion to the number of books read. 🥱
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  15816.  @billy6pack887  The majority isn’t always right. Fact.
    1
  15817.  @GothAtheist  60%?
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  15818.  @charlesdarwin5561  You made the fatal mistake right from the off here, son, by asserting the piece of baloney that states that morality and power don’t overlap; when you make schoolboy categorical errors like this I fear for your education. Think on, you sensitive flower. If that’s not beyond you.
    1
  15819.  @charlesdarwin5561  Ok, Charles. Mark Twain’s words spring to mind: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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  15820.  @kaijuking5971  Lol.
    1
  15821.  @kaijuking5971  Lol.
    1
  15822.  @kaijuking5971  Ok, man. Whatever you say.👍
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  15823.  @kaijuking5971  Lol.
    1
  15824.  @kaijuking5971  *they’re
    1
  15825.  @kaijuking5971  *does Jesus, son, you really are as thick as you seem. Scary stuff.
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  15826.  @Tao_Tology  I did, grandma. Wtf are you smoking these days? You waffled some crap about “physical media”, and they appointed me to tell you that is so 1982. You need better coping strategies.
    1
  15827.  @Tao_Tology  I just did. Stated quite clearly. “Physical media” has had its day. That was my argument, petal. You may have missed it.
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  15828.  @Tao_Tology  Get with the gig, sweetie. “Physical media” is so 1982, notwithstanding the recent revival of vinyl, which I suspect is only a fad. As I said: ok grandad.👍 As you were.
    1
  15829.  @basilihuoma5300  Yes.
    1
  15830.  @renoirrandy7241  Missing the point. La Liga is 2 leagues. Do keep up at the back.
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  15831.  @maneesh864u1  Triggered, much?🤣
    1
  15832.  @southernafricanboy4148 Er, I think the dude was talking about crime. 🥴
    1
  15833. Up his own arse.
    1
  15834.  @iippo06 Not in my case it’s not. I’m centre-left liberal and have zero problem with whites, as long as they’re not racist c*nts. Why would I, being one myself? It would make no sense. It’s not whites per se liberalism has an issue with; it’s a cohort of them (perhaps 10% tops) who disdain other races and particularly others creeds and beliefs but the whole thing melds into just a disdain of ‘The Other’. The ‘funny foreigner’ with a funny name.
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  15835.  @mookimoves9469  Fair play. 👍 All the best. You don’t appear to be one of these white South African bullying racists. You’re permitted to go.
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  15836.  @elriano1  The first white man to arrive in South Africa was Bartolomeu Dias, from Portugal, circa 1487. The Portuguese would continue to visit but not create settlements. The native Africans were hostile to any endeavors to do so. There were non-whites in South Africa centuries before 1487! Now go away with your sh*tty history and your undisguised agenda. 👍
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  15837.  @GolfWhisky Umm, it could just be that, on average, working class white kids are just lazy gits when it comes to education. Certainly, as someone who spent decades in education, that was my experience. The non-whites (Asians in particular) were on it. The white working class were cocky, arrogant and lazy with zero work ethic in far too many cases. They felt entitled. They felt they didn’t have to work for outcomes.
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  15838.  @mindblown42069 You sound like a nutjob nutjob.
    1
  15839.  @rikudotenin9773 I’m agnostic, dude. All organised religion brings me out in hives. However, correct me if I’m wrong: but the dozens of European attacks we have seen over the past 35 years weren’t committed by Hindus, Christians, Jews or Buddhists. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  15840. Missing the point. He was a non-European interloper causing trouble for the natives.
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  15841.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15842.  @lebruglebrug Partly because of non-European imports like this dude. 👍
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  15843.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15844.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
    1
  15845.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15846. Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
    1
  15847.  @ponderingspirit Missing the point. He was imported.
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  15848.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15849.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
    1
  15850.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15851.  @ponderingspirit  Still an imported problem, though. Not European grown.
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  15852.  @dogzero1  Yeah, that’s all very well, but in our 2-party system did you see the alternative? This is a Hobson’s choice.
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  15853. Yeah, that’s all very well, but in our 2-party system did you see the alternative? This is a Hobson’s choice.
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  15854.  @sonofsomerset1695  Never voted Labour in my puff, chump. Bad luck. 😭
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  15855. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.”😳
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  15856. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  15857.  @tomzed8696  Uh huh. 🥱
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  15858. Are you an Israeli fanboy? Or just a fascist?
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  15859. 🚔 Apt he was held by the police in Bucharrest. He should be taken to Budasexpest for further questioning. If found guilty this childish Bratislava could be doing time in Helclinki, having to answer to some of his victims: Sofia, Sara Jevo and Paris.👮‍♀️
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  15860. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  15861. @@yenkel970 For me, an agnostic, I have no real time for organised religion, but I wouldn’t totally rule out a deity.
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  15862. @@yenkel970 👈 🏅
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  15863.  @voncarlowitz3506  Fair play. At least you’re not holding hypocritical double-standards here, as so many in this debate do. Openly advocating all Europeans to get out of the places they colonised. Kudos.👍
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  15864.  @voncarlowitz3506  ‘Europe belongs to Europeans’. In that case, you should be actively calling for the complete removal of all Europeans from North/South America, Australia and New Zealand. So …?
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  15865.  @nuttybar9  Not the point, son. We were uninvited murderers, subjugators, thieves and enslavers. Think on.
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  15866.  @tatarcavalry2342  😉
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  15867. Camilla got there first, m8. 👍
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  15868. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  15869.  @reginageorge4  I don’t care what you are, love. Apart from staggeringly tedious.🤡
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  15870.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. That’s gotta be right up there with “illustrations of immature arrogance”, huh TastyTwat? 😉Hypocrites R Us, as per.
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  15871.  @tastypymp1287  And that’s why I’m agnostic. DO YOUR RESEARCH, TastyTwat. 🥱
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  15872.  @reginageorge4  K, groomer.
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  15873.  @reginageorge4  Not an argument. Just another personal statement that means nothing.
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  15874.  @timmyeldridge313  Who said I was an atheist? I just said there’s zero evidence for a God. And it’s always funny how those who cling desperately to a God (like Jules) are the most hateful people on this planet when I kinda thought God was all about love!👍😉
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  15875.  @reginageorge4  There’s zero evidence for a God, Jules. Just stating cr*p ain’t gonna float in the world of those of us with half a 🧠. 👍
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  15876.  @tastypymp1287  I never said “Tupac Shakur is second only to William Shakespeare.” Alas, for you. You did , however, say based to a law that provides for the death of gays for being gay. I get my facts right, TastyTwat. Unlucky. Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
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  15877.  @tastypymp1287  Upvoting yersel again, TastyTwat. The last resort of losers. 👍😉🤣
    1
  15878.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15879.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
    1
  15880.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15881.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15882.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15883.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15884.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15885.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15886.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15887.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15888. Not an argument. Just a statement based on personal feeling.
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  15889.  @reginageorge4  And you can’t get your basic English right it’s f*cking hilarious! 🤣😂😅
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  15890.  @reginageorge4  And you can’t get basic English right. Uh huh. 👍😉
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  15891.  @reginageorge4  *were
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  15892.  @reginageorge4  Cringe.
    1
  15893.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  15894.  @tastypymp1287  Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
    1
  15895.  @tastypymp1287  You’re hopeless, son. Go away. Seriously, just go away. Not only are you staggeringly boring, you genuinely have worse basic English than my 7 year old. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15896.  @tastypymp1287  *we to might be compared … wtf. You’re at it again, TastyTwat. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15897.  @tastypymp1287  Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
    1
  15898.  @tastypymp1287  Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
    1
  15899.  @tastypymp1287  Shaky was 52. Shakur was 25. Shaky wrote over 4x as many words; almost every line more full of real wisdom than the sub-literate ramblings of a 2-bit rapper. Shakur should’ve been at 400,000 words. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15900.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15901.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15902.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15903.  @tastypymp1287  Er, where did I say Tupac illiterate Shakur was second only to Shaky? Yeah, that’s right. I didn’t. Muahahahahahahaha!!! 😂🐒 🤡 🐔
    1
  15904.  @tastypymp1287  👈Still upvoting himself. The first sign of the loser. 🤟
    1
  15905.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15906.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15907.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15908.  @tastypymp1287  Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
    1
  15909.  @tastypymp1287  Uh huh. 😊
    1
  15910.  @tastypymp1287  Shaky was 52. Shakur was 25. Shaky wrote over 4x as many words; almost every line more full of real wisdom than the sub-literate ramblings of a 2-bit rapper. Shakur should’ve been at 400,000 words. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15911.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
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  15912. Lol. You’re actually comparing some semi-literate 2-bit rapper to the person commonly accepted as the greatest writer who ever lived?! TastyTwat at it again! 🤣😂😅 I mighta known you’d be drawn to the semi-literate guy, TastyTwat. Birds of a feather and all that jazz … cluck cluck!
    1
  15913.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15914.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15915.  @tastypymp1287  Cluck cluck! 🐔🤣
    1
  15916.  @tastypymp1287  Uh huh. 😊
    1
  15917.  @tastypymp1287  Shaky was 52. Shakur was 25. Shaky wrote over 4x as many words; almost every line more full of real wisdom than the sub-literate ramblings of a 2-bit rapper. Shakur should’ve been at 400,000 words. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15918.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15919.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. You’re actually comparing some semi-literate 2-bit rapper to the person commonly accepted as the greatest writer who ever lived?! TastyTwat at it again! 🤣😂😅 I mighta known you’d be drawn to the semi-literate guy, TastyTwat. Birds of a feather and all that jazz … cluck cluck!
    1
  15920.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15921.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15922.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15923.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15924.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. You’re actually comparing some semi-literate 2-bit rapper to the person commonly accepted as the greatest writer who ever lived?! TastyTwat at it again! 🤣😂😅 I mighta known you’d be drawn to the semi-literate guy, TastyTwat. Birds of a feather and all that jazz … cluck cluck!
    1
  15925.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15926.  @tastypymp1287  Shaky was 52. Shakur was 25. Shaky wrote over 4x as many words; almost every line more full of real wisdom than the sub-literate ramblings of a 2-bit rapper. Shakur should’ve been at 400,000 words. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15927.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15928.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15929.  @tastypymp1287  Upvoting yersel isnae gonnae work here, TastyTwat. You need a better policy. Uh huh. 😊
    1
  15930.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15931.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15932.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15933.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15934.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15935.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15936.  @tastypymp1287  Nah, it’s only ‘racist’ to the illiterates. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15937.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15938.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15939.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15940.  @tastypymp1287  Nah, it’s only ‘racist’ to the illiterates. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15941.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15942.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15943.  @tastypymp1287  It’s called ‘basic education’, TastyTwat. You’re a deep embarrassment 2 urself. Uh huh.😊👍👌
    1
  15944.  @tastypymp1287  Nah, it’s only ‘racist’ to the illiterates. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15945.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15946.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15947.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15948.  @tastypymp1287  *have Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  15949.  @tastypymp1287  Shaky was 52. Shakur was 25. Shaky wrote over 4x as many words; almost every line more full of real wisdom than the sub-literate ramblings of a 2-bit rapper. Shakur should’ve been at 400,000 words. Uh huh.😊
    1
  15950.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. You’re actually comparing some semi-literate 2-bit rapper to the person commonly accepted as the greatest writer who ever lived?! TastyTwat at it again! 🤣😂😅 I mighta known you’d be drawn to the semi-literate guy, TastyTwat. Birds of a feather and all that jazz … cluck cluck!
    1
  15951.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15952.  @tastypymp1287  Based. 👈Not an argument. 😊
    1
  15953.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15954.  @tastypymp1287  Not to me, it’s not. 😊
    1
  15955.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15956.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15957.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15958.  @tastypymp1287  Not to me, it’s not. 😊
    1
  15959.  @tastypymp1287  You cannot supply an argument as to why you supported a law which included the provision for killing gays just for being gay. Based you said. A statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.😊
    1
  15960.  @tastypymp1287  Not to me, it’s not. 😊
    1
  15961.  @tastypymp1287  Just for the record: Shakur recorded around 713 songs, averaging 250 words a song = 178,250. Shaky? 884,421. Uh huh.👍😉
    1
  15962.  @tastypymp1287  Lol. You’re actually comparing some semi-literate 2-bit rapper to the person commonly accepted as the greatest writer who ever lived?! TastyTwat at it again! 🤣😂😅 I mighta known you’d be drawn to the semi-literate guy, TastyTwat. Birds of a feather and all that jazz … cluck cluck!
    1
  15963. 🤣
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  15964. 🤣
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  15965.  @Dept246  Blah, blah, blah. You’re missing the key point: this is about self-determination.
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  15966.  @LiuMichael-o4n  You’re missing the key point: this is about self-determination.
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  15967.  @LiuMichael-o4n  Huh? 🤔
    1
  15968.  @LiuMichael-o4n  Er, no. It doesn’t work like that. If there is a vote on, say, Scottish independence, or Catalan independence you don’t poll the rest of the UK or Spain. Do you understand?
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  15969.  @gordonstrong5232 Lol.
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  15970.  @jakekisiel7399  🥱
    1
  15971.  @jakekisiel7399  Ok. You know you have no answer. 👍
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  15972.  @jakekisiel7399 What will half of Panama have to drink if you do that? 🤦‍♂️
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  15973. @@fellow557-ct8vt Cringe.
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  15974.  @TheRadRingo  You stick to yer jungle blood, blud, and leave the linguistic debates for the big boyz, schweetie.👍
    1
  15975.  @TheRadRingo  Nope. Cope some more now, Raddy sonny. 👍😉
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  15976.  @LFSIX  You’re clearly easily amused, in that case, sweetie.
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  15977.  @LFSIX  Nothing wrong with editing. You never heard of typos? 🤔🤡
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  15978. @user-bt5qt9pp4x ‘Not grammatically incorrect’. Correct. ‘Worlds’ as a possessive is grammatically incorrect. You’re the only one here who seems to see this. Apart from me.
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  15979.  @TheRadRingo  What? Wtf are you on about? Where was your English education? 🤦‍♂️ ‘So’s’ is just a contraction of ‘so is’ in the same way ‘let’s’ is a contraction of ‘let us’. Jesus H Christ. 🥱
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  15980.  @TheRadRingo  Er, why’s that relevant when ‘so’s’ is perfectly acceptable. Good grief. 🤦‍♂️
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  15981.  @tedpeterson1156  Tell that to the rest of these illiterate numpties, Ted. 👍
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  15982.  @TheRadRingo  Wtf are you on about? ‘So’s’ is a perfectly acceptable contraction of ‘so is’. 🤦‍♂️
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  15983. @user-bt5qt9pp4xHuh? There’s nothing grammatically incorrect about ‘so’s’. Bad luck.👍
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  15984. Says the person with grade 3 basic punctuation. *.
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  15985.  @gfys756  Huh? What makes you think that?
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  15986. And white people never ever abduct anyone, eh Jimbo? 🙃
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  15987.  @dreamerthief2216  The “safe country” thing I was referring to was European countries before they arrive in Northern France. As to other countries, what often surprises me about many of the migrants who want to come here is that they are often Muslim and so why don’t they target a safe Muslim country? I say that as an agnostic. Oh, I’ll tell you why: they know that the UK is a relative soft touch.
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  15988.  @alexisidouissaaden4969  Not sure what you’re on about, mate. In my OP I said: “most of these people are simply economic migrants, and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to the economy or unless they are bona fide genuine refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.” You then mentioned Ukrainians. They are genuine refugees .
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  15989. Toulouse.
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  15990.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  15991.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  15992.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  15993.  @davidadiwego4608  What? You’re making no sense. Unless it’s underground forced surrogacy, the surrogate mother consents to carry a child for someone else.
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  15994.  @noemugisha7173  Why is it that the most rabid homophobes are brainwashed delusionals upholding an unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddy?
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  15995.  @andrereloaded1425  👍
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  15996.  @GothAtheist  Don’t bother with him, m8. He’s a supercilious, pretentious **sehole.👍
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  15997.  @dexocube  Oh, I agree with that.👍 In my experience, about 99% of people intolerant of homosexuality believe in this or that invisible sky daddy.
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  15998.  @lamulanakalawa9376  We don’t choose those we fancy, 🤡. So, being gay is exactly like being black, in this sense. You may need a better coping strategy, moving forward.👍
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  15999.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *one’s
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  16000.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Once more: Ok. So you do have a ‘problem’ with homosexuality; why?
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  16001.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Once more: Ok. So you do have a ‘problem’ with homosexuality; why?
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  16002.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Hardly watertight when it’s irrelevant. Just for the record, that’s nonsensical, as a watertight argument can still be made (like mine) whether it’s ‘relevant’ or not. You’re really not very good at this are you, Georgy? 😢
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  16003.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Hardly watertight when it’s irrelevant. Just for the record, that’s nonsensical, as a watertight argument can still be made (like mine) whether it’s ‘relevant’ or not. You’re really not very good at this are you, Georgy? 😢
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  16004.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  K, cool. We got there. You have no issue with homosexuality. If only you’d admitted that from the off, Georgy, we could’ve saved ourselves all this trouble. Nighty night, son.😊
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  16005.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16006.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16007.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16008.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  It’s not “irrelevant”. This is in large part about prejudice towards homosexuals. You have a problem with homosexuality. I don’t. You can’t provide me with an argument as to why I should share your problem with homosexuality. You have no argument.😊
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  16009.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16010.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You can’t cope cuz I have a watertight argument. You don’t.😊
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  16011.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16012.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16013.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  No. The “core problem” is that you have no argument.😉
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  16014.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16015.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You’re all over the shop at this point, Mr Bore. Just get it right or not at all. 😊
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  16016.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Jesus Christ.
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  16017.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *you’re
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  16018.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You’re panicking now, aren’t you, Mr Bore? Back foot Is Us. 🤣
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  16019.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16020.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument.
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  16021.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Are we going to pointlessness debate that now. Er, wot? Are you capable of a grammatical sentence Mr Bore? 🤔
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  16022.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You’re clearly not up to this, son. Be honest, now. 👍
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  16023.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Ohhh, now he wants others what to do. Er, wot? Are you capable of a grammatical sentence, Mr Bore? 🤔
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  16024.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Word salad. Why are you interfering with what 2 consenting adults get up to in the bed, you creepy bore? 🤔
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  16025.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  You can’t even formulate an argument or get your basic grammar right, Mr Bore. Hypocrites R Us.
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  16026.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes, but how is it that an argument?
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  16027.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I’ll ask you one last time: David, I have 1 simple question that you need to answer: Why are you involving yourself with what 2 consenting adults get up to? That is the key point here. No one is policing what you consensually get up to sexually, so why are you? 👈Right there, Mr Bore. Where’s yours?
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  16028.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes, but how is it an argument?
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  16029.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes, but how is it an argument?
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  16030.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  To you. But how is it an argument?
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  16031.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  To you. How is it an argument?
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  16032.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Yes but how is it an argument?
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  16033.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Because you stated something. How is it an argument?
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  16034.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  No you don’t. You stated something. How is it an argument?
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  16035.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  How is it an argument?
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  16036.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  How is it an argument?
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  16037.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *doesn’t
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  16038.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Go away, son. You’re an utter vacuous bore.
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  16039.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I think it’s irrelevant. 👈Personal statement based on feeling. Not an argument.
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  16040.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  I’ll ask you one last time: David, I have 1 simple question that you need to answer: Why are you involving yourself with what 2 consenting adults get up to? That is the key point here. No one is policing what you consensually get up to sexually, so why are you? 👈Right there, Mr Bore. Where’s yours?
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  16041.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Where’s your argument, Mr Bore? 😉
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  16042.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Mr Bore. 🥱
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  16043.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  *if it were👈subjunctive detected. 😉
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  16044.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Where’s yours, Georgy? 🤡
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  16045.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Lol. Says the guy who just told me: “because he can.” Hypocrites R Us.
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  16046.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  Not an argument, Mr Bore.
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  16047.  @davidadiwego4608  Yes, I have no issue with consensual incest if no children are being produced.👍
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  16048.  @JeffreyGoddin  Wow, Jeffey! One minute you are so sensitive you are reporting me to the ‘authorities’ for my name. The next you are supporting me in my stance that gay sex is ok! Wonders will never cease.😉
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  16049.  @julia2k8  Evidence?
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  16050.  @tastypymp1287  👈Deletes his comments when he realises how stupid they make him look.😊
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  16051.  @tastypymp1287  👈Intellectual coward. He has no argument. 😊
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  16052.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  16053.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  16054.  @tastypymp1287  👈Look at how frantic he has become as a well-argued opinion has gotten under his skin. 😊
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  16055.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.😊
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  16056.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  16057.  @tastypymp1287  👈Deflector/hypocrite par excellence as he calls everyone else a ‘deflector’ when he can’t cope with their well-argued opinion.😊
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  16058.  @tastypymp1287  Where’s the “challenge”? No argument.😊
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  16059.  @tastypymp1287  👈Hypocrite par excellence. Everything he calls you out for are his own faults. 😊
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  16060.  @tastypymp1287  “Lazy copypasta comment” is an argument. You’ve got no argument. That’s even lazier.😊
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  16061.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  16062.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  16063.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.😊
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  16064.  @tastypymp1287  You did. It’s gone. I wouldn’t retype it as it’s not an argument. 😊
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  16065.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.😊
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  16066.  @tastypymp1287  Argue, TastyTwat. You’re hypocritically providing nothing and condemning others who have provided an argument.😊
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  16067.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  16068.  @tastypymp1287  Ad hominem. Last resort of those without an argument.😊
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  16069.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument.😊
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  16070.  @Cameraqueen14  😉
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  16071. And breath … 🧘‍♂️
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  16072. Wow! You win the Internet for the biggest generalisation of the day! 🍄
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  16073. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  16074. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  16075.  @dibsdib3697  He doesn’t what?
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  16076.  Suicide3worldPoorPeople Indeed, Israel’s constant begging for more money from big daddy, America, being a prime example. 👍🤣😂😅
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  16077.  Suicide3worldPoorPeople  Jesus. You’re boring, man. 🥱
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  16078.  Suicide3worldPoorPeople You do realise that if America decided to turn off the magic money-tap, Israel would be wiped off the map in a jiffy! 👍😂 Your lack of self-awareness is very funny. 👍😂😂😅
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  16079. Just like Israel begs for constant funds from big daddy, America. 👍🤣
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  16080.  @liberty-matrix  That’ll be why Trump was elected in 2016 and is odds-on to be elected in 2024. 👍
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  16081.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ  🥱
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  16082.  @MikeJJJJJJJJ You’re one of these dudes who thinks everything you say is outrageously funny, aren’t you? They’re often the most boring, unenlightening people in the world, IME. 🥱
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  16083. Now that Jacinda has a little more spare time she can devote herself to one of her favourite causes: enamel welfare.
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  16084. @UCGou_-mQVCTOPn6WEDnV92A Lol. We are all about to be incinerated in a nuclear conflagration and you’re asking us to buy Amazon gift cards?! Jeff Bezos must know something we don’t.🤔
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  16085.  @jefftheriault3914  The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  16086.  @userofthetube2701  As I see this, until we jettison primitive ideas around random, arbitrary accidents of birth serving as key markers of our identity, there will be no waking up from this collective human nightmare. Nationalism and organised religion are the two most baleful blights we ever had the misfortune to invent as a species.😳
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  16087.  @jefftheriault3914  So you’re telling me we keep believing in random, arbitrary accidents of birth as key markers of our identity? And all the out-grouping and exclusion that entails. Is that it?
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  16088.  @userofthetube2701  How about a one-world army? A genuine United Nations army and not just an ineffective talking-shop.🤔
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  16089.  @OriginalPuro  We abolish armies by refusing to serve. Of course, evil, malicious folk will take advantage and clandestinely try to create/build an army. We’d have to dismantle/abolish the idea of nationalism for the idea to work, perhaps.🤔
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  16090.  @swordarmstudios6052  ‘Critical mass’. Indeed. That’s all it takes.😳
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  16091.  @deborahfreedman333  The best analogy I can think of here, is that Putin just wants a good part of the double-bed, and you’d better not hog the duvet!
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  16092. @ No one cares.
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  16093.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Er, sorry, but once again you are completely missing the point. They weren’t criminalised! 🤦‍♂️ It was the ‘evil British’ who did that, bud. The ‘evil British’ whom you and Museveni are supporting today! 😂👏
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  16094. @ Er, but you’re missing the point. They weren’t criminalised! 🤦‍♂️ It was the ‘evil British’ who did that, bud. The ‘evil British’ whom you are Museveni are supporting today! 😂👏
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  16095.  @jegamespeed5399  Again, wholly disingenuous, bud. 🤦‍♂️ The criminalisation of homosexuality by the British during their colonisation of Uganda in the late 19th century has helped shape how modern-day Ugandans view homosexuality. There is documentation of various cultures across the continent, including in pre-colonial Uganda, treating gender and sexuality as continuums rather than binaries. Furthermore, while non-conforming sexualities may have been frowned upon in certain communities, they were only actually criminalised by the colonial rulers. Like other former British colonies, Uganda chose to preserve the English legal system following its independence in 1962, including sodomy laws. In one sense, then, the colonial legacy of homophobia and its role in ‘civilising’ and attempting to morally de-value diverse practices of gender and sexuality across various indigenous populations that did not fall under imperial heteronormative and patriarchal structures lives on. In other words, hypocrite Museveni and his ilk are essentially just continuing and promulgating the views that were introduced by the colonialists in terms of criminalising homosexuality. He makes a great fanfare of calling out the ‘evil West’ but this whole criminalising of homosexuality in Uganda was a Western invention! 🤦‍♂️
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  16096. There is a direct correlation between countries which belong to the Commonwealth, and therefore have previously been under British rule, and countries that still have homophobic biphobic and/or transphobic legislature in their constitutions. 25% of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) currently live in a country belonging to the Commonwealth, however they make up a disproportionately large 50 per cent of countries that still criminalise homosexuality. There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. Of these 64, almost half (29) belong to the Commonwealth. Africa Algeria Cameroon ✅ Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) ✅ Ethiopia Gambia ✅ Ghana ✅ Guinea Kenya ✅ Liberia Libya Malawi ✅ Mauritania Morocco Nigeria ✅ Senegal Sierra Leone ✅ Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo ✅ Tunisia Uganda ✅ Zambia ✅ Zimbabwe ✅ Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh ✅ Brunei ✅ Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia ✅ Maldives ✅ Myanmar Oman Pakistan ✅ Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka ✅ Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada ✅ Guyana ✅ Jamaica ✅ St Lucia ✅ St Vincent & the Grenadines ✅ Oceania Kiribati ✅ Niue Papua New Guinea ✅ Samoa ✅ Solomon Islands ✅ Tonga ✅ Tuvalu ✅ ✅ Commonwealth member The vast majority of the remaining 64 are majority Islamic. What does this prove? Well, organised religion plays a vital role in the criminalisation of homosexuality. However, the key takeaway for the purposes of this video, is that in Uganda, prior to the widespread introduction of Christianity (Uganda is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim) homosexuality was largely tolerated and not legislated for within the various tribal denominations. At worst, in most cases, it was merely ignored. Yet here we have Museveni telling the ‘evil West’ to butt-out, when the criminalisation of homosexuality was brought in directly on the back of a Bible (…and a Quran!) by a bunch of Westerners! Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  16097. Yeah, I agree, the West was a benighted, stupid, poverty-stricken dump like Uganda is today. Great that we rose above all that primitive, backward nonsense into the sunny uplands of light, prosperity and letting consenting adults have sex with whom they choose, without greasy-headed loons like this dude, lurking at yer bedroom door with mouldy brothel creepers on.
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  16098. It does. It says he’s repressing a secret desire to take a big one up the bahookey! 😉
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  16099.  @ijumpjudyy  “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijump Judy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡
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  16100.  @Peep-010 Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  16101.  @IamDrDapper  Confused. 😕 So, are you saying your sexuality has nothing to do with whether you agree with him or not? 🤔
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  16102. The day this dude calls for the imprisonment (or worse) of the millions of heterosexuals having anal sex on a regular basis is the day we can have a conversation. As it is, he just clearly reeks of a dude that might easily dig the dudes.😉 Check out his wifey. Just sayin’! 👍
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  16103.  @jegamespeed5399  Are you honestly with a straight face trying to tell me that all those who approved this Bill didn’t have a ‘personal dislike’ for homosexuality? In a country that is 84% Christian/14% Islamic? Lmao. 😂 Ffs. Do try to read better and not just read what you want to see, bud. 🤦‍♂️👍
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  16104.  @jegamespeed5399  Are you honestly with a straight face trying to tell me that all those who approved this Bill didn’t have a ‘personal dislike’ for homosexuality? In a country that is 84% Christian/14% Islamic? Lmao. 😂
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  16105.  @jegamespeed5399 Are you seriously trying to tell me that all those who approved this Bill didn’t have a ‘personal dislike’ for homosexuality? Lmao. 😂
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  16106.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠ You clearly (foolishly) stated that ‘personal dislikes for these behaviours’ weren’t part of the reason behind the Bill. Who are you trying to kid, bud? Rofl.
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  16107.  @jegamespeed5399 Uh huh. And this isn’t a dude who had a veto on the Bill and who happens to personally think homosexuals are ‘disgusting’. 🤦‍♂️
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  16108.  @Bardamu3000 Nah, man. Literally cannot stand it! 🤮 Wouldn’t ban it, though. That would be very silly. 😉
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  16109.  @reginageorge4 I have said nothing hateful about Africans, groomer. The worst I have said is that Uganda is a dump, groomer. You seem to be confusing me with someone else, groomer. Nice try though, groomer. 👍
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  16110. ⁠ @reginageorge4 It’s funny, groomer, and we all know you’re a pure wee virginal soul devoted to your invisible daddy in the sky, but if and when you do get round to having sex, would you be willing to have others (individual or state) monitoring your every move to ensure you are having the ‘right’ kind of sex? If you answer ‘yes’ to that, you’re a liar. No one, straight, gay, lesbian and everything in between wants their intimate lives policed by some kind of Big Brother. Just for once, think about this stuff from the point of view of whom it directly affects, groomer. 😊
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  16111. Just u clean those manky, scabby nails, bruh. 😩 🤢🤮
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  16112.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Don’t be silly son. Do you honestly think girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid; •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.). •death. “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  16113.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Moreover, the breast stuff was consensual. You may disagree with it, but it was consensual. The FGM, I’m pretty sure, isn’t consensual. Omg! 🤦‍♂️
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  16114.  @jegamespeed5399  FYI, breasts aren’t genitalia. 🤦‍♂️
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  16115.  @wombat010 Just stating shit doesn’t thereby make it true, Wombattwat. 😢 🤡
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  16116.  @Spacelove360 You concentrate on keeping those manky nails of yours clean, dude. That would be my advice. 🤢
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  16117.  @Spacelove360 Homosexuality ‘threatens’ no one. As long as humans have existed there has been same-sex sexual attraction. Get with the gig. 🤦‍♂️
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  16118.  @Spacelove360  Yes, you did. You compared it to incest and necrophilia. The OP is there for all to see. 🤦‍♂️
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  16119.  @wombat010  *affected Dearie me. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  16120.  @wombat010  FYI, I’m not gay. 🤡
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  16121.  @wombat010 FYI, I’m not gay. 🤡
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  16122.  @wombat010 ​​⁠ Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 🤡
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  16123.  @wombat010 ​​⁠​​⁠ Just checked them. No mention of 25% of homosexuals being paedophiles. Nice try, though. 🤡
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  16124. Er, it’s nothing of the sort, dude. 1) If 2 people are consenting adults and want to have sex, that’s simply none of your business. 2) Last time I checked, the dead couldn’t give consent. Do better. 🤡
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  16125. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️Incoming lack of self-awareness alert! Incoming lack of self-awareness alert! 🚨
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  16126.  @StopCensorship4--03  *responsibilities👍🤣
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  16127. Aye. That may be so but your face looks distinctly gay, though. Can I see your passport, pls? 🥸
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  16128. C’mon, dude. Have you seen your shirt lately? 😮👍😉
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  16129.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Not where I’m from, petal. You Americans are so f*cking insular. It’s all about you. Learn to look out.
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  16130.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  Jesus, you’re boring.
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  16131.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  Er, y would I love him, given I’ve never voted Tory in my puff? I fear you have the wrong dude. Schoolboy error. Easily done. Trot on.
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  16132.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  I can guess why you are a really lonely boy and have just 1 subscriber. 😢 It wouldn’t surprise me if you logged on as someone else and subscribed to yourself. Never mind. We’ve all been there at some point. Just expand yer horizons and read a few more books and everything will be tickety-boo! 😉
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  16133.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  I’d rather not. Mouldy cheeses were never my bag, petal.
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  16134.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri  Aye. Where ah come fae, ‘weed’=‘blow’. It’s not just aboot America, shweetie. Cope.👍
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  16135.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Er, whit? Are you ok?
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  16136. @ 👈Lmao. 😂 Here’s the tragic thing, folks. Dikwad is deadly serious! 💀 🤡
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  16137.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16138.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Er, why? 🤔 It’s an accident of birth, dude. What my ‘ancestors’ did, or didn’t do, is f*ck-all to do with me. Cope.
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  16139.  @ijumpjudyy Hi Little Ms Virgin/Asexual! 👋 You playing with yer wee rampant rabbit again tonight, darlin’? 😂 🐰
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  16140.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri 👈Yes, I am, thicko. You are right. The dude that is apparently unaware that we don’t have a say where we’re born. 🤦‍♂️ Jesus wept. The level of Yankee education, these days. Shameful.
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  16141.  @koala5054 Yes, but can we have that in basic English, pls? 🥱
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  16142.  @jegamespeed5399  Ok. 🥱 . That’ll be why it’s ‘An act to prohibit any form of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the same sex; to prohibit the promotion or recognition of SEXUAL RELATIONS between persons of the same sex.’ Rearrange these words: goal, own. 🤫
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  16143.  @Peep-010  Er, sorry Peepbore, but call me a rational, evidence-based dude, but I like my ‘God’ to be established before I can ‘rage’ against ‘Him’ and ‘His standards’. Bad luck. 😢
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  16144.  @jegamespeed5399 Sorry, but I must’ve missed the bit where he mentioned ‘sexual intercourse’. Where is that again, bud? 🤔
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  16145.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠ “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  16146.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠ “So, it’s interesting that you claim these behaviours (i.e. FGM) are so widely accepted and supported, yet somehow they’ve completely disappeared in Africa.” (Jegamespeed5399) What an outright liar you are, dude. 🤦‍♂️ They have far from ‘completely disappeared’. In fact, to the contrary, FGM is still a widespread practice in several African nations. In 2022, Somalia reported the highest number of girls and women who had suffered from female genital mutilation. A majority of women in the country, 98 percent, between the ages of 15 and 49, had been subject to this practice. The second highest rate was in Guinea, with 97 percent of women having gone through the practice. The World Health Organization defines female genital mutilation as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs for non-therapeutic reasons. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista) Nice try though, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16147. Finally, I want to come to the question of sex. If anything proves that religion is not just man-made but masculine-made, it is the incessant repetition of rules and taboos governing the sexual life. The disease is pervasive, from the weird obsession with virginity and the one-way birth canal through which prophets are “delivered,” through the horror of menstrual blood, all the way to the fascinated disgust with homosexuality and the pretended concern with children (who suffer worse at the hands of the faithful than any other group). Male and female genital mutilation; the terrifying of infants with hideous fictions about guilt and hell; the wild prohibition of masturbation: religion will never be able to live down the shame with which it has stained itself for generations in this regard, anymore than it can purge its own guilt for the ruining of formative periods of precious life. (Christopher Hitchens) Uganda, dear reader, is currently 84% Christian/14% Muslim. Moreover, whisper it, that 84% Christianity was imported by the ‘evil West’ Museveni and his ilk so detest! 🎉Seems odd. Almost… hypocritical! 🤔
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  16148.  @ijumpjudyy  “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijump Judy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡
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  16149. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to 20 years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  16150.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣👍
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  16151.  @StopCensorship4--03  responsabilities (sic) You were saying, chumpster? 👍🤣😭
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  16152.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣
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  16153. No. This is Uganda.
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  16154.  @stopcensorship7705  Not if they don’t get caught, dipshit.😉🤣
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  16155.  @acidicsoul4978 Come again? 📕 🤔
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  16156.  @JonathanCunty  Aye. I bet he does. All he’ll be gettin’ fae me is a Glesca kiss! Mwah! 💋
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  16157.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Word to the wise: some of us are able to rise above a random accident of birth and see things in the universal human round. My random accident of birth is neither here nor there. I accept outside criticism of my country’s laws. I don’t become an over-sensitive wet-wipe in hock to a random accident of birth. There’s a ton of stuff my own parents told me I disagree with, so why would I agree with every law/more of the land of my random accident of birth? You seem deluded by your random accident of birth, bud. Unable to perhaps just think as a human. Without Uganda. You genuinely appear more than a little insane when it comes to this. You give off a more than a whiff that nothing your country legislates for can possibly be wrong. Not once in any of this have you suggested your country might have got a few things wrong. No. It’s Uganda, regardless of whether the thing is rational or irrational. It’s Uganda, right or wrong. It’s Uganda against the uniformly ‘evil’ West. In other words, you’re a prime example of a mental slave, bud. G’night! 👍
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  16158.  @jegamespeed5399 Blah, blah, blah. 🤦‍♂️
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  16159.  @jegamespeed5399 How many times? I have zero issue with incest as long as kids aren’t produced. 🤦‍♂️
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  16160.  @jegamespeed5399  You also seem to be operating under the rather bizarre delusion that millions of people in Africa don’t disagree with you. Including Uganda, the place of your random accident of birth. You seem to be speaking not only for your random accident of birth country, but the whole bleeding continent! 🤦‍♂️
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  16161.  @jegamespeed5399 I’m anti-colonial. Nice try, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16162.  @jegamespeed5399 You seem to be operating under the rather bizarre idea that just because we are randomly born somewhere (that we had no say in) we, ipso facto, thereby have to automatically agree with every law of that land. 🤦‍♂️
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  16163.  @jegamespeed5399 What? Where was I ‘praising’ my country. I’m looking at this as a human being and as a human being, to me, Europe is way more enlightened on this matter than the bulk of Africa. Now, you can disagree, but that’s what I see. My birthplace is irrelevant. If my birthplace were criminalising consenting adults for just having sex I would say the same. 🤦‍♂️
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  16164.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, but once again it’s blah, blah, blah and no justification. 🤦‍♂️
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  16165.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s an accident of birth, bud. Get over it. 🤦‍♂️
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  16166.  @jegamespeed5399  And I am here to highlight the ongoing irrational, backward, non-contributing, tyrannical primitiveness of much of Africa.
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  16167.  @jegamespeed5399 Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your country? I never got this. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own, so why this hyper-sensitivity? Not all cultures are equally valid, in the same way, dude. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you. 🤦‍♂️
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  16168.  @jegamespeed5399 I was talking about the feeling of being attracted to people. 🤦‍♂️ That’s the bit we can’t control. I wasn’t referring to actions at this point. Jesus.
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  16169.  @jegamespeed5399  👈 More blah, blah, blah without providing a single justification for the criminalisation of consenting adult sex. Dude’s modus-operandi. 🤦‍♂️ 🥱
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  16170. Well, for starters what ‘needs to be said’ is that you need a ‘?’. Yvw, Dikwad. 🤡👍
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  16171.  @jegamespeed5399 Look, son, I’m not doing the Groundhog Day thing yet again. Fact is you consider consenting gay adult sex ‘immoral’ and I don’t. On that basis, there is nothing more to be said. Let’s leave it there. 👍😉
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  16172.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, we choose our actions, dummy! (Although, that’s only if you accept the premise we have free-will, which is far from established), and no one (state or individual) should be interfering with what consenting adults choose to act out sexually (with the one proviso I’ve repeatedly highlighted concerning incest with the potential production of offspring.)🤦‍♂️
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  16173.  @jegamespeed5399  Don’t be silly, son. 😂 🤦‍♂️ I don’t consciously choose whom I fancy. As a lifelong hetero no amount of self-concentration can ‘flip me’ and make me find men sexually attractive. It doesn’t work like that. I no more choose whom I fancy than I choose my skin colour. However, as I’ve repeatedly said, the choice thing is irrelevant: this is about letting consenting adults do whatever they sexually want to with each other. Bad luck. 😢
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  16174.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣
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  16175. *facts Yeah, but LilChris (👈gay moniker, btw. 👍😉), some of us care about basic grammar, son.
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  16176. Uh huh. Another closet case with his loaded, cocked, phallic firearm. We’ve got your number, Joey!👍
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  16177. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  16178.  @videogameplayer0552 Shhh… brain dead video dikwad. 🤫
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  16179. Yes, but Anthony sweetheart, can we have that in basic English, pls?
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  16180.  @Peep-010 👈 👆Non coping, irrelevant, Dikwad stalker. Consenting adults. 🥱
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  16181. 👆Non coping, irrelevant, Dikwad stalker. Consenting adults. 🥱
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  16182.  @jegamespeed5399  You can’t convince me quite simply because you have no reasons. 😊 This is quite obvious to everyone, bud. Someone else however, a better mind than yours (although that wouldn’t be too difficult) may come along and argue their case properly and alter my opinion as Blake wisely highlighted. 😊
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  16183.  @jegamespeed5399  The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake) 😊
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  16184.  @jegamespeed5399  You don’t seem to realise that ‘morality’ is something we make up as we go along. If I hear a decent reason(s) why I should criminalise consenting adult gay sex I’m fully open to revising my opinions. Hitherto, and for many years looking at this topic, I still haven’t heard a single reason that even remotely persuaded me I should imprison (or worse) gays for just having sex, bud. 😊
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  16185.  @jegamespeed5399  I haven’t ‘decided’ anything, bud. I still haven’t heard your reasons. I’ll wait… 🍿 😎
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  16186. @ Same here, bud. All that you needed to do, bud, was supply just a single, rational reason to support criminalising consenting gay adults. You failed. 😢
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  16187.  @jegamespeed5399 No. It’s because you can’t convince me. Get it right, genius.
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  16188.  @jegamespeed5399 No it hasn’t. And if it has it’s piss-poor, bud, for you still haven’t remotely given me a single reason as to why I should support the criminalisation of consenting adult gay sex. 🤡
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  16189. ‘Damn the President’? Really? You want to damn the President? Commas are your friend. You might need an edit. 🤡🤭😂😉
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  16190. Uh huh. And, to me, jellied eels are as disgusting as gays are to you. However, I’m sensible enough to allow others to consume those disgusting jellied eels. 😊
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  16191. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  16192.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Bad luck, sweetie. 😂
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  16193. Just sort out your kindergarten level of spelling and then we can talk, bro. StopCensorship will take you by the hand for your remedial lessons in the numpty class at the end of the corridor. 👍
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  16194. ‘Winnie the Poo’? 💩 😮
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  16195.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣
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  16196.  @benjiisagoodboy  Aye, and you never survived a day in skool judging by yer boring sub-literate blah, blah, blah. Trot on, son. Uh huh. 👍😊
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  16197.  @JonathanCunty  Aye, and you never survived a day in skool judging by yer boring sub-literate blah, blah, blah. Trot on, son. Uh huh. 👍😊
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  16198.  @ijumpjudyy And you have the audacity to mock others for being ‘frustrated’! 😂 🤡 Stones and glass houses springs to mind, darlin’! 👍🤣
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  16199.  @ijumpjudyy ’Sir’ to you, sweetheart. Get it right. It’s pronounced ‘Coburn’. There’s no hard cock involved here, darling! 😮But then we all know you’re a wee virgin cum asexual. 😂
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  16200. Congratulations! You win the prize for basic common sense. 👏 🥇
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  16201.  @ijumpjudyy Fact check: Well, I’m not, actually, cuz ahm nae gay! Seethe! 😂🤡
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  16202.  @ijumpjudyy  “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijump Judy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡
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  16203. Say what you see, why don’t you? 😮
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  16204.  @moni7T Well said! 👏
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  16205.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Is just pissed off and deeply sexually frustrated she has to place an embargo on others’ rampant sex lives. Because she’s never had any and is unlikely to get any, she bans others from getting some! Intolerance personified from the Little Miss Virgin/ Asexual. 😊
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  16206.  @ijumpjudyy Ok, that’s enough fun for tonight. G’night y’all! 😴
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  16207.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Gets confused when served sausages as she’s a vegan virgin and only uses 🍆s! 😂
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  16208.  @Flunky000  🥱
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  16209.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Doesn’t have a fan club because she doesn’t like members. 😂
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  16210.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a tester in a vibrator factory but was fired because she never managed to come on time. 😂
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  16211.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a Virgin frequent-flyer but had a mental breakdown when told the company was created by Dick. 😂
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  16212.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has a pet 🐇 on stand-by (with secret cache of 🥕s) for when her rampant 🐰 runs out of batteries! 😂
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  16213.  @ijumpjudyy  Hi Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You whippin’ out yer ‘magic wand’ this evening, sweetheart? Make sure it’s well charged now! Wouldn’t want any ‘anticlimaxes’, would we? 🪄😮 😉 😂
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  16214.  @Peep-010  @ Omg! The icky Peep-010bore’s, like, clearly triggered again and stuff. Whatever. 🥱
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  16215. @ Omg! The icky Flunkybore000’s, like, clearly triggered again and stuff. Whatever. 🥱
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  16216.  @skrkttrqzq9984 Seethe.
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  16217.  @Zqviri Projecting again, darling? Bet you’re a regular denizen of the ‘Hub’ aren’t ya? Witching around. Mibbe glancing at a few dicks, eh? I know your type. You can’t hide now, son.👍😉
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  16218.  @Fjørd_3 Er, I’m not gay. But I have zero issue with other dudes sucking them off. 👍😉
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  16219. Aww, do the gay men sticking their todgers where sun don’t shine offend you, shweetie? Der, der, mummy will be along soon to kiss it all better. 😢
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  16220.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Calls out others for having ‘several accounts’. Hypocrisy? 👍😉😂
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  16221.  @wombat010 No they’re not because I’m not gay, chump. Try harder or go home. 🤡
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  16222.  @wombat010  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  16223.  @wombat010  Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Try harder or go home. 😊
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  16224. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Try harder or go home. 😊
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  16225.  @ijumpjudyy But you’ve just said: “Imagine being an atheist.” Ergo, you’re a theist. Stop it already. 🤡 😂 🎣
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  16226.  @ijumpjudyy Yes, you did. You denied you were a theist. Bad luck. 😢 🤡😂
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  16227.  @ijumpjudyy The other day Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. Watch her wriggle. 🎣😂🤡👍
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  16228.  @ijumpjudyy Why I left my house just today Little Miss Asexual/Virgin. Bad luck. Hope carder. 😢
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  16229. Good old Jason, the self-professed ‘mechanic’, ‘trucker’ and ‘outdoorsman’. Camp as a row of tents. ⛺️ 🏕 ⛺️ The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  16230. I hate to say this, but yer ‘pre-workout dude’ is clearly gay. Don’t take that wrong. 👍
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  16231.  @fatblackguyong Blame my mother and father. 😔
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  16232. C’mon now Lukas, hun. No one can possibly take you seriously with those ridiculous eyebrows and your bad Liam Gallagher impressions, son. Sort it. Tweezers are your friend. 🥸
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  16233.  @callistofluff  She deleted cuz she knew they were worthless and idiotic and not reasoned out.👍
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  16234.  @julia2k8  Statement based on personal feeling. Not an argument.
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  16235.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Ran out of the doctor’s surgery screaming when he said to her “I’m just going to give you a little prick.” 💉 😂
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  16236.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Doesn’t have a fan club because she doesn’t like members. 😂
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  16237.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a Virgin frequent-flyer but had a mental breakdown when told the company was created by Dick. ✈️ 😂
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  16238.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to London had a major meltdown on a city tour bus when it approached the Gherkin! 🚌 😂
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  16239.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent visit to the UK she was told all about beavers 🦫 and badgers but got discombobulated when a dude approached her and asked: “Do you wanna stroke my tadger?” 🦡 😂
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  16240.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to DC she bumped into Bill Clinton who regaled her with tales of the good old days in the White House, but she had to call the cops when he whipped out his cigar and asked her to suck it! 👮‍♀️ 😂
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  16241. This is quite simple: criminalise heterosexuals for having the anal/oral sex that gays are having, and then we will know this isn’t just about irrationally criminalising a minority.
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  16242.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Just stating shit doesn’t make it true, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Bad luck. 😢 Florida, 2003. 🤡😜😂
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  16243.  @ijumpjudyy I have my reasons, groomer, but being gay isn’t one of them. Seethe on. Hope carder. Florida, 2003. 😂
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  16244.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Needs to stop embarrassing herself. 😉
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  16245.  @ijumpjudyy  It was a general statement, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 🤡 Moreover, even if I were gay, so what? 😢 🤷‍♂️
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  16246. No I haven’t. Ok, the bottom line here is obvious: as soon as this sweaty bollock-head lets me police his sex life is the day I might let him police my sex life. Quid pro quo, blah, blah, blah. Where does that say I am gay? Do tell, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual? (Florida, 2003 🤭) 😂
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  16247. Don’t be a silly boy, Borat.
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  16248.  @jegamespeed5399  “It is interesting, then, that you claim these behaviours, such as gender ideologies, were widespread in Africa before colonialism but have since disappeared entirely.” Er, point me to the bit where I said ‘gender ideologies’ were ‘widespread in Africa before colonialism’ as I’m struggling to find it, bud. 🤔 Yet again, I fear you’re just lying and making up sh*t, bud. Huh? Naughty boy.
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  16249.  @jegamespeed5399  “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  16250.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠ “So, it’s interesting that you claim these behaviours (i.e. FGM) are so widely accepted and supported, yet somehow they’ve completely disappeared in Africa.” (Jegamespeed5399) What an outright liar you are, dude. 🤦‍♂️ They have far from ‘completely disappeared’. In fact, to the contrary, FGM is still a widespread practice in several African nations. In 2022, Somalia reported the highest number of girls and women who had suffered from female genital mutilation. A majority of women in the country, 98 percent, between the ages of 15 and 49, had been subject to this practice. The second highest rate was in Guinea, with 97 percent of women having gone through the practice. The World Health Organization defines female genital mutilation as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs for non-therapeutic reasons. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista) Nice try though, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16251.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, sorry, but once again you are completely missing the point. They weren’t criminalised! 🤦‍♂️ It was the ‘evil British’ who did that, bud. The ‘evil British’ whom you and Museveni are supporting today! 😂👏
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  16252.  @jegamespeed5399  “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  16253.  @jegamespeed5399  “So, it’s interesting that you claim these behaviours (i.e. FGM) are so widely accepted and supported, yet somehow they’ve completely disappeared in Africa.” (Jegamespeed5399) What an outright liar you are, dude. 🤦‍♂️ They have far from ‘completely disappeared’. In fact, to the contrary, FGM is still a widespread practice in several African nations. In 2022, Somalia reported the highest number of girls and women who had suffered from female genital mutilation. A majority of women in the country, 98 percent, between the ages of 15 and 49, had been subject to this practice. The second highest rate was in Guinea, with 97 percent of women having gone through the practice. The World Health Organization defines female genital mutilation as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs for non-therapeutic reasons. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista) Nice try though, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16254.  @jegamespeed5399  @ Er, but you’re completely missing the point. They weren’t criminalised! 🤦‍♂️ It was the ‘evil British’ who did that, bud. The ‘evil British’ whom you and Museveni are supporting today! 😂👏
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  16255.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Yeah, I am. You’re right. Cringe.
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  16256.  @ijumpjudyy 👈The non-coping is particularly strong with this Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 😂
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  16257.  @ijumpjudyy  “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  16258.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Even if I did have a say where I was born your fatuous, kindergarten-level rejoinder still makes no sense as no one is obliged to agree with everything their country of birth does. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16259.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Er, wot. You are aware I had no say where I was born, aren’t you? 🤦‍♂️
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  16260.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer What’s that got to do with anything? 🤔
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  16261. The criminalisation of homosexuality by the British during their colonisation of Uganda in the late 19th century has helped shape how modern-day Ugandans view homosexuality (a salient legacy of this is that today’s Uganda is 84% Christian, a Christianity introduced by the West). There is documentation of various cultures across the continent, including in pre-colonial Uganda, treating gender and sexuality as continuums rather than binaries. Furthermore, while non-conforming sexualities may have been frowned upon in certain communities, they were only actually criminalised by the colonial rulers. Like other former British colonies, Uganda chose to preserve the English legal system following its independence in 1962, including sodomy laws. In one sense, then, the colonial legacy of homophobia and its role in ‘civilising’ and attempting to morally de-value diverse practices of gender and sexuality across various indigenous populations that did not fall under imperial heteronormative and patriarchal structures lives on. In other words, hypocrite Museveni and his ilk are essentially just continuing and promulgating the views that were introduced by the colonialists in terms of criminalising homosexuality. He makes a great fanfare of calling out the ‘evil West’ but this whole criminalising of homosexuality in Uganda was a Western invention! 🤦‍♂️
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  16262.  @StopCensorship4--03 Well, it is, actually, because gay people are still gonna have sex in Uganda. Seethe.
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  16263.  @StopCensorship4--03 Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Bad luck, shweetie. 😢
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  16264.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠ Not the point. Consenting adults. Bad luck. 🥲 And stop stealing my lines, ya freaky plagiarist!
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  16265. Not even close. It’s quite simple: the sexual business of consenting adults is no one else’s business. You’d be surprised how many people (including millions of self-professed ‘liberals’) are equally ‘disgusted’ by anal sex but aren’t so intolerant and unable to cope with it that they feel the need to criminalise it. If anal/oral sex is to be criminalised (for that’s all this seems to be about), then it needs to be criminalised for everyone. When this isn’t done, one instantly knows this is simply about targeting a minority to satisfy your own petty prejudices towards those partaking in behaviours that simply are none of your business and aren’t affecting you.
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  16266. Quelle surprise! Another Ronaldo aficionado. 👍😉
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  16267. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  16268.  @jegamespeed5399 Lol. Not at all. I happen to dig much about Africa, bud. You have the wrong dude, once again. Visit Morocco regularly. Dig Egypt and also have been to South Africa. I don’t ‘glorify’ the West, bud. Quite the opposite, I consider the West in terms of its geopolitics and meddling directly in the political affairs of other countries iniquitous. However, what I am not prepared to do, as a human being (not just a culturally-conditioned construct of my random accident of birth I had zero say in), is sit by if I see what I perceive as an irrational, barbaric, irrational law or practice (such as this particular law and FGM) regardless of where it happens. It just so happens that it’s in Africa that homosexuals are the most legally oppressed. And for what? 🤷‍♂️ Just fancying an adult member of the same sex and having consensual sex with them! 🤦‍♂️ If you expect me to say silent, as a human being given what I perceive as so much, iniquitous, primitive nonsense, think again, bud.👍
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  16269.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠ Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your random accident of birth country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own random accident of birth country, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, anywhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16270.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Not ‘imposing’ anything, dude. Just, as a human being, pointing out primitive, barbaric, irrational laws as and when I see them, regardless of the country/continent. Nice try though, bud.👍
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  16271. ⁠”Your disapproval is a strong indication we are doing the right thing.” (Jegamespeed3599) Seemingly never occurred to the dude that there are millions of non-westerners who also happen to think that criminalizing consenting adults for just having sex is a deeply weird, unthinking, primitive, backward thing to do. Moreover, they argue their case. Yeah. More non-argumentation. Just a seething bitterness. Very boring “I don’t like you and therefore anything you might say is wrong! It is! But it is, mummy! But it is, mummy!”
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  16272. It’s one thing to pearl-clutch in personal ‘disgust’ and ‘outrage’ at homosexuality like an old, grotesque, greasy, oily, deeply frustrated wifey - talking of ‘wifeys', have you seen Museveni’s deeply mannish ‘wifey’? That’s deffo a husbandy! 😂 👍 🤭 - it’s quite another to let your hurty, over-sensitive feelings about the matter intrude into the private lives of adults to the point of imprisoning (or worse) them for simply having consensual sex. No one, hitherto, has supplied a single credible reason why gay sex should be outlawed. The day that happens is the day I will listen. This is all about feelings and what you think you can get away with towards those you hate. As Oscar Wilde pithily observed: Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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  16273.  @StopCensorship4--03 *possibilities 👍🤣
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  16274.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Oi! Stop stealing my lines, Jordy! Get yer ain! Bad luck. 😢
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  16275. Well, judging by his mannish wifey, Museveni does indeed dig ‘a man’. 😮
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  16276. Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  16277.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  16278.  @BoltsAllDay Devin, dude, don’t overthink it: you’re dealing with a dude with disgusting nails. That’s a deal-breaker for anyone!
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  16279. @StopCensorship4--03 *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  16280. Have you cleaned your manky fingernails yet, son? Get yer priorities str8. 💅
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  16281. Omg! 🤦‍♂️ We’ve got another irrational holy roller, mother!
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  16282.  @ijumpjudyy No I don’t, groomer. Look south, groomer. Bad luck. 😢Florida 2003. Tch, tch. 👍😂🤡
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  16283.  @ijumpjudyy Moreover, groomer, someone from the USA picking on another for perceived ‘poverty’, ‘homelessness’ and ‘crime’ is the greatest piece of hypocrisy and double-standards I’ll read today, groomer! 😂 Own 🥅! Florida: 2003. Legalisation of homosexuality. 😭😂🤡
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  16284.  @ijumpjudyy Why? I don’t live in the UK and haven’t done for decades, groomer. Seethe. 😂😢
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  16285. The way you can tell this law is unjust is by the rank double-standards in full view. Museveni thinks that homosexuals and their deeds are ‘disgusting’; if in the next breath he’d said that all heterosexuals having anal sex are also ‘disgusting’, it would still just be an opinion and not able to be rationally justified in being made illegal, but the fact he homes in on the homos proves the prejudice, intolerance and willingness to criminalise a minority for doing exactly the same thing as millions of heterosexuals do every day.
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  16286. It’s a hysterical overreaction to a minuscule rump of highly politicised gays. 99%+ of gays are just living their lives quietly, unseen and unheard, bothering no one. The people you are reading feel justified because of a vocal minority heard out of all proportion to its size. If you look carefully, none of the haters can rationally justify their hatred as there is no rational justification to criminalise gay sex.
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  16287.  @jegamespeed5399  Serious question: And for once just give me a str8 (pun intended) answer, son: Do you have an issue with gay women having sex?
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  16288.  @Peep-010  I resent that! Ellen DeGeneres isn’t a ‘DegenerateGaie’; she’s a ‘GaieDeGeneres’! Get it right, BuhmObsessive! 😡
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  16289. Aye. He may be a dude, but can we be sure his wifey isn’t one? 😮
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  16290. Dude, you’re on it! 👏 Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Yet, the morons in Uganda are twitching their net curtains over which consenting adult is doing it with whom?! 🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ This is just one reason and a prime example of why Africa lags, and hasn’t (and doesn’t) pull its weight in world terms. Wrong focus. 🔭
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  16291. Lol.
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  16292. Jegamoron 🤡 : “Being gae is one of the lowest and most despicable forms of existence.” Utter rot from the consistent numpty. Being an inveterate thief, or a rapist, or a child abuser, or a murderer are all some of the ‘lowest and most despicable forms of existence.’ Being gay is perfectly natural. Not a choice. There is nothing wrong with consenting adults having sex. Having the opinion that ‘being gae is one of the lowest and most despicable forms of existence’ is actually one of the lowest and most despicable forms of existence, particularly when fining, imprisoning and executing comes into play.
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  16293.  @PurpleJonathan Stop diggin’ darlin’. It winny work. Trust me. Don’t question it. Stfu and trot on. 🐎
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  16294.  @PurpleJonathan Don’t be a silly boy now, Ferrante. You’ve clearly been called out. We can all see it. Jog on and don’t embarrass yourself further, sweetheart. 👍 💋
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  16295. Yeah, but your hurty feelings don’t matter a jot here, dear. Consenting adults. You need to know your place, and that place isn’t in my bedroom. Yeah. Think on. 👍
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  16296. ⁠ @Peep-010 👈Red flagged - horrendously, staggeringly, crushingly tedious.
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  16297.  @Peep-010 No. You are overthinking this. Do try to keep up at the back, Peepbore. 🥱
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  16298.  @Peep-010  Nah, it’s just a dude with an English degree. You’re overthinking this, Peepbore. 🥱
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  16299.  @Peep-010 Gaydar.
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  16300.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u ​​⁠ The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 🤠😉
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  16301.  @Peep-010 No.
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  16302.  @Flunky000 Where did I say that? 🤔
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  16303. He also swallows, too. His boyfriend told me.
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  16304. Irrelevant. If I am a gay man/woman in Uganda, or Brazil, or France, or Japan, or anywhere else, this is simply about consenting adults. 😂 Why are you involving yourself in this? 😂
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  16305.  @Peep-010  And another thing: y r u so obsessed with the health of gay men’s bums, anyway? 😮😉
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  16306.  @Peep-010  Huh? Kinda irrelevant if it’s consensual, darling. Sawree 2 disappoint u. 😢
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  16307.  @Flunky000  And another thing: y r u so obsessed with the health of gay men’s bums, anyway? 😮😉
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  16308.  @Flunky000 Huh? Kinda irrelevant if it’s consensual, darling. Sawree 2 disappoint u. 😢
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  16309. Yeah, but your ‘respect’ is neither here nor there, my love. This is about consenting adults and you really need to butt-out, sweetheart! Don’t take that wrong. 👍
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  16310.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Well, that would be impossible given I’m not gay. 🥱
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  16311.  @benjiisagoodboy Anyway, I’m done here. Night Benji boy. 😴
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  16312.  @benjiisagoodboy Stilton is just an uneducated, lower-class oik, Benji boy. I’m British. We can spot that stuff in our fellow Brits at 50 paces. He’s chavvyesque. Look it up. You’re an American looking at Britain with Yankee eyes. I’m here to educate you, son. 😊
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  16313.  @benjiisagoodboy  C’mon, Benji boy. Surely you can do better than that, no? Lame. 🤦‍♂️
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  16314.  @benjiisagoodboy  Yer awfully boring, Benji boy. Quite sweet, but dull. Don’t take that wrong. 👍
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  16315. Here we have a reasonable, sensible dude. He doesn’t dig the behaviour but realises that he can’t interfere with consenting adults having sex. Pin this dude’s comment forthwith YouTube! 👍
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  16316.  @SaintThomasAquinas1 Is it? Says whom? You? And who are you?
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  16317.  @janellejulianajoy  Care about what so much? 🤔
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  16318. Lmao. And, of course, Milo isn’t in any way gay. 😂👍🤡
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  16319.  @L-8 Ignore her. She’s a religiously brainwashed Dikwad with zero argument to counter the very reasonable statement that the private consenting sexual business of adults is no one else’s business. She knows this, of course. Hence the flailing around, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 👍
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  16320.  @jegamespeed5399  “Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world.” Direct quote from data UNICEF. Google it. Now go away you deeply pretentious bore. 🥱
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  16321.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, breasts aren’t genitalia. 🤦‍♂️
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  16322.  @jegamespeed5399  “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  16323.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  16324.  @Peep-010  Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  16325.  @Possum-010  Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  16326. Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  16327. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijump Judy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡
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  16328.  @Flunky000 You’re just boring, dude. You need to be told that more often. 😊
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  16329.  @jegamespeed5399  What? Yer now babbling bud. What? 🤔 There’s no ‘oppression’. I don’t care if you come to my country and castigate every single law of the land. I give not a sh*t. Honestly. With this one proviso: you justify your opinion. You don’t do that. You hang on a random accident of birth you had no say in and get the Gatling gun out and just, willy-nilly, spray the ‘evil West’! It doesn’t work like that. If I come to live in your country and you’re going to ban me from having same-sex sex, I want you to explicitly tell me why. Just flippantly, like an unthinking child, saying “For the fun of it!” doesn’t work. It works for you, but that’s because you’re seemingly not prepared to think as someone who is not ‘Ugandan’/‘African’. 🤦‍♂️
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  16330.  @jegamespeed5399 Yet you seemingly do. Dude, look outwards. Learn to think beyond your random accident of birth you had zero say in. 🤦‍♂️
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  16331.  @jegamespeed5399 Man, how many times?! Ffs! Just because you are born somewhere you don’t thereby automatically agree with every law! 🤦‍♂️
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  16332.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, we don’t all agree with ‘cancelling’ opinions in the West. 😉 However, what the vast majority of us (and not just the West, btw., for there are millions of non-Westerners who reasonably, rationally realise that criminalising consenting adults for having sex is borderline insane) do agree with is not permanently ‘cancelling’ consenting adults just for having sex. Think about this a little. Here, I’ll help you: some of us are able to look and criticise the laws of our random accident of birth we had no say in. You, on the other hand…? 🤦‍♂️
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  16333.  @jegamespeed5399  Jesus. Dude’s moaning about ‘cancelling’ people for their opinions, yet dude’ll permanently ‘cancel’ someone just for having sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  16334.  @jegamespeed5399 I’m not ‘imposing’ anything. You have the wrong dude. I’m arguing my case. Unlike you. Do what you want. I don’t care. Try again, bud.
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  16335.  @jegamespeed5399 Accident of birth, dude. You’ve seemingly been rendered insane by a random accident of birth you had no say in. Some of us look at things as human beings and not solely from the pokey wee nothing country we were randomly born in. Think on, bud.👍
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  16336.  @Flunky000 Projecting once more, paedo advocate supporter? 👍😉🤡
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  16337. @StopCensorship4--03👈Note she conspicuously doesn’t pick up on Flunkybore and Peepchore openly advocating Milo Yiannopoulos as a ‘good gaie’ when he openly advocates paedophilia. The groomer par excellence! 😂🤡
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  16338.  @Flunky000 More projection? 🤔👍😉
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  16339.  @Peep-010 Well, you were definitely ‘gotcha’d’ here, petal. ✊🤡👍😉
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  16340.  @Flunky000 Flunkychore openly advocates the ideas of a dude who openly advocates paedophilia! 😂🤡🤦‍♂️
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  16341.  @Flunky000 Er, Dikwad, you conveniently skipped over this bit: “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  16342.  @Peep-010 Peepbore openly advocates the ideas of a dude who openly advocates paedophilia! 😂🤡🤦‍♂️
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  16343.  @Peep-010 ’Good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  16344.  @Peep-010 Lol@‘good gaies’. Yeah, let’s criminalise all the ‘bad hettys’ having anal sex. 😆🤡
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  16345. Pmsl. And, of course, Milo isn’t in any way gay. 😂👍🤡
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  16346.  @Flunky000 Lol. Aye. I bet you’ve visited a few more ‘homosexual sites’ since, you deep bore. 😂😊 🥱🤡
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  16347.  @StopCensorship4--03  *responsibilities👍😉
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  16348.  @StopCensorship4--03  Er, but here’s the difference, doofus: there are no victims when 2 consenting adults f*ck. If you rob me or rape me or murder me against my will I am a victim. This is really not that difficult, dummy. Uh huh. 😊
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  16349.  @Flunky000 Nah, it doesn’t, if it’s consensual. Or whatever. And stuff. 🥱
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  16350. 👏
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  16351. C’mon, Jules. All the Julians I’ve ever know were gay. No joke. Do you buck this trend, Jools? 🤔
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  16352.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Spot the historically illiterate thicko. Uganda wasn’t formed until 1962! 😂
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  16353.  @LogicCaster  I’m “repulsed” by a thousand and one things but I don’t institute the death penalty for these things I’m repulsed by.
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  16354.  @cyberWarrior7519 Just realised that was to Jonathan. 👍 However, I’ll let my comment stand.
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  16355.  @cyberWarrior7519 I’m not forcing anything. I don’t give a flying fuck about a backward dump like Uganda. I’m just standing up for what I see is the right thing. 😊
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  16356.  @cyberWarrior7519 *it’s And it’s my business to call out missing apostrophes.
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  16357.  @cyberWarrior7519 Er, what? Not sure what you’re getting at. If 2 consenting adults want to fuck, I’m not going to stand in their way. You might. Fine. I won’t. Call me tolerant.
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  16358.  @StopCensorship4--03 Last time I checked, STDs weren’t exclusive to homos, moron. 🤡
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  16359.  @cyberWarrior7519 I’ll make this easy for you: no animals. No children. Everyone else? As long as it’s 100% consensual all-round, I have zero problem with it. Simply not my business.
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  16360.  @cyberWarrior7519 If it wasn’t consensual and they weren’t the age of consent I would obviously be against it. Not sure why you are finding this so difficult. 🤔
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  16361.  @cyberWarrior7519 Stop the pearl-clutching nonsense! Cringe. Just none of your business, dude.
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  16362.  @cyberWarrior7519 Yes, if it was consenting and both participants were the age of consent. Simply none of my, or your, business. 👍
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  16363.  @EatLocalBeef Don’t be silly, petal. Homosexuality has been around just as long as heterosexuality. On that basis, it’s just as ‘normal’ as heterosexuality. You can’t catch it, y’know! You just are or you aren’t. So just calm down, dear. 👍
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  16364. Utterly irrelevant, petal. Consenting adults. Sorry. Nothing to see here.
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  16365.  @JonathanAKaren I would be ashamed to be you, m8. Truly. Do some basic work on yourself to obviate making yourself constantly look like a tit. 👍
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  16366.  @JonathanAKaren *Scotland Jesus H Christ. You’re truly fucking awful. 🤡
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  16367.  @JonathanAKaren  Aye. And your basic spelling was defeated years ago! 👍🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  16368.  @JonathanAKaren *vengeance Bog off you deeply thick bore, Adam. And all the others. 🥱
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  16369. So are jellied eels. I deal my disgust of jellied eels by not eating them. 😊
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  16370. I don’t and God was invented by you because you can’t deal with your own mortality. Don’t mention it! 👍
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  16371.  @ijumpjudyy Just stating shit doesn’t make it true, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Bad luck.😢 Florida, 2003. 😂
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  16372.  @ijumpjudyy  My ‘excuse’? Because I like to take a stand against what I see as irrational, unthinking, moronic injustice. 🤡 Florida, 2003.👍😂
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  16373.  @ijumpjudyy Huh? I’m denying it because I’m not gay. You’re really not very good at this are you, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual? 🤡 Florida, 2003. 😂
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  16374.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Pmsl. Little Miss Virgin/Asexual has the brass neck to condemn others for being here every day! 😂 🤡👍 Florida, 2003.
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  16375.  @ijumpjudyy I don’t get your point. 🤷‍♂️ Even if I were gay, why would I not want to be gay? You’re all over the joint here, petal. Do better. Florida, 2003.😂
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  16376. Never got the hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual orientation memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but totally stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sexual business of consenting adults is no one else’s business. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭
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  16377.  @HotJonathan 👈”I didn’t delete anything”, says the “liar who lies”. 😂✊
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  16378.  @HotJonathan You just deleted a whole thread, darling. Nice try, though. Tch, tch. 👍😉
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  16379.  @HotJonathan Lol. You deleted that last thread as you were owned! 😂👍🍛
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  16380. G’wan then, ‘Vis’: enlighten us. What is the ‘real truth’? 🤔
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  16381.  @jihadjane0 Another brainwashed religious loon. 🤦‍♂️
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  16382.  @rabbidcrazy787  Don’t engage stopcensordick: he’s an obsessed freak with daddy issues. 😉
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  16383.  @rabbidcrazy787  Given the subject matter, you might need a p in front of that oof! 😯
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  16384. Lol. That’s as random and irrelevant as my saying I have a sister and she shoves bottles and truncheons and second-hand handbags up her fanny all day.
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  16385.  @StopCensorship4--03  You’re hopeless. *friends/acquaintances Do try to keep up at the back, chump. 🥱 *possibilities Skill issue. 🤭
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  16386.  @StopCensorship4--03 🥱 I said ‘acquaintances’, darling. Close reading skills clearly not the best, alas. Do try to keep up at the back, hun. 😢 *possibilities Skill issue. 🤭
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  16387.  @StopCensorship4--03 Hetero here, bud. 50+ homo friends/acquaintances. Heethe Sarder. 😢 *Possibilities Skill issue. 🤭
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  16388.  @StopCensorship4--03 *Possibilities Skill issue. 🤭
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  16389.  @Peep-010 Omg! Lmao@Peepchore calling out others and stuff for being ‘pretentious’ and stuff. Like whatever. 😢
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  16390.  @Flunky000  Funny, like, and stuff, icky, Jonathan, poo, how I must have at least 50 gay friends/acquaintances and not a single one of those things and stuff you mention and stuff applies to them. Whatever. Ary Tgain. 😭
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  16391.  @koala5054 Omg! Like, gaie, Jonathan, and stuff. I never do these things, Koalasnooze. All my stuff is consenting and stuff. Heethe Sarder. 😢
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  16392.  @Peep-010  Out of that wee inventory, Peepchore, I can only plead guilty to the sauce. Lad buck. 😭
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  16393.  @Peep-010 Yes, well, I deal with tubes and stuff on a regular basis, petal. You’re top of the list! 🤠
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  16394.  @Flunky000 Only, like, if Peepchore was consenting and stuff, Flunkybore.👍😉
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  16395.  @Peep-010 ​​⁠ Irrelevant, Peepchore. Like, consenting adults and stuff, Peepchore. Hope carder, Peepchore. 🥱
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  16396.  @Flunky000  Irrelevant, Flunkybore. Like, consenting adults and stuff, Flunkybore. Hope carder, Flunkybore. 🥱
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  16397.  1Bamu1  Sorry? I think you may have missed a meeting. You can’t ‘get’ people to fancy what they don’t fancy. They either fancy it or they don’t and no amount of coercion will make any scintilla of difference. 👍
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  16398.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Hi stalker. 👋😐
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  16399. Says the Mika fan! 👍😉 💩
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  16400.  @virusapple662 Er, come again, dearie? 🤔
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  16401. 👏 Ty for your stunning, intelligent, erudite, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  16402. Sorry, dude. I misread that as ‘FIST’. Schoolboy error. My apologies.👍😉
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  16403.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl  Projecting again, Ronnie? You’ve been blowing him for months, petal! 😂 🤡
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  16404.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl  Projecting again, Ronnie? You’ve been blowing him for months, petal! 😂 🤡
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  16405.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl I didn’t ‘claim’ anything, 🤡. You claimed that for me. Get it right. 👍
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  16406.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl Stop just stating shit because it suits you. Try harder. 🤡
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  16407.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl No I don’t. Do better.
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  16408.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl Not sure why you have such a downer on Mr Stilton Bore, given all the evidence shows you have been blowing him for months at this point. What’s going on here? You’re telling me you’re not a Stilton arselicker? Is that it? You disavow your obvious current status as a Stilton cocksucker? Yeah? 🤡
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  16409.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl I repeat, I had no say where I was born. Are you really this thick, 🤡? 🤦‍♂️
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  16410.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl Lol. Ok, you accept you have no point. Ty. 💨 🤡
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  16411.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl  I did nothing of the sort, darling. You’re making the fatal mistake of confusing a random accident of birth I had no say in with that country’s previous actions. You’re really not very good at this, are you? That much is clear. 🤡
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  16412.  @SelenaKnight-n7h What? Just because I called your OP out as irrelevant? Ok. I’ll take that. 😉
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  16413.  @ijumpjudyy Yes, I like a good wining (sic). 🍷 🤡
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  16414.  @AussiePrivateSchoolGirl Lol. And America, I suppose, isn’t an ‘evil empire’?! Read ‘Rogue State’ by William Blum, amongst others, to disabuse you of this notion. There is a reason why America is loathed the world over by so many. 😂🤡
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  16415. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Do better. 🤡
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  16416. All irrelevant Peepchore, hun. Consenting adults. Move along now. Nothing to see here.
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  16417. Why? Why are you supporting executing people for just having sex? 🤦‍♂️
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  16418.  @Peep-010 ’We’?! Lol. Are you for real? You are gay but you don’t have sex? Is that it? Just admit your truth, dude. We don’t care. 👍😂🤡
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  16419. Tbf, dude, this isn’t about Islam. It’s about a dirt poor, subliterate, mainly Christian, non-democratic, deeply corrupt dump! 👍
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  16420. What’s ‘God’ got to do with this, sugar? Consenting adults. Nothing to do with your imaginary friend in the sky. Butt-out. There’s a good lad. 👍
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  16421. Marvellous oenological input there, Sir. Erudite, comprehensive, well thought-out. Top-notch stuff, my man! 🍷 👏
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  16422.  @melaleuca5665  Er, but it is. Try again. Try better. Possum. Wombat et al. 🤡 🥱
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  16423.  @melaleuca5665 Er, but it is. Try again. Try better. Possum. Wombat et al. 🤡
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  16424.  @Flunky000  Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  16425. 👏 Pin this.
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  16426.  @ijumpjudyy  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  16427.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  16428. Does Willie really secretly want a wee bit of willie? 😮
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  16429. Bro, do you just wanna ride with the dude? You can admit it to us, Willie. We’re here to help. 😊
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  16430. Don’t doubt that morons like this are everywhere. It’s not an African thing, per se, but… Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  16431. Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  16432.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠It was the wider issue to hand, bud. Hope this clarifies, bud. It's ok if you don’t understand, bud. I get that comprehension is an issue, bud. Now 🥱, for the sixth (please God! 🙏) time, you have a good evening now, bud.
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  16433.  @jegamespeed5399  It's ok if you don’t understand, bud. I get that comprehension is an issue, bud. Now for the fifth (and hopefully last 🥱) time tonight, bud, you have a good evening now, bud.
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  16434.  @jegamespeed5399 The wider issue to hand, bud. Hope this clarifies, bud. Now 🥱, for the fourth time, you have a good evening now, bud.
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  16435.  @jegamespeed5399 Irrelevant to the issue to hand, bud. Hope this clarifies, bud. For a third time, you have a good evening now, bud.
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  16436.  @jegamespeed5399 No it doesn’t ‘clarify’ anything, bud, but don’t you worry about it. Once again, enjoy your evening, bud.
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  16437.  @jegamespeed5399 K, bud. Have a good evening now, bud.👍
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  16438.  @jegamespeed5399  Huh? Why are you assuming I’m arresting consenting adults for polygamy and incest, bud?
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  16439.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠You’ve lost me, bud. I don’t follow, bud. You’re babbling a bit, bud. Have you had a drink tonight, bud?
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  16440.  @jegamespeed5399 Not so primitive, intolerant and petty, bud.
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  16441.  @jegamespeed5399 Why not what, bud?
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  16442.  @jegamespeed5399 Primitive, intolerant and petty, bud.
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  16443.  @jegamespeed5399 But in the case of both polygamy and incest, not so much, bud.👍
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  16444.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, and I’m ok with these things. We’ve been through this, bud. Bad luck. 😢
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  16445.  @Peep-010 And another thing: y r u so obsessed with the health of gay men’s bums, anyway? 😮😉
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  16446.  @reginageorge4 👈Seething. 😂
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  16447.  @reginageorge4 Little Ms Asexual has been outed! 😂👍
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  16448.  @reginageorge4 I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning! 😂
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  16449.  @reginageorge4  👈Calls out others for having ‘several accounts’. Hypocrisy? 👍😉😂
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  16450.  @reginageorge4 No argument, groomer. The last refuge of the defeated. 👍😉😂
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  16451.  @reginageorge4 👈Wow! The non coping is strong with this one! 😂
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  16452.  @reginageorge4  👈Calls out others for having ‘several accounts’. Hypocrisy? 👍😉😂
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  16453. F*ck-all 2 do wi’ dat, dude. Simply about letting consenting adults the world over autonomously decide whom they wanna screw. Moreover, you’re a dinosaur here: most sane people quite clearly see that consenting adults having sex is the business of no one else. So, stop twitching yer net curtains, sweetheart. That would be my advice. Yvw. 👍😊
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  16454. ⁠ @XavierPersuades Er, what? 1. I’m not a ‘lefty’. 2. I’m an absolute free-thought/free-speech advocate. 3. It’s when I see that thought enacted in what I perceive to be patently irrational, unjust laws that I speak up. 4. Yvw.
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  16455. Huh? I don’t follow. I’m not a ‘lefty’ but I don’t understand why criticising an irrational law would be ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobic’. Surely, as a citizen of the world all laws, anywhere, should be up for scrutiny. No country or continent exempt. This is about basic human rights.
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  16456.  @jegamespeed5399 Direct source pls? I tried to find this online but couldn’t. 🤔
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  16457.  @jegamespeed5399  Uh huh. So gays can’t have sex, now? 🥱 You’re using that lame dodge to squirm out of this one, are you? 🤦‍♂️ Ok, how about this: Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sexual activity?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  16458.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Moreover, if they aren’t having sex, why has your benighted country just introduced a law to prohibit any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex; and to prohibit the promotion or recognition of same-sex sexual relations? 🤦‍♂️
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  16459.  @jegamespeed5399 Moreover, if they aren’t having sex, why has your benighted country just introduced a law to prohibit any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex; and to prohibit the promotion or recognition of same-sex sexual relations? 🤦‍♂️
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  16460.  @jegamespeed5399  Uh huh. So gays can’t have sex, now? 🥱 You’re using that lame dodge to squirm out of this one, are you? 🤦‍♂️ Ok, how about this: Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sexual activity?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed3599) 🤦‍♂️
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  16461.  @WillowLawson-k3e *You’re Your basic spelling is disgusting.
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  16462. ⁠​⁠ @XwwXr Yes, I think it’s perfectly ok to be gay. I can’t think of a single reason why it wouldn’t be. 😊
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  16463. Indeed, I can smell that corrupt, primitive, useless sweat through my screen. 🤢
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  16464.  @ijumpjudyy Hi Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You giving yer wee rampant rabbit another run-out tonight? 😂 🐰
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  16465.  @reginageorge4  1. I’m not gay. 2. I’m not sexually attracted to children. 3. As per usual, Little Miss Asexual/Virgin has zero point. 🥱
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  16466. Europe has imported millions of morons like this. 🐑 The Islamic ones are the worst, with their paedophile prophet and sub-literate sheep-herder figurehead. Organised religion is easily one of the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent. The truth of this numpty, though, is that he has a very big closet and a very mannish wifey. 👍😉
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  16467.  @lamborghinimercy5737 Just justify it, son. That’s all I ask. Criminalising consenting adults for just having sex? Really? There’s no reason for it I can think of. Perhaps you can enlighten me. 😊
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  16468. K, holy roller. Another religious moron to darken my day. 🤦‍♂️
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  16469.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Too stereotypical a place to choose. I blame The Office but mostly Betjeman.
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  16470.  @reginageorge4 Er, I don’t. Haven’t done for years. Bad luck. 😢
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  16471.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16472.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Florida legalises homosexuality - 2003. Cope harder, groomer. 👍😂🤡
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  16473.  @TheFaySchoolKids Aye, k. I think we’re done here, don’t you? 😊 Ty and goodnight.
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  16474.  @Peep-010  No I didn’t, Peepbore. Bad luck, Peepbore. Maybe next time, Peepbore.😢
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  16475.  @Flunky000  *excrementally You missed a trick there, flunkychopsbore! 😉
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  16476. @stopcensoring.7959I repeat: not gay and agnostic. Bad luck. 😢 🤡
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  16477. @stopcensoring.7959👈Still editing everything, and calling out others for doing exactly the same. 🤡
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  16478. @stopcensorship7705Actually wrong on both counts. 1) Agnostic 2) Hetty Seethe. 😂 🤡
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  16479. @stopcensoring.7959FYI, I’m not an atheist. Bad luck. 😢 🤡
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  16480.  @jihadjane0 Nah, I’ll stick with the wise Whitman. He’s not asking me to fight; just to think for myself and question everything. You should try it some time! 👍😉 Besides, I’ve got enough boots! 🥾
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  16481. @stopcensoring.7959 👈Calls out others for editing when she has an ‘edited’ next to virtually her every post! 😂 Hypocrisy, much? 🤡
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  16482. @stopcensoring.7959Huh? What’s wrong with editing, moron? It shows you have standards, moron. *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  16483. @stopcensoring.7959*possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  16484.  @jihadjane0  Here’s my ‘scripture’, as far as I have such a thing: This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. (Walt Whitman) Note the very important ’re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, DISMISS WHATEVER INSULTS YOUR OWN SOUL.’ Islam insults my soul. 😊
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  16485. ⁠ @jihadjane0 ”It is lawful to kill the infidel or to enslave him.” If the Koran was made up of that one sentence alone, I would instantly know it was a pile of manmade garbage made by men, largely for men. You don’t seem to get this. Some of us have been educated beyond kindergarten. We left stuff like this behind in the sand pit. 👍😉
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  16486.  @Urford Lol.
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  16487. All he’s ‘destroyed’ recently is a few male backyards in downtown Kampala! He never knew what they did. Aye, right! 👍😂
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  16488.  @jamalbin3081  Why? 🤔
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  16489.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Aww, are the homosexuals on CNN hurting your feelings, sweetie? Der, der, mommy will be along soon to kiss it all better.😂
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  16490.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Not “in denial” about anything, son, as hitherto no one has ever given me a single reason why I should disdain homosexuality. However, that’s not the point so I repeat for the hard of learning that what consenting adults do in bed in simply none of my, or anyone else’s, business. Uh huh.😊
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  16491.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Don’t watch CNN then. Simple.🤡
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  16492.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  Er, why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  16493.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  You can’t answer the key point: it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults are doing sexually. Uh huh.
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  16494.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  You can’t answer the key point: it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults are doing sexually. Uh huh.
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  16495.  @leanmeanmenace1744  It’s just as ‘normal’ to fancy the same sex as fancying the other sex. However, that’s not the point: the point is no one should be getting involved with what consenting adults are doing in bed. Uganda has a provision in its law for killing gays just for being gay. I can’t believe I just said that. The other thing I never quite understand is you can’t catch homosexuality like some kind of virus. I knew I fancied girls when I was 5 and all my gay friends knew they were gay very young. There is no conscious choice here, whether you are gay or straight. No matter how much I will it, I’m just not going to fancy men.
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  16496.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  So you haven’t got an argument for the key point then. Uh huh.😊
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  16497. ⁠Jeganincompoop 🤡: “The key difference is that the homosexual demographic is defined by homosexuality-what unites this group is engaging in homosexual acts and relationships.” Er, and? Your point is? It’s consenting adult sex, Jeganumpty. 🤡
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  16498.  @StopCensorship4--03 *possibilities Skill issue. 🤭
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  16499. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act (2023) prescribes up to 20 years in prison for ‘promotion of homosexuality’, life imprisonment for ‘homosexual acts’, and the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. 1. How, exactly, can you ‘promote’ homosexuality? This isn’t about trying to persuade people to become gay, as if you are trying to persuade people to vote for you, or persuade people to buy a new whizz-bang, fancy-pants vibrator (ijumpjudy has just put in her order - extra batteries included 😉); that’s impossible. It’s not like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like you can catch a virus, any more than you can ‘catch’ heterosexuality. You are either gay or you aren’t, just as you are heterosexual, or you aren’t. So, primitively prescribing 20 years imprisonment for something you either are or aren’t no matter how much ‘promoting’ is done is bizarre, indeed. 🤦‍♂️ 2. There are no such things as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’. If this term refers to anal/oral sex, then, spoiler alert: millions of heterosexuals engage in these acts, too, so to describe them as exclusively ‘homosexual acts’ is stupid and renders the description invalid. Even if we accept that giving/receiving a BJ or having anal sex is a ‘homosexual act’, you’re really going to imprison someone for life for this? 🤦‍♂️ 3. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️ When you look closely at the Bill, it becomes increasingly ridiculous and barely believable that in 2024 we are criminalising people for simply having consensual adult sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  16500. Lmao. Dikwad has the brass-neck and hypocritical temerity to talk about ‘obsession-compulsion’ in others! 👌🤡😂
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  16501.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Er, I have zero problem with polygamy. You seem to be labouring under the rather bizarre delusion that just because you are born somewhere you, ipso facto, have to agree with every single law of that place. 🤦‍♂️
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  16502.  @kalm4766 Nothing to do with ‘Western bubbles’, petal. It’s just simply about allowing consenting adults the freedom to choose whom they wanna f*ck. You just agreed with this very simple, very reasonable proposition. Why are you now back-tracking? 🤔
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  16503.  @jegamespeed5399  Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter what you want to call it if it’s between consenting adults. Semantics are irrelevant here, sonny. Bad luck.
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  16504.  @reginageorge4  Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 😊 🥒
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  16505.  @reginageorge4  Aye, but as we all know, groomer, the only permanent thing is impermanence! 😂
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  16506.  @reginageorge4  👈 “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. ​​⁠Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer! I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉
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  16507. Slightly ironic with a name like Arse(n)! ;)
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  16508.  @ijumpjudyy  You’re completely missing the point. No one should be interfering with what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to.
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  16509.  @JonathanFromJefferson Just because you’re a fully paid-up member (pun intended) of his lickspittle cock posse. Don’t blame me for your tragic choices in life, petal. 😊
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  16510.  @JonathanFromJefferson Stilton is the biggest, thickest, most witless bore I’ve ever met in my life. Right after you! 🤡
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  16511. ⁠ @JonathanFromJefferson *Rotten Ok? 🤡
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  16512.  @Spacelove360  Just stuff to trigger you, blud. 👍🤡
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  16513.  @reginageorge4  So, why are you are policing the sex lived of consenting adults, Jools? Huh? No one is policing your sex life. You got a logical answer for me for once, or are you just gonna do the stoopid ad hominem “groomer” baloney? You gonna answer this? Huh? 🤔
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  16514.  @reginageorge4  So, why are you are policing the sex lived of consenting adults, Jools? Huh? No one is policing your sex life. You got a logical answer for me for once, or are you just gonna do the stoopid ad hominem “groomer” baloney?
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  16515.  @AliAliAliAli-kq3mm  Which question? 🤔
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  16516.  @StopCensorship4--03 *those responsibilities 🤣
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  16517.  @StopCensorship4--03 *those 🤣
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  16518.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant whether it’s a choice. Consenting adults, sonny. Seethe and cry more. 😭
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  16519.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣
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  16520.  @StopCensorship4--03 Irrelevant whether it’s a choice. Consenting adults, sonny. Seethe and cry more. 😭
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  16521.  @ravensong8286 Cuz he’s a brainwashed dipsh*t. 👍
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  16522. ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠ @WillowLawson-k3e *You’re You’re in need of taking a basic spelling lesson.
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  16523. @StopCensorship4--03*parents’ Skill issue. 🤭
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  16524.  @jegamespeed5399 ’Fraid so, dude, and this is clearly eating you alive, bud. You can’t cope with honest, frank, moral debate and simply just justifying your position. That’s how moral debate works, bud. If you state that you consider something morally wrong to the point you support criminalising it then it’s very reasonable for your interlocutor to ask why you consider it immoral, particularly if your views are going to directly impinge on my life. 😊 In fact, it would be bizarre for the interlocutor not to ask why you consider it immoral. It works both ways. I have justified my views every step of the way here. You have done nothing but obdurately obfuscate, bluster baloney and pretentiously piffle and provide zero clarity, bud. Bad faith argumentation, bud. You play the man not the ball. I do the opposite, bud. 👍
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  16525.  @jegamespeed5399 I never had ‘control’ of Africans, bud. I wasn’t born then. I’m an anti-colonialist. Nice try though, bud.
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  16526.  @jegamespeed5399 Lol. Dude now apparently thinks that merely asking why he supports a law in his own accident of birth he had no say in f*cking country is ‘colonialism’! That’s a whole new level of paranoia! 😂🤦‍♂️
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  16527.  @jegamespeed5399 No. It’s because you can’t answer me. Get it right, bud. 😉
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  16528.  @jegamespeed5399 We got the general idea that you won’t get over your random accident of birth you had zero say in, bud. I can generally gauge the level a person is operating at by how much they invest in a random accident of birth they had no say in. It’s often extremely instructive. My ongoing research has found that the investment in a random accident of birth is in inverse proportion to having cohesive ideas and being able to simply and coherently back up one’s POV. You, bud, are numero uno, as we speak, in my ongoing research in terms of a dude utterly rendered insane by a random accident of birth you had no say in! Congratulations! 🎉 👏
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  16529.  @jegamespeed5399 More pretentious, obfuscating baloney to merely cover up the fact that when you’re asked a simple question about your support of a law in your own random accident of birth country you have no answer. 🤦‍♂️
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  16530.  @jegamespeed5399 Lol@“where’s the whataboutism” after he’s just typed his list of 20. 🤦‍♂️ As I said, whataboutism: last deflecting resort of those with zero argument.
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  16531.  @jegamespeed5399 Whataboutism: the last deflecting resort of those with zero argument. 🤦‍♂️
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  16532.  @jegamespeed5399 It was just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Get over it. 🤦‍♂️
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  16533.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Lol. Not at all. I happen to dig much about Africa, bud. You have the wrong dude, once again. Visit Morocco regularly. Dig Egypt and also have been to South Africa. I don’t ‘glorify’ the West, bud. Quite the opposite, I consider the West in terms of its geopolitics and meddling directly in the political affairs of other countries iniquitous. However, what I am not prepared to do, as a human being (not just a culturally-conditioned construct of my random accident of birth I had zero say in), is sit by if I see what I perceive as an irrational, barbaric, irrational law or practice (such as this particular law and FGM) regardless of where it happens. It just so happens that it’s in Africa that homosexuals are the most legally oppressed. And for what? 🤷‍♂️ Just fancying an adult member of the same sex and having consensual sex with them! 🤦‍♂️ If you expect me to say silent, as a human being given what I perceive as so much, iniquitous, primitive nonsense, think again, bud.👍
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  16534.  @jegamespeed5399 You seem insanely incapable of just thinking as a human being and not as a culturally-conditioned construct of your random accident of birth you had no say in. 🤦‍♂️I’ve rarely encountered someone this crazed by their random accident of birth they had no say in, bud. No joke. Even the proudest people who uphold the values (almost unquestioningly) of their random accident of birth are not a patch on you, bud!
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  16535.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Er, I’m not ‘praising’ it. Lol. Wtf 🤦‍♂️ I’m doing the exact opposite and saying that, IMO, it shouldn’t be interfering with consensual incest so long as no children result.
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  16536.  @jegamespeed5399 I have zero problem with incest if it’s consenting adults and no offspring result. Nice try though, bud.👍
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  16537.  @jegamespeed5399  Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your random accident of birth country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own random accident of birth country, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, anywhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16538.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠​​⁠Not ‘imposing’ anything, dude. Just, as a human being, pointing out primitive, barbaric, irrational laws as and when I see them, regardless of the country/continent. Nice try though, bud.👍
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  16539.  @jegamespeed5399 Yeah, but the list kinda shows who has been pulling their weight and who hasn’t, bud. 😊
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  16540.  @jegamespeed5399  Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your random accident of birth country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own random accident of birth country, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, anywhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16541.  @jegamespeed5399 Not ‘imposing’ anything, dude. Just, as a human being, pointing out primitive, barbaric, irrational laws as and when I see them, regardless of the country/continent. Nice try though, bud.👍
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  16542. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything (let alone telling consenting f*cking adults what they can and cannot do and with whom in the bedroom!🤦‍♂️) from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  16543.  @dannydreadnought-xk4qx Mostly correct, though. Let’s face it dude, it’s essentially the female equivalent of getting your knob chopped off and how many fellas would willingly consent to that? 🤔
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  16544. You sum this whole thing up, dude. It’s just your feelings unreasonably dictating the terms and conditions here. Gay male sex is ‘immoral’/‘disgusting’ blah, blah, blah, essentially because you’re not gay and have zero desire to indulge in it, whereas lesbianism is aye ok because there’s an off-chance you can get yer rocks off! In either case, your feelings of moral disgust are neither here nor there. If 2 dudes or 2 dudesses wanna consensually f*ck it’s simply none of your business unless you’re invited to the orgy. You need to butt-out, Keefy!👍
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  16545.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  16546.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Hates birds generally but one particular bird gives her the heebie-jeebies as it’s a double-whammy: the woodpecker! 🐦 😂
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  16547.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Isn’t a gamer as she has no known experience of handling a joystick. 🕹😂
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  16548.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Ran out of the doctor’s surgery screaming when he said to her “I’m just going to give you a little prick.” 💉 😂
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  16549.  @ijumpjudyy  👈She’s religious but she’s never visited the church and fingered the pastor’s huge organ! 🎹 😂
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  16550.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Hates people saying goodbye to her as all she hears is, “Schlong!” 👋 😂
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  16551.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a tester in a vibrator factory but was fired because she never managed to come on time! 🏭 😂
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  16552.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a Virgin frequent-flyer but had a mental breakdown when told the company was created by Dick. ✈️ 😂
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  16553.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Gets all stroppy when her strap-on electric dildo unexpectedly malfunctions. 😂
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  16554.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has a pet 🐇 on stand-by (with secret cache of 🥕s) for when her rampant 🐰 runs out of batteries! 😂
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  16555.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Had post-traumatic therapy after taking a cooking course and the chef asked her, “Would you like to see my lardon?” 👨‍🍳 😂
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  16556.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to DC she bumped into Bill Clinton who regaled her with tales of the good old days in the White House, but she had to call the cops when he whipped out his cigar and asked her to suck it! 👮‍♀️ 😂
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  16557.  @ijumpjudyy  👈When touring Scotland recently she stayed with some friendly locals and got confuzzled when they asked her if she fancied a bit of cock-a-leekie! She was expecting a naked incontinent Scotsman to walk into the room! 🍲 😂
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  16558.  @ijumpjudyy  Hi Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You giving yer wee rampant rabbit another run-out tonight, darlin’? A little ‘backyard’ exercise, perhaps? 😮 😂 🐰 😉 Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run run! 🐇 😂
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  16559. What? Respect a numpty who is willing to execute a gay (man or woman) for just having consenting sex with a 75+ year old? You support this lunacy? 🤷‍♂️
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  16560.  @ijumpjudyy  Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 😂 🥒
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  16561. Look at your face and tell me you’re not gay without telling me you’re not gay. 🤭
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  16562.  @ijumpjudyy  I didn’t order a crappuccino, groomer.😂
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  16563.  @StopCensorship4--03  *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16564.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16565.  @Sparxy-k9e Well, he’s clearly something and it’s not str8!👍🤷‍♂️😂
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  16566. C’mon, dude. Just own your truth. That intro video. C’mon now. It’s clear for all to see. 👍
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  16567.  @ijumpjudyy 👈She calls out others for overusing words when every other word she uses is ‘groomer’. Hypocrisy much? 😂👍😳
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  16568.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Projecting yet again, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual? 😮That SEXUAL frustration is clearly deep, hen. 😳🤭🥴 😂
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  16569.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Projecting yet again, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual? 😮That SEXUAL frustration is clearly deep, hen. 😳🤭🥴 😂
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  16570. ‘Budvibes’?! Lmao. And you’re against gay rights, right? 👍😂
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  16571.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Florida legalises homosexuality - 2003. Cope harder, groomer. 👍😂🤡
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  16572. It’s all very well being ‘honest’. But when you are criminalising consenting adults for just having sex, that ‘honesty’ just looks like moronic, curtain-twitching meddling of the worst kind. Death for just having sex? Really? 🤦‍♂️
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  16573. C’mon, beardy weirdy. Stop with the repression. Just release. Repeat after me: “I am obviously homosexual and proud.” 🌈 😊
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  16574. ⁠Jegaturd 🤡: “So who is the victim in the case of someone using drugs? Are you going to say it’s themselves? Because if you do, I could use the same argument in the case of homosexuality.” Huh? Again, another bad faith piece of shit. If someone wants to drink themselves to death or inject themselves to death, that is their decision/choice. No other person directly involved. No other ‘victim’. Similarly, if someone wants to fuck another person with the full consent of that person they want to fuck, that is their (in this case, joint) decision. No other person directly involved. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16575.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent visit to the UK she was told all about beavers 🦫 and badgers but got discombobulated when a dude approached her and asked: “Do you wanna stroke my tadger?” 🦡 😂
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  16576. Your President has a man for a wife, apparently. Check him. ‘She’s’ got more 5 o’clock shadow than Indiana Jones, ffs! 👍 🪒
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  16577. ⁠ @sl9hter Nah. Could be Stop Censorship (although I’m not even sure about that one) but pretty sure she’s not this moron. She is Regina George, though.
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  16578.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u ​​⁠ The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 🤠😉
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  16579.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u Moreover, your very thumbnail is a mahoosive clue, sweetie. ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger has recalled how his parents once questioned his sexuality after he began hanging posters of ‘oiled up naked men’ in his teenage bedroom.’ (The Metro) 😮
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  16580.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u FYI, if you were really comfortable in your heterosexuality you wouldn’t be hammering home just how much you are heterosexual. It’s basic psychology, flower. Overcompensating. Check it. 👍🚁
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  16581.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u There you go again, petal. Wanting us all to believe you’re str8, when it’s the ones like you (with the most irrational vitriol against homosexuals) who secretly fear the most the truth of their own gayness. 👍😉
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  16582.  @jegamespeed5399  👈”You claim this is about freedom, but it’s not. It’s about imposing your views.” Not ‘imposing’ anything. If you don’t wanna f*ck another dude, I’m not forcing you to f*ck (or not f*ck, for that matter) that other dude. I’m leaving you with the choice. Whereas, you are forcing others to not f*ck (on pain of imprisonment, or worse) whom they might wanna f*ck! Take a wee look in the mirror, pal: who, exactly, is doing the ‘imposing’ here? 😉
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  16583.  @jegamespeed5399  Ok, dude. 🥱 G’night!
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  16584.  @jegamespeed5399  No. It’s about taking each issue, one by one, as a human being. I don’t give a flying f*ck about your random accident of birth, beyond the fact you were born on planet Earth! 🤦‍♂️
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  16585.  @jegamespeed5399 I’d actually respect you more, dude, if you just said you don’t really have a rational reason as to why you would interfere in the sexual lives of consenting adults. The fact you piffle relentlessly just makes you look extremely weak.
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  16586.  @jegamespeed5399 Was never trying to ‘cancel’ you. 🤦‍♂️ I just wanted a rational reason (any reason!) for your illogical stance! Jeezo.
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  16587.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok. Let’s do this bit by bit: I have zero personal issue with consenting adults f*cking each other (with the single proviso that I would have an issue if there were a chance of offspring being produced in the case of incestuous relations), quite simply because it’s none of my f*cking business. Ok. So, that’s my stance and my justification for that stance. Can we now have yours, or just yet more, tedious, pretentious obfuscation? 🤔
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  16588.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? 1. I’m not a colonialist. Bad luck. 2. That’s irrelevant to the matter at hand. 3. You still haven’t outlined why you think 2 women having mutual sexual pleasure is ‘wrong’. So…? 🤔
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  16589.  @veraluxmundi2032 It just is, dude! I don’t need to justify my irrational beliefs to anyone. 👍😉
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  16590. Irrelevant. Consenting adults. Jog on. 🏃‍♂️
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  16591.  @ijumpjudyy Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16592. Oh, Ian, Ian, hun. That profile. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ You’re trying too hard, son. We all know it’s a floppy disc, in your case. Jeezo.
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  16593.  @jegamespeed5399 But that was my point, you f*cking idiot! 🤦‍♂️ I don’t care if you criticise everyone single law of my accidental land of birth. With one proviso: you justify it and provide rational reasons. It’s that simple. Jesus, what don’t you get about this, man? You’re horrendous. 🤦‍♂️
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  16594.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Bud, you seem to be operating under the rather bizarre idea that just because we are randomly born somewhere (that we had no say in) we, ipso facto, thereby have to automatically agree with every law of that land, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16595.  @jegamespeed5399  Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️ ​​⁠
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  16596. ⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠Why should anyone be taking lessons in anything from a corrupt, tin-pot dictator presiding over a corrupt, tin-pot poverty-blasted country? There is a reason why great waves of African migrants seek a better life elsewhere. They are leaving a continent which has, historically, not pulled its weight (and continues to not pull its weight) on the world stage to go to other more enlightened, more prosperous, freer places. A good indicator of this situation is if we take a look at all the key inventions/discoveries humanity has attained, virtually none of them are out of Africa. See? Not pulling and continuing to not pull its weight. ​​⁠1. The wheel. (Sumerians) 2. Printing press. (Gutenberg - German) 3. Penicillin. (Fleming - Scottish) 4. Compass. (Chinese) 5. Light bulb. (Edison - American) 6. Telephone. (Graham Bell - Scottish) 7. Television. (Logie Baird - Scottish) 8. Internal combustion engine. (Étienne Lenoir - French) 9. The pill. (Pincus/Rock - American) 10. Internet. (Berners-Lee - English) 11. Concrete. (Nabataeans) 12. Telescope. (Lippershey - Dutch) 13. Batteries. (Volta - Italian) 14. Aeroplane. (Wright brothers - American) 15. Fridge. (Wolf - American) 16. Nuclear energy. (Fermi - Italian) 17. Vaccines. (Jenner - English) 18. X-rays. (Röntgen - German) 19. Cars. (Benz - German) 20. Radio. (Marconi - Italian) 21. Anaesthetics. (Morton - American) 22. Genetics. (Mendel - Austrian) 23. Computer. (Babbage - English) 24. Paper. (Ts'ai Lun - Chinese) 25. Steam engine. (Watt - Scottish) 26. Electricity. (Benjamin Franklin - American) 27. Steel. (Henry Bessemer - English) 28. Hindu-Arabic numeral system. (India) 29. Remote communication. (Samuel Morse - American) 30. Pasteurisation. (Louis Pasteur - French) 31. The scientific method. (Francis Bacon - English) 32. Flush toilet. (John Harrington - English) 33. Sailboat. (Mesopotamia) 34. Calculus. (Issac Newton - English/Gottfried Leibniz - German) 35. Copernican theory. (Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish) 36. Gravity. (Isaac Newton - English) 37. Theory of evolution. (Charles Darwin - English) 38. Double-entry accounting. (Luca Pacioli - Italian) 39. Mirror. (Justus von Liebig - German) 40. Electric motor. (Thomas Davenport - American) 41. GPS. (Bradford Parkinson - American) 42. DNA double-helix. (Franklin/Crick/Watson - American/English) 43. Prozac. (Klaus Schmiegel - German) 44. Industrial robot. (George Devol - American) 45. LED (Nick Holonyak - American) 46. Drones. (Abraham Karem - Iraq) 47. Digital music. (James Russell - American) 48. MRI. (Raymond Damadian - American) 49. Genetic sequencing. (Fredrick Sanger - English) 50. Rubber. (Charles Goodyear - American)
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  16597. Jegamespeed: “In the West, homosexuals are treated like gods and homosexuality is considered sacred. It’s glorified and worshipped to the point where homosexuals seem to have more parental rights than parents themselves.” Utter piffle and spoken like a chump who clearly has zero direct experience of ‘the West’. Here’s the actual truth: 1.The vast majority of non-homosexuals are quite simply indifferent to homosexuality. To say “homosexuals are treated like gods” and it’s considered “sacred” is pure baloney. Personally, it’s not my taste but I wouldn’t criminalise consenting adults for having sex. This opinion is held by 99%+ of the people in my social orbit. 2. It isn’t “glorified” and “worshipped”. There is a minuscule, tiny, highly politicised rump of activists who are heard out of all proportion to their actual (<1%) size. Try again. Try better or not at all. 🤡
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  16598.  @ijumpjudyy Irrelevant, hen. Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢🤣👍
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  16599. Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  16600.  @jegamespeed5399 Anyway, we’re just going round in circles here. G’night.👍
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  16601.  @jegamespeed5399 No. I understand perfectly that people disagree with me. I just don’t get this one. To me, it’s irrational. To you, it isn’t. That’s fine. I’m not trying to impose my morality on you. I’m simply trying to understand your morality on this topic for, to date, you still haven’t justified it and I can’t think of a justification.
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  16602.  @jegamespeed5399 Wow! You really are a humourless bastard, aren’t you? Jeezo.
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  16603.  @jegamespeed5399 Again, why are you making this a West vs the Rest thing? I’ve already told you, I’m not considering this like that at all. You’re obsessed, dude. Can you not understand that I’m not standing here representing my country? I’m standing here representing myself. I don’t necessarily agree with all the laws in my country. I’m looking at each one individually and the anti-homosexual one, for the life of me, I don’t understand (aside from the religious thing) whether that’s in Uganda, Mongolia, Japan or anywhere! 🤦‍♂️
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  16604.  @jegamespeed5399 That’s not the point dude. You can say that about any law. I was just trying to understand your antipathy to homosexuality. That’s all. Anyway, I’m bored at this point. All the best.
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  16605.  @jegamespeed5399 See? Still haven’t given any explanation as to why you consider gay sex to be ‘immoral’. But, yes, it’s your right to remain silent. I just don’t understand it and it’s suspicious that you can’t seem to give a reason, whether that’s because you are being stubborn or whether you don’t have one (I suspect it’s the latter), I don’t know, but it’s odd. Particularly from an atheist.
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  16606.  @jegamespeed5399 Oh ffs! It was a joke, dude! Jesus. Are you always this po-faced and literal? 🤦‍♂️
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  16607.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, but as has been repeatedly told to you: no one is forcing you to have gay sex, but you (on pain of imprisonment or worse) are forcing others not to have gay sex. Can you not see this how the first one is not unreasonably compelling anyone yet the one you uphold is unreasonably compelling someone? 🤦‍♂️
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  16608.  @jegamespeed5399  Er, obviously you don’t. I’m just a bit perplexed as to how anyone can find 2 consenting women (or men, for that matter) having sex to be ‘morally wrong’, leaving aside the religious stuff, which doesn’t apply to you. Of course, this answer won’t be enough for you, but that’s fine, I’ve got your number already. I would say this, though: you seem obsessed with this Africa vs the West thing and I can assure I’m not thinking about it like that at all. Anti-colonialist here. I’m simply thinking about it on the human level, regardless of whether that human is in Africa, Asia, Europe or anywhere else.
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  16609.  @spongeintheshoe He’s the living embodiment of Oscar Wilde’s wonderful observation: Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. 😉
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  16610.  @spongeintheshoe  Don’t go there. His answer to me was literally ‘for the fun of it’. I.e. he couldn’t rationally justify it. 👍
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  16611.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, not once was your accident of birth country mentioned in the OP. Nice try, though, bud.👌
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  16612.  @jegamespeed5399  Ok, bud. Whatever. 👌
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  16613.  @jegamespeed5399  ​​⁠Look, this is getting mighty boring, bud. Yes, I know this isn’t a moral thing for you, blah, blah, blah, and you are quite ok with others holding different moral positions. So am I. To a point. Here’s the point: the point is when these views are, as I perceive them, clearly justified. If someone asks me why, for example, I have zero issue with consensual adult incest (with no kids produced), I very reasonably expect to be asked why I hold this position. If I were to have you knock on my bedroom door and demand to be let in to verify I wasn’t f*cking the ‘wrong’ person, I’m very reasonably going to ask why you are doing this. Not sure what you don’t get about this. And please don’t beat me to death with your boring crap about ‘I don’t care about others holding different moral positions’. I repeat, neither do I, as long as I can clearly see some kind of reasonable justification for them. With this law and the morality underpinning it I can see no clear, credible reason why consenting adults should be criminalised for having sexual relations. This is a universal human thing, for me, not a Uganda vs. the West thing which it is so very obviously is for you.
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  16614.  @jegamespeed5399  I repeat, there has been zero in-depth ‘discussion’ by me of the ‘affairs and history’ of your accident of birth country. Wrong fella, bud.👍
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  16615.  @jegamespeed5399  Huh? Where did I ‘discuss’ the ‘affairs and history’ of your country? I might have in passing mentioned the odd thing, but there’s been zero in-depth discussion by me of the ‘affairs and history’ of your country. You have the wrong dude, bud.👍
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  16616.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s not that I couldn’t, bud, I just can’t be arsed with your pretentious, wanky question. Sorry. 😢
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  16617.  @Peep-010  Nuttin’ wrong with my logic, Peepchore: the day you can give me a single credible reason as to why you should be unreasonably meddling in my sex life is the day I pay attention to you. Bad luck. 😢
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  16618.  @koala5054 Nuttin’ wrong with my logic, koalabore: the day you can give me a single credible reason as to why you should be unreasonably meddling in my sex life is the day I pay attention to you. Bad luck. 😢
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  16619.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s a conversation, dude. I don’t know about you, but in my world conversations digress and wend a bit like a river on its way to the sea. They aren’t as linear as your mind seemingly is. Moreover, I take zero lessons from those who dodge stuff all the time because they don’t have credible answers they want to reveal to the world to very reasonable questions. Nice try though, bud.
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  16620.  @jegamespeed5399 More importantly it’s even easier to reveal who a person is by asking them questions and not getting answers. 🤫
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  16621.  @jegamespeed5399 You got me all wrong, bud. You think you know me. You’ve got an evil Western devil 👿 caricature in yer noddle, haven’t you? A wee evil dude who wants to come to Uganda and upend all your primitive, unjustified and unjustifiable laws and mores. Wrong. All wrong. This isn’t about Uganda (your personal random accident of birth you had no say in, obsession); it’s a bit bigger than that. Too big for your, cramped, parochial vision, man. 😢🥱
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  16622.  @jegamespeed5399 By their deeds ye shall know them, blah, blah, blah. 😉👍
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  16623. ⁠ @jegamespeed5399  Noticed you conspicuously dodged this one, though: Serious question, dude, and I want you to give a straight (pun intended) yes or no: you are gay. In Uganda. Do you secretly have sex or never have sex your entire life? 👍🤫
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  16624.  @jegamespeed5399 Noticed you conspicuously dodged this one, though: Serious question, dude, and I want you to give a straight (pun intended) yes or no: you are gay. In Uganda. Do you secretly have sex or never have sex your entire life? 👍🤫
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  16625.  @jegamespeed5399 No and no. Goodnight.
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  16626.  @jegamespeed5399 Because these are the subject of the f*cking video in question! Argh! Go away, bud. I’m done here. You’re crazy. 🤦‍♂️
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  16627.  @jegamespeed5399 You could make that argument about any law! It just so happens, to use your example, there are considerably more homosexuals on the planet than there are those wishing to have incestuous relations. 🤦‍♂️
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  16628.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠​​⁠I’ve just told you: What? I’m not gay. 🤷‍♂️ I’m indifferent. I don’t ‘love and support’ any behaviours. All I support is the right for consenting adults to have sex with whom they so choose. You’re insane, bud. Jeezo.🤦‍♂️
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  16629.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠What? I’m not gay. 🤷‍♂️ I’m indifferent. I don’t ‘love and support’ any behaviours. All I support is the right for consenting adults to have sex with whom they so choose. 🤦‍♂️
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  16630.  @jegamespeed5399 Serious question, dude, and I want you to give a straight (pun intended) yes or no: you are gay. In Uganda. Do you secretly have sex or never have sex your entire life?
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  16631.  @jegamespeed5399 Absolutely no edit coming, dude. This is specifically about criminalising homosexuality. That’s all. There are plenty of other topics but that’s all that’s under discussion here and that’s what the OP directly addresses.
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  16632.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Of course it’s about ‘freedom’ dude. If I thought some random creep was gonna police my sex life he’d experience my fist in his face (and perhaps somewhere else where the sun don’t shine! 😂) Thank f*ck I don’t live in a benighted backwater like Uganda, when it comes to this particular matter. And I’m not even gay! As you say, this is about the basic human right and freedom to have consensual sex as an adult with whomever you want. It’s beyond me why we are here in 2024 anywhere on this planet. Ok, I’ll grant you the religion thing; I know you’re an atheist but I know the vast majority of people on this planet who want to interfere with the sex lives of consenting adults are pretty religious, so to a point, I get it. But that’s still no valid reason to interfere in people’s bedrooms. It’s just weird and creepy above anything else.
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  16633.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok. Cool. We can agree that consensual incest (without the production of children) and consensual polygamy is fine and disagree that homosexuality ought to be criminalised. Good. Nothing more to say. Not sure why you got so triggered by the OP. All the best.👍
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  16634.  @jegamespeed5399 How is it ‘hypocrisy’, exactly?
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  16635.  @jegamespeed5399 And I have no problem with polygamy, if it’s consenting adults. Again, I don’t understand your point, bud. My point is that I am able to actually criticise my random accident of birthplace I had no say in. You are, congenitally, incapable of this, it seems.
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  16636.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠👈Dude seemingly incapable of stepping outside his random accident of birth conditioning he had zero say in.🤦‍♂️
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  16637.  @jegamespeed5399 And I agree. Bad luck. 😢
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  16638. Does it? Well, the past and the present certainly don’t belong to Africa. Africa is, traditionally, the poorest (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), least literate (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), least democratic (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), most religious (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the most corrupt (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Seems to me, it’s long before time Africa started pulling its weight and contributed. It’s like a primitive child that never grew up and is incapable of thriving.
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  16639.  @Peep-010 Er, show me a human being who has ever lived who doesn’t sniff their own farts, and I’ll show you an anomalous freak. Why are you people so prim and prissy? What is this? A Jane Austen novel?
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  16640.  @Mariposofeliz Oh, don’t worry. I can (edit: read 🤦‍♂️) you between the lines. You’re constantly funny and witty, though. Keep at it! 👍
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  16641.  @Mariposofeliz Keep running rings around that Jegamoron, btw. It’s always good entertainment! 🍿 🥤
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  16642.  @Mariposofeliz No, I don’t think it was you. I’ve been having a few comments deleted recently, for no apparent reason.👍
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  16643. YouTube deleted my previous comment. 🤷‍♂️ Read your reply, though. 👍Spot on!
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  16644.  @annmarieromani Bravo! 👏 It’s ye olde Biblical pick ‘n’ mix according to one’s given personal prejudices.
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  16645. Mbappé is now dating Ines Rau, a transgender model who rose to fame in 2017, as per MARCA. (The Pink News) 📰 😮😉
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  16646. Uh huh. Any chance we could have that in basic English, bruh? 🤔
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  16647.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Florida legalises homosexuality - 2003. Cope harder, groomer. 👍😂🤡
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  16648. Much more than that, dude. Africa is the only continent where decriminalization of homosexuality has not been widespread since the mid-twentieth century. Africa is also, traditionally, the POOREST (in 2024, the top 10 poorest countries were all African - Global Finance), LEAST LITERATE (in 2024, of the 10 most illiterate countries, 9 were in Africa - World Atlas), LEAST DEMOCRATIC (in 2023, of the 30 least democratic countries, 16 were in Africa, 11 were in Asia and 3 were in South America - Statista), MOST RELIGIOUS (in 2024, of the 10 most religious countries, 7 were in Africa - Ceoworld) and the MOST CORRUPT (in 2023, of the 20 most corrupt countries, 11 were in Africa - Statista) continent on the planet. Coincidence? 🤷‍♂️
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  16649. “I am fair, passionate and creative person.” (Remus G) ‘Fair’? Yeah, right. It’s completely ‘fair’ to have the death penalty on the statute books for consenting adults just having sex. 🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  16650. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  16651.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  16652. *therefore 🤡
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  16653.  @Flunky000  👈🤣 Clearly non-coping. Once more for the hard of thinking, Flunkybore, if people wanna f*ck, they’ll f*ck, regardless of your imaginary sky daddy! 😂👍Bad luck, now.😢
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  16654.  @Peep-010 👈Lmao. 🤣 Clearly non-coping. Once more for the hard of thinking, Peepchore, if people wanna f*ck, they’ll f*ck, regardless of your imaginary sky daddy! 😂👍😢
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  16655.  @Flunky000  Hey, Flunkybore, just for the record, Flunkybore, the existence of God is neither here nor there. If people wanna f*ck, they’ll f*ck; your imaginary sky daddy is irrelevant at this point! 🤣🤫
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  16656.  @Peep-010  🥱
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  16657. Oh, wow! Peepbore & Flunkychore pop up at exactly the same time! There’s a surprise. Not. 🤫
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  16658. The day this grotesque, oily, sweaty, greasy Jabba the Hutt (with the exceedingly mannish wifey, btw 🤭) actually gives me a single rational, credible reason to outlaw gay sex, beyond personal pearl-clutching and subjective ‘outrage’ and ‘disgust’, is the day I will listen. 😊
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  16659.  @itachi_732 Er, well, I hate to tell you this, dude, but if both parties are consenting adults, I have zero problem with incest with one proviso: no kids result. Looks like my argument isn’t ‘flawed’ after all. Bad luck. 😢
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  16660.  @koala5054  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  16661. Does he lack apostrophes and full-stops, too? 🤔
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  16662. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijump Judy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡
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  16663. Jegamoron 🤡: “Here is a link to a video of a prominent LQBTQ leader and spokesperson advocating for the legalisation and normalisation of paedophilia”: https://youtu.be/UNW13jjSL-E?si=LzSbUfZQxUV4qx2s Er, I must have missed the bit where ‘legalisation’ and ‘normalisation’ of paedophilia happened. Nice try though, bud. 👍🤡
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  16664.  @StopCensorship4--03  Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  16665.  @Spacelove360  ‘Umm ok’ indeedy! 👍
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  16666.  @Spacelove360  I’m talking about the big spooky fantasy unverified, unverifiable sky daddy you clearly referenced in your OP. Do try to keep up at the back now. 👍
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  16667.  @Spacelove360 No. But I did.👍
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  16668. Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  16669.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  16670.  @jegamespeed5399  Ok, so gay people don’t have sex now. Aye. Whatever. 🥱
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  16671.  StopCensorship4----4  No need to project your non-existent imaginary sky daddy. 💀
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  16672.  @JegameJegame  No, Jegamoron 🤡 All this is rather obvious. One day, hopefully soon, we’ll just get to the realisation that the consenting adult sexual life of A. N. Other is quite simply no one else’s business. That we are still doing this in 2024 is bizarre. 🤦‍♂️👍
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  16673. Q: “Do you personally think consenting gay adults having sexual relations is immoral?” Jegamespeed5399: “Yes.” Q: “Why?” Jegamespeed5399: “For the fun of it!” 🤦‍♂️
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  16674.  @Peep-010 ​​⁠ Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍 I like to have the evidence. 🤡👍😆
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  16675.  @Peep-010 I have no idea what that is, and you’re projecting again. That’s a habit you seem to have. 😂👍🤡
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  16676.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍 I like to have the evidence. 🤡👍😆
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  16677.  @Peep-010 Word of advice: don’t make claims you can’t back. Uh huh. 😊👍🤡
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  16678.  @Peep-010 Moreover, you still haven’t quoted that stuff you said I hadn’t deleted. I’ll wait… 🥤 🍿
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  16679.  @Peep-010 Not gay, dude. Sawree. 😢
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  16680.  @Peep-010 ’Strewth’?! Lol. What is this? A Neighbours reunion? 😂
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  16681.  @Peep-010 The . after ‘belong’ was unnecessary. A bit like you. 👍
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  16682.  @koala5054 Er, no, that won’t do. You claimed that 25% of gays are paedophiles. I, quite reasonably, asked for your source, beyond just pulling some shyte outta yer bahookey cuz ye felt like it. So, once again, source? I’ll wait… 🥤 🍿
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  16683. ⁠ @koala5054 I’ll wait… 🥤 🍿
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  16684.  @koala5054 Seriously, 25% is your claim. Source? 🤔
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  16685.  @koala5054 Huh? So, just ‘jerking off’ qualifies you as a ‘pervert’ now, does it? 🤷‍♂️ That makes every man who ever lived, a ‘pervert’. 🤡
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  16686. Source: “Trust me, kangaroo.” 🐨 🦘
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  16687.  @StopCensorship4--03  *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  16688. Bravo! 100%! Swap ‘heterosexuality’ for ‘homosexuality’ in that post and it all becomes clear. 👏
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  16689.  @Peep-010 Tell that to Flunkybore, not me, Dikwad.
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  16690.  @Flunky000 Also, just for the record, Dikwad, I’m not a ‘leftist’. 😊
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  16691.  StopCensorship2-wh3nm  So, you have no argument then. Uh huh.😊
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  16692.  @GPBA89  👏
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  16693.  @vincentpeeters1157 Lol. This particular den is full of morons who simply can’t abide adults having consenting sex, without rudely, deeply creepily and inappropriately interrupting. It’s often religious, but not always. I can’t understand it. The sex lives of consenting adults are quite clearly no one else’s business. I’ve racked my brains, and the one and only caveat I can think of to this is the possibility of producing offspring from incest. Nothing else matters if it’s consenting adults. 👍
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  16694. This is it. Sanity, at last. Well done, Vinny. 👏
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  16695. What did you all say, Janey hun? 🤔
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  16696.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri I’m a republican. Get it right. 🤡
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  16697. Aye! Fair point, dude. All these homophobes claim they don’t dig cock yet they play with cock every day! 🤠
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  16698.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠👈The rage coping is strong with this groomer when she is confronted with the facts. Florida, 2003. 😢😂 🤡
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  16699.  @Flunky000 👈🤫I think you sense you have nothing else to say as what I have said is perfectly reasonable, Dikwad. G’night, Dikwad! 😉
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  16700.  @Flunky000  Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  16701.  @Flunky000 Ok, Dikwad, I’ll do a deal with you, ok? Here it is: you give me access to your consensual sex life as an adult and I’ll give you access to mine? Deal? 😊
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  16702.  @Flunky000 👈Someone’s clearly triggered! 😂
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  16703.  @Flunky000 Oh but I’m not. You know absolutely nothing about me, Dikwad, other than my strong belief you shouldn’t be messing in the sex lives of consenting adults, Dikwad. Nice try again though, Dikwad. 👍
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  16704.  @Flunky000  Oh, but it very much does. Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  16705.  @Flunky000  Consenting adults, Dikwad. Cry more. 😢
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  16706.  @StopCensorship4--03 *those 🤣
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  16707.  @StopCensorship4--03  responsabilities (sic) You were saying, chumpster? 👍🤣😭
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  16708.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 🤣
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  16709.  @PedroRamonValdez Wrong x2. Answer the question: why r u so boring? 🤔 🥱
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  16710.  @PedroRamonValdez  Why r u so boring? 🤔 🥱
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  16711.  @PedroRamonValdez  Mr Stilton is a mouldy, sub-literate chump! Seethe, bitch boy, seethe!
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  16712. …⚓️
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  16713.  @Peep-010 Oh, I forgot ‘omg!’ and ‘wow!’ We got there. 🥱
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  16714.  @Peep-010 Gae, icky, pooh, buhm, Jonathan, like, whatever, and stuff. Did I cover it all, Peepbore? 🥱
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  16715.  @GavininJonathanscar  Lol. ‘Snazzy’?! Have ye seen yersel’ son. That fizzog looks like it hasnae seen a razor for days and your barnet appears to be allergic to shampoo! Don’t take that wrong.
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  16716.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer I do! 💨 😊
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  16717.  @Nigerian-born_American  I don’t. Cope, son. 👍🤦‍♂️
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  16718.  ijumpjudy.  🥱
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  16719.  ijumpjudy. Well, I f*cked a guy in Marrakesh once, Judy darlin’, so bad luck, sweetie.👍🤪
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  16720.  ijumpjudy. Huh? I’m not planning to go to Ghana, darlin’. 🤦‍♂️ You need a better researcher as yer current one’s clearly shyte, hen.
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  16721.  ijumpjudy. I don’t, though, Judy dear. I just don’t give a flying f*ck that others do. Cope better. 👍
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  16722. C’mon, dude. 1) Stop upvoting yourself. It’s deeply cringe. 2) Unnecessary capitals always have the deep whiff of the lady doth protest too much, methinks. Just sayin’! 👍🤡
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  16723. @StopCensorship4--03Er, last time I checked, heterosexuals also spread STDs. 🤡 *possibilities *they’re Skill issue. 🤭
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  16724.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent visit to the UK she was told all about beavers 🦫 and badgers but got discombobulated when a dude approached her and asked: “Do you wanna stroke my tadger?” 🦡 😂
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  16725. Uh huh. Says the dude whose playlists are stuffed full of folks with ambiguous sexuality. 👍😉
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  16726.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Just for the record, North America can’t compete with South America, let alone Europe! Ta da! 🎉
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  16727.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  I think I sense you know America cannot compete with the beautiful Old World. Uh huh. I accept your surrender. 🏳👍
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  16728.  @FlipflopMount222  🥱
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  16729.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer We’re not talking geopolitics, mate. We’re comparing the continents. Do try to keep at the back. 🤦‍♂️
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  16730.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Wow! You have Hawaii. Er, we have Sicily, Majorca, Crete, Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia etc. etc. etc. and every single one of them more interesting than Hawaii! Also, in terms of urban space 100x more beautiful than Hawaii for Hawaii suffers from that American mainland thang: horrendously ugly towns/cities. 👍🤫
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  16731.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Europe is a continent. North America is a continent. It’s 100% appropriate to compare them. Cope, petal. Uh huh.😉👍
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  16732.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Yes it does. It’s all outlined above. Check it, bruh. 👍😉🙄
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  16733.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Look, son, the point here is rather simple: on all the main points, Europe out-scores N America. The nature thing is a close call but, for me, the Grand Canyon doesn’t tip it in favour of America. Europe edges this. Sawree. 😭 Btw, have you trimmed that nasal hair yet? 😑
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  16734.  @bottlecap632  Indeed. The ones you mention have exactly the same speech patterns. I told her that the first rule of pretending to be different people is varying the speech patterns. She wasn’t too happy about this. 👍
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  16735.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  Yeah, but we’ve just been over this. America has had Alaska for 5 minutes. That’s like claiming a step-child as your own with a woman you met last week. Europe has had Mont Blanc for 15 million years. Do try to keep up at the back. And trim yer nasal hair, son. It’s rather unsightly and putting me off my porridge. 😑
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  16736.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer That was my point. It’s had Alaska for 5 minutes, relatively.
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  16737.  @bottlecap632 I have no idea who Tonya is. All I know is that wombat/possum and all her other aliases are deeply boring and monotonous to read day after day, with the exact same comments which she seems to think are witty and funny, but aren’t.
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  16738.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer I disagree. The Alps actually top out higher than the Rockies and are equally, if not more, spectacular than the Rockies.
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  16739. Can’t be, son. Uganda’s a republic. Keep up.
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  16740.  @StopCensorship4--03  *responsibilities👍🤣
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  16741.  @stopcensorship7705  Roman Catholicism + Anglicanism = seethe. 🤣😂😅
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  16742.  @stopcensorship7705  Yes, a Christian influence imported by the West. 😉 Now go away, as you are so unutterably dull. 🥱
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  16743.  @stopcensorship7705  Just for the record, as you are a deeply illiterate and boring twat and need an education: Roman Catholicism, followed by Anglicanism make up 75% of the denominations of those following an invisible sky daddy in Uganda. Get a better researcher. 🤣😂🤣
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  16744.  @stopcensorship7705  Christianity as we know it today in Uganda in entirely a product of Western missionaries. As I said, you need better coping strategies.🤣😂🤣
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  16745.  @stopcensorship7705  British missionaries began arriving in Uganda in the late 19th century with the aim of converting the population to Christianity. Eager to provide the Baganda with access to the Bible in their own language, they had the translation made from a Swahili version over the six-year period up to 1896. Looks like you’ve cocked up again, son. Nice try, though. 👍
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  16746. loooool 👏 Ty for your stunning, intelligent, erudite, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  16747.  @fatblackguyong  Learn the basic, crucial difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ and then don’t call us, we’ll call you. 📱👍
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  16748. 👏
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  16749.  @TheFaySchoolKids I do! 💨 😊
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  16750. No one cares.
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  16751.  @Peep-010  Huh? Kinda irrelevant if it’s consensual, darling. Sawree 2 disappoint u. 😢
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  16752.  @Peep-010  Huh? Kinda irrelevant if it’s consensual, darling. Sawree 2 disappoint u. 😢
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  16753.  @ijumpjudyy  Oh, incest?! 😮 Suits you, Little Miss Asexual/Virgin! 😂 🤡 Keep it in the family. Why doncha? 😉
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  16754.  @ijumpjudyy Yer wee lezbo pal is tickling you with a rampant rabbit in that photo, ain’t she, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual?! 😂 Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run! 🐰 😂
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  16755.  @jegamespeed5399 Just before I finally go today, I want to repeat this to you, as I still can’t grasp it: Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your random accident of birth country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own random accident of birth country, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, anywhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. G’night.
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  16756.  @jegamespeed5399 But you’ve just said the law was all the West’s doing. Make up your mind, bud. 🥴
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  16757.  @jegamespeed5399 Anyway, done here, bud. ✌️
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  16758.  @jegamespeed5399 So, what you’re saying is you’re so weak-minded as a nation and a people that you are incapable of thinking for yourself. The ‘evil West’ brought the Bible to you and you poor wee suckers fell for it hook, line and sinker and you (Museveni) turn round and now have the temerity to claim this law is in large part an anti-Western thing when you’ve just stated it was all the West’s doing?! 🤦‍♂️ Talk about a f*cked-up country. In so many ways, it seems. Alas.
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  16759.  @jegamespeed5399 Rofl. How disingenuous are you, bud? “We would have continued to ignore it.” So, why don’t you, pal? Stop with your nonsense. You openly support the law you absolute hypocrite! You yourself could easily have carried on ‘ignoring’ it. Good grief.🤦‍♂️
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  16760.  @jegamespeed5399 And what part of the quote you quoted are you taking issue with, exactly?
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  16761.  @jegamespeed5399 More pretentious, irrelevant bs, bud. Sorry. Nice try, though. 👍
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  16762.  @jegamespeed5399  “To this day people tolerate these behaviours. They’re frowned upon but no one actually harms those who engage in them.” No, you’re right, bud. Uganda, which has just introduced a law which is going to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for simply having sexual relations isn’t in any way ‘harming’ those who ‘engages’ in these behaviours. Omg! 🤦‍♂️
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  16763.  @jegamespeed5399 But I didn’t say they were ‘legal’ bud. Where did I say they were ‘legal’? Yeah, nowhere. Again, making up sh*t out of thin air. Bad faith. Bad, bad faith. Yet again playing the man not the ball. 🤦‍♂️
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  16764.  @jegamespeed5399 So, do you want another go, bud? I’ll wait…
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  16765.  @jegamespeed5399  1. Where did I claim Africa was ‘pro-LBTBQ’ before colonialism? All I said was that in many parts those thought to be gay weren’t criminalised. They weren’t imprisoned (or worse). Yes, attitudes varied but in many cases homosexuals and homosexuality were tolerated or at worst just looked at with indifference. I have found nothing in the literature where folks were imprisoned or worse. 🤦‍♂️ 2. I said that an 84% Christian Uganda (along with 14% Islam) played a strong role in the attitudes feeding into the creation of the Bill. This is just a fact dude. 🤦‍♂️
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  16766.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok, bud. So you can’t find any of those ‘debunks’. Fine. Once again ty for being honest and admitting this, man.👍
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  16767.  @jegamespeed5399 Rofl. Are you, honestly and with a straight face, making a straight comparison of a girl having her clitoris chopped off and young adults who go through a process of gender care? 🤣 🤦‍♂️ I’ve heard it all now!
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  16768.  @jegamespeed5399 You said that, not me. Wtf are you piffling on about now? 🤦‍♂️
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  16769.  @jegamespeed5399 I haven’t. There’s literally dozens, so again you’re lying. Out of these dozens which ones? I’ll wait…
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  16770.  @jegamespeed5399 👈How desperate is this dude, btw? Just lies and makes up stuff to suit his purposes. Bad stuff. 🤦‍♂️ Very bad stuff.
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  16771.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? I never have once mentioned ‘gender-affirming care’ so you again you are outright lying, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16772.  @jegamespeed5399 Once again, though, just to emphasise, ty for admitting that you got this one completely, staggeringly, gob-smackingly wrong, though. Made you look extremely silly, bud. But you’ve admitted your egregious error. That’s something, I suppose. Well done! 👍 I’m sure none of my ‘100s’ of ‘false claims’ are quite as silly and wrong as this one, bud.
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  16773.  @jegamespeed5399 No, that won’t do, bud. I haven’t deleted them. You claimed 100s. If there’s ‘100s’ surely you can find a few. So, which ones? I’ll wait…
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  16774. @ Ty, btw, for admitting that you got this one completely, staggeringly, gob-smackingly wrong, though. Made you look extremely silly, bud. But you’ve admitted your egregious error. That’s something, I suppose. Well done! 👍
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  16775. @ Like which ones? I’ll wait…
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  16776.  @jegamespeed5399 The ‘point, bud? Let’s say it’s to remind dudes like you who brazenly come out with the following ridiculous statements: “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” YVW, bud. 👍
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  16777.  @TheFaySchoolKids Just type something interesting. Anything. Ffs.
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  16778.  @TheFaySchoolKids  You genuinely seem to have nothing to say on anything. Yer just a vacuum of nothingness. Very dull. 😐
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  16779.  @TheFaySchoolKids  The fact you bore on about this Stilton thing proves my point. It’s just so boring. Change the record, dude. 🥱
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  16780.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Not nearly as tedious and witless as you, though. I know this, you know this, so stop with yer disingenuousness.
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  16781.  @TheFaySchoolKids You never type anything stimulating or funny or witty or true or just anything. Yer a dead loss. Are you not ashamed of this?
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  16782.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Serious question: Why are you ppl so boring?
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  16783.  @TheFaySchoolKids Just cuz you dullard losers wanna constantly blow him doesn’t mean the rest of us do. Some of us have standards. Think on. 😉
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  16784.  @TheFaySchoolKids  Stilton’s a thick, sub-literate inbred English twat, son. Get it right. You lot are deluded btw. in yer hagiographic, cringey fawning. It clearly denotes you have zero standards and zero quality control. Either that or you yourself are so thick you can’t see it! 😮
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  16785. ⁠It’s quite obvious to everyone with half a brain: if you are going to criminalise men for giving each other a bj or a stiff one up the backyard, then you have to be consistent. Hettys do this every day. No criminalisation. That’s how you know this whole thing is irrational. If this greasy, sweaty bollock-head were prepared to criminalise all the Ugandan heterosexuals giving bj’s and taking it up the bahookey every night, he would still be a fucking tool but, to be fair, he would be consistent!👍
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  16786.  @BrotherBernard-yy4yd You don’t, Bernie hun, and even if you did it’s supremely irrelevant. Consenting adults. 👍
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  16787.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Says the virgin/asexual who wouldn’t know ‘manhood’ if it walked right up to her and slapped her in the face! 😂 😢
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  16788.  @Flunky000 ’His’?! Lol. Those 3 letters alone show how brainwashed you are! 😊🤡
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  16789.  @Flunky000  The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (Richard Dawkins) Amen to that. 🙏
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  16790.  @Flunky000 👈Irrelevant Dikwad just shows what an utter unthinking chump they are by comparing consenting adults having sex to a ‘religion’. Brainwashed religious moron.🤡
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  16791. 1. It’s an opinion. 2. The opinion isn’t the main issue; it’s the stupid, barbaric law emanating from the opinion that is the problem. 3. Nice try, though. 👍
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  16792.  @wombat010 Nah, you just chose to be a moron and state shit without doing your due diligence. 🤡
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  16793.  @wombat010 Wombattwat: just stating shit doesn’t thereby make it true. 😢 🤡
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  16794.  @Peep-010 Well, I won’t be jerking off to this, given I’m not gay, Peepnumpty. You, however… 😉🤡
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  16795. This isn’t about paedophiles. It’s about consenting adults having sex. Do try to keep up at the back.
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  16796. 👏
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  16797.  @StopCensorship4--03 Parents choose, but you don’t choose! 🤦‍♂️ Cringe. This level of thickness is not something I have encountered before. Are you a joke? 😂
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  16798.  @StopCensorship4--03 Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16799.  @StopCensorship4--03 Word to the wise: delete your posts in this thread. They make look deeply thick. 🤦‍♂️
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  16800.  @StopCensorship4--03 👈Was randomly born somewhere she had no say in. 🤫
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  16801.  @StopCensorship4--03  Are you honestly this dense that you cannot understand the very basic concept that no one had any say where they were born? 🤦‍♂️ Really? Are we at that level?
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  16802.  @StopCensorship4--03 But you didn’t choose your birthplace, idiot! 🤦‍♂️ Jesus, how many times. None of us chose our birthplace! Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16803.  @StopCensorship4--03 *possibilities Rofl that the groomer is correcting others’ grammar and spelling. 🤭 Skill issue.
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  16804.  @StopCensorship4--03 What? Again. Nothing. ‘Birthplace’ you had no say in, groomer! Bad luck. 😢 Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16805.  @jegamespeed5399 ”My country and my history.” Dude’s clearly been rendered insane by a random accident of birth he had no say in. 🤦‍♂️
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  16806.  @StopCensorship4--03 Yeah, but f*ckwit, my point was that you had no say in this. Jesus wept. 🤦‍♂️
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  16807.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok, no answer. Why are opinions relevant? Because you are constantly playing the man, not the ball. Everyone else who engages with you provides rational reasons for their stance. Do you honestly expect others to take you seriously if you can’t rationally back up your position? It doesn’t work like that, bud. A random accident of birth you had no say in is irrelevant. We were all randomly born somewhere. Some of us are able to justify the opinions we have. G’night! 👍
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  16808.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, my point? Why? No, no, no, I don’t want the dodge of “look it up”; I want your opinion as to why consenting adults having sex need to be imprisoned (or worse). If you’re not prepared to do this, in the same way I have supplied my own reasons for my beliefs, then this goes no further. I’ll wait…
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  16809.  @StopCensorship4--03 I always had the point, dude. Sorry. Backed up. Rationally argued. Aye. Bad luck. 😢
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  16810.  @jegamespeed5399  Wow! Jegamespeed is having a go at Stopcensorship, now! 😂 That’s funny! 😂
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  16811.  @jegamespeed5399 Sorry? Again, wtf are you babbling on about? Your random accident of birth country has criminalised sexual relations between consenting homosexuals. Do try to keep up at the back! 🤦‍♂️
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  16812.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, biology and semantics are not the same, but Uganda has just criminalised consenting adults for having sexual relations, not biological relations. Bad luck, bud. 😢
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  16813.  @jegamespeed5399 No. It’s semantics, dude. Just cope better, now. 😢
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  16814.  @jegamespeed5399  Rofl. Dude’s quibbling about semantics when one of his random accident of birth brethren is about to be executed for having sex. 😂👍
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  16815. Jegamespeed5399 appears to be labouring under the rather bizarre notion that all that counts as ‘having sex’ is man-to-woman intercourse. Anything else doesn’t qualify as ‘sex’, according to him. He then applies this to what he terms ‘unnatural acts’ (oral, anal sex etc.) and uses this as a rationale to criminalise gay sex, on the basis it isn’t ‘natural’, all the while being apparently unaware that in millions of heterosexual bedrooms every night all over the planet there are heterosexuals indulging in oral/anal sex with gay abandon. The day he is willing to imprison (or worse) every single heterosexual having oral/anal sex, along with all the gays, is the day he would still be a complete f*cking idiot, but at least he would be being consistent and not ‘one rule for the homos and another rule for the hettys.
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  16816.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, where did I say ‘behaviours were not a choice’? Yeah, that’s right, nowhere. Nice try though, bud. 👍🤡
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  16817. @ I’m not gay, dude. Do better.
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  16818.  @SaintThomasAquinas1 Don’t be silly, sweetheart. If you have peado tendencies then you seek help and try your utmost not to act on them. I repeat: we don’t consciously will whom we are attracted to.
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  16819.  @stopcensorship7705  🥱
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  16820.  @stopcensorship7705  🥱
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  16821.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a Virgin frequent-flyer but had a mental breakdown when told the company was created by Dick. ✈️ 😂
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  16822.  @ijumpjudyy  Er, no I don’t. As a heterosexual I just want to see a planet that doesn’t persecute consenting adults for just having sex. Bad luck, groomer. 😢
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  16823. Nice playlist with the semi-naked men, dude. 👍😉
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  16824. Don’t be silly. This is Uganda. Get an atlas. 🤦‍♂️
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  16825.  @ijumpjudyy Florida, 2003. Seethe. 😂
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  16826. C’mon Curtis, cocker. Yer profile is stuffed with buffed American footballers locking horns. Have at least a scintilla of self-awareness. 🤦‍♂️👍
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  16827.  @ijumpjudyy Florida legalises homosexuality - 2003. Cope harder, groomer. 👍😂🤡
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  16828. *basted
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  16829. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  16830. And…? 🤔 Your point is…? 🤔
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  16831.  @TheFaySchoolKids Mmmmm… 💨 😊
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  16832.  @ijumpjudyy Florida 2003, groomer. 😂😢🤡
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  16833. @stopcensorship7705 *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  16834. *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  16835. ‘Chad’? Not this is Uganda, son.👍🤦‍♂️
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  16836.  @ijumpjudyy Just stating shit doesn’t make it true, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Bad luck. 😢 Florida, 2003. 🤡😜😂
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  16837.  @ijumpjudyy  You’re really not very good at this are you, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual? Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 🤡 😂
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  16838.  @ijumpjudyy Where? 🤔
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  16839. Ok, the bottom line here is obvious: as soon as this sweaty bollock-head lets me police his sex life is the day I might let him police my sex life. Quid pro quo, blah, blah, blah.
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  16840. @stopcensorship7705 *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  16841.  @reginageorge4 Hey, groomer! Check it 👉 •1800 ~ 90% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. •1950 ~ 50% of world lived in country that criminalised homosexuality. 2024 ~ 33% of world lives in country that criminalises homosexuality. Looks like the tide of history on this issue is all one way, shweetie. 😢 👋 😂
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  16842.  @ijumpjudyy 99%? Er, fact check: As of June 2024, homosexuality is outlawed in 30 out of the 54 African states. That’s 55% hun. Bak 2 skool. 🏫 😂
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  16843.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Little Miss Virgin/Asexual unable to deal with the fact 67% of the planet doesn’t criminalise homosexuality. Suck it and weep, dearie. 😢😂
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  16844.  @Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie  The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 🤠
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  16845. Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  16846.  @jegamespeed5399 And I’m here to highlight an unthinking f*ckwit in thrall to a random accident of birth that never, EVER provides justifications for anything. That’s just boring. And weak. 🥱 Some of us are prepared to do the work. Unlike certain countries and continents. 🤫
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  16847.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok. Ty. You have no answer. Ty. Bud.😂🤫
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  16848.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Nice dodge. Once again: just before I go any further: Uganda 84% Christian/14% Islamic. Why are you ignoring this fact, if you are so very obviously invested in your random accident of birth and the supposed ‘cultural independence’ of Uganda? You’re almost 100% majority imported religion! 😂🤦‍♂️ Cringe.
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  16849.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, not trying to ‘cancel’ anyone, bud. Just asking questions and stating facts. 🤣
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  16850.  @jegamespeed5399 Just before I go any further: Uganda 84% Christian/14% Islamic. Why are you ignoring this fact, if you are so very obviously invested in your random accident of birth and the supposed ‘cultural independence’ of Uganda? You’re almost 100% majority imported religion! 😂🤦‍♂️ Cringe.
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  16851.  @jegamespeed5399 Just for the record, bud, before I check if Christianity had anything to do with these laws, bud; if it did, then that renders your ‘cultural’ independence null and void, no, bud? But even if it didn’t, Christianity was imported. Aye. And as we speak, 84% of your countrymen are Christian, bud. Moreover, 14% are Islamic, bud. Last time I checked, bud, both these religions aren’t Ugandan, bud. 😢😂
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  16852.  @jegamespeed5399 Do you want a wee cup of tea to calm you down, bud? ☕️
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  16853.  @jegamespeed5399 Don’t worry, bud. Agnostic here. I fully understand morality exists out-with the concepts of organised religion, bud. Stop panicking, bud. As I say, lemme check, bud. You claimed Christianity had nothing to do with these laws, bud. Lemme check and you chill, bud 👍😉
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  16854.  @jegamespeed5399 👈”Parliament outlined all the reasons and provided detailed explanations and Christianity was not among them.” Let me do some research, bud. Bye for now, bud. 👋
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  16855.  @jegamespeed5399 Anyway, bud, I’ll try and source this stuff and get back to you, bud. All the best, bud. 👍
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  16856.  @jegamespeed5399 Tune changed, bud? 🤣
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  16857.  @jegamespeed5399 ’Morality is definitely a factor’. You weren’t saying that 3 days ago, bud! 🤣👍
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  16858.  @jegamespeed5399 Oh! We had a ‘but’ there, bud. 😉👍
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  16859.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Before I look up this report, bud, you are 100% standing by the notion that 84% Christian/14% Islamic Uganda brought in this law and it has nothing to do with Christianity/Islam? Is that your position, bud?
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  16860.  @jegamespeed5399 Yeah, but let’s get real about this, bud, in the grand scheme of things your random accident of birth continent has contributed relatively very little as has been repeatedly pointed out to you, bud. We’re all human beings here, bud. Some of us have contributed more than others, bud. Think on. I’m still waiting for the Ugandan parliamentary source, btw, bud…
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  16861.  @jegamespeed5399 Source for the parliament stuff? You said it was freely available online so can you give me the source as I can’t seem to locate it?
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  16862.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, I’m anti-colonial, bud. Bad luck, bud. Do better, bud. 😢
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  16863.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s just an accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Get it over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16864.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Your hyper-sensitivity and hypocrisy is just weird, bud. Really weird. You import Christianity, which is essentially the main driving force behind these laws, and complain about others’ ‘views and ideologies’. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  16865.  @jegamespeed5399 Once more for the hard of thinking: I’m not ‘imposing’ anything. All I’m trying to establish is the justification for your views. 🤦‍♂️
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  16866.  @jegamespeed5399 ’My people and leaders’. Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
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  16867.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok, bud. I’m gonna repeat this point and then I’m done here, bud, as you seem immune to having a rational conversation: ​​⁠And another thing, bud. Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️ G’night, bud.
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  16868.  @jegamespeed5399 How about looking at it critically, for starters, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16869.  @jegamespeed5399 FYI, I’m not trying to ‘impose’ anything! Ffs, man. All I am seeking to establish is why you support outlawing consenting adults having sex. That’s all. Don’t worry, I’m not going to come and live in your dump of a country that contributes nothing but intolerance. That won’t happen. I was trying to establish the reasons for your supporting of this law. The fact you haven’t made them clear and more worryingly, don’t seem to actually have any beyond “I don’t like that”, just goes to show how irrational and unthinking you really are. With you, it seems quite obvious that this genuinely is a “yah boo sucks!” thing. You appear unable to think out-with your culture that you were randomly born in. 🤦‍♂️
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  16870.  @jegamespeed5399 ’My country’. It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Get over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16871.  @jegamespeed5399 But your ‘history’ is just a random accident of birth you had no say in! 🤦‍♂️ You could’ve been born anywhere!
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  16872.  @jegamespeed5399 And another thing, bud. Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16873.  @jegamespeed5399 So, it’s just a random accident of birth, bud. Why are you investing your moral being in random accident of birth you had no say in, bud? Bizarre, unthinking and utterly irrational, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16874.  @jegamespeed5399  Irrelevant, bud. I don’t care. Until you can provide a rational justification as to why you support the imprisonment (and worse) of consenting adults having sex, I don’t care, bud.
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  16875.  @jegamespeed5399  Yes: You could’ve been born anywhere, bud. Just a random accident of birth, bud. Get over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16876.  @jegamespeed5399 Irrelevant, bud. I don’t care. Until you can provide a rational justification as to why you support the imprisonment (and worse) of consenting adults having sex, I don’t care, bud.
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  16877.  @jegamespeed5399  You could’ve been born anywhere, bud. Just a random accident of birth, bud. Get over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16878.  @jegamespeed5399 ’My history’. It’s only your ‘history’ because of a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Get over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  16879.  @jegamespeed5399 I’m talking about an accident of birth you had zero say in, bud. Get over it. 🤦‍♂️
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  16880.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s just accident of birth, bud. Get over it. 🤦‍♂️
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  16881.  @jegamespeed5399 Uh huh. 🥱 And if you expect anyone to take anything you have to say seriously when you are simply asked ‘Why would you outlaw lesbian sex?’, when all you do just parry and pretentiously obfuscate, you can think again.
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  16882.  @jegamespeed5399 ”Why should I have to justify my moral position to you, blah, blah, blah.” Er, because that’s how moral debate works. 🤦‍♂️ Bored. Bye.
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  16883.  @jegamespeed5399 Sorry? But you were making the argument about 36 tribes, blah, blah, blah, highlighting their varying beliefs and I made the very sensible point that that was then. Moreover, homosexuality was largely accepted and tolerated (or at the very worst, just ignored) then. It was only after the arrival of western Christianity that this became a thing of indifference to a hardline thing. See my OP. 🤦‍♂️ You’re really not very good at this are you?
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  16884.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok, riddle me this: If I’m correct, your main issue with consenting gay adults having sex appears to be (aside from the irrational, non-argument dodge of, “For the fun of it!” 🤦‍♂️) HIV transmission. If we accept this is your main issue and nothing else you have said has made it even remotely clear why you hold the moral position you do, why are you supporting the imprisonment (or worse) of consenting adult lesbians, given they have infinitesimally small HIV transition rates? 🤔
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  16885.  @Flunky000 Hi Flunkybore. 👋 🥱
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  16886.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Lmao. Christianity is the predominant religion in Uganda. According to the 2014 census, over 84 percent of the population was Christian, while about 14 percent of the population adhered to Islam, making it the largest minority religion. Anglicanism and Catholicism are the main Christian denominations in the country. Your largest tribe, the Baganda, are Christian, about evenly divided between Catholic and Protestant. Approximately 15 percent are Muslim (followers of Islam), so stop with this tribal bollocks, as if they’re all following indigenous practices these days. 🤦‍♂️ It was when they were still largely following indigenous practices that, similarly to neighbouring Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, male homosexual relations were acknowledged and tolerated in pre colonial Ugandan society.
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  16887.  @Peep-010 Hi Peepchore. 🥱
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  16888.  @jegamespeed5399 ”As if all Uganda shared this perspective.” Yet, here you are supporting a law (with the provision for the execution of adults for having consenting sex) as “if all Uganda shared this perspective.” 🤦‍♂️
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  16889.  @jegamespeed5399  Similarly to neighbouring Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, male homosexual relations were acknowledged and tolerated in pre colonial Ugandan society.
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  16890.  @jegamespeed5399  A mudoko dako, (also known as mudoko daka, or dano mulokere) is an effeminate male who is considered by Langi society to be a different gender, though were mostly treated as woman among the Langi in Uganda. Mudoko dako also could be found among the Teso and the Karamojan people. Recognition of the mudoko dako can be traced back prior to colonialism in Africa.
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  16891.  @TheKrikCameronKids Moron for Stilton.
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  16892.  @TheKrikCameronKids I don’t care about ‘defeat’ by a bunch of snivelling, simpering, beta c*cksuckers and their thicko ‘daddy’. I know my worth. Get it right or not at all.
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  16893.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Thicko for Stilton.
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  16894. Proof that this is just a nasty, irrational, childish “yah-boo sucks!” gesture to the ‘evil West’, aside from Museveni’s explicit call to “resist imperialist pressure”, is the widespread denial that homosexuality was practised before colonisation, and homosexuality is often considered ‘un-African’ or ‘Western’; the promotion of LGBTQ rights is often viewed as a form of neocolonialism, the imposition of outside cultural values upon Africa. Similarly to neighbouring Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, male homosexual relations were acknowledged and tolerated in pre colonial Ugandan society. Among the Baganda, Uganda's largest ethnic group, homosexuality was usually treated with indifference. The Luganda term abasiyazi refers to homosexuals, though usage nowadays is commonly pejorative. Among the Lango people, mudoko dako individuals were believed to form a "third gender" alongside male and female. The mudoko dako were effeminate men, mostly treated by Langi society as women and could marry other men without social sanctions. Homosexuality was also acknowledged among the Teso, Bahima, Banyoro, and Karamojong peoples. Societal acceptance eroded after the arrival of the British and the creation of the Protectorate of Uganda. Laws prohibiting same-sex sexual acts were first put in place under British colonial rule. They were retained and expanded following independence. Conservative evangelical Christian missionaries have had significant influence on the passage of anti-LGBT legislation in Uganda. Conclusion: Museveni and others supporting this barbaric, primitive, benighted law (with provision for execution of consenting adults for having sex) claim it’s a reaction and resistance to ‘Western imperialists’, but yet it is those very ‘imperialists’, in the form of Conservative Christian groups (and Christianity more generally) who have been the major driving force behind this legislation. Museveni and the rest supporting this law cannot have it both ways: they cannot claim to abhor ‘Western imperialists’ and then proceed to enact a law largely driven by Western Christians. Where I come from, that’s called hypocrisy. 🤦‍♂️
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  16895.  @michaelhenter2856 Yer still a ‘son’ to me, grandad! 👍
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  16896. Awright Mickey, lad. Put it away, son. It’s not big and it’s not pretty.
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  16897.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠​​⁠Huh? So 2 women can’t have sex now, groomer? 😐 I thought it was just gay dudes you irrationally banned from having sex, no, groomer? You’re including women in this nonsense, too, groomer? Jesus wept, groomer. 🤦‍♂️
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  16898.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Little Ms. Virgin/Asexual is clearly so frustrated she doesn’t want anyone else to have sex! 🤣
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  16899.  @jegamespeed5399 You’ve got the wrong dude, son. I don’t buy all the transgender stuff. Here’s what I buy: my sex life is none of your f*cking business. Yeah. Bad luck. 😢
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  16900.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? You’re confusing me with someone you invented, darling. Try harder. 😢
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  16901.  @reginageorge4 Hi Julia. 👋
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  16902.  @jegamespeed5399 Irrelevant. My point was that we have a dude that married a dude that looks remarkably like a dude! Ta da! 🎉
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  16903.  @reginageorge4 Lmfao @‘beautiful woman’! 😂As a fully paid-up hetero I take one look at this wifey and she screams ‘MAN’! 😂 Shoulda gone to Specsavers. 🤓
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  16904. Bro looks like he swallows. 😮
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  16905.  @spunkywarrior777  Kudos to you for being a believer and yet open to stuff which may contradict the literal word of your holy book. Very refreshing. 👍
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  16906. So much to unpack: 1) *what’s 2) *right 3) *. 4) ‘stop this mixing of races?’ Er, what? What, pray tell, is the problem with the ‘mixing of races’ and, moreover, wtf does that have to do with letting consenting adults alone when they wanna f*ck? 😳
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  16907.  diddyphukkingkong393  Nope. That doesn’t work. Once again, for the hard of thinking: what consenting adults choose to do that doesn’t affect you is simply none of your business. Cope better now, 👍
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  16908.  @Peep-010 👈’Nothing wrong with pooh.’ Lol. There you have it, Peepbore has no issue with gay anal sex! 😂 💩
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  16909.  @stopcensorship7705  Nothing. Cope.
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  16910.  @stopcensoring.7959  There is also “0 proof” of God. 🤡
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  16911.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Florida legalises homosexuality - 2003. Cope harder, groomer. 👍😂🤡
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  16912.  @Peep-010  Irrelevant, Dikwad. Consenting adults. 🥱
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  16913.  @Peep-010 Irrelevant, Dikwad. Consenting adults. 🥱
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  16914.  @veraluxmundi2032 Like the fact that Daniel Craig (Uber-Alpha James Bond, no less) is totally comfortable hanging out in gay bars. A man totally at ease with who he is and therefore at ease with others and their consenting choices which affect no one else. 👍
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  16915.  @Flunky000 Irrelevant, Dikwad. Consenting adults. 🥱
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  16916. Why?
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  16917. Uh huh. Some lovely ripped men’s bodies there in your playlist, Maxy. A gay boy’s dream! 🤠
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  16918.  @kingfishers84  Nah. No reason. All feeling. Not good enough, son.😊
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  16919. How is homosexuality a “perverse sexual desire” exactly? 🤔
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  16920. Jegamoron: “How are my beliefs and opinions infringing on anyone (sic) rights.” Says the disingenuous moron who supports his random accident of birth country’s barbaric law. 🤡
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  16921.  @dragondanyar9508  Oh shut up, you ridiculous tart! 🤦‍♂️
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  16922.  StopCensorship4---02  Yes, sweetheart. Do want one up the bahookey or do you want a straight one? Up the ‘bahookey’ costs $1 more, but I’m sure with your tendencies you’re more than willing to stretch for a bit of bahookey action… 👍
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  16923.  @jegamespeed5399  So what if I am? I’m not but it wouldn’t bother me one iota if I were. Bad luck, bud. 🤡
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  16924. Yes, he will. Just watch it though, Ronny lad. When you’re in the communal shower with him, don’t turn your back and drop that soap, son! 😮 🧼
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  16925.  @StopCensorship4--03  *responsibilities🤣👍
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  16926.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16927.  @CAM8689  *a lot *a lot
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  16928.  @albankokonozi6790 Huh? No idea wtf you are babbling on about, pal. If consenting adults want to have sex, why is this your business? 🤔
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  16929.  @albankokonozi6790 ​​⁠Irrelevant, m8. Sorry. Just cuz you don’t dig something, doesn’t give you the right to ban it. I hate lots of sh*t, but I’m tolerant enough not to ban it. 😉
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  16930.  @cchris874 Indeed. I agree. I was just pointing out you were dealing with a moron in jeganumpty.👍
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  16931.  @cchris874 Ignore Jegamoron. He’s bad faith. What he omitted to explain was ‘aggravated homosexuality’ has the death penalty as its punishment and is described as an offence including ‘serial offenders, same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with persons older than seventy-five, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality.’ Ok, let’s break this down: •‘serial offenders’ - presumably this means people who just have consenting sex on many occasions. Death? Don’t be silly. 🤦‍♂️ •‘same-sex rape’ - as with heterosexual rape, this should obviously be criminalised, but I wouldn’t support death for it. •‘sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation’ - in the case of a position of authority, if the other person consents to the sex, I see no issue with it. If intimidation is involved and no consent given, then this should be criminalised. •‘sex with persons older than 75’ - lol. I see absolutely no reason to criminalise someone for having sex with anyone who is above the age of consent. If that person is 75, 85 or 105, and they consent to the sex, then to institute the death penalty for this is quite nonsensical. 🤦‍♂️ •‘sex with the disabled and mentally ill’ - lol. If a disabled gay man or woman wants to have sex, where’s the fucking issue? 🤷‍♂️ Death for this? Yer having a fucking larff, aincha? 🤦‍♂️ Obviously, the mentally ill could be compromised when it comes to consent, so this needs sensitivity. •‘homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction for homosexuality’ - so, if someone has been convicted just once for, say, giving a BJ (which isn’t actually a ‘homosexual act’, as we’ve established there is no such thing) to his partner, and he’s caught doing it again, you kill him? Really? 🤦‍♂️
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  16932. Lol. Jeezy? Larry smelt it. https://youtu.be/_yuutKtzqpo?si=XOQaPzDRKbBPkdFS 👍
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  16933.  @reginageorge4  Since when was the incidence of paedophilia higher in gays than in heterosexuals?🤔
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  16934. Huh? This isn’t about trans people. Do try to keep up at the back, moron. 🤦‍♂️
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  16935. ⁠ @Peep-010 👈Utter bore. 🚩
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  16936. ‘Chillaxbro’. Gay.
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  16937.  @stopcensorship7705  🥱
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  16938.  @stopcensorship7705  Lol. So every homosexual is a “groomer” now and there have never been any heterosexual groomers ever? K. 👍🤣
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  16939. Yeah, but you dig a bit of ‘chocolate’, sweetheart. 🍫👍😉
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  16940.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16941.  @StopCensorship4--03 Projecting again, sweetheart? 👍🤣
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  16942.  @StopCensorship4--03 Nicely edited. 👍😉
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  16943.  @StopCensorship4--03  Nope, that doesn’t matter. Totally irrelevant. Only thing that matters here is letting consenting adults do wtf they want. Your fragile wee feelings don’t trump this, sweetie. Bad luck. 😭 Seethe on. 🤣👍
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  16944.  @StopCensorship4--03 Lol. Well, you shoulda edited for that ya sub-literate numpty! 🤣
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  16945.  @StopCensorship4--03  Nope, that doesn’t matter. Totally irrelevant. Only thing that matters here is letting consenting adults do wtf they want. Your fragile wee feelings don’t trump this, sweetie. Bad luck. 😭 *responsibilities *You had to edit and you still couldn’t get it right! 🤣
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  16946.  @StopCensorship4--03 Nope, that doesn’t matter. Totally irrelevant. Only thing that matters here is letting consenting adults do wtf they want. Your fragile wee feelings don’t trump this, sweetie. Bad luck. 😭
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  16947. Indeed. He looks like a diseased sweaty bollock in need of emergency attention. 👍
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  16948.  @videogameplayer0552 Shhh… brain-dead, video dikwad. 🤫
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  16949. That’s fine. I disagree. Do you support the outlawing of anal sex for heterosexuals, too? If not, why not? 🤔
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  16950.  @Flunky000 ​​⁠​​⁠Answer which question? Or whatever. And stuff.
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  16951.  @Flunky000 Nah, m8. That Jesus sh*t doesn’t float with some of us, petal (actually, most of us!). You need a better argument, Flunkybore. Appealing to yer imaginary sky chum won’t work here, hun. Sawree. Uh huh. Or whatever. And stuff. 😊
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  16952.  @Flunky000 Huh? You could say that about heterosexuals or bi’s, Flunkybore. I don’t understand why you are making this a gay issue, darling, and why you are conflating children with adults in a weird, bizarre manner. Have you got something you want to tell us all, sweetie? 😉As I have repeatedly told you, stop lurking around others’ bedroom doors (gay, str8 or anything in between) in yer fluffy pink brothel creepers like some frustrated sex cop listening out for hot sweaty sex between consenting adults, ya CrEePy FrEaK! Or whatever. And stuff. 😊
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  16953.  @Flunky000 Here’s what I think, Flunkybore. You trot on with yer with imaginary, invisible, unverified, unverifiable friend in the sky and yer unthinking, unreasonable attitudes and don’t expect thinking, reasonable people to bend over and accommodate you. It doesn’t work like that, hun. Oh no. Here’s how it works: for the umpteenth time, butt-out of interfering in consenting adults’ sex lives like a CrEePy FrEaK or whatever. And stuff. 😊
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  16954.  @Flunky000  Again, Flunkybore, I don’t understand your question. You need to elaborate what you are getting at. Or whatever. And stuff.
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  16955.  @Flunky000  What? Why not ‘consenting adults’, Flunkybore? What’s your problem, dearie? I just don’t get this, sweetie. No one is unreasonably policing your adult sex life so why on your imaginary sky daddy’s Earth are you deigning to police others’ adult sex lives like some kind of creepy sex cop or whatever? And stuff.
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  16956.  @Flunky000  And another thing, Flunkybore, why is your imaginary sky daddy a ‘he’? Why isn’t she an imaginary sky mummy? What about females? Don’t they count, or whatever, Flunkybore? 🤔
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  16957.  @Flunky000  What’s ‘God’ got to do with this, Flunkybore? Consenting adults. Nothing to do with your imaginary friend in the sky. Butt-out. There’s a good lad. 👍
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  16958.  @Peep-010 Huh? Are you thick or something? What don’t you understand about ‘consenting adults’, Peepbore? 🤔
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  16959. What’s ‘God’ got to do with this, mate? Consenting adults. Nothing to do with your imaginary friend in the sky. Butt-out. There’s a good lad. 👍
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  16960.  @TheFaySchoolKids That’s no way to talk about Colon, ffs! Have respect for people’s feelings.
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  16961.  @TheFaySchoolKids Yeah, but only my own, darling. I’m not gonna be bending over and inhaling your bahookey’s methane output, no matter how much that remains a fantasy of yours. 👍😉 💨
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  16962.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer I do! 💨 😊
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  16963.  @StopCensorship4--03 *responsibilities 👍🤣
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  16964.  @stopcensorship7705 *you’re *possibilities Skill issue. 🤭 🤡
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  16965.  @melaleuca5665  Yeah, that’s why y’’all’ weakly tried to deny it when I confronted you about it. Anyway, nice of you to admit it here, luv. We got there. Eventually.👍😉
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  16966.  @AceTheDriver1990 C’mon, man, when you’re madly doing this ………………., how can anyone possibly take you seriously as a reader? 🤦‍♂️ Stop embarrassing yourself. Jeezo. 📚
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  16967.  @AceTheDriver1990 FYI, … 👈This is all you need. 3. Any more just makes you look like a non-reader.
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  16968.  @AceTheDriver1990 Ok, that’ll be why ‘they’ denied it when I confronted them with it just last week. And before that, too. No, ‘they’re’ not trying to hide anything.👍🤦‍♂️
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  16969.  @AceTheDriver1990 Lol. Aren’t ‘they’? 🤡👍
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  16970.  @Guerre-xj5xf  “But sometimes we, as men, can not always find females to be the more... err... nourishing gender sometimes. Y'know what I mean? Sometimes this... feeling takes you over and you wanna experiment and try out new stuff. I am proud of being a bisexual.” (Lemmy ~ Motörhead) Own 🥅! 😂
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  16971.  @ijumpjudyy Florida, 2003. Cry harder, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. 😢 😂 🤡
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  16972. C’mon, Julian. No one can take you seriously in an anti-gay video with a name like that! 👍😉
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  16973.  @stopcensorship7705  I refer you to the comment I gave some moments ago. 🥱
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  16974.  @stopcensorship7705  Jesus, you’re a bore, man. 🥱
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  16975.  @stopcensorship7705  I don’t m8. Think on. I follow 3 of them at a push. Moreover, I don’t need a book about an invisible sky daddy to tell me about this stuff.
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  16976.  @SimonLierbeer  Well, I’ve managed to get by just fine with my Godless morality. 👍😉
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  16977. Lol. The idea you can’t have “real morals” without an invisible sky daddy is hilarious! 🤣
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  16978.  @SimonLierbeer  As an agnostic, if there’s only one thing worse than a holy-rolling Christian, it’s a holy-rolling Muslim. 2 sides of the same bad coin. 👍😉
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  16979.  @stopcensorship7705  But it’s not a right for another man/woman to have sex with another man/woman. It’s just a choice. How does it affect you?
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  16980. ⁠ @jegamespeed5399 Don’t hurry back! 😂👍Just kiddin’, bud. Luvs ya really! ❤️
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  16981.  @jegamespeed5399  ‘Worldwide, five in 10 respondents support LGBT people being open about their sexual orientation or gender identity with everyone. In a global survey conducted in 2021, 51 percent of respondents stated this.’ (Statista) So if 51% are ok with gays stating their orientation, it’s probably safe to assume a good percentage more are not ok with LGBT being open but are ok with gays existing in consensual sexual relations as long as it’s kept quiet. In fact, aren’t most of us like this? We don’t care what you consensually do as adults (homosexual or heterosexual) but don’t want to hear about it! Looks like you’re a bit of an outlier here, bud! 😢
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  16982.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s your comprehension issues, bud. You seem to be reeling from the news that the vast majority of the planet has no particular issue with consensual adult gay sex. 😢
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  16983.  @jegamespeed5399  ‘Also, these behaviours are only legal in 70 countries.’ Huh? There are 64 countries that have laws that criminalise homosexuality, and nearly half of these are in Africa. Given that there are 195 countries, I make that 131 countries who don’t criminalise homosexuality! Nice try though, bud.
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  16984.  @jegamespeed5399 Lmao. You’re barking on about bacterial vaginosis like it’s the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire! 🤣🤦‍♂️ FYI, the most common symptom of bacterial vaginosis is unusual vaginal discharge that has a strong fishy smell, particularly after sex. You may notice a change to the colour and consistency of your discharge, such as becoming greyish-white and thin and watery. But 50% of women with bacterial vaginosis do not have any symptoms. Moreover, bacterial vaginosis does not usually cause any soreness or itching. As I said, scraping the barrel. Dearie me. 🤦‍♂️
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  16985.  @ijumpjudyy All hetero Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Aye. 😢Just for future reference, darlin’, the ‘ck’ in ‘Cockburn’ is silent. As we all know, you’re not a fan of hard cock! 😂👍
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  16986.  @TomSeliman99 ​​⁠1. ‘They don’t reproduce’. So? There are billions of straight people who have never had children. Do you hate them, too? Bad logic. 2. ‘They have the highest rates of STD’s’. And? How does that affect you if you’re not gay. Irrelevant point. 3. ‘They bring other bad morals into society’. Two points: why is being homosexual ‘immoral’? What other ‘bad morals’ do they bring into society? Poor assumption leading to incorrect reasoning. 4. ‘They are almost always weak and want to he (sic: Freudian slip) conquered by other powers’. Lol. Wtf does that even mean?! 😂
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  16987.  @TomSeliman99  Er, what’s the issue with being gay Tony, petal? 🤔
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  16988.  @TomSeliman99 Evidence for ‘hell’, Tony baby? 🤔
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  16989.  @Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie Er, word of advice: just stating stuff without justifying doesn’t make it true. It doesn’t work like that, darlin’! 👍😊
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  16990.  @Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie 1. Huh? 2. I’m not a ‘lefty’. 3. Bad luck. 😢
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  16991. Well said! 👏 Actually, it’s not really the point, though. I look at jellied eels with ‘disgust’ but allow others to indulge in the ‘disgusting’ act of eating jellied eels.
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  16992. Jegamespeed:”To tolerate something means you disagree with it but are willing to let it exist.” Lol. He ‘disagrees’ with homosexual sex and ‘let’s it exist’ by fining, imprisoning and executing gays for just having sex. That’s some ‘toleration’, dude. 🤦‍♂️
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  16993.  @ijumpjudyy But I don’t live in Uganda, groomer. Bad luck. 😂 🤡 😢 2003.👍😉
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  16994. @stopcensoring.7959👈Watch her take this one down and re-edit it…😂 Otherwise, it looks extremely thick! 👍🤡
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  16995.  @ephebo2028  Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  16996.  @ijumpjudyy Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  16997.  @alexl5660 Indeed. The Dark Continent, in so many ways. 🤦‍♂️
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  16998.  @benjiisagoodboy ​​⁠I’m in no way patriotic so you cannot get me here. I don’t buy into random accidents of birth I had zero say in as a key marker of my identity.😊
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  16999.  @benjiisagoodboy ​​⁠This is a pointless game, dude. Anything you say cannot touch me. I had zero say in my random accident of birth. Bad luck. 😢
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  17000.  @benjiisagoodboy Oh, I think you misunderstand me, I’m not blaming you personally, Benji (that would be deeply silly, given you had nothing to do with it), I was just making the point you gained independence in 1776 and for 89 years after you continued slavery. Much is of this is on you. But not personally. In the same way, when you have a dig at the UK, like here, you appear to think I personally need to take responsibility for it; I don’t. Like you, I had zero say in my random accident of birth and, moreover, I don’t support any form of slavery or, indeed, colonialism. Glad we cleared that up. 😊
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  17001.  @benjiisagoodboy Er, I might give you that one up to 1776, Benji, but last time I checked, you Yankees continued it for a good 89 years after you gained your independence. Nice try, though.👍
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  17002. Er, it’s called ‘consenting adults’ being able to do what they want together without a Big Brother state on steroids interfering. Yvw.
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  17003. Well, you clearly are, Mikey. *He’s Yvw. 👍
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  17004.  @jegamespeed5399  👈”I’m here to call out oppressors who brand themselves as heroes.” Aye. Right. But when it suits your purposes (like now), you’re quite happy for your random accident of birth country to accept a Bible introduced by Westerners and follow its moral precepts. Hypocrisy? 🤦‍♂️
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  17005. Africa is, largely, a dirt poor, subliterate, anti-democratic, overtly religious dump. Check urself, hun.
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  17006. None of that is the f*cking point! Ffs! How many times does this need to be repeated?: IT’S NO ONE ELSE’S BUSINESS (STATE OR INDIVIDUAL) WHAT CONSENTING ADULTS CHOOSE TO DO! Case closed. Seriously, case closed. Uh huh. 😊
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  17007.  @TheFaySchoolKids Word to the wise: stop digging. 🤫
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  17008.  @TheFaySchoolKids Don’t be silly, son. FYI, I don’t live in the UK and haven’t for decades. You’re utterly hopeless. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17009.  @TheFaySchoolKids  FYI, I’m a republican. Get a better researcher. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17010.  @TheFaySchoolKids Don’t be an even more of an idiot than you already are. Although that would be hard. No one chooses where they’re born, fool. 🤦‍♂️ That’s a bit like saying every Italian has the blood of the Romans on their hands. Do better.
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  17011.  @TheFaySchoolKids ’My lot’? Wtf are you on about, son? I had no say where I was born. Try harder.
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  17012.  @jegamespeed5399  ‘That’s interesting, as the parliament explained all the reasons behind the bill, and none of them included personal dislikes for these behaviours.’ Q. “Do you personally dislike homosexuals?” A. “Of course. They are disgusting.” Rearrange these words: goal, own. 👍😂
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  17013. This is constantly bizarre. I hate cucumbers, but I’m not for banning cucumbers. You hate consenting adults having sex. Why are you for banning consenting adults having sex? That is the question.
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  17014. 👏 Ty for your stunning, intelligent, erudite, instructive, capable, well-argued insight. 👍
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  17015.  @sl9hter Nah, not quite, Mr Netherlands. I would say, 9 (and one third). Not quite 10. When that’s achieved you will be one of the first to know! 👍 🇳🇱 Queck! Queck! Queck! 🦆
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  17016.  @Possum-010  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 🤡
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  17017.  @wombat010  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  17018. You said it, dude. Fuctard moron sweaty bollock-head. 👍
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  17019.  @Stella-z4p  Lmao@“Princess Tinymeat bombed on the gay scene and haunts these threads like a vengeful ghost.” 😂
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  17020. Aye. Rumour has it his rather mannish wifey has given him a few ‘facials’. 😉👍
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  17021. Whaaaaaaattttttttt?! 🤦‍♂️ Where’s the ‘force’? This really is rather simple: the sex lives of consenting adults are no one else’s business! Case closed. Nothing to see here.
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  17022. Another one with an erect, phallic, cocked gun as his avatar. Outed! 👍🤡
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  17023.  @Jobanivrodnachui Who said I was ‘stepping in’? It’s called ‘free-speech’ pal, and I’m exercising my right to use it.
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  17024. Yah. Signing off a law with the provision for the death penalty for consensual adult sex is in no way ‘atrocious’. You’re right! 👍
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  17025. Clearly not. He does have a particularly mannish wifey, though. 😉
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  17026.  @HotJonathan Don’t delete your own threads like a 🐔 just because you got owned. 😢😂
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  17027.  @HotJonathan Huh? Where did I say I was ‘Annie Lennox’? Are you ok. Are you having another one of your ‘episodes’?
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  17028.  @Peep-010 Er, that last comment is just gibberish, Dikwad. You’re flailing again. As per… 🤡
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  17029.  @HotJonathan What did I lie about, exactly? Gimme the lies? ⏰ 🤔
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  17030.  @Peep-010 No it wasn’t. I didn’t delete anything. You need to get the right person, Dikwad. You’re really not very good at this, are you? 🤦‍♂️ 🤡
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  17031.  @AceTheDriver1990 Er, no I don’t. I’ve literally done it once to Peepbore. No one else. You seem to be confusing me with someone else. Nice try, though. 👍
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  17032.  @Peep-010 I didn’t delete anything, Dikwad. You seem to be confusing me with someone else. FYI, I have only one moniker on here. 🤡
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  17033.  @AceTheDriver1990 I never report anybody because I’m not an over-sensitive wee flower and this isn’t that important. It’s called ‘perspective’ dear boy. 👍
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  17034. It’s not ‘beyond pathetic’ when I did nothing of the sort. Moreover, I didn’t report you. You just fell for it you gullible, thick, fuctard. 🤡
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  17035.  @melaleuca5665 Yeah, but every time you post something as multiple people it’s too easy to spot: 1. Your speech patterns are identical. 2. You seem to post at exactly the same time. However, that’s not the point. The point is, it’s deeply boring for everyone else. Think on…
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  17036. Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  17037. C’mon, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but having glanced at your profile: really?
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  17038. @Jazc-mp889 Tragically, I don’t think it actually is.
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  17039.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  ‘Puddin’?! I’m slimmer than an anorexic whippet’s arse, ffs! Get it right or not at all, son.
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  17040.  @bobbiescrisps9208 ​​⁠Ok. Homosexuality was only decriminalised in England in 1967. Those attitudes were in the air. My father is Scottish and in the 1970s he was also like this (although he wouldn’t have gone as far as to actually imprison gays for just having sex) and Scotland decriminalised as late as 1981. Gives the lie to the idea that this is a necessarily a western thing given Turkey decriminalised in 1858, Japan in 1882 and Taiwan in 1912, to cite just 3 examples. I think a large part of the whole anti-gay thing we are witnessing these days is linked to an overly vocal, politicised, tiny rump minority of activists who are drowning out the vast majority of gays who just get on with their lives quietly, bothering no one.
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  17041.  @bobbiescrisps9208 Where was your father at the time?
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  17042.  @ijumpjudyy Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17043. Pmsl. Says the dude whose first playlist thing is the clearly homosexual, Jason Derulo! 😂👍
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  17044.  @sl9hter Er, no. I’m agnostic. Sorry to burst your wee fantasy.
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  17045.  @sl9hter  Who?
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  17046.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  I don’t entertain geographically-illiterate morons. Jog on.
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  17047.  @TheKrikCameronKids Aye, but you did freely choose it, petal. 👍😉
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  17048.  @TheKrikCameronKids Lol. Why would anyone ‘brag’ about having a huge anus? 🤔
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  17049.  @TheKrikCameronKids The only thing missing from your name, Byron, is a Jnr. or a III! You Yankee doodles are so good at that stuff. Egotistically naming your kid after yourself and adding a number as if you were British royalty! 👍
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  17050.  @TheKrikCameronKids  It is rather camp wotto, Byron? 👍😉
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  17051.  @TheKrikCameronKids  That’s odd, as I always thought the name ‘Byron’ sounds like someone sitting on the porch of their plantation sipping babycham waiting for gentlemen callers. 🤣👍
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  17052.  @TheKrikCameronKids  Scots say ‘darling’ aw the time, son. Bad luck.😭
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  17053.  @StopCensorship4--03  As usual, not the point, darlin’. For the hard of thinking it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do. Seethe.
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  17054.  @ijumpjudyy As usual, not the point Judesy darlin’. For the hard of thinking it’s no one else’s business what consenting adults choose to do. Seethe.
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  17055.  @ijumpjudyy ​​⁠Thanks for plagiarising me, though. As they say, groomer, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.👍😊
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  17056.  @ijumpjudyy It’s not, though, is it, groomer? The only permanent thing is impermanence, groomer.😂
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  17057.  @Urford Yup. Anyone supporting a law criminalising consenting adults for just having sex is clearly deeply disturbed (and disturbing!). It’s simply no one else’s business. It’s just so obvious. The only thing I can think of where others need to interfere is the case of the possible production of offspring via incest. Aside from this, nothing. Not my business. Or anyone else’s! 👍
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  17058.  @Urford He’s fucking mental, and not in a good way. 🤦‍♂️
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  17059.  @Urford Lmao. Did he really say that about his granny?! Jesus Christ. 🤦‍♂️
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  17060. It’s not the opinion that’s the issue. He can find homosexuals as ‘disgusting’ as he wants; it’s the irrational enacting of laws based on this pearl-clutching ‘disgust’ that is the issue.
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  17061. Uh huh. But can we have that in a basic English sentence, pls? 🤔
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  17062.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to DC she bumped into Bill Clinton who regaled her with tales of the good old days in the White House, but she had to call the cops when he whipped out his cigar and asked her to suck it! 😂
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  17063.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was at an MC Hammer gig and fainted in horror when Hammer said to her: “You can touch this!” 🔨 😂
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  17064.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Can never accept Amazon deliveries as she has an intense fear of large packages! 📦 😂
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  17065.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Random accident of birth, dude. You’re really not very good at this, are you? Word to the thicko: just because you are randomly born somewhere doesn’t by that fact make you complicit in that place’s history. Bad luck. 😢
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  17066.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to London had a major meltdown on a city tour bus when it approached the Gherkin! 🚌 😂
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  17067.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Random accident of birth, m8. Moreover, I’m not a member of anything on the grounds, as Groucho Marx stated, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Bad luck. 😢
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  17068.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Once took a trip to Vienna and ran screaming like lesbian banshee from a local restaurant when they served her Wiener Schnitzel! 🥘 😂
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  17069.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Once met a Roald Dahl fan, but freaked out when he showed her his wonky willie! 🎩 😂
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  17070.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Don’t touch sheep actually. Get it right or not at all. 🐑 Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad luck. 😢
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  17071.  @RonnieHarperAndJonathanAltieri Er, it was a gag, dude. 🤦‍♂️ Only an American.
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  17072.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Isn’t a gamer as she has no known experience of handling a joystick. 🕹😂
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  17073.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Recently saw Richard Linklater’s movie Boyhood but is getting sweaty palpitations after hearing he’s filming the sequel: Manhood! 🍿 😂
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  17074.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has a crippling phobia of this time of year because of all the Christmas dickorations! 🎄 😂
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  17075.  @ijumpjudyy  👈She digs her gangsta rap but has nightmares after listening to Pee-Pee Diddly! 🎶 😂
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  17076.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has a deep-seated fear of doors as she freaks out at the sight of a knob! 🚪😂
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  17077.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a tester in vibrator factory but was fired because she never managed to come on time. 😂
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  17078.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Doesn’t have a fan club because she doesn’t like members. 😂
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  17079.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Is vegetarian so needs to use a strap-on as a meat substitute. 😂
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  17080.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Received intensive counselling after helicopter pilot asked her, “Would you like to ride my chopper?” 🚁 😂
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  17081.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Had post-traumatic therapy after taking a cooking course and the chef asked her, “Would you like to see my lardon?” 👨‍🍳 😂
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  17082.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Ran out of the doctor’s surgery screaming when he said to her “I’m just going to give you a little prick.” 💉 😂
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  17083.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Hates birds generally but one particular bird gives her the heebie-jeebies as it’s a double-whammy: the woodpecker! 🐦 😂
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  17084.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Hates people saying goodbye to her as all she hears is, “Schlong!” 👋 😂
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  17085.  @ijumpjudyy  👈She’s religious but she’s never visited the church and fingered the pastor’s huge organ! 🎹 😂
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  17086.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Poor 😢wee Little Ms Virgin/Asexual realised that she got it all wrong. Again. 😂
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  17087.  @ijumpjudyy Where’s the insult, Little Ms Virgin/Asexual? I’m simply stating the fact the dude has a whiff of the homosexual about him. Sope and Ceethe.
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  17088. S’always the gayest looking ones… 🤔
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  17089.  @veraluxmundi2032 Lmao@“codeword ‘apple’” 🤣
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  17090. Lol.
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  17091.  @Peep-010  Furthermore, you’re clearly Conservative with a capital ‘C’ and I thought you Conservatives liked as little state interference as possible, no? Yet here you are, in yer fluffy pink polka dot brothel creepers, actually gonna stand outside my bedroom and make sure I’m not having raw sweaty sex with the ‘wrong’ person and stuff. Wtf 🤦‍♂️. Or whatever.
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  17092.  @Peep-010  Everything you say to me in this topic is irrelevant, I’m afraid. Put it this way, if you ever came to my bedroom like a Big Brother creepy sex cop, you’d know about it, chum. Or whatever. And stuff.😊
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  17093.  @ijumpjudyy But I didn’t order a crappuccino, groomer! 😂
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  17094.  @Flunky000 ​​⁠ Utterly irrelevant, sweetheart, Dickwad. This is simply about autonomous, individual human beings being allowed to fuck whomever they want, Dickwad. Can you not see this, Dickwad? Ok. How about this, Dickwad? I dictate the terms and conditions of your sex life and whom you can and cannot fuck, Dickwad. Happy, Dickwad? Nah, Dickwad. You’re not happy at all, are you, Dickwad? Look, Dickwad, can we just simplify this? K, Dickwad. Ty, Dickwad. The consenting sex lives of adults are none of your fucking business, Dickwad. Yeah, Dickwad. Or whatever. And stuff. Facts. Dickwad. 😊 👍
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  17095.  @Peep-010  Utterly irrelevant, sweetheart, Dickwad. This is simply about autonomous, individual human beings being allowed to fuck whomever they want, Dickwad. Can you not see this, Dickwad? Ok. How about this, Dickwad? I dictate the terms and conditions of your sex life and whom you can and cannot fuck, Dickwad. Happy, Dickwad? Nah, Dickwad. You’re not happy at all, are you, Dickwad? Look, Dickwad, can we just simplify this? K, Dickwad. Ty, Dickwad. The consenting sex lives of adults are none of your fucking business, Dickwad. Yeah, Dickwad. Or whatever. And stuff. Facts. Dickwad. 😊 👍
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  17096. You’ve got nuts on the mind. 🌰😳
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  17097. He’s not a Muslim, dude. Get with the gig. 🤦‍♂️
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  17098. What? How is it ‘liberal propaganda’ to simply state that the sex lives of consenting adults are no one else’s business? 🤦‍♂️ Do tell… 🤡
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  17099. Chad? No, this is Uganda, dude. 👍
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  17100. He was just slightly alarmed that she rumbled him and his exceedingly mannish wifey with the permanent 5 o’clock shadow. 👍
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  17101. Marseille lmao
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  17102. 6 (and a half) languages. Fluently. Seethe. 🇫🇷🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇩🇪🤣
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  17103. The same could be said about not keeping one’s manky fingernails clean. 💅
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  17104.  @Peep-010  Nah. You make it more ‘doomed’, Peepbore. 😢
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  17105. ⁠ @Peep-010 Yes, humanity is certainly ‘doomed’ with Peepbores like you around. 😔
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  17106.  @Peep-010 ​​⁠Ah, it’s my favourite ‘comedy’ duo, Flunkychore & Peepbore! The unfunniest, dullest, shittiest, one-notest comedy ‘duo’ the Internet had the deep misfortune to experience. 🥱
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  17107.  @Flunky000 Ah, it’s my favourite ‘comedy’ duo, Flunkybore & Peepchore! The unfunniest, dullest, sh*ttiest, one-notest comedy ‘duo’ the Internet had the deep misfortune to experience. 🥱
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  17108.  @SaintThomasAquinas1  1.‘​​⁠There is a Natural Law’. Er, once again, is there? Far from clear, let alone established. 2. ‘We were created man and woman’. Er, were we? By whom, exactly? Far from clear, let alone established. 3. ‘Sex was created with the purpose of procreation’. Er, was it? Says who? You? And who told you? Far from clear, let alone established. 4. ‘To have sex without being open to procreation is wrong’. Er, is it? Says who? You? And who told you? Far from clear, let alone established. 5. ‘As homosexual acts are against procreation they are always wrong’. Er, are they? Says who? You? Who told you? Far from clear, let alone established. Word of advice: just pretentiously stating crap doesn’t thereby make it true. 👍
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  17109.  @SaintThomasAquinas1  1.​​⁠Where did I say morality was based ‘solely on consent’? Yeah, nowhere. I was simply making the reasonable point that not once have I read a single rational reason why I should be banning consenting adults from having sex. I’ve racked my brains and the only one I can come up with is potential offspring produced of incestous relations. 2. ‘There is a Natural Law’. Is there? Far from clear, let alone established. Word of advice: just pretentiously stating crap doesn’t thereby make it true. 👍
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  17110.  @jegamespeed5399 Bored now. You’re offering zilch, as per. G’night!
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  17111.  @jegamespeed5399  Rofl. Scenario: Ugandan about to face death penalty. “So, Mr/Ms Ugandan, we are going to execute you for having consenting gay sex.” “Er, why?” 🤦‍♂️
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  17112.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s the dictionary definition of ‘irrational’ if they can’t supply a single reason for their ‘beliefs’! 🤦‍♂️ Cringe.
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  17113.  @jegamespeed5399  Er, what? Again, irrelevant. I was simply asking you to justify your opinions! 🤦‍♂️ Cringe. I happen to agree with you that morality is, more or less, something we make up as we go along. But as we’re making it up, let’s at least have a few reasonable justifications! 🤦‍♂️
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  17114.  @jegamespeed5399 I’m not ‘supporting’ anything, bud. 🤦‍♂️ Wtf are you on about? I see no reasonable interference in the sex lives of consenting adults. That’s not ‘supporting’ anything. It’s simply stating I have zero place in consenting adults’ bedrooms. 🤦‍♂️
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  17115.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, but I don’t. I’ve repeatedly told you I actively welcome criticism of my random accident of birth country. Nice try, though.
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  17116.  @jegamespeed5399 Do you support the law then? 🤔
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  17117.  @jegamespeed5399 ”Others believing these behaviours are wrong.” Aye. There’s the rub. ‘Believing’. Feeling. No need for justification. I just ‘believe’ these things are ‘wrong’. Case closed. You revealed yourself there, bud.👍🤫
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  17118.  @jegamespeed5399 I said I was ‘indifferent’ about gay sex. Nice try, bud.👍
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  17119.  @jegamespeed5399 Yes, it is irrational if you can’t supply a single reason for upholding them! 🤦‍♂️ It’s the dictionary definition of ‘irrational’! This goes for any law, bud. Omg!
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  17120. @ FYI, I don’t particularly ‘like’ these behaviours. I’m indifferent. I simply realise that walking into the bedroom of consenting adults having sex and policing what they do and who they do it with, is not my place. 🤦‍♂️
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  17121. @ “You’ve already made your mind up on the issue because, for you, it’s about feelings, not reason.” (Jegamespeed5399) Rofl. The dude has the actual temerity to type that guff when he has not supplied one, single reason as to why he would imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  17122.  @StopCensorship4--03 Jesus. You’re boring. 🥱 *responsibilities Skill issue. 😢
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  17123.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Huh? Again, I’m not ‘promoting’ or ‘glorifying’ anything, bud. 🤦‍♂️ I’m looking directly into the face of a law and it doesn’t make any rational sense to me! That law could be anywhere, bud, including my own random accident of birth country, bud! 🤦‍♂️
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  17124.  @StopCensorship4--03 Dude’s apparently unaware she had no say where she was born. 🤦‍♂️
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  17125.  @jegamespeed5399 Here’s what I do, bud: I take each issue as it’s presented to me and look at it. Now there are lots of things that go on in my random accident of birth country that I disagree with. Similarly, if I look elsewhere and see what I perceive as irrational nonsense, I’ll call it out. I’m not seeking to impose. You do what you want. But I have free speech, bud. As do you. I hope. In your random accident of birth country. So I will use it and I expect you to do the same. If you came to my random accident of birth country and saw what you thought was a shitty, barbaric, irrational, primitive law, I’d actively welcome your pointing that out to me, bud. 😊 I’d, more importantly, actively welcome why you thought it was a shitty, barbaric, irrational and primitive law, bud.
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  17126.  @jegamespeed5399 Huh? You have no clue about my views aside from this one. Hitherto, no one has supplied me with a rational reason as to why anyone should be interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults. This isn’t a ‘my country’ thing. I have friends/acquaintances all over the planet, bud. They also take the view that no one should be unreasonably interfering with the sex lives of consenting adults, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  17127.  @jegamespeed5399 Bud, if someone looks at my country and its laws and ways of doing things, I don’t automatically get all defensive and seem to suggest it can do no wrong. No. If someone tells me they think a law might be a bit silly, or stupid, or barbaric, I look at it critically. I take on board the outside observation. I don’t hate others so much (as you seemingly do) as to blind me to the fact my random accident of birth country doesn’t get everything right. Your preternatural stubbornness to accept others’ criticism of some of the ways of your random accident of birth country is beyond what I’ve ever met in any other human being, bud.
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  17128.  @jegamespeed5399 Hey bud, I’m gonna tell you something here you might not believe: I actively welcome outside views/opinions of my random accident of birth country. Genuinely. It helps me look at things again and re-evaluate. Your seeming inability to accept any kind of criticism of your random accident of birth country is bordering on insanity, as far as I can see, bud.
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  17129.  @jegamespeed5399 Lol. So ‘loving one’s country’ obviates any kind of self-reflection and, dare I say it, self-criticism now, does it, bud? Jesus wept, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  17130.  @jegamespeed5399 You seem to be operating under the weird delusion that you cannot criticise my country (or any other country). We are all human here. Our respective countries are random accidents of birth no one had any say in. Your staggering inability to see beyond the lens of Uganda is astonishing and alarming in equal measure, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  17131.  @jegamespeed5399 It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, dude. Get over it, bud. 🤦‍♂️
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  17132.  @jegamespeed5399  “That’s interesting, as the parliament explained all the reasons behind the bill, and none of them included personal dislikes for these behaviours.” (Jegamespeed3599) Q. “Do you personally dislike homosexuals?” A. “Of course. They are disgusting.” Rearrange these words: goal, own. 👍😂 ​​⁠
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  17133.  @jegamespeed5399 What? So you’re denying the vast majority of the most important human discoveries/inventions didn’t come out of Africa, are you, bud? 🤦‍♂️
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  17134.  @jegamespeed5399  Why are you constantly so hyper-sensitive about A N Other passing comment on some of the laws of your country, bud? I never got this, bud. I have zero issue with you commenting on the laws of any country, including my own, so why this hyper-sensitivity, bud? It’s just a random accident of birth you had no say in, bud. Not all laws/cultures are equally valid, in the same way, bud. If I see what I perceive to be an irrational, stupid law somewhere, I’ll point it out and I grant that same liberty to anyone else, including you, bud. 🤦‍♂️ ​​⁠
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  17135.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, no it’s literally not, bud. Bad luck. 😢Just trying to establish reasons behind certain things, bud, as I’m a rational dude, bud. I don’t care what you do, bud. Sawree. 😢
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  17136.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠Moreover, if they aren’t having sex, why has your benighted country just introduced a law to prohibit any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex; and to prohibit the promotion or recognition of same-sex sexual relations? 🤦‍♂️
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  17137.  @jegamespeed5399  Uh huh. So gays can’t have sex, now? 🥱 You’re using that lame dodge to squirm out of this one, are you? 🤦‍♂️ Ok, how about this: Q. “So why do you want to imprison (or worse) consenting adults for just having sexual activity?” A.”For the fun of it!” (Jegamespeed5399)
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  17138.  @jegamespeed5399 The fact that your continent hasn’t and doesn’t pull its weight was just a general point I was making. Facts.😊
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  17139.  @jegamespeed5399 I repeat: I don’t want to ‘impose’ anything, bud. Bad luck. 😢
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  17140.  @jegamespeed5399 It is rather instructive though, and an undeniable fact, that Africa hasn’t pulled its weight and this continues to be the case. Facts don’t care about your feelings and lame obfuscations, bud. 😊
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  17141.  @jegamespeed5399 Not ‘dictating’ anything, dude. You do what you want. You continue to follow primitive, barbaric laws you cannot reasonably justify. Crack on, bud! 👍
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  17142.  @Flunky000 For a dude that doesn’t dig anal sex, Flunkybore & Peepchore sure does have a rather unhealthy interests in arses. 😮
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  17143.  @Peep-010 More irrelevance just to soothe a seething wee breast, eh? Consenting adults. Move along now. 😢
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  17144.  @Flunky000 Tbh, I’m rather fond of the smell of my own farts. Bad luck. 💨 😢
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  17145.  @sabitsami5236 What? Er, I don’t see the connection between consensual sex and r*pe and m*urder. 🤔 Perhaps you can enlighten me. 🤦‍♂️
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  17146. Fair point. Newton kinda nailed this with his action = reaction. 👍
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  17147.  @Peep-010 Yes, you clearly are. ​​⁠ Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  17148.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  17149. Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  17150.  veraluxmundi2032 ​​⁠It ‘matters to him’ because I think he secretly wants some. I know that’s an easy jibe in these cases, but in Jega 🤡’s case, having looked at the evidence, I’m 80% sure he wants it where the 🌞 doesn’t shine! 😂👍
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  17151.  @RE-Jon Nah. Don’t think so. The speech patterns don’t tally.
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  17152. @ You on the other hand? 😉
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  17153. @ All str8 here, son. Believe it. 👍😉
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  17154.  @GetToTheChoppa-s9u FYI, I’m str8. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17155.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent visit to the UK she was told all about beavers 🦫 and badgers but got discombobulated when a dude approached her and asked: “Do you wanna stroke my tadger?” 🦡 😂
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  17156.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was at an MC Hammer gig and fainted in horror when Hammer said to her: “You can touch this!” 🔨 😂
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  17157.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has major difficulties identifying penises as when she sees one she believes it’s a penis but it’s really a phallusy! 🤭 😂
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  17158.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to DC she bumped into Bill Clinton who regaled her with tales of the good old days in the White House, but she had to call the cops when he whipped out his cigar and asked her to suck it! 👮‍♀️ 😂
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  17159.  @ijumpjudyy  👈When touring Scotland recently she stayed with some friendly locals and got confuzzled when they asked her if she fancied a bit of cock-a-leekie! She was expecting a naked incontinent Scotsman to walk into the room! 🍲 😂
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  17160.  @ijumpjudyy So what if I am? I’m not but would have zero problem if I were, groomer. Bad luck.😢 😂
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  17161. Just watch yer back in the communal showers with him, dude. 😉 Never turn yer back and don’t drop that soap! 😮 🧼
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  17162. *possibilities *they’re *Damn, the President Skill issue. 🤭
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  17163.  @Guerre-xj5xf Bad luck, dude. 😢It’s a well-sourced quote, quoted directly from his own mouth. Sorry. You can’t wriggle out of this one, man. You dig a band whose lead singer fucked dudes, dude! 😂👍
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  17164.  @Guerre-xj5xf ​​⁠ “But sometimes we, as men, can not always find females to be the more... err... nourishing gender sometimes. Y'know what I mean? Sometimes this... feeling takes you over and you wanna experiment and try out new stuff. I am proud of being a bisexual.” (Lemmy ~ Motörhead) Own 🥅! 😂
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  17165.  @FlipflopMount222  *tittery It’s there right in front of you yet you illiterate no marks still canny get it richt! 🤦‍♂️
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  17166.  @FlipflopMount222 Shut it.
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  17167. I take no lessons from a Mason ‘flop’ Mount fangurl. Think on, petal. Uh huh.👍 😊
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  17168. 🥱
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  17169.  @Raketoer What’s any of that got to do with a deeply primitive, backward country like Uganda criminalising consenting adults to the point of death for having sex?
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  17170.  @videogameplayer0552 Utterly irrelevant. Consenting adults. Your wee hurty feelings don’t matter a jot here, petal. Bad luck. 👍
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  17171. ⁠ @8onnie8oyz  Er, what about heterosexual sexual culture which is totally ‘open about what kinds of people they like to fuck’? That permeates everything. Why not a little gay/bi action from time to time? Put away yer double standards, petal, for it doesn’t work like that. The day you call for the imprisonment (or worse) of consenting heterosexuals indulging in anal sex is the day I might pay attention to what you have to say.
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  17172.  @nbhjlkjkl6155  Perfectly fine here, pal.👍
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  17173.  @reginageorge4  🥱
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  17174. The key word here is ‘innocent’. Last time I checked, if you criminalise some thing/someone, there should be a victim. I don’t see a victim, here. 🤷‍♂️
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  17175.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Don’t embarrass yersel further, son. Slink away while you have the chance. You’ve made enough of an arse of yourself. Uh huh. 😊
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  17176.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri *… Oh, dear. 🤦‍♂️
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  17177. Don’t be silly, Debbie. It’s an accident of birth you had zero say in, sweetheart. Cope. 👍
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  17178.  @jegamespeed5399 Ok, dude, whatever. I think we’re done here. 👍
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  17179.  @jegamespeed5399 Rofl. 😂You can’t ‘teach’ someone to fancy someone else. You either do or you don’t!🤦‍♂️
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  17180.  @jegamespeed5399 Lmao. You don’t ‘teach’ homosexuality any more than you ‘teach’ heterosexuality! Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 😂
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  17181.  @jegamespeed5399  I’m not doing this, bud. It’s all been said on my part. Hitherto, no one has given me a single reason why I should support criminalising homosexuality. 😊
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  17182.  @jegamespeed5399  1. The act of privately consenting adults having a bit of nookie doesn’t directly affect the world. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ 2. The reasons outlined by your parliament are not satisfactory. There is nothing there that remotely justifies banning consenting adults having sex. Bad luck, bud. 😢
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  17183.  @jegamespeed5399 I don’t give a flying f*ck about the ‘ideologies’. This is simply about the basic human right to have sex. 🤦‍♂️
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  17184.  @jegamespeed5399  What? 🤦‍♂️ Wtf are you piffling on about now? Utterly irrelevant, bud. This is really rather simple, so I’ll make it simple for a simple mind: if you’re going to ban me from having consensual sex with someone I want absolutely clear reasons why you are going to do this. You, and everyone else, are unable to supply these clear reasons which is why you lost the debate from day 1. Bad luck, bud. 😢
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  17185.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠👈Once again, totally missing the point as that’s what he constantly does. I’m not suggesting (and have never suggested - you assumed it, idiotically as per usual) that my opinion directly matters here. All I have ever done here is state that no one, hitherto, has given me a single convincing reason why homosexuality should be criminalised. 😊
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  17186.  @jegamespeed5399  Oh dear, this is clearly a comprehension issue. It’s ok. Don’t worry, bud. I get it. 🤦‍♂️ Just for the record, you are wrong yet again. I accept that in Uganda my opinion is neither here nor there in a direct sense, but adding a voice to the general debate that says they can see no reason for criminalising homosexuality very much does affect things generally in the world. Bad luck. 😢
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  17187.  @jegamespeed5399 👈Once again, totally missing the point as that’s what he constantly does. I’m not suggesting (and have never suggested - you assumed it, idiotically as per usual) that my opinion directly matters here. All I have ever done here is state that no one, hitherto, has given me a single convincing reason why homosexuality should be criminalised. 😊
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  17188.  @jegamespeed5399  👈”Clearly no one’s life will be affected.” Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17189.  @jegamespeed5399  👈”Clearly no one’s life will be affected.” Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17190.  @jegamespeed5399  But you said no one would be affected, fool. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17191.  @jegamespeed5399  Ok, so now you’re admitting others’ lives will be affected. Contradicting yourself in 2 straight posts. Well done! 👏 🤦‍♂️
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  17192.  @jegamespeed5399  Well, the criminalised for no reason gays’ lives will be affected. 🤦‍♂️
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  17193.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠​​⁠That’s fine, bud, I don’t care that you don’t care. Get over yourself. All I care about is hearing just a single convincing reason as to why I should support criminalising homosexuality. Hitherto, that has not been forthcoming. 😊
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  17194.  @jegamespeed5399 ​​⁠That’s fine, bud, I don’t care that you don’t care. Get over yourself. All I care about is hearing just a single convincing reason as to why I should support criminalising homosexuality. Hitherto, that has not been forthcoming. 😊
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  17195.  @jegamespeed5399 That’s fine, bud, I don’t care that you don’t care. Get over yourself. All I care about is hearing just a single convincing reason as to why I should support criminalising homosexuality. Hitherto, that has not been forthcoming. 😊
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  17196.  @jegamespeed5399 5 ‘Westerns’ in one wee post betrays your real focus, bud. 👍😉
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  17197. ⁠ @jegamespeed5399 I am not concerned with your ‘focus’ and am solely concerned with hearing a single reason why I should support criminalising homosexuality.
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  17198.  @jegamespeed5399 Aren’t you? Ok. Is it? Ok. Whatever. 🥱
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  17199.  @Peep-010 Ok, non-coping Peepbore with precisely zero fucking argument as per. Or whatever. 🥱
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  17200.  @Possum-010 Cringe. 🤦‍♂️ Mr T impression? F*cking awful, hun. Do better.
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  17201. Someone clearly got triggered and typed another load of irrelevant, rambling piffle and still supplied not a single reason why I should support the criminalisation of homosexuality. 🤦‍♂️😆
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  17202.  @jegamespeed5399  ​​⁠I said I personally wouldn’t criminalise incest. If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen and if it’s consenting adults, and no offspring result, I have zero problem with it. Can you read? The trouble with your stance, in a nutshell, is that no one is unreasonably forcing you to have gay sex but your are unreasonably forcing others not have gay sex.
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  17203. ⁠ @Zqviri Er, why is your basic English grammar so shite you’re apparently unaware of when to use ‘those’?
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  17204.  @stopcensoring.7959 ​​⁠ 🥱 Key point not addressed. Just pure feeling. Must do better. Uh huh.
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  17205.  @ijumpjudyy  👈On a recent trip to DC she bumped into Bill Clinton who regaled her with tales of the good old days in the White House, but she had to call the cops when he whipped out his cigar and asked her to suck it! 👮‍♀️ 😂
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  17206.  @ijumpjudyy  👈When touring Scotland recently she stayed with some friendly locals and got confuzzled when they asked her if she fancied a bit of cock-a-leekie! She was expecting a naked incontinent Scotsman to walk into the room! 🍲 😂
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  17207.  @ijumpjudyy  Hi Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. 👋 You giving yer wee rampant rabbit another run-out tonight, darlin’? A little ‘backyard’ exercise, perhaps? 😮 😂 🐰 😉 Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run run! 🐇 😂
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  17208.  @StopCensorship4--03 Ok, Julia. 🥱
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  17209.  @ijumpjudyy Quit bringing me crappuccinos, groomer! 😂
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  17210.  @1974dodgecharger  Uh huh. So would you, “Dodge Charger”. 🔌😳😉🥸
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  17211.  @1974dodgecharger  Think about where exactly you want to place that 👍. 😉
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  17212.  @1974dodgecharger  I said: Thumbs up? Where, exactly?😳
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  17213. Thumbs up? Where, exactly?😳
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  17214. Prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) among women and girls in Africa in 2022, by country: •Somalia ~ 98% •Guinea ~ 97% •Djibouti ~ 93% •Egypt ~ 91% •Mali ~ 91% •Eritrea ~ 89% •Sudan ~ 88% •Burkina Faso ~ 76% •Gambia ~ 75% •Ethiopia ~ 74% •Mauritania ~ 69% •Guinea-Bissau ~ 45% •Senegal ~ 26% •Nigeria ~ 25% •Kenya ~ 21% •Uganda ~ 1% (Statista)
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  17215.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅! Flunkychore: “People don’t care what you do.” Pin it! You heard it here first! 😂 Own 🥅!
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  17216. ⁠ Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 🤡
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  17217.  @stopcensorship7705  *possibilities *you’re Skill issue. 🤭 🤡
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  17218. Consenting adults, sweet pea. Everything else you say is irrelevant, honey. Sawree. 😢
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  17219.  @wombat010  Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  17220.  @wombat010 Er, it was used by you about an hour ago, fuctard. Cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17221.  @wombat010 Huh? Where was the word ‘proud’ used? 🤔
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  17222.  @mod-incognito  Just highlighting how benighted Africa is, relatively speaking. Uganda is a part of Africa last time I checked. Yvw.👍
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  17223. Lmao. 😂 stopcensorship can’t deal with her basic spelling skill issues. *possibilities *they’re 🤭
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  17224.  @Teesroad  Er, I’m not in the States, dummy. Get it right or not at all ffs. 🤣
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  17225.  @stopcensorship7705  Pmsl. The irony of someone called ‘Stop Censorship’ dictating the terms and conditions like a pure fascist! 🤣
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  17226.  @Israelisarecriminals  🤣
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  17227.  @ijumpjudyy  What’s groomer yapping about now? Hey, groomer, take away this crappuccino I never ordered, groomer! 😂
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  17228.  @jegamespeed5399  Don’t be disingenuous, bud. Available data reveals that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is mostly practiced in the western, eastern, and north-eastern regions of Africa and in some countries in Asia and the Middle East. FGM is known to be carried out regularly (regardless of its legality or otherwise) in the following countries: Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Côte D’Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Asia Indonesia Maldives Iraq Yemen It’s only Africa which is still carrying out this primitive, barbaric, hideously cruel procedure on a large scale; a procedure which should have been consigned to the human dustbin of history centuries ago! In fact, scrub that, should never have been instigated in the first place! 🤦‍♂️
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  17229.  @jegamespeed5399  “You know that most cases of FGM are consensual, right? Many people are raised in environments where this practice is normalised, so they don’t see any issue with it. They consent to it.” (Jegamespeed5399) 🤦‍♂️ Don’t be silly, son. Do you honestly think 12 year old girls in their right minds are going to willingly consent to having their genitals lopped off? FGM is essentially the female equivalent of a dude having his tackle lopped off. 🤦‍♂️ “Listen, hun, after school today me and your mother are going to take you to have a completely unnecessary medical procedure involving having your clitoris hacked off thereby leading to your being unable to have sexual pleasure ever and leading to the following possible complications:” •severe pain •excessive bleeding (haemorrhage) •genital tissue swelling •fever •infections e.g., tetanus •urinary problems •wound healing problems •injury to surrounding genital tissue •shock •vaginal problems (discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis and other infections) menstrual problems (painful menstruations, difficulty in passing menstrual blood, etc.) •scar tissue and keloid; •sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction) •increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult delivery, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, need to resuscitate the baby, etc.) and newborn deaths •need for later surgeries: for example, the sealing or narrowing of the vaginal opening (type 3) may lead to the practice of cutting open the sealed vagina later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth (deinfibulation). Sometimes genital tissue is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing both immediate and long-term risks •psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, low self-esteem, etc.) •death. “Now, darling, would you like to consent to this completely unnecessary procedure?” 🤦‍♂️
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  17230. “FGM is now more common in the West than Africa.” (Jegamespeed3599) Rofl. What are you piffling about now, bud? 😂 On any survey you care to mention, the continent of Africa is far and away the place where FGM takes place. According to Unicef (and any other relevant observer organisation you care to mention): Around the world, over 230 million girls and women have been cut. Africa accounts for the largest share of this total, with over 144 million. Asia follows with over 80 million, and a further 6 million are in the Middle East. Another 1-2 million are affected in small practising communities and destination countries for migration in the rest of the world. Europe is not even worthy of a mention when it comes to these stats and when it does happen in Europe, it’s invariably done by immigrants from Africa! 🤦‍♂️
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  17231.  @Peep-010 Er, it’s not ‘raging against God and his standards’. It’s taking a bunch of stuff clearly written by men, principally for men, and calling it exactly what it is. Not my issue if you can’t deal with that, Dikwad.😊
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  17232.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Lmao@“spamming the same nonsense over and over again.” 😂Hypocrisy? 🤡
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  17233.  @StopCensorship4--03 Cringe.
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  17234.  @ijumpjudyy 👈Pmsl@‘frustrated’!!! Hypocrisy? 😂 🤡
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  17235.  @ijumpjudyy Ah, but the only permanent thing is impermanence, Little Ms Virgin/Asexual. 😂Bad luck. 😢
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  17236.  @ijumpjudyy Attic, here, Little Ms Virgin/Asexual! Get it right. 😂🤫
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  17237.  @ijumpjudyy Projection is a very easy thing, hen. 🤣👍
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  17238. Have you been rogering Will again? 🤔
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  17239. 1. Establish your ‘God’ exists. 2. Establish that that existing ‘God’ has a downer on gays. 3. Same-sex sexual behaviour has been reported in 261 mammalian species (about 4% of the species). That’s nature. 4. 1, 2 and 3 are actually irrelevant in this case, for if 2 consenting adults wanna f*ck it’s kinda none of your damn business, pal. 5. Don’t mention it! 👍
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  17240.  @Stuart267 *it’s
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  17241.  @TheKrikCameronKids You tell ‘im, son! 👍
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  17242. *mafia’s *legend’s
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  17243.  @StopCensorship4--03  Irrelevant. The principle of non-interference with the sexual choices of consenting adults trumps your feelings here. Case closed. Bad luck. 😢
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  17244.  @Peep-010  Peepbore: “Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the good gaies.” Er, ‘good gaies’? 🤔 “Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.” 😮 Own 🥅! 😂🤡👍
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  17245.  @Peep-010 Well, I’m not, Peepbore. Once again, just stating shit doesn’t thereby make it true. And once again, the sexual lives of consenting adults are, quite simply, none of your fucking business. I know you can’t cope with this, but it’s just something you’re gonna have to deal with. 🤡
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  17246. 25%? Citation required. 🤡
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  17247.  @unfathomablyunfathomable  It’s ‘unfathomablyunfathomable’ why some weird people feel the need to police what 2 consenting adults get up to in the bedroom. Sinister stuff.👍
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  17248.  @stopcensorship7705  I see you have no real arguments to offer then. Uh huh.😊
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  17249.  @LGBTQS6314  ‘Julia’ has just appeared in Sky News channel today. She/he is clearly obsessed. I suspect, like you, the same person (guy).👍
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  17250.  @jegamespeed5399 👈Dude’s struggling. The non-coping quotient is currently high. 😂
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  17251. When you’re pushing it away that much in your profile, it’s obvious you are a repressed gay boy. S’ok. We’re here to help. It’s no big deal, dude. You fancy dudes. That’s fine. Take it on the chin. Or, indeed, up the jacksy! 😮
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  17252.  @danax6653  And another thing, why doesn’t this work both ways? Huh? Why do you get to police my sex life but I don’t get to police your sex life? Huh? It’s all one way. But here’s the thing: I don’t care what you do as a consenting adult with other consenting adults. But more than that, it’s none of my damn business! You weirdo creeps need to realise this.
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  17253.  @danax6653  I, personally, have zero issue with sodomy, but even if I did that’s not the point. Thank fuck I don’t live in a dump like Uganda. No one should be interfering with the sex lives of consenting adults. It’s bizarre and sinister at the same time. The way you freaks behave it’s almost like you can ‘catch’ homosexuality like some disease. You’re all weird and deeply sinister and brainwashed by yer ridiculous, crappy ‘holy books’. Stay out of other people’s sex lives. It’s simply none of your business, pal.
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  17254.  @danax6653  Nothing. I just can’t understand how anyone, state or individual, should be interfering in the sex lives of consenting adults. S’all.👍
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  17255.  @ijumpjudyy Well, given that I have no desire to ever visit a dump like Uganda and don’t have (and have never had) a boyfriend, you’re wrong on both counts, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual! 😂 Want another go? Florida, 2003. 🤡 😂
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  17256.  @ijumpjudyy Ok, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual: you just get that rampant rabbit 🐇 charged, sweetheart. Wouldn’t want any anti-climaxes, would we now, hun? 😂 Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run!😂 🐰
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  17257.  @AceTheDriver1990 Just my own, darling. It’s quite common. Sniff it! 💨 👃
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  17258.  @AceTheDriver1990 Well, so’s picking yer nose, but everyone does that. Jeezo, man. Are you that sheltered? 🤦‍♂️
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  17259.  @AceTheDriver1990  Lol. Stop projecting, dude. In the scale of ‘gross’ things, liking your own farts is hardly a hanging offence. You need to get out more. 🤦‍♂️
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  17260.  @AceTheDriver1990 Only my own, darling. 💨 🍛 And only the gaseous stuff. I don’t like the solid 💩. Even my own. Get it right. 🤡
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  17261. Don’t be a right Charlie, Charlie! 🤡
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  17262. Ok, MeOhRaOn. 👍🤡
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  17263. No, this is Uganda you dummy. 🤦‍♂️
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  17264.  @JonathanAKaren It’s called ‘DOING THE WORK’! 🤡
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  17265.  @JonathanAKaren  You won’t win, darling. Read sum books. That would be my advice. Give it a couple of years and come back and try again. 📚 You sub-literate Boers can be smelt at 50 paces! Much like my farts! 💨
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  17266.  @JonathanAKaren Nah. Much prefer a nice mature cheddar. Try again. Do better. 🧀 😊
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  17267.  @JonathanAKaren Ok, ty for confirming you’re not a reader. We knew that already, but it’s nice to get it from the non-reader’s mouth. 😊 📚
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  17268.  @JonathanAKaren  …👈That’s all you need, son. Any more is just unnecessary and makes you look like a non-reader. 😊 📚
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  17269.  @JonathanAKaren No, I repeat I don’t find her a Boer. She can be quite entertaining on a good day. 😊
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  17270.  @JonathanAKaren No. I disagree. I find her quite interesting.
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  17271.  @JonathanAKaren Huh? That doesn’t address my point. Once again: if Kemi Badenoch is a Brit how is Charlize Theron not an African? Try again. 👍
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  17272.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Huh? How so? If Kemi Badenoch is a Brit how is Charlize Theron not an African? 🤔 Do tell…
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  17273. Not sure about that, dude. Charlize Theron gets a pass in the right light. 👍
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  17274. How to remain President in Uganda? Be corrupt.
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  17275. Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  17276.  @Peep-010 Er, wot? Again, Peepbore has zero point and zero riposte to my OP. 😢
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  17277. This particular den is full of morons who simply can’t abide adults having consenting sex, without rudely, deeply creepily and inappropriately interrupting. It’s often religious, but not always. I can’t understand it. The sex lives of consenting adults are quite clearly no one else’s business. I’ve racked my brains, and the one and only caveat I can think of to this is the possibility of producing offspring from incest. Nothing else matters if it’s consenting adults. 👍
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  17278.  @ijumpjudyy And as for that bearded woman behind him… 🤭
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  17279.  @ijumpjudyy  Really? Are you sure? She has the whiff of a pre-trans dude if you ask me. Seethe. 😢
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  17280. Wombatbore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that genes are in humans DNA, please educate yourself.” Possumchore: “Criminality has been around since Neanderthals, some scientists have found evidence that 1 in 5 homosexuals have become TheWalkingDead. Did you ever watch that show? Please educate yourself.” Spot the difference! 😂 👍 Own 🥅! 😂
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  17281.  @Possum-010 ​​⁠You’re completely f*cking unhinged. Seek help. The tragedy with you is that you are also deeply, deeply boring. A terrible double whammy no one should have to bear: unhinged and boring. 🥱
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  17282.  @ijumpjudyy  That says it all. Your dreadful parents have a lot to answer for, Judy.
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  17283. @Shawneecherrypie So, let me get this straight. Tonya worked at Fay School. Texas, right? (That would make sense, given her unhinged Christian religiosity.) Just Googled that. The dude she’s stalking worked under her. And just because he’s gay, she’s stalking him here? Is that it? As I said earlier, she’s unhinged and quite possibly dangerous. She’s sounds quite literally insane and I have a background in psychiatry. (Edit: her monomaniacal concentration on homosexuality suggests mental instability. It goes beyond just being religious. She’s, for some reason - likely religious upbringing - been taught that being gay is ‘wrong’ and this has warped her completely. Never quite encountered the intensity of her hatred on this matter. All that ‘groomer, blah, blah, blah’ sh*t everywhere she encounters the topic of homosexuality. The parents will have a lot to answer for here, I bet.)
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  17284. Ye olde Van Damme lover, eh? JC is an icon for bloated old queens such as yourself. Clearly.
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  17285.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Ran out of the doctor’s surgery screaming when he said to her “I’m just going to give you a little prick.” 💉 😂
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  17286.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a tester in a vibrator factory but was fired because she never managed to come on time! 🏭 😂
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  17287.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Gets confused when served sausages as she’s a vegan virgin and only uses 🍆s! 😂
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  17288.  @ijumpjudyy 👈The self-confessed asexual/virgin has the temerity to call others ‘frustrated’! 📞 😂👍
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  17289.  @ijumpjudyy Lol. She’s seething now. 😂
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  17290. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒 She also admitted this recently: “Imagine being an atheist.” Having previously denied her God credentials she scores yet another own 🥅! 🤡 😂
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  17291. “I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. (Ijumpjudyy) Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly, irrational, intolerant and thick as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  17292.  @ijumpjudyy Skinny as a rake here, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Sope and ceethe. 😂😢
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  17293. So many homoerotic images on your profile, dude, where to begin? 😮😉 🏋️‍♀️
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  17294. Jegamespeed: “If people should be allowed to act on their feelings, why stop with homosexuality? Why not allow bestiality, paedophilia, incest etc.?” Ah, ye olde ‘homosexuality is the gateway drug to paedophilia and bestiality’ trope, beloved by those with no real argument. It apparently hasn’t crossed Jegameclown’s 🤡 tiny brain that homosexuality is consensual and involves adults. Paedophilia and bestiality aren’t and involve children and animals. As for incest, well, personally, if all parties are consenting adults and there is zero chance of offspring resulting, not sure why anyone should be messing here. Answers on a postcard, kids!
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  17295.  @TroyBrown-up6rt Lol.
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  17296.  @Jardin-d8v This guy’s a moron. He really is. He can’t seem to see the rather basic difference between holding the belief (which about 99% of people I know hold) that you cannot alter your biological sex and how holding that position doesn’t criminalise trans people by sending them to prison (or worse) for being trans, and holding the belief that gay sex is ‘wrong’ and acting on this belief by outlawing gay sex. He’s a total numpty.
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  17297.  @TullmoreDew You’ll be more than just ‘brainwashed’ in that communal shower with Yoweri, Mr Tullymore. 😉👍 Don’t drop that soap now! 🧼
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  17298.  @wombat010  Irrelevant. Consenting adults, Dikwad.😢
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  17299.  @ijumpjudyy Now you know what it’s like, groomer. Now take away this crappuccino I didn’t order, groomer. 😂
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  17300.  @ijumpjudyy But I didn’t order a crappuccino, groomer. 😂
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  17301. Don’t be a silly boy now, sonny. He’s a repressed gay slap-head eejit with a wifey more masculine than most other men! Either that, or ‘she’s’ been on the steroids.
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  17302.  @Flunky000 ’Nambla propaganda posts’? I have no idea wtf you are on about, hun. You’re more than grasping at this point. 😭 🤡
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  17303.  @Flunky000 FYI, 1) I’m not gay. 2) I’m perfectly indifferent to anal sex. It’s not my personal taste but see no reason to criminalise it if gays (or hettys) want to consensually partake of it as adults. 3) Bad luck. 😢 🤡
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  17304.  @Flunky000  "Paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. Paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Paedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty." (Milo Yiannopoulos) According to Peepbore/Flunkychore, Yiannopoulos is, apparently, one of the ‘good gaies’. 🤦‍♂️
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  17305. "Paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. Paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Paedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty." (Milo Yiannopoulos) According to Peepbore/Flunkychore, Yiannopoulos is, apparently, one of the ‘good gaies’. 🤦‍♂️
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  17306.  @Michael-d4q Aye, ok, Mickey son, but we can now have that in basic English my 3 year old Ugandan 🐒 would understand? 😳
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  17307.  ijumpjudy.  I have no issue with either if all parties are consenting. Bad luck.👍
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  17308. Dude, that’s just not relevant. You need to establish your imaginary, invisible sky daddy before you start all that nonsense. 👍
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  17309.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Vegetarian here, pet. Sawree! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 🐑
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  17310.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri Just glad you got that library sh*t sorted, Jordy. Fair play to you lad. 👍 If yer not careful these library dudes can be vicious. 😉
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  17311.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri *pumpkin Bad luck. 😢
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  17312.  @wombat010 Hi possum. 😉
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  17313.  @koala5054 Hi possum. 👍
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  17314. Hi possum. 👋
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  17315.  @Peep-010 Once more, just for the record again, Dikwad, I’m not gay. 😊 I’ve told you this multiple times, Dikwad. One day, you might get it. 👍
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  17316.  @Peep-010 Really, Dikwad? You’ve changed your tune: Peepbore: “People don’t mind gaie people.” Bad luck. 😢
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  17317.  @VerilyTriumphant Incidentally, it’s not subscribing to a certain moral system in toto. It’s simply acknowledging something rather simple: if you are going to criminalise a small minority for consensually committing certain acts that millions of the majority population do on a regular basis, then you better have f*cking good reasons for doing so.
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  17318.  @VerilyTriumphant Well, in that case, begging bowl basket case countries should learn to economically stand on their own 2 feet.
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  17319. They do. But it’s free-speech. If you look at something and consider it utterly irrational, no matter where it’s occurring, then it’s your duty to humanity to pipe up and state your case. The over-sensitive flakes in here defending this on the basis you can’t criticise another country’s law(s) is f*cking hilarious. I actively welcome others’ constructive criticism of my random accident of birth country’s laws as that’s the only way you test and clarify your own views on any given matter. Anything else is just barking in an echo chamber.
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  17320. Quite interesting that you have a fairly masculine-looking ‘girlfriend’ there, dude. 😉👍
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  17321.  @benjiisagoodboy I’m actually not gay, flower. I know you find this hard to believe but it’s the truth. I have a lesbian sister and gay brother but I’m not. Bad luck. 😢
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  17322.  @666_WP  Me not gay. Bad luck. 😭
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  17323. Are you sure, bro? You have more than a wee whiff of the homosexual about you yourself, son. Are you sure of your stance here, petal? Do you need some thinking time, hun?
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  17324. FYI, Jeganumpty: I’m not homosexual. 🤡
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  17325.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer You think I’m kidding, dude. Think again. I have all the evidence. 😐
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  17326. ⁠ @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer Ok, stalker. 😐
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  17327.  @DoormanFry He’s a stalker par excellence! 👍
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  17328.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer I meant what I said, dude. I have all your stalking comments in front of me going back 4 months, through all your moniker changes. The police might be interested in your stalker profile. 👍
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  17329.  @BuffyTheJonathanSlayer  👈Still stalking. Seriously. Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  17330. It’s an opinion. The opinion isn’t the problem. The enacting of irrational laws based upon that opinion is the problem. 👍
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  17331.  @jegamespeed5399 Again, I’ve told you this many times, you appear to be thinking for a whole country or continent. I look at each issue as a human. My country in neither here nor there. Sorry. 😢
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  17332.  @jegamespeed5399 Er, I have zero problem with polygamy. You seem to be labouring under the rather bizarre delusion that just because you are born somewhere you, ipso facto, have to agree with every single law of that place. 🤦‍♂️
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  17333.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Calls out others for having ‘several accounts’. Hypocrisy? 👍😉😂
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  17334.  @ijumpjudyy  👈”I might be what you groomers call ‘asexual’”. ​​⁠Wow! 😮That’s interesting, groomer! Never thought you’d reveal your hand like that, groomer. K, you don’t dig sex and because you don’t dig sex you ban consenting adults, who do dig sex, from having sex, groomer!? I fear revealing that has put the final nail in your intolerant ⚰️, groomer! 😂 👍😉 Hey, groomer! I’m proud to be a cucumber hater and not be so silly as to ban cucumbers, groomer! 🤣🥒
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  17335.  @happybuggy1582  You’d be surprised at just how many heterosexual friends & acquaintances you have who enjoy a BJ or a stiff cock up an arse! 😊😉
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  17336. 2 years down the road on your ‘self-improvement journey’ and you still haven’t learned basic tolerance and live and let live for those with a different sexuality to you. Could do better, dude.👍🤦‍♂️
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  17337. C’mon, Bobby dude. We all know that cowboy stuff is riddled with hot pokers and all sorts of after dark Brokeback Mountain nonsense! 🤠
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  17338.  @jegamespeed5399  There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. What do these countries (aside from criminalizing homosexuality) have in common? Three factors - economic development (or the lack thereof), democracy (or the lack thereof) and religion - seem to be significant. All or most of these countries are some of the poorest on the planet, have very strong religious leanings (mainly Islam/Christianity) and score very poorly on democracy tables when ranked. Of the 64, 29 are in benighted Africa, 22 in Asia, 5 in the Americas and 7 in Oceania. No country in enlightened Europe has a law against homosexuality. Why would it? 🤷‍♂️ It’s just 2 consenting adults having sex after all, and, last time I checked, that’s really no one (state or individual) else’s business. Europe also has some of the wealthiest countries on Earth, relatively low levels of organised religion and high levels of democracy. Here’s the unholy list of the countries that like to unreasonably, unjustifiably meddle in the sex lives of consenting adults: Africa Algeria Cameroon Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Kenya Liberia Libya Malawi Mauritania Morocco Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh Brunei Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Myanmar Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Lucia St Vincent & the Grenadines Oceania Kiribati Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
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  17339.  @jegamespeed5399 I said, that there were no laws specifically targeting homosexuality. Jesus. 🤦‍♂️
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  17340. @ I have constantly pointed out the incest thing with the production of children. I, personally, have zero issue with consensual adult incest if the production of children isn’t a factor. I don’t need to try again, bud. I’ve told you this at least a dozen times, bud.
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  17341.  @jegamespeed5399  Serious question: You are gay. Sake of argument. You live in Uganda. Do you go through your whole life never having sex?
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  17342.  @jegamespeed5399  Huh? Who said anything about being ‘above the law’? In Europe there is no law criminalising consenting adults for having sex. That’s not being ‘above the law’ 🤦‍♂️; that’s the law realising it has no place in the sex lives of consenting adults!
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  17343.  @videogameplayer0552  Your feelings don’t matter here. Utterly irrelevant. Consenting adults. Do better.
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  17344.  @jegamespeed5399  And I am here to highlight the ongoing irrational, backward, non-contributing, tyrannical primitiveness of much of Africa.
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  17345.  @jegamespeed5399  What’s your point, dude? I have zero issue with polygamy if all parties are consenting adults. You seem to be confusing me for someone else. 😢
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  17346.  @something215 Well said! 👏 There are currently 64 countries (out of 195) in the world that criminalise homosexuality. What do these countries (aside from criminalizing homosexuality) have in common? Three factors - economic development (or the lack thereof), democracy (or the lack thereof) and religion - seem to be significant. All or most of these countries are some of the poorest on the planet, have very strong religious leanings (mainly Islam/Christianity) and score very poorly on democracy tables when ranked. Of the 64, 29 are in benighted Africa, 22 in Asia, 5 in the Americas and 7 in Oceania. No country in enlightened Europe has a law against homosexuality. Why would it? 🤷‍♂️ It’s just 2 consenting adults having sex after all, and, last time I checked, that’s really no one (state or individual) else’s business. Europe also has some of the wealthiest countries on Earth, relatively low levels of organised religion and high levels of democracy. Here’s the unholy list of the countries that like to unreasonably, unjustifiably meddle in the sex lives of consenting adults: Africa Algeria Cameroon Chad Comoros Egypt Eritrea Eswatini (Swaziland) Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Kenya Liberia Libya Malawi Mauritania Morocco Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Asia, including the Middle East Afghanistan Bangladesh Brunei Indonesia Iran Iraq Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Myanmar Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka Syria Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Americas Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Lucia St Vincent & the Grenadines Oceania Kiribati Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
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  17347.  @Hispanocel  @ Er, no. That’s why I specifically said ‘consenting adults’. D’oh! 🤦‍♂️
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  17348.  @Peep-010 Aye. Ah dae aw the time, hen. Dinny ye worry aboot that, doll. Aye. 😢😉👍
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  17349.  @Flunky000 👈Love how Flunkychore has zero argument so she descends into the usual twee crap. 💩🤡😂
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  17350.  @Flunky000  Y r u not calling for the imprisonment (or worse) of millions of heterosexual dudes who have consenting anal sex on a regular basis? The day you do that, is the day I might listen to what you have to say. 😊
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  17351.  @Peep-010  Among heterosexuals between the ages of 15 to 44 years old, 30% of women and 34% of men have had anal sex at some point in their lifetimes. (Women’s Health) 😢
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  17352.  @TheFaySchoolKids Yes. 🥱 Seriously, man. Just make it interesting. Anything. 🤦‍♂️
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  17353.  @TheFaySchoolKids Would be nice if you could type something even remotely interesting for once in your life. 😢👍
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  17354.  @TheFaySchoolKids Aye, ok. 🥱👍
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  17355. @ @ Yes, I occasionally partake of ye olde animal flesh. Mainly fish. Yeah, I kinda get Morrissey when he bangs on about this stuff (that album was rather good, too!) but I’m prepared to live with it on my conscience. I have far less guilt about eating a chicken wing than I would about executing a person for just having consenting sex. Ironically, I actually prefer chickens to humans! 🐔
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  17356.  @TheFaySchoolKids ​​⁠ Well, I’m a big fan of Bob Mould, if that’s what you mean. Particularly his Last Dog and Pony Show album. Haggis? I actually quite like. Black pudding? Not so much.
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  17357.  GoralenvolkWaffenSS What’s your particular issue with 2 consenting women or 2 consenting men having sex, pray tell? 🤔
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  17358.  GoralenvolkWaffenSS Because it’s irrational. That’s why.
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  17359.  GoralenvolkWaffenSS Why not?
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  17360.  @TheFaySchoolKids No. Just cheddar, mainly.
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  17361.  @JonathanAnthonyAltieri  Judging by his playlists, a nice bit of sausage.
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  17362. Er, wot? Did u go 2 skool 2day? 😊
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  17363.  @ijumpjudyy Blame my folks, darlin’. What can I say? 🤷‍♂️ Florida, 2003. 😂👍🤡
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  17364.  @ijumpjudyy There is zero nominative determinism behind my moniker, Little Miss Virgin/Asexual. Sawree. 😢 Florida, 2003. 😂
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  17365. Uh huh. Ooooooookkkkk, dude. And a cursory glance at your playlists brings up 2 buffed, semi-naked dudes. Wanna tell us something? 🤔
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  17366.  @bottlecap632 I don’t give a sh*t. This whole Jonathan thing is soooooooooo f*cking boring. 🥱
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  17367.  @Possum-010  Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  17368.  @Peep-010  Imagine coming to a chat room pretending you are 2 different people and talking to yourself like a demented eejit…🤫
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  17369. In your opinion.
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  17370. That’s fine. However, it’s not really the point Annie, lovey. The point is why are you bothering about the sex lives of consenting adults, hun? 🤔
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  17371.  @666_WP Me not gay. Bad luck. 😭
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  17372. Yet another one with a gay avatar. You are aware that Cristiano Ronaldo likes dressing in women’s bras and panties paired with a nice high heel shoe and enjoys nothing more than prancing around his abode in his down-time, flower? 🤔
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  17373. This is Uganda, not Chad, bruh. Geography remedial classes required forthwith. 🗺
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  17374.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Isn’t a gamer as she has no known experience of handling a joystick. 🕹😂
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  17375.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Doesn’t have a fan club because she doesn’t like members. 😂
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  17376.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a tester in a vibrator factory but was fired because she never managed to come on time! 🏭 😂
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  17377.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Was a Virgin frequent-flyer but had a mental breakdown when told the company was created by Dick. ✈️ 😂
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  17378.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Has a pet 🐇 on stand-by (with secret cache of 🥕s) for when her rampant 🐰 runs out of batteries! 😂
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  17379.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Had post-traumatic therapy after taking a cooking course and the chef asked her, “Would you like to see my lardon?” 👨‍🍳 😂
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  17380.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Hates people saying goodbye to her as all she hears is, “Schlong!” 👋 😂
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  17381.  @ijumpjudyy  👈Once met a Roald Dahl fan, but freaked out when he showed her his wonky willie! 🎩 😂
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  17382.  @JapaneseJonathan  I have never frequented Anal Street. Go away.
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  17383.  @Flunky000 ​​⁠👈Little Miss Uptight just can’t relax her anal muscles. Tragic. 😞
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  17384.  @Flunky000 Manchester by the semen? 🤔
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  17385. In 99.99% (recurring) of cases, if I, an adult, ask you for sex, and you, another adult, agree to this request, then this is no one else’s business. Quite obviously. Case closed. 😊
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  17386.  @JustinYiseverywhere  ?
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  17387. I never sub someone who is apparently unaware of the full stop. Period.
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  17388. The irony of someone called ‘Fact’ making a comment like that! 👍🤣
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  17389.  @WillPOnya  No it’s not: it’s an oblate spheroid you doofus! 🤦‍♂️
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  17390.  @WillPOnya  Ya. The planet is flat. Ur rite. 👍
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  17391.  @WillPOnya  I don’t know. What don’t you do, Will? Read science books? 👍🤔
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  17392.  @WillPOnya  Ya, Will. You don’t. Well observed. 👍😉 🌎
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  17393.  @WillPOnya You’re a disaster, petal. 🤦‍♂️ Tf you weren’t my science teacher!
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  17394. He may be a Santos, but he sure ain’t no saint!
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  17395.  @micks3958  No I don’t. I have precisely 3 people moaning about it. Never let the facts get in the way of an agenda, eh, Mickey baby? Get it right in future, son.😉
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  17396.  @livingmodern  Btw, if I’m 12, you’re far too bloody old to be trying to pull off the hip young rockstar look!🤣 Start growing old a bit more gracefully, m8; trying so hard to look ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ has the complete opposite effect in your case!😂
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  17397.  @livingmodern  Oh, stop being so triggered, you goon! Go away. You’re boring. We don’t all dig the same stuff. Just deal with it you sensitive flower.
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  17398.  @lolawants2008  👈 Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert!
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  17399.  @livingmodern  👈 Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert!
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  17400.  @Raptorman0909  🥱
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  17401.  @micks3958  👈 Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert!
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  17402. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  17403. Confucius says beware letting a mad bloke pushing 70, so with nothing to lose, and a push away from the nuclear button, anywhere near anything that fucking matters.😳
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  17404. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17405. ‘Mob movie’? This must’ve been ‘Casino Hutchinson’s’ testimony.
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  17406.  @broncostearsaremostsavory2041  That’s fine. 👍
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  17407.  @DoomshopMF312  I agree. All I’m saying is that he’s no saint. No one is.
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  17408.  @CarsandChris  Not at all. Just a scared guy feeling powerless, that’s all.👀
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  17409. While I admire Zelensky standing up and being counted, he’s no saint. He’s repressed freedom of speech in the recent past. People need to be careful about beatifying him.👀
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  17410.  @jasonm1827  🤓
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  17411.  @ashenwalker4622  ‘,’,’,’,’,.
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  17412.  @bretnoecker758  Aye.
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  17413.  @bretnoecker758  *wit If you’re crap at spelling, m8, do me favour: run it through a frickin spellchecker, as I’ve better things to do with my time to correct the orthography of a semi-literate numpty. Don’t take that wrong.
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  17414.  @bretnoecker758  Jesus, you’re boring, m8. Really. Just quit now. It’s draining me of the will to live.
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  17415.  @bretnoecker758  Yeah, but 10 that can laugh. 😉
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  17416.  @bretnoecker758  *someone’s Stop with the preachy crap. It won’t wash. As I said earlier: some of you Yankee Doodles are in serious need of a sense of humour. Think on.
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  17417.  @sdrfz  I refer you to my previous response.
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  17418.  @sdrfz  Go away. You kill the mood.
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  17419. Projecting again, Tony darling?
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  17420. Putin reminds me of the human equivalent of a Cold War landmine that wasn’t made safe and cleared back in 1989. He’s been left to lie there in plain sight because we were too lazy/negligent to defuse him.😳
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  17421. Is Hope attractive?🧐
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  17422. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  17423. It’s vital religion is kept apart from the state. Religion has to be a private matter. Worship any imaginary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy you want, but the point is that you must worship it in your own private space at home or in some place of worship. Keep it out of the lives of those who want nothing to do with it. The trouble with those who are religious is that too often they forget that ‘freedom of religion’ means the freedom to worship no God at all.
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  17424.  @familyshare3724  👍
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  17425.  @odst2247  Huh? Another numpty replies. Can’t you read? I’m saying China’s zero Covid policy is all about control! Ffs! Why is this so difficult? 🤷‍♂️
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  17426. Here’s Ivan with the weather! 🥸
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  17427.  @relinquishedforever8505  👌
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  17428. That’s a poor argument, for if the gunman had been white they wouldn’t have mentioned anything about his race in the title either. It would’ve just been ‘gunman’ there, too.
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  17429. I wouldn’t ban any of those things. I’d regulate guns far better, sure. But to start banning things you personally don’t dig just smacks of outright fascism.
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  17430. America is a frickin’ insane country. Arming teachers?! Hell, in the UK they don’t even arm most of their police ! Think on.
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  17431.  @NIcholasparker88  I am. Besides, I don’t call 70 odd years the distant past. I repeat, the 2 biggest mass murderers of the 20th century were white.
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  17432.  @incoherent-marbles  👏 Indeed. It’s not mentioned enough that 99.9% of these mass shootings are perpetrated by men. Just another reason why women are the better sex in so many ways, imo.
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  17433. If the rumours are to be believed there have been quite a few things ‘behind’ ole Brucey.👍😉
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  17434.  @mikewagner1614  I think it’s undesirable, but it’s not my place to personally step in and restrain a pregnant woman from smoking a cigarette or having a glass of wine. It’s not really something you can legislate for as it would be completely unenforceable, Mike. ✌️
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  17435. This is looking serious for Pence. If it escalates they might have to call the cops: the Indianapolis might have to get directly involved. 👮‍♀️
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  17436. Pmsl.
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  17437. He’s the lead actor in a proxy war for the West. Wake up!
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  17438.  @jsully8076  Wake up! Biden is a corrupt puppet just playing the game.
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  17439.  @AL-mc9ht  Huh? 🥴
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  17440.  @AL-mc9ht  ‘Republican’? Moi? I’m not even American you poor misguided fool!🤓
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  17441. @1:16-1:20 Lovely to see Bradley Cooper lending his support to the Ukrainian cause. Nice touch.👌
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  17442. By nationalising this you’re perpetuating the collective nationalist nightmare of humanity. Can’t you see this? The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  17443.  @USS-SNAKE-ISLAND  😉
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  17444. Switzerland. Neutral. Now there’s an idea.🇨🇭
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  17445.  @boathousejoed1126  Just for the record: Walter Scott invented the name, ‘Cedric’.🤓
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  17446.  @boathousejoed1126  Yvw.😉
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  17447. ABBA are deeply grateful for your alteration.
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  17448. Hi guys. Listen, so sorry to bother you once again so soon. However, I’ve had a major breakthrough with my Portuguese, and have now mastered the presente and imperfeito in the subjunctive. The futuro subjunctive needs a bit more work but hey, this is so cool, no? I’m, essentially, a nona-linguist, at this point. Ty. I can hear your online applause. Ty. 🙏 Guys, as I say, this is only the beginning. More updates to come. If I have any more sudden subjunctive breakthroughs you will all be the first to know. Many thanks for all your unstinting support in this matter. It means so much. Have a good day, y’all now, blah, blah, blah. 👍
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  17449.  @HotJonathan 👈Stalker boy just can’t live without me and my farts. 😊He wants to smell them. Obviously. 💨
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  17450.  @FlipflopMount222 Basics, Flipflop. Basics. Don’t be a Flipflop, Flipflop. 🤡
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  17451.  @FlipflopMount222  I take zero lessons in anything from someone who can’t speak her own language properly. Bad luck. 😢
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  17452.  @HotJonathan No I didn’t. I said I quite liked my own farts. Nice try though, stalker boy. 🤡👍
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  17453.  @HotJonathan Ok, darling. Your constant projection is obvious to everyone. It’s all you seem to do.😊
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  17454. Put it away, sweetheart. No one is buying that, aside from Stilton, who is tossing himself off in a corner as we speak. 👍
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  17455. Frankly, no idea why anyone else should be butting in with what a woman does with her own body. It’s her choice. Those who bore on about the ‘rights of the unborn’ seem to be overestimating human life. I’m willing to bet that if you ask 100 people randomly whether they would have wanted to be born (knowing what we know as humans), the vast majority of of them would decline the offer. Invariably it’s those holy rollers who adhere to primitive scriptures written by men thousands of years ago who cause all the trouble here. It’s no accident that abortion rights are such a hot topic in the US, a country with an alarmingly high belief in invisible daddies in the sky. Personally, my only issue with abortion is pain. Does the unborn foetus feel pain? On this basis, it should be done as early as possible in the gestation but the bottom line here is simple: it’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body.
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  17456.  @WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe  Don’t even get me started on those twats who begin every single sentence with ‘so’. 🤦‍♂️
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  17457.  @thebdboy778  Lol.👍
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  17458. Funny how strangers in comments sections think they know anything. Stfu.
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  17459.  @ameliawhitlock492  Lol.
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  17460.  @ameliawhitlock492  Lol.
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  17461. Hitler was Time person of the year in 1938. 🤔
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  17462. @4:00 As a Brit, can I just say how proud and happy I am for Paul O’Grady getting some extra work Stateside. That American accent is quite marvellous! 👍
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  17463.  @vitalsigns2679  The bulk of it was stolen, sonny. Think on.
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  17464.  @jimmytoy8556  Aye, ok, Jimbo. Just address the point, son. You, with a European name, have no real right to be in America. You don’t belong there, son. It wasn’t your land. You stole it. Think on, petal.😉🤓
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  17465. Yes. He will win the Roger Federer/Jimmy Carr hybrid lookalike prize.
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  17466. 🎵 Warrant, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh Warrant, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, y'all Warrant, huh (good God) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh 🎶
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  17467.  @andrey9351  It’s my comment. She stole it. https://youtu.be/TMpK_UeThG4
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  17468.  @WeAreWatchingU  It’s mine. She stole it.
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  17469. Is it just me, or am I the only one who would pop a cap in his head?😳
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  17470. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17471. How can anyone be convicted for smoking some blow? I thought crimes had to have victims. I see no victims here.
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  17472.  @taeniasaginata3847  Thanks Karl! 👍
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  17473.  @ron3557  Ronnie, son, I only insult those who deserve it; you get a pass. 😉
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  17474.  @ron3557  🤓
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  17475.  @mozardthebest  Who said I was an atheist? Think better.
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  17476.  @ron3557  Cheers, Ron! 🍻
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  17477.  matthewquinlan5244  Huh? I’m antipathetic to all organised religion. That’s why I wrote “of any stripe”. Here, have these: 👓 & cope better.
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  17478. Utterly beyond me how people are fooled into believing this organised religious nonsense. Of any stripe. However, in sad times such as these, I tend to find George Carlin can invariably lift me out of the funk: “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things He does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, He has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where He will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” 🤣 Amen. 🙏
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  17479.  @charliebrown4697  😉
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  17480.  @peterquinlan9789  🤓
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  17481. Planet’s 4 billion years old. Humanity’s about 300,000 years old. Nuclear war? That would just wipe out humanity like a bad case of fleas, and the planet would continue on its merry way! Human beings overestimate themselves far too much, and this is what causes all the trouble. In this same debate, let it never be forgotten that, hitherto, it’s only America that has used nuclear weapons in anger. And it didn’t need to.
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  17482.  @dmkruglov  K, 4-day then. What’s a day between friends? 🤓
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  17483. 🤖
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  17484. 🤖
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  17485.  @Challengerscatpack50  Lol. From someone called ‘justpray’ it’s more likely you who slept in a Motel 6 last night!🤣
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  17486.  @t1n4444  Pardon?
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  17487. ❄️ ⛄️ Crazy stuff! With all these extremes from season to season, they may have to alter the State names accordingly: Squallabama 🥶 Alabalmy 😎 Alaskia 🥶 Baked Alaska 😎 Arizsnowa 🥶 Ablazeona 😎 Arkanthaw 🥶 Arkansawdust 😎 Califognia 🥶 Tropicalifornia 😎 Coolorado 🥶 Swimmingpoolorado 😎 Connecticold 🥶 Airconnecticut 😎 Delaglare 🥶 Delaflare 😎 Flurryda 🥶 Torrida 😎 Georjackfrost 🥶 Scorchia 😎 Thawaii 🥶 Hafryii 😎 Slideaho 🥶 Humidaho 😎 Chillinois 🥶 Grillinois 😎 Windiana 🥶 Indianaked 😎 Iowhiteout 🥶 Fryowa 😎 Kansice 🥶 Tansas 😎 Godforsakentucky🥶Kensunstrucky😎 Louicyana 🥶 Loubeesiana 😎 Mainedeer 🥶 Mainesteam😎 Buryland 🥶 Marysand 😎 Massachillsetts 🥶 Massastewsetts 😎 Michighandwarmers 🥶 Mitchygan 😎 Mittensota 🥶 Manitshota 😎 Missiceslippy 🥶 Missicecreamy 😎 Missfury 🥶 Blissouri 😎 Montanavalanche 🥶 Montfana 😎 Nebbbrrraska 🥶 Nebaska 😎 Nevada ~ already means Neveranda 😎 ‘snowy mountains’ 🥶 New Hampshiver 🥶 New Hampfire 😎 Blew Jersey 🥶 Phew! Jersey 😎 New Mexicool 🥶 Stew Mexico 😎 Snowshoe York 🥶 Tennisshoe York😎 North/South Barrelina 🥶North/South Casolina 😎 North/South Dacoata 🥶 North/South Dakhota 😎 Snowhio 🥶 Ohsigho 😎 Oklabomba 🥶 Sunstrokelahoma 😎 Thawregon 🥶 Oregoneoff 😎 Pennsylweathervania🥶Pennsgrillvania 😎 Rhode Iceland 🥶 Rhode Dryland 😎 Tennessleet 🥶 Tennessteamy 😎 Texice 🥶 Texass 😎 Uthaw 🥶 Blutah 😎 Shivermont 🥶 Heatwavermont 😎 Frozen Riverginia 🥶 Virginiasling 😎 Washingtoboggan 🥶 Washingsun 😎 Rawest Virginia 🥶 Sweat Virginia 😎 Wicesconsin 🥶 Wisconsun 😎 Wysnowing 🥶 Dryoming😎
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  17488. I’m no fan of Trump, but as a British onlooker from across the Pond, it’s quite clear that in a straight race between Biden and Trump, Trump will win. Why/how the Democrats have not managed to find a younger, more dynamic candidate is a complete mystery.
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  17489.  @swabby913  It’s all been said here, m8. All the best.👍
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  17490.  @swabby913  Azul made a rather apposite point which you’ve conveniently side-swerved, I’ve noticed.😉
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  17491.  @swabby913  All too well, m8; all too well.😉
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  17492.  @swabby913  “You should ease up on your condescension. Its (sic) a bad look.” 🤣 Er, hello ? Did you look in a 🪞 after writing this deeply patronising sentence? 😂
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  17493.  @swabby913  Bored. Move on ffs.
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  17494.  @swabby913  Bored now, m8. Find someone else to argue your triggers with. One final point: I lived in the States for 5 years, so I know whereof I speak. The objective stats back up my subjective ‘felt’ experience. Quite frankly, and I take no real pleasure in saying this: America is a deeply, profoundly sick society and I’m deeply worried for where it may end up.
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  17495.  @swabby913  Ah. So you admit it’s 4x more dangerous. Now we’re getting somewhere. 😉
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  17496.  @iamjoeysteel  🥱
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  17497.  @iamjoeysteel  It’s statistical fact, Joey. Jeez. You Americans really went wrong with elementary education somewhere along the line.
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  17498.  @iamjoeysteel  4x. 4x. 4x. 👈Read it and weep, Joey baby!
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  17499.  @swabby913  Yes, but for the last frickin’ time: taken as a whole the US is 4x more dangerous than Europe. Statistical fact. Now I’m done here as this is just getting boring.
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  17500.  @swabby913  Ever heard of the idea of smuggling a gun into a city. 😉
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  17501.  @swabby913  Yes, but the fact remains that, taken as a whole, the US has 4x more homicides than Europe. Just cope, man. You can’t escape this very obvious fact.
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  17502.  @swabby913  Actually, where I live, I’m 10x safer. I checked the stats. Think on.😉
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  17503.  @iamjoeysteel  Yes, but taken as a whole the UK has about 0.005% of mass shootings the States has. Just a thought.
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  17504.  @belowaveragegamer95  Per capita, dummy! 4x more per capita! Jeez. American education ain’t what it used to be. Man alive.
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  17505.  @jason120378  Go back where?
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  17506.  @azul8811  4x more in the US. And, your point?
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  17507.  @belowaveragegamer95  Red herring. The US has more stabbings per capita than the UK and Europe. Got any other crap stats, mate?🤓
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  17508.  @kamii_999  Not a slave to anyone, son. You Yankee Doodles really do need to get out more!🤣
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  17509.  @beefchowmein  Having lived in 6 countries, travelled to about 50 (I’m old), I feel freer and safer in the UK (and in Europe in general) than in any of those other places. Including the US where I was constantly on edge in a place where mistrust of one’s neighbour runs rife, and because that neighbour invariably has a gun, it tends to give one the jitters. Think on.
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  17510. 🤦‍♂️
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  17511. So do I. Especially after a dodgy curry. 🍛
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  17512. In the great GOAT debate, just for the record, Pelé didn’t officially score 1,283 goals. Pelé did score 1,283 goals, but 526 goals came in unofficial friendlies and tour games. He even counted games he played for the Sixth Coast Guard in the military competition. He officially scored 757 goals in 812 games. Moreover, strictly speaking, Pelé didn’t really ‘win’ 3 World Cups; he won 2 and a bit. Yes, he was a member of three World Cup-winning teams, but he sat out the large majority of the 1962 World Cup. All that said, he was still a terrific player, right up there in my top 5. Picking a number 1 is always an invidious task, and always depends on where and when you were born, but if I had to, yes, I’d probably pick Pelé. Just. However, if Mbappé stays healthy and motivated, I wouldn’t be surprised to be sitting here saying he’s the GOAT in 10 years’ time! ⚽️
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  17513. Yeah, but tbf, Biden’s just as creepy with his brazen hair-sniffing girls escapades and Ashley Biden saying in her diary that she waited until late at night to take a shower, because she was afraid of her father coming in with her.
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  17514. Yeah, but tbf, Biden’s just as creepy with his brazen hair-sniffing girls escapades and Ashley Biden saying in her diary that she waited until late at night to take a shower, because she was afraid of her father coming in with her.
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  17515.  @suggadeg  Who? You are a fake account?
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  17516.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992)
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  17517.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  Pmsl.🤣
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  17518.  @randar1969  Proxy War “a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.” I call this a proxy war. 😉
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  17519. “Tanks to Ukraine” … Nato doesn’t actually have to get down and dirty with Russia as Ukraine does its proxy work on the West’s behalf. Thank you Ukraine on behalf of Nato. 🙏
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  17520. If the rumours are true (they are), it could be time for Stormy Daniels to change her name to ‘Ivankta Trump’! 🤓
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  17521.  @Kiwionwing  Indeed. 👍
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  17522. Yes, 40 miles of military might, like one enormous steel serpent; however, if the head can be chopped off then this military monster is defanged. 🐍
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  17523. The long, hard, military column compensating for one man’s short, limp, physical ‘column’ by any chance?😳
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  17524. @3:30 Nice to see Paul O’Grady doing his bit for the war effort.👀
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  17525. ‘Proud’ of an accident of birth? Really? Don’t you see that that’s the whole problem here?👀
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  17526. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17527. So the Bushes, Clintons and Tony Blair knock on Putin’s door. “Hey, Vlad, we’re here to perform a citizen’s arrest for war crimes.” Putin: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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  17528.  @rigelb9025  “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Thomas Hobbes) You want 2024 (with all the technological gizmos) or do you want 1624? I know what I’d choose. 👍
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  17529.  @rigelb9025  K, Rig. You know it all, bruv. 👍
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  17530.  @rigelb9025 Yes it does. People are sometimes happy. Sometimes they aren’t. It’s been always thus, and will ever be thus.
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  17531. ‘His holiness’ also finds his happiness in asking little boys to suck his tongue. 🤮
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  17532.  @jimperkins6073  No. In your opinion, Jimbo. Cope better, son.
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  17533.  @jimperkins6073  In your opinion, Jimbo.
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  17534.  @Chrundle9  ty
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  17535. If Catherine’s journalistic work ever dries up, she could easily make it as an Amy Winehouse tribute act.👍
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  17536. All your little cult seems to do is get offended and triggered when anyone suggests it might be a big steaming pile of 💩.
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  17537.  @Peter-jo6yu  I hear ya, Pete. ✌️
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  17538.  @juanesteban8827  The difference, I think, is 2-fold: 1. Islam is unabashedly and overtly political. The Ayatollah Khomeini was quite open about this: “Islam is political or it is nothing.” This is always dangerous when you tether your personal imaginary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy to the sublunary sphere. It has no place in politics. Your religion needs to stay out of secular life. It must be a strictly private matter kept to your home and your place of worship. 2. Muslims (even the more moderate ones) tend to take the word of the Quran quite literally, in the same way all Christians did before Christianity had a Reformation and there was an Enlightenment. I live somewhere with a high Muslim population and to a man and a woman these people take the Quran 100% at its word as dictation by the Angel Gabriel to an illiterate goat herder. If you read the Quran (like the Bible) it is often a violent, nasty, horrible piece of work. If, in 2024, millions (billions!) of individuals are taking this stuff as the literal word of Allah, then it’s no wonder if people like me suggest it might be a steaming pile of 💩 that we are targeted(in the same way non-Christians we’re targeted by literalist Christians hundreds of years ago). I have no fear of critiquing the God of the Old Testament, but I wouldn’t dare publicy critique Muhammad, the Quran or Islam more generally. Why? 2 words: Salman Rushdie.
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  17539. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’. 😳 You might think this is a joke, but 2 out of 3 of these are factually true!😧
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  17540. As someone from Britain, I’m shocked to see Paul O’Grady faked his own death, went to America and adopted the identity of a CNN anchor. 😮
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  17541. This is looking serious for Pence. If it escalates they might have to call the cops: the Indianapolis might have to get directly involved. 👮‍♀️
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  17542.  @wiseman7779  👍
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  17543.  @wiseman7779  🇬🇧
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  17544.  @brotimes7879  Ok. I genuinely have no idea wtf you’re going on about at this point and I’m not sure you do, either. I think we better just leave it there, m8.👍
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  17545.  @brotimes7879  I don’t agree with your equivalence between the Bible and Shakespeare. I don’t agree that “every line in the Bible is also filled with wisdom and philosophy.” That’s simply not true. I repeat: much of it is just tedious rigmarole and house-checking. It’s only those who buy the text wholesale as the ‘word of God’ who tend to state what you’ve just stated. Those of us with critical faculties and who haven’t bought the God thing can easily see a good 90% of it is just boring. It’s just a fact, mate. You may not like it, but it’s just a fact. 👍
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  17546.  @brotimes7879  You - “I guess I find 91% of Shakespeare incredibly dull and tedious.” Also you - “I actually like Shakespeare.” 🤦‍♂️Make up your mind, son!
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  17547.  @brotimes7879  K, bro. I need to clock off. Cheers, son! 👍
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  17548.  @brotimes7879  Another thing: isn’t it interesting that your religion of choice just happens to be the majority religion obtaining in the country of your birth? If you had been born in Tokyo, you’d no doubt be following some other invisible sky daddy other or no sky daddy at all. Or Tehran. Or New Delhi. Or Beijing. 😉
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  17549.  @brotimes7879 Lol. Shakespeare is infinitely more interesting and engaging than the Bible, pal. Virtually every line he wrote is pregnant with human wisdom and worldly wisdom. If you’re deaf to that, that’s your loss. But that’s the difference: too much of your ‘good book’ is just rambling padding. Too easy to lose interest after a few lines, unless you actually believe it as ‘the word of God’.
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  17550.  @brotimes7879  “Christianity being the only religion in the world in which God made himself human”… yeah, but c’mon, man. That’s just convenient for Christians and Christianity when we all know the whole shebang was stolen wholesale from the dying/resurrecting pagan gods and repackaged for a Christian audience. Outside the gospels/Paul/gnostic stuff, there is very little evidence Jesus even existed historically. A mention here and there in the Jewish/Roman histories but very little. You don’t have to try and convince me of anything. I’ve read the texts and I’ve read texts on the texts and texts on the texts on the texts and still my working conclusion is that I think Jesus is just a nice story that had been told in a slightly different form to comfort humans and their natural fear of death. There might be a God. Who knows? I don’t. Neither do you. 👍😉
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  17551.  @brotimes7879  No. You’ve got it all wrong: I don’t like the Bible because I find 90% of it dry, dull and incredibly tedious. Nice try, though.👍
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  17552.  @sanaalkhalil You know nothing about me. You’ve thrown your religious eggs into the Islamic basket. That’s fine. That doesn’t prevent all organised religion being manmade and therefore being infinitely fallible. As a wise person once said: We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. I say that not actually as an atheist, but as an honest person who just does not know and rules nothing out; not because I fear some eternal hell, but because I don’t know.
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  17553.  @brotimes7879  How do you know what I’ve been ‘exposed to’? You know f*ck-all about me, pal! 🤣👍 Your presumptuous arrogance is staggering!
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  17554.  @mreshadow  Not sure what you mean. 🤔 I just think. If you’re talking texts, I read something at 18 and 3 decades later I haven’t read anything to top it. It goes like this: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. (Walt Whitman)
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  17555.  @sanaalkhalil Oh, I’ve read the Koran, pal. It’s a disaster zone of primitive self-contradictory dangerous nonsense my life can easily do without. It threatens you if you don’t obey. It pretends there is no compulsion… Quran 2:256: “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong.” …but in the next breath it tells us: Quran 9:5: “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” Killing people if they don’t repent, establish prayer, etc is coercion/compulsion. You can’t hold a gun to someone’s head, say they have a choice, and also say they aren’t being coerced. It’s all poppycock, invented by men, principally for men.
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  17556. There are 3 viable options here: 1. ISIS 2. Russia false flag 3. US/Ukraine Tbh, all 3 are plausible. Victoria Nuland, just last month, warned Russia of some “nasty surprises” and explicitly used the phrase “asymmetric warfare” (i.e. terrorism). It’s easy to imagine a US state-sponsored ‘ISIS’ terrorist attack on Russia. It’s equally easy to imagine Putin staging a false flag attack and blaming it on Ukraine to shore up support for the war permit him more movement in Ukraine. The danger with this one is the Russian people being so shocked by the breach of national security they lose faith in Putin as leader. If I had to bet on one, it would be a disgruntled ISIS. They have several reasons to not be happy with Russia: Chechnya; Syria; Moscow/Tehran relationship and just an oppression of Muslims in general over the decades, actually going back to the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
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  17557. Mr Soucie looks like British journalist, Kevin Maguire. Spooky. 👻
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  17558. Yeah, but Concord was essentially a plane-sized bullet. Physics and ballistics would predict it would be less prone to turbulence.
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  17559. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  17560. Yes, but what are you going to call a hermaphrodite? Not so simple, huh?🤔
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  17561. You can tell this is a set-up simply by the angle of the popcorn bag. Harry’s inviting the kid to ‘spontaneously’ partake of the snack. 🍿
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  17562. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17563. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  17564. If I had to pick one writer who shaped my thinking more than any other it would be Emerson, along with his compadres, Whitman and Thoreau. He’s so eminently quotable and here are my Top 10 favourites of his: 1. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 2. Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. 3. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 4. Once you make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen 5. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. 6. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 7. You become what you think about all day long. 8. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. 9. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. 10. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Like the stars ✨ in the firmament there are countless others, but perhaps I should end with this, thereby not taking Emerson’s advice: I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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  17565. “While Joe’s Biden his time, I’ll Putin a word with Vladimir.”
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  17566. I agree with most of that. However, I consider myself a centre-left liberal and am 100% against biological boys (trans women) competing in biological girls’ sports. Too often this debate is framed as left vs right when many left-leaning people I know agree with everything the professor said here. It just so happens that the trans activists themselves tend to be wholly left of centre. Don’t confuse other leftish liberals with these activists.
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  17567.  @cr41gieboy Still a male. 👍
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  17568.  TheAbele992  Nah, m8. For the vast majority the issue isn’t race. Bad luck.👍
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  17569.  @victorlazslo2757 Santa Claus? 🎅
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  17570. These Chinese have no place behaving like that in St Pancras. I bet even the King’s cross!
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  17571. The way I compare the UK and US versions of The Office is how I compare an original version of a movie with its remake. The original version, with one or two admirable exceptions, is far better.😳
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  17572. What I don’t get is why under every Bill Hicks video at least 25% of the comments reference Jones; yet I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone reference Hicks under a Jones video. Weird.🤔 It seems Bill Hicks might be Alex Jones but Alex Jones might not be Bill Hicks. Spooky.
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  17573. I wonder if on a planet circling Proxima Centauri they have a channel with clips of ‘Top 10 Possible Earthling Sightings’.
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  17574. @26:25 The evidence is clear: the main cause of climate change is burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal. When burnt, fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the air, causing the planet to heat up. The climate on Earth has been changing since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. Until recently, natural factors have been the cause of these changes. Natural influences on the climate include volcanic eruptions, changes in the orbit of the Earth, and shifts in the Earth's crust (known as plate tectonics). Over the past one million years, the Earth has experienced a series of ice ages, including cooler periods (glacials) and warmer periods (interglacials). Glacial and interglacial periods cycle roughly every 100,000 years, caused by changes in Earth's orbit around the sun. For the past few thousand years, Earth has been in an interglacial period with a constant temperature. However, since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, the global temperature has increased at a much faster rate. By burning fossil fuels and changing how we use the land, human activity has quickly become the leading cause of changes to our climate. He’s also wrong about water vapour, too. For although water vapour probably accounts for about 60% of the Earth's greenhouse warming effect, water vapour does not control the Earth's temperature. Because these gases are not condensable at atmospheric temperatures and pressures, the atmosphere can pack in much more of these gases. Seemingly, Icke never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. For Icke, it’s a case of when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. He can just continue to spout his factually incorrect legend, and let the fact checkers be damned!😳
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  17575. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  17576. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  17577. Alert: Jordan Peterson is seen with woman. Cue the misogynistic fanboys leaping to their hero’s defence. ‘Oh, Jordy, gobble, gobble, yes, Jordy, gobble gobble, three bags full, gobble, gobble, we’ll protect you from that horrid womanhood, gobble, gobble. Do you still want me, Jordy? Gobble, gobble.’🥸
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  17578. When I look at these guys, I can’t help but recall that greatest of philosophers, Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us. 🥾
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  17579. Government machines are far far too large for whistleblowers not to come out in their dozens if any of the conspiracy theories are real. Put it this way, if I had been privy to UFOs/aliens first hand as a government employee, I’d consider leaking information if I thought it in the best interests of the rest.👽
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  17580.  @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 I also dig the use of the phrase ‘participation ribbons in life’. Rather poetic. Hope it’s all yours! 😉
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  17581.  @ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 I agree the OP is horrendously crass and deeply unfunny but it’s called ‘free-speech’, dear. Love Sigourney, though! ❤️
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  17582.  @Opinion-k7k The irony of someone called ‘Just My Opinion’ banning others from expressing an opinion. 🤦‍♂️
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  17583.  @keiranbradley3238 Er, what?
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  17584.  @thejookking  Huh? 🤔 You have absolutely no idea where I’m from. It’s nothing to do with this country or that country, it’s to do with the idea that I don’t understand why people like you get your knickers in a twist with gays. S’all. It’s pointless.
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  17585.  @rsync9490  👍
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  17586.  @NiklasHansen-pf3ry  Wtf? 🤬 🥴
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  17587.  @disciplesofJesusChrist  It’s not ‘deviant’ in my eyes. Think on.
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  17588.  @kondjanegongo796  Why are you dictating with whom others can f*ck, but they can’t dictate to you who you must f*ck?
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  17589.  @lucabrasi3964  Really? Are you talking about your own comment? You have the brass neck to moan about someone’s pronunciation yet you don’t appear aware of the very basic difference between ‘it’s’ and ‘its’? Pots and kettles spring to mind, son.
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  17590. *it’s
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  17591.  @УланБияров  Huh? But it is how it works. If you’ve prosecuted a war that, hitherto, has seen very few hits in your own backyard, and then you suddenly start seeing explosions right next to you, you’re gonna start questioning your leader. Nice try though, Ivan.👍
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  17592. Control. Pure and simple. Population control. China’s government not so subtly reminding its subjects who’s the boss. Not that they needed reminding in that state.
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  17593. I was never a member of their club in the first place!
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  17594.  @nguyendung9157  Lol. I think you have the wrong thread.🤣
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  17595. Well, to be fair, although he’s not American, Gary O’Donoghue is willing to turn a blind eye.
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  17596.  @barabbasrosebud9282  Ok, well you do believe in the evolution of species by natural selection, it seems. You are just a bit cosmic with it and link it to the Universe.
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  17597.  @Romello_Pietersz  You also sent me that one 18 hours ago and I sent you the reply 18 hours ago. Do keep up, man!
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  17598.  @Romello_Pietersz  You sent me that 18 hours ago and I sent you my reply 18 hours ago. Do keep up, man!
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  17599.  @Romello_Pietersz  Give me one piece of evidence for the historicity of Jesus.
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  17600.  @Romello_Pietersz  I just did, dipshit. Read it again.
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  17601.  @Romello_Pietersz  The fact we need annual flu vaccines is an observable piece of evidence.
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  17602. @GretsGarbo No one does anything inappropriate given their model of the world.
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  17603. As Pascal said, we are all fragile ‘thinking reeds’ on a 4 billion-year-old rock spinning on its axis at 1,000 mph whilst moving around a nuclear furnace through space at 67,000 mph; a rock subject to multifarious natural phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires … but none of these ‘acts of nature’ can compare with what humankind does to itself. As Burns put it: Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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  17604. Lol@“hopefully this month”.🤣 You brainwashed nutters have been saying that for 2,000 years!
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  17605. It’s when the manager puts on some lingerie.
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  17606.  @julia2k8  It’s always the ones who are guilty who accuse others, Jules. Think on, hen.👍😳😉
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  17607.  @julia2k8  Lol. She accuses me of ‘projection’ when every post to me for the past year has included ‘groomer’!🤣 Hypocrites r Us. 🤣 Could be Julia has lesbian tendencies she’s covering up.👍😉
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  17608.  @julia2k8  There is no God. Cope. Groomer.
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  17609. Groomer.
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  17610. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  17611.  @peterclarke7006  Oh ffs! 🤦‍♂️ You appear to have left your sense of humour at the front door, Petey petal. Lighten up ffs.
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  17612. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  17613. What Putin’s engaging in is akin to building an extension to his already extensive house, having been refused planning permission. 🏠
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  17614.  @HouseholdDog  If you are born, raised and educated in Scotland, I think you’re entitled to call yourself Scottish. We’ll have to disagree on this.
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  17615.  @lks6248 That’s not the point. The point is that there are thousands of white people who are Scottish who have Italian, Irish, Polish etc ancestry. By your mad logic, they don’t qualify as ‘Scottish’ either. But you don’t make this clear. You only pick on the brown Muslim. Quelle surprise!
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  17616. So he hates himself then. 🥴
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  17617.  @rapid8748  It doesn’t work like that. It’s called ‘SELF-determination’ for a reason.
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  17618. Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!” 🧐
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  17619.  @memofromessex  *whom
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  17620.  @Scapestoat  I’m not saying that at all. I fully support stolen loot being returned from where it was stolen. My point was rather simple: this should be applied across the board and not just be a British thing.
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  17621.  @Stancehall  Jesus. This is boring. “But mummy, I am right!” 🥱
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  17622.  @Stancehall  Didn’t add any ‘stipulations’. Wanting it applied across the board is not a ‘stipulation’ preventing the handing back of these jewels tomorrow. You’re really not very good at this are you?
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  17623.  @alexsilent5603  Nice one, Al. You keep keep upvoting yersel son! 🤦‍♂️👍
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  17624.  @alexsilent5603  Er, y r u upvoting urself, Al? Tragic. 🤦‍♂️
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  17625.  @Stancehall  No it’s not. I happen to think all looted objects should be returned to where they were looted from. All! Not just those of the great big bad British Empire.
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  17626.  @alexsilent5603  Accident of birth, m8. Shoulda been born elsewhere.😉
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  17627.  @Stancehall Where am I ‘defending thieves’? 🤔
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  17628.  @Stancehall  Huh? I never stole anything. You’re off yer rocker, hen!
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  17629.  @alexsilent5603  And, again just for the record, it’s not my colonisation as I personally am not benefitting from these jewels. Moreover, I’m an anti-colonialist. Nice try, though.👍
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  17630.  @alexsilent5603  Ok, so just apply that rule across the board. See my OP.
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  17631. Immigration worries in Europe are mostly about Islam, pure and simple. Most people have no real issue with strictly controlled legal immigration of Indians, Chinese, South Americans, North Americans, Japanese, non-Islamic Africans etc. This issue isn’t about race. It’s ideological. People feel threatened by the rate at which Islam is being imported into Europe. It’s also just about the very basic idea that when someone knocks on my door, I like to vet them before they’re admitted into my house. The end.
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  17632.  @tobehonest7541  I, like every impartial person I know, apropos the Israel/Palestine issue, am for a 2-state solution to it. That both sides in that particular dispute are so ass-headed and stubborn that they cannot negotiate is not the fault of the rest of us. As to your fallacious assertion that it hasn’t been covered by the media in the past 70 years, well, you’re just wrong. As I recall, the flare-up just last year was extensively covered from the point of view of both parties. Put away whatever tendentious hat you’re sporting and try to look at this a bit more impartially.
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  17633. Lie. It does and has. The Palestinian thing has been rumbling on for decades so it’s not likely they are going to saturate their schedules at this point with that particular issue. You need to think about this a bit more.
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  17634. Decent singer. I loved ‘Smooth Operator’.👍
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  17635. 🤣
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  17636. ‘Coloured ones’? Last time I checked we are all ‘coloured’. 🤦‍♂️
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  17637. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  17638.  @tastypymp1287  This really isn’t that difficult, darling: I don’t judge people on their skin colour or sexuality for that would just be moronic. 🤡
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  17639.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic)! 🤣😂😅😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🥲😂🤣🤣 Dipshit. 😭
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  17640.  @tastypymp1287  Not foolish at all. It’s perfectly logical. Seethe.
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  17641.  @GIBBO4182  PS. Don’t forget Hitler was white. 🤡
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  17642.  @GIBBO4182  Well, that’s bollocks, as slavery was happening in early white hunter-gatherer tribes long before it was institutionalised. Nice try though, Gibbon. 🐵👍😉
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  17643. Don’t forget Hitler was white.
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  17644.  @lks6248  😉👍
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  17645.  @lks6248  Ok, I think we may have had crossed wires. You are talking about contraception/birth control being the prime responsibility of the woman, I think; not the actual decision of the creation of the baby itself.
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  17646.  @lks6248  I’m astonished that you’re saying men shouldn’t 50/50 share the responsibility for creating a baby. You are doing a great disservice to women in saying this.
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  17647.  @kiyanhakim384  We’ll agree to disagree then. Perhaps ‘respect’ is a better word than ‘fear’, but for me, even with ‘fear’, the quote hits the spot.
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  17648.  @yeshuaislord6880  Who isn’t?
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  17649.  @cosmoray9750  Ever heard of grammar check, buddy?
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  17650.  @peorakef  A lot of “stuff” about what, exactly?
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  17651.  @peorakef  Or it’s just a good old-fashioned coincidence.😉👍
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  17652.  @rvdb7363 I know we’re all gonna die anyway, but having a severe allergy to certain foods must make life a bit of a nightmare. The way you describe it, it’s not far off that even if you look at an apple you suffer a reaction. Must make life in terms of eating out the home very tricky.
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  17653.  @ashleyw.6702  Yes, I know that. Why do people have to be so pedantic to score a point? I was just making the general point that those with allergies needs to be very, very careful with food prepared by others. 🤦‍♂️
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  17654. Slightly creepy when you’re uploading videos of your own daughter. 🤦‍♂️
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  17655.  @davidparry5310 I disagree. I’m not against immigration, just against a country like, say, the UK, importing over 1% of its population in foreigners year-on-year. S’all. Nice try, though. 👍
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  17656. Defeeting 🦶 Islamic State sure will help stop the beheadings.
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  17657. Defeeting 🦶 Islamic State sure will help stop the beheadings.
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  17658.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  This isn’t a ‘max’, though, love.
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  17659. Hillary.
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  17660.  @rabidcujocrazy7462  *never mind
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  17661. Really? Here’s me thinking that casualties are the first casualty of war.👀
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  17662. You were just looking for likes. Admit it. You didn’t even say anything funny or original, but I clicked! 😳
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  17663. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  17664. If ever proof were needed, that after 300,000-odd years, that we are still a very primitive species, it’s this. One man, one fucking man plays out his whim. No one else but him wants this. So, my very basic question is this: why do we tolerate him?😳
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  17665. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👀
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  17666. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  17667. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
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  17668.  @tracktimevideos5164  Bot? Not me, mate.
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  17669.  @tracktimevideos5164  It’s rather a lot to do with NATO/US, actually.
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  17670. Funny how strangers in comments sections think they know anything. Stfu.
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  17671.  @djx7134  K, Mr Kubansky. You always were weak sauce, Mr Kubansky. NGL, chief.👍
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  17672.  @djx7134  Huh? No idea wtf yer on about, son. You have no clue about me or my opinions on anything. Apart from you and your 0 YouTube subscribers, Mr Kubansky.🤣
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  17673. He doesn’t give a sh*t. His will overrides everything.
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  17674.  @carollund8251  You’re unusual then, in my experience. Most multilingual people I know have few problems translating and quickly switching from language to language: invariably, these people have been brought up in multilingual households.
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  17675. If ever proof were needed, that after 300,000-odd years, that we are still a very primitive species, it’s this. One man, one fucking man plays out his whim. No one else but him wants this. So, my very basic question is this: why do we tolerate him?😳
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  17676. Lol. You say that as if Iran hasn’t been sponsoring regular attacks on Israel for the past 45 years! 🤣✌️
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  17677.  @1newme425  What ‘observations’? Not sure wtf you’re on about. Not totally sure you’ve ‘observed’ anything, tbh.
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  17678.  @1newme425  Not denigrating anything, sweetheart. Just pointing out that, as a rule, US cities are horrendously ugly. However, you have some natural beauty to compensate for this. My point here was rather simple: here in Europe we have all that natural beauty + beautiful villages/towns/cities. Cope.
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  17679.  @1newme425  America, in the purely urban sense is horrendously ugly. You are saved by the natural beauty. Here’s the difference, though: we in Europe have the natural beauty to compete with America, but we have so, so, so much more, particularly when it comes to jaw-droppingly beautiful villages/towns/cities. In my experience, those folks who trumpet the US as the nation, par excellence, are those Americans who don’t have, and have never had a passport.
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  17680. @michaelalvarado6211 Triggered, much?🤣
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  17681.  @zonie1953  Indeed, it is. 😊
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  17682. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17683.  @johnpatrick1647  Yes. We honour all self-determination votes. All of them. The only reason these are not honoured is that human beings are still so fucking primitive they can’t live without some meaningless, arbitrary, random accident of birth to shore up their identity.😳
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  17684. Lol. You ‘extra snob’! We’ve all gotta start somewhere!
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  17685.  @AwkballOddward  I get it, bud. Think on.
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  17686.  @justinfranchi5936  No bot here, m8. All my own work. 🤓
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  17687. Are you nuts? NATO enforcing a no-fly zone will mean curtains for this planet as soon as they are forced to shoot down a Russian plane. Jesus. You are more dangerous than Zelensky himself who is clearly desperate to drag the rest of us into WW3. This is Ukraine’s fight. Yes, help out with weapons, but I, a Brit, have nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia. I’m indifferent to them both.
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  17688.  @parapencarinasibungkus2680  What do you mean? I don’t follow. I’m neutral here. Agnostic, apolitical, anational. I’m calling this from the sidelines. What Putin is doing is wrong. However, he’s only doing what the West has done for centuries. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  17689.  @dutchalwayshasaplan4956  No one thinks your edgy emo comment is funny.
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  17690.  @dutchalwayshasaplan4956  Huh?
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  17691.  @lucutes2936  They have ‘thought it through’: they’re not invading. I, for one, am glad of this, for if they do invade we are genuinely, all of us, threatened with thermonuclear annihilation where we will all fry like moths in a candle flame. 🔥
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  17692.  @junkfoodguy  Huh?
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  17693. Full disclosure: I’m agnostic, apolitical and anational. I just don’t want to be incinerated in a thermonuclear annihilation scenario, that’s all. But this needs to be said, if we are to have any understanding as to what is going on here: Putin is not mad; rather, he considers NATO/USA/West an encroaching mortal threat, and I think he has a point. It’s too easy to label him as Vlad the Mad, the unhinged, sexually repressed freak (he’s that, all right - if he just came out he could save us a whole lotta trouble here), but he’s simply acting according to his vision of the world. Where I and Vlad part company, is where he invades self-governing, sovereign territories, no matter how much he may think he has a claim on them, like in some geopolitical version of a child-custody battle. However, it’s vitally important we don’t paint Putin as this non-human ‘monster’; he’s far from that.😳
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  17694. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘war on ignorance’ , but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  17695. Jesus would never have approved of setting people alight.
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  17696.  @rosiehawtrey  That makes no fucking sense. If the tea is polonium-ridden, wouldn’t the vodka also be this, if made in the same place? Last time I checked, vodka is water-based, polonium-ridden or not.😉
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  17697. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  17698. Never mind ‘impeach’ him; I’d rather stick a banana where the sun don’t shine. 🍌 ☀️
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  17699. “We are not supposed to fly. We have legs.” By that logic we’re not supposed to drive, either, and you should be walking or running everywhere! 🚶‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️
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  17700.  @FuckTrumpFuckYouIfYouVoted4Him  Wow! You’ve really got it in for planes, haven’t you? I’ll say this again: statistically, you’re hundreds of times more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than in a plane crash after you’ve left the airport.
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  17701. Do you drive? If you do, you’re hundreds of times more likely to die on the way to the airport than in a plane incident.
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  17702. Diddy did do it, didn’t he?
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  17703.  @jandrost4664  🥱
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  17704.  @jandrost4664  I did. You didn’t.
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  17705.  @jandrost4664  Go away. You’re boring and wrong. You, too, have a nice day.👍
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  17706.  @jandrost4664  Go away. Bored. 🥱
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  17707.  @jandrost4664  And having someone believing in invisible sky daddies telling me I’m believing in “fairytales” is staggeringly hypocritical and funny at the same time. You develop some self-awareness as you are all over the place, petal. Don’t take that wrong.
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  17708.  @jandrost4664  Just saying “I told you facts” without one piece of evidence for these “facts” doesn’t make them facts. No, go away, as you’re deeply boring and stupid.
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  17709.  @jandrost4664  🥱
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  17710.  @jandrost4664  Just for the record, everything you said was poppycock and meaningless. There was not a single piece of credible evidence for your bizarre flat-Earth theory. Also, I asked for some evidence of your God, so please can you supply that?
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  17711.  @jandrost4664  Lol. That all you got?!?! You go back to skool, son! 🤣 Either that, or seek help for your paranoia. 😉
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  17712.  @jandrost4664  Frankly, I can’t quite believe you are operating under the theory that the Earth is flat. I work with science in these matters and the overwhelming credible scientific evidence points to a spinning ellipsoid Earth. 1. Watch a ship sail off to sea Without being in the sky, it is impossible to see the curvature of the Earth. However, you can always see a demonstration of this if you visit a harbour or any place with a wide-open view of the water. If you are able to watch a ship sail off to sea, watch its mast and flag as it fades off into the distance. You will notice that, in fact, it does not "fade off into the distance" at all; instead, you will see its mast and flag appear to slowly sink. The ship sailed beyond the point at which you would see it. Just to be sure, bring a pair of binoculars with you so that you can see even farther off into the distance. It's as if you're watching it go over to the other side of a hill. This phenomenon can only be explained by a sphere-shaped planet. 2. Watch a lunar eclipse Solar eclipses get all the attention, but if you are able to catch a glimpse of a lunar eclipse, you can see evidence that the Earth is, indeed, round. Here's how it works: Earth passes between the moon and sun, so that the sun projects Earth’s shadow onto the Moon in the night sky. You've probably seen a partial lunar eclipse without even noticing it; if the moon looks orange, that's a sign of a lunar eclipse. If you've ever seen a total lunar eclipse, you probably noticed that the shadow did not look like this. A round shadow crossed over a round object. This does not sound like a thing that would happen if we were on a plane with all of the celestial bodies simply hovering overhead—or, perhaps more asinine, if the sun were orbiting Earth and not vice versa. 3. Climb a tree Imagine a vast plane with but one tree smack in the middle. If the earth were flat, your vision would extend exactly as far while standing at the base of the tree as it would when at the top of the tree. However, the farther you climb, the farther your line of sight will extend to the horizon. That's because parts of Earth that were concealed from view by its curvature are now revealed because your position has changed. Back to the vast plane. The naked eye can see objects that are millions of miles away in space. Theoretically, with a clear line of sight on a clear night, one would also be able to see bright lights from far-away cities. That this is not possible is further evidence of a round, not flat, Earth 4. Travel through, or even within, different time zones According to a 2008 paper in Applied Optics by David K. Lynch, the curvature of the earth becomes somewhat visible at an elevation of 35,000 feet (with a >60° field of view) and more easily visible at an elevation of 50,000 feet. So if you're on the right commercial flight, you might be able to see the curvature of the earth with your own two eyes. In the event that you're not high enough, though, you can still experience the curvature of the earth another way. For example, if you were to fly all the way around the world, you'd find that it would be nighttime in part of the world and daytime in another part. In that way, the existence of time zones itself is proof that the Earth is round. Taken another way, you wouldn't even need to travel through different time zones. Time zones are wide enough that you will see the sun rising and/or setting later in the western part of a time zone than in the eastern part. According to the Farmers' Almanac, the sun will rise and set roughly four minutes later for every 70 miles you drive from east to west. If you wanted to combine this experiment with the previous one, you could note how much more of Earth you can see when you begin your ascent into the air than you can while you are sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off. 5. Watch a sunset Pick a nice spot from which you can watch a sunset (we'll call this point A). Ideally, you'd have a clear horizon in front of you, and behind you would be some sort of elevated point that you can quickly access (a hill, a building with at least two floors, or perhaps the aforementioned tree; we'll call this point B). Watch the sunset from point A, and once the sun is out of sight, hurry on over to point B. With the added elevation provided by point B, you should be able to see the sun above the horizon. If Earth were flat, the sun would not be visible at any elevation once it had set. Because Earth is round, the sun will come back into your line of sight. If you don't have a hill, you could even try lying on your stomach to watch the sunset and then standing up to get a higher line of sight. 6. Measure shadows across the country Pick two locations that are some distance apart (at least a couple hundred miles from each other and on the same meridian). Grab two sticks or dowels (or other objects) of equal length, two tape measures, and a friend. Each of you will take one stick/dowel/object and one tape measure to your location, stick the object into the ground, and measure the shadow. (For accuracy, you should both take your measurements at the same time of day.) On a flat Earth, the shadow that is cast by each would be of the same length. However, if you and your friend compare notes, you'll find that one shadow was longer than the other. That's because, due to the curvature of Earth, the sun will hit one part of Earth at one angle and another part of Earth at a different angle even at the same time of day. This experiment has been around since about 240 B.C., when Greek mathematician Eratosthenes compared the shadows cast in both Syene—now Aswan, Egypt—and Alexandria on the summer solstice. Eratosthenes had learned of a well in Syene where once a year on the summer solstice, the sun would illuminate the entire bottom of the well and tall buildings and other objects would not cast a shadow. However, he noticed that shadows were being cast on the summer solstice in Alexandria, so he measured the angle of the shadow and found it to be an angle of about 7.2°. 7. Google "International Space Station photos" Seriously, just look at some of the amazing photos you’ll find. There appears to be quite the curvature there. Now if you’d like to provide evidence to back your flat-Earth theory and God, I’d be grateful.
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  17713.  @jandrost4664  🤣
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  17714. 🤣 Here’s another tinfoil hat to add to your extensive collection! 🎩
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  17715. Grammar. *What’s
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  17716.  @gfys756  Word to the wise, sonny: you need sort your vowels out before coming across all conspiratorial and “Psssst, hey, man! I know what’s goin’ down”, as judging by your spelling you’re all over the shop! 🤣
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  17717.  @gfys756  You have no clue who I am or what I am. Utterly no clue. This much is clear. No one owns me. No one has ever owned me. No one will ever own me. You’re hilarious in your blind assumptions about who I am and my lived reality. Think on. 😉
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  17718.  @gfys756  Have no fear, son. I repeat, if any numpty enforces their religious pish on me, they’ll have to kill me before I kill them.
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  17719.  @gfys756  Am I? As an agnostic, I give not a sh*t about Islam, and it’ll be over my dead body if some religious crap is forcibly imposed on me. Religion should be a wholly private matter. Believe in your various sky daddies, but just count me out. And if you count me in against my will, you’ll know about it, trust me.
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  17720. Given Putin’s repressed homosexuality and his projected disdain for the LGBT community, we can be sure Putin won’t be riding the Trans Siberian Express!
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  17721. Lol. Wearing a colourful shirt is now a crime is it?😂
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  17722. Of course it was a “lab leak”. Moreover, it was an intentional lab leak. The whole thing was planned. It was a test-run to see just how much we are willing to sacrifice our liberty in the name of “health security”. Make no mistake about it: there will be another “lab leak” in the not too distant future, as our masters seek control.
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  17723.  @felixmadison5736  I’ve read about 80% of Freud. That’s a whole lotta Freud!😉
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  17724.  @hetfield144  *You *a lot *I Now, trot on, son. 🐴
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  17725.  @rondaleroi  Nowt wrong with my spelling, petal. Seethe.
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  17726.  @christianwolf68  And your lack of basic punctuation proves you are not my worth my time.
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  17727.  @christianwolf68  Punctate better, son. If you don’t, you’re liable not to get a response from me, petal. Don’t take that wrong.👍
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  17728. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there was always something more than slightly suspect about Hanks. His right-on, ‘I am right you are wrong’ schtick always seemed suspect. And when he visibly cringed when Ricky Gervais wonderfully ripped into the Hollywood A-list at the Golden Globes, that made me suspect him, too. There’s just something ‘off’ about him I can’t fully put my finger on. I don’t think he necessarily is, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he was found out to be one.
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  17729.  @johnstallings4049  Cringe.
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  17730. @will hardy Yes, I know what rusks are; I’ve eaten many before I was 2. What I don’t get is why they were brought up here.
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  17731.  @Dean4511  Yep. The cold hard reality of everyday geopolitics would not disagree with you. I’m just making the basic, fundamental case for self-determination based on a majority vote, that’s all. No one said human beings were simple creatures.
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  17732.  @Dean4511  I agree with most of that, but you seem to be ignoring the Ukrainian elephant in the NATO room: the majority of Ukrainians look west, not north; are you going to, in an authoritarian manner, deny what the majority seem to want, just because a spoiled child like Putin lurks to the north?
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  17733.  @jeanclaudejunior  He was ‘enlightened’ in many ways, but he hated the Jews. He fell into the lazy trope of caricaturing them. It’s well documented.
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  17734.  @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS  Not that simple. I suspect you know that. We’ll agree to disagree.👍
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  17735.  @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS  I agree with that bit. Having looked into this quite a bit, here’s my provisional conclusion as I currently see it: Zelensky is a Western stooge fronting a proxy war for the West. He is a CIA-installed puppet there to act as a buffer to Putin’s expansionist intentions. This war all along has been about America and the West goading Putin to hit Ukraine, which he duly did. All that said, my bottom line here is simple: if a majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin and are looking West, not East, then this majority opinion should be honoured in the existence of a sovereign, independent, self-governing Ukraine. Now, because Russian/Soviet and Ukrainian history are so intertwined down the centuries, this was never going to be easy as there does appear to be a significant minority of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who look to Moscow more than Kiev. My guess is that if Putin could get away with holding Crimea, and the Donbas area and its environs, he would walk away tomorrow. However, this would be very dangerous on Ukraine’s part to concede these things, as it sends the wrong message that if Russia chooses to attack its neighbours it gets a few prizes, albeit not the big prize of Ukraine in toto, simply because the wellspring of opinion there is overwhelmingly looking to NATO/West for its inspiration. So, bro., it’s never quite ‘that simple’. Human affairs never are.😉
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  17736.  @BellaBehave  Lol. You speak as if Zelensky is a totally whiter than white innocent here!🤣 You , chum, need to learn a little more ‘Ukrainian history’. Put your agenda away and apply a little rational, non-tendentious thought.😉
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  17737. You’re right. Can’t do it now as Kiev is a no-fries zone. 🍟 ✈️
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  17738.  hollywood6471  Huh? Not even American here, sonny.😉
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  17739.  @yellow4563  I agree. Check it.😉
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  17740.  @NYC-SLOTS  Hehe.👍
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  17741. The truth of this whole thing is rather simple: Zelensky is a Western stooge fronting a proxy war for the West. He is a CIA-installed puppet there to act as a buffer to Putin’s expansionist intentions. This war all along has been about America and the West goading Putin to hit Ukraine, which he duly did. All that said, my bottom line here is simple: if a majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Putin and are looking West, not East, then this majority opinion should be honoured in the existence of a sovereign, independent, self-governing Ukraine. Now, because Russian/Soviet and Ukrainian history are so intertwined down the centuries, this was never going to be easy as there does appear to be a significant minority of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who look to Moscow more than Kiev. My guess is that if Putin could get away with holding Crimea, and the Donbas area and its environs, he would walk away tomorrow. However, this would be very dangerous on Ukraine’s part to concede these things, as it sends the wrong message that if Russia chooses to attack its neighbours it gets a few prizes, albeit not the big prize of Ukraine in toto, simply because the wellspring of opinion there is overwhelmingly looking to NATO/West for its inspiration.
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  17742. Yes, you are.
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  17743. Ultimately though, none of this stuff matters. It’s all a game, scripted and directed by our masters. Carlin, as ever, nailed this one: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.”
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  17744. Mr Litman has a touch of the Peter Hitchens about him.
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  17745. You love gay lads. 😁
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  17746. This is not a straight porn Channel. Calm down, sweetie.
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  17747.  @greyroom6730  🤣👍
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  17748. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  17749. Putin reminds me of the human equivalent of a Cold War landmine that wasn’t made safe and cleared back in 1989. He’s been left to lie there in plain sight because we were too lazy/negligent to defuse him.😳
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  17750. @PZ20JacobCouttsRogue Uh huh.
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  17751. @PZ20JacobCouttsRogue Lol.
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  17752. @PZ20JacobCouttsRogue Wot?🥸
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  17753. I always find it interesting that often the most vociferous supporters of Putin’s Russia aren’t actually living in Putin’s Russia. Words are cheap.
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  17754. Ffs. How many times do we need to see this? 🤦‍♂️
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  17755. If there were ever more proof of just how primitive we are as a species is the fact that 300,000 years after we appeared on the scene we cannot simply stop one unhinged, weird creep from quite possibly taking us into mutual nuclear annihilation. 😔 Make no mistake, this psychopath has nothing to lose at 70 and he’ll bring on Armageddon without a second thought if we aren’t careful.
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  17756. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  17757. Well, this could yet be a validation for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us: ‘Vladimir’ apparently means ‘world ruler’. 🌎
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  17758. Slight hypocrisy there to say the least given American foreign invasions/interventions these past 250 years.
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  17759. Says the guy with the Scottish name. Should we deport you back to Scotland?
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  17760.  @domerame5913  *Ivan *It’s Don’t come at me, son, if you can’t get the basics right. Brainwashing doesn’t count. 👍
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  17761.  @domerame5913  Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? I was the one backing multilingualism here. I fear you have the wrong fella. 🤦‍♂️
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  17762. I bet his English is better than your Russian. 👍
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  17763.  @domerame5913  *Russian *Ukranian *. Looks like it might be you who needs the ‘education’, son.👍
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  17764.  @johningram9081  Ah, but it’s true. Check it. 😉
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  17765. The whole point of this stuff is the jeopardy; safety nets and ropes would kill it for everyone; viewer and doer.
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  17766. Brave though. Are you jealous?
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  17767. Because he can.
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  17768. @0:37 Breaking News: Highest bpm heartbeat ever seen in human being!
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  17769.  @scythal  👌
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  17770. Do you ever think Putin’s children ever have a quiet word in his ear: “C’mon dad. Really?”😳
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  17771.  @mikewagner1614  🤣👍
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  17772. You loons have been saying that since before Jesus actually died! How much longer do we have to wait? 🤣👍
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  17773. Lol.
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  17774.  @JB-uf3sx  He attacks. Period. That he attacks women more harshly than men is hardly news, ffs. You talked about it like you were surprised.
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  17775.  @boombasett6038  Oh, I never said Trump wasn’t sexist/racist; I just said he roasts men as well.
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  17776. A simple suggestion: 1 bullet.😳
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  17777. My stance in this whole issue: 1) There are 2 sexes. 2) You cannot change sex. 3) I accept that some individuals feel they are the opposite of their biological sex. 4) If a biological male wants me to call him a ‘her’, or if a biological female wants me to call her a ‘him’, I have no particular issue with this. 5) Transgender females must not be allowed to compete in biological female sports. 6) Biological women-only spaces (restrooms/changing rooms) must be kept that way. I have a problem with biological males accessing these spaces. 7) The end.
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  17778. Dr Shola? Middle-class? Shola shome mishtake.😳
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  17779. *Poitier
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  17780. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson, which captures perfectly the predicament of those toeing a party line, come what may: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  17781. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson, which captures perfectly the predicament of those toeing a party line, come what may: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  17782. He’s like an ersatz Frankie Boyle; aiming too hard for the shock tactics, and landing like a damp squib. He reminds me of a 16 year old who’s ditched his Gameboy for 5 minutes and been let out to mix it with the adults for an evening. Proof that he’s a talentless non-entity, if that were needed, are his cringeworthy , unfunny, flat appearances on GB News where he appears as nothing so much as the pub bore droning on in a deeply witless manner. My theory about Kearse is that he’s taken in a large swathe of his fan base with his accent. Non-Scots hear him and think, this sounds Boylesque and blunt enough to give it whirl. As a Scot, I can tell you this guy wouldn’t get ranked in a ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ contest in most small towns up here. His fateful flaw is, scriptless, he’s witless, and his hit-rate with a script is lower than his granny’s fanny. Final point: he’s fake. Don’t you gullibles believe the right-wing, anti-woke sentiment he ostensibly betrays. He’s all over the place, politically, as witnessed by his ‘hilariously’ ambiguous out-of-his-depth interviews all over this platform. So there you have it: Leo Kearse; a Frankie Boyle wannabe, pretending he’s something he’s not in the dishonest attempt at a few cheap laughs with blunt, unsubtle humour my wee brother and his mates come up with in the park every weekend. Keep believing, suckers!🥸
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  17783. *off
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  17784.  @lennytoot6851  Ok. Missing digits could be a problem in this case. 🤚
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  17785. Yes, Brian is deprived of necessity by eschewing meat. You are right.🤔
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  17786. Yeah, but at least it’s her original head hair. Unlike our host’s.😳
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  17787. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  17788. *professor Did no one tell you about spellcheck in kindergarten?😳
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  17789.  @tonyclack5901  No. But they must have told you since the day you left, no?😳
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  17790.  @tonyclack5901  Yes. Especially when I read unthinking comments as well. Badly spelled? Not so bad, but bad enough. Badly spelled, unthinking comments? Horrendous for the state of western civilisation as we know it.👽
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  17791.  @tonyclack5901  Nobody’s perfect!😉
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  17792. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  17793. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson, which captures perfectly the predicament of those toeing a party line, come what may: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  17794. What I don’t get is why under every Bill Hicks video at least 25% of the comments reference Jones; yet I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone reference Hicks under a Jones video. Weird.🤔 It seems Bill Hicks might be Alex Jones but Alex Jones might not be Bill Hicks. Spooky. Here, Alex looks the spit of George Galloway. So, we have Bill Hicks faking his death to become Alex Jones and Alex Jones doing a convincing lookalike impression of George Galloway. Crazy stuff, man.
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  17795. 🛸 We need to get this clear: there is absolutely no properly credible evidence for ‘alien visitation’ to planet Earth. All of it, all of it is circumstantial, at best. Vague stuff seen in the sky? Well, to make the dramatic leap that this is alien sh*t from light years away would have William of Ockham up in arms. For me, this thing is rather simple: given the size of the Universe, that is, given that our Universe contains at least 70 septillion stars, 7 followed by 23 zeros, and so astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth, then it’s natural to assume there is life out there, and ‘not as we know it, Jim'. However, on current evidence, I’m not buying the idea that we have been/are being visited. I work on evidence. Hitherto, this evidence has been much too weak for the assertion that the aliens are here. 👽
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  17796. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  17797. That’s a known commercial technique. For example, on tv they do that all the time. Commercials are significantly louder. I think you know why.
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  17798.  @The_winds_of_change  Fair points. Well made. All I know is this: when I lie I avoid eye contact. Perhaps my mistake is generalising this behaviour to the wider populace. I would also add, how many times has this guy been asked to recollect his (false?) memories? Surely, at this point they’d be well-rehearsed. In the final account, I go on gut (not always infallible) and my gut here tells me this guy is, at the very least, not being ingenuous with us.👽
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  17799.  @FvtvreClvb  Yeah, could be. Or could be he’s making some 💰 cash off the back of a pile of untrue 💩 crap. Difficult. For me, many of these witness testimonies are akin to folk who tell me they have a close personal relationship with God. My sceptical sensor outweighs my credulous gene, somewhat.
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  17800.  @Voyager759  Yeah, but … he appears shifty if you ask me. I’d be interested to know how much he’s made financially from telling this story.
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  17801. Yeah, I bet you don’t believe in God. Hence, I would argue, you’ve replaced that with aliens. Deal with being alone. The Universe is big and very very empty.
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  17802. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  17803. Very often when I look up ‘really boring person’ in the dictionary it says: ‘person who doesn’t think like I do’.
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  17804. Autistic tendencies.
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  17805.  @iRoppa  You’re really not very good at this, are you, darling? Can do better. Must do better. Uh huh.😉👍
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  17806.  @iRoppa  Huh? That one just makes zero sense. 🤔
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  17807.  @iRoppa  How?
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  17808. For regular TalkTV viewers, a school is somewhere you go to learn stuff.
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  17809.  @iRoppa  It’s me. 😊
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  17810.  @iRoppa  Ah, the old ‘auto-correct’ excuse, eh? Covers a multitude of orthographic sins, that one.👍😉
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  17811.  @iRoppa  Lol.
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  17812. *Its You were saying what about others’ ‘ignorance’? 😉👍
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  17813. I’m old enough to remember this. 13 when she met old Bill. 14 when they started getting jiggy jiggy. He was 47. Creepy creepy. Brand is essentially a rock-star in all but name and rock-stars seem to be measured by different standards. If fat old truckie Dave from the estate were known to be shagging a 14 year old, he’d be hounded out the community for being a pedo.
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  17814.  @adventofknowledge  Hmmm … your theory is plausible. My own theory is that actually both things could be true here: MSM witch-hunt and Brand has been dipping his wick where it’s not wanted. Not either/or but both/and.
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  17815.  @DuffyMcduffDuffmister  *course You were saying?😉
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  17816.  @iRoppa  K. Whateva. Talk to the hand✋ . Bored now. Trot on. 🐎
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  17817. *than You were saying what about others’ ‘ignorance’? 😉👍
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  17818.  @user-mv9tt4st9k  No. I disagree. The issue is harm. Cope.
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  17819.  @Shelley-j2y  Huh? Am I missing something here? Don’t have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people? So what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are ‘offended’. Again, so what? I’m sure Kevin and Mike would be the first to concur with free speech, unless it happens to offend them !
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  17820. I bet that if a bunch of hackers hacked a police database and stole coppers’ identities, that would be treated as a “recordable crime”.
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  17821. Right decision. This is a secular school and the parent of the child in question knew this before they sent them there. This is just another case of Islam’s supreme sense of self-entitlement. For some reason, it seems to think it stands apart from all the other religions when it comes to rights and privileges. There should be no overt religious practice in any publicly-funded state school. Religion is a private matter and should remain that way. As a lifelong agnostic, I have zero time for all organised religion, but the one I least trust currently is Islam, as it’s the only one that seems to demand most respect for its values, whilst simultaneously giving least respect for others’ values.
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  17822. Is it cuz he’s black, Townay? 😳
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  17823.  @ElvisLivesUpstairs  The reason I mentioned the ages was Feltz said her daughter was 15. Age of consent in UK is 16.👍
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  17824.  @ivorbiggen2251  Yes, I personally would have no real issue with the words. If those words turned into actions and he started pawing my wife/girlfriend against her will, then that’s where a line is crossed for me personally.
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  17825.  @davidtate7372  Lol. You’re skirting mighty close to the old “she asked for it” argument there, Dave. Might wanna watch that, son.😉👍
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  17826. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ to criticise Islam. Ever. Islam is a bunch of ideas, like any other manmade philosophy. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticising these peoples’ race. That would be stupid. No one chooses their race. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam. Why? People choose that.
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  17827. It’s Islam. No other immigrants cause this kind of trouble. We all know this. It’s not racist to say it as Islam is an ideology. But be under no illusion if Islam gets a critical mass in this country, this stuff will only get worse. UK is currently 7% Islam. By 2050 it’s projected to be 17%. Sweden, by 2050, is projected to be 30% Muslim. It’s all about Islam.
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  17828. Jeremy Kyle, every time I see him, resembles an ice lolly increasingly sucked of all its flavour and colour. Happens to us all, I suppose.😳
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  17829.  @dazjackson1972  👍🤣
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  17830.  @barbaralaw5526  Shoulda gone to Specsavers. 🤓
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  17831.  @kimclarke5018 She was what?
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  17832. Beauty and the Beast.
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  17833. Icke is brilliant at (seemingly) thinking for himself and throwing out a few theories. What’s he’s been guilty of his whole life (after he gave up interviewing snooker players), is not providing a scintilla of evidence for these said theories.😳
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  17834. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  17835. Go Mr Bean!😳
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  17836.  @terrorbilly5000  I know, right? Finding Tate and Brand’s sexual violence towards women abhorrent makes me such a p*ssy, huh?
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  17837.  @daveisbrill  Yeah, but he was specifically going on about IQ so it’s wholly relevant, Davey.👍
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  17838. *has Have they checked your IQ, m8? 🙄
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  17839.  @MrSimonson  Actually, having re-read, you didn’t go to court, right? So, in theory, this could’ve been kept hush-hush and out of the public domain, no?
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  17840.  @MrSimonson  No, I dare say it isn’t. Probably why I think there’s a strong case to made for anonymity in cases like Brand’s and yours, until at least they reach a criminal threshold. That said, you told us you went through the legal process, so yeah, it would’ve got out in your case.
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  17841.  @rsvbiker4149  What a lovely, charming lad you are. I’m sure your mother is very proud of you. 👌
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  17842.  @PizzaBox-w2e  Ffs. Just Google it. 🤦‍♂️
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  17843.  @reviewflicks *probable
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  17844.  @ismailrahman6421  Lol. It was you who mentioned “the true faith of religion … Islam” in your OP. Dare you to you be honest and just admit you’ve no idea if there’s a God or not. 👌
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  17845.  @ismailrahman6421  Uh huh. All I’m saying is rather simple: keep your religion out of my life because I won’t tolerate it if it’s imposed against my will. 👍😉
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  17846.  @ismailrahman6421  Look, m8, let me tell you something, believe you want, worship what you want, bow to any God you want, but keep your religion out of my life. I mean that, and you and your ilk would do well to heed it. 😉👍
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  17847.  @ismailrahman6421  All of it.
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  17848.  @ArkadyRenko1  Why did you renounce Islam?
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  17849.  @ArkadyRenko1  From where?
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  17850. Really? Which European Muslim country was that as in another post you told us you moved here from Europe in 2011? 🤔
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  17851.  @snowyowel7961  Really? But you don’t live in England, do you? You told me one day you were Canadian. Or American. I forget which.
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  17852. “Our country”? Huh? Aren’t you Canadian or something?
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  17853.  @Zeylo89  Well, they shouldn’t. Being homeless is nothing to be embarrassed about.
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  17854.  @Zeylo89  *a lot
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  17855.  @Zeylo89  *a lot
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  17856.  @Webberjo  Is it? Ok. If you say so.
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  17857.  @NoctisTheBogWitch  Yeah, you’re probably right. 👍
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  17858. After 25 minutes when the video is less than 25 seconds?! You’re also the first time traveler! 🥴
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  17859. Wrong.
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  17860. ‘Smart’? How is it smart? It’s just what any kid would do if their mother were helpless. 🥴
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  17861.  @Ironman829 Yeah, because whiteys never steal.
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  17862.  @erich1380 Yeah, because whiteys never steal.
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  17863.  @AlexW- Yeah, because whiteys never steal.
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  17864.  @robbosuave6165 Yeah, because whiteys never steal.
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  17865. 3:22 “To me, to you, to me, to you.” Only Brits of a certain age will get this! 👍
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  17866. Hmmm … I’m wondering where that creepy dude placed the socks. I’m guessing it wasn’t his feet! 😮 🧦
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  17867. Tough crowd. 🤨
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  17868. How do we know he’s delivering the pizza? We don’t see him delivering it. That’s a baseless assumption. He’s just as likely walked away from the crash with the pizza and is making his way home. 🍕
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  17869. This was fake. There’s no way on God’s Earth that happened.
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  17870. That whale video was orcasmic! And it wasn’t even a sperm whale! 🐋
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  17871. Er, have you never heard of the rather obvious notion that some people respond to interventionary medical treatment better than others? It’s not ‘quackery’. For some sufferers treatment relieves the tremors.
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  17872. I love how you edit your comment but didn’t edit in a period. 👍
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  17873. 7:25 Looks fake but isn’t. Easily the most impressive thing I’ve seen on YouTube today! 👍
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  17874. 3:55 I used to think dolphins were one of the good guys until I discovered they have more than a little dark side which frequently involves tormenting other species for fun! 🦭 🐬 They have a distinctly nasty side. Don’t be fooled by that cute bottle-nose. It’s like being told your favourite granny all along was a mass murderer. 👵 😞
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  17875. Because it’s the worst.
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  17876.  @エモ猫  🥱
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  17877.  @エモ猫  🥱
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  17878.  @エモ猫  I will, ty. At least I don’t upvote myself. Cringe.
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  17879.  @エモ猫  Yes, you are. 👍🥲
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  17880.  @エモ猫  S’ok, petal, you keep upvoting yourself as no one else wants to.😝👍
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  17881.  @エモ猫  Lol.
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  17882. This comment would be even better if it had a full stop. Why do people do this thing of leaving out a full stop? It never happened back in the day. It’s weird.
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  17883. 7:18 ‘She’?! Lol. 👍😂
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  17884.  @fructiferous  Nope. Want another go, as you’re clearly not very good at this?
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  17885.  @エモ猫  Lol. You actually edited your last comment and it’s still sub-literate! 🤣 Cringe. Now go away. You are deeply boring. 🥱
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  17886.  @エモ猫  Yer ‘art’s’ a pile of crap, btw. Lmao. Lol. Pmsl. Rofl. 😅😅😂🥲👍
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  17887.  @エモ猫  I do, darling. I also don’t upvote myself because no one else will.👍🥲✌️😝
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  17888.  @エモ猫  You’re struggling, aren’t you darling? Uh huh. 🥲
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  17889.  @エモ猫  And it’s ok to admit that precisely no one but you is upvoting you. 👍😝
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  17890.  @エモ猫  We now know who upvoted you! 👍✌️😝
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  17891.  @エモ猫  More self-upvoting. Cringe.
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  17892. That smug face got 1 upvote, sweetheart. You were expecting more weren’t you? 😭
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  17893. *introvert’s
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  17894. Much as I quite like this stuff, I can never get past the narrator dude. Does he always have this voice? When he’s in the throes of orgasmic passion, does he still sound this bored? 🤔
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  17895.  @Jez4prez1  I would argue that the ‘culture’ bit of US/UK relations flows more the other way: not from UK to US but vice-versa.
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  17896.  @mrst7787  K. I got it. We got ourselves an invisible sky daddy merchant. K. It all makes sense now.
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  17897. 0:05 “You’re gonna need a bigger burger.” 🍔 🦈
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  17898. *Irish
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  17899. Looked more like a cock and balls from where I’m sitting.
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  17900.  @エモ猫  More self-upvoting. Cringe.
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  17901.  @エモ猫  And upvoting yourself? Cringe.
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  17902.  @エモ猫  No I don’t. I’m pushing back on the weird narrator dude. Seethe.
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  17903.  @CloverCreatin  He sounds weird. Like he’s trying too hard to sound cool/bored (delete as applicable).
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  17904. I’ve often wondered if the narrator dude speaks like this in real life. He always has a tone of “I’m so bored, I could fall asleep” crossed with “I’m so cool I don’t have to try.” Both are very odd. Could be AI, though.
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  17905. 8:20 Toupée or not toupée? That is the question. 🤣 🐒
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  17906.  @Savagecabbage5158 👍
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  17907.  @Savagecabbage5158 It’s called instinct, pal. Clearly a dude. 👍😉
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  17908. Not in Russia they aren’t! 😉👍
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  17909. 🥱
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  17910. Judging by the darkness, quite possibly all day.👍
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  17911. Seen this comment on other videos.
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  17912. *driver’s Jesus, who are we dealing with these days? 🤦‍♂️ We’ve bred a generation of non-reading morons.
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  17913. Cringe.
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  17914. It is my contention that a large part of the anti-Gypsy animus is twofold: 1. Many people are simply jealous that Gypsies are mobile and not tied-down to the mortgage and 2.4 kids. (Although, the kids thing for Gypsies is usually 5.4!) 2. People are, fundamentally, snobs. I don’t care who you are, unless you’re Jesus, we all compare and judge ourselves and others, depending on where we sit on the social hierarchy. It’s my experience that many (most?) people who have a beef with Gypsies, are people who perceive themselves, rightly or wrongly, as not very far from Gypsies in the social hierarchy. This is just anecdotal, but I’m more than sure there is a grain of truth to this. People who moan about Gypsies, as a rule, don’t appear to harbour the same disdain for, say, Tarquin, living in an inherited pile down the road. No, they go for those for whom they might think they have just a little power over, rightly or wrongly.🐎
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  17915.  @jmus6494  Correct.
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  17916.  @satanicbbc5090  Yeah, but ‘truth’ requires corroborating evidence, otherwise it’s mere chaff in the wind. As I see it, Icke has had some kind of ‘consciousness expanding’ experience, the like of which thousands of others throughout history appear to have undergone. To then make the egregious leap to us all being ruled by a cabal of shape-shifting lizards is inadmissible unless Icke can provide substantiating evidence we can all look at and which can be peer-reviewed. In the 30 years Icke has been peddling his outlandish theories, as far as I can see, he has not supplied an iota of credible evidence. If he had have provided this he wouldn’t be the fringe-figure he is. I repeat, I don’t doubt he underwent some kind of mind-expanding experience; what I do doubt is all the wacky piffle he has erected around this experience.
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  17917. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  17918. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  17919. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
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  17920. Love how right from off @0:01, the elephant was foreshadowing what might happen next. There is a brilliant moment @0:17 where I swear the elephant looks right at the reporter and thinks: “Right. He’s next!” 🐘
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  17921. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  17922.  @loopylynda1974  Voted Trump?! Lol. The very definition of US blinkeredness. I’m British.😉
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  17923. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17924. We should try to understand what’s going on here, instead of just calling the shots for one side or the other. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? And particularly when he sees Ukraine as a kind of renegade cousin who has spurned motherland Russia. It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  17925. It may have to make a choice. NATO or Russia. Most in Ukraine are looking west it seems.👀
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  17926. Well, I reckon the medics’ pain is slightly outweighed by the pain of the mangled bodies they are treating. Just a guess.
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  17927. Er, but they are human. That’s the whole fucking point. We humans are brutal and merciless when we choose. Where have you been for the last 300,000 years? You speak like you just arrived at the unholy party yesterday.
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  17928. What’s eternally fascinating about situations like this where 99% want none of it, Russian or Ukrainian, is that we allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as his unhinged whim dictates, thereby threatening the very existence of millions of others. Does not the utilitarian theory kick-in here? Why are we tolerating one man and his evil whim?😳
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  17929. One man. One fucking man upends the lives of millions? Why? How? Seriously, how? No one wants this. Only him. Why do we let him continue?😧
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  17930. In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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  17931. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  17932. One man. One fucking man upends the lives of millions? Why? How? 😧
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  17933.  @kmarshirley  Yeah.
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  17934. Economic Gain. Territorial Gain. Religion. Nationalism. Revenge. Civil War. Revolutionary War. Defensive War. Of the 8 main commonly-agreed upon reasons for war, I was curious as to how many of these may apply to Putin. Economic gain? Check. Territorial gain? Big check. Religion? Not so much, if at all. Nationalism? Oh yes. Revenge? After 1989 and the USSR’s defeat? Are you kidding me!? Civil War? Interesting one. As they are all Slavs then there is a strong element of this. By the way, ‘Civil War’ has to be the most egregious oxymoron ever invented by humanity. Revolutionary War? Well, maybe in the sense Putin wants Ukraine to look primarily to him and a Greater Russia. Defensive War? Indirectly, perhaps. A defence against the creeping encroachments of NATO. However, there appears to be a ninth cause here: one man so engorged and drunk with power that it’s addled his reasoning and critical faculties somewhat. Ultimately, the main cause of this war could just be an evil bastard. 👿
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  17935. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  17936.  @Dummigame  Sometimes a little sprinkling of black humour lightens the burden when there is a real and present danger of mutual incineration in a nuclear conflagration.😳
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  17937.  @albaptiste8691  You’re speaking gibberish at me, mate. Define your terms or do one.🥸
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  17938.  @eeboyaker  So? Why are they fighting here?
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  17939.  @eeboyaker  I’m still not sure what you’re getting at. What is NATO’s endgame? You need to spell this out. Yes, but the majority of Ukrainians look West. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power. Have you not considered this? We don’t even apply sanctions? You seem to be suggesting we just turn a blind eye and let Putin massacre a nation in plain sight. And then turn his attention elsewhere. The Baltic states? Poland? 👀 I’d like to politely ask you something else: do you have any personal stake in this? Of course, you can refuse to answer this, but you appear very anti-NATO, and if not exactly pro-Putin, you at least are happy fellow human beings look on and watch fellow human beings be annihilated. 🧐As I say, I don’t defend the west’s record of meddling in the affairs of democratically elected regimes, but on a human level I want to help stop Putin from his sanguinary murdering.👀 Leaving the geopolitics out of this, for me, the basic fact pertains: if a self-determining majority want something, and Ukrainians on a majority appear to want to look west, then that’s the bottom line, for me. Regardless of the overthrow in 2012, which I’m not defending, one needs to adhere to the democratic will of the people here. Don’t you agree?🧐 Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election. With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%. I thought you said he was installed by the west?🧐Even more confused.
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  17940.  @eeboyaker  NATO members attack Ukraine while it’s a member of NATO? I don’t follow …🤔
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  17941.  @eeboyaker  Yes, but they weren’t aggressive actions. They were defensive. There is a difference. So, what do we do about Putin then? Nothing? How would you deal with this?
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  17942.  @eeboyaker  And just what is NATO going to do? What’s the endgame? To subjugate Russia using violence and bring it into its orbit? Personally, I don’t think so. Name one aggressive military endeavour NATO has launched aside from the one I named. I repeat my previous point, NATO and the rest of the planet have far more to fear from Russia, and specifically a Putin-led Russia, than Russia has to fear from NATO. I look at this from an impartial perspective as I’m non-nationalist, seeing all accidents of birth as just that: random, arbitrary accidents of birth in which I refuse to take some kind of weird ‘pride’ in as so many of my fellow humans seem to, thereby causing most of the trouble, along with the adherents of organised religion. We may just have to agree to disagree on this.👀
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  17943.  @eeboyaker  Do you fear Russia has anything to fear from NATO, and if so, what exactly?
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  17944.  @eeboyaker  From my perspective and Russia’s perspective.
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  17945.  @eeboyaker  I would also add this, it’s not really the point in terms of self-determination. If a sovereign nation, through the democratically-expressed will of the people, want to be part of NATO, and NATO wants them in the gang, so to speak, then this should be honoured. I do feel NATO has far more to fear from a Putin-lead Russia than Russia has to fear from NATO. As far as I’m aware the treaty has been invoked only once in NATO history: by the United States after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s just tough luck if Russia can’t handle the democratic will of another sovereign nation which happens to sit on its doorstep. If a family move in next door to me and I take a dislike to them, then I have no right in interfering just on the basis of this. This should be self-evident. I would also add here, I don’t have any figures to quote you but I’m willing to bet a good majority of ordinary Russians (and especially the under-35s), are not in favour of this war, seeing Putin, rightly in my opinion, as an old Cold War relic getting his belated revenge for losing that particular battle.👀
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  17946.  @eeboyaker  I would answer ‘no’. Russia doesn’t have anything to fear.
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  17947.  @eeboyaker  So what are you saying, exactly? That Putin and Russia are right to go and invade a sovereign, self-governing territory and aggressively subjugate it? As I say, 2 wrongs don’t make a right. If you’re consistent here in the upholding of democratic values then you should condemn Putin just as much as you’re condemning the West’s interference. I repeat, a majority of Ukrainians are in favour of leaning towards the West, not Russia. Yes, in the east of Ukraine, the majority are pro-Russian, so on that basis perhaps Ukraine needs to become East Ukraine and West Ukraine at some point.🧘‍♀️
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  17948.  @eeboyaker  If we have ‘wanted’ it then why have we blocked its entry to NATO? And done this when a large majority of Ukrainians are in favour of joining? I don’t deny the US has a dreadful historical record when it comes to overturning democratically elected regimes. However, surely the essential point here is that a large majority of Ukrainians want to align themselves with the West and not Russia. In my book, this sentiment has to be honoured on the principle of self-determination.👀And two wrongs don’t make a right.
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  17949.  @eeboyaker  Who really wants this, aside from Putin? There may be others in Russia who would theoretically like a Greater Russia, a Russia that is larger than it is today, but the vast majority wouldn’t countenance invading a sovereign, self-governing country to achieve this end. Putin would, and is. We are at one man’s beck and call here; if he changes his mind on anything and decides to implement it from his side, it shall be implemented. I call that living upon the unpredictable whim of a single, clearly slightly unhinged, monomaniacal man.👀
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  17950. I agree. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  17951.  @beautifulroses1420  I agree. Also he’s 70. Nothing to lose in that sense. Very dangerous.👀
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  17952. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👀
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  17953. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👀
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  17954. Well, this could yet be a validation for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us: ‘Vladimir’ apparently means ‘world ruler’. 🌎
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  17955.  @Kot_Bayuun  Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power. Yes, you’re right, it’s good to know the truth.👀
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  17956. One man. One fucking man upends the lives of millions? Why? How? 😧
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  17957.  @dienan545  Wrong. One man, and one man only provoked this whole farrago. This is what we get when no one has literally said ‘no’ to one man. Putin is the equivalent of the kid in the nursery who runs amok and no one pulls him aside and tells him what’s what.👀
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  17958.  @marcusmaddox2176  Don’t patronise me, pal. I don’t need yours, nor anybody else’s prayers. It doesn’t work like that, bud. I’m perfectly fine without you and your sky daddy looking down upon me as if I were a piece of crap on your shoe. You go ahead and pray to your bollocky non-existent God made in your image, just don’t involve me in that crap. I am more honest than that. I have more integrity than that.😉 Incidentally, when I say you’re the problem I mean that. Be under no illusion. Rigid monotheistic thinkers like you, along with rigid nationalistic fuckwits, have been quite demonstrably the greatest disaster for the human race, to date. Think about this, before you show your staggering haughty arrogance and pretend to pray for me.🧐
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  17959.  @marcusmaddox2176  yawn
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  17960.  @marcusmaddox2176  Yeah, and you are part of the problem, not the solution.😉
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  17961. Yeah, but really ? The ‘enemy’? A fellow human being? The enemy? On what basis? An accident of birth? Well, how silly, for the last time I looked we were all born on the same 3rd rock from the sun. A different God? Really? Last time I checked all Gods were just inventions of human beings afraid to die. Understandable, but inexcusable if you are going to use this figment of your imagination as a pretext to exterminate another human being. Here’s how I see it: we are far too primitive as a species. After 300,000 odd years of evolution we are still looking at another person and seeing them as so different we are willing to destroy them. I call that primitive. I call that not worthy of the thinking human being. I call that behaving as a child in the playground might behave (an insult to children in the playground). We are better than this. We have the potential to be so much better. We are betraying a primitive, unthinking way of being that is just not going to be conducive to our medium to long-term survival as a species. We seem to have a death wish. It doesn’t have to be like this. How? Quite simply, you expand your terms of self-definition. So, instead of a random, arbitrary accident of birth you are, first and foremost, a human. So, instead of believing in an unverified, unverifiable sky God you are, first and foremost, a human. You are bigger than you think. Boundaries and borders based on arbitrary accidents of birth are boring. They are also deadly. If we are to get out of here alive (and this is very much in the balance, given the power we have harnessed to mutually self-destruct), then each and every one of us has to do something that is not that difficult: be a human being. 🧐
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  17962. How is it, that after 300,000 years as a species, we allow one of our species to hold the world to ransom? How is it that a psycho like Putin is able to put my and your children’s life in jeopardy? Shouldn’t there be a check, a balance to deal with outlying fuckwits? Do we have to tolerate someone that no one else wants? If so, why? 😳
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  17963. If ever proof were needed, that after 300,000-odd years, that we are still a very primitive species, it’s this. One man, one fucking man plays out his whim. No one else but him wants this. So, my very basic question is this: why do we tolerate him?😳
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  17964. After 300,000 years of Homo-Sapiens on this planet, we still have one troublemaker that no one likes, no one wants, and yet, we tolerate him to the point of him sparking a nuclear war. Really? Yes, really. Read it and weep. 😭
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  17965. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  17966. One man. One fucking man upends the lives of millions? Why? How? Seriously, how? No one wants this. Only him. Why do we let him continue?😧
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  17967. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  17968. Coffee break.
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  17969. The double standards of the West in this conflict are staggering. America, along with its partners, has the most prolific record of any country on this planet in terms of actual invasion and/or the overturning of democratically elected governments. What Russia is doing, invading another self-governing, sovereign nation, is wrong, but what about the dozens of times the West has done this? In the last 40 years alone America’s record is: 1. Grenada (1983-1984) 2. Bolivia (1986) 3. Virgin Islands (1989) 4. Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003) 5. Saudi Arabia (1990-1991) 6. Kuwait (1991) 7. Somalia (1992-1994; 2006) 8. Bosnia (1993-) 9. Zaire/Congo (1996-1997) 10. Albania (1997) 11. Sudan (1998) 12. Afghanistan (1998; 2001-) 13. Yemen (2000; 2002-) 14. Macedonia (2001) 15. Colombia (2002-) 16 Pakistan (2005-) 17. Syria (2008; 2011-) 18. Uganda (2011) 19. Mali (2013) 20. Niger (2013) 21. Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999) 22. Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011) 23. Angola (1976-1992) As far as I can see what Putin and Russia are doing is playing the most commonly-heard tune in the West’s geopolitical songbook.
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  17970. Last 15 years!? 2500 years more like. Greek Tragedy dealt with this. The first recorded example of road rage dates from the Oedipus story in Greek mythology. Oedipus killed his father at a crossroads when they got in each other's way. 🇬🇷
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  17971. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  17972.  @HarleyQuinn-yt9vx  I draw your attention to the basic fact that this war doesn’t have widespread popular support amongst Russians. There is hope in this, for the boys and girls he is sending to slaughter won’t have their hearts in it.👀
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  17973.  @indiannumis3718  Pure? Pure?! Wtf are you on about? I never said the USA was sinless; far from it. All I’m saying here is that this current situation is all about one man’s crazed, bloated, unchallenged ego.👀
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  17974.  @mattcolson3854  Sorry. I tend to speak in coherent sentences. Try again.😏
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  17975.  @starhunters8675  Ah, ok. If you say so.
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  17976.  @starhunters8675  How do you know?
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  17977. Do you ever think Putin’s children ever have a quiet word in his ear: ‘“C’mon dad. Really?”😳
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  17978. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
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  17979. If you want to know what 22 years of not saying ‘no’ to one man looks like, this is it.👀
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  17980. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  17981.  @seramot  Nice little fantasy, there. Dream on.
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  17982.  @Tube2097  Well said. Too many folks here can’t seem to see that to Putin, having Ukraine in NATO is akin to America having Russian missiles pointing at it from Mexico. I disagree with everything Putin is doing here, but it’s important we try to understand his motives, beyond the lazy tropes about him being Vlad the Mad etc.
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  17983.  @kevin6293  Lol. How’s that for a spectacular case of projection?! You have something you want to tell us all, Kev? I do hope you don’t have direct access to loaded arms. Our children may not be safe with you in the neighbourhood.
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  17984.  @kevin6293  The invasion of Kuwait led to a United Nations Security Council embargo and sanctions on Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition air and ground war, which began on January 16, 1991, and ended with an Iraqi defeat and retreat from Kuwait on February 28, 1991. You might need to invest in some better history books, Kev.😉
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  17985.  @kevin6293  Liar? How so?
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  17986. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  17987. 0:10 Well, it is a bit, mate, but nice try. 👍
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  17988. ⁠@catsamazing338 Wow! Just brazen, open racism at this point. I’m no particular fan of Lammy, but 1) he was born here 2) he’s a qualified lawyer contributing and continuing to contribute 3) there are literally millions of white people sitting on their uneducated backsides claiming benefits as a lifestyle choice. Hope this helps. 👍
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  17989.  @catsamazing338 Wow! Just brazen, open racism at this point. I’m no particular fan of Lammy, but 1) he was born here 2) he’s a qualified lawyer contributing and continuing to contribute 3) there are literally millions of white people sitting on their uneducated backsides claiming benefits as a lifestyle choice. Hope this helps. 👍
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  17990. Lol. 😂 And cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  17991. 33:25 While much of what Phillips says makes sense, she’s completely wrong with her ‘most Muslim countries ban the burka’. There are currently 16 states that have banned the burqa and niqab, both Muslim-majority countries and non-Muslim countries, including Tunisia, Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Netherlands, China, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Switzerland. 4 Muslim countries have banned the burka. 35:25 Edit: One other thing; the Costa Brava is on the north coast of Spain, not the southern. I think she’s confusing her Costa Brava with her Costa Blanca!
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  17992. If I had to pick one writer who shaped my thinking more than any other it would be Emerson, along with his compadres, Whitman and Thoreau. He’s so eminently quotable and here are my Top 10 favourites of his: 1. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 2. Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. 3. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 4. Once you make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen 5. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. 6. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 7. You become what you think about all day long. 8. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. 9. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. 10. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Like the stars ✨ in the firmament there are countless others, but perhaps I should end with this, thereby not taking Emerson’s advice: I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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  17993. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  17994. If Jordan Peterson didn’t exist it would be unnecessary to invent him.😳
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  17995. Haven’t these people ever heard of the power of suggestion? If some random bloke in a Belfast howff tells me he’s seen some ‘funny lights’ in the sky on the way home one night after a few swallies, the next clear evening (difficult, I grant you, in the cloud-ridden skies of N Ireland) I get I’m gonna be scanning those skies for something answering to my mate’s sighting (hallucination). And so, like a Chinese whisper that was wrong from the beginning, does this rumour spread like a virus in a crowded lift. Human beings are gullible. They also, much of the time, have no clue wtf. they are on about outwith a very small bandwidth of knowledge, and these facts have to be taken into consideration before any others when someone insouciantly tells me they’ve seen an inexplicable something (almost always a nebulous nothing) in the starry firmament.
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  17996. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  17997. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
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  17998. Spot on with your insights. This next comment doesn’t just apply to the UK, but to France, Germany and, increasingly, Spain, Portugal and Italy too: if you drop a drip of red dye into a bath full of water you don’t notice it. If you pour the whole bottle in you instantly change it forever. There’s much to be said for gradualism.
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  17999. Yeah, but would the rabbit agree with you? 🐇
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  18000. As a Brit, I have no issue with the vast majority of immigrants to the UK and, more widely, Europe. However, there is far too much of it. Also, there is one particular organised religion on this planet right now that seems to think it’s uncriticisable, untouchable and if anyone does dare stick their head above the parapet then the consequences could be rather dire. Salman Rushdie proves this. I love how Islam, of all the organised religions currently on our planet, is the one that demands most respect (on pain of possible death) for its values on one hand yet is least likely to give that respect the other way for others’ values. When you come to my house, you play by my rules and not the rules of the shithole, benighted country you left behind. This is the problem: the more radical of the Muslims literally want to turn the country to which they arrive into the hellish image of the dump they fled.
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  18001. All of Europe’s a night-train/And all the men and women merely passengers/They have their Brexits and their Schengen Areas/And one man in his couchette smells many farts/His trips covering different gauges/At first the teenager/Hungover and puking in his best mate’s arms/And then the whining young man, with rucksack/And bleary morning face/And then the husband/Sighing with sternness/And a where’s my passport?/Made to his wife’s eyeball/The Spanish gauge shifts into green and considered Irun/The spectacle of those/With Euros well saved/Last train of all/That bookends this changing, scentful mystery/Is second-class and near-Bolivian/Sans tea, sans pies, sans haste, sans air spring …
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  18002. Most of this is nothing new. Nice to put it out there anyway. Just one thing about the time thing: we reincarnate. We all have lived many, many Earthly lives and will live many more. Until we decide we don’t want to. We quite literally have all the time in the universe as we never die and we’re never created. The best quote I have found which brilliantly encapsulates this sense of all time is now and not past, present and future is from the wise Walt Whitman: There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Hope this helps y’all! 👍
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  18003. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St. was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  18004.  @user-yc9eo8ju3d  Lol. Are you f*cking serious?! 🤣I get bombarded with ‘heterosexuality’ 24/7! By comparison the homo stuff I see is infinitesimal!🤣
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  18005. The gorilla was thinking the same thing about humans! 🦍
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  18006. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  18007. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  18008. As a species, we pay lip service to the idea of democracy. Yes, there are outliers amongst us who don’t, but I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people on this planet would more or less agree it’s the least worst system we have for organising our affairs. On this basis, if we took an instant vote right now of everyone on this planet, who would vote against stopping this madness? 1%? 5%? Surely no more than this. Why then, if we believe in democracy as a species are we so fucking hypocritical when it comes to its (non)practice?👀
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  18009. Where are the women fighting for Putin? Could it be, that they have more sense?😳🤔
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  18010. The Ride of the Vladkyries
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  18011. Another doctor getting sidetracked on her way to work. 🤦‍♂️
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  18012.  @jaybee4118  Yes. But you worded your opinion almost verbatim. ‘Zip’ ‘zippo’ etc. If you’re gonna quote me do so. Make it clear.😉
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  18013.  @jaybee4118  Er, I said that. Eyes ⬆️, wally.
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  18014.  @mr.hooyombelongo9419  ✌️
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  18015.  @mr.hooyombelongo9419  Icke. Who is he? What’s his agenda?
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  18016.  @mr.hooyombelongo9419  Who is he? Who do you think he is?
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  18017. At last. A word of sanity. 👏
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  18018.  @Donovan9000  Chill out, man. It’s not that important. I’m not reading anything sinister into a shot of Icke with what looks like an African shaman and a shapeshifter lizard thing. If you are, can I kindly suggest you need to involve yourself with other interests/hobbies, and stop fixating on this. It might have been consciously done as a racist thing. Then, so what? What are you, or I, going to do about this?🧐
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  18019.  @Donovan9000  Lol. Whatever, mate. You’re wrong, but I uphold the right for you to believe what you want.🧐
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  18020.  @Donovan9000  Not really, tbh. You might be reading too much into it. Perhaps you could argue that, but even if that were the case I’m not sure it was deliberately/consciously done. However, I would also say, why would it be an automatic insult if we are to believe these lizard things exist? (They don’t, of course, but for the sake of argument.) We are told that these lizard things are clever, wise, more advanced than humans, therefore for another human to be linked with them (black, white, yellow, brown, any human, essentially), then this could be read as a compliment and not an insult.🤔 No?
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  18021.  @Donovan9000  Hmmm … 🤔Not sure it’s insulting. Possibly just a connection being made between ages-old folk wisdom (eg. shamanism) and the relatively modern phenomenon of aliens and UFOs in mainstream culture. Why do you find it insulting?
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  18022.  @Donovan9000  Looks like he was talking to an African shaman @1:25.
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  18023. Icke is brilliant at (seemingly) thinking for himself and throwing out a few theories. What’s he’s been guilty of his whole life (after he gave up interviewing 🎱 snooker players), is not providing a scintilla of evidence for these said theories.
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  18024. I can buy the global control by an elite; where Icke loses me is his 💩 crap about shape-shifting lizards 🦎 being the said elite. Sagan said: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Hitherto, Icke has supplied not a jot of this evidence in 30 years. @3:44 See? Icke claims the moon is a ‘hollowed-out, planetoid space-station’. Well, if folks are going to seriously buy that I fear for their basic education and the idea of requiring more than a wacko’s word for it. Weird and sad, simultaneously. @7:25 Another baseless assertion. Does Icke honestly believe that folks wouldn’t notice their missing children to be ‘sacrificed’ to these lizard freaks? No one has disappeared. And if they have, he needs to provide that evidence.
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  18025.  @paulfletcher3998  I disagree. Even if it was only subconsciously, I think class/accent fed into this interaction. I’ve studied this stuff in quite some depth and also speak with some experience of this in my own life. We are tribal. These 2 ladies are from distinct tribes according to class/accent, and it’s my judgement that if they had recognised each other (via accent) as hailing from the same class/tribe, that this probably wouldn’t have escalated in quite the way it did. It may have done, but I doubt it.
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  18026. @ I agree the dog owner was at fault, but class/accent fed into the escalation. Don’t doubt it. I know my stuff on this topic.
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  18027. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  18028. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  18029. Scene: in an alternative reality Putin: “I’ve come to repossess what’s rightfully mine.” Zelensky: “Really? But this is a sovereign self-governing territory.” Putin: “Oh, silly me. I think I may have the wrong address. Good day.”😳
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  18030. After 300,000 years of Homo-Sapiens on this planet, we still have one troublemaker that no one likes, no one wants, and yet, we tolerate him to the point of him sparking a nuclear war. Really? Yes, really. Read it and weep. 😭
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  18031.  @danielkolomu5163  Pmsl.
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  18032. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  18033.  @jegamespeed5399  Huh? Problems with what kind of laws? Not sure what you’re on about. I’ve already told you and I’ll state it again in case you missed it: 1. I have no problem with 2 consenting related people having sex as long as no offspring are produced. 2. I have no problem with 2 consenting homosexuals having sex. Now go away, as you’re deeply boring at this point. 🥱
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  18034.  @jegamespeed5399  Just for the record: in this debate you have conspicuously omitted to provide a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality.
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  18035.  @jegamespeed5399  Never said everything was about me. You seem to be triggered by someone simply stating they have no reason for hating what 2 consenting humans of the same sex get up to in the bedroom. I repeat: you need better coping strategies.
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  18036.  @jegamespeed5399  I never said Africans couldn’t have laws against homosexuality. Just said I see no reason why they should. You need better coping strategies.
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  18037.  @jegamespeed5399  Because I don’t see an issue with homosexuality. Not sure why anyone does. No one has ever provided me with a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality. Ta da! 🎉
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  18038.  @jegamespeed5399  Huh? Who is talking about “incest”? I’m talking about 2 consenting homosexual adults. Just for the record though, since you bring it up: if those 2 people who were about to commit incest were both consenting, I personally would have no problem with this, so long as they weren’t producing offspring.
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  18039.  @retsukaioh4571  Ps. I’m not forcing you to have sex with anyone. If you don’t like it just ignore it, dummy.😉🤣
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  18040.  @retsukaioh4571  Huh? Why are you equating 2 consenting adults with kids/animals having sex. I’m an adult. I choose to have sex with another adult. What business is it of yours to stop me and, more to the point, why do you want to stop me? I’m not ordering you (on pain of death) whom you can and can’t f*ck, so why are you ordering me whom I can or can’t f*ck?
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  18041.  @jonrena  Don’t tell me who I can or can’t f*ck, if I can’t tell you who you can or can’t f*ck as it’s just not going to work, sunshine.
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  18042.  @KingofgraceSARA  Er, wot? 🥴
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  18043. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Bad Day for Black Chris Rock .
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  18044. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  18045. Cuz it’s currently the world’s lingua franca.
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  18046. Don’t worry, Japanese people. 54% of English people can’t speak English, either!
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  18047. Keep reading comments that the news anchor keeps interrupting the witness and the young Brendan Fraser lookalike, but she didn’t interrupt them at all. Am wondering if I watched a different video. 🥴
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  18048. It was some shit invented by men to scare the bejesus out of humankind about themselves and if they don’t acknowledge it then the Church will have no power over them; ie “repent now original sinners or burn everlastingly in hell.” All tosh, of course, but was surprisingly effective for about 1800 years.
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  18049. Dearie me. Trust me on this: Canada is far better than you. 😳 Don’t take that wrong.
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  18050. Yes. 10 years. But only if this ‘halt’ includes your relatives. That’s all I ask.😳
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  18051. Not quite true about the left having a monopoly on ‘tribalism’. To take a salient contemporary example du jour, the ‘tribe’ who broadly and specifically subscribe to the ideas of Jordan Peterson are some of the most egregiously partisan and reflexively self-defensive individuals I think may have ever encountered. I say this as one neither particularly left, not particularly right, and can therefore see this relatively perspicaciously. I have been in debates apropos Peterson’s notions, and any even slight criticism I might raise vis-a-vis his thinking is not infrequently met with an invidious bile the like of which I have rarely met with from another, left, centre or right. I’m puzzled by the phenomenon, and can only put it down to the intrinsically personal manner Peterson’s followers feel about their man. I think he has one or two good ideas, but nothing really which hasn’t been said before and said better (eg. RW Emerson’s Self-Reliance philosophy), but if I dare put my head above the parapet and suggest that Peterson’s ideas, say concerning God/Jesus are a tad flaky and jejune, then it’s blown off in a firestorm of vitriol. So while I agree that the entrenched ideological left do get quite defensive and oftentimes personal in their promulgation of their ideas, the right is certainly not immune from this nasty infection either.😳
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  18052. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  18053. @22:45 ‘Douglas, I haven’t seen you this animated before’. Lol. If this is Murray ‘animated’, I hate to think what his resting bitch face looks like!😳
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  18054. This guy resembles Gordon Ramsay’s less haggard, long-lost Danish half-brother.😳
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  18055. Spot on about the Donovan thing.😉
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  18056. I’ve got sense! Over here! Coo-eee!🥸
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  18057.  @vulkanofnocturne  ‘Our cultural values’. What are those exactly and what right do you, or anyone else, have to preclude any other from following different cultural values within the law? None, as far as I can see. This is just tough-titty, pal, as you’re just going to have to accept that not everyone is like you, and that’s as it should be, and if they want to practice stuff you can’t jive with then so what? You can do zip about this, unless you’re one of those nutters who would forcibly deport naturalised citizens.😳
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  18058.  @vulkanofnocturne  How about ‘limiting the suffering’ by stopping factory farming and stunning defenceless beasts to death when we decide? You can do that by simply not eating meat. To pick on others who also eat meat, just like you, but who happen to kill the animal slightly differently is splitting hairs in my world, chummo. One would almost think there is something more going on here than just the slaughter of animals, as the other people you mention just happen to not be of your tribe/customs.🤔
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  18059.  @vulkanofnocturne  Slaughter is slaughter is slaughter. You’re still murdering an animal, so if you’re willing to eat meat then you’re just being a rank hypocrite.🐮
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  18060. Yes, but this ain’t rocket science. Emerson said something similar 200 years ago: you become what you think about all day .😳
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  18061. Or how about you simply don’t identify yourself as an accident of birth? Born in London? Born in Delhi? Who cares? It’s an arbitrary, random thing I had no say in. Problem solved.😳
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  18062. Yeah, but it’s not the immigrants’ fault if ‘low-skilled’ UK workers can’t be arsed taking minimum wage work.😳
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  18063. @17:33 So what if Nigerian cities were to be populated with Chinese people? Why do human beings attach so much damn importance to an accident of birth? Each of us could’ve been born anywhere, so to take some kind of unearned pride in the fact your mother plopped your out here and not there makes utterly no sense. It’s akin to my being proud I have green eyes or size 10 feet. Doesn’t this man see that, along with organised religion, patriotism/nationalism has been the greatest disaster for humanity since the year dot? For 300,000 years we have had egregious levels of human internecine strife predicated on an accident of birth or a random adherence to an unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky. Surely, it’s time for humankind to grow up and evolve beyond these primitive tribal tropes.😳
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  18064.  @pepegalego  Yeah, agreed. Mostly. To be fair to Bindel herself she did emphasise more than once that her focus was on ‘poorer’ subjects, rather than the more entitled middle-class Jemimas. Fair play though. Decent points, well made.👍
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  18065.  @pepegalego  ‘To suggest that women in general in the western world live a life of oppression is false or that they are unable to fulfill their potential is also false.’ Perhaps. However, this has only really been the case in the western world since about 1963. Before that, they were consigned to doing what they were told by and large, even in the western world. Of course, that’s just us. What about the countless places on this planet where, as we speak, women still have to endure being consigned to roles dictated to them by men - through ‘tradition’ and religion and all the rest of that crap built by men for men? Huh? 🤓
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  18066.  @pepegalego  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying women are angels. They aren’t. What I am saying is that in the realm of emotional intelligence they are light years in advance of men, on average. Why do you think men have put these power structures in place over centuries, blocking women? We fear them. We fear that not only can they do the job as well as us, but actually do it better. Look at history. The power has been with us at an institutional level since time immemorial. Women, traditionally, controlled the home. No longer, brother. Sisters are doing it for themselves and we men are mighty alarmed at this prospect. Most of us.🤓
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  18067.  @pepegalego  Note: I brought Peterson (Jordy) into this mistakenly as I’m having another chat about him on another thread. Apologies. The woman here I don’t see as ‘anti-man’, all I see is a woman wary, rightly in my opinion, of men. The evidence is in and it’s been in for 300,000 years or more. We, men, can be beastly to the distaff-side, and my contention is that the reason for this is quite simple: we secretly fear women’s competence and how they are, in my opinion, far superior and more evolved than we are. That’s not being ‘anti-men’; it’s called looking at a few facts.🤓
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  18068.  @pepegalego  Who said I’m anti-men? I simply am honest about the consciously applied oppression by my sex over the centuries. I happen to totally agree with Peterson and his ‘equality of opportunity’ spiel, however where I disagree with him, is when he constantly tells all and sundry that women have not been/are not being oppressed by men. Witness the very basic fact that most women, in most parts of this planet, feel that they cannot go for a solo walk after dark, without fearing for their mortal safety. I call that ‘oppression’ by men power-tripping their way to the top seats and quietly asserting themselves in public shared spaces, and telling the pretty little ladies to know their place to the extent they cannot even go for a walk without having a bunch of keys at the ready to serve as a makeshift knuckle-duster should the need arise. 🤓
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  18069.  @pepegalego  Perhaps. But then, in my opinion, women do have quite a lot to be ‘anti’ about when it comes to the spear-side. Historically, you can cut in any way you like, men have been pretty horrendous and controlling over women. Contemporary men are just perturbed that women are gaining their voice in so many areas of life. They feel threatened, and rightly so, for in many areas women really are not only different but better. Emotional intelligence for a start-off.🤓
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  18070. Lol@9:00-9:46 Francis is grimly determined not to turn and acknowledge his compadre. Stiff as a rod. In fact, is Francis a flesh and blood human? The more this interview goes on, the more he appears like a creepy waxwork doll or some cyborg out of ‘Westworld’. 🧛‍♀️
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  18071. @48:00 Of course when a woman (any woman), says prostitutes are not really going to be into what they are doing, then there will automatically be blow back (pun intended) from men, for what she’s essentially saying is that the average woman doesn’t enjoy having sex with random strangers, thereby implicitly insulting men’s sexual desirability. 😳 Men don’t have issues with this notion (of having sex with a random stranger), and here never the twain shall meet.
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  18072. 1. C’mon man. Men clearly do want more sex than women. What’s the prostitute/gigolo ratio? 100 to 1? Probably more. What’s the male/female porn watching ratio? 1000 to 1? Probably more. 2. This is bound to lead to women controlling the ‘doors to entry’, so to speak. You just need to up your game.😉
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  18073. There’s a lot of truth in that. We’re only about 200 years ahead of the Sharia hand-loppers; and we didn’t even have the excuse of a medieval barbaric text to justify our actions at the time! 👀
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  18074.  @scottmcloughlin4371  What are you on about? As a French/English bilingual speaker, I’m here to tell you that the English language is far more complex and nuanced than French. To assert ‘having a vast vocabulary doesn’t matter’ is just balderdash. It’s precisely having this ‘vast vocabulary’ that lends English its richness and allows for greater nuance vis-a-vis French and vis-a-vis a host of other languages, too.😳
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  18075.  @gingernutpreacher  *they’re *their
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  18076.  @Gozzillacia  Yeah, but what are you going to do, sunshine? Ban religion? Really? You’re better than that, I’m sure.😉
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  18077. @Mcgilead Mcgilead Right, McGilead McGilead is an expansionist aggressive political ideology which is problematic for sure. 😳
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  18078.  @MsMounen  Ah, ok.👍
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  18079.  @MsMounen  There’s no disrespect at all. All I would say is quite simple: if you’re looking for Mary then beware her hair.😳
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  18080.  @MsMounen  ‘Belonging to the land’. All very well. Just make it the whole land and not the petty little spot you were plopped out on. That’s all I ask. 😳 <this is my best face. You wouldn’t want to see my other faces.😉
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  18081.  @MsMounen  You misunderstand. I never mentioned ‘Englishness’ as far as I can see. I had no idea you were English until you mentioned it just now. My point is quite simple: any person, any person hitching a principal part of their identity to a random, arbitrary accident of birth, in which they had no say, is an unthinking person (no offence to you personally), and if humanity has any chance of getting out of here before we really do mutually self-destruct (given our technology), then this kind of primitive thinking has to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Along with organised religion. Why are you, if you are, taking a random, unearned sense of pride in an accident of birth? You have to answer me this question. You could have been born anywhere. As could anyone else. You had no say in the matter. It just happened. Given all these basic facts why are you taking pride/credit for this?😳
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  18082.  @MsMounen  I like you. I really do. But sometimes we have to speak our truth. Especially in times like this. ✌️
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  18083.  @MsMounen  I was stating my case. Deal with it.😳
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  18084.  @MsMounen  Of course I have connections. I have a close family and extended family and friends. I don’t feel this need to ‘belong’ as you seem to, and particularly to belong to the random people surrounding me in the part of the world I was born and raised. Why on Earth are you going to limit yourself to a sense of ‘belonging’ and ‘connection’ to the tiny bit of the world you were randomly born into? Huh? Surely it’s better to expand your sense of who you are to encompass as many fellow human beings as possible? No? Some of my family have lived for generations in the same place, while others have moved around, lived in other countries, learned other languages, as have I, and we have thereby refused to be tied to this or that small patch we happened to have been randomly, arbitrarily born on. You seem to be suggesting that we can only feel ‘belonging’ and ‘connection’ with those who happen to come from where we happened to originate from. How sad. How bizarre. How dangerous. I feel no need to limit my connections to those who happen to share my language or happen to originate from my small spot on this Earth. I speak 4 languages based on my life experience and travels on this fascinating planet. Can’t you see that the reason for much of humanity’s troubles issues from limiting ourselves to those we happen to have been born among? Can’t you see that the trouble starts when we start identifying with this or that person to the exclusion of someone else? Have you not looked at our history recently? Currently, in Russia and Ukraine we have human beings about to annihilate each other on an industrial scale, and for what? Why? I would suggest that Ukrainians and Russians have far more in common than they don’t. The only, I repeat, the only reason that they are about to mutually massacre one another is quite simple: they have been brainwashed into believing they have more differences than similarities. They have been taught to hate such that they are prepared to murder one another without scruple. Does a Russian child hate a Ukrainian child? Of course not. Why? They haven’t been indoctrinated into the delusions of adults that say we have more differences than similarities compared to the next person. I find it patronising and insulting and laughable that you suggest I cannot have a sense of belonging just because I see nationalism/patriotism as irrational, pointless, but more importantly, very very dangerous. I belong to the Earth. And the sun. And the stars. I identify with every single human being ever born and refuse to abase myself to a petty accident of birth. You need to think about this. As to ‘spiritual beliefs’, well, I’m not a fan of organised religion, as I see it, along with nationalism/patriotism, as the greatest disaster our species ever invented. Yet, this notwithstanding, I am spiritual in my own way. The difference with me, and it’s the vital difference, is that I am not prepared to kill another for my ideas. I’m not prepared to harm a fellow human being on the basis of invented, abstract nothings, as I see them. ‘Creeds and schools in abeyance’ is the only creed I live by, along with a self-definition as large as I can encompass. 😉
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  18085.  @MsMounen  I will give you this one concession, as I like you. In your case, I’m deducing it’s a benevolent patriotism you feel linked to upbringing etc. That’s fine (as long as it remains at the benign, benevolent level), as it’s linked to your history and friends and family and experiences. I get that. All I am saying is quite simple: don’t define yourself on an accident of birth such that you are willing to die for this accident of birth. With you, I hope, I don’t feel you would descend to this obvious madness. But when patriotism and nationalism get blurred, then human beings all too often get violent and tribal and hunkered down in their camps purely based on a random, arbitrary accident of birth. The only way out of this is to expand your self-definition. For example, my first and primary definition is ‘human being’. I’m not willing to define myself as less than this, if it means excluding others. As a result I’m not going to get violent with another over an arbitrary accident of birth or a random pie-in-the-sky daddy. Humanity needs to learn to do this if we are to have any chance of getting out of here alive. ☀️
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  18086.  @MsMounen  Yeah, and your random, arbitrary, meaningless accident of birth makes you ‘belong’ to this island. Really? Think about this better. You could have been born anywhere. Stop taking an unearned ‘pride’, a weird unearned credit in a complete accident of birth. If you had been born in France you would, no doubt, be trumpeting your ‘Frenchness’ at me. If you had been born in China you would, no doubt, be championing the greatness of China. If you had been born in La La Land, you would be going all lala over La La Land? Do you not see this? Do you not see that nationalism, along with organised religion, has been the most egregious baleful blight on our planet? Can you not see that? Are you that primitive that just because your mother happened to plop you out somewhere, and not elsewhere, that you automatically take pride in that random place she plopped you out? Really? Last time I checked, I thought people took pride in their self-driven achievements. Learning a new language, learning a musical instrument, raising a happy, healthy family, for example, are all worthy of your pride. But an accident of birth? Have you not seen the news today? People about to kill one another over an accident of birth. Think about this and get back to me with a better answer as I feel you might be better than this.😳
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  18087.  @hooligan9794  Exactly. Just be proud of your own self-motivated achievements.😳
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  18088.  @Martin-88  Yeah, but that was arguably more of a fight against an ideology, rather than a specific country. Also, screw nationalism/patriotism. I wouldn’t fight to defend my random, arbitrary accident of birth against someone else randomly, arbitrarily born on a different patch of land on this planet. We need to get beyond these unthinking notions.😳
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  18089.  @hooligan9794  Just be proud of your self-motivated achievements, pal. Learning a language, learning a musical instrument, raising a happy family, that sort of thing. After organised religion, national pride has been the most baleful blight on the human species. If you’ve actively contributed to something, then, if you want to, take ‘pride’ in that. Don’t take unearned pride, unearned credit in the random, arbitrary event of your mother plopping you out here and not there. I would argue, don’t even fall into the trap of defining anything at a national level. It’s too dangerous and humans cannot be trusted at this stage in our evolution. I try, as far as possible, to define myself in the widest, largest terms possible, and in this way I don’t get ‘offended’ when someone disses my place of birth, or when someone mocks my (non)-belief, in a deity. Human beings are still far, far too tribal, alas.🧐
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  18090.  @MsMounen  They do that, alright.👍
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  18091.  @MsMounen  I like the way the emoticons tighten up the script in the page.🧐
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  18092.  @MsMounen  No kidding!😉
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  18093.  @rhoetusochten4211  Ah.😉
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  18094. Are you going to report him to the ‘pronunciation police’? 👮‍♀️
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  18095.  @gillisleighola  And just what is this oh so precious ‘culture’ you seem to want to protect?
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  18096. Oh, they’re racial as well, bud.🧐
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  18097.  @beat1riz  All time is now. There was never any more inception than there is now/Nor any more youth or age than there is now/And will never be any more perfection than there is now/Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. (W Whitman) I see time much like Whitman, I think. Linear time, past, present and future are mental constructs we use to navigate in a Universe of contraries.🧐
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  18098. Jesus never existed.😳
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  18099. Any man who has a Caspar David Friedrich adorning his wall can’t be all bad.🧐
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  18100.  @bernardwatts5339  Not on my watch it ain’t, Bernie baby.🤓
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  18101. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  18102.  @zimzob  Yeah, but 1,000,000 other folk have put the ‘eternal verities’ more wittily and more funnily than the prosaic, mundane, humourless hunk of pretentious crap that is Jordan Peterson. That’s all. 😳
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  18103.  @Vragnarax  No.
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  18104.  @MrFox101  I’m washing my hair tonight.
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  18105. @UCRR4-l1w4S7eFEwZiS5AAIA He’s the guy people who don’t read go to. The God thing? To me, he’s just added that garbage to add a little mystique, a little something to sell him to a few more unthinking, gullible fuctards. On Monday he’s an atheist. ‘Ah, but most North Americans believe in a deity; I’ve missed a trick here. God exists! Eureka! But only on my staggeringly arrogant terms: he/she/it/whatever the fucking pronoun is, exists because I, Jordan Peterson, acts as if he/she/it/whatever the fucking pronoun is exists.’ On Tuesday he’s a believer. He’s egregiously nauseating in his self-righteous proclamations. I repeat, when he talks of something as basic and obvious to every human being as ‘equality of opportunity’, then of course, I agree. Why wouldn’t you? It’s obvious. And so is Peterson.🤓
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  18106. No. She was waiting for you to shut it. That’s all.😳
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  18107.  @iansmith8783  That’s half true. Everything men do could be, arguably, motivated by sex (that is the act itself). But the power-element is, for me, the more persuasive argument here, in terms of rape. Women are far, far more complicated creatures than that.😳 Chicken/egg, perhaps, as you say.
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  18108.  @iansmith8783  But of course. But the sex itself is not the primary motivation for most rapists. It’s a byproduct in a sense of someone wanting to assert sadistic power (no doubt due to a severe self-loathing and emasculation) over another, this latter being the intrinsic psychological motivation . 😳
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  18109.  @charlieweaver6322  No, but as a Genghis Khan admirer you clearly might have. Projection, dear boy?😳
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  18110.  @iansmith8783  Yes, but punk is literally a kind of music, but there’s more than one type of music.😳
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  18111. Huh? And men aren’t? Wtf. 🤦‍♂️
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  18112. Like, like, like, like. That’s 4 words, sunshine. And?😳
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  18113. I find it quite interesting that quite a few homosexual men, including Murray, seem to have a bit of a downer on women; his female role-models clearly sucked at their job, in the absence of a strong father-figure. 🤓
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  18114. ‘Birds of a feather …’ 🦅 🪶
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  18115. You’re clearly feeling threatened by the bloke ‘in touch with his feminine side’. You should try it, dude. Might get lucky.🤓
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  18116. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, race, nation, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓
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  18117. A lot of this stuff, if not most, can simply be summed up as ‘every person most likes people most like themselves’.😳
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  18118.  @mizzfoxx1834  What are you on about, child? Jesus. Read me back. Don’t come at me with unsubstantiated nothings as you don’t stand a chance. I’ll repeat what I said in case you missed it first time round: If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  18119.  @mizzfoxx1834  Well, you clearly do, otherwise you would have held your peace.🥸
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  18120. If by ‘woke’ you mean not being a racist, sexist, homophobic bastard, then where’s the problem? Bandying around the epithet ‘woke’ as a term of condemnation has become a lazy trope, beloved of the right as a ruse to excuse the aforementioned behaviour, under the guise of protecting freedom of speech. I uphold the latter, and have no issue with other races, gays and women. If this makes me ‘woke’ then bring it on. 🤓
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  18121.  @L.K.48  Because Peterson is the most dishonest, intellectually cowardly individual I think I have ever heard when it comes to the God question. My 10 year old has better stuff concerning God. Peterson sits on his self-appointed throne and announces like an arrogant prick: ‘well, I don’t believe in God, per se, but I act as if God exists’ Not even the pretence to engage the arguments therewith; no, just a staggering self-righteous hubris, like a child in the playground; ‘but my daddy (in the sky) does have a bigger cock than your daddy. And I’m not going to offer you any proof beyond my supreme, unverified, unverifiable assertion that one acts as if he exists.’ Pathetic, but then I have come to expect this from Mr Emperor’s New Clothes Peterson.🤓
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  18122. Yeah, fair play. You seem consistent. At least you didn’t bring in the God garbage and thereby scupper your honesty. Good for you.👍
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  18123. I’m quite a simple fellow and so I’ve never quite got this whole ‘trans’ thing. Surely on a biological/chromosomal level (sex) you are male/female, with some wiggle room for the hermaphrodites amongst us. On the cultural (gender) level is where I can fully see the argument for multiple genders. So, being transsexual seems to me inadmissible, but being transgender seems to me something very real.😳
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  18124. You missed a bit. ‘I’m constantly kissing myself’.😳
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  18125.  @Krwler  I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, this time.😳
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  18126. Shouldn’t ‘bad’ men be ‘trashed’? Or are you just going to use the misandry argument to excuse it?😳
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  18127. That’s my pet theory about Kearse. As a Scot all I hear is an averagely funny, not very thoughtful pub bore. Maybe I’ve been spoiled.
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  18128. How do you know it wasn’t a ‘racism issue’? You have no idea of the conscious/unconscious motivations of Chauvin. He himself may be in the dark about these. What we can say with some certainty is that due to nature and due to nurture most human beings favour certain people/groups over others. It’s reasonable to assume that racism might (not necessarily was) have been an issue in Floyd’s death. I like to consider myself open and tolerant but I also know I have my weak spots and certain ‘groups’ or types of people that I disdain for various reasons. It’s safe to say Chauvin would have had similar acknowledged and unacknowledged prejudices, and from what my eyes saw him do to Floyd, it wouldn’t surprise me if one of those prejudices was an anti-black one. Can’t prove it, though. I accept that.
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  18129.  @conrad1on  Really? On GB News he comes across to me as an uninformed pub bore. His stage stand-up has a couple of killer lines but is mostly Manning-lite with a twist of Scotch. He’s not a ‘thinker’, notwithstanding his clear desperation to be taken seriously. He actually reminds me of me, when I was 16. Leo Kearse is 45.
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  18130. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  18131. This is really just a new way of describing working-class (somewheres) and middle-class (anywheres). The terms change but the themes don’t. I’m probably an anywhere in that I don’t really identify with any ‘tribe’ beyond my family; that is I’m anti-Nationalism/Patriotism; agnostic; no time for party politics; liberal in the classic sense; Remainer; no time for ideology, religious or political etc., but I can see that my concerns, while in some areas might overlap with the somewheres, are in other areas irreconcilable. I just had a debate today with someone who was quite strongly anti-multiculturalism, telling me that only ‘indigenous’ people to England should have a say on the immigration policy of the country via referendum. I’m pro a certain amount of immigration, but certainly not open-door policy immigration. He made me think a little more about this. According to the anywhere/somewhere schema it’s clear where each of us stood.🤔 A new terminology for thinking about old, old problems.
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  18132. @35:12 We may have made a ‘God of materialism’ in part, some others of us have just looked quite closely in the marketplace of monotheisms and founding them sorely wanting on many levels; not least with the biggest claim of all.😳
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  18133. @25:12 Speaking for myself, it’s not that I have become ‘embarrassed’ about national identity in general and the UK in particular, it’s that I’m simply not willing to commit my identity to an accident of birth. I was randomly, arbitrarily born here; I could have been born somewhere else, as could everyone else, so to identify with this accident of birth utterly makes no sense to me, and given the sanguinary, ignominious history of aggressive nationalism/patriotism in our collective history, then surely it doesn’t serve us as a species to continue with this notion of identifying yourself with some political lines on a map, within whose territory your mother just happened to plop you out.🧐
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  18134. @1:15:20 She had a lot of decent stuff to say. Have to part company with her here, though.😳 Overwhelming evidence there is man made climate change. As we speak, there is a report that seas are rising rather alarmingly if you happen to live in low-lying coastal areas, while ice cap regions are losing ice-sheet thickness, again at an alarming rate. Glaciers melting. The evidence is all there.
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  18135. @55:16 Well, factually just over 1,000. Not to be downplayed at all but not ‘several thousand’. The ‘several thousand’ actually applied to the other side: There were 138 suicide attacks and 1,038 Israelis killed from September 28, 2000 through February 8, 2005, according to data of the Shin Bet security service; and 3,189 Palestinians killed, according to data of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. In addition, 4,100 Palestinian homes were demolished and some 6,000 Palestinians arrested. 🧐
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  18136. Neither is capitalism. Your point is?
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  18137.  @S3NTRY  Or just funny comedians!😆
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  18138.  @S3NTRY  Contravention of trades descriptions act, eh?
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  18139. Yes, amazing, isn’t it?
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  18140. Well, you can start with his bandmates.
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  18141.  @Kuttooth  What’s that then, petal?
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  18142.  @ngrovotny  Yes, to the extent that it constrains you from saying stuff that you want.
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  18143.  @ngrovotny  It is a cancel culture thing to the extent he’s been ‘cancelled’ from doing his job for merely reading a book (and talking about this) others deem unworthy. Kind of scary in terms of free-speech.
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  18144.  @ngrovotny  Not that I know of. Why would he? He’s made a mint and can sit on his pile until he shuffles off this mortal coil. I’m guessing British parents only call their child ‘Winston’ for one reason, though, as it’s an extremely uncommon name, even in the land of the cigar chomping bulldog hero.
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  18145. I think the Native Americans said much the same about whitey back in the 1700s.👍
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  18146. Bill Hicks was never anti-science.😳
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  18147.  @avaluggglazer445  No. You’re weird. Get a grip. I see no victims here. 😝
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  18148.  @pamelasmith6221  Cheers, Pammy! 👍😉
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  18149.  @PhotonEditzz  And your point is, Batman?
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  18150.  @Abcdefg-tf7cu  Apparently, it’s not illegal in NYC. Ta da! 🎉😝
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  18151.  @k_zelite4921  False comparison. Dui is quite likely to result in a victim(s). All we got here is exposed boobies. I see no victims, real or potential. 😝
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  18152.  @primalconvoy  Er, apparently it’s not illegal to be topless in NYC. Seethe. Moreover, even if it were illegal, I still see no victims here. 😝
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  18153.  MrHemi4spd  *It’s 😝
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  18154.  MrHemi4spd  I still see no victims here. Muhahahahaha! 😝
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  18155.  @xx_iamswag_xx3390  Really? So they say ‘tap water’ but call it a ‘faucet’? Odd.
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  18156.  @KJosef24 I take your point, but I’m from quite near Dalkeith and have followed this case very closely from day 1. Watched and read everything there is to know about it and my considered working assumption is that he’s innocent.
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  18157.  @KJosef24 Just for the record, (and I know they aren’t foolproof), both he and his mother took lie detector tests and passed. My belief he’s innocent doesn’t solely rest on this, of course, but this along with all the other stuff (namely the complete lack of forensic evidence directly linking him to this crime) make me think he’s probably (not definitely) innocent.
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  18158.  @KJosef24  One other thing: to call his mother ‘mad’ betrays a complete bias on your part and probably rules you out as a credible witness. 👍
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  18159.  @KJosef24  Ok. That’s fine. I just don’t think he did it. He might have. But I don’t think he did.👍
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  18160.  @KJosef24  Nah, that doesn’t really work, mate. I can think of loads of reasons folks wouldn’t want to publicly support a suspected murderer. You don’t know what their motives are. All I know is this: having followed this case from day 1, as I told you, I would would bet very good money (if I had it! ) that Mitchell is innocent. That’s having looked at everything involved in this case. Something doesn’t feel right about his conviction. And I say that having zero connection to the dude.👍
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  18161. As a Brit, I’m watching a place called ‘Chipotle’ and I’m devastated to say I don’t see a single chip! That’s like calling yourself ‘Apple’ and only supplying bananas! 🍌 🍎 🍟
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  18162. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓
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  18163. The humourless epithet seems to sum him up. You get the distinct impression he has never really let himself go in his entire puff.🤓
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  18164. *it’s *you’re Who’s the real dunce here? 🤔
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  18165. ‘Blue’ - The Jayhawks
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  18166. @5:59 ^Anti-Semitic. So many pronounce this wrong; this guy’s pronouncing and spelling it wrong!😳
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  18167. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  18168. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  18169.  MrHemi4spd  *you’re
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  18170. 🤣
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  18171.  @boardcertifiable  Er, ty for explaining the obvious, Einstein. 🤦‍♂️
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  18172. Ho
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  18173. Bus.
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  18174.  @k_zelite4921  Seethe and seethe again, child.😝
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  18175. Presumably the world’s coldest scientist was Icepack Newton.
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  18176.  @lindseywagner7510  So just let him give his daughter replacement money. No? 🤷‍♂️
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  18177. We have ‘smartphones’, ‘smart cars’, ‘smart drugs’, ‘smart books’ and ‘smart bombs’; unfortunately we still have too many dumb people.👀
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  18178.  @Miles.Larsen  So stop stating obvious platitudes then when you’re clueless.
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  18179. Lol. Tattoos=mental health problems. K.🤣🤣
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  18180. She wasn’t “snarky” and “dismissive”. She was just being objective and professionally critical as a journalist should be. There is precisely zero hard evidence we are being visited by aliens. Zero. More people on this bandwagon would do well to remember this fact.
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  18181.  @shaun6038  Lol.
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  18182. K, Shauny. You got it covered, bro.👍
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  18183. Humans are so destructive of the planet that not only are we the main contributors to drastic biodiversity losses in the animal/plant kingdom, but we even do this stuff to ourselves! As Joni said, ‘we pave paradise and put up a parking lot’.
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  18184. There’s a serious point here. Trump can’t speak French. Macron can speak perfect English. Who should be mocking whom, here? 🤔
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  18185.  @dom4591  Yes, it does suggest that. It suggests it’s a lesser crime if you steal from a young person. Do try to keep up at the back.
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  18186.  @Angbwillinspireu  But they aren’t when we seen them, which is surely the point, given soldiers ride horses every day in London.
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  18187. Cringe.
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  18188. Did anyone else find this trying far too hard to be funny/clever when it’s just boring? 🥱
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  18189. Not on your Nellie! 🐘
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  18190.  @someonerandom760 Clearly easy access to guns in a country as mentally unstable as the US is the problem.
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  18191. America still is, quite literally, the Wild West. It hasn’t moved on in this regard for 250 years. 🤦‍♂️
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  18192.  @Oatmantattoos  Type ‘thomas elliot 21 greenville nc’ into Google and then continue to tell me it’s “fake”. ✌️
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  18193.  @Oatmantattoos  Yeah, it’s so ‘fake’ they name the guy. If he didn’t really exist, it would’ve been rumbled by now. He obviously exists. People know him. He has a history. You’re deluded.👍😉
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  18194.  @Oatmantattoos  No it wasn’t. Not everything is fake and AI.
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  18195. We have to be careful around any ideas of revenge, for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and many dentists looking for alternative employment. 🦷 👁
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  18196. Something tells me that with Trump’s indickment this isn’t just a Stormy in a D cup. ☕️
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  18197. (S)he looks amazing! 👍
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  18198. One side thinks it’s right. The other side thinks it’s right. With these two rights there may be none of us left. 💣
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  18199. Really? Would you volunteer to be the ‘actor’ in this? I certainly wouldn’t.
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  18200.  @Inglorious_Informant  Ok. Bend over, son. 🤓
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  18201. 🤣
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  18202. Well, the kid was a minor, so he had ‘minor injuries’! 😅
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  18203.  @ideac.  Lol.🤣You tragic drama queen.
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  18204. * a lot
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  18205.  @Inglorious_Informant  All I got from this is that so are you.
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  18206.  @jordandennis6794  Me cope and seethe? Lol. It’s not me getting my frilly knickers in a twist over what consenting adults get up to.🤣
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  18207.  @theartist25614  Sorry, mate, but anyone who is interfering in what 2 consenting adults get up to, is not only ‘stupid’, but an outright fascist. Think on, sweetie.😉
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  18208. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👽
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  18209. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  18210.  @ianian4162  Why is a man presuming to tell a woman what she can and cannot wear? Sounds pretty incellish to me, sonny.👍
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  18211. Yeah but UFO doesn’t ipso-facto equate to ‘alien visitation’. Think on.
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  18212. K, Mr Incel. Gotcha! 👍
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  18213.  @Swift_Jr  Who? 🤔
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  18214. Hey! What you got against Bad Company? Yes, their second album could’ve been better, but this hardly justifies your unjust remark. 🎸
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  18215. I reckon Coxy’s the alien to throw us all off the scent.
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  18216.  @Kaizerg  👌
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  18217. Ah, fair Nîmes. As soon as I stepped out the station up that gorgeous wee alley between Av. Feuchères leading up to Les Arènes I knew I was in a spot to savour. It was July. The cicadas were providing that quintessential Midi soundtrack with their crazy buzzing, the buildings had that faded grandeur/shabby-chic look that France does like no other country on Earth (save Italy), and the general vibe was one of satisfied torpor in the summer sun. Sure, there’s not much to the place. To call it France’s Rome is to grossly insult the scale and richness of the Eternal City, but what there is, including, of course, the superbly preserved aforementioned Les Arènes and Maison Carrée, is worth a day of anyone’s life.
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  18218. These days we photograph/film everything and you’re telling me that not one of these people even caught even a glimpse of these “8ft creatures” with “big eyes” on camera? I’m calling bs.
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  18219.  @beautifyyourlife6912  Yes, but there is a difference. NATO is not going to aggressively start a war. Russia under Putin, with a base in Mexico or Canada, is a rather more volatile, unpredictable prospect.👀
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  18220.  @beautifyyourlife6912  I don’t deny the USA has historical blood on its hands. What semi-powerful nation doesn’t? The difference here is we have someone, 1 person, causing the mayhem. This is not a ‘Russian’ thing. This is a ‘Putin’ thing. 👀
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  18221. After 300,000 years of Homo-Sapiens on this planet, we still have one troublemaker that no one likes, no one wants, and yet, we tolerate him to the point of him sparking a nuclear war. Really? Yes, really. Read it and weep. 😭
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  18222. 🛸 We need to get this clear: there is absolutely no properly credible evidence for ‘alien visitation’ to planet Earth. All of it, all of it is circumstantial, at best. Vague stuff seen in the sky? Well, to make the dramatic leap that this is alien sh*t from light years away would have William of Ockham up in arms. For me, this thing is rather simple: given the size of the Universe, that is, given that our Universe contains at least 70 septillion stars, 7 followed by 23 zeros, and so astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth, then it’s natural to assume there is life out there, and ‘not as we know it, Jim'. However, on current evidence, I’m not buying the idea that we have been/are being visited. I work on evidence. Hitherto, this evidence has been much too weak for the assertion that the aliens are here. 👽
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  18223. We all know Argentina’s a predominantly white country full of genetically white Europeans. If we flip this, we could say why are there no indigenous Argentines in the national team? You can’t have it both ways: you can’t suggest Mbappé et al. may not be really French and then put a team of all-white non-indigenous South Americans and not expect someone to point this out. The Europeans were late-coming intruders to North/South America. Fernandez and his teammates would do well to remember this. Todos sabemos que Argentina es un país predominantemente blanco lleno de europeos genéticamente blancos. Si le damos la vuelta a esto, podríamos decir ¿por qué no hay argentinos indígenas en la selección? No se pueden tener las dos cosas: no se puede sugerir a Mbappé et al. Puede que no sea realmente francés y luego ponga un equipo de sudamericanos no indígenas exclusivamente blancos y no espere que alguien lo señale. Los europeos fueron intrusos tardíos en América del Norte y del Sur. Fernández y sus compañeros harían bien en recordarlo.
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  18224. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  18225. Awww, diddums. Did the questions not suit you, sweetie? Der, der. Mommy will be along soon to wipe your tears. 😭🤣
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  18226.  @BossySwan  Seethe harder. 🤣
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  18227.  @BossySwan  *SEETHE more you triggered oaf! 🤣
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  18228. Will the dueling banjo kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  18229. You are aware that Sugar seems to be a bit ‘down’ on the Senegalese football team? Quote: I recognise some of these guys from the beach in Marbella. Multitasking, resourceful chaps. I put it to you, he got away with this as he is monied.😳
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  18230.  @BossySwan  I’m on about Sugar’s barely-concealed casual racism. Seethe more.
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  18231. Why posit capitalism versus communism? Why go to an extreme point?
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  18232. Well, it’s one way to get famous. Kinda.
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  18233.  @joeday4293  Disagree. We could just have different amounts of brain cells, though.
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  18234.  @joeday4293  I’ll carry on counting my several trillion; you keep your one company.😉
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  18235.  @joeday4293  Substance (noun) “the quality of being important, valid, or significant.” Yeah, just about sums up Peterson’s lack of ‘substance’. You too have a good day, Joey baby.👍
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  18236.  @joeday4293  No. I don’t waste my day conversing with single-celled amoebas. Those of us with a brain can see Peterson’s just a snake oil salesman. Think on. If you can.😉
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  18237.  @joeday4293  I refer you to the answer I gave some moments ago. Cope.
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  18238.  @joeday4293  No.
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  18239.  @joeday4293  Jesus, you’re a triggered wee fellow, aren’t you? Der, der. Everything’s gonna be alright, son. 🤓
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  18240. Really? Sartorial splendour? He resembles nothing so much as a junior office clerk.😳
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  18241.  @stevemorse108  Indeed. And my subjectivity on the matter is that he resembles a scruffy office temp on his lunch break. You and I may move in different circles.🥸
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  18242.  @stevemorse108  If you ‘attach little importance’ to what you wear, why did you need to point it out as an initial comment on Peterson? This implies you do attach importance to clothes. Or are you genuinely saying that you don’t care how you appear to yourself and others, but you do care about how others appear to you and everyone else? I’m confused. Can I suggest what I think is going on here and you can correct me if I’m wrong. I think you’re relieved that Peterson conforms in some way to your model of a ‘well-dressed’ man, however subjectively defined. You are glad that someone you dig in many ways, I would guess, is someone you can also dig on the sartorial level also. The mere fact of your mention of high-cost shoes when I challenged your opinion Peterson was well-dressed, suggests that like most other people you do care about personal appearance, in others and in yourself, too, I bet. This would only be natural, for as Shakespeare rightly said: the apparel oft proclaims the man. So, in conclusion, it seems to me our only bone of contention is, is Peterson well-dressed in this video? Your subjectivity says yes, mine says no. 🥸
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  18243. Will the dueling banjo kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  18244. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  18245. Socrates? His was Brazilian, dummy!😂 Brilliant in 1982.
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  18246. Cope better.
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  18247. This is possibly the single most satisfying video I have seen in about 10 years of watching YouTube.
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  18248. This, sadly, reminds me of the lengths we go to, as humans, to save, say, a cat up a tree, or a semi-beached whale, only this time we are helping one of our own. (P.s. We should be saving the trapped cat or the beached whale, but, surely, it’s incumbent on us to help our own, perhaps as a matter of priority.) Speciesist? Maybe.
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  18249. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  18250. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Good Will Hunting the Rock .
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  18251. Personally, I’m at two with nature.
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  18252.  @stevehiggins1263  Er, ok. You picked the ‘better’ Bible values, I suppose. Overall though, I am with Richard Dawkins: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. 👍
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  18253. Nice to see James Dean Bradfield doing his bit.👀
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  18254. You sound a bit confused, Stevie. Atheist? Christian values? 🤦‍♂️
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  18255. Jordan Peterson‘s 12 more (God help us all!) rules for life - an appraisal. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Oh man. Come on! If I can’t slag off the mother-in-law you’ve thereby instantly removed 5% of my reason for getting up in the morning. Similarly, if I see a post-post-modern, abstract-expressionist post-impressionist painting in a gallery I reserve the right to draw a cock and balls over it. I want my artists figurative. Or at the very least, Italian. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. Hmm … I’m imagining I could be Jordan Peterson. Oh, wait. The world isn’t big enough to contain TWO identical egos that large! Do not hide unwanted things in the fog. Especially if John Carpenter is lurking somewhere in that fog. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. Ok, I think that makes sense. Are you saying that if I refuse to wash the dishes and decline to put the garbage out I’m on a blow-job promise that self same evening? Sounds good to me! Do not do what you hate. Yay! Jordan Peterson himself is telling me I don’t have to read a single thing he ever writes ever again! Thanks Jordy. 🙏 Abandon ideology. What, abandon the ‘ideology’ of condensing the incredible complexity of human life and existence into 12 cookie-cutter platitudes I once read in a bunch of fortune cookies? That ideology? Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Well, since the age of about 13 I’ve been actively fulfilling this injunction and it’s nearly fallen off.😳 Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. Can we agree on a corner of one room? A whole room just sounds extravagant and, frankly, a waste of my time when I’ve got rule 7 to be getting on with.😳 If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. Yes, they do. However, not sure writing them down will help. Can I not just do the more obvious, sensible thing and, er, like, well, forget them? Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Yes, I buy my dick flowers at least every other Friday. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Ha! Ya got me. While I resent no one but the milk-man who ran away with the wife back in 1987 (I’m still working through it), and I have deceived no one since that time I pretended I was Jesus at a convention of atheist/agnostics, the ‘arrogant’ one still niggles. Yes, I have to admit that when in an almighty pickle, I do sometimes think: ‘What would Donald Lamont do?’ Sorry. Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Well, one of my avatars kinda said this about 2,600 years before Saint Jordan palmed it off as one of his own. But hey! plagiarism never hurt anybody when you’re trying to fool most of the people most of the time!😁 Note: Jordan Peterson will publish 12 more rules for life when he’s spent all the money he got from gullible fools buying the first 24. 🤔
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  18256. Well, that theory doesn’t quite work with, say, Napoleon, or Alexander the Great. But ho hum.
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  18257.  @shootingsportstransparency7461  Yeah but you said, ‘the definition of war is old mental ill rich men sending young poor men into war to commit crimes against humanity.’ I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong. Yes, Putin is 70. But Alexander the Great popped his clogs at just 32, and some of Napoleon’s greatest conquests were achieved when he was in his 20s and he was fully involved in the front line sanguinary antics. Don’t just state stuff that isn’t true, just because you fancy it, as it serves no one.😳
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  18258.  @shootingsportstransparency7461  Just redefine your definition of war, as it’s not always old rich men sending young men to their deaths. Be more precise than that. Don’t bend facts to suit your agenda, as that won’t work when you meet people like me who can see through the crap.
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  18259.  @shootingsportstransparency7461  Full disclosure: I’m agnostic, apolitical and anational. I just don’t want to be incinerated in a thermonuclear annihilation scenario, that’s all. But this needs to be said, if we are to have any understanding as to what is going on here: Putin is not mad; rather, he considers NATO/USA/West an encroaching mortal threat, and I think he has a point. It’s too easy to label him as Vlad the Mad, the unhinged, sexually repressed freak (he’s that, all right - if he just came out he could save us a whole lotta trouble here), but he’s simply acting according to his vision of the world. Where I and Vlad part company, is where he invades self-governing, sovereign territories, no matter how much he may think he has a claim on them, like in some geopolitical version of a child-custody battle. However, it’s vitally important we don’t paint Putin as this non-human ‘monster’; he’s far from that.😳
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  18260.  @shootingsportstransparency7461  Yeah, ok. All the best.👍
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  18261. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.”🥸
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  18262. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  18263. All of Europe’s a night-train/And all the men and women merely passengers/They have their Brexits and their Schengen Areas/And one man in his couchette smells many farts/His trips covering different gauges/At first the teenager/Hungover and puking into his best mate’s arms/And then the whining young man, with rucksack/And bleary morning face/And then the lover, riding off the rails/Into unknown tunnels/And then the husband/Sighing with sternness/And a where’s my passport?/Made to his wife’s eyeball/The next gauge slips into the sidings of serene retirement/And Interrailing at Senior-Person’s entitlement/The Spanish gauge shifts into green and considered Irun/The spectacle of those/With Euros well-saved/Last train of all/That bookends this changing, scentful mystery/Is second-class and near-Bolivian/Sans tea, sans pies, sans haste, sans air spring.
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  18264.  @droge192  Yes. At least I’m not polluting YT with turgid, weak-voiced sub X-Factor crap. You need to think about this, have a little self-awareness, before you come at another, pal. 😳Just for the record, no one is forcing you to read it: you do know that, I take it?
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  18265. I’m an alien from a galaxy far away. My simple question is this: why/how are you, as a species, allowing one of your own to hold you to ransom? No one, beyond the unmentioned, wants this. Not those closest to him want this. Why, then, do you tolerate this?😳 👽
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  18266. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘‘war on ignorance’ but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  18267. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.😳
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  18268.  @rambo3834  *their
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  18269. Get real, man. If these things have been around for aeons, they could’ve vaporised us long before now! I never understand why the automatic assumption is that these things must be hostile. It’s just pure human projection.
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  18270.  @peterlawson8040  Yes, and know nothing, really. All this stuff is just ego-posturing.
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  18271.  @martinwebb1681  * were saying (one of my principal rules in life is never to trust someone with basic grammar issues.)
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  18272. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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  18273. Funny how a chat thread goes suddenly silent when a few bits of data are thrown into the mix, isn’t it?
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  18274.  @martinwebb1681  Look, man, I work on evidence. Best ‘evidence’ so far? In my opinion, Pentagon film, but to make the outrageous leap that this is ‘aliens’ most reasonable people wouldn’t be able to do. As I say, why would I trust anything you tell me when English appears to be your first language (correct me if I’m wrong, Marty), yet you make a basic, egregious, grammatical blunder my 5 year-old wouldn’t make? I want my ‘sources’ at least semi-literate. Call me picky.
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  18275.  @likeaboss6421  It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.
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  18276.  @martinwebb1681  * people’s
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  18277.  @martinwebb1681  One of the boons of written social media is it can sort the wheat from the chaff, and those too lazy to self-edit before they post grammatically poor stuff. You don’t seem to realise, if you can’t get the basics right, then certain other people who can (because they paid attention in school), are not going to take you seriously. It’s called ‘having standards’.
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  18278.  @martinwebb1681  You’ll be telling me next, Marty, that the ‘aliens’ chose to abduct you and harvest your DNA as they see you as a prime exemplar of humanity at its brightest, with your scintillating spelling skills and grammatical gravitas. Get real, man. Can, but more importantly, must do better.
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  18279.  @martinwebb1681  To talk of ‘smug superiority’ in me is a little rich when that’s all that you and your alien-believing (on zippo evidence) chums have been parading throughout this thread. I will repeat this again in case you missed it: you choose not to reveal anything because you have zip to reveal. You’re as bad as those who say ‘there is a God’ and I, reasonably, ask ‘where?’ , and they turn away from me muttering something about having ‘faith’. I don’t work on faith, I work on evidence, and if you can’t provide that evidence then I reserve the right to believe absolutely nothing of what you say.
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  18280.  @martinwebb1681  Well, you do, otherwise you wouldn’t protest so much. Didn’t you read your Shakespeare in school? Nah, thought not.
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  18281.  @LisaAnn777  Yeah, all very sweet, but Jimbo has still refused to supply one iota of evidence regarding his claims. I don’t work on people telling me random stuff and simply swallowing it whole like some gullible goon. I work on evidence. If I told Jimbo, or you, or anyone else, that every second Tuesday, my granny Ethel sprouts wings and flies to the moon and back (without toilet breaks), naturally, I wouldn’t necessarily ask you to take my word for this and would want you, if you had any scintilla of a critical faculty remaining, to ask me for more verification than simply my word for this. Perhaps you might ask for some photos my granny took of the moon’s surface, or a piece of rock from said same surface. Likewise, when random people tell me random stuff about ‘aliens’ being amongst us, I kinda want more verification than just the basic word of someone I don’t know from Adam. I hope you see where I’m coming from here, and that your education can understand the very basic points I’m making.
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  18282. Incidentally, if Jim Holt is Jim Holt, the science writer, and for the purposes of this I shall assume he is (for the love of science, say it’s not him!), then to assert: The E.T.s (many different races, with different agendas) have already been here for a long time, millions and millions of them have even been born among humans , without doing his due scientific diligence and supplying the corroborating evidence which can be openly assessed and openly peer-reviewed, then he is doing the whole scientific enterprise a disservice. Now, there are 200 billion trillion stars out there. Is there extraterrestrial life out there? On balance of probabilities, almost certainly. Is that extraterrestrial life here? Not a shred of evidence. Assertions, like a child in the playground screaming, ‘But my daddy is better than your daddy!’, will not do. It’s my contention that a huge part of the alien visitation theory, is simply lost, lonely human beings who ditched their God in the 19th century because they knew they had to if they were being intellectually honest with themselves, and they took one look into the colossal abyss of space/time and blinked and they have filled the gaping vacuum with all manner of supernatural paraphernalia. The wild assertions actually betray doubt as to what is being asserted, for as Pirsig noted: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Shouting from a rooftop: ‘They’re here! The aliens are here!’ doesn’t cut it in a world where some people’s critical faculties haven’t (yet) atrophied. Hamlet may have rebuked Horatio’s incredulity in strange things unseen, and I’m sure there are more things in heaven and earth than in anyone’s philosophy, but from Aristotle to Galileo to right now, the whole scientific edifice has been built upon that initial Horatian presupposition of doubt.
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  18283.  @tammysmart4486  Nobody’s perfect!👌
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  18284.  @tammysmart4486  Incidently, of the approximately 1,032 words I have deployed in this thread, if you only found one grammatical error on my part, then I surely deserve congratulations and not mocking by someone, I notice, who seems to have more than slight issues with correctly setting their text out on the page, as you appear to. Can I suggest to you that you simply learn how to use the space bar, as reading what you’ve written makes me somewhat dizzy! For the record, one mistake in 1,032 is an error rate of 0.1%. I call that excellent by anyone’s standards. You pitch up with your first few words and immediately one spots you have basic spacing issues. Sort this out and get back to me as I’ve just heard quite a few panes of glass smashing just as I was reading your jumpy offering.
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  18285.  @tammysmart4486  Well, Tammy, my opinion clearly means something to you, sweetie, as you’re trolling me and displaying an overheated hypocrisy you might wanna sort out before you accuse others. I don’t care if you are Jesus, or the ghost of Galileo, or the resurrection of Norman Bates returned to torment me as I partake of a shower, but if you claim stuff, any stuff, but particularly outlandish stuff, you need the corroborating outlandish evidence to support said stuff. If you cannot see this basic, incontrovertible fact of elementary science then I suggest your parents have been remiss in their choice of school for you. Either that, or you weren’t concentrating the day they were teaching this elementary, yes elementary, knowledge. Just for the record, I’m not a scientist. All I am is a reasonable citizen asking perfectly reasonable questions when folks like you come at me with patently unreasonable information that no one, to date, has been able to objectively corroborate. If you’re another of these ‘asserters without evidence’ people, then it’s incumbent on you to remain silent here once you have postulated your initial idea and/or experience. Yes, you may have ‘seen’ wacky lights fizzing about the sky, you may have ‘observed’ a big f*ck-off mothership at 10 paces, you may even have peered into the eyeballs of an alien, up close and personal, before they probed your nether regions, but none of this is admissible in an open forum if it’s presented without more than just your word for it.
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  18286.  @tammysmart4486  One other thing. I assume you’re North American. I’m not. Where I come from we spell ‘realise’ as ‘realise’ and not ‘realize’, so technically, you got this one wrong in your baseless accusation of my actually correct spelling. As I said: nobody’s perfect.👌
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  18287.  @fibonaccisrazor  Can I suggest that the only thing going to ‘annihilate’ humanity is humanity.
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  18288.  @gaguilera146  You need to get out more, mate.
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  18289.  @rambo3834  Just run it through a spellcheck, buddy. Otherwise, do one.
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  18290.  @ItsmeBish584  Well, it is a bit, mate. I’m not willing to waste my time on morons who, if they can’t spell the basics, should at least show me the courtesy of running it through a spellchecker. Don’t you have standards?
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  18291.  @pygiana16  You can pay me later.
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  18292.  @We_Are_All_Vultures  It’s nothing of the sort. If you can’t be bothered to self-edit your text why should anyone else be bothered to read it? ‘There’? ‘Their’? If this blunder was made by a native English-speaker, then it’s nigh-on unforgivable. It’s lazy and invokes a reluctance to read on in this reader.
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  18293.  @StyleWithSteez  Lol.
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  18294.  @StyleWithSteez  I have no idea wtf. ‘venmo’ is, so you may have to enlighten me. Make it interesting.
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  18295.  @pegc9889  Evidence?
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  18296.  @pegc9889  Not convinced. Need better evidence.
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  18297.  @socialmeaslesinpartnership1252  Lol.
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  18298.  @martinwebb1681  It’s been going on for so long that folk like you cryptically tell us nothing like some mysterious oracle to make you seem more important. I’m willing to bet very good money that you yourself have had no direct experience of this at all, and throw out obscure tidbits to puff your ego. I repeat, there is not a shred of evidence for alien visitation, and if there is, then I ask you to point me to it. The reason you don’t, I suggest, is that you have zip to show.
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  18299.  @martinwebb1681  Yeah, yeah, usual bollocky, nothing answer.
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  18300.  @robinmcara793  Ok, I’ll do that.
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  18301.  @robinmcara793  Yeah. Just looked at the Pentagon stuff and it’s nothing I haven’t seen hundreds of times previously. There are two key things for me in any footage: 1. Can we trust its provenance? 2. Can we trust it’s ‘real’; that is, showing us what it’s purporting to show us? In the case of the Pentagon stuff, this is inconclusive on both counts. Here’s the deal: that people are seeing and recording seemingly ‘anomalous’ lights/objects in the sky, is incontrovertible. My only and main contention has always been this: are these lights/objects of extraterrestrial origin? My answer is no, based on what I have been shown thus far. The burden of proof is on you to prove to me otherwise. You are claiming these things are of extraterrestrial provenance? I say, prove it. As Carl Sagan said: ‘Outlandish claims require outlandish evidence.’ The evidence you have cited is inconclusive, to say the least. This goes for ghosts, Bigfoot and, yes, God or gods.
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  18302.  @mrblonde1264  Anti-gravity? Yeah? Point me to the video that shows this right now, or else say no more.
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  18303.  @mrblonde1264  Drones, ‘hang’ in the air. Helicopters, ‘hang’ in the air. Look, I don’t know how many times I need to repeat this, but here goes anyway: that there are anomalous lights/objects seen and recorded in our skies is incontrovertible. But to then make the outrageous leap and state (with no evidence whatsoever) that these are of extraterrestrial origin is inadmissible. You need to come to me with more than that. Incidentally, you still haven’t pointed me to the ‘anti-gravity’ video … perhaps you could do that for me now. Otherwise, there is nothing more to say, really.
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  18304.  @mrblonde1264  Look, Mr Blonde (Tarantino was always overrated anyway), don’t come at me with nothing but bluster, and ‘I happen to believe in this and therefore you must believe in this, too’. It doesn’t work like that. Just because I dig chocolate ice cream, I’m not forcing you to dig it, too. It seems like you are ‘forcing’ me to be believe something based on negligible evidence, to say the very least, and I refuse to do so until you can do better. You know what you remind me of? Those fanatical Christians screaming: ‘repent or die!’ I’m here to tell you, some of us have critical faculties that haven’t (yet) atrophied. Here’s what I’m gonna tell you, and you may not like it: you are screaming at me because you, yourself, seriously doubt the ‘truth’ of what you’re bellowing. Can I point you to an apposite quote which sums up this better than I can: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Pirsig sums up much of the alien/extraterrestrial believers almost perfectly. In sum, if you really believed all this extraterrestrial visitation stuff you wouldn’t feel the need to force others to believe it also. I don’t work on faith; I work on evidence.
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  18305.  @robinmcara793  @Mr Blonde Prove it, boys. That’s all I ask. Archimedes, Euclid, Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Faraday, Maxwell, Curie, Darwin, Rutherford, Planck, Mendel, Franklin et al: none of these people asked you to take their proposals at face value; they, to a man and woman, proved the human truth of these proposals, and asked you to ‘peer review’ their work. I have yet to see any proponent of the ‘alien visitation’ theory ask to be peer reviewed. I bet you can guess why.
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  18306.  @robinmcara793  Well, Robin, just what are you talking about when you say: ‘you assume there (sic) technology is as limited as ours’? Huh?
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  18307.  @robinmcara793  Yeah, but you said there in the original quote, mate , so please don’t come at me as a grammar bot, when you said ‘there technology’ (sic), and, frankly, you have been making grammatical/spelling blunders throughout this thread. Just for the record, I was bored with you from the beginning.
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  18308.  @robinmcara793  Btw. it’s got f*ck-all to do with being a teacher. It’s about having standards. Some of us have them. Think on.
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  18309.  @gordonpeacman2126  Looks like we got ourselves a live one, here.
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  18310.  @gordonpeacman2126  Aren’t you missing an ‘e’, Gordon?
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  18311.  @gordonpeacman2126  Ok, Gordy. You keep taking the meds. now.
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  18312.  @martinwebb1681  How convenient that we can’t see them. We’re expected, like gullible fools, to swallow the ‘aliens are here agenda’, yet, apparently no one has ever seen them! It’s a bit like when they told me at school, ‘God exists, but he’s quite elusive, and often away on holiday or taking extended tea-breaks.’ Here’s the deal as I see it apropos aliens: they are almost certainly ‘out there’, but there is not a scintilla of evidence that they are ‘in here’, and if you, or anyone else has that evidence, then make my day by pointing me to it.
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  18313. And your evidence is what, exactly?
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  18314.  @fibonaccisrazor  You can’t prove zip, mate, regarding ‘aliens’.
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  18315. 2:25 Lol. I love it! The old people get carsick and I get cliff sick just watching this! 😂
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  18316. Yes. But with all that free time what are you going to do with yourself? Pay some back, perhaps?😳
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  18317.  @Southernstereotype  So you liked it then?
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  18318. All of Europe’s a night-train/And all the men and women merely passengers/They have their Brexits and their Schengen Areas/And one man in his couchette smells many farts/His trips covering different gauges/At first the teenager/Hungover and puking in his best mate’s arms/And then the whining young man, with rucksack/And bleary morning face/And then the husband/Sighing with sternness/And a where’s my passport?/Made to his wife’s eyeball/The Spanish gauge shifts into green and considered Irun/The spectacle of those/With Euros well saved/Last train of all/That bookends this changing, scentful mystery/Is second-class and near-Bolivian/Sans tea, sans pies, sans haste, sans air spring.
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  18319. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  18320.  @skp8748  Huh?
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  18321. This is essentially a bloke in a pub unzipping his trousers and slapping his d*ck on the table. No matter how big that d*ck is, he’s sitting at a table surrounded by 10 other guys with bigger d*cks.
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  18322.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Yes there are. There have been mass demonstrations and protests in several countries against Israel’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians.
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  18323.  @jacquiaba9132  Whoosh!
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  18324.  @livelystones7773  Whoosh!
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  18325. Ask my wife.
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  18326.  @allengrant  We shall see, for there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
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  18327.  @makaveli1477  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  18328. He has ‘many followers’ because we have an uneducated populace. Tate is a semi-literate buffoon that appeals to the lowest common denominator. He’s the best argument there is for getting a sound education.
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  18329. Spell it first and then I’ll think about it.
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  18330.  @CuckFinn  I never go to the cinema. Nice try, though.👍
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  18331.  @Beechyy  That’s because they are a couple of basic twats, m8. Only losers like losers. Tate is the biggest loser of them all because he feels the need to put down 51% of humanity to feel good about himself. The irony of it all is that he is a raging unacknowledged homosexual and the sooner he was honest with everyone about this, the better, as it’s painful to watch.😉
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  18332. Nadhim Zahawi - just another Tory shyster putting the ‘con’ into Conservative.
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  18333.  @daggerwrld.  Lie. Of the five nations where elephants live, the survey found that Botswana with 131,909 has the largest elephant population, followed by Zimbabwe, which has 65,028. (Source: Japan Times) Nice try, though. 👍
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  18334.  @letsoamaregofiwapapimagome  Er, because Botswana was in Africa last time I checked. D’oh!
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  18335.  @boikanyokereemang8327  Huh? How does that invalidate the OP? 🤔
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  18336.  @chibikeugbam5247  Huh? How does that invalidate the OP? 🤔
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  18337.  @derekchauvin8426  Really? No amount of propaganda could make me kill another or die ‘heroically’, whether propaganda based on an imaginary daddy in the sky or an imaginary line on a map linked to a random, arbitrary accident of birth.😳
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  18338. It’s at times like this that one consoles oneself with the thought that there are more suns 🌞 in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on this planet. 🏝 Extrapolation tells one that that means there are even more planets! 🌎 Cogitating on this for a moment lightens the burden: we are quite literally no more than microscopic dust on one grain of sand of which there are trillions and trillions. We are dots in the Universe; ultimately, without meaning.
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  18339. Uh huh. Travis T F Justice.
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  18340.  @DominicPaz  Yes, but the US, historically, hasn’t needed to annex as it just blunders in and overthrows democratically-elected governments and installs regimes favourable to its interests. This has been its modus-operandi for a good century.
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  18341.  @StepDub  Iraq was America doing what America does since about 1776. At the time justified as being all about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies; the real reason the Bush administration invaded Iraq was the same reason Truman dropped (unnecessarily) the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima: its demonstration effect. As with this latter barbaric, immoral atrocity, which was intended to send a post-WW2 message to the rest of the world (particularly the USSR) of “don’t mess with us, or else”, a quick and decisive victory in the heart of the Arab world would send a message to all countries, especially to recalcitrant regimes such as Syria, Libya, Iran, or North Korea, that American hegemony was here to stay.
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  18342.  @azorahai7837  This. 👍
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  18343.  @leephillips3924  Indeed. I was just pointing out the weird double-standards of the pro-Ukraine cheerleaders. I’m neutral here. All of the West’s murderous, illegal interventions were wrong; Putin’s murderous, illegal intervention is wrong.
    1
  18344. @Alastair Wallace ‘Whataboutery’ is just the latest term double-standards hypocrites use to distract from their own terrible crimes.
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  18345.  @josephduram7423  That’s exactly the point I’m making! None of it is ‘ok’!
    1
  18346.  @AmricanEagl  America and its partners illegally invaded your country in 2003. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine in 2022. So what’s the difference?
    1
  18347. Were Dylan and Caitlin there, too?
    1
  18348. Humans are doing what they have always done since time immemorial. Family feuds; tribal tiffs; clan conquests; religious ructions; national nefariousness … the difference being, since 1945 we have had the means to literally incinerate this planet ten times over in a day. 💣
    1
  18349.  @pubgmobilekg8433  Er, k. 😐
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  18350. How bizarre. Putin, so desperate to have Ukraine (fellow Slavs) under his dictatorial roof, that he’ll actually kill them if they refuse? The very definition of a toxic, paranoid spouse. 😳
    1
  18351. Never really got HS2 in the first place: if it’s a choice between an extra 10 minutes on a train or an extra 10 minutes in Birmingham, I’m going for the train every time! 🚅
    1
  18352. 0:10 These are pictures from Buffalo, with streets eerily empty.” I see what he did there. 🤓
    1
  18353. Is this just for the digitalis plants? 🪴
    1
  18354.  @jonerlandson1956  🥱
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  18355. Ah, but if the Buddha’s correct, we are all one. ☝️
    1
  18356. Not his greatest fan, tbh, but Depp is showing a Cannes-do attitude. Some of his behaviour is an obvious emParisment and he can clearly be a right pain in the Marseille and not Nice at all, with actions Bordeauxing on the squalid. However, against Heard, he was clearly never going Toulouse. By all accounts, his new film won’t be winning the Palme d’Orleans, though. On the bright side, it’s lovely to see Jeremy Corbyn lending his moral support to Johnny. Fair play. 👍🍿
    1
  18357. That was Tom Cruise, not Depp.
    1
  18358.  @Will-fx7qb  Yeah. In ur face Puty!
    1
  18359.  @martindornan1667  Yeah, but still doesn’t negate the OP, Marty. Cope.
    1
  18360. Kalergi? 😳
    1
  18361. S’ok. The only fatalities were a couple of hibernating hedgehogs. They are now in hog heaven. 🦔 🦔 RIP.
    1
  18362.  @alexsalisbury7501  *What *? Dunno Al. Care even less.😉
    1
  18363.  @Mohsin427  Yes.
    1
  18364. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
    1
  18365.  @droge192  Lol.
    1
  18366. Unfunny.
    1
  18367.  @mosheridan7016  Er, how about humanity stops pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? 🤔 Jesus.
    1
  18368.  @mosheridan7016  Just for the record, Scotland is forecast for 17°C tomorrow. I’m old enough to recall winters that were winters. We have those no longer and have not had them (with rare exceptions) for about 30 years.
    1
  18369. Difference is, Nigeria didn’t colonise whitey countries. If Britain had only had the decency to colonise only whitey places, the England team (men’s) would be a little less mixed. However, the real point is what’s wrong with a racially mixed national team?
    1
  18370.  @hughjohns9110  Or, the way things are going, just ‘bang 💥 goes the market!’ 💣
    1
  18371. Jo Brand?
    1
  18372.  @stubbsmamuso1009  And the eggs.
    1
  18373. Marvellous display of inverted snobbery there.👍
    1
  18374. “Abit.” (sic) 🤣🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🥲😂🤣🥲😅🤣🤣🤣🥲😂🤣 Dipshit.
    1
  18375. JeffOneil went from zero to zero. 0 🤣🤣🤣
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  18376. Can I politely disagree? K, thanks. It’s this fella @0:47 🤓
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  18377. Perhaps. US security is arguably more threatened by its own foreign policy and its own citizens shooting each other on a regular basis.
    1
  18378. Yes. Cope.
    1
  18379.  @tmaew  Who?
    1
  18380. Not sure it does. He‘ll more than likely be replaced by another numpty: possibly worse.
    1
  18381. @pillock of the community Evidence?
    1
  18382. * Jesus’
    1
  18383. Dopes.
    1
  18384.  @vitoravila9908  Look, mate, Pelé is probably my GOAT. It’s just instructive to get the facts laid out on the table. I do think that if Mbappé stays healthy and motivated for the next 10 years, he may be the GOAT we are all talking about.
    1
  18385. He’s actually a Marxist hiding in plain sight.
    1
  18386.  @lukemurray4950  *woman
    1
  18387. RuPaul? 🤓
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  18388. Yeah, and, like, men, are, never, ever, wever, dAnGeRoUs. Gotcha! 👍
    1
  18389. It’s imports from other countries that were affected by the poor weather.
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  18390. U
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  18391.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  18392.  @tastypymp1287  Lame.
    1
  18393.  @GIBBO4182  Not these days they don’t. Eastenders’ viewing figures have fallen off a cliff. The tv audience for this will be reminiscent of Eastenders in its Angie & Den (“Aaaaaaayyyyyynge!”) heyday.
    1
  18394.  @chucky2316  Phew. That’s ok then. I have a funeral black BMW and a pink Audi.
    1
  18395. Christ was a man. Nicola Sturgeon is a … Oh wait.
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  18396. I recall on a trip to Barcelona, going to visit this remarkable building about 35 years ago in my callow ignorant youth and back then I couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. A crappy half-finished building. Later that day, a friendly local told me it was in ongoing construction and due to be completed in about 50 years! Have been back since, and although it’s glorious in its own way, it can’t touch the properly extraordinary old Romanesque and Gothic wonders of a Durham or a Chartres. It’s ersatz. A kind of mock Hollywood Catholic Cathedral. The kind of thing John Waters or Andy Warhol would dig. Chartres, Durham, Leon, Burgos are the real deals. To paraphrase Dr Johnson (he would’ve hated La Sagrada Familia!): La Sagrada Familia is worth seeing but not necessarily worth going to see!
    1
  18397.  @onejohn2.26.  Islam ‘pagan’?! Pmsl.🤣
    1
  18398. Human beings fighting for land. The usual story. They’re all out of Africa. Yet here they are, fighting for some stuff. Human beings are the most weird creatures I know. At least when my people murder other people we do it to others from different star systems! 🛸 👽
    1
  18399.  @yahyaelmi8435  Yep.👍
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  18400.  Olaf Sigurson  Huh? 🤔That’s been banned where I’m from anyway.
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  18401.  @YoWhoDat  Ty J.
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  18402.  @guynorth3277  *.
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  18403. *.
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  18404. F**king elk!
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  18405. He may have defeated the Status Quo, but there’s no way he’ll take Metallica!
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  18406. Er, Rochdale’s in England. 🥴
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  18407. Agreed. Kay’s definitely let herself go.
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  18408.  @FMK1317  It was a joke. My main point is that all Empire is indefensible if the consent of the colonised is not obtained. Simple really.
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  18409.  @robertyoung8785  Oh, I agree, majority self-determination should be the rule in all these cases; nice to point out the dregs of Britain’s Empire, however, and Britain should never have had Gibraltar in the first place.
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  18410.  @robertyoung8785  Let them move to Russia, then. It’s a big enough country.
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  18411. Kay’s let herself go.
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  18412.  @marka9183  *.
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  18413. That’s a bit of a philistine comment. After all, 15,000 years ago, pre-Neolithic man was painting caves, and he wasn’t living the life of Riley.
    1
  18414. 🤣
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  18415. Shamone!
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  18416. ‘Commie’? Starmer?! Pmsl.🤣
    1
  18417. *Stalanist? 🤔
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  18418. @0:30 Lovely to see Lord Sugar topping up his pension as Latvia’s President in these hard times for us all. Fair play. 👍
    1
  18419. Wow! There’s a surprise. Given your past opinions on other stuff I would’ve thought you’d have right been in lock-step with the tinfoil hat wearers on this one, too. Curiouser and curiouser …
    1
  18420. Really? Funny how carjacking happens everywhere but most others have no need of guns. We like to follow the rule of law, not the rule of the gun. That said, if this had been me, I’d have had a square go at these twats.
    1
  18421. These Holocaust perpetrators were [Insert Colour Here]
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  18422. Can we be 100% sure Ons is a ‘lady’, though?
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  18423. It’s amusing to read all the comments from those vowing to leave the UK moaning about immigration when they will be an immigrant somewhere else: the very thing they are moaning about! 🤦‍♂️ “Do as I say, not as I do.”
    1
  18424. Np, Stevey baby. 👍
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  18425. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
    1
  18426.  @thewho5786  Er, last time I checked, the human race was indeed a species. 🥴
    1
  18427. @Jack Lol.
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  18428. If Bozo were doing what we pay him for, he’d be ‘spotted’ not in Ukraine but in ‘UK rain’! ☔️
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  18429. She’s called Sean Bell.
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  18430. We all are. Particularly when constipation strikes. 💩
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  18431. Not being able to spell “a bit” is even more idiotic! 😆😆😅😂😂😂😆😆😅😅😆😅😂😆😆😆😂😅😅😂😆😆😅😂😂😆😆😉🥸😆
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  18432. Dude reminds me of the older Ian Rush.
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  18433. Blimey! Coordinated strikes? I know teachers and head teachers feel underpaid, over-worked and over-stressed, but for them to start bombing schools is taking things to extremes.
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  18434.  @TheMagicJIZZ  No, it’s not my point, so I’ll repeat it for the hard of thinking: Why is it that those who bang on about being ‘indigenous’ are, almost without exception, the last type of people I would actually want to be indigenous with?👍
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  18435.  @ohwiseowl9163  ‘Sure it was’ wot?🤓
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  18436. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
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  18437.  @ivanwalker3391  Been there. Done that.
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  18438.  @Kneecaptain  Huh? 🤔
    1
  18439. *near
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  18440. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  18441.  @JohnDoe-lx3it  👍
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  18442.  @TravelsTTG  And what?
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  18443. Yeah, but that’s no defence, mate. Putin and Russia are clearly wrong in what they are doing, as any impartial observer can see. However, the West’s egregious, ugly history of foreign invasion/intervention/overturning democratically elected governments just serves to put into relief the staggering double-standard here.
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  18444.  Mr T  Lol.
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  18445.  @rossinou  Lol.
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  18446. And I want John Holmes’ todger but we can’t always get what we want.
    1
  18447. He hibernates for much of the time in winter. That’s why he looks like he’s got milk for blood running through his veins. 🥛 🩸
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  18448.  @PavelAVasilevich  Speak for yourself. On a wicker chair here, m8.
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  18449.  @phillimath7  Is it, though? I’ve never felt the need to kill another of my species. Least of all for ‘greed’. It seems it’s a minority who descend to this stuff. Often a minority hypnotised by invisible sky daddies they’ve been taught to believe in, and which justify anything they feel like doing, no matter how wicked.
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  18450. No it wouldn’t. It was a freight train that collided with an empty train. Nice try, though. 👍
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  18451. No. I’m praying for the poor microbes inhabiting your rotten gut. 🙏
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  18452.  @alexharnden7121  👌
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  18453.  @qhalilibrahim2504  Yup.
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  18454.  @TomTom-xp2jb  At whose peril?
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  18455.  @gottagowork  Let’s just hope Lavrov doesn’t become ‘chemical Lavrov’. 😰
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  18456.  @SuperMillwall  Lol.
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  18457. I agree. I went to see the movie and it too ended in tragedy.
    1
  18458.  @WilliamLucas-ef6qc  🤣
    1
  18459. Or open backside, your government! 😳
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  18460.  @sotirzvanidjubre4109  Hmmm …🤔
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  18461.  @sotirzvanidjubre4109  NO HE WASN’T!
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  18462.  @andreyd8116  Woosh! 🌬
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  18463.  @pointofveiw6059  I also looked up how to spell ‘veiw’ (sic). 🤓
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  18464.  @jadler457  Never said they didn’t; was just pointing out that when pushed, the Irish are just as primitive as the next fella. 👍
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  18465.  @dlarge6502  Sources?
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  18466. 🚔 Apt he was held by the police in Bucharrest. He should be taken to Budasexpest for further questioning. 👮‍♀️
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  18467. Keep eating the turnips, Ivan.👍
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  18468. It’s not quite a Jaguar. 🐆 🚗
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  18469. Wow! Greater London? That’s big! I know it can seem a bit Hackneyed as climate change proponents go Havering on about the topic, but the melting sea-Icelington is decent evidence that the Barnet-zero emissions target is probably the way to go: unless we want to have to build a new Noah’s Southwark! 🧊
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  18470. No. He was found in the Sahara Desert.
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  18471.  @Hereford1642  I was kinda joking in the OP. Without nukes, Nato would’ve wiped the floor with Putin long before now.
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  18472.  @Hereford1642  Lol@“Nato should have retaliated against Ukraine.” 🤣 Nato which has, to date, has provided billions of euros' worth of military equipment to Ukraine. Makes sense.👍
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  18473.  @WinterXR7  I think that was shot down and the collateral from this killed the people. It wasn’t a direct Russian hit.
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  18474. Source?
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  18475. *it’s Not sure I want to be part of your gang, son. Don’t take that wrong.👍
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  18476.  @nathang-en3io  Well, where I live we have literally dozens of different peoples (French, Spanish, Indian, Pakistani, American, Australian, Syrian, Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese, Nigerian, Moroccan etc.) and almost to a man and a woman these people contribute and make a difference. If anything, where I’m at, it’s the native born whiteys who are the uneducated, unmotivated layabouts. Moreover, the bizarre thing is that again, almost to a man and a woman, these people speak better English than many of the natives!
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  18477. Europeans emigrating to just about every point of the planet since about 1492: 👍. Non-Europeans immigrating to Europe today: 👎 . Go figure.
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  18478.  @deanmcgowan3485  I don’t.
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  18479.  @deanmcgowan3485  He’d still wipe the floor with everyone else, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  18480. I don’t know about ‘Tonto’. However, all the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
    1
  18481.  @LewisNuke92  Serious question: what exactly is your position on migration to the UK, just out of interest?
    1
  18482. Vladimir Putin: that toxic ex who just couldn’t let it go.😳
    1
  18483.  @Noel-ji8nm  It’s a kind of hybrid Israeli accent. This is natural as he learned English from Americans. However, there is a distinct Israeli leftover there, too.
    1
  18484. Get outta ma pub!
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  18485. Lol. Thanks for that, Nostradamus.👍
    1
  18486.  @Tizzle001  🍔 🍔 🍔 🥤 🥤 🥤
    1
  18487. There probably is no God. Get over it.
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  18488.  @muhamadnur1503  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
    1
  18489.  @williamplayfair364  Play fair now, Willie.😉
    1
  18490. Troll.
    1
  18491. Lol.
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  18492. I’m sincerely hoping it’s just a macabre coincidence that ‘Vladimir’ literally means ‘world ruler’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ literally means ‘small penis’.😩
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  18493.  @joshuataylor3550  I work nights.😉
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  18494.  @dazwealth2004  *have
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  18495. Fair point. However, from the medieval fool in the King’s court to Jimmy Carr on the apron of the King’s Court Theatre, the fool/jester/joker was precisely the person that was to be taken ‘seriously’. 🃏
    1
  18496. Looks like Rayner just got Dowdowned!
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  18497.  @huggybear441  All about self-determination. Looks like vast majority of Taiwanese want nothing to do with China, just as vast majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia. Seethe more.
    1
  18498. More of a Tori Amos fella, tbh.
    1
  18499.  @PEdulis  I’m no communist; but there has to be a more equitable system.
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  18500.  @littlebubbie726  Two wrongs don’t make a right, however.
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  18501.  Susan Joseph  It’s all about self-determination, however. Most Ukrainians look West, not East.
    1
  18502.  @lolawalsh9187  Ty for that, er, insightful comment, Lola.
    1
  18503.  @ItDoesNotMatterWhoIAm  I agree.
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  18504.  @dieselscience  Dunno. Tell me!
    1
  18505.  @gc2696  Some good ones. Joan Rivers springs to mind. She’s dead, though. Hmm …🤔
    1
  18506. Isn’t he a Dominican?🥸
    1
  18507.  @juskahusk2247  Lol.
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  18508.  @eddyland1557  😉
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  18509.  @eddyland1557  Lol.
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  18510. Better than being the salt of Uranus, I suppose.
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  18511. Glad all’s well that ends well in the canal. If it wasn’t driver-error, could be a car issue. As this is the States, could be looking to Suez.
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  18512.  @nicolatouray4843  Bullcrap! Prince Harry and Meghan no longer receive money from the Royal Family and have a series of commercial arrangements with a number of companies.
    1
  18513.  @taffywales2143  Fair play, Taff. All the best. 👍
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  18514.  @taffywales2143  Still disagree. He didn’t choose to be a Royal; that is the essential point, so on that basis I think it’s actually morally wrong for the UK not to provide his security cover in the UK when he’s here for stuff like weddings/coronations/deaths etc. If he’s anywhere else, then I agree that he should pay for it himself.
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  18515.  @Mabooton  I still think he’s entitled to paid-for security when he’s in the UK, Mila. I don’t like him, but he didn’t choose to be a Royal; it was a pure accident of birth.
    1
  18516. No fan of Harry, far from it, but he didn’t choose to be born into the Royal Family, and on that basis he should be afforded security while he’s in the UK.
    1
  18517. What I always find amusing about those individuals who bore on about “indigenous” this and “indigenous” that is that they are almost without exception the last people on Earth I’d want to share my genes with!
    1
  18518.  @jeckjeck3119  Truth hurts, huh? 🥲
    1
  18519.  @canyonmonkey2537  Truth hurts, huh? 🥲
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  18520. 🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅😂😅
    1
  18521.  @bg1616  It sounds fake, whatever it is.
    1
  18522.  @Hungri_Ungi  Oh, I know it’s ‘complex’. Can’t help but feel America just needs to vet people better. Frankly, the vast majority of people on this planet don’t legally own a gun and they seem to get by just fine. Hell, here in the UK most of the police aren’t routinely armed! I get that it’s written into the Constitution but the 2nd Amendment seems to be fatally hamstringing the US at this point. As a wiseacre once quipped: “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
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  18523. ‘Gaslighting’ ‘Suss’ Ah, words we all use now to appear hip and trendy and with it. ‘Reanimated Residue’? The most pretentious name I have read all year. And it’s only February. 🤓
    1
  18524. *u*ny.
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  18525.  @hermanwooster8944  They didn’t have to say it. By your actions ye shall be judged. Think on.
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  18526.  @Girl-101  Indeed. Who knows?🤔
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  18527.  @wessexdruid7598  Well, that is clearly not on if it’s true. That’s all I can say to that.
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  18528.  @wessexdruid7598  My basic point is quite simple: a majority of Ukrainians are looking West it seems; however, a not insignificant minority are looking East; on this basis a referendum on partition is surely the only real way to go here, unless we want this whole thing to simmer for decades.
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  18529.  @wessexdruid7598  I get that. We’d have to ensure a fair vote with independent verification as far as possible. It might need outside, neutral mediators, given the heated nature of the whole debate.
    1
  18530.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  I’m talking as an overall of the total. Obviously these figures will be more in certain areas, just as 85% in the far West look to the West.
    1
  18531.  @bw6524  Lol.
    1
  18532.  @dalecrocker3213  Dream on, son. 🤣
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  18533.  @jessefisher1809  Still applies though, son. Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18534.  @briandfallon74  Yes, and she is in her 84th year and he is in his 56th year. Count. 👍
    1
  18535.  @briandfallon74  She’s in her 84th year and her son is in his 56th year. Cope.👍
    1
  18536.  @jja4402  Who’s the ‘bogtrotter’ now, chump? 👍🤣🤫
    1
  18537.  @Harold-ph1kk  Seethe. They passed to the final and passed England off the park! 😂👍🤫
    1
  18538.  @alexojideagu  😭
    1
  18539.  @kierano8390  🤫
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  18540.  LuceliaBerger  Actually talking about his face. He looks like a human chipmunk and could have a few hazelnuts stuffed in those cheeks!🐿
    1
  18541. Pussy riots particularly.
    1
  18542. How bizarre. Putin, so desperate to have Ukraine (fellow Slavs) under his dictatorial roof, that he’ll actually kill them if they refuse? The very definition of a toxic, paranoid spouse. 😳
    1
  18543.  @lifestoryguy  👌
    1
  18544.  AquestinO Saint  Huh?🤔
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  18545.  AquestinO Saint  Corn?
    1
  18546.  @benarcher7411  I care. Only slightly; but I care.
    1
  18547.  @jordan3405  Huh? Makes no sense. Last time I checked there were about 65 million British citizens. Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18548.  @-soaponarope-1261  Huh? Makes no sense. Last time I checked there were about 65 million British citizens. Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18549.  @barneymagee3285  🤣😂😅🤣😅🤣😂😂🤣😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅🤣
    1
  18550.  @barneymagee3285  Er, but it’s not really. Nice try though, Barney. 👍🤣
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  18551.  @Imperial_Boltgun  In this case it does. The poor OP seems to be unaware of the very basic difference between weather and climate . Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18552. *So *, it’s *, *it’s *it’s *, *it’s *. *How *it’s *?
    1
  18553.  @zxz1  Indeed. Love ‘em!
    1
  18554.  @joestevens9973  🤣👍
    1
  18555.  @joestevens9973  No accounting for taste, Joe!
    1
  18556.  @joestevens9973  Yes, a rather flat, unfunny joke badly delivered.
    1
  18557.  @mjones4083  It was crap, badly spelled ‘humour’. Bad luck, sonny. 😭
    1
  18558.  @ryancarter4001  None of it gets a ‘pass’.
    1
  18559. Eureka!
    1
  18560. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs .😳
    1
  18561. Wake up to what? 75%+ of asylum applications to the UK are accepted.
    1
  18562. Er, last time I checked a male manager just beat a female manager. It’s surely the best person for the job, regardless of sex.
    1
  18563. 💩 With all this human waste being directly poured into Britain’s rivers, there might have to be a renaming: the Dee will be the Pee; the Severn will become the Cistern; the Ouse will be renamed the Poos; the Ure will be the Manure; the Ribble will become the Jimmy Riddle; and the Dart will be renamed the Fart! 💨
    1
  18564. Doofus.
    1
  18565.  @jamesmorrow1646  Oh, I know. I was referring more to just seeing how hot this planet will eventually become. Ty anyway.👍
    1
  18566.  @ryanfraser167  *Sorry *, *.
    1
  18567. @Mvp Roster Yeah, and if something can be done to control it (ie. not continuing to spew out millions of tons of fossil fuels), not just “unlucky”, but criminally negligent as temporary custodians of our planet. Ultimately though, we will just be shooting ourselves in the foot, as nothing we do to this planet (in the extreme long-run) will bother it. After all, there are trillions and trillions of other planets, and I think that this fact unconsciously feeds into many people’s seeming insouciance about the fate of Earth. It’s somehow disposable. In a way, it is, but if we humans bother it too much, it will just shrug us off like a bad case of fleas. We will be disposed of and Earth will spin on its merry way through the starry heavens.
    1
  18568. He’s a moron. The Turkish equivalent of Trump. I’m not even political, but even I can see that.
    1
  18569. Don’t worry, folks: Russia may be digging miles of trenches, but before too long Russia will be digging a 5ft6in grave and dropping Vladimir Putin in it. ⚰️
    1
  18570. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
    1
  18571. These planes that abort the landing remind me of seagulls hanging in the air, about to steal your chips at the seaside. 🌊
    1
  18572.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  18573.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  I think the OP was joking, m8.👍
    1
  18574.  @Nazzyyyy  Oh, they would. They would. At that point, it’s curtains for the planet as we know it, Jim.
    1
  18575. @Cj Yeah, but they may have to quite soon. Alas.
    1
  18576.  @David-ci1vn  Well Googled, Davie lad.👍
    1
  18577. Pmsl.
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  18578.  @ertugrulserdar5572  I was talking about the native populace.
    1
  18579. *Commiserations
    1
  18580. News alert: Islamic Terrorism’s coming to get ya! News alert: COVID-19’s coming to get ya! News alert: Russia’s coming to get ya! Future news alert: China’s coming to get ya?
    1
  18581. Accrington? ‘Accringeton’, more like.
    1
  18582.  @gregmoore167  Lol. 👍🤣
    1
  18583. @1:30-1:45 Ah, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: “Your exits are here 👈 and here 👉.”
    1
  18584. The astonishing thing is not the phenomenon of one man, Hitler, butchering millions; the astonishing and terrible thing is that so many millions were complicit in what he instigated.
    1
  18585. Because NATO, hitherto, hasn’t laid a finger on Russia.
    1
  18586.  @DP-ic2lz  Lol.
    1
  18587. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. I’m just not sure we can do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
    1
  18588. And to her ivyness, too.
    1
  18589. I always return to Lorde.
    1
  18590. No. He’s a ‘she’.
    1
  18591. Yes. He’d just got vaxxed yesterday. 💉
    1
  18592. Basic fact is that planet is 1.3° above what it was 150 years ago and this correlates directly with anthropogenic carbon emissions. Some conspiracy theories hold water, but methinks this one doesn’t.
    1
  18593.  @kf9926  Take it up with them, dipshit. 🥴
    1
  18594.  @kf9926  Uh huh. I know it’s only southern Europe, and with the only exception of Paris (cos the pun was irresistible) I chose southern European cities! Ta da! 🎉
    1
  18595. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
    1
  18596.  @S-North  Uh huh. That’s fine. Well done. 👍 All I’m saying is this: if we are dealing with genuine refugees fleeing war/persecution, then I’m not that person that denies them sanctuary. If we are dealing with guys looking for a better economic future, then we have (or should have) the right of refusal. This isn’t that complicated.
    1
  18597.  @TheTonytiger89  No problem with a barge full of genuine refugees, m8. 👍
    1
  18598.  @aard9952  *refugees
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  18599.  @smroe60  Lol.
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  18600. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
    1
  18601.  @davidstephenson164 Bellingham was anonymous second half. I don’t recall him touching the ball.
    1
  18602.  @clearskies2  The last game of the group stage.
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  18603.  @Unholygamewinner I said for 20 minutes England looked as good as anyone we’ve seen so far. The thing is, Germany did it for 90 minutes against Scotland, not 20.
    1
  18604. He’s 56. Multiple of 7. Things, for good or ill, happen at multiples of 7. Xabi Alonso is 42. If the bookies haven’t already stopped taking bets, put your money on now on the basis of the numbers alone.
    1
  18605. Many thanks to Leonardo da Vinci. 👍 🚁
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  18606. Well, looking on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
    1
  18607. Tbf, Denis is one of the kinder Laws. 👍
    1
  18608. Is that a new Russian soda?
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  18609. Yawn
    1
  18610. Many thanks to Leonardo da Vinci. R.I.P. 🚁
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  18611. Lol. Good spot.
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  18612. *It’s It’s also an ‘apostrophe issue’.
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  18613.  @Jane-rc2rk  6 weeks are paid. They still get their pro-rata on the other 6 weeks. And your second point is just balderdash. Once a teacher is bedded in and has built up a bank of lesson plans (this usually takes a couple of years), the vast majority of them are not creating lesson plans from scratch and they are not spending their holiday time working. Some do. Most (vast majority) don’t.
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  18614.  @terrancedactielle5460  Yes, I have. I just choose not to. Big difference, dipshit. Think on.😉
    1
  18615.  @justinmorgan2126  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  18616. Meow! 🐱
    1
  18617. Indeed. He’s flip flopping so much he’s got sand between his toes!
    1
  18618.  @DiscoverJesus  Doesn’t make it any less true, sunshine. Seethe more.
    1
  18619. It’s COVID and rage.
    1
  18620.  @jillybe1873  Yep.
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  18621. But apparently killing those who don’t agree with Islam isn’t. The Quran has 123 verses that call for fighting and killing anyone who does not agree with the statement, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” Jews and Christians are specifically included among such “infidels.” 🤦‍♂️
    1
  18622.  @CharlesWhite-j4f  Aye, Charlie; with a name like ‘White’, I mighta guessed you’d have trouble with ‘funny foreigners and their countries’. 👍
    1
  18623. And the decline in the use of the apostrophe is also rather alarming.
    1
  18624. Bye.
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  18625.  @malicant123  Lol.
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  18626. Don’t they whip each other senseless in the Cabinet rooms already?
    1
  18627. If Israel is reckless enough to respond by attacking Iran in Iran, all bets are off. I haven’t felt closer to WW3 since the end of the Cold War. Strap yourselves in, boys and girls.
    1
  18628. Well, that dingo well for the sunbather!
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  18629.  @tastypymp1287  Copy & paste response. Abit (sic) lazy isn’t it? 🤣😂😂😂🤣😅🤣😂😂🤣😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣 Arse. 😐
    1
  18630.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣 Numpty.😐
    1
  18631.  @emotown1  Indeed. TastyTwat is so mentally backwards it thinks “a bit” is spelled “abit”! 🤣
    1
  18632.  @tastypymp1287  👈Abit embarresing. 🥲😂😂😅🥲😅🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😅😳😳🥲🥲😂😅😂🤫🤣😅🤫🤣😀😂🤣😂
    1
  18633.  @tastypymp1287  👈Even more salty because he can’t cope with other people having a different opinion to him and is constantly triggered by anything he disagrees with. 🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂😂
    1
  18634.  @tastypymp1287  👈Salty because I called him out for not being able to spell “a bit”. 3 times. 🤣😂😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    1
  18635.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣 Thicko. 😐
    1
  18636.  @tastypymp1287  Copy & paste response. Abit (sic) lazy isn’t it? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂😂🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 Goon. 😐
    1
  18637.  @tastypymp1287  Copy & paste response. Abit (sic) lazy isn’t it? 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫😂😂🥲😂😂🤣😀🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
    1
  18638.  @tastypymp1287  👈Embarresing. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅😂🤣😂🥲😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂
    1
  18639.  @tastypymp1287  Copy & paste response. Abit (sic) lazy isn’t it? 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫😂😂🥲😂😂🤣😀🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 Turnip. 😐
    1
  18640.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😅😂😂😂😂😂😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😄🤣😂😂😂😂😂 Knobhead. 😐
    1
  18641.  @tastypymp1287  Copy & paste response. Abit (sic) lazy isn’t it? 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫😂😂🥲😂😂🤣😀🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 Doofus.😐
    1
  18642. Why are human beings so incorrigibly racist and tribal? I despair when I read this crap.
    1
  18643. Them whippets need feeding again, Bobby lad.
    1
  18644. 💩 With all this human waste being directly poured into Britain’s rivers, there might have to be a renaming: the Dee will be the Pee; the Severn will become the Cistern; the Ouse will be renamed the Poos; the Ure will be the Manure; the Ribble will become the Jimmy Riddle; and the Dart will be renamed the Fart! 💨
    1
  18645. Not an argument.
    1
  18646.  @tastypymp1287  Irrelevant response to a relevant response.
    1
  18647.  @tastypymp1287  No it’s not.
    1
  18648. 1 wrong doesn’t make 2 rights.
    1
  18649.  @Robert-cu9bm  I repeat, the majority of politicians are just doing their jobs. It’s too easy to blacken them all on the flaws of a few outlying fuckwits.
    1
  18650.  @Robert-cu9bm  ‘They’? A few Tory numpties, that’s all.
    1
  18651. Only if it’s a Rolex, ty.
    1
  18652.  @gaz3602  Pretentiousness.
    1
  18653. Yes. He did. The other one is Czechia. For a while recently everyone was calling it Czechia, but recently whenever it’s been mentioned, it’s reverted to the Czech Republic.
    1
  18654. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
    1
  18655. Troll again.
    1
  18656.  @HiAdrian  Semantics, mate, semantics. Ultimately all weapons are designed to maim and kill.
    1
  18657.  @Crouchy232323  🥱
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  18658.  @connieb.6061  And I lived there for 20 years. It’s “not normal”.👍
    1
  18659.  @connieb.6061  No. It’s not “very normal”. Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18660. Just like any other conversation most of us have every day then! 📱
    1
  18661. Not quite. It could be a nice chicken Kiev, though. 🐔
    1
  18662.  @LubegaSande-gx9yl  Cringe.
    1
  18663. What’s their colour got to do with anything? Anyway, last time I checked, Wales and Northern Ireland don’t have “people of colour” as leaders.
    1
  18664.  @tastypymp1287  Tumbleweed … Arse.😐
    1
  18665. Champagne party. Lovely stuff, a bit of fizz to go with the jizz!
    1
  18666. Don’t knock those ‘saucer plate nipples’; Boris has eaten his dinner off them.😳
    1
  18667. Yes, well they aren’t left, that’s for sure.
    1
  18668. Yes, Boris has special needs.
    1
  18669. Yes. He plays a mean comb. In a skiffle band.
    1
  18670. After conservatism, liberalism, socialism and communism, the last thing we need is any new political philosophies, particularly in the toilets.
    1
  18671. ‘Mates’? We all know Boris never uses contraception.
    1
  18672.  @HristeBože1888  Np, er, Mr Leeds.
    1
  18673. 0:10 Wow! She married Harry Potter! 👍 🤓
    1
  18674. As ever, it’s mainly men causing trouble. And they wonder why many have a downer on the poor, put-upon flowers.
    1
  18675. Similar attitudes here in the UK. I tend to find that immigrants (of whatever origin) have a far better work-ethic than many of the ‘natives’ who are the most vocal in condemning them. That said, I’m not pro open-door immigration. It should be strictly controlled by the host country.👍
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  18676. One of the good nutjobs walking (running, in this case! 🏃‍♂️) this planet. 👏
    1
  18677. Russian troll last week: “Go Putin! Go Putin! Go Putin!” Russian troll this week: “Stay Putin! Stay Putin! Stay Putin!”
    1
  18678.  @chrisfleming5109  Lol. Would love to hear your personal definition of ‘Saint’!🤣
    1
  18679. Hope so, otherwise by the end of this war it might be a “name changer” for Ukraine! 😨
    1
  18680.  @tiffanytiffany1459  De rien.
    1
  18681.  @koolio4997  Here’s Jacques with the weather! 🧅
    1
  18682. Allans! ✊✊✊✊✊
    1
  18683.  @johnohara197  Which bit?! 🤣
    1
  18684.  @JOEFABULOUS.  The root of this is all about religion. Cope more.
    1
  18685.  @DefinitelyNotaCyberCat  👏
    1
  18686.  @Nick-xc4fy  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
    1
  18687.  @JamesSmith-vz8yr  Huh?
    1
  18688.  @UncommonSense-wm5fd  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
    1
  18689.  @johnkeohane4239  Nah. Imo, politics and sport, like politics and religion should be kept in completely separate boxes.
    1
  18690.  @martinfox3478  So? Still doesn’t mean they automatically agree with an illegal invasion committed by their leader.
    1
  18691. “Abit emberresed” (sic) 🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tit.😐
    1
  18692. Not amusing.
    1
  18693. ‘Scotch’? Wtf.
    1
  18694.  @Maggie2323  https://youtu.be/h6GgR4GMFjM 😉
    1
  18695. He got the shot before he got shot.
    1
  18696. Yeah, but to be fair, most of the “woke mob” are, in my experience, aware of the possessive apostrophe.👍
    1
  18697. I know. These Aston Villa fans are ridiculous, eh?
    1
  18698. No one asked.
    1
  18699.  @David-wn8uy  That’s such a crap comment by a boy with a very small peewee. 🤣
    1
  18700. Yeah, cos that’s his fault. 👏
    1
  18701. Ewww. That’s an image I didn’t need at 9 on a Thursday night. 🐷
    1
  18702. Smokin’!
    1
  18703.  @royboy565  Lol.🤣
    1
  18704.  @I-AM-BELIEVER  🤣
    1
  18705.  @ryanh6861  🤣
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  18706. *would have
    1
  18707. Who needs aliens coming to destroy us when we seem to be able to accomplish that for ourselves? 👽
    1
  18708. Scene: telephone call between Putin and Boris Johnson Putin: “But my name is ‘Vladimir’: literal translation ‘world ruler’.” Johnson: “Well, two can play at that game, sonny boy, for my name is ‘Boris Johnson’ and that literally translates as, um, ‘small penis’.” Putin: “I rest my case. Please make arrangements for my ‘visit’.”👀
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  18709. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
    1
  18710. Ur mom.
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  18711. Not sure about that. There will be strict building planning laws in force that even philistine American billionaires won’t be able to circumvent.
    1
  18712. @counselthyself On what terms?
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  18713. Robert Palmer prefers love.
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  18714. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
    1
  18715. Yeah. Just like the movies where the evil cowboys wear the black hats and the good cowboys wear the white hats! Yee-haa, pardner! 🤠 🍿
    1
  18716.  @markvarley2962  Lol.
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  18717.  @evolassunglasses4673  Still triggered, huh?🤣
    1
  18718. Triggered, much?🤓
    1
  18719. Could be karma though, sonny. Read a good history book! 📕
    1
  18720.  @Pining_for_the_fjords  🥱
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  18721.  @Darren-fm3pe  Er, wot? 🤔
    1
  18722. Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers.
    1
  18723.  @Muirton66  Translation: I completely disagree with this and can’t cope.
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  18724.  @mattking68  Dier’s just a rare exception that proves the rule. Moreover, Dier doesn’t count here as he spent his childhood/adolescence in Portugal.
    1
  18725.  @ByddinRhyddidCymru  Lol. His Spanish, given he was in Madrid for 7 years, is fcking terrible! 🤣
    1
  18726. It was powder. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  18727.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Triggered, much?🤣 All ‘bout self-determination, Davy baby.😉
    1
  18728.  @jeremiahjohnson-zn5hb  We’re all mongrels, m8. Get with the gig.
    1
  18729.  @OStarBlog101Tech Dude has a point. It’s not as if he’s Jude Bellingham ffs! He should really be speaking the lingo after 2 years. 3 main things: 1. Speak the language. 2. Pay your taxes. 3. Don’t break the law. These are the minimum. Of course, there’s far too much illegal immigration nonsense going on at this point, and I didn’t necessarily used to believe this but I’m coming round to it: it just might be planned.
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  18730. I agree. I’d do it, and take the consequences.
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  18731. Now that Jacinda has a little more spare time she can devote herself to one of her favourite causes: enamel welfare. 🦷 Her special interest is molar bears, apparently. 🐻‍❄️
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  18732. Lovely to see Nicholas Witchell coming to the Speaker’s defence. Fair play. 👍
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  18733. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🧐
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  18734.  @lv2465 Uh huh. And I’m 99.9999999999% sure your ‘opinion’ is utter bollix. Don’t take that wrong.👍
    1
  18735.  @Sally237-s4w You don’t.
    1
  18736. No it isn’t.
    1
  18737.  malcaide333 🤣
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  18738. Well, looking on the bright side, in a bleak tale of sound and fury, looks like all those misspent hours playing Call of Duty may come in handy for the lucky few, after all! 💣
    1
  18739. All the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
    1
  18740.  @carpenter3069  Many thanks, self-appointed Truth Seer Carpenter. 👍
    1
  18741. ‘Pervil’? Isn’t that a washing powder?🤔
    1
  18742. Becher’s Brook.
    1
  18743.  @vincentblack7467  😉
    1
  18744.  @alphacompany4837  Lol. He thought he could walk in and take the country more or less overnight. Putin’s fatal mistake in this whole thing was to overestimate just how much his Ukrainian ‘Slavic cousins’ are on the same page.
    1
  18745. To be fair, Rod would blow himself off if he could.
    1
  18746. Damon Albarn + Tim Roth = Roman Abramovich.
    1
  18747. Wow! That’s a true China Criceis: Everyone must be frozen to the bone China! 🧊
    1
  18748.  @Jack-oz3ig  Yes, we all know what Hamas wants but that’s not the point as the majority of Palestinians don’t support Hamas’ wish to exterminate Israel.
    1
  18749. So if Israel is allowed to form a nation state in lands they claim as their own why aren’t the Palestinians allowed to form a nation state in lands they claim as their own? Of course, this is the problem, and because Israel has been militarily bankrolled by the US for 75 years we have 2 sides unequally balanced and Israel feeling like it has carte-blanche to occupy and steal land from others. If the Palestinians had half the military backing Israel has, Israel would be far less likely to so easily occupy and trample over the basic human rights of the dignity and freedom of the Palestinians.
    1
  18750. This is all about winning stuff. Kane will be more than aware of everyone saying that, at 30, he’s still won nothing. There was no guarantee he was going to win anything with another British club, unless he had moved to Man City, which wasn’t going to happen given Haaland’s arrival. Bayern Munich is literally is the biggest club in Europe (aside from PSG, perhaps) where he will be absolutely guaranteed trophies.
    1
  18751. Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, yup yup rabbit, yup yup yup rabbit, rabbit, bunny, jabber, yup rabbit, bunny, yup yup yup rabbit, bunny, jabber, yup yup yup rabbit, bunny, jabber, yup yup bunny, jabber, rabbit 🐰 (Chas & Dave)
    1
  18752. But is God Jesus Christ? 🤔
    1
  18753. *.
    1
  18754. Yes, but can we have that in English, please?
    1
  18755. Really? The homeless are selling that in the States now? Kewl. 👍
    1
  18756.  @theuglyfriend  Ummm, I think so.
    1
  18757.  @Mattthomas36571  K, All.👍
    1
  18758.  @carolexo7269  Sorry? I don’t follow.
    1
  18759.  @jonboll2066  Not so sure about that.
    1
  18760.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  What’s ‘rehabilitation’ got to do with anything here? This should surely be about justice for a given victim’s family and if a given family asks that the defendant be in court for sentencing, there is a strong case to be made they should be there.
    1
  18761.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “In my view.” Indeed. And not everyone shares your view, Georgy.👍
    1
  18762. Nah. Too much scope for the state murdering innocents. Birmingham Six. Guildford Four. Maguire Seven. Stefan Kiszko. Barry George. Lucy Letby? 🤔
    1
  18763.  @georgeorwell-il2wz  “In my view.” Indeed. And not everyone shares your view, Georgy.👍
    1
  18764. I would do this on a case by case basis at the behest of the victim’s family. If they want the defendant to attend sentencing, it should happen. If not, it shouldn’t. In practice, the vast majority of victims’ families will probably want the defendant physically present in court. Could (and probably will) cause problems in terms of a highly resistant defendant causing ructions, but hey, who said life was simple! ⚖️
    1
  18765. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
    1
  18766. *their Yvw
    1
  18767. Yes, just like the West since 1492. ;)
    1
  18768.  @Iceman0505  Some say 9/11 was an inside job, so America could go throwing its weight around in the Middle-East. Just a theory. Don’t shoot the theorist.🤔
    1
  18769. Two wrongs?🤔
    1
  18770. Who’s he?
    1
  18771.  @YusuphYT  😉
    1
  18772.  @YusuphYT  👏
    1
  18773. Two of them are dead, and Ringo and Paul probably couldn’t give a monkey’s.
    1
  18774. Blow hard and pray.
    1
  18775.  @adamjpd  Well said.
    1
  18776.  @roylaw7765  I agree it’s a bit tatty, but I was actually talking more about the sense of being breathtaking. The Nou Camp takes your breath away, as does the Bernabeu and the San Siro and (to a lesser extent) the New White Hart Lane. Old Trafford, even in pristine condition, never took my breath away. It’s an underwhelming looking stadium, relatively speaking.
    1
  18777. Meerkats are cute, but I prefer a nice furry beaver. 🦫
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  18778. If they run out of salt for my fish ‘n’ chips, there’ll be a revolution!
    1
  18779. @@fellow5577 Lol. 👍
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  18780. I often think that the best thing for this planet would be to ethnically cleanse the whole human race.
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  18781.  @haha4581  There’s far more to American culture than ‘your foot’! Ffs.
    1
  18782. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.” (William Shakespeare)
    1
  18783. 🛸 We need to get this clear: there is absolutely no properly credible evidence for ‘alien visitation’ to planet Earth. All of it, all of it is circumstantial, at best. Vague stuff seen in the sky? Well, to make the dramatic leap that this is alien sh*t from light years away would have William of Ockham up in arms. For me, this thing is rather simple: given the size of the Universe, that is, given that our Universe contains at least 70 septillion stars, 7 followed by 23 zeros, and so astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth, then it’s natural to assume there is life out there, and ‘not as we know it, Jim'. However, on current evidence, I’m not buying the idea that we have been/are being visited. I work on evidence. Hitherto, this evidence has been much too weak for the assertion that the aliens are here. 👽
    1
  18784.  @hus390 ​​⁠You appear to be labouring under the delusion that Israel couldn’t quite literally wipe out Iran in a couple of days if it so chose. That’s what observer bias does to a dude.👍😉
    1
  18785. White people always look so wrong in hot countries.
    1
  18786. Lol. The ‘unity’ and the ‘discipline’ of the SNP won’t be returning anytime soon. Why? Because humans are complicated. When I look at political parties I see about half of what I agree with in each one. Similarly, here. Kate Forbes is essentially a Tory; Humza Yousaf is essentially a Socialist and never the twain shall meet. The only thing they have in common is Scottish independence. If Yousaf gets it, it will be in his political image; if Forbes gets it, it will be in hers !
    1
  18787.  @nickjervis8123  Lol.
    1
  18788. No. The British police won’t be able to help here. Outside their jurisdiction.
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  18789. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
    1
  18790. These results are really gonna grind the Tories’ Keirs. By-election results like this are just the forerunners of the decisive bye-bye-election! 👋
    1
  18791.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😅🤣😅😂😂😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Knob.
    1
  18792.  @tastypymp1287  “Abit” (sic) 🤭😂🤭🤭😂😂🤭😂🤫🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤫😂😂🤭🤭😂😂😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤭😂🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤦‍♂️🤭🤭🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤭🤪🧐🧐😂🧐🥴🥴🤭😂🧐🧐😂🤭 Plank. 😐
    1
  18793. “Abit” (sic) 🤣😂😂😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂😂😂😅🤣😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂😂😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂 Tosser. 😐
    1
  18794. When ‘car musical chairs’ goes wrong. 🚗 🚙
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  18795. Hello
    1
  18796.  @sandydancer138  Time is an illusion born of being unable to transcend the linear perspective. Some have been able to see into the nature of reality. Everything is happening now. Boom! 💥 There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. (Walt Whitman)
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  18797.  @buzzbuzzard3809  None of it is right. Just good to point out the rank hypocrisy and double-standards now and again; particularly when the egregious atrocities committed by the West weren’t that long ago. This very century in fact! 👍😉
    1
  18798. Grandma Gertrude for PM!
    1
  18799. Indeed. Those blue and pink rinses are particularly offensive.
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  18800. Some of the unlucky ones will be losing their d*cks in the not too distant future. 😖
    1
  18801.  @dustersinternational221  👍
    1
  18802. 🤦‍♂️
    1
  18803. Lol.
    1
  18804.  @brightdayafro2804  I never trust people who use ‘as per’, either. It just smacks of pretentiousness when the intellectual credentials haven’t yet been verified.
    1
  18805. Well, it’s looking pretty ominous for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us. ‘Vladimir’ means ‘world ruler,’ ‘Joe Biden’ means ‘clapped-out fuckwit’, while ‘Boris Johnson’ means, gulp, ‘small penis’.😳
    1
  18806. Wow! They’re swinging in Buxton. May need to get there for a piece of the action. 🤓
    1
  18807. Simple suggestion: 1 bullet.😳
    1
  18808. Willie?😳
    1
  18809. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
    1
  18810.  @stretfordender11  Indeed.🥴
    1
  18811. TastyTwat is abit embarresed and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with another’s opinion which doesn’t agree with him. 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    1
  18812.  @JoeMaranophotography  Source?
    1
  18813.  @tastypymp1287  👈Salty because he’s “Abit embarresed and buthurt” (sic) by his piss-poor basic orthography.🤣😂🤣🤣😂🥲🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🤣🤣🤣🥲
    1
  18814.  @tastypymp1287  👈Abit embarresed and buthurt. (Sic)🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    1
  18815.  @Celtictribes  Not at all. I’m not some eco-zealot. I find the two tribal camps at the extremes of this debate equally off-putting. Nice try, though.👍
    1
  18816. Tbf, back in the day, Christianity was just as violent as Islam can be seen to be today. Islam just hasn’t gone through any kind of Reformation, nor has it been influenced by the 300 years of rational Enlightenment that Christianity has had to live with. Give it time …
    1
  18817.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz1405  🐑
    1
  18818. The herd mentality.
    1
  18819. Scene: an alien mothership looks down on the Earth. Inside, 2 aliens are watching what’s going on down here. Alien 1: “Wow! These humans breathe the same air, eat the same food, are warmed by the same sun, drink the same water, and yet they are killing each other.” Alien 2: “So primitive, huh.” Alien 1: “Indeed. At least we have the good grace to only kill those from other star systems”👽
    1
  18820.  @db7610  Disagree. If the Russian people can genuinely see here that Putin is an old busted flush who seriously overestimated just how much his Ukrainian ‘Slavic cousins’ would be amenable to his aggressive intrusions, this thing would collapse overnight.
    1
  18821.  @johnpederson5873  Keep dreaming, Pollyanna.
    1
  18822.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  18823. Constantly salty and abit (sic) triggered and embarresed (sic) and buthurt (sic) because he can’t deal with others’ opinions he doesn’t share. 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    1
  18824.  @Srbazo  Belgrade, Sofia, Bucharest … all 3 are, alas, largely hideous architecturally. Shame.
    1
  18825.  @joeylopez7978  Uh huh. Illegally invading another sovereign self-governing territory and murdering thousands of its citizens sure is “showing a lot of restraint”!
    1
  18826. Blimey! A few cars will have met their tombs in that one. ☝️
    1
  18827. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
    1
  18828. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
    1
  18829. Well, this could yet be a validation for the upholders of the theory of nominative determinism amongst us: ‘Vladimir’ apparently means ‘world ruler’. 🌎
    1
  18830. US invades China 1945-46 - OK US invades Korea 1950-53 - OK US invades China (again) 1950-53 - OK US invades Guatemala 1954 - OK US invades Indonesia 1958 - OK US invades Cuba 1959-60 - OK US invades Guatemala 1960 - OK US invades Belgian Congo 1964 - OK US invades Guatemala (again) 1964 - OK US invades Dominican Republic 1965-66 - OK US invades Peru 1965 - OK US invades Laos 1964-73 - OK US invades Vietnam 1961-73 - OK US invades Cambodia 1969-70 - OK US invades Guatemala (yet again) 1967-69 - OK US invades Lebanon 1982-84 - OK US invades Grenada 1983-84 - OK US invades Libya 1986 - OK US invades El Salvador 1981-92 - OK US invades Nicaragua 1981-90 - OK US invades Iran 1987-88 - OK US invades Libya (again) 1989 - OK US invades Panama 1989-90 - OK US invades Iraq 1991 - OK US invades Kuwait 1991 - OK US invades Somalia 1992-94 - OK US invades Bosnia 1995 - OK US invades Iran 1998 - OK US invades Sudan 1998 - OK US invades Afghanistan 1998 - OK US invades Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999 - OK US invades Afghanistan 2001 - OK US invades Libya (yet again) 2011 - OK US invades Iraq (again) and Syria 2014 – OK US invades Somalia 2011 – OK US invades Iran 2020 – OK Russia invades Ukraine 2022 - not OK
    1
  18831.  @Patrick-y4d1z  That’ll be why 87,192 fans paid to watch England v Germany in the Euro final then. Uh huh.👍
    1
  18832.  @tastypymp1287  👈Constantly abit (sic) embarresed (sic) and salty and buthurt (sic) for no apparent reason. 🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😃😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No. 😐
    1
  18833. @@toreeliasson6145 *mafia 🥴
    1
  18834. Says a fella with a Greek name. Go figure.
    1
  18835.  @AnthonyD-yy2in  👍
    1
  18836.  @beewa8840  😉
    1
  18837.  @beewa8840  Of course it isn’t! 👍🤣
    1
  18838.  @helenpauls1496  No. Littorally .
    1
  18839. Prigozhin was just Putin x10. If he’d had the guts to actually take Moscow, we’d just have been replacing a dictator with a potentially even worse dictator.
    1
  18840.  @stillehavet4453  Yeah, and I screamed “Beryl!” before shooting into my wife, Barbara. Happens to the best of us.😳
    1
  18841. ‘Mini the shrew’ over ‘Winnie the Pooh’?
    1
  18842. Ey oop! Ronnie Barker’s back! And it’s goodnight from me and it’s goodnight from him.👍
    1
  18843. We have ‘smartphones’, ‘smart cars’, ‘smart drugs’, ‘smart books’ and ‘smart bombs’; unfortunately we still have too many dumb people.👀
    1
  18844. That’s a bit like saying, because mass murderers exist, I’m gonna be one too!
    1
  18845.  @vosovoso5220  👍
    1
  18846.  @christianmarriott3696  Let’s hear it for long-lasting mops! 👏
    1
  18847.  @sigmasix3719  Funny, ain’t it? 😆
    1
  18848.  @impracticaljoker1099  That’s a little harsh on balding men, Sam. 👨‍🦲
    1
  18849. A grifter with an out-of-control chopper! 🚲
    1
  18850. She’s partial to a chicken wing, I’m told. 🍗
    1
  18851.  @sarangistudent8614  🤣
    1
  18852. Part of this is weather. If the UK had more reliable sunny, warm weather, more effort would be made with places like these. The decline is in large part down to the fact you can fly to a sunny Spanish Costa for the price of that ferry trip!
    1
  18853. Are you saying the Isle of Wight is all white? 🙃
    1
  18854. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓
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  18855.  @justinchristian3374  👍
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  18856. Heaven? You’re mother’s womb was ‘heaven’?! Mine’s was a dark, cramped hell I couldn’t wait to escape from!🥸
    1
  18857. You’re right. Some capes wear heroes.😳
    1
  18858. Probably the most expressive pair of eyes I’ve ever seen in man or beast. 👀
    1
  18859. Hurt or not. Cutest video ever.
    1
  18860. I’m not necessarily saying that the Peterson fanboy groupies are resentful their pin-up guy is heterosexual (allegedly). But I might be.😳
    1
  18861.  @pete3882  Fair play. Wasn’t clear in your original post. Thanks for clarification.👍
    1
  18862.  @pete3882  Your ‘bye, Neil’ implied you were in bed with Young and now have jumped into bed with Rogan leaving Young fiddling with himself. Maybe you should read your own stuff back.😳
    1
  18863. Lol. Are you such a limited freak you cannot dig two people who happen to disagree? Thank Christ I’m not living in your head, fella.😳
    1
  18864. I’m pretty sure every taxi I have ever taken in London was driven by this guy. 🚖
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  18865. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓
    1
  18866. Much as I Iike Andrew, he’s made the basic schoolboy error of conflating sex/gender. Sex, a biological construct, I think most of us can agree equals 2, with some wiggle-room for the hermaphrodites amongst us. Gender, a cultural construct, in theory could have as many varieties as there are human beings. Still quite funny though, if not his best work.🤓
    1
  18867. Lol.
    1
  18868. Why? What have you got against ordinary Russians? 🇷🇺
    1
  18869. I agree. He’s spasmodically funny on stage, but soon gets tiresome. He’s an utter disaster on GB News. A defanged, unscripted witless wonder.
    1
  18870. @10:10 Wow. That was uncomfortable 🥵 as we are all supposed to pretend host kid is heterosexual?!
    1
  18871. It’s not though. It’s not a joke. He just says he digs misogyny. There’s no punchline or joke.
    1
  18872. So did Leo’s gaydar.
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  18873. He’s perhaps not looking at the distaff-side. Look closely👀
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  18874. Why would that throw you? She’s only a lawyer. He had a corporate career before this stuff.
    1
  18875. The presenter kid isn’t married.
    1
  18876. Are you calling Callum a 🐱?
    1
  18877. Er, not funny. Must do better.
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  18878. @7:01 Er, posh🤓? You’re having a go at someone for being ‘posh’? Really? Have you two boys heard your speaking voices lately? (Not that the check-shirt boy seems to say much anyway; is he the work experience kid out of his depth?) You’re hardly ‘edgy’ and ‘inner-city’, and frankly, to these ears no less ‘posh’ than those you’ve just slagged off. Which is boring anyway. If you’re going slag a person’s accent with a kind of twisted inverted snobbery, at least make it funny. That reminds me, you two yourselves are as embarrassingly unfunny as anyone else throughout this whole thing. Can we just have the Leo/Kate barney and retrospectively edit you two out?
    1
  18879. Er, I don’t think you get the concept. A comedian is supposed to make other people smile. Sorry to break this news to you.
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  18880. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  18881. Of course it’s a middle-class thing. Tea is reserved for the working-class and the underclass get first dibs on the dregs.
    1
  18882. Or watch it on ‘ere.
    1
  18883. @1:28 ‘I haven’t read it, of course.’ But of course. Why do your due diligence before deigning to pronounce on something, eh? The combination of laziness and intellectual arrogance is staggering. 🤓
    1
  18884. After 300,000 years of Homo-Sapiens on this planet, we still have one troublemaker that no one likes, no one wants, and yet, we tolerate him to the point of him sparking a nuclear war. Really? Yes, really. Read it and weep. 😭
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  18885. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  18886. That’s a 100% doofus comment given America is an immigrant nation.
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  18887. How is it, that after 300,000 years as a species, we allow one of our species to hold the world to ransom? How is it that a psycho like Putin is able to put my and your children’s life in jeopardy? Shouldn’t there be a check, a balance to deal with outlying fuckwits? Do we have to tolerate someone that no one else wants? If so, why? 😳
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  18888.  @enspearcomputersolutions4916  Word to the wise: giving yourself a ‘like’ doesn’t count. Other people will judge whether they want to ‘like’ you. They won’t. So you won’t need to worry about this.😳
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  18889. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👽
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  18890. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  18891. If ever proof were needed, that after 300,000-odd years, that we are still a very primitive species, it’s this. One man, one fucking man plays out his whim. No one else but him wants this. So, my very basic question is this: why do we tolerate him?😳
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  18892. ‘Thank you for flying skyscraper airlines’
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  18893. They’re out there. Just not in here.
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  18894. So it’s just Ukrainians who are your ‘brothers’? Is not every other single human being your ‘brother’ and ‘sister’, too? When you start fencing off this or that group as ‘yours’, thereby out-grouping everyone else, you simply perpetuate 300,000 years of human tribalism and division. You are actively complicit in human conflict and war and are contributing to its perpetuation, knowingly or otherwise.😳
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  18895.  @worldclass4508  For me, it all flows from the individual level. Yes, authoritarianism and regimes that use this are inimical, but the general culture is what allows these to breed and flourish. I’ve spent some time looking at why humans are so awful to one another and my basic answer to these issues is as follows. The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, race, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓 In sum, if everyone were to simply widen their scope of identity to encompass everyone else, then many of our troubles would be solved instantly. I used to be fairly rigidly religious, fairly nationalistic, and fairly sensitive about a few other things when someone else criticised something I identified with. I’m no longer, as I have trained myself (it’s not that difficult) to not identify with anything smaller than the human scale, thereby obviating my falling into the fatal trap of in-grouping and out-grouping. You don’t even necessarily have to like these other humans, let alone love them; you simply see them as other humans who cannot possibly offend you and therefore there is no issue. Of course, the heavy-handed, authoritarian regimes/humans are still a big problem to solve as they come blundering at you with physical force, but this training oneself to have no intrinsic beef with another person, based on sex, national pride, race, sexuality, religion etc., is something we can all do, right now. 🤓
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  18896. It’s happening because after 300,000 years of humanity as we know it, we are still primitive fuckwits willing to annihilate another of our species on an accident of birth or a belief in a daddy in the sky. That’s the long and the short of it.😳
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  18897. If ever humanity needed another reminder after 300,000 years or so of just how primitive and unevolved we are in many respects it’s this crap. One primitive little man, it seems, dubiously democratically elected, rattles his sabre (calling Freud), amasses his boys and girls at the borders of another sovereign territory, and voila! My inability to understand how this happens, given that the last time I looked we are all human beings, and have far more in common fundamentally, than any differences, is palpable. Oh, well. What do they say about those who don’t learn from their history?😳
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  18898. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  18899. How about just being ‘human’?
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  18900. While observing the bedlam being played out daily on our screens, I couldn’t help but be struck by how eerily similar this whole farrago is to Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove , with a slight tweaking of point-of-view, and flipping of roles, in which America is Russia and Russia is America. In Kubrick’s masterpiece, American Brigadier General Jack D Ripper (Putin), has been driven insane with paranoia by the events of the Cold War. (In Putin’s case insanity and monomaniacal post-Cold War paranoia at a loss and diminution of his beloved Russia, as was USSR.) Ripper has become convinced that there is a plot by the ‘Commies’ (USA/NATO in Putin’s case) to ‘sap and contaminate our precious bodily fluids’. (In Putin’s case to sap and contaminate the minds of the Russians, and the idea of a Greater Russian Empire.) Ripper decides to take pre-emptive, first-strike unilateral action by striking the USSR. (Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine, and by extension the West in general.) The B-52s, under Ripper’s command, go in and hydrogen bomb the USSR. (Mercifully, Putin has not yet gone this far.) The US president along with his back-room staff attempt to stop the bombers from delivering their payload. (We can only pray Putin has back-room staff strong enough and prepared to step in if he tries to fulfill his nuclear threat.) Here’s the rub, however, the only way to stop the bombers in Dr Strangelove ,is a recall code which only Ripper knows. (We must pray, even the atheists/agnostics amongst us, that with Putin, it’s not only him that has access to the button.) The US government tries to capture Ripper to get the recall code from him, but Ripper gets away. (Will we be able to stop Putin?) The really scary kicker in Kubrick’s film, however, is that the Soviets have built a doomsday machine that will launch enough missiles to destroy all life on Earth if an American nuclear bomb hits them. (I’m pretty confident Putin’s enemies - us - won’t go this far.) Eventually, Ripper is overpowered, but shoots himself before the recall code can be given. (An inside job on Putin, perhaps, before he can incinerate the planet?) One man ignores the recall code and piles headlong towards Moscow. (A member of Putin’s inner team, perhaps?) He attempts to drop the bomb (On Ukraine? On Europe? On America?) After some door-jamming black humour he opens the doors and rides down on the bomb. 💣 Moscow retaliates with horrifying consequences for the planet. (Surely the West won’t go this far.) Let’s hope that, in this case, life won’t imitate art.👀
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  18901. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever.”🧐
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  18902. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  18903. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  18904. If he were still with us, Dennis Hopper would be a shoo-in for Trump in any biopic. Young and old, it’s uncanny.
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  18905. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  18906. Scene: the Putin household in an imagined near-future. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know. Just authorised the launch of enough nuclear weapons to incinerate the planet five-times over, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh, that’s nice. More tea, dear?”😩
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  18907. Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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  18908. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Dr Johnson was correct. History proves this.
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  18909. I hope not. I hope in the future we, as a species, have gone beyond primitive ideas of ‘belonging’ based on random, arbitrary accidents of birth. Far too many of us are proud of being born and raised within arbitrary, random, abstract lines drawn on a map, instead of raising their vision to encompass the whole Earth. We need, and we need right now, to ditch identities based around random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, otherwise we shall never wake up from this collective human nightmare of the past 300,000 years.🤔
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  18910. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  18911. If Putin thinks it will be easy to pitch up at the front door of another’s home, with a view to forcibly taking it, he has clearly never seen Dustin Hoffman going apeshit in Strawdogs . 😳
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  18912.  @robertsmith2227  Thanks for all your work. ‘Just Like Heaven’ is your masterpiece. Ty. 🙏
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  18913. Wtf is happening to YouTube today?! It’s gone all weird and small script.🤔
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  18914. Prime Minister: “What can we do in the way of troop deployments?” Defence Secretary: “Well, we’re struggling Prime Minister. You may have to dust off your tin helmet.” 🪖
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  18915.  @harmless6813  ‘We’?
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  18916. The mechanics of his speech are weird here; almost like part of his mouth is numbed after a trip to the dentist; almost slurring his words. Odd. 🦷
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  18917. The more this interview went on the more this seemed like some guy playing Douglas Murray; there is so much weird method acting going on here.😳
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  18918.  @Stanthemilkman  Yeah, but Japan is a conformist, bleak Orwellian nightmare of a society. Nice scenery, though.🧐
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  18919. Don’t bother then.
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  18920. Urgh! 😷
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  18921.  @nataly27022013  Indeed. The very point I was trying to make. However, we can’t ignore those Ukrainians who do identify with Russia. The only real solution to this may be partition: East Ukraine/West Ukraine.
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  18922. Tautology.
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  18923. Yes, you.
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  18924. Why do we, as a species, let people like Putin near a trigger which could spark a nuclear nightmare? 😳
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  18925. He’s just like a weird, lisping, slurring posh boy. Urgh!
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  18926. Yeah. But it’s not as Wildeishly witty a line as it first appears. For those in oppressed societies also talk of their oppression.
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  18927. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  18928.  @kawaiinesscuresdepression2363  ‘My’ comedian? I fear you have me mistaken for someone else.
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  18929.  @uhuraenterprise6372  Huh?
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  18930.  @uhuraenterprise6372  Oh, ok.
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  18931.  @uhuraenterprise6372  I’m not sure I am (most establishments refuse me entry) but ty anyway.👍
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  18932.  @uhuraenterprise6372  How come what?
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  18933.  @uhuraenterprise6372  Of course I’m tired. Who isn’t?
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  18934.  @uhuraenterprise6372  No.
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  18935. Heroes? Legends? 6 of one etc.😳
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  18936. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  18937. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
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  18938. Stolen comment for likes. Ash Kay said this 2 years ago in this exact thread.
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  18939. Well, this could be a case of not so many full bottles in front of me, but definitely a full-frontal lobotomy.
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  18940. Well, this could be a case of not so many full bottles in front of me, but definitely a full-frontal lobotomy.
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  18941.  @nauticalnovice9244  Well said. 👍
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  18942. I don’t want to trivialise in any way the grave situation in Ukraine right now, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Putin will turn 70 later this year. I don’t know about anyone else but whenever I have a ‘big’ birthday, I tend to go off the rails for a few weeks. Y’know, sleep with the neighbour’s wife, take a few more drugs than normal, think about invading sovereign, self-governing territories. That sort of thing. This could just be one helluva late-life crisis; the last hurrah of someone determined to go down in a blaze of glory with nothing to lose.😳
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  18943. Scene: the Putin household. Putin’s partner: “Good day at work, dear?” Putin: “Oh, you know, I just invaded another country, that’s all.” Putin’s partner: “Oh. That’s nice. More tea, dear?”😳
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  18944. Putin is akin to the typical school-bully whose gang no one wants to join. Ergo, he deploys that classic bully-boy tactic beloved of the rejected authoritarian the world over: submit or die.😳
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  18945. Did I miss a meeting? Since when was it anyone else’s business what 2 consenting adults choose to get up to? 🤔 Utterly bizarre.
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  18946. “Satanism” 🤣
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  18947. I don’t.
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  18948.  @nsubugajulius3935  Pmsl.
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  18949. Can’t work this dude out. He has a beautiful wife and 2 kids. He’s healthy. He’s not poor. Yet all he does is moan about being ‘lonely’. He can’t be ‘alone’ because he has a family. I don’t quite get it. Just go to the doc and pop a few pills like the rest of us if you’re that depressed.
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  18950.  @Reykjavik71  It feels a bit fake, I have to say.
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  18951. Puttin’ it simply, will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  18952. Cringe.
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  18953. It’s just you.
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  18954.  @askjapan9669  I’m serious, dude. If you’re depressed/low mood, go get medicated. Have you explored that option?
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  18955. @1:37 Yeah, and right here he sounds like he’s forcing us to think like he is on the matter in hand. It doesn’t work like that, mate.
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  18956. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  18957. @1:00 Being a sceptic is ‘a lazy way to look at things’? Really? Does this guy not realise that all the greatest scientists who ever lived were, strictly speaking, ‘sceptics’? (Leaving aside conventional piety a la Newton) They were, rightly, mighty sceptical of the accepted prevailing theories of day, and went out to form new theories, based on that scepticism, and test them and thus work out what was really going on. Scepticism is the only way numbskull theories are tested and found wanting. Do you think Galileo, for example, would have got any work done if he hadn’t been a questioning ‘sceptic’ not willing to accept the religious orthodoxies of the day? Get real, man. Every person worth their brains who ever walked this planet was a sceptic. Until all the evidence is in.
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  18958. Izzard can be funny, let’s get that out of the way for a start-off. However, like every other person who learns multiple languages, yes it’s in large part to learn these languages, but also in mighty large part to brag about having Iearned them. A kind of yah-boo sucks, intellectual one-upmanship, if you will. Like those who dodge meat, multilinguists (vegetarians) are not just happy being; they want the world to know that they ‘know’ languages (dodge meat).
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  18959.  @markpalmer8083  You suspect wrong. I’m fluent in 5 languages. Nice try, though.👍
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  18960.  @markpalmer8083  Merci.
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  18961. Has anyone ever seen Joe Rogan and Simon Rimmer in the same room? 🥸
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  18962. Yeah, but he was an ace footballer though! ⚽️
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  18963. That’s because it bans so many.😳
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  18964. How about being 100% human and forgetting the accident of birth nationalistic crap?🤓
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  18965. Nah. They’re all high on fentanyl. 👍
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  18966. It’s also why we have one of the highest rates of liver disease & subsequent alcohol-related deaths than anywhere. So what do you want? Lose the war & have a healthy body or crocked livers & pummel everyone in sight? Dilemmas, dilemmas …
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  18967.  @bompikaushal4194  Why? The language is spoken by about 1.5 million (tops) people?
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  18968.  @xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx 🥱
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  18969.  @xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx You can always tell someone who has no argument. They use emojis to cover their lack of debating skills and the ability to argue a point. Doing the ‘blah, blah, blah’ thang doesn’t wash in my world, darling. Bad luck. 😭
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  18970.  @nauudb  Fair point. I repeat this point though: Greater Catalonia, for want of a better term, encompasses parts of France and Spain, and the Basque areas ditto, therefore one would think it incumbent on those, at least those with genuine Basque/Catalan heritage, but also, arguably even those who have chosen to settle there and have no intrinsic Basque/Catalan links, to learn French and Spanish and Basque/Catalan. Put it this way, if I moved to live in Perpignan and I were planning to root myself there, French, obviously, would be paramount and indispensable, but a strong working knowledge, at the very least, of Spanish, would be required and then perhaps a glancing nod to Catalan. On the other side, in Barcelona, ditto for 1. Spanish 2. Catalan 3. French. But, as I said somewhere else, if I had actual Catalan or Basque heritage I would feel almost duty-bound to know the apposite 3 languages.
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  18971.  @xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx 👈Lost cause. 🤦‍♂️
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  18972.  @xatoriusxVSExbhuttoriusx I consider myself centre-left liberal and pro (strictly controlled) legal immigration. If you can’t see that secular liberal democracies importing millions of Muslims who hold values diametrically opposed to secular liberal democracy is a recipe for future disaster then you are a lost cause.
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  18973. @3:28-3:40 What is the fella on the left looking at?
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  18974. If European governments don’t listen to the people on mass immigration (and particularly mass Muslim immigration) then it won’t be that long before millions will not be voting for just vaguely right of centre parties but properly right of centre parties. If they don’t listen, it’s absolutely inevitable there will be serious civil unrest all over Europe, and it will principally be Islam vs the Rest.
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  18975. Irish?! Don’t you mean Gaelic?
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  18976. Scotland? Really? It’s not all that; trust me. We have one city that can compete with the countless beautiful Spanish cities and as for the scenery … well, when your highest mountain is a ‘mighty’ 1300 metres it’s hardly to rave about. I’ve seen bigger hills in people’s back gardens in France, Spain and Italy! Oh, it also lacks culture in the true sense; full of incurious dolts, mainly … the best people here are the foreigners … they leaven the lump & add a soupçon of class. I could go on but you get the picture. Oh, the weather’s cr@p.
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  18977. So far, out of all the accents I have heard on Easy Spanish it’s the Paraguayan one which has stumped me the most. Initially, I was getting my flags confused & thought the guy was from Serbia!
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  18978. Beautiful, yes, but if it’s Chilean or Argentinian Spanish? Arghhh!😩
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  18979. How fascinating all this lust for Sara. Am I missing something?
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  18980.  @pingupog5574  Well said.
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  18981. Spanish has much less of that elision thing you’re describing. It’s much more a case of ‘pronounce what you see’ with Spanish; whereas French is a linguistic Wild-West for the foreign learner where very often it’s a case of ‘ don’t pronounce what you see’. French, for the foreign learner, in this aspect, is much tougher.
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  18982. 🤦‍♂️
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  18983. Oh ffs. 🤦‍♂️ Leave God out of this. He/She/It is a big part of the trouble.
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  18984. He’s just earning his bacon. 🥓
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  18985. What? Better than God?🧐
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  18986.  @drdornesowerby5863  If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Voltaire) You decide, doc.🧐
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  18987.  @drdornesowerby5863  Moo off! 🐮
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  18988. David Goodwillie: possibly the most inappropriately named man ever.😳
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  18989. I reckon Shaun may have an issue ‘connecting’ as most Hibbies (indeed, footy fans in general) are morons. He speaks with a voice and an articulacy that will soon turn soor if he dizny get the results, ken?
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  18990. He comes across as a supply teacher. Guardiola, Klopp, Ancelotti are all real teachers. This dude smacks of supply.
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  18991. 44:24 Argh! 😖 Sorry to be incredibly parochial, but as someone from Edinburgh, please, please, please can foreign-speaking visitors (particularly those with English as their mother-tongue) stop calling it ‘Edinborrow’. It’s ‘Edinburra’ or, if you really want to sound like a local, ‘Embra’! Rant over. And be still.
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  18992. I rather like Bill Hicks’ rather brutal, misanthropic line that humanity is nothing more than a virus with shoes. Bleak, but in many ways, true.
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  18993. @1:28 Joaquin Cortes? Is that you?
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  18994. @4:02 Interesting that she’s from Majorca, and she telling us she’s never lived in Spain!?
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  18995. Paul Pogba: Take the money and jog complacently.😳
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  18996. Don’t you listen to that rude man, Glenn Hoddle, Dele. He’s no fashion icon himself. Let me console you with these wise words from Henry David Thoreau: I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. ⚽️
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  18997.  @euroesc5013  Gotcha! Actually, that makes sense. I can speak, read and write English, French, Spanish and Italian to a good level; however, I’ve had little exposure to Portuguese, but given the Latin linguistic ballast in my brain I could probably understand many Portuguese words, and deduce the rest from the given context. My issue, if it is an issue, is how Barcelona is now, via the TGV/AVE, 1h from the French border, yet, apparently, many Barcelonais don’t speak French, beyond the basics. They even seem scared of it, when they are not just indifferent. They recognise it, yes, but beyond that not much else. I find that fascinating.
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  18998. He won’t be intelligent enough to learn Spanish properly, though.
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  18999.  @paranoidrodent  The Canadian French accent, to these British ears, sounds more sing-songy than French spoken by native French folk. Similar to how the American English of the Minnesotans, amongst other northern North Americans, sounds quaint and almost Scandinavian. Different ears hear different things though, depending on one’s own upbringing. For example, I, a Scot, cannot abide thick Glaswegian accents, while others adore them. It’s all a matter of taste and there’s no legislating for that!
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  19000. @0:01 Is that a microphone Sara is holding or has she just got a grey squirrel by the tail?
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  19001. Imagine hating on someone for something they didn’t choose. Not only that, imagine hating on someone for something as stupid as the colour of their skin. My own theory here, for what it is worth, is that Vini’s a victim of a trend I’ve noticed in Western Europe for at least the last decade: rising intolerance to incomers (particularly economic immigrants coming to Europe from Africa/Middle East to make a new life). I’m willing to bet very good money that if Vini were not only black, but also a Muslim, he’d be experiencing even worse stuff than he already is. Sad for everyone involved.
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  19002. Well, he’s clearly correct, of course. This must sting for the right-wingers when one of their own goes against the grain. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  19003.  @paranoidrodent  French spoken in France varies quite remarkably, for such a relatively (in Canadian terms) small country. Marseille has an Italian thing going on, which is not that surprising, given its history and relationship with its cousins 250km along the coast to the east. Up north, you have the ch’ti dialect of French, which is difficult for me to properly tune into, but sounds quite charming, with all its Flemish phlegm and notwithstanding its unintelligibility. Only really was alerted to this via the film, ‘Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis,’ from a few years ago. Never been to Minnesota, but ‘Fargo’ looms as it was set there with all those Twin Peaksy, otherworldly accents. Of course, the state bred the marvellous Jayhawks, as well, so my radar has clocked that state for this reason. We are all mongrels. That’s why it amazes me that the human species places so much emphasis on an accident of birth when it comes to self-definition. I’ve never fully understood this thing whereby one takes pride in the fact one’s mum plopped one out here and not there. You had no say in the matter, so being ‘proud’ of this seems nonsensical, irrational and dangerous, given human history over the last 300,000 years. As for Catholicism; well, an inexplicably influential force in the history of humanity, that, amazingly, to this day folk still adhere to. I’m a lapsed Catholic; can you tell?
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  19004. @0:42 It’s Maradona’s Chief of Publicity.
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  19005.  @davidmoreno1397  Seriously though, you must have non-Spanish/Mexican heritage with a name like that, no? Actually, I’ve just checked it: you have an Irish surname, and, of course, David has Hebrew roots. It was your surname I was puzzling about. Actually, having done more research on the etymology of your surname, it seems there is an English version, after all. Being British, I knew instinctively your surname sounded more (no pun intended) English than Hispanic.
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  19006.  @RavusNox-z5i  It’s called ‘the sun’. 🌞
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  19007.  @misdangered4326  Yeah, but that’s only the weather. I’ve been to the Costa del Sol and their towns/villages are not that much more beautiful than Clacton. They are made to seem better than they really are by 300 days of annual sunshine.
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  19008. Depp has clearly been stoned and/or drunk for the past 35 years that not sure if anything he testifies can be taken as read.
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  19009.  @davidmoreno1397  Don’t take this wrong, but you have the least-Mexican sounding name I think I’ve ever heard! Your name suggests that you’re a trucker from Leicester, or something.
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  19010.  @paranoidrodent  You’re dead right about the richness and complexity of language and accents, certainly here in the UK, but also in France, with which I’m slightly less au fait. It almost changes village to village here in Scotland, never mind city to city. I’m fascinated at how, in this era of dominant globalisation, these accents and their differentiating minutiae have managed to survive, indeed, in some cases even strengthen, in the face of a wave of monolingual (English), mono-accented (mid-Atlantic) mainstream global culture that has been wittingly or otherwise, resisted by all those who still speak in a unique, distinct manner. Yeah, ‘Bienvenue …’ is a film I saw about a decade ago, and from hazy memory I recall it being a bit too free and easy with the lazy stereotypes (cultured southerners versus northern boors; it’s always sunny down south versus it’s grim up north etc), but I forgave this, in part because I giggled so much. It was smooth and a little too trite in its vision, but for a few diverting belly laughs it was just the ticket! Oh, where does one begin with Catholicism and its, erm, ‘philosophy’. First of all I knew, aged 9, when I asked my Catholic school R.E. teacher why there were no female priests and why the Pope was always a man and she shrugged at me and more or less said, ‘It’s God’s will’, that there and then this Catholicism malarkey was a bit rum, and not necessarily in a good way. ‘Oh, and why is God a man, Miss?’, well let’s just say the look on her face suggested an upstart like me asking such impertinent questions ought to disengage the brain and just accept it. It just was. Not good enough for me, even at that age, and when I looked into the whole shebang a little more and saw a benighted thinking (if you could call it such), denying women a choice in terms of their bodies’ reproductive status, banned abortions, under any circumstances, however horrendous, and wanted me to go into a wee booth and confess all my dirty thoughts to a, frankly creepy, stranger in a frock, well, I ran for the hills to breathe the clean air of a life without following unsubstantiated, and often pernicious, moral dictums enunciated by an invisible sky God. Atheism (or for me, agnosticism: call me weak) seemed a better option: a non-prophet organisation with no invisible means of support.
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  19011.  @shennehs_rey2584  I refer you to the answer above I gave some hours ago.
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  19012.  @ramingoudarzi1806  Look, man, if you think ‘cheating’ part of worthy talent, then good for you. I prefer my victors to win the honest way.
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  19013.  @ramingoudarzi1806  Talent? Cheating? Yeah, spoken like a true native Argentinian, I bet. A country so institutionally corrupt and rotten to the core that it’s constantly economically, politically and socially on its knees begging for mercy, imploring that somebody put it out of its misery. Maradona was gifted naturally (no God involved, my friend, notwithstanding his feckless protestations to the contrary), but Argentina’s 1986 World Cup victory was a cheat’s victory, the victory of a team, to a man, carried by a fraud. Albeit an extremely gifted fraud.
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  19014. @6:40 you have the fastest speaking Spanish person ever! She takes the prize.
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  19015. I have been learning Spanish & French for many years ( it’s ALWAYS a work in progress) & for the native English-speaker the subjunctive is probably the main bane. However, with time & perseverance it happens: one day you wake up, return to the language & there is a new understanding of how to use this tricky mood. As we gave virtually ditched the subjunctive in spoken (and, indeed much of written English) it’s always going to be that bit harder for the native English-speaker.
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  19016. *Woody This thing wouldn’t let me edit ‘Woods’ into ‘Woody’?! Have we really created such a hair-trigger sensitive culture? Or was it ‘Russia’ the computer algorithms didn’t like?
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  19017. This one is good. They’re all good to be fair, but this lass has a clear, well-paced delivery conducive to easy learning. Thanks.
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  19018. @7:49 She looks like a cross between Cindy Crawford & Julia Roberts & he is punching way above his weight.
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  19019. @0:49 This girl is giving off Claire’s Knee vibes; not exactly a doppelgänger but from the same cut.
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  19020. @1:13 I’m assuming this fella is not Catalan as surely it would practically be sacrilege to publicly admit that he only understands Catalan but doesn’t speak it.
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  19021. I think, on balance, the Internet is probably a good thing. For me, its principal boon is the democratisation of opinion. We are able to post and are able read the posts of those who in a pre-Internet age would’ve had no public voice. Of course, the downside of this is that every man and his dog can post about the minutiae of their lives and, realistically, this is going to be of no interest to 99.9% recurring of the population. However, I would argue that just the fact of anyone with access to the Internet has a voice and that is ipso-facto a good thing, regardless of the content they post (and concomitantly the content others consume). It’s down to the consumer to discern and sift the wheat from the chaff as they see it. My main gripe against the Internet, however, has to be the drastic deterioration in our individual/collective attention spans. This inevitably bleeds into ‘real life’ and manifests itself as an intolerant impatience in one’s interlocutor as soon as they feel that urge to be distracted by the next thing/person. Paradoxically, I find that people who are not so in thrall to the Internet in their day to day lives are the people most likely to listen, to truly listen to another, whereas those who seemingly have the most practice at listening to others in the cacophony of Internet chatter are often disastrous at being able to listen and interact in ‘real life’. 💻
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  19022.  @ilenamutis2245  They said the same things when books were made available to a mass audience and when television was invented. I repeat my basic point though: it’s the height of hypocrisy to judge others being ‘dehumanised’ by cellphone use via what you yourself are using: a cellphone! It’s almost as if you’re suggesting you’re immune to the ‘dehumanising’ effects while everyone else succumbs to them. You don’t seem to credit your fellow human with much self-direction and ability to discern, which strikes me as deeply patronising.
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  19023. Yes, but you only heard that ‘perfect description’ because you are logged on to the Internet! You can’t condemn something (mobile phones) via the very thing you’re condemning and expect to be taken seriously. If you find them ‘dehumanising’ stop using them.
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  19024. @6:50 this lady’s hair appears to have a different zip code from the rest of her head!😂
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  19025.  @tocinoamericano  You had to delete that ‘furthermore’, didn’t you? Otherwise, you would’ve appeared an awfully confused silly-billy.😆
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  19026.  @tocinoamericano  ‘Nothing more’? ‘Furthermore’? You’re unsure, aren’t you? Which is it?😳
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  19027.  @tocinoamericano  Trolling who? A whole country? So you, an American, are going to take offence on behalf of every Mexican? I’d call that patronising.🥸
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  19028.  @shennehs_rey2584  Yeah, but do you just live in the culture you were born into without questioning it? If you do, you are a slave. It’s your duty, as a thinking human being, to interrogate and question everything you encounter. You have no defence in the simple fact you were born in a certain country. So, Mexico may be patriarchal, macho, hidebound when it comes to the modern world; your job is to think about this and do what you think might be efficacious in changing this situation if you consider such a change desirable. I’m always very, very wary of countries/cultures who consider themselves ‘all that’. We the outsiders, will be the judge of that. If I go to Mexico, and see an overtly macho culture that relegates women to the sidelines, I’m going to call that as I see it. My sense is, having visited Mexico twice, is that, yes, it’s a very macho culture, and notwithstanding its ostensible friendliness, there is an underlying self-doubt. After all, any country that needs to assert its friendliness and how welcoming it is, is a country unsure of that status. No one is screaming that the sun ☀️ is going to rise tomorrow.
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  19029. @1:40 Really? In 2022 Mexico is still in thrall to the primitive idea of the father provider, and the mother in the kitchen? How tragic.
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  19030. @Ulrika Lundgren Huh?
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  19031. Are you ok there, sunshine?
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  19032. 🤔But Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was the 12th of February; you’re 10 days too early!
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  19033.  @FlipflopMount222  6 (and a half) languages. Fluently! Seethe Phil Mitchell basic English disaster zone! 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸
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  19034.  @kQcsdN8JBUw  Yes, fair points.👍
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  19035. The clue is in the name: ‘mythical’.
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  19036. This report was sponsored by the Loch Ness Tourist Board .
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  19037.  @giovannirivera4504  How what?
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  19038.  @kimerietate8372  Well, Depp came off terribly badly today. He’s a rather ugly individual, no matter what she might be.
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  19039.  @gurp8298  Believe what?
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  19040.  @gurp8298  Can’t you read?
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  19041. Great man? Did you see him? He’s a hideous, drunken mess. He’s embarrassing to himself and his children.
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  19042. These days, most people are just focused on the doors not flying off midflight! 🥴
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  19043. I bet you’ve laid a few, though, eh? No fingers involved?😉
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  19044.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Which bit and why?
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  19045. Most crop circles are unimpressive nothings, which could (and probably were) be made by a group of pranksters. What gets me about this phenomenon are the intricate, amazing-looking ones that, if you asked me, couldn’t be made by humans in a week, let alone a night. My only doubt about the really impressive ones is: were they were genuinely made ‘overnight’. The one I always cite is the 2001 Milk 🥛 Hill circle. Now, if you tell me that a bunch of, say, 25 people have a week to create this masterpiece (for that’s what it is), then I might believe you, but even then with difficulty, given it’s scale and precision. If you tell me that on a Monday this thing wasn’t there, and by a Tuesday morning it was … then, there is either an army of very skilful, speedy artists out there, or something very strange is going on. It all hinges on whether these things are created overnight, something which cannot be verified, alas.
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  19046. @5:01 ‘Are we promoting a movie?’ This is the get-out clause of every 2-bit movie ‘star’. Yes, Robert, you sucked the pipe of self-promotion when it suited you, so here’s Krishnan with some questions! 😃
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  19047. Yes, and that, in my opinion, makes him a fucking good interviewer!😉
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  19048. It’s just an opinion, cobber. We all have ‘em! Don’t get me started on Oz as you might not like it. 👍✌️😉 Oh, I just read yer a Geordie. It’s amazing what an accident of birth can do to a feller.
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  19049.  @keith8609  No. I’m not a small business, Keithy. Get it right or not at all, son.
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  19050.  @markpalmer8995  Lol. I’m from the North and I’m here to tell you that Newcastle is an utter dump! 🤣
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  19051.  @jenjones90  I was talking specifically of the North/South thing in the UK. As much as I can (it can be difficult) I try to take every person I meet on their merits. Try not to categorise or box them, and doing this, the vast majority of folks everywhere are decent and nice. But these things all depend on so many things: am I male or female? Black or white? Gay or straight? Rich or poor? Most people I meet respond well cos I’m curious, I suppose. Anyway, must dash now. All the best. Btw. Edinburgh is lovely, but wtf did they do with Princes Street?! A whole other debate for another day. Bye! 👋 ✌️
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  19052.  @jenjones90  You need to stop buying your clothes in Primark and get some Gucci!🤣 😎
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  19053.  @jenjones90  Nice chatting.👍🤓
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  19054.  @jenjones90  I don’t buy the “it’s friendlier oop North” schtick. They are friendly … to a point. It’s very tribal. You need to fit in. Need to conform. Speak like them. Share similar ideas. I can’t abide that inbred mentality. The ‘friendliness’ quickly evaporates in the face of non-Northern ‘difference’. Also, I never trust anyone who bangs on about how much more friendly they are compared to everyone else. Others will be the judge of that. It’s like a comedian telling me they are funny. We, the audience decide that; not you, the comedian. All that said, tribalism exists everywhere. Particularly in traditional communities. So, yes, in Southern Italy particularly there exists this mistrust of difference, and yes, often undisguised racism. Humans are messy and complex.
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  19055.  @jenjones90  Another one for the record: I ain’t into all that machismo bollix so prevalent in the Latin countries. For me, this is one of the most off-putting things about them.
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  19056.  @jenjones90  Just for the record, and in the interests of balance, the UK has some high-points, aesthetically: my hometown, Edinburgh, is up there in any list of most beautiful European cities; Durham is a delight; Bath is beautiful; Chester’s charming; it ain’t all bad! However, I’m afraid that when it comes to natural beauty the UK once again cannot hold a candle to the likes of France, Spain or Italy. Even the Highlands of Scotland (massively overrated imo) are no match for the Italian Alps, or Dolomites or Apennines. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but most everyone I meet with whom I discuss these things would concur with the aforementioned opinions.
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  19057.  @jenjones90  Ah hah! Mugged! That’s bound to taint your view, but I take your points and they are well made.👍
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  19058.  @jenjones90  Ah, you’re twisting the debate now. This was originally about the visual merits of certain places. The economics of a place is a different matter. I lived in Sicily for a year back in the 1990s and the quality of life (sunny, relaxed, healthy, surrounded by beauty everywhere) was much better than the grey, grim treadmill stress of the UK. Yes, some of the attitudes vis-a-vis women were a bit hidebound, but this didn’t ruin or unbalance the overwhelming positives when compared to the UK. Also, many of these attitudes you mention exist in France and Spain, too, and I have lived in both those places, too. When you weigh up the pros and cons of life in France, Spain or Italy versus life in the UK, for me, the Latin countries win out every time, notwithstanding their evident deficiencies and social/economic issues.
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  19059.  @jenjones90  “Everyone is depressed and poor and there’s a huge amount of crime” - that’ll be Newcastle then!🤣
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  19060.  @jenjones90  ‘ Probably wins?! Probably?! Have you been to an optician’s lately? 😂
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  19061.  @jenjones90  Seriously: Google ‘Bari Old Town’ and if you describe what you see as a ‘sh*thole’ then what on Earth you consider ‘beautiful’ is going to have to meet very high standards. Perhaps an Italian boyfriend cheated on you in Bari; is that it?🤓
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  19062.  @jenjones90  You described Bari as a “sh*thole”; it’s not. And on the sh*thole scale, if Bari is one, I dread to think what Newcastle is.
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  19063.  @jenjones90  Google ‘Bari Old Town’ and look at the pictures. You cannot with a straight face tell me Newcastle can remotely compete with this in terms of pulchritude. Even Italy’s ‘ugly’ cities are miles more lovely than the bulk of UK cities: Milan or Manchester? Brindisi or Birmingham? Perugia or Portsmouth? I rest my case.
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  19064.  @jenjones90  I disagree about Bari. It has a gorgeous whitewashed Old Town that reminded me of a Morrocan medina. The rest is a bit meh, agreed, but even Bari’s ‘meh’ is 100x more appealing than Newcastle’s ‘ugh!’
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  19065.  @mamabari07  Are you a Brit? Bari suggests Italy?
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  19066. Ask yourself why the wild parties and binge alcohol? These people are living in a horrendously grey, grim urban landscape. Never underestimate the power of our surroundings to shape our lives. Seeing ugliness everywhere warps the soul.
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  19067. 🦠 ‘Viral fist fights’? ‘And in the blue corner, weighing in at less than a micro gram, undefeated in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, with a record of several thousand knockouts, iiiiiitttttt’sssss Extraordinary , Exceptional Ebola Viiiiiirrrrrruuuussss.’ ‘And in the red corner, weighing in at a millionth of a gram, with a record of several hundred thousand knockouts, still undefeated in China, iiiiiiiiittttttttt’ssssss, Calamitous, Crushing COVID-19 Viiiiiiiirrrrrruuuuussss.’ 🥊
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  19068.  @gerardmackay8909  Lol. Makes sense that someone from a dump like Newcastle would get off on Australia. 👍
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  19069.  @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494  Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
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  19070. The other important factor here is the very basic notion that literally
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  19071. Trump ostensibly proclaims himself a ‘non-interventionist’, blah, blah, blah. Yet, here he is, essentially advocating the clearance of 2 million+ people to suit his agenda. I would bet my bottom dollar he wouldn’t suggest making a ‘Shanghai Riviera’, for example. Classic bully. Thinks he holds the cards. Needs to be stood up to.
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  19072.  @r1234233  Still triggered.🤣
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  19073. There is no devil. Next question? 👿
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  19074.  @nothereandthereanywhere  Yup. I get all that, but none of that detracts from the fact that a quite large proportion of the UK population are sick of mass immigration on the levels we are currently seeing. They have just demonstrated that in public with their actions. For them, it’s akin to having a group of strangers turn up announced and for them to squat in their house. As I said in the OP, the politicians will ignore this one at their peril as it’s not going to go away anytime soon and, in fact, I foresee much worse to come. 👍
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  19075.  @YA-hm5zy Huh? 🤔
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  19076.  @sampatkalyan3103 You need a basic education in just having a simple thought, it seems! 👍🤦‍♂️🤣
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  19077.  @sampatkalyan3103  ‘If you want to ban porn then stop wearing revealing dresses’?! Lol. 🤣What does that even mean? It’s nonsensical. What’s what a woman wears day to day got to do with porn? You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about and are making yourself look extremely silly. 🤫
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  19078.  @sampatkalyan3103  Yep, very true. You need a better basic education in simple philosophy. Bad luck. 😭
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  19079.  @sampatkalyan3103  Yes, but in many cases it can strongly imply correlation. Uh huh.😉👍
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  19080.  @speedboostr  Of course it has. I was just pointing out that access to hardcore porn to boys as young as 7/8, where they are seeing, essentially, women just there to satisfy males and be objectified, isn’t going to help things and feeds into the attitudes many of these boys have when they become young men.
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  19081.  @joshuawilliams2310 Feels like it’s planned. I’m no fan of Trump, but when the Democrats put up a senile Biden, you begin to wonder wtf is going on! 🤔
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  19082.  @bsv2806  👏
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  19083.  @JustKevH  Ok, it seems you agree with me, Kevvy. Not sure where the issue is here. 🤔
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  19084.  @JustKevH  So, if independence is seen to be not working, why can’t it be reversed? Seems a bit unfair it’s only one-way. People change, people’s views change. You said it, Kevvy.
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  19085.  @belkentens Belendtens. 🤡
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  19086.  @flowerpower3082  It’s not propaganda. I’m neutral. Just trying to see this from both sides, that’s all.
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  19087. Translation: “He disagrees with me and I can’t cope.”
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  19088. Jesus, God, Mother of Mary, no!
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  19089. *well
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  19090.  @sciencetest8  ?
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  19091.  @furkanbozdag8198  You are not excused. Cringe.
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  19092. 🥱
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  19093.  @belkentens  😉
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  19094. *of
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  19095. Lol. You can’t even get her name right! Fake, meaningless bs.
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  19096.  @furkanbozdag8198  Huh? Not sure what your point is m8. I was just pointing out that Mohammed married a 9 year old when he was in his 50s. Cope.
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  19097. Terrifically moronic comment!
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  19098.  @YorkshireBob  Lol.
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  19099.  @YorkshireBob  Eh bah goom, Bobby lad. It’s grim oop North, eh?😉
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  19100. Jeez, Jimbo. Poor. Even for you. 🤦‍♂️
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  19101. Anthony is not happy. 😡
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  19102.  @db7541 No, I agree with you. 👍In Sunak’s case I think it was 2 things: trusting bad advisors and the thing I mentioned above. Sunak, essentially, doesn’t give a sh*t about D-Day. That’s basically the deal here.👍
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  19103. Roe v Wade? 🛶 Choices, choices.
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  19104. This came through on the wires from Kepler- 452b. I thought I’d pass it on. “The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, you seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when you band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. One of your wise ones, Nietzsche, looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, you need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do you allow this as adults?”👽
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  19105.  @mr.pastry779  Uh huh… and your point is? 🤔
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  19106.  @chickenrees  Still called democracy. Seethe some more.
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  19107.  @theloki72  Yes, 70% of a populace drunk on Russian propaganda.
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  19108.  @jsb1585  All up for debate.
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  19109.  @unionjackjackson4352  It’s just good form, son. 👍
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  19110.  @unionjackjackson4352  If you directly quote someone else verbatim, attribute it. Anything else is intellectual property theft, pure and simple, sonny.👍
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  19111.  @BenWilson24  Disagree. If you directly quote someone verbatim, you attribute it. Anything else is intellectual property theft.
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  19112. Be quiet you silly person.
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  19113.  @Richard_L_Y  You are aware in 2014 that the pro-Russian democratically-elected government in Ukraine was overthrown to be replaced by a pro-western one? You are au fait with this fact, I take it? Where was your ever-so-important democracy then? Huh?
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  19114.  @svenred6eard757  Zelensky is far from an angel, mate.
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  19115. Anti-abortion … anti-foreigner … anti-trans … I see a theme developing here, Al.👍
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  19116.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Wrong again, Jimbo. I like a wee fast on a Friday, son. Keep trying; you won’t get there one day. 👍
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  19117.  @Steven-vo4ee  Jimbo’s as “British as egg and chips” and thick as mince. 😉
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  19118. Nurse will be with you soon with your medication, Jimbo. He has drastically upped the dosage. Hang in there, bud.🤪 👨‍⚕️ 💊 💊 💊 He may want a close inspection of your rectum region for excess signs of bullsh*t. Don’t clench too tightly now. Just lie there and think of little England, Jimbo. 😉
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  19119.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  God, you’re so lame, Jimbo. Seriously poor. 😐
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  19120.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Nah, Jimbo. Just because one has been to Israel doth not necessarily make one a Jew, but joining these dots may be beyond you, son.😉
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  19121.  @marinasparkles  👍
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  19122.  @TheTalkWatcher  Yeah, but you’re talking shite and you know it. Make some sense instead of wasting my time.
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  19123.  @TheTalkWatcher  You strike me as someone who convinces themselves of something no matter the empirical evidence. Dangerous tactic.
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  19124.  @TheTalkWatcher  I disagree. This is a whole country war. As we speak, Ukraine in toto is not being routed. They should have been routed about 2 weeks ago given the difference in firepower, but they aren’t. Remarkably. Don’t just assert to suit your pro-Russian agenda, as that won’t wash.
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  19125.  @TheTalkWatcher  Routed? Are we watching the same war? As I speak Ukraine has just retaken parts of Kyiv. Get real, man.
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  19126.  @sissilia449  You might say that as well. But TheTalkWatcher appears convinced that this is 100% NATO/America’s fault. Not as black and white as that I’m afraid.
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  19127.  @TheTalkWatcher  Possibly. Not conclusive though, for if it were we wouldn’t be debating it.
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  19128.  @harrietkinloch7451  Er, wot? How does that contradict my OP? If 40-50% support independence, that leaves a potential 50% who don’t. Did you go to basic maths classes in school, Harriet? 🤔
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  19129.  @timcomley5948  K, Mr Stilton . 🧀
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  19130.  @emm_arr  K, Mr Stilton .
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  19131.  @emm_arr  K, Mr Stilton. 🧀
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  19132. You want Johnson blowing you, if the rumours are to be believed.
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  19133.  @seanconnolly7386  Just a point of view. 🤓😉
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  19134.  @cryptobroskis545  yawn
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  19135.  @cryptobroskis545  Steady, sonny. I’m not much older than you, old man.😉
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  19136.  @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164  Nah, m8. It’s called paranoia. Btw, just when is Icke gonna provide evidence for the ‘lizard beings’ he’s bs’d about for 30 years? 😉
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  19137.  @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164  Lol.👍
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  19138. Yes!!!! Nigel!!!!!! I!!!! always!!! trust the!!! word!!!!!!!!!!!! of a dude!!!! in complete!!!!! control of!!! his!!!!!! basic!!!!!!!!!!! punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
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  19139.  @paulsjeeps7528  Ah, ok, Paul. I thought you were and you’ve just proved it. You’re making a political point. You can’t stand Democrats. I get ya! ✌️
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  19140.  @paulsjeeps7528  Er, like which other laws are ‘crazy’?
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  19141.  @paulsjeeps7528  Ok, Paul. Still not quite sure what your point is, but ty 4 ur ⏰.👍
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  19142.  @paulsjeeps7528  Er, and your point is? 🤔
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  19143.  @jumanre-b9i  Ok, I wasn’t sure. There was ambiguity in your reply, almost as if you were suggesting the US was better when it comes to gun crime.
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  19144.  @CAPOXXVIII Er, ‘racist’? Last time I checked, Islam wasn’t a ‘race’. 🤦‍♂️
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  19145.  @SpiritualSchmuck  Yup.
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  19146. You underestimate him. He underestimated the Ukrainians and the resistance he would face, but to underestimate him would be grave error given the weaponry he has at his disposal.
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  19147.  @TRUEBIOLOGYMATTERS  Ohh, Jeez! Here we go again! Seek help.
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  19148.  @therealkindle5365  Er, but there are: the main one being just reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Ta da! 🎉 Nice try, though.
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  19149.  @TRUEBIOLOGYMATTERS  An even simpler way to prove this, more or less, is that as we speak 622 people have gone into space. Now, I’ve got to tell you, if I’d been one of those astronauts, and I’d got up there and lo! I found out and saw that the Earth were flat, I would not have been able to keep that a secret, no matter how many non-disclosures I had signed. On this basis, I quite simply don’t buy that 622 human beings have gone into orbit and not one of them would not have come back with the news that the Earth isn’t round if indeed it isn’t. On a personal level, I have seen for myself the effect of the curvature of the Earth on several occasions by following the procedure outlined in number 5 in my previous post. Sunset. Sun goes down. Sprint up a hill at top speed and when you get to the top, the sun has reappeared above the horizon. So, yes, the Earth is almost 100% not flat in my mind. I’m as sure of this as I’m sure of my own name.
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  19150.  @TRUEBIOLOGYMATTERS  I don’t disagree with every single point you make, but when you come out with the paranoid flat-Earth baloney I just can’t take you seriously. 👍
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  19151. @monsterbloke ‘It’s irrelevant how much we contribute’? Is it f*ck. That’s the whole point , dummy! 😉
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  19152.  @sosig8332  Says the moron who fries their brains on childish, pointless, brain-dead games! 🤣
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  19153.  @TheAArmstrong  I’m shoar. 🧕
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  19154.  @TheAArmstrong  Yer, shoar.
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  19155.  @TheAArmstrong  Nah m8, I just triggered you all day.👍
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  19156.  @tastypymp1287  👈Retreats back to calling out ‘grammar pedantry’ cuz his own basic grammar is worse than my dog’s. Woof!
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  19157.  @TheAArmstrong  Because it’s an accident of birth no one has any say in, Bobby. These I care not a jot about. 👍😉
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  19158.  @tastypymp1287  One other thing, TastyTwat, it’s always you, the triggered one, who comes after me and not the other way round. And then you tell everyone else not to argue with me! Yet, here you are, ad hominem attacking because you have no argument. HypocritesRUs. You should take your own advice one of these days, TastyTwat.😉
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  19159.  @tastypymp1287  It’s ‘could have’ btw, TastyTwat, not ‘could of’. 🤦‍♂️ 😊
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  19160.  @tastypymp1287  👈Do not argue with a grown adult who cannot spell and genuinely appears unaware of the possessive apostrophe. 😊
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  19161.  @tastypymp1287  I do hope you’ve been spending your time wisely, TastyTwat, and been back at kindergarten swotting up on the possessive apostrophe. 🤭
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  19162.  @tastypymp1287  👈HypocritesRUs. 😊
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  19163.  @tastypymp1287  No it’s not. Not for one second did you address any of my points in the argument. All ad hominem. No argument. 😊
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  19164.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  19165.  @tastypymp1287  Not an argument. 😊
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  19166.  @TheAArmstrong  So, we have ‘ethnic Brits’ and ‘British citizens’: and? Again, what do you want me to do with that information? Are you going to go down the road that every ‘non-ethnic’ Brit has fewer rights than every ‘ethnic’ Brit? Really? Well, on that basis, as I said somewhere else to you, you need to call for the immediate repatriation of all those millions of Europeans who are currently living in places where they don’t ‘ethnically belong’, according to your ethnocentric logic. 🥱
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  19167.  @TheAArmstrong  What? Again, you’re all over the place, son. No logic. Just prejudice and judgement. You have no idea who or what I’m and you’ve been triggered by this all day.👍 Now, I have to say this, just go away cuz you are deeply boring.
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  19168.  @TheAArmstrong  Just for the record, it didn’t ‘annoy me’. I’m perfectly chilled, son. It’s you who seems triggered when they are faced with the truth that we each have no say where we are born and to whom. You still haven’t addressed this, of course, as this is the key point: you’re born somewhere and you automatically accept the cultural mores of that place, without questioning them or thinking them through, do you, Bobby? That makes you an unthinking 🐑. If we all thought like you, Bobby, this world would be even more benighted than it already is. Baa!
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  19169.  @TheAArmstrong  Lol@‘I’m guessing you’re Asian’! 🤣 Guess again, sweetheart. Your agenda in blinkering you, Bobby. You can’t see straight at this point. What a shame.
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  19170.  @TheAArmstrong  Just for the record, ideas are essentially who you are. As Emerson said you become what you think about all day, so to blithely dismiss ideas the way you have just done, is mighty stupid. We are all , essentially, a product of our ideas.
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  19171.  @TheAArmstrong  🥱 So, you’re ‘ethnically white British’. And? What do you want me to do with that information? If your ideas are moronic, the fact you’re ’ethnically white and British’ is neither here nor there. I have zero interest in filing people according to where they happened to have been born, and to whom, on this planet. I repeat: all I care about is your ideas.
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  19172.  @TheAArmstrong  My days, people’s blood doesn’t interest me, son. Their ideas do. It’s nothing to do with ‘having self-respect for my heritage’ as we’re all accidents of birth. I had no say in ‘my heritage’, much less my bloodline. I care not a jot about anyone else’s blood, too. It’s pointless, irrelevant and stupid to invest your key identity in an accident of birth you had no say in. Uh huh.
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  19173.  @TheAArmstrong  I’ve no idea, son. It doesn’t interest me. Like you.👍
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  19174.  @TheAArmstrong  Because it’s a pointless, boring, irrelevant subject. A bit like you, son.
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  19175.  @TheAArmstrong  It’s red. 🥱
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  19176.  @TheAArmstrong  Lol. ‘By blood’. I mighta known we’d have an ethno-supremacist in the house. What a staggering numpty. 🧕
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  19177.  @thoughtsofwisdom1223  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  19178.  @zorba9660  I agree. I was referring to the OP’s mention of headscarves. There appeared a bit of a French thing going on underneath the surface where she/he was seeing one too many headscarves worn by Muslims in public. Just for the record, I consider all organised religion one the greatest disasters humanity had the misfortune to invent.
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  19179.  @TheAArmstrong  Steady now, son. No need for insolent lip like that Bobby boy! You may have saved half of Africa back in 1984 but that won’t save you now, sonny. Think on. Uh huh.😉
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  19180.  @Applycommonsense  Nah, I read pure intolerance.
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  19181.  @TheAArmstrong  No it won’t. So diddums for you, sonny. Now run along to mummy but keep yer tongue in, pal.👍
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  19182.  @TheAArmstrong  Huh? That doesn’t compute. Just because you can’t cope with another opinion, you chip in with a lazy ‘thought police’ jibe? That won’t float in my world, son. Must do better. Uh huh.👍😉
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  19183. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  19184. @Daria Not sure Ukraine would’ve actually attacked Russia. The 8 year Civil War seems inescapable, though.
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  19185. This joke went stale about a month ago.
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  19186.  @newshound2521  It didn’t seem like you knew. 🥴
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  19187. Breaking News: He’s dead, m8. ⚰️
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  19188.  @888ssss  You seem to be obsessed with ‘Karen’; I’ve only seen 3 posts of yours today but in every one you reference this ‘Karen’ … did she f*ck your best m8 when your back was turned? 🤓
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  19189. No it isn’t.
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  19190. Really? So, how come these 99% Muslim ‘asylum seekers’ don’t move to Islamic countries? I’ll tell you why: 1. The UK is a soft touch. 2. They know they’d be immediately turfed out of any Islamic country they illegally entered.
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  19191.  @jamesregiste960  Who? Random? Nah, he’s not a troll.
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  19192. Because Manchester’s a dump? 🤔
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  19193.  @jamessmith84240  Academy publicly funded?
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  19194.  @VK-qe7if  👍
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  19195. Desperate numpty posts exact same comment day after day because they have a brain the size of a pea.
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  19196.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  He’s projecting. He wants it but can’t have it. 👍😉
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  19197.  @dbw245  More projection, dbw? You might need to seek professional help for this, darling.👍😉
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  19198.  @dbw245  Yah. Methinks you were projecting, petal. Uh huh.👍🤫
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  19199.  @dwintell  Ah, the old ‘algos’ get out clause. 👍
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  19200.  @MostlyLoveOfMusic Yah. But Tbf to Kathy, she doesn’t appear to have (and acted upon) a sexual interest in young boys.👍
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  19201.  @awebb4317  Yvw. 👍
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  19202.  @satyasyasatyasya5746 You seem, alarmingly, an apologist for peadoughphilia. Correct me if I’m wrong…
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  19203.  @satyasyasatyasya5746 Huh? I’m pretty sure we’re all aware paedophilic tendencies are a fairly common thing. But I want to get one thing right here: this is (99.999…%) of the time a man thing. In my long life I’ve never encountered a woman with a sexual interest in a child. That needs to be stated right off the bat. As to your wider point, I disagree. With high-profile cases like Savile, Glitter, Edwards et al., we all know this is a thing. I’m not sure what your point is. Are you saying people aren’t aware of this stuff? If you are, you’re completely wrong. What can we do about it? Well, we can’t stop (men’s) sexual desires for young children, but we can kind of punish them properly when they act on these desires. As Edwards seems to have done here. 👍
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  19204.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Yeah, but it’s only you who’s upvoting themselves here, m8. Your hypocrisy is quite staggering. 👍😉
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  19205.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Er, y do u keep upvoting urself, Goofy? 🤔
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  19206.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  What else? What ya got, ya non-Palestinian? 🤣
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  19207.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  You’re just a flat-out liar. You’re not Palestinian. For your own dignity and self-respect, just admit this.👍
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  19208.  @Addictedtobleeps  I’m not sure it is, m8. I’m a live and let live kinda guy, and while there are certain humans I can’t stand, I’m not gunna kill them. I have a brake. A brake that says, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I say that as someone who doesn’t actually believe Jesus existed. 👍
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  19209.  @ThinkBeingThanks  Many thanks for your recommendations.👍
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  19210.  @jmhorange  Uh huh. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  19211. @_SamUSA_ Uh huh. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either/or in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  19212.  @stephenwalker2924  Slight Return - Bluetones. Nice choon.
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  19213.  @stephenwalker2924  I wear a hair shirt; the unavoidable fate of all lapsed Catholics.
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  19214.  @stephenwalker2924  I thought it was self-evident. No? The archaic use would make no sense. Therefore that leaves only one option.
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  19215.  @stephenwalker2924  Huh? 🤔
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  19216.  @comanchio1976  Don’t come at me if you can’t deal with a basic chord change, son. That won’t flow in my world. Uh huh. 🎸👍😉
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  19217.  @comanchio1976  Didn’t upvote anything m8. Perfectly sober here and I repeat: What? What kind of family are you from that it takes the intervention of a youth club not to stab someone else?
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  19218.  @comanchio1976  Perfectly sober here and I repeat: What? What kind of family are you from that it takes the intervention of a youth club not to stab someone else?
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  19219. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid No, I’m not claiming we don’t have to try ; what I am claiming is that you are a Pollyanna not living in the real world.
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  19220. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid Stop it with the “reaching” kids rubbish. It’s not that difficult. I repeat: I’m aware of dozens ne’er do wells in my childhood but they never stabbed anyone. This is alarming; you’re almost suggesting that stabbing another human being is a justifiable response to whatever … Jesus Christ: if you are doing that, then there genuinely is no hope for anyone!
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  19221.  @MRLX54  You “hear what I’m saying”; so, where’s the issue? 🤔
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  19222. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid Sorry. That was just boring. 🥱
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  19223. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid Word salad. I’m a tricky customer; been involved with the law. Had a bad upbringing; yet even I wouldn’t stick a blade into another human. If you are defending this (leaving aside psychopathy), then that’s your prerogative. My essential point here is this: even the most ‘delinquent’ kids I knew wouldn’t have dreamt have sticking a knife into another human being. If you’re defending this, fine. I’m not. It doesn’t work. It’s too easy.
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  19224. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid Have you read yourself recently? 👍😉
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  19225. @@DreamingIntoTheVoid Lol. And you accuse me of “virtue signalling”?! 🤣😂😅
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  19226.  @stephenwalker2924  🐟
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  19227. After Salmond and Sturgeon? Cod, it’s tough to say. I’m floundering. Not even sure Richard Herring qualifies. Most politicians are a bunch of looney tunas anyway. Whoever it is, the sole aim of the sharks on the opposite benches will be to trout the SNP at the next election; no halibuts about it!
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  19228.  @Bungle-UK  Stop yer obfuscation, Bungle. They’re a leftist party so you wanted to put the boot in. Zippy agrees with me.👍
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  19229. That’s a terrible way to talk about Lorraine Chase ffs.
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  19230. Really? He’s got awfully dead eyes.
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  19231.  @chestikov2011  Lol@chestikov2011 doing his due diligence.😆👍
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  19232.  @irynadobenka5454  Incidentally, in the TED talk he specifically talks of Russians and Ukrainians as ‘siblings’. He used that word.
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  19233.  @rutgerb  My mistake, Rutger. ‘Eastern Europe moved away’. But to Putin, he sees NATO COMING AT HIM.
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  19234.  @rutgerb  How narrow. The Bible is a great repository of literature. I use it the same way I use Greek/Roman mythology. You should think about this a little.
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  19235.  @rutgerb  I’m agnostic.
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  19236.  @chestikov2011  Ok. So it is that shapeshifter stuff then? Icke territory?
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  19237.  @chestikov2011  Just give me the conspiracy stuff neat. I have a strong constitution.
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  19238.  @chestikov2011  Guesses on NATO’s ‘hidden agenda’? World domination? That sort of thing?
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  19239.  @chestikov2011  K. Ty.👍
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  19240.  @chestikov2011  Can I ask you why you think NATO wants done with Russia?
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  19241.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  Hmm … top 1% in most countries sociopathic, you say. 🤨 Hmm …
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  19242.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  He’s a bit of a villain, alright. Not sure about the ‘world conquering’ bit, however.
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  19243.  @chestikov2011  Hmm … 🤔 I just find this all a bit confusing, as if NATO wanted Russia obliterated then they have good reason to go in now, no, even although Ukraine is non-NATO? Are you saying Russia will eventually take Ukraine, move on to Estonia or Latvia and that’s when WW3 really kicks off?
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  19244.  @franciscollingwood7372  Just not so sure you’d tolerate (possibly nuclear) missiles about 4 minutes from Washington DC, that’s all. After all, you are America and you’re not the most tolerant of countries geopolitically, looking at your past behaviour, if your self-interests aren’t directly fulfilled. Hmm … 🤔
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  19245.  @franciscollingwood7372  Hmm … 🤔
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  19246.  @chestikov2011  Lol. Indeed.
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  19247.  @franciscollingwood7372  Yeah, but would you, America, really tolerate a tripartite pact of Canada, Mexico and Russia, given America’s astonishingly violent history, both internally and externally?
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  19248.  @AcesGaruda  Thanks for your kind thoughts. 😊
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  19249.  @chestikov2011  The bottom line though is quite simple: how do you defend Putin, if you do defend Putin? Or perhaps you even think he’s justified in his actions? I’m neutral here. Agnostic, apolitical, anational. Just trying to understand this from the sidelines.
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  19250.  @jeckjeck3119  Hmmm … 🤔
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  19251.  @MarchonWestminster  Didn’t you see? She’s a UKIP supporter. Your liberal pet theory is suddenly in tatters.
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  19252.  @o0xTHEcoPlayerx0o  I’m not American. I didn’t delete anything. Russia is a tenth rate military built on a tenth rate economy. That’s just a fact.
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  19253. @Robin Vyas Andorra, I would suggest does count, as last time I checked they invaded nobody.
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  19254.  @live_monkey2485  I agree, to a large extent.
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  19255. @Robin Vyas Andorra doesn’t.
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  19256.  @brightonduder  Indeed. And that’s why I’m conflicted.👍
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  19257.  @WOTArtyNoobs  That’s fine. We can agree to disagree. I happen to think the rather rapid global warming of the past 200 years is (at least in part) manmade.👍
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  19258. Ok. We got it. Say no more. It’s political with you. That makes sense. Moreover, having read a few more of your posts with your erratic orthography, not sure that I can place that much faith in you. 👍
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  19259.  @4Kandlez  From just about everywhere you care to mention.
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  19260.  @WOTArtyNoobs  Just for the record: anyone can Google stuff and copy and paste it and sound ‘right’ to support an agenda. Thing with you is, mate, having read your other unGoogled stuff, it’s obvious you’re coming to this with a clear political agenda, and that’s just anathema for me. It makes me distrust you as much as I distrust the Greta Gang. I can’t abide either extreme of this debate, and you appear at one extreme.👍
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  19261. Putin is patently a paranoid, sociopathic control-freak to whom no one seems to have said ‘no’ in 22 years, and suddenly about 35 million Ukrainians are saying ‘no’ to him and his hitherto unchallenged fantasies have just met hard, cold reality.
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  19262.  @VHS-CINEMA  ‘Then there is no helping you.’ Wow! The self-righteous arrogance of that statement. Translation: ‘I can’t cope with a different, well-argued opinion.’ Bye.
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  19263.  @VHS-CINEMA  I think we’ll have to agree to disagree here. With the greatest respect, you appear, in this particular case, to have an issue with those don’t agree with your particular pov. That’s fine. Just own it. I’ve no more to say on the matter; it’s all been said above. 👍
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  19264.  @VHS-CINEMA  ‘Genocide’: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. By that dictionary definition, I don’t call it a genocide.
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  19265.  @VHS-CINEMA  What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and. You seem at the very ‘either/or’ end of the spectrum and I’m more ‘both/and’.
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  19266.  @VHS-CINEMA  ‘Murder’ implies Israel intended to kill all those people. That’s just an opinion.
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  19267. Would that make you extra specially moist, Belendtens? 🤭
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  19268.  zxcts  We’re not going to agree here, m8. You were/are determined to pick a fight for some reason. I think we should leave it there, pal.👍
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  19269.  zxcts  Perry will have had far more time off than on. He’s not clocking in every day, son. And why would he? He doesn’t have to? I wouldn’t too, if I were a multi-millionaire with a mansion in California and access to various substances to feed my addictions in a nice hot tub. Move into the real world, m8.👍
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  19270.  zxcts  You keep missing my point. He didn’t have to work. He was able to lie in his hot tub all day off his napper on various substances. And, alas, that’s how it seems it has ended for him.
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  19271.  zxcts  Er, wot? Wtf are you on about, son? My basic point is rather simple: when you’re loaded and don’t have to work and are addicted to various substances, this is a recipe for disaster. You need better coping strategies, sweetie.
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  19272.  zxcts  Nothing ‘irrelevant’ about it, son. If you’re loaded, don’t need to work and are addicted to various substances then this is bound to cause issues. Nice try, though.👍
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  19273.  @fordcapri6288  Disagree. Not Newman’s greatest fan but she nailed Oakeshott here with the “sloppy seconds” jibe!And the last 2 minutes before Oakeshott scarpered was good too! Those with nothing to answer to don’t run. Oakeshott is an unreliable witness and not to be trusted.
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  19274. Lol. You say that like Oakeshott doesn’t have an “agenda”. We all have an agenda; it’s built into being human! 🤣
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  19275. And you are without doubt the greatest drama queen in this land of Great Britain and Northern Ireland! 🤣
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  19276. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson, which captures perfectly the predicament of those toeing a party line, come what may: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  19277.  @sebastianlucas704  ‘Ya’, indeed. Away and fry your brain with those games, kid. Leave the grown-ups amongst themselves.😉
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  19278.  @sebastianlucas704  I suggested that it might be good for the planet if there were fewer humans. He suggests the opposite. We are at odds on this matter. Your point?🥸
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  19279. Really? That’s rare for a Jordy gobble-boy.😳
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  19280. It’s a man thing. Repressed men. Repressed men with weak father figures. Repressed, unacknowledged gay men, essentially. This explains it. And trust me: hell hath no fury like a scorned unacknowledged gay man. 😳
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  19281.  @T1227trx  According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2009a, 2009b) the world produces more than 1 1/2 times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That's already enough to feed 10 billion people, the world's 2050 projected population peak. Now I’m not sure how you intellectually operate, mate, but if I have 2 apples, you are hungry and have none, and I refuse (for whatever reason) to give you one of my apples, then, yes, I’m indirectly causing your hunger, by not acting to assuage your hunger when it’s in my gift to do so - causation by omission, if you will. If you’re going to quibble with me about the semantics of direct/indirect causation in what is an existential crisis for you, then I suggest you’re not engaging with the urgency of the situation. So, I repeat: as we speak, we produce way more food than we need. 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry. We have the capability to distribute that food. It seems to me the only thing lacking is the will, not the food. Given all that, I’d kindly suggest that my original point is correct: the hunger in today’s world is man made, and with enough will and effort, could be solved.🥸
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  19282.  @T1227trx  Just for the record, about a billion people go to bed hungry every night. 1 in 8 of us. If you call that ‘historically unprecedented comfort’ then I kindly suggest you are deluded. I don’t deny that for as long as humans have been around, there has been hunger. My main gripe is quite simple: today we produce X3 more food than we need to feed the world. For various distribution problems, this isn’t done. Why you consider it a good thing to increase the world’s population when we cannot feed 1 in 8 of us, as it currently stands, is a bit of a mystery. Surely, the logical thing would be to reduce the number of our species; not increase it. 🧐
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  19283.  @T1227trx  Hunger, now, in the year 2022, is man made. You said it yourself above: we produce about x3 the amount of food we need. How can hunger not be man made given that scenario? That is, we have produced the food, we have the technology to distribute it, so how can it not be man made? 🌽 It’s a man made issue of faulty distribution due to humans simply not caring enough about someone out of sight and out of mind.
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  19284.  @T1227trx  Really? So a banana is man made (leaving aside hybridisation)? A pear is man made (leaving aside hybridisation)? A fish is man made? Really? What school were you taught at, bud, as I feel they may have been remiss with the basics there? Jesus. As to hunger not being man made, well it is. There’s more than enough food on this planet to feed the human population three times over. Distribution is the problem, chum. Not production. 🍏
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  19285.  @T1227trx  Yeah, but you just came off as an entitled oaf. Have you not thought that in the 4.5 billion years of this planet’s existence that we may be (are) the greatest menace it’s ever had the misfortune to harbour? It will shake us off like a bad case of fleas if it feels the need. In the meantime, stop being so arrogant when as we speak hundreds of your species are dying because of man made hunger. I repeat: think on.🥸
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  19286.  @T1227trx  Lol@ ‘historically unprecedented comfort’ - there speaks the smugness of the 3 meals a day individual. Wake up, man. You cannot rest ‘comfortable’ on this planet if a single one of your species is going hungry due to man made issues. Think on.🧐
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  19287. @ But you tell us you haven’t lived here for 2 decades. How do you know what’s going on here if you’re not actually here? 🤔
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  19288. Do you ever think Putin’s children ever have a quiet word in his ear: ‘C’mon dad. Really ?’😳
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  19289. Something tells me that with Trump’s indickment this isn’t just a Stormy in a D cup. ☕️
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  19290.  @heathcornbeef  🤣
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  19291.  @heathcornbeef  🤣 🐑👍
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  19292.  @chewkki2159  Huh? That makes no sense. He hates homosexuality. All I’m saying is that if 2 consenting homosexuals want to have sex, it’s none of his damn business! 😉
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  19293. Well, he’s clearly correct, of course. This must sting for the right-wingers when one of their own goes against the grain. Never got the “hate what another human does when it comes to their sexual preferences” memo. Makes utterly no sense. I tend to dislike people for their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their dress-sense, and not something over which they have utterly no say or control. It’s like dissing people with different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random has a different skin colour or sexuality to me. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer.
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  19294. Nah, Linda. He’s just spittin’ facts.
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  19295.  @kevinkelly2162  No.
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  19296. Don’t particularly have a problem with this. Free speech trumps anyone’s right to blunder in and ban stuff. In this case, you may disagree with it, but I disagree with 10,000 things but I’m not going to ban them.
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  19297.  @Kay7kay4  Oh ffs! It was a joke. A nickname for women is ‘birds’! Jesus. Lighten up ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  19298.  @davidward6908  Women are birds!
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  19299. Well, to be fair, they are birds!
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  19300. Not biased in any way are you, Sean? 🤓
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  19301. No. As an agnostic, I see Islam as a potentially big problem. Don’t dictate to me about anything on the basis of your imaginary invisible sky daddy. 👍
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  19302. No, I think he’s pretty much to the right on most stuff.
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  19303.  @STEJTHEGREATEST  Ok. I Googled it. And? I still don’t get your point, petal… 🤔
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  19304. What does that mean? 🤔
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  19305.  @thevocalcrone  As I said, I have utterly no problem with it for one night only. You are free to disagree; that’s fine, too. 😊
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  19306. Jesus, this is so boring now. Identify how you want, but if you’re born with XY (male) chromosomes there should be no way you can compete in events for those born with XX (female) chromosomes. What gives the game away here is that you don’t see a clamour of those born with XX chromosomes wanting to compete in events for those born with XY chromosomes. Why? Because they’d lose. These trans women have no chance in events designed for biological men, so they decide to try their luck in events designed for biological women. This is a bit like me, a grown man, trying his luck against 10 year olds at a school sports day in the 100m dash!
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  19307. Dear God! This Channel is tediously obsessed with Harry/Meghan. The overkill is staggering. I’ve counted 13 stories on them in the past day alone! No one cares. Jesus. They are both utterly boring and irrelevant. Report real , relevant news ffs! 🤦‍♂️
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  19308.  @kevind6956  And had consensual sex with the man when he was in his 20s. Cope.
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  19309.  @honeybee4645  Prove it.
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  19310. Oh ffs! Are we still doing this? This has to be the greatest overkill over nothing in history. Older guy has consensual affair with younger guy and lies about it. With all the nonsense going on in the world, I’m utterly baffled at the extensive, almost hysterical coverage given to this. Millions of people all over the world have affairs every day and lie about them.
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  19311.  @honeybee4645  Proof?
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  19312. You win the Internet for today. 👏
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  19313. Facts.
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  19314.  @Kingcarparpeggio  Facts.
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  19315. Facts.
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  19316. Facts.
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  19317. Facts.
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  19318. Lol. You criticise me and you trot out this tired, overused cliché! I see a pot and a kettle. Who’s the real 🤡? 😉
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  19319. Presumably the personal pronoun of the girl identifying as a cat is “meow”. 😸
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  19320. Cringe.
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  19321.  Leidolfr  1. Your skin colour doesn’t bother me; your ideas only matter. 2. I’m pro (strictly controlled, targeted legal) immigration. 3. I perceive Islam as a threat, and a particular threat to those who happen to consider it primitive, medieval manmade balderdash. If I were a famous figure and publicly castigated Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I slagged off Muhammad it’s very likely I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life, even in a secular liberal democracy like the UK. That’s the difference. 4. The end.
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  19322.  Leidolfr No, they aren’t. I, personally, have no issue with this dude being here. You need to get your facts straight.
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  19323.  @max_rove  But they do. It’s as clear as crystal. There is a Brand cult out there whereby nothing he says/does is wrong and everything MSM says/does is wrong. I don’t trust either extreme opinion. Wake up.
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  19324.  @max_rove  I think you missed my whole point, buddy. The tribalism is the very reason I don’t pick a side and reserve judgement. Thanks for your patronising reply though, son.👍
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  19325.  @caroleyre9144  How do you know he doesn’t abuse children?🤓
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  19326. To be fair, I never trust anyone with a self-created halo. 😇
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  19327.  lawrencenewman9941  You clearly can’t close read can you, sweetie? Read my OP again. If we assume all those arriving are genuine refugees. Better luck next time, Lawro! 👍😉
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  19328.  @Whiskey0880  I disagree because I think getting awaiting approval refugees to work is good. I think the ID thing is good. Calais would be tricky but not impossible. You cope a bit better now, son.😉
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  19329.  @bernardm2312  Disagree. But we can agree to disagree. 👍
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  19330. Lol. “Inherently evil”? Pmsl. Hitler was “inherently evil”. Stalin was “inherently evil”. These people may be misguided, deluded chumps, but they are not “inherently evil”. 😈
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  19331. To be fair, which fella ain’t, m8? 🥸
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  19332. Good lad, Al! 👍British Empire was an abomination that should never have happened. Put your medal where your mouth is, I say. Well done! 🎖
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  19333.  @markscript5746  Nah, m8. You got the wrong fella. Nice try, though.👍
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  19334.  @Zedlecani  According to worldpopulationreview, London ranks as 14th safest city. My experience is that the stuff you are talking about is generally inter-gang (ie knife crime). I have not once while living there, and in about 50-100 visits over my lifetime felt my safety remotely in danger in London.
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  19335.  @Zedlecani  I’ve no issue with London. Yes, it has its problems, but I lived there for 3 years and I consider it a pretty decent example of a fascinating, successful, multi-ethnic city. 👍
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  19336.  @grief1  What’s so funny?
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  19337.  @grief1  I suppose I am to look at. But I have a good admixture of French, Arab and Spanish in me.
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  19338.  @grief1  He was born and raised in Scotland so that makes him, like me, a British citizen.
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  19339.  @grief1  Scotland.
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  19340. I consider myself just as ‘British’ as you mate, and I’m neither Christian nor ‘indigenous’, however you want to define that latter term. If you’re going to go down the indigenous route, you’re going to have to DNA test everyone and rank them. Of course, that would be f*cking bonkers.
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  19341. Citations needed bb.
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  19342. … atha Christie? 🤓
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  19343.  @soviet700  This.
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  19344.  @sjsk  Didn’t consciously quote any Ricky Gervais; perhaps you could point it out to me.
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  19345. Because we have freedom of religious worship in this country. Seethe better.
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  19346.  @barneymagee3285  Yes.
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  19347. Really? I know about 10 Muslims and they are all in full-time employment.
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  19348.  @johnhooton8299  Yeah, but this is a bit different to the stuff you detail as this moolah may have been directly trousered by someone.
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  19349.  @MarkRipley-h3w  🤣👍
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  19350.  @jamonit7169  Lol. Well said!
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  19351. Yeah, but the Bible’s also a load of manmade bollocks, m8, and you omitted to mention that.
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  19352. Citations needed bb.
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  19353. You might be a man. 😉 What is a woman, after all? 😯
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  19354. 🙄Incoming incel alert! Incoming incel alert! 🚨
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  19355.  @sterlingdafydd5834  Er, wot?
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  19356.  @GreatSageSunWukong  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite (and those with genetic anomalies pertaining to sex) might be confused about their sex identity. Try and cope a little better now.👍
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  19357.  @GreatSageSunWukong  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite (and those with genetic anomalies pertaining to sex) might be confused about their sex identity. Try and cope a little better now.👍
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  19358.  @tyhar7493  *its
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  19359.  @tyhar7493  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite (and those with genetic anomalies pertaining to sex) might be confused about their sex identity. Try and cope a little better now.👍
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  19360.  @tyhar7493  *psychosis
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  19361.  @tyhar7493  Just for the record, just because you don’t believe be there is such a thing as ‘gender identity’ doesn’t negate the fact that millions of people do believe there is such a thing as ‘gender identity’.
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  19362.  @tyhar7493  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite (and those with genetic anomalies pertaining to sex) might be confused about their sex identity. Try and cope a little better now.👍
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  19363.  @patduffyforever  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite (and those with ‘genetic issues’ as you put it) might be confused about their sex identity.
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  19364.  @tyhar7493  That may be so. I was just making the point that it’s quite easy to understand how an intersex hermaphrodite might be confused about their sex identity.
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  19365.  @abcxyz2927  I think my 2 hermaphrodite friends know what they are better than you. 😊
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  19366. What about the hermaphrodites?
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  19367.  @SM-so8hh  ‘Vast majority’. You’ve just supported my case and acknowledged there are cases where it’s not ‘clear and unambiguous’. Ty. I was just making the point that in these cases it’s rather easy to understand how someone might be confused about their sex identity. 😉👍
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  19368.  @TechGuru666  Yes there is. I happen to personally know 2. Bad luck. ✌️
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  19369. @educational1651 Not as simple as that. It’s estimated that up to 1.7 percent of the population are born with intersex traits. Intersex people may have any gender identity or sexual orientation. For example, an intersex person (sex characteristics), may identify as a man (gender identity) and as heterosexual (sexual orientation). In other words, sex isn’t binary black and white 100% of the time. In me it is. In you it is. But if you’re born with intersex traits (i.e. hermaphroditism) then it’s quite easy to understand how someone might be confused as to whether they are male or female. Bad luck. 👍
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  19370. What about the hermaphrodites?
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  19371. What about the hermaphrodites?
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  19372. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  19373.  @stevec6427  👍
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  19374.  @Zarken26  Don’t get you. The English, Scots, Irish and Welsh are all mongrels anyway. What kind of ethnic purity are you trying to defend? I was born in Scotland to an English father and French mother. My grandfather was German and I have 7% Spanish blood according to a recent DNA test I did.
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  19375.  @jabbadabbajew6035  Uh huh. Another twat letting us all know they are a twat. Well done.👍🤡
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  19376.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  😉 You can pay me later. My fees are quite reasonable, and if you play your cards right, I’ll even consider a wee discount for you.
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  19377.  @johnmacaroni105  Says the fella with the Italian name! More spaghetti, Johnny son?😉 🍝
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  19378.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  You can dream on, Cassie darlin’. Every word I’ve posted in this thread I stand by. You need better coping strategies.
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  19379.  @robroots2492  No it doesn’t, Robbo. It’s currently being seen and has been seen. By me. So, again, keep trying and before the end of the century you might make a valid point. This is now very boring. G’night.👍
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  19380.  @robroots2492  We can agree to disagree, Roberto. In my opinion and in my experience, immigration into the UK has been a boon to the country more than it’s been a bane.
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  19381.  @purplehaze8557  Huh? Wtf are you on about, son? I’m just calling it as I see it. I’m all for chucking out illegals. However, genuine refugees, and foreigners in general I encounter in this country are invariably more motivated, better educated and contribute more than dozens of natives in my orbit. This really isn’t that difficult so put away your barely-concealed agenda as my experience won’t tally with it, son.
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  19382.  @blackconsequence3587  They don’t what?
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  19383.  @robroots2492  You’d be wrong not to believe me, son.
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  19384.  @robroots2492  Disagree again. I have literally dozens of foreign-born friends/acquaintances and none of them “invest” back in their “country’s (sic) of origin”, whether these people are Spanish, Polish, Indian, Chinese, you name it. Keep trying. You might hit the target with one of your comments before next year.
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  19385.  @dnstone1127  No “upper-middle class” or “aspiring snob” here, son. Nice try again, though.👍 You want another shot, son? 3rd time lucky?
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  19386.  @seriously6649  Who said anything about doing it “illegally”? Not me, right?
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  19387.  @dnstone1127  Is it? Not “upper class” here, son. Nice try, though.👍
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  19388.  @purplehaze8557  Uh huh. And native borns never commit any crimes ever. Nice logic.👍
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  19389. That’s why they are referring to “refugees” in the title, old boy. You need better close-reading skills, old boy as you clearly seem a little short-sighted, old boy.
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  19390. You’re right. I much prefer the lemonies. 🍋👌
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  19391. Not sure why this is even a debate. Churchill was clearly a racist and a white supremacist. I’m grateful he spared us from Nazi rule, but he himself was a fascist of the very first rank.
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  19392.  @jazztheglass6139  Uh huh. Still sounds like you’re projecting, m8. Just sayin’! 👍😉
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  19393. Uh huh. Projecting again? 😳
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  19394. Not sure Dolan is wholly “straight”. Just sayin’! 🤠
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  19395. Thank you. Wish I could say the same about you!
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  19396. You lot are in complete denial. I’m no paid-up member of the environmental brigade, just someone who looks at the evidence. The evidence, the raw data is incontrovertible. Between 1901 and 2018, the average global sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), or 1–2 mm per year. This rate is increasing; sea levels are now rising at a rate of 3.7 mm (0.146 inches) per year. Human-caused climate change is predominantly the cause, as it constantly heats (and thus expands) the ocean and melts land-based ice sheets and glaciers. Between 1993 and 2018, thermal expansion of water contributed 42% to sea level rise; melting of temperate glaciers contributed 21%; Greenland contributed 15%; and Antarctica contributed 8%. Because sea level rise lags changes in Earth temperature, it will continue to accelerate between now and 2050 purely in response to already-occurring warming; whether it continues to accelerate after that depends on human greenhouse gas emissions. If global warming is limited to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), then sea level rise does not accelerate, but it would still amount to 2–3 m (7–10 ft) over the next 2000 years, while 2–6 m (7–20 ft) would occur if the warming peaks at 2 °C (3.6 °F) and 19–22 metres (62–72 ft) if it peaks at 5 °C (9.0 °F). Now, whichever way you cut it, the clear conclusion from all this is that a good part of the global warming we have seen over the past 200 years or so, is indeed largely caused by human activity, principally fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  19397.  @user-zu6qn9ux9n  76.
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  19398.  @playasurf1000  Lol. You’re, with a straight face, putting ‘gravity’ and the ‘Big Bang Theory’ in the same category as ‘invisible sky daddies’?!🤣 Ok, if you’re going to take that route, I always treat with circumspection those who uphold ‘to the letter’ primitive, barbaric texts written by men thousands of years ago. That do?😉
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  19399.  @melodymacken9788  Edinburgh, Scotland right back atcha! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  19400. Tbf, I do remember in Primary 1, aged 5, having a wee thing for Wendy who sat next to me. I wasn’t necessarily thinking of sex, as such, but I was thinking ‘corr!, she’s lovely!’
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  19401.  @dorothyramser7805  Lol.
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  19402. Great work from Maggie, but wtf is she doing with her face?! Her lips are developing their own postcode! 👄
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  19403. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.”
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  19404.  @23715  Pathetic.
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  19405. Triggered much? 🤣
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  19406.  @rjcs2000  What? ‘Proud’ of an accident of birth? How primitive.
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  19407.  @charlynnegibson2893  So why are you debating me then? 🤓 Pot, kettle?
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  19408.  @robertholland7558  You just self-diagnosed. At least you’re self-aware to know you’re a bit of a c*ck. Fair play, son.👍
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  19409.  @twiglet2214  🍫🤣
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  19410.  @robertholland7558  My interpretation and comprehension is “severely lacking” in your opinion . As you were.
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  19411.  @Kwesekara1672  Lol. So do you only listen to people you agree with all the time? 🤣 You need to get out more.😉
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  19412.  @efilrekib4446  What’s harsh? Just because I don’t agree with what you think? Ever heard of something called having an opinion ? Well, you just did.
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  19413.  @robertholland7558  What? So we all have to agree with absolutely everything the bearded miserablist twat says now, do we? I call that fascism, m8. Check it.
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  19414.  @eckyx9019  Huh? That’s irrelevant. He believes in invisible sky daddies. That was my point. 👍
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  19415.  @blondejon5538  I’m on about the invisible sky daddy Neil believes in. Not only does he believe in it: but it just happens to agree with him! 😉👍
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  19416. Just buy another goat then.
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  19417. Dear God, no, GB News! We’ve already had 15 boring reports over 2 days about nothing and here you go again? Schofield shagged a guy. The guy was consenting. There is no story here, unless this guy tells us otherwise. The rest is just sub-National Enquirer gossipy crap that no one cares about. My strong suspicion about this nonsense is that if Schofield’s wife had betrayed Schofield with a young 20 year old plaything, there would be no story. Schofield is gay. “Gayness” is a mighty trigger point for GB News viewers it seems. Get over it. Some people like f*cky, f*cky time with the same sex. If it’s consensual, there clearly is no issue here.
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  19418. Huh? The Arena bomber was born in the UK. 🤔
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  19419.  @QigongGreyDragon  Incidentally, just for the record, I never take life nor political advice from those who make basic spelling and grammatical blunders in quite literally every sentence. Blunders my 7 year old wouldn’t make.👍
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  19420.  @QigongGreyDragon  Scotland. The land of naive gossips with neigh (sic) experience. I never take life nor political advice from a jock. Lol. What a silly, stupid gross over-generalisation. Your advances rejected by a Scot were they? 😉
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  19421.  @QigongGreyDragon  I’m not suggesting criminality on Brand’s part; however, reviewing the tapes, the way he talked about women, both in his stage act (“I love it when I’m getting a BJ and you can see the woman’s neck bulge and mascara run.” Really? It’s not even remotely funny. If it were funny, he might get half a pass.) and just in general in his media presence is rather disturbing. In this respect, he reminds me almost exactly of Andrew Tate.
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  19422.  @rightray7463  Age of consent should be removed entirely. Really? So you’re comfortable with the idea of, say, a 10 year old child having consensual sex with, say, a 20 year old, or 30 year old, or 50 year old? I’m no prude, but I know I wouldn’t be comfortable with this.
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  19423.  @QigongGreyDragon  Porn, generally, is a male thing. I literally haven’t known any women in my life who regularly access it.
    1
  19424. @SezHollywood Oh, I wasn’t necessarily speaking for myself. Just in general terms.👍
    1
  19425. @SezHollywood Yeah, but this is all technicalities, m8. Personally, if you’re desiring 13/14 year olds as an adult, you’re essentially a pedo.
    1
  19426.  @toastedterps  And …?
    1
  19427. I do.
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  19428. Every time I see this lassie, I can’t get out my head the rather disturbing image of her bonking Patrick Christys.
    1
  19429.  @musicians_with_gunts  Lol.
    1
  19430.  @MrDrbld  ‘Says who?’ What do you mean?🤔
    1
  19431.  @MrDrbld  Oh, I get all that. I was just making the general point.
    1
  19432.  @blueroyals71  It’s all about democracy for me. It seems there isn’t currently a majority for an independent Catalonia, but if and when there is, if we have any respect for the will of the majority then it really should be.
    1
  19433.  @TonyToning-ne7uq  Yes. I was making a general point. Why would anyone care about the colour of someone’s skin?
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  19434. Who cares about the colour of someone’s skin?
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  19435. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  19436. Uh huh. You sound so limited and desperate. Incidentally, those generic things you listed at me as being “British culture” in another post are equally found in many other places. Just saying! 🤠
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  19437.  @adamcraig1468  So, you’re a “devout Christian”; so, tell me, if I walk up to you and punch you in the face do you punch me back or “turn the other cheek”? Honest answers only pls … 🤛
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  19438.  @adamcraig1468  Not at all. I’m a consequentialist and so the KKK’s morality wouldn’t square with my own views, morally-speaking.
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  19439.  @adamcraig1468  Yes, I think humans are responsible for morality. Who else could be? 🤔
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  19440.  @adamcraig1468  Actually, Addy, it looks like no one gives us human rights; we have them simply because we exist as humans. But to posit the idea of invisible sky daddies putatively giving us these rights when there is precisely zero credible evidence for said sky-daddy is bizarre indeed.
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  19441. @@BrianBadondebowl Huh?
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  19442.  @YoussefElIdrissi-q5n  Not the point. Neither organised religion nor the State should be getting involved with what 2 privately consenting adults get up to.
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  19443.  AM-mw2wu  What are you are on about? This is quite simple: the State should not be involving itself with what 2 consenting adults get up to.
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  19444.  @BB-qp9ri  Get real, man. Heterosexuality surrounds everyone every waking day, so stop with your crap of having a little homosexuality shoved in your face. No one has ever given me a rational reason why I should hate homosexuality, and you’re just another going off what you personally are offended by. That won’t do. Being offended by something is no reason to ban it. You need to come up with better arguments and get some better coping strategies. 😉🤡
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  19445.  @BB-qp9ri  Lol. The whole media culture (movies; tv; music) centres around heterosexuality. Where are you living? On Mars?🤣
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  19446. As if heterosexuality isn’t “pushed in our faces” constantly.
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  19447.  @Apperancesaredeception  Lol@“using my desire”. 🤣Just for the record, I’m not actually gay! 🤣
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  19448.  @Apperancesaredeception  Perfectly normal to me. I repeat: no one has ever given me a single rational reason why I should hate (or even mildly dislike) homosexuality.
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  19449.  AM-mw2wu  Ty. 🥱
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  19450.  @Unclemart99  Huh? What’s homosexuality got to do with “having sex with children”? 🤣 Stay on topic, Unc.
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  19451.  @zielonysnajper2105  Pertinent wider question, though. Think on …
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  19452.  @boofuu3145  Did you read my reply?
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  19453.  @boofuu3145  I agree that the context was probably wrong here but l reserve the right for any journalist to ask a question anywhere, anytime. Moreover, this question is pertinent and the wider point as to why Morocco criminalises what 2 consenting adults get up to. Utterly bizarre and primitive and weird and inappropriate. No harm being done. No victims. Yet it’s a crime? 🤷‍♂️
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  19454.  @k2no548  Moreover, what’s “unsafe” about gay people and homosexuality? What exactly are you threatened by?
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  19455.  @k2no548  Wtf are you on about? How is having consenting sex in private “expressing their identity openly”? You’re not very good at this, are you?
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  19456. @@SpookyDjinn Sent to prison for fancying someone?! How primitive is that?
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  19457.  lawrencenewman9941  Why aren’t you living there, then?
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  19458.  @k8byp  I’m not a “lefty”. Nice try, though.👍
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  19459.  @jonb4020  Yeah, BBC has its agenda. I agree. But tbf, so does GB News. It has its own right-wing agenda that it punts out every day.
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  19460. Part of this is down to the exact meaning you have in mind for ‘slave’. If it’s simply chattel slavery, by which Britain was greedily enriching itself in the 18th century, it’s easy to see why it might offend some. However, there’s a strong argument that in this case ‘slave’ has the much wider meaning that Britain wouldn’t be subject to an arbitrary ruler, or a ‘haughty tyrant’. Truth is, it’s probably both. Personally, I have no issue with the song having looked closely at the lyrics but can see why others would have a problem. Does that mean it should be banned? In this case, no.
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  19461.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  Huh? I just made that point. 🥴
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  19462.  @sambrooks7862  Again, what? What can paedophiles do in bogs that they can’t do anywhere else? There are children everywhere in public spaces. When you go to a public toilet you use it privately and leave. Moreover, every child using a public loo goes in with a parent anyway. Your argument holds zero validity and is just based on feeling.
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  19463.  @Daisy-tl2lh  Why?
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  19464.  @ant183  You’ve a bee in your bonnet about transgenders. There is precisely zero evidence that the incidence of paedophilia is higher in transgenders than any other sector of the population you care to mention, allowing for the fact the vast majority of people with a sexual attraction to kids are men.
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  19465. Projecting again, Ant? 🐜
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  19466.  @simplesimon5739  What do you mean, “what is my point”? 🤔
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  19467.  @annemcniell6956  👍
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  19468. @0:01 🎶 Let's talk about sex, baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be Let's talk about sex Let's talk about sex Let's talk about sex Let's talk about sex 🎵
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  19469. Daubney never doesn’t look like he’s chewing a particularly disgusting wasp. 🐝
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  19470. No human being has brought ‘world peace’ in the history of human beings. That Trump might do this is a bit of a mystery.
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  19471.  @ianhunter2374  Nah, Ian. You disagree with something and you’re directly calling for sackings just because you disagree with something. I don’t want to live in a society where what you, Ian, dislike, get to ban. That’s clearly fascist.
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  19472.  @ianhunter2374  1. I’m not a “lefty”. 2. How is it “wrong”? It’s clearly right. Ian was for banning those who disagree with him. How is that not fascist?
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  19473.  @REDCOAT-jk9qs  Yes I would. ianhunter has just demonstrated it. He disagrees with something, so calls for mass sackings. I call that fascist.
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  19474. Ok, Ian. Nicely fascist. What you say goes. 👍
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  19475.  @seadee7821  One man’s ‘fascism’ is another’s man’s freedom to wear what he wants without an overbearing state interfering.
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  19476.  @frankgradus9474  Irrelevant to my comment.
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  19477.  @frankgradus9474  Not a fan of either, but I fear wokery a bit less than radical Islam, m8.👍
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  19478.  @NPC--666  I’d rather take Islam over wokery. 👍😉
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  19479.  @NPC--666  I do understand. I understand perfectly, m8. These are the tensions we have to deal with in an open, liberal democracy. No one said life was easy. Just for the record, 6.5% of Britain is Muslim, as we speak. I don’t think you and I have to worry about living under a Caliphate in our lifetimes.👍
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  19480.  @NPC--666  It’s called freedom of religion, m8. You can’t do anything about that unless you want to go live in Iran or Afghanistan or somewhere like that. If you have freedom of worship for one religion, you have to have freedom of worship for all in an open, free society. Simple, really. I say all that as an agnostic who thinks ALL organised religion is manmade, pernicious baloney. 👍
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  19481.  @WinstonSmith22  Huh? What a wally you are. We all came out of Africa 🤡 .👍😊
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  19482.  @michaeljust1193  Who?
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  19483.  @EmpiricalMind  Just for the record, it took until 1964, almost a full 200 years since the establishment of the US, until segregation was dismantled. Some ‘assimilation’.👍
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  19484.  @kirayoungblood  Lol@“us truly work”!?! 😂🤣😅 Tell that to the millions of enslaved blacks!
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  19485. All organised religion is just manmade fairytales. 👍
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  19486. He doesn’t care. You’re deeply unimportant. Get over yourself and cope better.
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  19487. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  19488.  @yggdrasil9039  Also, you talk of the “fall guy”. You are aware of what happened to these babies aren’t you? They didn’t just die because someone wasn’t looking over their cots. They died because someone injected them with milk, air, insulin. So, if Letby didn’t do this, it’s surely in the NHS’ interests to establish who did. It doesn’t make sense to me that they’d use Letby as a scapegoat here.
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  19489.  @yggdrasil9039  You’re not stating anything new. All cases based around purely circumstantial evidence are inevitably going to have doubts surrounding any conviction. What I find rather interesting here is that, thus far, there has been no talk of a Letby appeal. If I were innocent and I knew it, the very first thing I’d be doing after a false conviction is appealing.
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  19490.  @yggdrasil9039  Of course I don’t believe the MSM is always objective or always tells the truth. But if you’re coming at this from a GB News angle, it would be deeply hypocritical to criticise another for not being objective and not being impartial, as GB News is just as tendentious and subjective in its own way as any MSN outlet you care to mention.
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  19491.  @yggdrasil9039  The prosecution case “doesn’t add up” in your opinion. In many others’ opinion, it does add up. That needs to be said.
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  19492.  @yggdrasil9039  Oh ffs! Stop being so pompous and touchy. I was just asking for a suggestion as you clearly think Letby is innocent. Inside job? Outside job? I think Letby did this as, aside from the evidence, there is no clear other suspect who might have done this as far as I can see. See? That wasn’t that difficult?
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  19493.  @yggdrasil9039  Ah, ok. It’s all an MSM-led conspiracy? Gotcha! I wondered how long that particular trope might take to arrive on the scene.👍
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  19494.  @yggdrasil9039  If the evidence “doesn’t add up”, you need to posit who else might have done it. So?
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  19495.  @yggdrasil9039  No it doesn’t. Not all psychopaths murder and not all murderers are psychopaths, so it assumes nothing. Answer my second question: who did it?
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  19496.  @yggdrasil9039  Just out of interest, I’m curious: for the sake of argument, Letby is innocent. So, who did it?
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  19497. Tbf, most criminal convictions are based on circumstantial evidence, much like Letby’s case. For me, the closest thing you’ll get to a ‘smoking gun’ here, aside from concrete, direct evidence, are the handwritten notes. Yes, she could be innocent, but in this case, my feeling is she isn’t.
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  19498. ‘Tall guy out for a walk mistaken for 10ft alien.’ 🤦‍♂️
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  19499. *’em *Lineker’s *. 🤣😅😂
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  19500.  @edcarson3113  I, personally, have no issue with a person ‘wearing a cross’ or ‘praying silently on a street corner’. My agnosticism is generous enough to allow this Edward darling.
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  19501. *definitely
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  19502. Personally, no real problem with this. He’ll come to give a speech and won’t be saying anything that cannot be accessed online anyway. People will scream his words will potentially be “offensive” but that’s not enough to ban him. We have to properly distinguish between offence and harm. You cannot be offended against your will, but you can be harmed against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. Offence is offered; in this case, an indoctrinated believer in an invisible sky daddy talks potentially offensive crap; you must then decide whether to accept the “offensive” crap or not. No one can be offended without their own consent. Letting this guy speak causes precisely zero harm, and those who will be offended, will choose to be offended.
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  19503. Well said. Christianity is for losers. 👍
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  19504. K. We have a random fella who believes in an invisible sky daddy and we have 98% of independent climate scientists telling us manmade global warming is a thing … I think I know who I’ll put my faith in on this one.
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  19505. Gobble, gobble, gobble; licky, licky, licky; sucky, sucky, sucky.
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  19506. It’s a charity called ‘Unsave the Daves’. 👍
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  19507. Cringe.
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  19508. Yeah, but tbf, she’s a bit on the skinny side. It’d be like having a fumble with a bag of bones! 🦴
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  19509. Ey oop! The ghost of Vivienne Westwood has just entered the building. 👻
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  19510.  @Ruby16663  ✈️ 👸😉
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  19511.  @Ruby16663  Both, actually! 😉
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  19512. Of all the things: war, famine, injustice, pestilence, natural disasters … you had to pick getting some no mark, two-bit air stewardess’ daughter’s name wrong. You, Moira, are the definition par excellence of first world problems.
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  19513.  @Lemontea-y71  Ask my mum! It’s true. Now, don’t forget the timely substantial deposit in my bank account for comedy services rendered. 💰
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  19514.  @Lemontea-y71  That’s true. 1st class honours + 4 languages fluently. You can’t touch this! 😉🕶
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  19515.  @Lemontea-y71  Yeah, and I want payment for amusing you. A large deposit in my Swiss bank account should suffice. I don’t get out of bed for less than £10,000 p/day so use this as a yardstick, love. 👍
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  19516. @phoebecaulfield4062 Lol. I have a 1st class honours degree and speak 4 languages fluently. Nice try though, love. 👍
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  19517.  @RSRP-y23  “Not a lot” what?
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  19518.  @Grace-tc1lq  Can you? Not sure how you can deduce what I do by my comments. Is this a special skill you have, Gracey? 🤔
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  19519. @phoebecaulfield4062 Huh? You have no idea what I do. 🤷‍♂️
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  19520.  @QueeniePadwick  Uh huh.
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  19521.  @QueeniePadwick  I don’t believe in the concept of ‘sin’, you know.
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  19522.  @HypocrisyLaidBare  She’s an unelected no mark, m8. Get a grip.
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  19523.  @RogerC596  I’m going with Shaky, Rog.👍
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  19524. Yeah, cos that’s like inflicting physical violence on your child. 🥴
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  19525.  @spikey_labrys  What assumptions, sweetheart? Not sure wtf you’re on about, son, tbh.
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  19526.  @bettyswunghole3310  No. I repeat for the third time for intellectually challenged: if it’s not ok to hit an adult, why is it ok to hit a child? You need to answer this before we make any progress here, sweetheart.
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  19527.  @jesusistheonlygodamen3406  This is actually rather simple, sunshine: You are locked up for hitting an adult, so how come it’s ok to hit kids?🥸
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  19528.  @roselee4445  With a little research, you can read all about it.😉👍
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  19529.  @rosecottagedare1389  See Byline Times. 😉
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  19530.  @GavinGas  K, Gav. 🤦‍♂️
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  19531.  @yvonnetreffers9978  I don’t.
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  19532.  @dongross6624  “They’ve abused children, the elderly, animals …” Lol. I’m no Royalist but even I know this ain’t true. Wtf.
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  19533.  @1949Matilda  No.
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  19534.  @asimoes1974  I don’t watch it.
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  19535.  @bibityl4137  No thanks.
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  19536.  @patherrick7630  I have.
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  19537.  @corky_cork  I don’t.
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  19538. As a Scot, I couldn’t give a flying f*ck about any of it. Bizarre obsession with non-entities GB News seems to have.
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  19539.  @tomrichards4956  Indeed! 👍
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  19540.  @tomrichards4956  I’m not denying his record on paper is decent; what I am saying (and the vast majority of onlookers - biased and unbiased - are saying), is that given this squad, England should be winning something. Southgate isn’t a winner. That’s the issue. He might turn into one, but hitherto, he isn’t.
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  19541.  @tomrichards4956  In the final itself, they were clearly there for the taking for anyone with eyes to see.
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  19542.  @maskless1087  The harder I practice, the luckier I get. (Diego Armando Maradona) ✋
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  19543. Before 1620 North America was 0% white.
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  19544. They say you shouldn’t confuse the messenger with the message, but I beg to differ, and with this charmless wonder I know for a fact that everything he ever says will bring me out in hives. He’s one of these people (as we speak, Christmas Day, he’s doing it to the invited guests on his GB News show) who does that bitey-lip thing, that stifle-yawn manoeuvre, that arrogant @rses do when they think they’re right about everything. Christys epitomises this.
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  19545.  @MalibuBarbie-kk5gc  Huh? Where did I mention Meghan? 🤔
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  19546.  @MalibuBarbie-kk5gc  No. Because it wasn’t her.
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  19547. Having 2 proper men debate this important topic is fabulous. Too often it’s women who get involved here. Ty GBNews for showing your diversity in this matter. 👍
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  19548. Er, y r u upvoting urself, sweetheart? 🤔
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  19549. I agree with a lot of what he says, but he’s over-egging the danger of some kind of state-control of the docile masses. No one has forced, or will force him or his children to have a vaccine. Anyway, control of mass-behaviour has been with us for decades through media, advertising, marketing and education. He himself has been bewitched into believing in an unverifiable sky-god. They are not going to force people to have any vaccine, at least in this country. So, there his argument collapses without it taking off. My main point about Neil, though, is this: he talks about ‘madness’ almost willy-nilly but he needs to take a good look at himself, for is there anything more ‘mad’ than putting your blind faith in an invisible sky-god? He doesn’t seem to realise that some people can’t take too much of this vaguely paranoid, hypocritical talk of ‘madness’ until he puts his own ‘mad’ house in order and looks critically at his irrational belief in an unverifiable sky-god first.
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  19550.  @mickg7299  Lol.
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  19551.  @photography-guy5076  Lol.
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  19552.  @photography-guy5076  Yes. I like to do my research. Cope and seethe my friend. 😉
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  19553.  @jennifermarlow.  Are they all this grim in NS, Jen? Or have you Canadians lightened up a bit since you fled Caledonian for Canadian shores? 🤣
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  19554.  @slavbrav69  Lol. Well, that comment made no sense. 🥴 Oliver’s the one who looks like not only has he never been to a party, he looks like he hasn’t had a single moment of laughter and joy in his 50-odd years!
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  19555.  @davidjordan6159  👍
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  19556.  @davidjordan6159  I’m more than happy to stand by every word, Dave. Signed: Hugh Janus. 😉
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  19557.  @davidjordan6159  “Degenerate”?! Pmsl. My you are a triggered wee tart , aincha, Dave? 🤣 What scares you so? You a secret a secret cross-dresser on the weekends, Davey? Huh? Is that it? Your dark, evil secret is safe with me, m8! 😂
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  19558.  @davidjordan6159  You are conflating ‘gender’ (socially-constructed) and ‘sex’ (biologically-constructed). The former is malleable and the latter is unalterable. Do try to keep up at the back.
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  19559.  @davidjordan6159  Well, there is and there is. Do cope harder.
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  19560.  @silversurfer5026  *never mind
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  19561.  @turntheblueiris4626  It shows.
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  19562.  @silversurfer5026  *population
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  19563. @1:35 Fox is misrepresenting Abbott here. She never said the only people who can never be racist are black people. She just said that, on average, black people probably receive more than their fair share of day to day discrimination vis-a-vis other groups. Just by virtue of skin colour, she probably has a point. However, where I part company with her, is her tone-deafness to something as egregious as the Holocaust.
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  19564. Gotta be the right type of racism for GB News viewers. If it’s racism from a black lefty liberal person they’ll be on it in a flash, m8.
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  19565. Uh huh. This white British born nurse is definitely the fault of migration.👍
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  19566. As a non-Christian, I have zero problem with same-sex relationships, it’s not unnatural, and it doesn’t disgust me in the slightest. Moreover, Jesus actually said f*ck-all about “same-sex relationships”.😉
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  19567.  @zivkovicable  🤣
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  19568. “73 genders”?! This is outrageous! How dare this drama queen invade our schools and tell all those impressionable minds that there are 73 genders when most people know there are at least 74 ffs!
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  19569.  @lauratran7638  Sorry, but I just can’t get heated about men in frocks. There are far more worthy things to get heated about. I have no issue with a fella in a frock reading a story to my kids. If said fella is swinging around on ropes in stripper heels, or telling kids there are 72 genders, I would have an issue. But this is just simply people using a few rogue drags to hate on the millions and millions of gay people on this planet, and I, for one, want no part of it.
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  19570.  @minitea4315  I thank you. Do I get a gold star? ⭐️
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  19571.  @helencheung2537  Lol@‘hate the sin, not the sinner’🤣Yeah, right.😉👍
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  19572.  @JavaAndroid  In your opinion. All the drags I know are not drags for ‘sexual perversion’ reasons. You clearly know f*ck-all about the topic and spray your prejudiced tosh at something you don’t understand. Too easy. I don’t like it, ergo it’s a ‘sexual perversion’. 🤣
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  19573.  @scottjondansteve9343  “I know this - If anyone with the views you’ve displayed here goes near my children it’ll be time for me to dust off the ol’brass (sic) knuckles and take them out, with extreme prejudice”. If that’s not a threat, son, what is it? I’ll repeat, you come at me again with that kind of language and I’ll take it further, son. Ruminate on this before you even think about addressing anything else to me with those chunky, fat little fingers of yours. There’s a good lad. 👍
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  19574.  @scottjondansteve9343  You did threaten me, son. I warn you not to do it again.
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  19575.  @scottjondansteve9343  Just for record, son: if you threaten me with violence again, you’ll know about it. Think on.
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  19576.  @scottjondansteve9343  Pmsl. You win today’s Internet prize for “Best Virtue Signaller”. Get over yourself you triggered oaf! 🤣
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  19577.  @joankirby1944  Huh? Oh. K. I do have several pussies if that’s what you mean. 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🐱
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  19578.  @marieuzes  11/12 seems like about the right age for sex ed. in my book. I recall getting it at that age.
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  19579. @captain awesome 2023 What about panto dames then? Loads of children go to watch them. Men in frocks. You gonna ban that great British tradition? 😉
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  19580.  @marieuzes  What’s wrong with that? I went to a Catholic school and wish they’d told me how to put on a condom. Might be why I now have 53 children! 🤣
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  19581.  @piar7263  Just for the record, the fact you have one comment here and you used it to say this, you may to have a look in the 🪞 ! 🤣👋
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  19582.  @piar7263  It is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are very probably repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be, and often are expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. 🥸 This ain’t rocket science, darlin’! 🚀 🧪 🥸😉
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  19583.  @chelseapoet3664  It’s men in frocks ffs. Get over yourself you boring tart! 🤣 Stop trying to hide your homophobia. You just don’t like gays and fellas in frocks. That’s fine, but just be honest about it and stop playing the “poor little me” card, just because you’re offended by someone’s sexuality and a dress.
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  19584.  @Andrew-gn4qg  Wow! Triggered much? 🤣 You’ve clearly got a dirty little secret, haven’t you, Andy Pandy? To get this heated over a bloke in a frock is bizarre indeed! Pmsl. Awww, diddums. You offended by the fella in the frock are you? 🤣
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  19585.  @sceptic0844  Er, so why don’t the parents just leave?
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  19586.  @sceptic0844  Anyone that says “check their hard drives” instinctively makes me think they have something to hide. Well?🤓
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  19587.  @sceptic0844  3. Why? How many do you have?
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  19588.  @Berry-fr5wj  Lol. People “dress up” all the time to tell a story: it’s called cinema and theatre! 🤣
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  19589. @JoeM Joe, darling, do you realise how brainwashed you sound? Seek help. Quoting primitive, ancient, manmade scripture at me ain’t gonna cut it in my world. Think on.
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  19590.  @dianecameron137  Diane. Someone, someone who isn’t weirdly invested in the strange witch-hunt against men in frocks. Kudos. Nice to know we still have a few independent thinkers around amongst the absurdly triggered numpties! 👍I suspect a good proportion of these fools have some very dirty secrets they are hiding behind with this nonsense.😉
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  19591. @JoeM No. It’s called being lost to some kind of religious hypnosis. They got you and they got you good! … or bad, depending on how one looks at this. As I said, you have my deep condolences for being lost in such an obvious manmade delusion. There’s still time, though. G’luck with it, son.👍🐸
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  19592.  @ranazaman6121  Ty, Rana. I knew I was.👍
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  19593.  @chrispayne-lloyd6896  Hear, hear! Chris, m8, these people don’t seem to realise that the notion of gender-bendering and men dressing as women and women dressing as men has been going on since humans existed!
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  19594.  @chrisa6845  Lol. Just checked you out, m8. You have naked torsos on your profile you hypocrite! Naked men! How dare you!
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  19595.  @chrisa6845  Projection, Chrissy baby? Huh? Got something you wanna tell us, sweetheart? 🤓
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  19596.  @MrBlueeyesisback  Lol. No clue what you are on, son, but I want some!🤣
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  19597.  @sherbetdab1200  In other words: you have no cogent reply. As you were.
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  19598.  @sherbetdab1200  Just for the record: what’s the difference with a biological female giving ‘condom fitting lessons’?
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  19599.  @sherbetdab1200  Ffs sake. A fella in a dress: get over it! This is sooooo boring.
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  19600.  @garyburchgb  K, Gary. 👍
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  19601.  @MrBlueeyesisback  Angie is one of my childhood fantasies.
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  19602.  @unionjackjackson4352  Be done with wot, son?😾
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  19603.  @TheAsiaism  Ty. I know I am but many thanks for the confirmation. 🙏
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  19604.  @MrBlueeyesisback  She was good in most things. 👍
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  19605.  @garyburchgb  I agree, but the overheated nonsense in this thread seems to not take account of it. Jesus. A bloke in a frock. The end of civilisation as we know it. As I said earlier, this has been going on since time immemorial. Cope better ffs. It doesn’t behove you to be so f*cking weak . I disagree with a lot of things, but I cope better than most of the weird, repressed people in this thread who can’t deal with a dress on a fella!
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  19606.  @MrBlueeyesisback  Big fan of Angie Dickinson’s work. 👍
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  19607.  @unionjackjackson4352  “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” 🤣
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  19608.  @bobojeffery4773  Lol. 🤣
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  19609.  @bobojeffery4773  Yes, but they teach sex-ed in schools. Cope better.
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  19610.  @parade1996  Indeed, Mikey baby. Come hither, petal, and you could directly experience some of my ‘ernest stroking’! 🤣🥸
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  19611.  @unionjackjackson4352  Yeah, but in a school context? This fella just went rogue. The school should’ve been on it. The basic point here is men in drag. Some people cannot tolerate this.
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  19612.  @silicononsapphire5102  I have no intrinsic problem with a fella in a frock, no.
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  19613.  @kateclague6471  Show me a man who isn’t an ‘ernest stroker’ and I’ll show you a liar.
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  19614.  @chelseapoet3664  But in a school-context the drag queen would PG the material. No, I repeat, all this sound and fury is principally those who can’t abide homosexuality and homosexuals and also have issues with a bloke in a frock. However, this doesn’t surprise me given how many GB News adherents are indeed very so obviously homophobic, racist and stupid. A deadly triad.
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  19615. @JoeM Incidentally, the ‘God’ you purport to worship was rather nicely summed up by Richard Dawkins: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” Dawkins nails your deeply unpleasant God. More people on this planet have been “corrupted” by this horrendous creature than all the men in frocks combined! 🤣
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  19616. @JoeM Ah, I might have known! A holy roller; ipso facto anti-homosexuality. Leviticus 18:22 “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.” At least we now know exactly where you stand, Joey baby!Ta da!
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  19617.  @karentonelli1009  So are you against sex education in schools point blank?
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  19618.  @dean6816  Do panto dames (men) get sexually aroused when they are in drag?
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  19619.  @BinkySocks  Not sure what pantos you have been to but I must seen at least 50 in my life, and at all of them there were risqué, double-entendre jokes. If this drag queen was politically-motivated along gender/queer theory lines, and they were promulgating this agenda, then I would have an issue with it. If it was just a fella in a frock talking about sex in an educational sense, well how is that really any different from a teacher taking a sex-education class? After all, sex education tends to be taught by any random teacher up for the task (pun unintended), and not ‘specialists in the field’. I repeat my theory as to why there is so much heat surrounding this: many are using this as a screen for their inherent homophobia and anti-queer ideas. In my experience, it’s very often these very same people who are consciously or unconsciously homosexuals themselves!
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  19620.  @bobbailey7024  Projecting again, Bobby lad? 🤓
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  19621.  @Dang_Lin-Wang  Lol. You should know, “Biggus Dickus”! Apparently, you have no real issues with a ‘hyper-sexualised’ moniker in a public forum where children may be … hypocrisy? 😉
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  19622.  @smeg5935  Lol. I might be! 🤣
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  19623.  @adrianbarker1546  ‘Adrian’ … lovely ghey name there. Are you open about your homosexuality, Adey? 🤣
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  19624.  @AtomicExtremophile  Lol. Have you been to a panto lately? The ones I’ve been to are just as risqué as your average drag queen in a school setting. The point here, is not what the drag queen in the school may or may not have said: it’s just that people can’t abide a fella in a frock in front of their kids.
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  19625. Panto Dames: ok. Drag Queens: not ok. Go figure.
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  19626. Not if you can’t deploy a full-stop it isn’t. *.
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  19627. Lol. Says the whitey whose ancestors landed on a foreign land and violently pushed aside those already there. 🤣
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  19628. Not sure about that. Some bloke called Allan who worked in the prison might know though.😉
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  19629.  @honestjoe7940  🥱 You can’t take yer ain quotes, at this point, ya deluded tart! 👍🤦‍♂️
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  19630.  @honestjoe7940  Uh huh. And what are you then, son? It’s your quote ya divvy. 🤦‍♂️
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  19631. Sadly you’re a reader and not a fighter. If you were a fighter this would already be over. (Ivor Biggar-Johnson)
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  19632. More killer wit from RB.👍 Top notch stuff.
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  19633.  @jaded_ninja 👍😉✌️
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  19634.  @lesleycarney8868 It’s a free society, love. No laws were broken. You need to bear that in mind at all times here. You have no right not to be offended. ✌️
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  19635.  @marithatheron8406 I agree that some of the wilder speculations were crass and in bad taste, but 100% would I not be for not letting these individuals say what they said. We’ve just had a debate on this channel about Islam getting all antsy about a teacher showing a picture of Muhammad, and here you guys are getting all antsy about some folk making a few jokes and speculations about the wife of the heir to the throne. There’s not much difference in tone here between your stance and the Muslims’ stance.
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  19636. How do you know he’s innocent? 🤔
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  19637.  @TomRipley7350  I’m perfectly “awake” m8, so don’t patronise me, son. If you actually read my OP I acknowledged that both things could be true here: a hatchet job on Brand; Brand is a rapist/sexual criminal.
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  19638.  @martynblackburn9632 It has everything to do with immigration! These ppl are sick of mass immigration. Can’t you see this? 🤦‍♂️
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  19639. *its
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  19640. Lol.
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  19641. Ah, Rolfy was keen on the old didgeridoo, but the tragedy was he never knew when to didgeridon’t! A right boomerwrong’un, if ever there was one.
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  19642. This is just folks on the political right moaning about folks on the political left. 🥱 They loosely, lazily bandy around the word totalitarian but last time I checked Afghanistan was totalitarian, North Korea was totalitarian, Eritrea was totalitarian. If they think Canada is really totalitarian in these terms, I bet if you asked these same people whether they would rather live in Canada or North Korea, or Afghanistan, they’d be choosing Canada 100 times out of 100.
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  19643. If Adam Graham wants to be identified as female that is “her” right, in the same way as I identify as “male”. I know loads of people who identify as neither “male” or “female”; you need to respect this and refrain from being so narrow-minded. The world doesn’t have to conform to your schemas. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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  19644.  @marylauder3374 You need to check the Home Office stats. 👍😉
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  19645. Yeah, but tbh, why is it that those who call for ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last type of people I’d want to be indigenous with? 😮
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  19646. To be fair, the more I look at Nana, can we be sure she is a ‘woman’? 🧐
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  19647.  @grahamdixon645  I’m not. Cope.
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  19648.  @azillliasmith2734  That’s fine. Just don’t let your “being offended” impinge on my life, for that is a very dangerous road to travel.
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  19649. @Jackalnuts Lol. Judging by your name, son, it’ll be you “rubbing one off” you projecting oaf!🤣
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  19650.  @vladtheimpaler8995  Lol@“child abuse”. You tragic drama queen! 🤣 You also do a deep disservice to those who are victims of real child abuse.
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  19651.  @joebuck8231  Projection much? 🤣 Got something you wanna tell us all, Joe?🤓
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  19652.  @kierancaldwell3442  Do the kids look unhappy? Are they traumatised by seeing a fella in frock? Pmsl. You owe a deep apology to every rape victim for your moronic, crass analogy.
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  19653.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  And stop upvoting yourself! It’s a tragic look! 🙄
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  19654.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  No it wasn’t. There was no deleted post so stop making crap up.
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  19655.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  Me back off?! It’s you hassling me ffs. You back off!
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  19656.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  I didn’t delete anything. The post is there. You’d do well to read it, darlin’.
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  19657.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  Yeah, and you have trouble dealing with a different opinion. If this was so bad for the “traumatised” children and parents why didn’t they just vote with their feet? Huh? I leave the cinema or theatre if the show is a pile of crap. My stance on this is simple: if it’s not a full-on Friday night 18 show and just a couple of fellas in frocks reading a bunch of stories then I have zero problem with any of this. I have seen one fella swinging from a rope suggestively; I’d be against this and these rogue drags should be weeded out. But I can’t understand why the basic idea of a gay man in a frock triggers so many people so much. 🤔 Oh yeah. Got it! Undisguised homophobia! Ta da!
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  19658.  @cassandrade-wolfe6926  Are they? Don’t see much resistance. My children usually let me know in no uncertain terms when they are unhappy.
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  19659.  @gazzisright7362  Are they? Don’t see much resistance.
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  19660.  @BexstarDuck  You need to be careful; I could have you done for slander/libel.
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  19661.  @jimbo5973  You just made my point. Parents take their kids to panto “willingly”. What’s the difference? Why are people getting their knickers in a twist over this? If it’s not overtly sexual I really don’t see the issue here. If you’re ok with a panto dame, why aren’t you ok with a drag queen? What are you afraid of, Jimbo?
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  19662.  @johnkitching2248  Ty JK. It wasn’t just me, then?! 🤣
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  19663.  @grief1  Lol. And again! Projection much?🤣
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  19664.  @grief1  And again. If I were of a mind, I could take you to court for that libel. You need to be careful, son. Why are you so triggered by men in dresses? That is the question … 🤔
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  19665.  @grief1  Wow! You really are triggered by this. In my experience, this shows you have something to hide. Have you never been to a frickin’ panto ffs?
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  19666.  @grief1  Wow! Your levels of projection are startling. Got something you wanna tell us, grief? 😉
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  19667. What? Proud of an accident of birth? How primitive. You wouldn’t say ‘I’m more proud of Earth than Mars, Neptune or Uranus’, for that would just be silly. So why are we so petty and unthinking and insular to take pride in a completely random arbitrary circumstance of which you had precisely no say? As Einstein put it: ‘Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.’ Amen.
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  19668. Farage won’t run to be an MP again unless he is 100% guaranteed to win. How many times has he done this already? 7? He’s too old to be farting around when he doesn’t need to.
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  19669. Lol. A flower crown and not a tiara? After about 500,000 years of Homo sapiens, here we are, reduced to discussing the headwear of an unelected, undemocratic, deeply underwhelming person like Kate Middleton. Jesus. Sometimes I genuinely feel like they posted me to the wrong planet. To be fair to Kate, though, this could just be her deeply felt tribute to one of the best movies ever made which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year: The Wicker Man. 👽
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  19670. Many are gay, though. Can you cope? 🤔
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  19671. Pretty sure if Johnson wasn’t pretty ill, a whistleblower who was actually there in the hospital at the time would’ve leaked that news by now. Far too many witnesses involved. Some things just aren’t a conspiracy.
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  19672. @1:23 Lol. What planet is Grimes living on? Football fans go in hard on individuals who are perceived to have let their club/nation down. So, they don’t see colour … until they lose.
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  19673.  @dulls8475  No we don’t. That’s just your biased opinion because you were indoctrinated into Christianity. As I said earlier, if you’d been born in Baghdad you’d be banging on about “Islam in our schools, blah, blah, blah”. It’s all manmade politics, son. Most of it nasty and pernicious. Are you not aware of Iran’s current government? Religion. From day 1 of organised religion to today it has caused humanity very little but trouble.
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  19674.  @dulls8475 Again, where did I say I don’t want religion in schools? I want RE. I want my child to learn about religion. When it comes to practice, just do it in your own space and time. I’m really not sure why you’re finding this so difficult, chummo? 🤔
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  19675.  @Narxpiece  Religion is a private matter. Let’s keep it that way. It’s caused enough trouble already.👍
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  19676.  @aclark903 Also, just reading between the lines (as it’s one of my hidden talents), I’m more than sensing a little intolerance on your part towards Islam. Why? They worship the same deity as you, after all. Why are you seemingly a little hostile to Islam? Ditto Judaism. Same God. Jesus was a Jew, after all. Allegedly. It’s all convenient politics, m8. If you’d been born in Baghdad you’d be following Islam. Born into a strictly observant Jewish family, you’d be Jewish and Jesus wouldn’t be your Messiah. It’s all a random accident of birth. You were randomly raised a Christian and because the indoctrination in your case was strong, you appear to have lost the ability to think for yourself. I was born and raised a Catholic, but even at 7 I knew it was all manmade claptrap to keep people in line based on the natural human fear of death. 😊
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  19677.  @aclark903 I work on evidence, m8. On current showing, there is precisely zero evidence for your particular invisible sky daddy. Moreover, the 18th century Enlightenment was one of the greatest things to happen to the Christian West and one of the issues Islam has is that it has never undergone an Enlightenment. Essentially, it still genuinely believes all the pernicious bollocks to be read in the Koran and elsewhere, whereas, you Christians have (thank God!) realised that taking the literal word of a bunch of blokes writing 3,000 years ago wasn’t necessarily the wisest thing.
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  19678.  @diamondsaf5064  “It was transmitted orally to an illiterate man from the Angel Gabriel.” 🤣😂😅🤣😅😅🤣😅😂😅🤣😅😂😂🤣😅😂😅😂😅😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😅🤣😅😂😅😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣👍
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  19679.  @diamondsaf5064  You were just told that and, for whatever reason (probably because thinking for yourself is hard work: after all, why would you need to think for yourself when you have ready-made answers in some book some blokes wrote hundreds of years ago?) you bought it hook, line and sinker. I’ve no idea if there’s a God; what I do know is this: all organised religion was invented by men principally for men.
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  19680.  @diamondsaf5064  Oh, how convenient. The Universe can’t come out of nothing, according to you, but your unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy can. Yes. Very convenient, that. ✌️
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  19681.  @diamondsaf5064  Uh huh. And who created the ‘one all-powerful creator’? 🤔
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  19682.  @Narxpiece  I’m not an atheist. You may need a better researcher as your current one is clearly shit. 👍😉✌️
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  19683.  @MakH-bu8zq Uh huh. And you have the ‘truth’ in this matter, do you, son? You have no clue. In another post you’re castigating Hinduism but I’ll bet my bottom rupee if you’d been born in New Delhi and called Raj, you’d be a Hindu, Mak, and not the follower of a dirty 53 year old who married a 6 year old. 👍😉
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  19684.  @diamondsaf5064  No. I think my veins are the result of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution by natural selection and ultimately a product of a Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. No need for an invisible sky daddy in this particular case! Ta da! 🎉
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  19685.  @Mr_G_in_Alba  The agenda is how Wootton continues to get away with it.👍
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  19686.  @sh.4409  I don’t. But it’s good to reveal certain folks for what they really are. Particularly when they crucify others for similar behaviour.👍
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  19687.  @GarethPrice-wy2es  Uh huh.
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  19688. Huh? Well that’s utter bollocks as the good the bad and the ugly are white, brown, black, yellow, pink etc. Nice try though, son.👍
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  19689.  @noogate2672  What’s that got to do with the fundamental debate regarding ‘harm’ and ‘offence’?
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  19690.  @cashkitty3472  Yes, they can. Where did I say they couldn’t? Did you even read my OP?
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  19691.  @louisefox4852  It’s about taking offence. No harm done. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it, but don’t presume to be offended on my behalf, for that leads us down a very dangerous path. Simples.
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  19692.  @ObiePaddles  Well said! Vote with your wallet and let other people make up their own minds! Tell that to the numpties here, man. 👍 👏
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  19693.  @clue8487  You have no clue, clue8487. You need to learn to deal with others’ opinions as you’re clearly not very good at this. 👍
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  19694.  @brad1505  “Evil”?!?! Lol. An advert with a trans man is now “evil”?! Wtf.
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  19695.  @clue8487  Does it? K.👍
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  19696.  @sharonstephens5447  Ok, Sharon, you decide. I agree. But so do I. Think on.😉
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  19697.  @clue8487  Not sure what that even means.
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  19698.  @hermanthetosser4219  *guess
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  19699.  @sharonstephens5447  You conveniently never answered my question: Who decides what’s “obscene”, Sharon? You?
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  19700.  @clue8487  It’s about taking offence, and thereby taking offence, banning stuff. I have no intrinsic issue with this Costa advert.
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  19701.  @jayp-zy8xl  But you’re just so boring, chump. “I am right, and nothing you will say will make me wrong.” That’s you. You have no argument. I stated my case in the OP, and you haven’t touched it, son, so pack yerself away. 😉
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  19702.  @jayp-zy8xl  I repeat: Did you actually read my OP or are you just triggered and venting?
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  19703.  @Stevexnycautomotive  🧐
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  19704. Frankly, why should he have to? It was an accident of birth he was born into the Royal Family and if he doesn’t want to serve he shouldn’t have to. Just another reason to get rid of this anachronistic, parasitic institution.
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  19705. @@SpookyDjinn No it’s not. It’s the spelling of a sub-literate thicko, much like yourself, Spooky. I’ve read a few of your posts, and you make egregious orthographic blunders in almost every single one. Facts.
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  19706. *doesn’t
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  19707. The native peoples of North/South America, Australia and New Zealand say much the same thing.
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  19708. @@SpookyDjinn Lol. You bully people all the time, Spooky, with yer narrow intolerant bigotry. 😊😉👍
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  19709.  @nigelground283  Lol.
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  19710.  @stequality  K. 👍
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  19711.  @stequality  Oh man. I’m bored. Macron was democratically-elected. I rarely trust individuals who have very basic orthography skills. No offence.
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  19712.  @chewie8  What? That’s irrelevant here. I repeat once again: he was democratically-elected. Cope.
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  19713.  @stequality  In your opinion.
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  19714.  @chewie8  I repeat: democratically-elected, though. Cope.
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  19715. Democratically-elected, though. Cope.
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  19716.  @Whiskey0880  Seethe more.
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  19717.  @kevinmcdonagh5358  Lol. Says the fella who can’t distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’; something my 8 year old can do. Now trot on you triggered chump.🤣
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  19718.  @kevinmcdonagh5358  *you’re Does your mummy know you can’t spell basic words?
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  19719.  @FaxanaduJohn  Who said I was an ‘anti-theist’? I fear you have the wrong person.
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  19720.  @danielashworth3244  Lol.
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  19721. Hitler was white.
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  19722.  @THE_FORBIDDEN_PHILOSOPHER  Cringe.
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  19723.  @THE_FORBIDDEN_PHILOSOPHER  You seem a tad triggered. Touched a wee raw nerve there, son? 😉
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  19724.  @THE_FORBIDDEN_PHILOSOPHER  Yeah, yeah. You just listen to those who confirm your own biases. As Blake said: “The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” That’s you, son.
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  19725.  @THE_FORBIDDEN_PHILOSOPHER  Huh? 🤔 So are you telling me you only listen to those who confirm your own biases? Jeez. You must be very limited in that case.
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  19726.  @rb1062  Btw, it’s ‘Roger Ings’ to you. Think on.
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  19727.  @rb1062  No. But you’ve disturbed my twin-set & pearls, love. Don’t do it again.
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  19728. Love the biting wit there. Are you proud of yourself with that?
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  19729.  @Gameofgnomes  Huh? I just picked the name cos it suits Rees-Mogg. I swear you triggered numpties are overthinking this sh*t.
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  19730.  @johnhankinson1929  Lol.
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  19731. Priest looks like the lovechild of David Blaine and Theo Walcott.
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  19732. Uh huh. Basically the “she was asking for it” argument. No acknowledgement of the behaviour of others. It’s all the woman’s fault. Incel alert. 🚨
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  19733.  @colinstewart1432  Just about every woman you care to mention hasn’t.
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  19734. Lol.
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  19735. Brain testing, too.
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  19736. Yeah, well you’ve clearly gone blind through too much self-pleasuring.
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  19737. @Tab Ford I do the same with every name I interact with on here. I imagine every detail of how they might look for some reason. 👀
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  19738. @Tab Ford Lol. Assumed you were a fella, for some reason. 🥴 I had an image in my head of some burly bloke from Newcastle with tatts and a beer belly! Awreet, Tab man! 🤣
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  19739. @Tab Ford And for Harry and Meghan: 6. I meant to put that in the previous post, but there is no denying GB News is utterly, tediously obsessed with both stories. I don’t know anyone else who is. So why would GB News be so obsessed with Pip? Ah, yes, he’s gay, and that’s a mighty trigger point for a huge swathe of GB News viewers, where they seem to feel it’s a free for all and put the boot in when we’re dealing with a homosexual. As to Meghan and Harry: well, it’s probably because they snubbed a primitive, pointless, bloated, undemocratic, unaccountable institution like the British Royal Family, and we all know GB News viewers are very fond of the Royal Family, now don’t we?
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  19740. @Tab Ford No. Wrong again, Tab, but nice try. I just happened to count how many Schofield reports GB News has done the past 24 hours alone. Answer: 10. I rest my case. Nice try again though, son.👍
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  19741. @Tab Ford Lol. You’re just bitter cos you’ve wasted half your petty existence posting thousands of comments about them, I see. 🤣
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  19742.  @HGCUPCAKES  No. He had “consensual” sex. Get over it.
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  19743. Translation: she disagrees with me.
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  19744. Sorry, but it is one my sacred principles in life never to trust someone with a self-created halo. 😇
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  19745. You stick to your Silk Cuts, sonny, and leave the cod-political analysis to the big boys.
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  19746.  @hollystiener16  And you’re better off minding your own business, darlin’. 👍
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  19747. Looks like Kearse needs to pay another visit to that backstreet Turkish hair clinic. You’re losing it, m8; in more ways than one. 👍
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  19748. *woman
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  19749. Wet?
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  19750. Sharia?! I asked for Sharon Law.
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  19751. *It’s
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  19752. @@user-rk6xc2fz3b Huh? No idea wtf you’re babbling on about, son. You need to be more literate. 👍
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  19753. You’re completely missing the point: the vast majority of biological women don’t want biological men in their private spaces. Until you honestly acknowledge this, we’ll get nowhere.
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  19754. Religion is just politics by any other name. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  19755. It’s beyond me why anyone cares about Markle and Harry. Frankly my dear, I couldn’t give a flying f*ck about either of them. Makes me glad to be a republican! 👑
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  19756. Are these jihadis doing this despicable stuff in the john? 🚽
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  19757. That’s just inverse snobbery, Mark. What if I said about Wayne and Tracey, “their names tell you everything.” Pure snobbery. You’re just doing it the other way.
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  19758. This watching porn in Parliament may explain why Boris’ hair is always a sticky looking mess. There’s something about Boris?
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  19759.  @careytitan9097  Serious question: given you don’t consider Jude Bellingham as fully English, would you ban him from playing for the team, and if not, why not, given that you don’t consider him fully English?
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  19760.  @careytitan9097 Ok, so half the English football team isn’t English. You’re insane. And boring. Go away . 🥱
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  19761.  @careytitan9097 Yes, ​​⁠but why is it that those folk who bang on about ‘indigenousness’ (i.e. you) are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be indigenous with? 🤔
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  19762.  @careytitan9097  🥱
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  19763.  @careytitan9097  Just for the record, you’re wrong again as I’m Gen X and am not woke. Just throwing out random crap without doing your due diligence is fatal, son. You’re really not very good at this, are you? 🤣
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  19764.  @careytitan9097  I see you’ve admitted defeat. When you read this, you realised what a fool you looked: ‘Lol. So Jude Bellingham isn’t allowed to tell you he’s English and plays for England. Or Bukayo Saka. Or Kalvin Phillips. Or Fikayo Tomori. Or Trent Alexander-Arnold. Or Kyle Walker. Or Reece James. Or Callum Wilson. Or Marcus Rashford. Or Ivan Toney. Or Eberechi Eze. Or Ollie Watkins. Or Joe Gomez. Or Tyrone Mings. Or Marc Guéhi. Or Kobbie Mainoo. Gotcha! 👍🥱’ Uh huh. ✌️😉
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  19765.  @anthonyferris8912  Uh huh. And 30% of Singapore’s resident population are foreigners. Seethe and seethe again.
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  19766.  @careytitan9097  Also, why is it that those folk who bang on about ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be indigenous with? 🤔
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  19767.  @careytitan9097  Ok. So we just have 100% indigenous countries. That’s fine. You support that. I, and every single person I know, doesn’t. 🤫✌️
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  19768.  @anthonyferris8912  You conveniently omitted to mention that foreigners account for 30% of Singapore’s resident population.
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  19769.  @anthonyferris8912  There’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side.
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  19770.  @ricochet2977  I’ll repeat what I said above. You may have conveniently missed it: I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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  19771.  @labouraredangerous  Every single survey shows that Brazil is more racially diverse than the UK. 😭 Now go away as you are that deadly combination of thick and boring. 🥱
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  19772.  @labouraredangerous  You mentioned Brazil, not me. I gave you the stats above. But as I’m not sure you can read, this may be a problem for you. 😭
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  19773.  @labouraredangerous  Last time I checked, Brazil’s diversity was racial. 🤦‍♂️
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  19774.  @labouraredangerous  What? Did you go to school? Brazil’s diversity is racial diversity. You’re clearly a lost cause. 🤦‍♂️
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  19775.  @labouraredangerous  No they don’t. Brazil is packed with different races. I quoted it to you. Even when the evidence is in front of you, you remain a poor deluded fool. 😭
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  19776.  @labouraredangerous  ‘In Singapore, although Malays are recognised as the indigenous community, 75.9% of the citizens and permanent resident visa holders are ethnic Chinese, with ethnic Malay and Indians comprising 15.0% and 7.5% respectively.’ Bad luck. 😭
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  19777.  @labouraredangerous  ‘According to the 2022 census, Brazil had 88,252,121 White people, 92,083,286 Mixed people, 20,656,458 Black people, 850,132 Asian people, and 1 227 640 Indigenous people.’ Bad luck. 😭
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  19778.  @labouraredangerous  Last time I checked, Brazil was one of the most racially diverse places on the planet. Singapore is also pretty racially divergent. You need a better researcher.👍😉
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  19779.  @labouraredangerous  Name me a country that isn’t multicultural?
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  19780.  @labouraredangerous  Most of them. Do some research like I did. 👍
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  19781.  @funkyfranx  He’s fundamentally dishonest though, as he’s clearly a woofter.
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  19782.  @saffronsolo9668  What’s “ridiculous”?
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  19783.  @michaelvoisey8458  Why not?
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  19784.  @paulcarter4945  Thanks for that Paul Ctarer. 👍
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  19785.  @stevedawg9588  And? There’s some kind of “trouble” in most 2 million+ gatherings. Your point is …?
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  19786.  @geeman4041  I have been, as it happens. I lived in London for a decade and went several times and never had a single bad experience. Nice try, though.👍
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  19787.  @heywhotsgoinon8286  It’s all about race, m8. If everyone who went to Glastonbury were black, Nigel might very well be calling for its cancellation.
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  19788. “Our country”? Lol. Based on what? Last time I checked there were millions of non-whites who were born here and it’s their country just as much as it is yours. 👍😉👌
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  19789.  @zufgh  Yes it was.
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  19790.  @garethm7528  I owned you Gareth, darling. Cope more. You have not a leg to stand on here.🤣
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  19791.  @garethm7528  Yes, Gareth. So you’ll be asking random work colleagues their dick size and bra size next will you? To me, doing that would be on a par as being as inappropriate as asking a work acquaintance when they popped their cherry. If you’re mates, not just work colleagues, then that’s different, but if I were a woman, and you, Gareth, just some random who happens to work in the same space as me, asked me when I lost my virginity, I would class that as borderline harassment, and at the very least, deeply inappropriate. After all, what f*cking business is it of yours, or anyone else?
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  19792. Totally depends on the level of intimacy you have established with a given colleague, I suppose. In our hyper-sexualised culture it’s remarkable how folks under the age of about 30 wouldn’t generally see anything wrong with this, while those of us a little older, would just yawn and think, ‘how inappropriate’. Unless you’re my mate, I wouldn’t dream of asking some random work colleague when they lost their virginity.
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  19793.  @sunshine-qk8qe  Indeed. I think you have just hit the nail on the head! If this were done in Islamic-only UK schools, somehow I think the mock outrage would be just a wee bitty less. 👌😉
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  19794. *intolerant
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  19795. “White culture; beliefs”?! Lol. I’m white but I have no fkn clue what you mean by “white beliefs”. 🥴
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  19796. Tbf, I’m not his greatest fan but I wouldn’t call him ‘fat’. A bit porky, perhaps, but not fat.
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  19797. Cry me a river. 😭🤣
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  19798. You’ve clearly never been a teacher in a modern British comprehensive. Take your blinkers off, m8, in yer ivory tower.
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  19799.  @mr-biz  You suggested that having students not being on their phones was ‘compliance’. You’re all over the place, m8. Stick to yer ‘international’ schools as you’d be swallowed alive in an inner-city comprehensive.👍
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  19800. And you’re not Jimi Hendrix material. 🤣
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  19801.  @abstract33  Lol.
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  19802. This is just about race, folks. There are other festivals with far fewer people where far more ‘stuff’ goes on. Can we just be honest about what this is? It’s about white people who don’t like blacks. That’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it’s better to stop pussyfooting around here. Racism is alive and well in 2023 Britain. 🇬🇧
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  19803.  @154_madison  That’s fine, m8. You disagree. I respect your views. I just disagree with them.
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  19804.  @markabrahams2191  That’s fine, m8. You disagree. I respect your views. I just disagree with them.
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  19805. Probably the stupidest comment I’ve seen on social media for a while; and that’s saying something! 🤣
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  19806.  @melgrant7404  Source?
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  19807.  @melgrant7404  Are you sure he knew about it?
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  19808. That’s just slander. Do you honestly think if anything of what you claim is true, Hails, they wouldn’t have sacked Schofield immediately? Get real.
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  19809.  @Juliukas101  Uh huh? And? Your point is? You don’t seem to realise that there are human beings who place absolutely zero moral authority in either the Bible or the Koran. You didn’t think of that one, did you? You should have. 😉
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  19810.  @lesleyhogg2495  So why was the fact of his being gay the centrepiece of your OP then? You clearly do care or you wouldn’t have mentioned it, love.
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  19811.  @tabitha4135  Me bothered? Lol. I think you’ll find you initially responded to me in this thread, so back atcha: why are you so bothered?
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  19812.  @tabitha4135  But you’re still completely ignoring my basic point: if Schofield’s family were so devastated and upset why are they still the best of friends all of them today? Actions tell us a lot. I suggest they are still on good, even best of friends terms, because there is no issue here for them, but, bizarrely, there is for you! Ta da!🎉 You need to stop twitching those curtains, Tabs.😉
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  19813.  @kimgrant3879  Proof?
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  19814.  @niccolea2086  All the customers who took advantage of my particularly good bagging skills. 👍
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  19815.  @paulroberts7544  Lol. So now you’re here defending Brand’s shagging past and yet you’re all prim and proper in your other posts here? 🤣Who are you?
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  19816. For the life of me, I am at a loss as to why GB News is so obsessed with Meghan. Are they paid by the amount of times per day they post a report? It’s weird. No one on this planet cares. Apart from GB News. How about reporting some real news?
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  19817.  @adamgynn7338  How does that negate the fact that certain neo-Nazis hate Islam and Muslims? 🤔
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  19818. Lol. And no British-born individuals are being “paid for” in Birmingham. 👍
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  19819. Wow! Quite surprised the algorithm let that one through. Well, at least you’re open in your dreadful racism. Fair play lad. 👍
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  19820. Calm down, dear, calm down.
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  19821. I kinda agree with Dax to the extent that the media vilification of Harry and Meghan from some quarters is way over the top. Race, Harry being a traitor to his family and country by leaving them, their constant whining about stuff, and, yes, their utter hypocrisy about wanting privacy, yet they invade the lives of their nearest and dearest with their salacious tales, all feeds into this vilification, but for me, when all is said and done, I couldn’t care less about them, and it’s a constant source of bemusement as to why so many others get their knickers in a twist over them.
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  19822. My gaydar tells me this won’t happen.🤓
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  19823. He’s a pompous, self-important professional Nirthern Oirish twat, imo. Much prefer his wifey.
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  19824.  @purplehaze8557  Have another cup of tea, sourced from Kenya. ☕️
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  19825.  @purplehaze8557  You could be done for libel, m8. I’d watch my step if I were you.
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  19826.  @Spacecow78993 I tend to agree. It’s important to say I have zero issue with the colour of your skin; my only real issue in this debate is ideas and I consider Islam a very bad idea and an even worse idea when it’s parachuted en masse into secular liberal democracies.
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  19827.  @julianpetkov8320 Huh? He’s a Jew. 🥴
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  19828. Don’t necessarily have an issue with this. As so often with these trigger debates, this is all about offence versus harm . It’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered (here, a cartoon of a trans man after a mastectomy) and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. So, in this case a cartoon has ‘offended’ certain people: so what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s exactly like when Mohammed is portrayed in certain cartoons and some people are offended. Again, so what?
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  19829. That’s your issue. So what? You’re offended. Deal with it.
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  19830. If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. (Bill Hicks)
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  19831. @@SpookyDjinn Huh? I have never called you a “traitor”. You are confusing me with someone else. You been at the gin again, hen? 🥴
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  19832.  @Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist  I fear you have the wrong fella, petal. Never mind. Better luck next time.👍
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  19833. @@SpookyDjinn But I’m not obsessed with anyone, Spooks. Not even you, much to your obvious chagrin. 🥶
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  19834. @@SpookyDjinn How do you know I’m not right-wing? 🤔You make assumptions all the time, love, and they are almost always wrong. 👍
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  19835. @@SpookyDjinn I’m not gay though, Spooks, so once again you are wrong. But hey, that’s nothing new! 😉
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  19836. @@SpookyDjinn I’m not “lefty”. Want another shot, Spooks? 😷
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  19837. @@SpookyDjinn Lol. That the best you got, Spooks? 🤣
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  19838.  @NordieJ  For now … 😉
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  19839.  @j7ech402  *were Not really. I can do better.👌😉
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  19840.  @davidmullen6011  1) Every drag I’m aware of is also a ‘performance’. Not sure who you are on about here. Again, you seem to be thinking of trans women. 2) No you’re not. You’re all over the place on this point. 3) Drag today is essentially no different to what it was in the heyday of Humphries et al. You are focusing on tv friendly guys. You seem to be under the bizarre impression there were no risqué, late-night drag acts doing their thang before about 2022. Weird. 4) No they don’t. You clearly have no experience of this. Make some drag friends, David. I can virtually guarantee that not a single one of them ‘tends to live that character’. You need to get out more, David. You come across as bizarrely sheltered and you’re just stating bull crap at this point.
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  19841.  @speakz6935  Because I could. And David seems to be unaware that drags today, like Humphries and all the rest from yesteryear, don’t live as drags 24/7, and I couldn’t be arsed explaining it to him. There is no essential difference between drags today and the average drag in 1982. I suspect he’s essentially a holy roller twisting himself into all sorts of knots to please his invisible sky daddy.
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  19842.  @errin-mp1zy  Yeah, and those are about 0.01% of the total drag population. Funny how it seems to garner so much attention and provide a reason for homophobic morons to hate more generally on gays, eh?
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  19843. *atheist Allegedly.
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  19844. Not sure if ‘Karen’ is an insult, but make sure you don’t mistake Dan for Martin or Maria! 🤭
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  19845. I’m not a veggie, or an animal activist, but having looked at both sides of this, there is really no way horse racing can be morally justified in an enlightened society. On average 200 horses die unnecessarily each year on the justification of ‘entertainment’. There is a reason why bullfighting is dwindling and why we no longer bait bears or run after foxes like the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. 🐎
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  19846. Uh huh. And what about these low quality spellers, Mikey? Huh? *famous *disillusioned
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  19847. Smurthwaite (noun): one who takes offence on behalf of others who may not be offended in the first place. Example: ‘Jeez. I was a right Smurthwaite yesterday. I was offended on behalf of a black, lesbian vegetarian and Joan Armatrading wasn’t bothered at all!’
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  19848. @ No there isn’t.
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  19849. Reform needs to realise 2 things if it wants to get elected into no. 10 on its own terms: 1) Without someone with the requisite charisma and articulacy like Farage at the helm, it won’t stand a chance beyond its core supporters. 2) If it aligns with someone like Robinson, who is a barely disguised neo-fascist, then this will alienate millions who otherwise might support a party who might, finally, get to grips with mass immigration.
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  19850.  @ActiveArron  That still doesn’t negate the fact that the US has more knife crime than the UK.
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  19851.  @garethifan1034  It is a per capita figure, you numpty! 🤦‍♂️
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  19852.  @markredmond2014 That point has been made but these dummies can’t seem to grasp the basic concept of per capita.
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  19853.  @michaelcarney6280 It’s per capita! Ffs! How many more times? Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
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  19854.  @michaelcarney6280  It’s per capita, you plum! 🤦‍♂️ Did you go to basic GCSE Maths classes?
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  19855.  @michaelcarney6280  ‘Population’? 🤔
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  19856. @chadbridges4304 It’s per capita, you dummy! 🤦‍♂️
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  19857.  @razakid1993  ‘Latest figures show 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in America for every million of the population in 2016. In Britain the figure was 3.26.’ It could be you who needs to ‘look at the statistics’, petal. ✌️
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  19858.  @jh7589  Oh, I agree the BBC tends to avoid ‘tricky’ crime stories involving ethnic minorities. Not denying that. We’ll see in due course if that’s the case here.✌️
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  19859.  @jh7589 So? It is now. So by rights the OP should really remove their post as it’s misinformation and a lie. 😊
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  19860. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  19861. @@SpookyDjinn They don’t have “computer rooms”. They have 1 laptop for every 20. I once volunteered in a Shelter and we had free access to the Internet for the residents. Nice try, though.👍
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  19862. A big part of the uproar here, aside from half-naked men in stripper heels swinging around provocatively on ropes in a school classroom in front of pre-teens, is what is said surrounding ‘gender ideology’ when drags take the class. It’s clearly agenda-based. Can we just get this straight (pun intended) once and for all? Humans cannot change biological sex, which is determined at fertilization (genotype) and during embryonic development (phenotype). People may change many features of their lives, such as their interests, hobbies, diet, friends or careers. However, some facts are unalterable. A person’s genetic inheritance, their biological sex, (not culturally-determined gender), is an immutable characteristic. No amount of ‘gender-reassignment’ can alter the fact that if you were born with XY sex chromosomes, you will die with XY sex chromosomes, and if you were born with XX sex chromosomes, you will die with XX sex chromosomes. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is XX male syndrome, but even in these cases, their own biological chromosomal inheritance cannot be altered. A hermaphrodite cannot biologically ‘unhermaphrodite’ themselves. None of the foregoing means to say a person cannot choose to ‘identify’ as a man when biologically a woman, or a woman when biologically a man. It’s a free world, after all. And it also doesn’t mean to say a fella can’t don a frock or a woman can’t waltz around in a well-fitted suit and tie. Wear what you want. However, identifying as one of the supposed 73 ‘genders’ is no different to my ‘identifying’ as a pig, or a snake, or a fish, when all my unalterable biological wiring says I’m a human being.
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  19863. What I’ve always noticed is that it’s the sub-literate thickos who have a downer on school and university. Funny that.
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  19864. They say you shouldn’t confuse the messenger with the message, but I beg to differ, and with this charmless wonder I know for a fact that everything he ever says will bring me out in hives. He’s one of these people (as we speak, Christmas Day, he’s doing it to the invited guests on his GB News show) who does that bitey-lip thing, that stifle-yawn manoeuvre, that arrogant @rses do when they think they’re right about everything. Christys epitomises this.
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  19865. Ha! Ha! All the morons who’ve had their attention-spans so eroded, this is all they can get off on. That’ll be me then.😳
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  19866.  @cornishjollyboy4524  I notice you took down your post about the 1920/30s attitudes as you realised your egregious blunder. Well done for admitting you were wrong. 👍
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  19867.  @cornishjollyboy4524  K, m8. You’re not racist. Kewl. 👍
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  19868.  @cornishjollyboy4524  Oh ffs. Get a history book, you thicko. 🤦‍♂️
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  19869.  @cornishjollyboy4524  He’s essentially saying to you, and others here, that when it comes to what he sees as openly racist attitudes he doesn’t want to be part of your gang. And why would he? 🤔
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  19870.  @cornishjollyboy4524  In his second post he is doing the same thing! 🤦‍♂️ 1920s/1930s attitudes he sees in people here and he doesn’t want to be part of it. Hence “you guys”.
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  19871.  @cornishjollyboy4524  Er, I think you missed noblemann’s point: he was distancing himself from certain attitudes in the 1930s. Attitudes that are still well and truly alive today! You need better close reading skills, m8.
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  19872.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue Another one just for the record, son: it’s almost universal in cases like yours, that you seem to be poorly educated on a very basic level. I.e. basic spelling and grammar of your mother tongue. The deep irony here, and you’re not going to like this, is that a good proportion of the immigrants to this country have far superior English to the likes of you. Facts. Who’d a thunk it? 🤷‍♂️
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  19873.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  Er, you can have cultures and customs without being some kinda inbred extra from Deliverance! 🤦‍♂️
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  19874.  @Menace-rc2ex  Uh huh. I’ve no idea wtf you’re babbling on about, son, but I’m sure it makes perfect sense to you.
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  19875.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  Er, it matters what I think to precisely the degree it matters what you think, son, so don’t start playing that silly game, mate, as you won’t win.👍
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  19876.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  Again, just for the record, very often in my experience, the brightest, most interesting and most attractive people on the planet have been born of miscegenation. Truth is we are all mongrels to varying degrees, but it’s beyond me why humans are so hung up on preserving some kind of weird inbred bloodline. A good current contemporary example of this is Jude Bellingham and his brother: bright, talented, beautiful young men bred by a white man and a black woman. Why anyone could object to this literally does not make any sense to me, as by your crazy logic, Bellingham wouldn’t be able to play for England. Bizarre.
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  19877.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  No. I don’t get any indigenousness, whether that’s Palestinian, African, Asian, Irish or whatever. You’re really not very good at this are you? 👍
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  19878. @imammete9746 Er, he’s Welsh. If you’re going down that road, then you’re going to have to genetically test every single Welsh person and decide which proportion of genes you would need to qualify as Welsh. Which, of course, would be insanity. But then you people are mental. Seek help.
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  19879.  @Devils_Advocate_Extravalue  Huh? He has a Welsh father and has lived in the UK from the age of 2. You’re mental, son. Seek help. 🥴
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  19880.  @Jamie-uk2zh  But he’s a British citizen with a Welsh father. You’re mental, son. Seek help. 🥴
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  19881.  @stumccabe Are you that touchy that they change the colour of the flag for a day or two and you are offended by it? Really? You seem invested in a random accident of birth. You could’ve been born anywhere, but because you were born in England you’re bizarrely hypersensitive to any messing with the English flag. It’s all made-up, arbitrary stuff. Meaningless in the grand scheme of the universe.
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  19882. If you are ever having a great day, everything’s smiling, sun is out, birds are tweeting, you can always rely on ole misery guts Oliver to come along and ruin the mood. Jesus. Lighten up man, ffs.
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  19883. The ‘it’ refers to ‘faith’.
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  19884. As a normal human being, I don’t give a flying f*ck about any of this sh*t. It’s just a distraction from what really matters.
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  19885.  @jsemplefelton5348  Nah, m8. I just sort out people with an agenda who get it wrong. You need better coping strategies, sweetie. 😉👍
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  19886. @@NeriaWolf Nope. Genuinely never voted SNP. You just can’t understand someone being able to see things from more than one point of view. It’s probably your biggest fault.
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  19887.  @gary637  Huh? Never voted SNP in my puff, Gaz. Nice try though, sonny.👍
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  19888. @@NeriaWolf Lol. And so Sturgeon personally took the cash. Gotcha. 👍😉
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  19889. @@NeriaWolf Lol@“what agenda”. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣
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  19890.  @carlitor4173  Indeed. So, she’s innocent until proven before the law.
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  19891.  @MarcoNegrisEye  Show me why I should think her “disgraced”? There is literally nothing pinned on her.
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  19892. I know. It’s terrible they still let Wootton (Martin; Maria) broadcast isn’t it?
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  19893.  @charlescawley9923  Adios amigo!
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  19894.  @charlescawley9923  Who said anything about ‘authoritarianism’? I just said that the current zeitgeist of transgenderism pervading the public square is a political issue linked to which end of that spectrum one stands. S’all.
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  19895.  @charlescawley9923  Still disagree. This gender issue is quite clearly deeply politically motivated and, yes, it appears to be a rather all-too-familiar left/right thang. Nice try, though.👍
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  19896.  @mariahewitt9787  Not in my book (pun intended) it doesn’t. As I said, agnostic here. All organised religion is patently manmade. Wouldn’t necessarily rule out a deity on that basis, however.
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  19897.  @geoffreymollart7311  Take them to Goldenhill Secondary School.
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  19898.  @carolynrjackson  I repeat: until Schofield is actually charged and found guilty of something under the law, this is all tittle-tattle and gossip. There is an obvious agenda here and it stinks to high heaven.
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  19899.  @kimgrant3879  Lol. You seem weirdly sheltered. 😆 You do realise that the age of consent, to take some random examples is: Japan 13; China 14; Brazil 14; Germany 14; Italy 14; Portugal 14; France 15; Poland 15; Greece 15; Denmark 15. Obviously it’s 16 in the UK; so you are honestly saying that watching others having sex offends you more than actually having sex yourself?!🤣 If you are old enough to have sex legally, 16, surely you are old enough to watch it! 🤣
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  19900.  @hazelnut975  Really? And has this grooming “victim” filed a complaint? Ok, he might have been paid hush money by Schofield, I get that. But didn’t they have a consensual relationship when he was the age of consent? Hardly the behaviour of a scared, “groomed” young man. As I say, Schofield, hitherto, has committed no crime, and until he is found guilty of one, I’m utterly baffled by the mad, almost deranged witch-hunt by so many. It could be a displaced anti-gay thing; that could be a large part of it.
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  19901. Bible also says don’t mix wool and linen, and that is clearly bollocks.
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  19902. Totally agree with the headline. However, mighty ironic that we have a man-woman dictating the terms and conditions! 😂
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  19903.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  Oh ffs. Stop being so pedantic. I was using ‘antisemitic’ in the sense 99.9% of people understand it: hatred towards Jews. 🤦‍♂️
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  19904.  @onlineonlineaccount2368  Er, not sure what you’re on about. All I was saying was that his kippah made him conspicuous in a potentially dodgy situation. That doesn’t mean I don’t think he shouldn’t wear it. I was just making the point I don’t think the cop was being personally antisemitic.
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  19905.  @John-u1j7r Absolutely! 👍
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  19906. Oh ffs. Not another Harry & Meghan thing. Jesus Christ. No one cares. This is soooooooooooooooo boring.
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  19907. Yes, but he does a good spin-cycle.
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  19908.  @pauldavies4522  Bottom line: 2 consenting adults choose to have sex. None of your business, mate. I think you actually know this, already, but seem to be hamstrung by some weird, religious doctrine you’ve been brainwashed into. All the best.👍
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  19909.  @pauldavies4522  Lol. So you are, with a straight face, honestly telling me, humans are not allowed to have sex unless every sexual act produces children?!?!?🤣😂😅😂😂😂😂 What planet are you on, mate? You’re hilarious! 🤣🤣😂😅😃🤣😂🤣
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  19910.  @pauldavies4522  Moreover, what about the millions of heterosexual couples who don’t want children? Are they banned from sex? If you’re argument that sex is for procreation only, this is where your bizarre, prehistoric logic leads. I suspect you are a brainwashed believer in invisible sky daddies. That’s fine. Believe what you want. Just stay out my bedroom, mate, as it’s beyond creepy, weird, fascist and utterly inappropriate for some random to be policing the bedroom antics of 2 consenting adults . I’m sure you wouldn’t like it if I said to you, you couldn’t have sex with someone upon pain of death just because I have a weird, random, unsubstantiated belief that somehow heterosexual sex is “wrong”. You people never give even a scintilla of a reason for your ideas. It’s all just random feeling, based on 2 lines in a primitive book written 2,000 years ago. Have a good day, now! 👍
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  19911. Non-sequitur. They are a benighted, primitive, backward place and living by a primitive book written by men thousands of years ago. Ironically, they say they don’t want “Western” influence and interference, but it was Western missionaries who brought this stupid book to them in the first place! So the hypocrisy of these crazed loons is staggering. Go figure.
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  19912. 🤣
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  19913. Lol. A “little extreme”?! Pmsl. F*cking understatement of the year! Murdering people for fancying other people? Sometimes I loathe human beings and this is one of those times.
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  19914. Lol.
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  19915.  @petersmith2522  It’s not about being accepted as English, rather British.
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  19916.  @thelastofus2872  What have foreigners in London ever done to you?
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  19917. M8, there are literally about 150 worse countries I could imagine living in than Canada. Yes, Trudeau’s an arse, but count your blessings.👍
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  19918. *Martin *Maria
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  19919.  @buck6604  Can we? Maybe you can. All I see when I look at Trump is a racist, sexist, homophobic orange twat.
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  19920.  dominionphilosophy3698  They are equally as bad as each other in my book. Two sides of the same coin. Trump’s just a racist, sexist, homophobic piece of crap, so GB News viewers are going to be right at home with the orange twat. As Carlin said: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.”
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  19921. Do gingers have arses? Just askin’.😳
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  19922. To which Richards do you refer?
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  19923.  @bene9472  I was ‘alluding’ to the fact that a feller called ‘Benjamin’ is hardly gonna be an impartial observer when it comes to criticism of a bunch of rather nasty Hasidic Jewish blokes in Jerusalem. Clear enough now, Benji? Good. 👍
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  19924.  @julianpetkov8320  Don’t be ridiculous, Julian. The dude was clearly marked out as Jewish in his kippah. It wasn’t the bleedin’ Pope ffs. 🤦‍♂️ Nice try, petal.
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  19925.  @bene9472  Ok, so you’ll know what I’m talking about then. ✌️😉
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  19926.  @julianpetkov8320  Yeah, but I reckon the kippah might have had something to do with his being stopped.
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  19927. Citations needed bb.
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  19928. Some of us read the articles and weren’t fiddling with our testicles.🤓
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  19929.  @tracyparker550  I repeat: respect isn’t automatically given; it’s earned. It’s nothing to do with ‘this generation’; it’s to do with simply earning my respect. Kate Middleton has done nothing to earn my respect and she doesn’t get my respect just cos she’s married to the heir to the throne. It doesn’t work like that. All that said, I mean her zero harm.
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  19930. “2 months old”. Fully flowering daffodils at the beginning of January? Even with global warming, unlikely.
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  19931. @@slartibartfast1214 “People need to live their lives and stop inserting themselves into others.” Lol. Says the 1k+ commenter who comments on absolutely everything! The hypocrisy here is staggering! 🤣🤣🤣
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  19932. @@slartibartfast1214 *others’
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  19933. @@slartibartfast1214 *it’s
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  19934. @@slartibartfast1214 Lol. The irony of you correcting others on their spelling gaffes when you make at least an average of 2 egregious basic orthographic/spelling blunders per post! 🤣
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  19935.  @Adam-sd2ow  Hmm … K. I’ll accept that self-exculpation this time. You’re excused. 👍
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  19936. @@slartibartfast1214 Not sexist at all, sugar. Just like winding up pompous people like you, hun.
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  19937. @@slartibartfast1214 We’ve all got opinions on everything based on everything. Get with the gig, petal.
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  19938. @@slartibartfast1214 It’s just her opinion, son. You cope a bit better now, sweetie. 👍
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  19939.  @Adam-sd2ow  Er, why are you upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  19940. @@slartibartfast1214 Translation: katstephenson disagrees with me.
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  19941.  @pepwaverley2185  Just randomly: why the dickens have you named yourself after a South African clothes shop? 🥴
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  19942.  @pepwaverley2185  Lol. Harsh. I’ve provided a perfectly watertight argument. You may want to read me back. Yes, I really am not a lefty, contrary to the opinion of the GBNews demographic who seem to think that anyone who happens to disagree with them is thereby automatically a ‘lefty’ and ‘woke’. I’m neither! All the best.👍
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  19943.  @pepwaverley2185  Someone can throw out a bunch of words (you might call it an ‘insult’) but it’s up to you whether you want to actually get offended by it. I’m not sure why you’re finding this concept so difficult to understand as it’s patently obvious to me. 😊
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  19944.  @pepwaverley2185  I’m talking about ‘hurt’ in the sense of being physically hurt. Words? It’s your choice if you want them to hurt you. 😊
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  19945.  @pepwaverley2185  No. If someone insults my mother I’m not offended unless I choose to be offended. It’s just words, after all. Sticks and stones etc.
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  19946.  @pepwaverley2185 I repeat: no one is offended against their will. You can be ‘hurt’ against your will, but when it comes to offence, you hold all the cards.
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  19947.  @richardgallagher4880  Not a ‘lefty’, petal. Literally never voted Labour in my puff. You’re terrible at this. 😭
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  19948.  @richardgallagher4880 More projection, Dickie? 🤣😂😅
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  19949.  @johnkitching2248 No, I wouldn’t be offended. ✌️😉
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  19950.  @johnkitching2248 Not unless I choose to be offended. Why is this so difficult for you, Johnny? 😉
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  19951.  @johnkitching2248 Not unless I chose to be offended, Johnny. 👍 😉
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  19952.  @richardgallagher4880 Stop projecting. 🤣😂😅
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  19953.  @maryannekenny8874  I don’t know why you keep babbling at me. My point stands: by Dickie’s logic those with Irish ancestry aren’t ’true Scots’. Uh huh.
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  19954.  @annmenzies6041  Ok, so every single person born and bred in the UK to foreign born parents isn’t British. Well, that’s just factually incorrect and makes you a racist. Uh huh.
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  19955.  @AcerbicDelicacy  When you refer to ‘ideology’ are you referring to ‘political’ or ‘religious’ ideology? Or, perhaps, both?
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  19956.  @IIChristisKingII  Well, according to Dickie’s logic these Celtic fans just aren’t ‘true Scots’. 😊
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  19957.  @AcerbicDelicacy  I think we more or less agree. I think the only point I would take issue with is that people’s (perhaps yours) opinion of him has been clouded by the fact he’s a non-white Muslim. You agree that skin colour should not come into this (and it shouldn’t: it’s all about ideas), but I don’t necessarily see him as this authoritarian ogre-figure that so many of the GBNews demographic do. I say that having never voted for the SNP and am agnostic about independence. All the best.👍
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  19958.  @AcerbicDelicacy I would also point out that one of my parents is from England, so again, by the OP’s logic I wouldn’t be a ‘true Scot’, a suggestion which I would resent.
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  19959.  @Graci719  Didn’t miss any point. I directly addressed it head on.👍
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  19960.  @AcerbicDelicacy  If we’re talking Islam, I have zero time for it, but then again, I have zero time for any organised religion. But I get why folks see Islam as a possible threat. I get that. But that wasn’t really the debate here. The debate is what makes a ‘true Scot’. I’m born and bred Scottish and I don’t see Yousaf as any less ‘Scottish’ than me.
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  19961.  @1son8043 Don’t get me wrong, m8, I’m no fan of him or the SNP, but that’s not really the debate here.
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  19962.  @grief1 What do you mean ‘do what I do’? Why can’t you cope with a different opinion? 🤔
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  19963.  @richardgallagher4880 Again you project, Dickie. 🤣😂😅
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  19964.  @AcerbicDelicacy  That’s fine. So, again, by that logic, those tens of thousands of Scots with Irish ancestry aren’t ‘true Scots’, either. Just need a bit of logical consistency here. 👍😉
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  19965.  @richardgallagher4880  You’re projecting again, Dickie. 🤣😂😅
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  19966.  @graemecrawford3869  I’m just talking about any Scot with Irish ancestry. By Dickie’s logic they, along with Yousaf, are not ‘true Scots’. S’all.
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  19967.  @grief1 Not ‘desperate’ about anything, sweetheart. Where do you get that silly idea? 🤔
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  19968.  @Alf-Garnish That’s not the point. The point is the tens of thousand of Scots with Irish ancestry aren’t ‘true Scots’ by Dickie’s logic. Do keep up at the back.
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  19969.  @richardgallagher4880 More projection, Dickie? 🤣😂😅
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  19970.  @richardgallagher4880 Yes, he is. He’s a British citizen under British law. You’re just waffling sh*t now.
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  19971.  @richardgallagher4880 Projecting again, Dickie? 🤣😅😅
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  19972.  @lillielangtry9652  I agree. I think the illegal cross-Channel route needs to be stopped, but I’m all for controlled, legal immigration to this country, where we set the terms. I think we are agreed. The OP just talked of not apparently upholding the rights of genuine asylum seekers. That was all.👍
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  19973.  @lillielangtry9652  Lol@HughJardon!🤣
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  19974.  @TheCompleteGuitarist  Well, if that’s what the OP ‘meant’ they should have said it. You get back to yer guitar and leave the social-political commentary to the big boys. 😉✌️
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  19975.  @thedave3880  Nah, Davey. I’m nae a flag guy, son. You might be. That’s fine. Don’t force me into anything, otherwise you’ll be just as bad as the Muslims you disdain, and that would be hypocrisy, sweetheart. 👍
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  19976.  @thedave3880  I pay my taxes, speak the language and don’t break the law, Davey lad. Not sure what else you want me to do.
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  19977.  @james7040  As far as I can see, 99% of incomers here aren’t ‘trying to change the culture’. It’s just Islam. Everyone else is fine, Jimbo. Nice try, though. 👍
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  19978.  @james7040  Don’t be ridiculous, sweetheart. What about all those Europeans currently living abroad. Should their loyalty be to the country the currently live in? You can’t have it both ways, darling. 👍
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  19979.  @joancooley1387  Well, I’m certainly not going to apologise here in this thread with this collective bunch of numpties! 👍✌️🙄
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  19980.  @ravennfall6034  Wtf are you rabbiting on about, blud? My ‘place’ is planet Earth. I happened to have been born and raised in the UK. I suppose that makes me British. Ta da! 🎉 Do you want another coping pill, darling? 💊
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  19981.  @S-North  I did answer it. I said no, twice. You seem to be unable to read, son. Night. 👍
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  19982.  @S-North  You seem a bit dim, m8. I’m bored and it’s l8. Nighty night. 👍
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  19983.  @S-North  If your point is that every African-born African has to stay in Africa and every Asian-born Asian has to stay in Asia and everyone born somewhere has to stay there, then you seriously need help. Moreover, your European hypocrisy is staggering, as Europeans are, arguably, the people who have most left Europe to live elsewhere on this planet.
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  19984.  @S-North  I did answer it. I said ‘no’. And? 🤔 What’s your point?
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  19985.  @S-North If you just want white people like you around you, just state it, m8! Stop bashing around the houses as it’s painful to watch.
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  19986.  @S-North No. And? 🤔
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  19987.  @S-North I addressed your genetic thing, son. Look up. You seem to be a bit lacking in attentiveness. 🙄
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  19988.  @S-North What question?
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  19989.  @paulross8418  Is that a euphemism? 🤔
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  19990.  @S-North  I’ll make this simple for you: are you honestly saying Jude Bellingham, Bakayo Saka and Marcus Rashford are not as British as you? If you are, that’s fine. That just makes you racist. Just own that honestly and we can all move on.👍
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  19991.  @S-North  Just for the record, I gave you my answer. You may be too thick to understand it but here it is again: ​​⁠ Ok, so you’re going to go down the genetic line, are you? 🤦‍♂️ So, if you’re going to do that then you need to establish a genetic test to decide who is truly British and who isn’t. Moreover, and this is the more important point, if and when you establish this, what are you going to do? Are you gonna throw out the likes of Saka, Rashford and Bellingham, on the basis their genes don’t count? You’re a dangerous dude, son. 👍
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  19992.  @S-North I don’t respond kindly to twats who type ‘,,,,,,,,,,,’ like some kinda freak who never got educated. Soz, son. 😭
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  19993.  @Fan-nothing 👍😉
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  19994.  @mycatspethooman5590 Why? Why should I fly anything? Stop dictating to me, you fascist.
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  19995.  @S-North  Ok, so you’re going to go down the genetic line, are you? 🤦‍♂️ So, if you’re going to do that then you need to establish a genetic test to decide who is truly British and who isn’t. Moreover, and this is the more important point, if and when you establish this, what are you going to do? Are you gonna throw out the likes of Saka, Rashford and Bellingham, on the basis their genes don’t count? You’re a dangerous dude, son. 👍
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  19996.  @Fan-nothing You missed a question mark there, Al 👉? 😉
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  19997.  @mycatspethooman5590 No.
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  19998.  @Fan-nothing  That all you got, Al? I guess I win. 👍😉
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  19999.  @Fan-nothing  No one asked you, either, Alan. Yet here you are. That’s called hypocrisy, sweetie. 👍✌️
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  20000.  @S-North  How are you defining ‘British’, son? I’m here to tell you, and you might not like this, but those who constantly bang on about ‘homogeneity’ and ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last type of people I would want to be indigenous/homogeneous with. Sorry. 👍😉
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  20001.  @robertmcelwaine7024  We can agree that we disagree, Bobby lad. Let’s leave it at that. And make sure you’re home before 9 or mother will send you to bed with no tea and yer troosers at yer ankles! 🤣 🛌 👖
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  20002.  @robertmcelwaine7024  Oink! 🐽
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  20003.  @robertmcelwaine7024  Aww, he’s going for the sympathy vote now. 💐
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  20004.  @robertmcelwaine7024  Just for the record, I’ve checked at least half a dozen of your oh so pious OPs: zero upvotes. Yer not getting any are ye, Bobby? Tch tch! 👍😉🐷
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  20005.  @robertmcelwaine7024  Lol. The guy that’s more anally retentive than a constipated elephant is going for the ‘he’s not getting laid’ jibe now?🤣 It’s obscene, I say, mother! 🐘
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  20006.  @robertmcelwaine7024  “Not in before 9pm?!?! It’s obscene, I say, mother!” 🥸🤣
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  20007.  @robertmcelwaine7024  Whereas, I post a throwaway line and it gets 5 upvotes just like that! Tommy Cooper couldn’t have said it any better. 🪄🤪
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  20008.  @robertmcelwaine7024  There is a reason why zero of your long-winded, holier-than-thou OPs seem to get no upvotes, Bobby. Think on, son.😉
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  20009. “It’s obscene, I say, mother!” 🥸🤣
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  20010. Lol. Signed: Mr Uppity Uptight, Uptightsville. 🤪
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  20011. Ah, ok. It’s the women’s fault. Gotcha! 👍
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  20012.  @MAZ732  We covered that one. 👍
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  20013. @@TB-mj1kn Man, seriously. Find another guy and hit the pub with him and have it out. I’ve said my piece. The rest is silence. All the best.👍
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  20014. @@TB-mj1kn And I replied: They live here, speak the language, pay their taxes and don’t break the law. What more exactly do you want them to do? Think like you? Watch the same films as you? Read the same books as you? Get real, mate. You seem to be asking for some weird narrow tribe where everyone is like you! Even with white British/Europeans that’s just pie in the sky.
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  20015. @@TB-mj1kn You seem a bit obsessed with all this, mate. Anyway, nice chatting. 👍
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  20016. @@TB-mj1kn They live here, speak the language, pay their taxes and don’t break the law. What more exactly do you want them to do?
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  20017. @@TB-mj1kn Totally disagree. I have been around Chinese and Indians and the vast majority just get on with their lives and bother no one like you and I.
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  20018. @@TB-mj1kn That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion. I respect that but happen to disagree with the opinion.
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  20019. @@TB-mj1kn Move on with the “citizenship” thing, mate. Bored now. 👍
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  20020. @@TB-mj1kn We agree then. We both support controlled legal immigration. 👍Just for the record, I wholly oppose what’s going in the Channel right now, but my stance is not to blame the incomers as so many on here do: it’s the fault of our government and the people smugglers. I would add this: in my experience, the vast majority of immigrants do integrate adequately. I accept that there is a cohort of certain Muslims who seem reluctant to do this.
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  20021. @@TB-mj1kn Oh, man. You are so boring. Look, mate, I’m done here. We get it: you don’t like foreign people. The vast majority of Brits disagree with that stance. Just deal with it. 👍
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  20022. @@TB-mj1kn Sorry, but you may have missed this bit, mate: In February 2020, a tribunal ruled that removing Ms Begum's citizenship was lawful because she was "a citizen of Bangladesh by descent", so removing her British nationality wouldn't make her stateless. Cope a bit better now.😉
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  20023. @@TB-mj1kn You have no clue who or what I am, and presuming would be very dangerous, m8. I repeat: construction or no construction worker, the vast, vast majority of people in this country have no issue with controlled legal immigration. You are the outlier here, son. 👍😉
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  20024. @@TB-mj1kn Wrong again. In February 2020, a tribunal ruled that removing Ms Begum's citizenship was lawful because she was "a citizen of Bangladesh by descent", so removing her British nationality wouldn't make her stateless.
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  20025.  @rolandrimann8788  Not the point. She’s a British citizen. Deal with it better.
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  20026.  @Ajhc73  Who cares if she’s not English? That’s not the point here.
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  20027. @@TB-mj1kn 🥱 The thing with you people is you are genuinely the last people on Earth I’d want to share my genes with!
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  20028.  @pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503  Lol. K. 👍🤣
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  20029. @@TB-mj1kn Not an immigrant, m8. Born and bred here. Nice try, though.👍
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  20030.  @robertjones2053  🥱
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  20031. @@TB-mj1kn Bored, m8. Said my piece on this. Move on.
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  20032.  @robertjones2053  Bother me ?! Lol. None of this “bothers me”. It’s GB News viewers who get antsy about all this stuff. My initial response was to someone questioning her status as a British citizen, and all I was saying is that she is one. Moreover, just for the record, just 464 British citizens have had their citizenship revoked in the past 15 years, so it’s hardly a common thing. What I don’t get in this wider debate, is why people have such an issue with other ethnicities. I live in a place with dozens and dozens of ethnically diverse and different peoples, and we all rub along. In my tenement stairwell alone, we have a half-Frenchy (me!), a German, 2 Spaniards, an Indian couple, 2 Pakistani couples, and some Americans, along with the usual Welsh, Scots, English etc. and we all rub along together just fine. Moreover, every one of these people, to a man and a woman, speaks perfect English, pays their taxes and obeys the law. That’s all I ask. I quite frankly couldn’t give a 🐒’s about someone’s ethnic background. My only single caveat in all this is a certain cohort of Muslims who appear reluctant to fully integrate into the UK. I accept that. The rest? Zero issue. As for miscegenation? A good thing. Bring it on.👍
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  20033.  @robertjones2053  So, essentially, Robert, you are saying you are a “better class” of citizen, aren’t you? Why didn’t you just say that at the beginning and save us both all this trouble, son.👍
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  20034.  @robertjones2053  You edited your comment. You’re really not very good at this are, Robert? I repeat for the hard of understanding: British Citizenship can be removed from a person born in the UK or outside the UK, but only if they hold citizenship of another country – i.e. it can only be revoked where a person would not be left “stateless”. So if you’re not a citizen of another country, your British citizenship cannot be revoked. In my case, I don’t hold French citizenship, so my British citizenship cannot be revoked. 🤣👍😉 🤡
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  20035.  @robertjones2053  I understand perfectly, mate. It seems you’re the one who doesn’t understand here. British Citizenship can be removed from a person born in the UK or outside the UK, but only if they hold citizenship of another country – i.e. it can only be revoked where a person would not be left “stateless”. So if you’re not a citizen of another country, your British citizenship cannot be revoked. In my case, I don’t hold French citizenship, so my British citizenship cannot be revoked. 🤣👍😉
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  20036.  @robertjones2053  Irrelevant here. This lady is a British citizen. Just for the record: A child will acquire British citizenship by birth if they are born in the UK to a parent who is either a British citizen or who has a form of settled status, such as indefinite leave to remain, at the time of the birth. So, yes, if you’re born to recent arrival parents who haven’t themselves obtained citizenship, you will have to jump through the hoops. Otherwise, if one parent is a British citizen or has a form of settled status, you too become a British citizen. It is irrelevant in this debate as this lady is already a British citizen.👍
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  20037.  @MrTriple3D  As for nationality being your mother’s country. Well, that’s just opinion . I was born and raised in Scotland to a French mother and a Scottish father, but I am legally/culturally British, not French (even although I speak French and have certain Francophone cultural traits). If I had been born and raised in France to a French mother and Scottish father I’d be legally/culturally French (no doubt also speaking English and perhaps supporting Scotland when France weren’t playing). You’re treading a ridiculous path if you start positing “place of mother’s birth” as a determiner here, for the Algerian mother herself, to use your example, might have been born to a Moroccan-born mother.
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  20038.  @MrTriple3D  Irrelevant point. This lady is a British citizen. Deal with it.👍
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  20039. @@TB-mj1kn It’s not “semantics”, man. This lady is a British citizen under the law and has exactly the same status as any other British citizen. Just try and cope a little better now.👍
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  20040.  @billw7000  That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion.👍
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  20041.  @Orb_E  Irrelevant statement. The fact this lady was born in Britain makes her a British citizen .🤣
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  20042.  @fritzwrangle-clouder6033  Other people can’t delete your own messages. YouTube does that.
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  20043. Really? Where was Mount?
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  20044.  bertclarke2055  And what’s wrong with looking and sounding like a bloke? Bit of a man-hater are we, Bertie? 🤔
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  20045. The vast majority of folks in my orbit have zero problem with legal immigration. Even the most liberal people I’m aware of would not be pro-open borders. The main issue here for any UK government is quite simply to get a grip of those people coming into this country. What always astonishes me about this debate, is France has a land border with 8 countries and the UK has 20 miles of water separating it from 1 country (due respect to the UK-Holland/Belgium routes) yet still can’t control this thing. Weird.
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  20046. While I’m not pro-open borders - far from it - it really is fu*king hilarious that Great Britain is moaning about incomers. British people, via the Empire and just generally, are everywhere on this planet. I’d defy you to name a country in which there isn’t a British person living. The hypocrisy is astonishing. If we’re talking Islam, I’m on board. As an agnostic, I distrust all organised religion, but Islam’s easily the one I distrust most. Why? It seems to demand the most respect for its values whilst simultaneously dispensing the least respect for others’ values. But for British ppl to moan about ‘incomers’… well, that just is a f*cking joke, if you know the history.
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  20047. Point of order. To point 2: 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group.
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  20048. I won’t. Mine made me blow him while he was claiming tax-deductible expenses on a 2-star hotel that didn’t even have an en suite! 😳
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  20049. Lol. ‘Such a gentle, intelligent soul (he believes in an unforgiving sky God btw😉) and as usual 100 per cent correct.’ Three bags full, Neil. Gobble, gobble, gobble, Neil. Ravish me maniacally, Neil. For I am your hypnotised acolyte, Neil. Gobble, gobble. 🦃
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  20050. With that lovely pink tie, Nathan is a Rao sunshine! 🌞
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  20051.  @garywebster3585  Lol.
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  20052. You don’t think there are trans men using male toilets and changing rooms? Think again. 👍
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  20053.  @Islas_Canarias  Ok. I disagree. But we can agree to disagree. 👍
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  20054. @@SpookyDjinn Really? Certainly no more “bizarre” than someone who lives their life by an un-evidenced invisible sky daddy. As for the “girl” thing you could say that about anything: do skinny models encourage anorexia? Do war films encourage war? Does porn encourage sexual violence? Where do you want to go with this? You’re treading a very dangerous path if you’re advocating banning a cartoon advert that you personally happen to find “offensive”.
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  20055.  @discombobulate12  *a lot
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  20056. @@SpookyDjinn Ok, that’s fine. We got there. You’d ban it. I wouldn’t. We can agree to disagree on this one.👍
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  20057.  @discombobulate12  In your opinion. I don’t happen to find it offensive. You need to deal with that fact.
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  20058. @@SpookyDjinn I’ll ask you once more: Would you ban this advert?
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  20059. @@SpookyDjinn Serious question: would you ban this advert?
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  20060. @@SpookyDjinn Not hostile. Just putting my point of view. You imputed hostility. As usual, your smugness precedes you.
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  20061.  @discombobulate12  Nothing offends me more than this: people who get offended on my behalf and thereby feel they can dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else. See SpookyDjinn.
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  20062. @@SpookyDjinn I repeat: why are you so self-righteously smug like we have to agree with everything you say when you believe in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy and your basic orthography is dreadful?
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  20063.  @lumpyfishgravy  Y r u upvoting urself, Mike?
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  20064. @@SpookyDjinn I certainly do understand it. And you stop being so smug as you come across like you think you know what’s right for everyone, yet you apparently have no idea of the existence of the possessive apostrophe. 🤷‍♂️
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  20065. @@SpookyDjinn So you’re now advocating banning advertising, are you? Who decides? You? Do you tell me what I can and can’t see? Can’t you see you fascist you sound? Jesus. *people’s
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  20066.  @rhyfelwrDuw  You could say that about anything: do skinny models encourage anorexia? Do war films encourage war? Does porn encourage sexual violence? Where do you want to go with this? You’re treading a very dangerous path if you’re advocating banning a cartoon advert that you personally happen to find “offensive”.
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  20067. @@SpookyDjinn No. I said a cartoon isn’t harmful. It can be offensive but not harmful. I am a self-harmer. You need a better researcher.
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  20068.  @wendycutts9734  Hehe. 👍😅😉
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  20069.  @user-bi8ko7kc6h  Fair points, well made. You’re right about a balance. But as a white person born and raised in the UK (and as someone who has lived in 6 other countries), I have identified a very strong streak of apathy and often disdain for education and learning in white working class Brits. That was my point. There has to be acknowledgement and responsibility taken for this if the situation is to ever seriously change.
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  20070.  @vin00ify  👍
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  20071.  @vin00ify  Can I tell you something, a massive part of why certain elements of the white working class are so openly racist (particularly on here) towards non-whites is precisely this: you guys are 100x better educated and they know it and it stings. 👍
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  20072.  @vin00ify  This. 👏
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  20073.  @TaxingIsThieving  I repeat: What? Wtf are you on about, m8? I haven’t copied and pasted anything and have no clue who you are. l fear you have the wrong fella, son. 👍🥴 And you are projecting again, sweetie. Uh huh. 😘
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  20074.  @brmc6145  That’s fine. My gay theory is “pretty weak” in your opinion. Looks like, so far, 17 people agree with the theory. 😉
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  20075.  @fayarmitage6877  No. I got none of that from a “kiss to a prince”. You’re not very good at close reading, are you? Look at my first sentence in the OP.
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  20076.  @littleboots9800  Sweet things?!?! If anything you’d think guys wary of homosexuality would be dodging the veg: carrots, cucumbers, parsnips … that sort of thing! 🤣
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  20077. Lol. No chance. Gascoigne was good, but Messi is streets ahead of him.
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  20078.  @MrMoneyLong  “Iya e” indeed.
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  20079.  @stephfoxwell4620  'Shoo-in' is the correct spelling. It refers to someone who is going to succeed for sure. 'Shoe-in' is a common misspelling. You need a better researcher.
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  20080.  @stephfoxwell4620  I think you’ll find 'shoo-in' is the correct spelling, but thanks for the misguided spelling lesson.
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  20081. Yeah, Ron. “Life is sh*t where I am so let’s go trash another country and behave like d*ckheads.” Are you really excusing this? If you are, you’re weak.
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  20082. What? The UK is, at best, a post-imperial minor backwater poodle of the US. The Commonwealth is just an impotent relic of a barbaric Empire.
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  20083.  @howardjones7370  Steady, Howard. Someone with your name needs to stop the rentboy hypocrisy right now! ✋
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  20084.  @NPC--666  Why not?
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  20085.  @nautique1970  Why would I want to vote for a party led by a twat like Richard Tice? 👍
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  20086.  @NPC--666  Anyone but Reform UK.
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  20087. No.
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  20088.  @janeslater8004  We’ll see. In the meantime, I want no part of this witch-hunt.
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  20089.  @julienewman1761  No. I repeat: you are the one making all the hysterical claims here. You need to bring the evidence to the table here and now or forever hold your peace.
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  20090.  @kazshaw3945  Oh, I’m aware alright. All we need is a bit more proof. Schofield has committed no crime, it appears. He had consensual sex with a lad in his 20s. I really don’t see what the issue is here, beyond a thinly veiled hysterical witch-hunt against a gay guy.
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  20091.  @julienewman1761  Apparently, the young fella in question was actually in his 20s when he had f*cky, f*cky time with Pip. Now, with the best will in the world, a guy in his 20s having consensual sex doesn’t strike me as being “groomed”. The burden is on you here. You’ve made the claim: I say, prove it.
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  20092.  @julienewman1761  Proof?
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  20093.  @kazshaw3945  Proof he was “groomed”? Until the fella himself files a complaint, I’ll reserve my judgement and avoid joining the witch-hunt based on tittle-tattle.
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  20094.  @Blonde_Somnambulist  Yup.
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  20095. What’s hilarious about all this is that the babies don’t actually give a sh*t! They might have something to teach the adults in this respect. Why do we do get our knickers in a twist over this stuff? There are tribes out there who live naked 24/7. Cojones out. Fufu out. All on display. What are we so scared of here? It’s bizarre.
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  20096.  @Madonnalitta1  Lol. Are you so narrow-minded that you can’t allow for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people feel they are in the “wrong body “? Why are you so triggered by this? If they are not impinging on your daily life, why the f*ck do you care? It’s none of your business, in that case.
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  20097.  @Madonnalitta1  🥱
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  20098.  @philc1773  In your opinion. I’m aware of dozens of acquaintances over the years who felt they were born in the “wrong body”.
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  20099.  jack_in_the_green3226  Non-sequitur, dipshit. List these “roles” you’re so enamoured of or forever hold your peace, dipshit.
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  20100.  jack_in_the_green3226  I’m waiting for the “roles”, dipshit …
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  20101.  jack_in_the_green3226  What “roles”, dipshit? List them …
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  20102. Seethe harder.
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  20103.  @Bungle-UK  Just for the record, questioning your gender is “recognised as a mental disorder” by some , not all. I’m in the camp that thinks questioning your gender isn’t necessarily a ‘mental disorder’ in all cases. As I say, we can agree to disagree.👍
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  20104.  @Bungle-UK  We can agree to disagree.
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  20105.  @Summer21.  👍
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  20106. “Sexuality and gender identity are completely separate issues.” Rubbish! A good proportion of those who gender identify as the opposite of their biological sex, are simply homosexuals. It’s the pressure the gender movement puts on these individuals that masks this fact. I’m attracted to men and women, but when I was younger I was pressured by certain groups who were trying to persuade me I had been “born in the wrong body”. The 2 are intrinsically linked.
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  20107. Cringe.
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  20108. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i I refer you to my previous comment but one.
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  20109. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i I refer you to my previous comment.
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  20110. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i You’re not very good at close reading are you? Where did I say I was pro open borders? Yeah, that’s right. Nowhere. Now, go away, son as you’re deeply boring me at this juncture. I’ve made my points; you disagree. I’m fine with your disagreement. Now just jog on.👍
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  20111. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i Do you or I have any choice where we’re born? Yeah, that’s right. We don’t.
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  20112. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i One other thing, son, as you really are a one for the misplaced assumptions: I’m not a “lefty”. Nice try, though.👍
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  20113. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i Just for the record: I never said I didn’t “believe in borders”; I just said I wouldn’t automatically fight for my arbitrary accident of birth which took place within a given border. Big difference.👍
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  20114. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i The “substance” is I am friends with these people and spend time with them. 👍
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  20115. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i Just for the record: I live in a tenement of at least 25 people top to bottom. Of those people, I can count 7 nationalities. We all get on like a house on fire. My only ever issues with immigration were 2-fold: 1. It should be strictly controlled by the host nation. 2. As an agnostic, I wholly mistrust all organised religion, but it seems to me there is a certain cohort of Muslims who want to impose their ways and mores and religious laws wherever they go. I find that anathema. The rest? Poles, Spanish, Chinese, Indians, Americans, Malays, Thais, Japanese etc etc. I have zero issue with. One final thing, in my experience, those who bang on about ‘indigenous’ this and ‘indigenous’ that are almost without exception the last kind of people I want to share my genes with. Facts. By this I mean that they are, again almost without exception, badly educated, incurious, staggeringly dull and here’s the utterly ironic clincher: almost to a man and a woman they have worse basic English skills than those migrants they bemoan. More facts. Uh huh.😊
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  20116. @@user-uk9cb9fs3i Depends how you define “your people”; I tend not to restrict myself to arbitrary manmade borders when it comes to that sort of thing. In fact, I have often in my life felt more connection with those who weren’t born in the same national territory as I.
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  20117.  @johnbrereton5229  Johnny, son, why is this so difficult? No one has any say where they are born. It’s all random. You and I could’ve been born anywhere. Why you can’t see this is a deep mystery. 🤔
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  20118.  @NPC--666  I’m not ya pr*ck! Are you really this thick? Go away.
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  20119.  @NPC--666  Not elevating anyone, m8. Just asking for parity when it comes to gays and heterosexuals and whites and non-whites. It’s called ‘equality’ sweetheart. You should try it some day.👍😉 You might want to brush up on your close reading skills, going forward.
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  20120.  @NPC--666  You asked me what was wrong with heterosexuals and white people. I said nothing. Just wondered why you were assuming I had a problem with these.
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  20121.  @johnbrereton5229  John, wtf are you on about, son? No one has any say where they are born. It’s just happenstance. 👍
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  20122.  @NPC--666  Nothing. Why do you ask?
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  20123.  @jonathanj.7344  For someone who doesn’t care about my opinion, you sure are persistent, Jonty. I’m sniffing a hypocrite, lad. 👌😉
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  20124.  @jonathanj.7344  Indeed. You just made my point perfectly, Jonty. Now you get back to sniffing those hippy feet, Jonty lad. 🦶👍😉🤡
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  20125.  @jonathanj.7344  Who cares about your opinion of my respect?
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  20126.  @jonathanj.7344  And quite honestly, m8, I couldn’t give a flying f*ck about your opinion on anything, Jonty.🤡👍👌
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  20127.  @jonathanj.7344  Huh? Not at all. The guy appeared to be suggesting that if you weren’t English, Irish, Welsh or Scottish you were somehow a second-class citizen. 🤡
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  20128.  @jonathanj.7344  Who said I was “elevating” gays and blacks over veterans? 🤡
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  20129.  @johnbrereton5229  What? What are you on, John? No one has a say where they are born. It’s all random, son. Get with the gig.👍
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  20130. My, my, what a downer on women you have Mr Incel.
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  20131. Who cares about anyone’s sexuality? It’s only religious nutters following unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies who care about any of this stuff. Normal sane people don’t give a flying f*ck if you’re straight, gay or anything in between.
    1
  20132. Can you sit her though? 🤔
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  20133. What’s with all the American stuff if you’re in west Edinburgh? 🤔
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  20134. 🤣
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  20135.  @Be_great577  Huh? What’s wrong with anal? After all, 10% of men do it regularly. Don’t foist your likes/dislikes onto others as it doesn’t work like that, sweetheart. 👍
    1
  20136. All this pearl clutching over a book when any 8 year old with internet access can actually watch what is being described in the book. No, I wouldn’t buy this book for my 8 year old, or even my 13 year old, probably, but really? Pick your battles. If you don’t want the book don’t buy it. Simple. Hell, I recall when I was about 8/9 at primary school and we used to regularly find crusty, soiled nudey mags in the bushes.
    1
  20137. Dear God! This Channel is tediously obsessed with Harry/Meghan. The overkill is staggering. I’ve counted 13 stories on them in the past day alone! No one cares. Jesus. They are both utterly boring and irrelevant. Report real , relevant news ffs! 🤦‍♂️
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  20138. ‘Genuinely trans’? It’s just a biological fact that you can’t change your DNA, no matter how much outer tampering you do with your bits.
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  20139. The ‘pedophile brigade’? Are they fireman who only put out fires in orphanages? 🤔
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  20140. No they don’t. Groucho, Harpo and the rest of the brothers were some of the the greatest comedians of all time!
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  20141.  @AndyML3883  And in telling jokes if he/she ‘crosses the line’, where’s your issue? Not every comedian is Ken Dodd (great though he was) or the Chuckle Brothers. Ffs, man. You sound like a child. Have you not come across adult opinions expressed through the medium of comedy before? 🤦‍♂️
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  20142.  @AndyML3883  I’m gonna repeat this for you, Andy lad, cuz you need to read it and absorb it: I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. (George Carlin) 👍
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  20143.  @AndyML3883  Furthermore, if Gervais is telling us how he sees the world through the medium of comedy, where’s the issue?
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  20144.  @AndyML3883  Huh? So wtf is your point then? Is this just an anti-Gervais thing and, if so, why didn’t you just make this clear at the start, son?
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  20145.  @AndyML3883  Not ‘triggered’ about anything, son. Simple word of advice: if something offends you switch it off, walk out etc … in other words don’t watch it! Don’t presume to be the moral cop for the rest of us in this matter. S’all. 🚴
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  20146.  @AndyML3883  You stick to cycling the Merseyside backwaters and leave free-speech to the rest of us, Andy son. Ffs. You are seriously dangerous.
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  20147.  @AndyML3883  I say what I mean. What are you? The speech police, or something? Jesus H Christ. 🤦‍♂️
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  20148.  @AndyML3883  Yes! You could! If I’m not breaking laws I can say anything. The reason Manning hasn’t been removed from YouTube is that he’s not breaking the law. If you are triggered and offended by him, that’s your issue; don’t offload that onto others who don’t share your opinion. But more important than this: don’t sinisterly dictate that your taste and opinion has to stand for everyone else and if you happen to find something offensive, the rest of us should, cuz it just doesn’t work like that, son.
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  20149.  @AndyML3883  Just for the record: even if the ‘true feelings’ were ‘masked’ by the jokes; so? I repeat: no laws were broken. You disagreed with the sentiment of the joke and got offended. That is your problem; no one else’s.
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  20150.  @AndyML3883  You back for more, Andy? Look in the mirror, m8. It’s you who keeps tapping up me! Think about this. For the fourth and, I hope, the last time: You have no right not to be offended. This is getting boring now, m8. Even you would agree, no? 👍😉
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  20151.  @AndyML3883  It’s the perfectly right place. No laws were broken here. Your being offended is your problem, not mine. For the third time, as this needs to sink in with you: You have no right not to be offended.
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  20152.  @AndyML3883  I repeat: You have no right not to be offended.
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  20153.  @AndyML3883  You have no right not to be offended.
    1
  20154. Another sub-literate GB News viewer pipes up.👍
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  20155. @@SpookyDjinn I’m not. I’m asking a straight question: why is it “degeneracy”? That’s not forcing anything on anyone, Spooky.
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  20156. Why is it “degeneracy”?
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  20157. @@SpookyDjinn Who? Mohammed?
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  20158. @@SpookyDjinn What? I don’t understand your point? 🤔
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  20159. Yet, their 50-something prophet is betrothed to a 6 year old and married her at 9. Somehow, out of 2 blokes sharing a kiss and a middle-aged bloke marrying a 9 year old, I know which offends me more.
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  20160.  @purplehaze8557  Wtf. 🤦‍♂️ You talk about the “extreme nauseatingness” of the kiss, yet you claim you’re not offended?! Are you ok? Does that medication need to be upped? Get with the gig. You’re contradicting yourself left, right and centre here, dear.
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  20161.  @purplehaze8557  Well they clearly are offended, darling: the cleaning staff had to clean the sick which accumulated after that kiss … ugh. You may want to re-read your own OPs before you make a complete fool of yourself.😉👍
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  20162.  @purplehaze8557  Ok. 👌 Hang in there, petal. Mummy will be here soon to soothe your fragile, easily-offended feelings. 😉
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  20163. Aww, der, der, diddums. Did 2 fellas kissing upset your feelings, sweetie? Don’t worry. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better.
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  20164. Lol. Not biased are you, by any chance? 🤣
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  20165. Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” 🥾
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  20166.  @purplehaze8557  Nah, man. More a y-front fella myself, son. Just sayin’! Now trot on you nasty hypocritical bully. There’s a good lad.
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  20167. Lol. Another veiled racist comment from the arch colourist! 🤣
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  20168. 0:16 *damp squib
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  20169. The point about all this stuff is that 99.99% recurring of people don’t buy it. This is a minuscule proportion of humanity attempting to dictate the terms and conditions for everyone else. It won’t work. XX will never go into XY and vice-versa, no matter what anyone says.
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  20170.  @jasperhorace7147  The irony of someone called “jasperhorace” (possibly the geyest name in the Universe 😆) making that comment! 🤣
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  20171.  @douglashyslop2209  🥱
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  20172.  @jeffreyhutchins6527  What? No idea wtf you’re on about, m8. Can you simplify it for me, pls?
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  20173. Er, why are you upvoting yourself, Edith, you drama queen? 🤔
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  20174. @@captainawesome12345 🥱
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  20175.  @TheRetroManRandySavage  Just as well you’re not accusing me of that, sonny, as if you are, I could have you done for slander.
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  20176. Wuhan! Savant you ain’t. Aye aye. Pfth, pfth, pfth.
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  20177.  @loafersheffield  Come again, petal? 🤓
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  20178. He’s a right-wing Jew. That’s what he’s for.
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  20179.  @SharpsCafe  Yeah, but this is the real world, chum. Get yer head outta the sand, son.👍
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  20180.  @chaosflower4892  No I’m not. The parents have separated and this seems like a great idea! Seethe more.
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  20181. I think you missed a key point. The parents in question have separated.
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  20182. Seek help yourself, sonny.
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  20183.  @sparkle4051  How do you know I’m not a trans man?🤣
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  20184.  @lookandlisten5740  👍
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  20185. To be fair, while I’m against housing him in a female prison, obviously, he is being kept in solitary.
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  20186. What awful brand? Russell? Oh, yes, I won’t be spending time with him either. 👍
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  20187. The latest ‘revelation’ is that in a toilet in LA Brand was alone with a woman and he got his d*ck out in front of her and said he was going to f*ck her. Now, I’m all for ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but what makes this one different is that he then went on to immediately boast about it on his radio show and the recording doesn’t look good for him. In other words, he did this. Whether it meets a criminal threshold (public indecency?) is another matter, however. Regardless of his political stance/criminal guilt or innocence, what is patently clear is that Russell Brand is a repulsive, disgusting, narcissistic @rsehole.
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  20188.  RonP1  Lol@“out of my league”. I’m Premier League, Ronnie boy. You’re not yet out of nappies, son!🤣 You’re a mental chipmunk! 🐿😂
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  20189.  RonP1  Lol@“one tiny mistake”! 🤣😂😅 You make basic orthographic blunders my 3 year old pet chimp would be ashamed of in virtually every post, Ronnie lad! 🐒🤣😂😅
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  20190.  RonP1  Yeah, but Ronnie, sonny, if you can’t get the basics my 7 year old gets right, why should I trust you on anything , pal? Eh?
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  20191.  RonP1  *weren’t Why do you ppl always have piss-poor basic spelling and grammar? 🤦‍♂️
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  20192.  RonP1  K, Ron the fascist. Count me out. 👍
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  20193.  @JamesBurrTV  Yes.
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  20194. Ironic you should be saying that on GBNews.
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  20195. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  20196. Watch out. If you’re “born in Kenya” the GB News viewers will be telling you you can’t be really British.
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  20197. Not sure why you’re involved with any organised religion; it’s all manmade crap invented to control people.
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  20198.  @dixienormous2440  Lol.
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  20199.  @dixienormous2440  Lol. So why are you coming back for more? 🤣 You just can’t let it lie. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.🤓
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  20200.  @dixienormous2440  My, my, you are mightily triggered by this aren’t you, sonny? Can I suggest taking up a diverting hobby? Jeez.
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  20201. She now looks exactly like Stacey Solomon would look like if Stacey Solomon had a nose job.
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  20202.  @richardcory5024  I think we more or less agree here. 👍
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  20203.  @richardcory5024  Where did I say I agreed with Anderson’s claim that Khan was ‘controlled by Islamists’? 🤷‍♂️ I just said I don’t, as a rule (given history) trust organised religion and the one I least trust right now is Islam. Try to cope a bit better, Dicky.👍
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  20204.  @richardcory5024  ‘My hero’? I personally can’t stand the fella. I fear you have the wrong guy here, dear.👍
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  20205. Oh dear. Another programmed automaton loser unable to think for himself who believes in eternal Hell. 🤦‍♂️
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  20206.  @matthewrigg893  No he’s not. He’s a graceless, grumpy bastard: unless he’s winning.
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  20207. This isn’t really news. If you Google ‘Auschwitz selfies’ the top returns are reports from 2019 of people taking selfies on the tracks. Doesn’t make it any less insensitive whenever it’s done, though.
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  20208. Tbf, it’s well known that many Catholics were complicit in the Holocaust. I say that as a Catholic. Lapsed.
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  20209.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  You clearly have issues, m8. I’ve spent at least a minute looking at some of your other work. Seek help.
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  20210.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  Omg, you have had serious issues with the ladies haven’t you, petal? 🤓 Der, der, sweetie. Never mind. I hear they have some very good, reasonably-priced, quite realistic plastic dolls to help with that sort of thing! 🤣
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  20211.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  Lol. So men ‘building a train track’ compensates and balances for men murdering 6 million Jews? Good one, Einstein.👍
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  20212.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  K, incel.
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  20213. No he isn’t. Even simpler.
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  20214. @@SpookyDjinn What a paranoid wee creature you are, Spooky. Why would you automatically “not trust” a new GP without even giving them a chance? Strikes me as a wholly irrational position to take, sweetie.😊
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  20215.  @elleyc8614  Oh, I agree. My own personal hunch all along here is that she’s actually innocent.
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  20216.  @robertjones2053  You’re not very good at close reading are you? I, and everyone I know, have had nothing but good experiences from the frontline NHS staff. Try and cope a bit better now, Bobby.👍
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  20217.  @robertjones2053  Disagree. Your experience doesn’t tally in any way with mine and the experience of everyone I know. 👍
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  20218.  @robertjones2053  Dunno, m8. You’re unlucky. Vast majority of folks have positive experiences with the NHS.
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  20219.  @robertjones2053  K, Bobby lad. Hang in there, son.👌
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  20220.  @Nickle314  Nah. Just not going along with your politicised agenda, love.👍
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  20221.  @Nickle314  K. My experiences and the experiences of everyone I know are wholly positive. I’ll go with that.👍
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  20222. Until, and if, this younger guy comes out publicly and gives his side of the story, I refuse to join the Schofield witch-hunt. The man himself I find meh, but I was always taught, until all the evidence has been heard you do not rush to judgment. Also, I find it interesting there is no NDA: so, if I were an unwilling victim of “grooming” I think I would go public (even under cover of anonymity) and let the world know about it. Here’s my theory, for what it is worth: these 2 met when this guy was clearly underage. They had verbal contact. Schofield may have had unholy thoughts but knew he couldn’t act on them. When the guy was “of age” they had a consensual affair. Now, if this is the case, absolutely no crime has been committed and we all just need to move on from this staggeringly boring story.
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  20223.  @steveross8364  No. This is a genuine thing about the amendment of an existing law meaning people could be prosecuted for any “derogatory speech about someone’s age”. It’s not just a rumour. Things are in motion to enshrine this in law.
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  20224. C’mon, man. I’m no particular GB News fan, but even the most paid-up member of the SNP has to admit this is fkn ridiculous! Not to mention mighty sinister in terms of its implications for future freedom of speech.
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  20225. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
    1
  20226. The latest ‘revelation’ is that in a toilet in LA Brand was alone with a woman and he got his d*ck out in front of her and said he was going to f*ck her. Now, I’m all for ‘innocent until proven guilty’ but what makes this one different is that he then went on to immediately boast about it on his radio show and the recording doesn’t look good for him. In other words, he did this. Whether it meets a criminal threshold (public indecency?) is another matter, however. Regardless of his political stance/criminal guilt or innocence, what is patently clear is that Russell Brand is a repulsive, disgusting, narcissistic @rsehole.
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  20227. Always mistrusted overtly ‘political’ comedy of any stripe. Never understood this human compulsion many seem to have to put all their political eggs into a single basket. When I assess my views on each given topic I find I am ‘liberal’ in some, ‘green’ in others, ‘conservative’ in more and ‘socialist’ in a few. The rest I haven’t made my mind up yet. Blake’s dictum I always have in mind here when it comes to these things which, for me, are under constant review: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. Or even better, this from Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Or this from the glorious Whitman: Do I contradict myself?/Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes.) To bind yourself to ideas one day, and then to be doomed to defend them come what may, is not worthy of the thinking human being.😳
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  20228. GB News needs a headline proofreader. Day “off”?! Well, it sure wasn’t a day off for the incoming migrants if that’s what’s meant! 🛶
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  20229.  @AaAa-sw5os  Lol.
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  20230.  @minkyfran8307  Er, it’s not the ‘same women’. The women bearing all on Only Fans are just the modern version of Page 3. It’s essentially Page 3 democratised! You’re not gonna see Clare Short getting her knockers out on OnlyFans anytime soon!
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  20231.  @joe9042  🤣
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  20232.  @MementoMori-xx5qo  It’s all conjecture, dear fellow, all conjecture. You are stabbing in the dark as much as I.
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  20233. @@johnnyalucard9897 Stop upvoting yourself, Johnny baby. It’s so not a good look. Desperate, in fact.😉
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  20234.  @IBTU  You’re precisely better than no one, son, so your name is a grave contravention against the Trade Descriptions Act. Think on, petal.😉 Your basic orthography f*cking stinks, to boot! Don’t take that wrong.🤓
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  20235. @@johnnyalucard9897 You sided with the sick OP, Johnny baby. Don’t try the innocent face now, son.
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  20236. @@johnnyalucard9897 My point is, she was drunk. So what? Why is it any less tragic?
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  20237.  @dil2370  I repeat, Dilly baby: What? Proud of a random accident of birth? How primitive. Seethe.
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  20238.  @dil2370  What? Proud of a random accident of birth? How primitive.
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  20239.  @annmcevoy5686  Seethe, Annie darlin’! 🤪
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  20240.  @magyoe3471  Sweet 🍠 😊
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  20241.  @alidabotes6264  Why are you upvoting yourself, Alida? 😉 Slight doubts about your case, there? 😉😊🤣
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  20242.  @tlsum9475  😉
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  20243.  @jfndfiunskj5299  Lol@“your ilk”. 🤣 Wtf does that even mean? People who know what a book is? 😂
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  20244. @@SpookyDjinn If there’s one thing worse than reading no books it’s only reading one book, Spooky. You’ll know all about that, sweetie. 👍
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  20245. @@SpookyDjinn Truth hurts, Spooky. Truth hurts. 👍😉
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  20246. Toulouse.
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  20247. @samirdoncic6395 There is more real human wisdom in a page of Shakespeare than in most of the pages of the monotheistic texts.
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  20248.  @joelizabeth12 And it looks like your lips got a lot of Botox from your plastic surgeon. 👄
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  20249.  @gracesmith3952  No. Right-handed, thanks.
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  20250.  @applebleu1  I happen to like her. Just not so keen on the cosmetics. S’all.
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  20251. All well and good. Nice anti-white racist rant there but … the printing press; penicillin; light bulb; telephone; internal combustion engine; oral contraceptive; Internet; nail; concrete; magnifying glass; batteries; marine chronometer; aeroplane; refrigerator; nuclear energy; vaccines; x-rays; television; cars; semiconductor; personal computer … just some of the contributions to humanity made by … drumroll white people! Ta da! 🎉
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  20252.  @Slumbert  Lose the misplaced smugness as it doesn’t serve you, son, and won’t wash with me. 😊
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  20253.  @Slumbert  Yes. Mate, can I be honest with you? You appear to think you’re witty and funny but just come across as a try-too-hard tit. 👍😊
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  20254.  @Slumbert  So yes, in fact. There are several interviews with him specifically addressing Islam. 👍
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  20255. Yes, I get that feeling listening to Simply Red. 🥱
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  20256. No.
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  20257.  @mindcraft4362  I’m afraid we’ll have to agree to disagree here, as I don’t see “trans women” as “real women”; that is they are not biological females and never can be. The other nonsense (as I see it) is the multifarious number of genders everyone has to get their head around these days. Why did these “genders” not exist 50 or 100 years ago? No, here’s what I think: there are two biological sexes and it’s impossible to change biological sex, and shoehorning 72 genders into the debate (as seems to be the case these days), or mutilating your body, is not going to change that one iota. Just for the record, I’m not that old, and I don’t know a single biological woman who wants biological men in their spaces. And by “spaces”, I don’t just mean physical spaces, but spaces such as sporting events. For example, the recent decision to not allow trans women to compete in cycling events was clearly the correct one as imo, allowing trans women to compete in biological female events is akin to allowing an adult football team to compete in an U-14’s league. As I say, we’ll have to disagree on this. All the best.👍
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  20258.  @mindcraft4362  It’s not “kind of irrelevant” when biological males are seeking to inveigle their way into biological female spaces. Think on …
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  20259.  @mindcraft4362  Lol. Nothing to do with “transphobia “; simply to do with scientific facts. A person's genetic inheritance, their biological sex, is an immutable characteristic. It is possible to change a person's outward appearance, including bodily features. Humans cannot change sex, which was determined at fertilization (genotype) and during embryonic development (phenotype). Show me a person who was born XX and became XY and vice-versa. If you do that, I’ll instantly change my opinion and say you can change chromosomal sex.
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  20260.  @lynnm6413  Huh? 🥴
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  20261. No particular fan of Reeves but c’mon now: I challenge you to randomly ask 100 people if they have ever tweaked their CV’s to ‘up-skill’ themselves and I bet more than 50% will say they have. Most of us have done this. Reeves’ real crime here was landing a public role where her credentials would be forensically scrutinised and getting caught!
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  20262. Trump’s just hacked off because they could buy 3 of him for that kind of money. I wouldn’t pay 10p for Trump, and even then I’d ask for a refund.
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  20263.  @kym1160  Yeah, but with that forehead it looks astonishingly ridiculous.
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  20264.  @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace  No. It’s not obvious and it’s mighty dangerous for you, or anyone else, to dictate to me what can and cannot be banned on the basis of it being “sleazy”.
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  20265.  @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace  Who decides what’s “sleaze”? 🤔
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  20266.  dimfm9710  Projecting, again? It’s rather obvious in your case. You might want to watch this going forward.👍😉
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  20267.  @MrBannystar  “Anyone wanting to buy this for their kids is not fit to be a parent” … in your opinion. As you were.
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  20268.  @justathought5136  You may have missed my repeated comment that I’m not for this book being in a junior school/nursery library, but close reading skills never were the average GB News viewer’s strong suit. 👍🌈
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  20269.  @PeteH0121  Lol. What a bizarre overreaction. I reckon the only possible explanation for this weird paranoia is just plain old homophobia. You really do need something more substantial to worry about, Petey.😉👍
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  20270.  @howardjones7370  Oh, man. You really can’t let this lie, can you, son? You know what you’re betraying? You’re betraying radical doubt in your own case, sweet-pea. Moreover, you’re also betraying a desperate, dangerous inability to deal with an opinion you don’t happen to hold. Just move on. I’ve clearly stated my case. I have no issue with others disagreeing as I believe my case is sound. You, however, intrinsically feel you have a shaky case, and so you can’t just accept another opinion and walk on by. I recommend you do this, darling, as this to and fro is going to do nothing for your cardiac health in the long-run, chickpea. Pop yourself to bed with a nice mug of cocoa would be my sage advice at this juncture. Beware, however, of those nasty nightmares where old men in bondage gear haunt your dreams! Muahahahaha! 👻 😊💋
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  20271.  @howardjones7370  And still you go on. We can agree to disagree, m8. Thing is, for some strange reason you seem unable to deal with a differing opinion to yours. Your lack of tolerance in this regard is really alarming. You might want to look at this going forward, Howie. Moreover, you really do need a major investment in some better coping strategies, petal. Don’t take that wrong.👍
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  20272.  @howardjones7370  That’s fine, Howie, and you’re entitled to your mighty little rant. Well done. However, I will repeat for about the fifth time that I personally think there are far more pressing issues to worry about than some cartoon grandad in a bit of bondage gear. Do sleep well now. 👍
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  20273.  @howardjones7370  Yeah, but some of those who “roll out the ad hominems” have earned that right when they have logically, clearly stated their case, without dictating to others based on personal feeling, Howie. You would’ve been excused your ad hominems if you’d had a decent case. 🤡😉👌Mwah! 💋
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  20274.  @stuartbeecham2830  Lol. 👌😉
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  20275.  @stuartbeecham2830  That’s fine. We more or less agree, Stu.👍
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  20276.  @pixelfu623  Not at all. I have absolutely zero interest in the BDSM movement/lifestyle. Want another go?
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  20277.  @deanjames2476  No, I wouldn’t, as that is pictures of actual naked people. This is a cartoon of a non-naked man.👍
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  20278.  @edlewkowicz  Er, wot? Again, you seem to have the wrong person here. It’s not me who’s for banning books. Look again.
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  20279.  @howardjones7370  Ah, the old ad hominem, eh Howie? Last resort of those with zero argument. 🤫
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  20280.  @edlewkowicz  Er, wot? I fear you have the wrong fella here. 👍
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  20281.  @laineandrews9291  Nah, m8. I personally, I repeat, personally, don’t particularly have a problem with this and there are far more pressing issues to be worrying my noggin about. You disagree. That’s fine. I honour your right to disagree. Now, you try and extend me the same courtesy. 👍
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  20282.  @jujutrini8412  I personally don’t really have an issue with it, but understand the sensitivities of people like you, as I’m kinda a live and let live guy.👍
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  20283.  @stuartbeecham2830  I don’t think you read me, did you? I said (given the sensitivities of people like you), I probably wouldn’t have this book in a school library for junior kids.
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  20284.  @tallulahdurand  👍
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  20285.  @tallulahdurand  Yeah, but Tallulah, these numpties are triggered by anything. It’s a gay old man! Ffs. Yes, I wouldn’t have the bondage theme in a kids’ book, but I have precisely zero issue with a homosexual theme.
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  20286.  @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24  You’re far too sensitive, Bobbyray. Uh huh. Yes you are, Bobbyray. I’m here to tell you that, Bobbyray. Lovely name, Bobbyray. 🤡😉🥱
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  20287.  @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24  “I would have zero problem with it if there were no bondage theme and it was just about a gay grandad.” Indeed. So? Where’s the issue? 🤔
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  20288.  @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24  Where did I say any of what you’re suggesting? Yeah, that’s right. Nowhere. You need much better close reading skills, Bobbyray, rather than just what you want to read, Bobbyray. Uh huh, Bobbyray. Yvw, Bobbyray. 👍
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  20289.  @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24  You need to get out more and sniff some grass, Bobbyray. Uh huh.
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  20290.  @JohnSmith-ux3tt  Yeah, but that could be because the vast majority of books with a 🌈 on them are fine. 👍
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  20291.  @alisonholland7531  I’m not supporting this book in a library for 4 year olds. You may want to get your facts right before imputing stuff to me.👍 Kindest regards to Tracy, Julie and Craig. 💋 💋 💋
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  20292.  @JohnSmith-ux3tt  How could what happen, Johno?
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  20293.  @jonathanj.7344  It’s also child abuse to indoctrinate children into invisible sky daddies before they are capable of making their own minds up. 👍
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  20294. Lol. By that unbelievably stupid logic any school library that has a copy of Macbeth makes all the teachers at that school murderers! 🤣
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  20295. Blah, blah, blah.
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  20296. Upvoting yourself again? Every single time, it seems. 🤦‍♂️
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  20297.  @purplehaze8557  No. But you slyly bullied someone with pink hair, thereby mocking their colour choices and yet you yourself are a colour choice, purplehaze ! 🤣 Hypocrisy? 🤓 😉
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  20298.  @purplehaze8557  No, just pointing out your mahoosive double-standards! S’all! 🤣
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  20299. Lol. The cheek to slyly mock ‘pink hair’ from someone called ‘purplehaze’. Colourist! 🤣
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  20300.  @vulkanofnocturne  Er, is tea only drunk in the UK? 🥴 Are you drunk?
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  20301.  @purplehaze8557  Wtf are you on about? Britain imports most of its tea from Kenya, you doofus! 63%! Did you actually go to school, sonny?
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  20302.  @purplehaze8557  You are so triggered you just can’t let it go. Now trot on you deep deep bore.
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  20303.  @purplehaze8557  Er, where did I say tea was ‘native’ to Kenya? Well?
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  20304.  @purplehaze8557  And you ‘exude’ someone who just can’t take when they’ve been called out. Deal with it, sunshine. 🥸
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  20305.  @purplehaze8557  Glad you’ve conceded you were owned, though. Have a good day now! 👍
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  20306.  @purplehaze8557  Because it’s good to get these things right, m8. Doncha think? I do. 😉
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  20307.  @purplehaze8557  Because the OP said tea was ‘British’! It’s not! Cope more.🤣
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  20308.  @stephfoxwell4620  Lol. Those ‘plantations’ account for less than 1% of British tea consumption; 99% is imported. Mainly from Kenya. Cope harder.🤣
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  20309. Another straight flag waver crawls out of the airing cupboard.
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  20310.  @fraserlaing9569  At least 1,000. You have any particular problem with Cockburns in my Janus, honeybun?
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  20311.  @fraserlaing9569  Nah, just projecting, Frasey, petal. It’s always the loudest tarts whose hard drive needs the real check, sonny. You’ve got some real nastee stuff on there haven’t you, sweetie? That’s why you’re so loudly proclaiming to all and sundry. 😉
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  20312.  @fraserlaing9569  Projecting again, Frasey baby?
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  20313. @jamesw2414 Yeah, I can tell you self-upvoting tart.
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  20314.  @kevingrant7098  Cheers, Kev.👍
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  20315. @jamesw2414 I dip into all of them, Jimbo. Just pointing out the pure hypocrisy of GB News. S’all.😉
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  20316.  @InbredDuck666  Not the point I was making. The point is that GB News is just as agenda-based and biased as the “woke” MSM. As for cops doing their jobs; I’d argue that back in the 70s/80s the cops were more lenient; more “village Bobby on the beat” than they are now. Also, crime is lower now than then so they must be doing something right, Dutters.
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  20317. Wtf have hairdressers ever done to you?
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  20318. Facts.
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  20319.  @omarlittle-hales8237  🥱
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  20320.  @omarlittle-hales8237  🥱
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  20321.  @omarlittle-hales8237  Again, you’re complicating things. God is unnecessary here. You were taught to believe in him and you can’t think for yourself anymore.
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  20322.  @omarlittle-hales8237  Yeah, but you don’t need an invisible sky daddy for all that. It’s all manmade, son.👍
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  20323.  @mohammedauzer3373 It’s an accident of birth, Mohammed. If you’d been born in Japan, you’d be following Shinto or Buddhism. If born in Alabama, Christianity. If born in New Delhi, Hinduism. It’s all made-up stuff. Politics. Human. You’ve been sold a lie, son, and you’re in too deep to think for yourself and extricate yourself from it. Aristotle nailed this: “Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the adult.”
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  20324.  @mohammedauzer3373  “We will fight for Islam and we will die for Islam.” 🤦‍♂️ In 2024 we still have humans hitching their religious wagons to unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies. Jesus H Christ. Just for the record, what’s your issue with homosexuality? It’s a constant source of amazement why what 2 consenting adults get up to should be anyone else’s business. 🤦‍♂️
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  20325. Lol. Lee Anderson doesn’t know where he is or what he is! 🤣 One minute he’s campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn; the next he’s a paid-up member of the Tory Party; now he’s gone full spectrum and he’s Reform. His next move will be to fall off the planet he’s so unstable! 👍
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  20326.  @boota1979 Ty, petal. 👍
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  20327.  @philippawallacedunlop9393  Uh huh.
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  20328.  @Adam-sd2ow  I disagree. I happen to think, in this case, she may have a point. 😊
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  20329. @@SpookyDjinn Ad hominem already, Spooky? Always the last resort of those with zero argument.👍😊
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  20330.  @chrisj1477  Huh? “Couldn’t find my comments”?! In this thread I have made 6 and you have made 4. Looks like I’ve been commenting more than you, Chrissy. Could be that you just can’t take someone calling it for what it is. Yeah. That’ll be it. Never mind. You’ll get over it.
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  20331.  @chrisj1477  Looks like we agree on most things, Chrissy.👍Save the Bible bollix! 🤣
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  20332.  @chrisj1477  Yes they do! It’s a outright lie to say “nobody ever mentions the atrocities blah blah blah”. I, for one, am pointing out the barbaric side of Islam and a literalist following of the Koran on a regular basis. Nice try, though.👍
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  20333.  @chrisj1477  Huh? Lol@“the default to history” from someone who puts his faith in a book written 2,000 years ago by a bunch of men! 🤣Bloody hypocrite. Let’s take the ‘Good Book’, shall we. I once read a Richard Dawkins quote about your guide to life and it just about nails it for me: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
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  20334.  @chrisj1477  I have no particular issue with my children being exposed to trans people. The hysteria around this issue is just a political reaction of the right as the trans issue on the left has been hijacked by a politically vocal minority. I’m aware of dozens of LGBT ppl in my orbit, and the vast majority of them are just living their lives, bothering no one.
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  20335.  @chrisj1477  “Christians don’t throw ppl off buildings”. Well, maybe not so much today. But they have just as ignominious a record of savage violence as any organised religion on this planet you care to mention. Crusades; Inquisitions; wars; Christian terrorism; forced conversions; support of slavery; violence against Jews etc etc. are just a few of the bloody things Christianity has on its historical hands. 😏
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  20336.  @DD-fc1rv  So you haven’t got any evidence, then. Figures.
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  20337. Huh? Isn’t Wooton gay? How is being gay “deviant” exactly? 🤔 Or are you suggesting he’s a paedo?
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  20338.  wee edi McCreedi  To be fair, though, wee edi, the mystery is how the fuck you garnered 8 subscribers! Did you pay them, or were other nefarious means used?😳
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  20339.  wee edi McCreedi  Lol.
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  20340. Why is it that we never get to see Neil’s neck? Could it be that that beard and those neck scarves are hiding something dastardly? 🥸
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  20341. Full marks for headline-writer shoehorning the word ‘tackle’ into the headline. Smooth.
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  20342.  @dropperknot  Told holding a straight bat, old boy.🥸
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  20343. Why shouldn’t “her penis” be spoken of if the person with the penis identifies as “she”? This really isn’t that difficult; unless it is, of course.
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  20344.  @fabiennemitchell2371  Yes, but a castrated man has his hormones altered such that the aggressive ‘male’ hormones are drastically reduced, thereby reducing the innate male aggression concomitant with testosterone. Look, we’ll just have to agree to disagree here. As a woman, I’d have no issue with castrated trans women using female spaces. As for the ‘dignity’ thing, well, I just don’t get it. I am a male and I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters and I have no real issue undressing in front of them and vice-versa, but that might just be down to our different respective upbringings.
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  20345.  @dragonfox2.058  Oh, I know about it alright, bro . 2 members of my close family are trans, so please don’t presume into things about others you clearly know nothing about.
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  20346.  @chrisb9345  Well, if there is no proven castration, I’d be reluctant to admit trans women en masse into female spaces. I would take it on a case by case basis, probably. I’m fully aware, along with you and the likes of Linehan, that there are those trying to play the system, but you could say that about any system, and for me, the vast, vast majority of trans people are not trying to play the system, and the ones who are, should be monitored very carefully.
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  20347.  @lechenaultia5863  I have smelled the coffee, ty. I have also laid out my case above: you’re perfectly free to disagree, but that’s my stance.
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  20348.  @clairerideau9015  I wouldn’t have a real issue with this. As I said in my OP the vast majority of trans women don’t do it to gain access to female spaces. If these ‘women’ are proven to be castrated, there’d be no issue for me accessing biological female spaces, so a women’s prison would pass my censor. As I say, there is no real black or white here, so we can agree to disagree.👍
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  20349.  @clairerideau9015  We can agree to disagree here. If a man is castrated I’d, personally, have no issue here.
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  20350.  @catcoffee7958  We can agree to disagree. If I were a woman and I knew 100% for sure a man had been castrated (physically or chemically), I would have no real issue with a shared space in that scenario.
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  20351.  @emperorsnewclothes9405  👍
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  20352. A bit harsh. He may have the odd off game, but Lionel Mess! is never knowingly ‘appalling’.
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  20353.  @phil8528  How little evolved you are, Pip. You have a long, long way to go, sonny. Keep at it.👍
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  20354.  @phil8528  Oh, I surpassed that level yonks ago, son. Nice try, though.👍
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  20355.  @phil8528  Huh? Wtf are you on about, m8? You’re just rambling at this point. 🥴
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  20356.  @phil8528  Nothing ‘obnoxious’ about it. Most of humanity operates at Best’s level so he’s in the majority, Pip. I suspect you are, too! Ta da! 🎉
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  20357.  @phil8528  What? Just cos you disagree with it? K. 👍
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  20358.  @robroots2492  Huh?🤔 He’s from Leicester ya nugget!🤣
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  20359.  @roops2939  Yeah, but you can say that about just about any organised religion. The God of the Old Testament is an absolute monster. The only difference these days, is that (thankfully) that Old Testament God has been defanged in the West. Mostly. With Islam, this is not the case. Hence its danger to those of us who want nothing to do with it.
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  20360. Tbf, that was kinda the norm in those days given the life-expectancies. If you’re gonna call Mohammed out for something, you need to do better than that. I say that as someone who finds all organised religion anathema.
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  20361.  @mickyp9844  Schoolboy error, son.👍
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  20362. *have
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  20363.  @glynisroache  That can happen. If you read my OP, I addressed this.
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  20364.  @mrcockney-nutjob3832  That’s fine. You don’t want them here. That makes you an intolerant fascist unwilling to uphold freedom of religion. You can’t have it both ways. If you tolerate other religions in the UK, you have to tolerate Judaism and Islam if you are consistent. That’s how it works in a free society whether you like it or not, mate.👍
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  20365.  @mrcockney-nutjob3832  But you can’t “remove” them if you uphold freedom of religious worship. If you want to “remove” them violently, that just makes you a fascist.
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  20366.  @doris.from.pinner  Look again; she actually drove into them.
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  20367.  @dandycat2204  But they were males! They weren’t girls. You’re really not very good at this are you? 🤦‍♂️
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  20368.  @dandycat2204  But they aren’t biological women. They just aren’t and nothing you will say will make XX go into XY and vice-versa. Ta da! 🎉
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  20369. Well, you clearly do care as you betrayed your irritation in your second sentence. You’re a fully paid-up self-contradictory numpty. But that’s Sheffield for you.
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  20370. Oh, simmer down, sweetheart. Galloway’s a self-serving tosser, we can agree, but tbh, there are countless Muslim majority countries where ‘Islamism’ doesn’t prevail. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trust Islam as far as I could throw it, but it’s only doing what any unchecked organised religion has done, historically. All of it’s manmade baloney, but it just happens that Islam has the upper hand right now.
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  20371. Er, and what about the agnostics/atheists? Don’t they count? Or are we to be co-opted into yer Christian utopian manmade baloney? 🤔
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  20372. “Degeneracy”? Lol. I always hear this word in relation to homosexuality and homosexuals from anti-gay numpties, but no one has hitherto given me a single rational reason as to why I should find homosexuality “degenerate”. It’s the usual feelings trumping facts. That doesn’t float in my world.
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  20373. @@SpookyDjinn Bluddy hell, Spooky! Now if only you could speak up for the gays in Malaysia and then we’ll be cooking with gas, pet! ⛽️
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  20374.  @stevengosney9083  And another, Stevey baby! “Go you” indeed, as no one else is gonna go you! 🤣🤪👌
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  20375.  @stevengosney9083  Still upvoting yersel, Stevie baby. Well done, you. 👌👍😉
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  20376. If trans people, Meghan & Harry and immigrants didn’t exist, GBNews wouldn’t exist.
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  20377. Fgm?
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  20378. Hugh Janus-Rimmer is in full concurrence. 👍
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  20379. As I understand it, this law is designed to protect race, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity. However, there is one key difference between 2 of these categories and the other 4. With race, disability, age and sexual orientation, no one expressly chooses these, as such. With religion and in many cases of transgender identity, these have been explicitly chosen by the given individual and are therefore liable to honest criticism. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam or, indeed any other religion. Islam is a bunch of ideas. These ideas are held by people of multifarious races. No one is criticizing these peoples’ race, or age, or disability, or sexual orientation. That would be stupid. No one chooses these categories. However, it’s not necessarily stupid to criticise Islam or any other religion. Why? People choose that. Equally, it’s not necessarily stupid to suggest that a person claiming to be a ‘woman’ is actually a biological man and vice-versa. Why? Because they are.
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  20380. So do those who clearly have no clue about apostrophes when English is apparently their first language. *Muslims
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  20381.  nondelusional557  British here. You didn’t have to explain anything, and that’s lucky for you cos didn’t anyway! 👍
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  20382.  @fionasmith6868  In your opinion.
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  20383.  @NordieJ  K, Jayne. I just wanted some clarity on what exactly British culture is but no one can seem to supply this for me. Good day, dear.👍
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  20384.  @NordieJ  Lol. Good grief🤦‍♂️ You’re not very good at this are you, Jayne? 🤣
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  20385.  @NordieJ  You may have conveniently missed this one, Jayne: Every single thing you (robertrussell2202) named as “British culture” could equally apply to the 6 other countries I have lived in and at least 50 more I could randomly think of. Therefore, these things you list are not intrinsically “British”. 👍
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  20386.  @robertrussell2202  Every single thing you named as “British culture” is just random generic stuff and could (and does) equally apply to the 6 other countries I have lived in and at least 50 more I could randomly think of. Therefore, these things you list are not intrinsically “British”. Democracy ~ Ancient Athens, therefore not intrinsically British. Human Rights ~ Universal, and again first established in Ancient Greece, therefore not intrinsically British. Freedom ~ again this goes back to Ancient Greece, so not intrinsically British. Unity ~ not sure what you mean by this exactly as it’s so general as to be rendered meaningless. However, the concept of ‘unity’ almost certainly isn’t a British invention. Strength ~ Again, at this point you’re just plucking random words out of the air in the desperate hope they are intrinsically British. Strength? Wtf. Vision ~ dozens of other places I can think of have ‘vision’ (whatever that even means) and once again to co-opt this concept as intrinsically British is stretching it at best and complete and utter baloney at worst. It’s the latter. Civility ~ again, not a British invention. Moreover, I have travelled extensively on 4 continents and lived in 6 countries and I can think of many places where the people were more ‘civil’ and not so passive-aggressive as many Brits I encounter daily. Fairness ~ fairness is just a universal human trait. You either have it or you don’t and to nationalise it as you are doing for your jejune argument is desperate indeed. Manners ~ Again, not intrinsically British. I have met thousands of just as well mannered people as any well-mannered Brit you care to suggest and none of them were British. Humour ~ universal. Not intrinsically a British thing. Yes, I would argue in this case that there might be a certain British way of looking at things comedically, so I may actually give you this one. The liberator from tyranny ~ lol. The nation that colonised and enslaved and stole from others?! The ‘liberator from tyranny’?! Pmsl. Rather the opposite for a large part of British history. Half a point, Robert. When it comes to humour, I would agree with you that the British sense of humour is somewhat unique; but as with all the other things you randomly mentioned, humour isn’t intrinsically British in and of itself.
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  20387.  @NordieJ  “British culture” is a virtually meaningless term for me, Jayne. Never sure what is meant by it. What am I defending and “standing up and fighting for” (see Colin) exactly? It’s such a nebulous term. Perhaps you can tell me exactly what you mean by “British culture” and we can see if it’s “worth my valuable time …”
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  20388.  @NordieJ  Why do you assume I don’t “fight” (non-physically) for my beliefs? Just because I may have different beliefs to you and Colin doesn’t mean I don’t stand up for them, hence my taking a stance against Colin when he appeared to presume all British men would automatically agree with him and follow his lead.
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  20389.  @Monotonous-Tedium  👍
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  20390.  @NordieJ  Uh huh. So only “real men” fight, do they? Given the history of humanity these past 300,000 years, I’ll pick my fights, Jayne, and something instinctively tells me I don’t wanna be throwing my lot in with Colin. You can take my place if you want.👍😉
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  20391.  @unicron2109  Yeah, that’s all very well, but I always find it ironic that those who shout loudest about “protecting British culture” are the ones least likely to be aware of any of what you just Googled and copied and pasted.
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  20392. Lol. Cry more, Bobby boy.🤣
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  20393. A big part of the uproar here, aside from half-naked men in stripper heels swinging around provocatively on ropes in a school classroom in front of pre-teens, is what is said surrounding ‘gender ideology’ when drags take the class. It’s clearly agenda-based. Can we just get this straight (pun intended) once and for all? Humans cannot change biological sex, which is determined at fertilization (genotype) and during embryonic development (phenotype). People may change many features of their lives, such as their interests, hobbies, diet, friends or careers. However, some facts are unalterable. A person’s genetic inheritance, their biological sex, (not culturally-determined gender), is an immutable characteristic. No amount of ‘gender-reassignment’ can alter the fact that if you were born with XY sex chromosomes, you will die with XY sex chromosomes, and if you were born with XX sex chromosomes, you will die with XX sex chromosomes. Most, but not all, people fall into one of these two biologically-determined sex categories. Hermaphroditism is rare but should be noted here. As is XX male syndrome, but even in these cases, their own biological chromosomal inheritance cannot be altered. A hermaphrodite cannot biologically ‘unhermaphrodite’ themselves. None of the foregoing means to say a person cannot choose to ‘identify’ as a man when biologically a woman, or a woman when biologically a man. It’s a free world, after all. And it also doesn’t mean to say a fella can’t don a frock or a woman can’t waltz around in a well-fitted suit and tie. Wear what you want. However, identifying as one of the supposed 73 ‘genders’ is no different to my ‘identifying’ as a pig, or a snake, or a fish, when all my unalterable biological wiring says I’m a human being.
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  20394.  GoodHappyChile  I know people who “feel” female but are biologically male and vice-versa and if these people want to identify as “male” or “female” thereby going against their biological sex, I personally have no problem with this vis-a-vis use of pronouns etc. We can agree to differ. 👍
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  20395.  @piratejack2469  *you’re
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  20396.  @piratejack2469  Er, wot?
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  20397.  @piratejack2469  Who said anything about “personal appearance”?
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  20398.  @runswithwindz9875  Huh? Can you just speak English, as you are all over the shop, m8. 😉
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  20399.  @runswithwindz9875  Projection, much? 🤣
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  20400. Ffs! When did Paul McCartney become this unbearable! 🤦‍♂️ 🎸
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  20401. 4:20 Again, just the usual blah, blah, blah much ado about very little. The Sneezing Monkey is a wonderful antidote to all this stuff. 🐵
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  20402. Never understood why they haven’t allowed this long before now. Asylum seekers being active whilst contributing: win win!
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  20403.  @chazzerbox131  Rwanda is also rife with homophobic attitudes making it very difficult for the average gay person to openly and freely live their lives free from fear of persecution. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people living in Rwanda face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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  20404.  Monkton Trimble  Well go then! Don’t just talk, son. Act. Words are f*cking cheap, m8.
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  20405. @GG (George Gapinska) You appear to be deluded, mate. Can you imagine the outcry there’d be here, if we agreed that some other country could palm off tens of thousands of its illegal immigrants to the UK? There’d be rioting in the streets. It’s egregious double-standard hypocrisy on the part of those who want to fly these people to a third country. Have they asked the average Rwandan punter what they think of having tens of thousands of our unwanted illegal immigrants landing on their shores and living amongst them? Well? If you said to the average British punter Britain has agreed to take tens of thousands of illegal migrants from another country do you think they would be particularly happy with that? Get real.
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  20406. @GG (George Gapinska) ‘Safe but unappealing’ - much like Britain! May as well keep them all here then! 🇬🇧
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  20407. @GG (George Gapinska) Er, isn’t it? I beg to differ, old fellow. Nice try, though.🤓
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  20408.  Monkton Trimble  Go on then. Put your money where your mouth is and do one.
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  20409. There’s no evidence it’s ‘1 for 1’ swaps. The memorandum of understanding for the agreement does say the UK will resettle “a portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees, but does not say how many.
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  20410.  @timq8470  Uh huh? And your point is? Mine was simply the importation of hundreds of thousands of Muslims who, in many cases, have values antithetical to open, free, liberal democracy. A recipe for almost certain trouble somewhere down the line.
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  20411.  @FontaineDerby  Wow! Surprising post from you, Andy. Having read many of your posts about various stuff, I would’ve put good money you’d have had not much problem with what you’ve just outlined. Seems I was wrong.
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  20412.  @BlueSteel331  Nope. Just putting forward my own views as in this debate all I hear and see is extreme hot air at both ends of the spectrum: rabid barkers condemning all queer/gender theory as stuff and nonsense unworthy of any consideration and at the other end, pro-gender bender ideologists hunkered down in their own ideological camp. Personally, if you have a d*ck but ‘feel’ you are a woman, that’s fine. Conversely, if you are born with a f*nny but ‘feel’ more male, again, fine. I’ll even honour the pronouns you choose to use. I literally don’t care. My only point of contention in all this is biological women’s rights being infringed unjustly.
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  20413. I know, right. Ironically, I myself have a degree (1st Class with Hons) in Mickey Mouse Studies from the Walt Disney Polytechnic and this has allowed me to work extensively with Basil Brush, Sooty & Sweep and I once did a summer season with Rod Hull & Emu.
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  20414.  @JoanBermudez-d6l  Uh huh. And your point is? My point is quite clear: biological sex change is impossible.
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  20415.  @theotherside8258  Yeah, I’d consider some of your suggestions. I’m not pro-banning most things. It’s not just the racing (possibly dying) aspect for me though; it’s the idea of keeping these majestic beasts unnaturally cooped up for 22 hours a day.
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  20416.  @hayleylongster4698  200 unnecessary deaths per year in the name of ‘profit’ and ‘entertainment’ doesn’t compute with me, you plumb. You clearly disagree. That’s fine.
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  20417.  @PGHEngineer  I don’t eat any pigs. My argument isn’t ‘incoherent’ if you care about these things.
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  20418.  @user-oo7kg9ew8s  You’re missing the point. It’s not in France’s interests to stop migrants leaving their shores. One migrant in a boat to the UK is one less migrant for them to worry about.
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  20419. She’s sexy af.
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  20420. She’s sexy though.
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  20421. They say you shouldn’t confuse the messenger with the message, but I beg to differ, and with this charmless wonder I know for a fact that everything he ever says will bring me out in hives. He’s one of these people (as we speak, Christmas Day, he’s doing it to the invited guests on his GB News show) who does that bitey-lip thing, that stifle-yawn manoeuvre, that arrogant @rses do when they think they’re right about everything. Christys epitomises this.
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  20422. Projection? 🥸
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  20423. Neil just thinks he’s Jesus. Period.
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  20424. David, you have not succumbed to the ‘Oliver Effect’. Respect.
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  20425. Honestly, reading this stuff you’d think Oliver had hypnotised you all into believing his self-important, vainglorious spiel. Wake up! This guy’s a fella who believes in unsubstantiated beings in the sky. And I’m not talking ‘aliens’; more’s the pity.
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  20426. Ah ha. Neil. Another Neil. That makes two Neils. But does it a Jesus maketh?
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  20427. Tears? Were Neil’s jokes that bad?
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  20428.  @tamaralaw09  And you. Whatever that means.🧘‍♀️
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  20429.  @tamaralaw09  5, or so, quotes back I said: Jesus didn’t pipe up, 2000 years ago, for the rich folk. You may have missed it. Crossed wires. No matter. Goodnight.😳
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  20430.  @tamaralaw09  Look, I’m gonna be brutal here, and I rarely (if ever), do this, but I’m bored and this is going nowhere. Thanks for the ‘bants’ nonetheless.
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  20431.  @tamaralaw09  Donald Lamont fears he may be dealing with a thicko. Sorry. If you don’t know that, historically, Jesus wasn’t naturally on the side of the rich folk, then I fear your education be have been remiss in its basics.
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  20432.  @tamaralaw09  Jesus didn’t pipe up for the rich folk. Where do you have an issue with this uncontroversial statement? (If you believe Jesus actually existed, that is.)
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  20433.  @tamaralaw09  Yeah, but to be fair the balance has always been ‘totally out of whack by design’. Jesus didn’t pipe up, 2000 years ago, for the rich folk. ‘Twas ever thus, alas. However, the key for me is what a person values. Family, friends, health, achievements, love … these all seem more important than any economic systemic change one may desire to effect. Put it this way: I’d rather be a poor, but loved, soul, than a rich unloved w*nker.
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  20434.  @tamaralaw09  Look, all I’m saying is I don’t buy your theory that the so-called ‘working-class’ are the poor, put-upon, powerless creatures you seem to be suggesting they are. Let’s take examples: 1. Sport: any footballer you care to mention - working class. 2. Education: I’ve spent 30 years in this realm, and most of the people I worked with were, like me, ‘working-class’, for want of a better term. 3. Entertainment: well, this is a slam-dunk, as, unless you become a boxer, you become an ‘entertainer’ and every ‘entertainer’ worth their salt is, by definition almost, working-class. (Claudia Winkleman doesn’t count) 4. Law: speaking from personal experience here, I can say that at least 3 of my close relatives (working-class by any definition of this term: income, state education etc.), are lawyers. 5. Industry: by definition run by the working-classes. 6. Local Councils: to a man, and woman, in my experience working-class. I could go on, but I think you get the drift. If you are telling me there are deep inequalities in modern Britain, based on all sorts of reasons, then I agree. However, where I take issue with you is your contention (correct me if I’m wrong) that the so-called ‘working-classes’ are the poor, put-upon, losers of society. There are comfortable people and people less comfortable. I don’t buy this ‘oh, woe is me, I’m so poor’ narrative.
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  20435.  @tamaralaw09  I’d be mighty interested to know in what area you work, cuz you seem completely divorced from the reality as it is, on the ground, so to speak. You seem to be promulgating some theory or other you read in a textbook. In other words, you don’t seem real.
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  20436.  @tamaralaw09  Yeah, but I wanted to reply, Tamara (very ‘working-class’ name btw😉), quite simply because you are painting a bizarre picture of Britain in 2021. Have you not seen the news? Working-class people run the show. Fact. Proof? Councils; most, if not all, of British industry; Schools; Law; Sport; Entertainment; you want me to go on? All these areas are dominated and controlled by working-class people. I grant you, BoJo is running the number 10 show, but if you look closer you see who’s really got hold of the strings. Trust me, the likes of Dominic Cummings weren’t born with silver spoons on a country estate.
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  20437.  @tamaralaw09  Yeah, but that’s cuz I like to know who I’m dealing with. You can’t take the time to self-edit, why should anyone take you seriously?
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  20438. ‘Oppression of the working-class’? Gimme a break! The ‘working-class’ are everywhere, pulling all the strings. Get real.
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  20439. *whose
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  20440. *descent
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  20441. is hoping this feller is being ironic 😭
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  20442. When’s it due for hatching?
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  20443. Dear Neil? Dear God, more like.
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  20444.  @jaybeaton9301  Spit or swallow?
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  20445.  @jaybeaton9301  Admit it mate, you just wanna blow him.
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  20446.  @jaybeaton9301  What? Like Oliver himself, you mean?
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  20447.  @jaybeaton9301  What? By a weird, pompous, arrogant Scot’s fella? Threatened? Nah.
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  20448. He talks about ‘light’ and the ‘sun’ but all I can see is a pompous, vainglorious man, flicking his ridiculous barnet at himself in the mirror, blocking all this ‘light’ and ‘sun’ with his outrageous ego. As my dear-departed granny would’ve said: If he were a bar of chocolate he’d eat himself.
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  20449. News to me he was knighted.
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  20450. Willing to bet if this feller were a slap head with a limp, he wouldn’t have half the acolytes he seems to. Bizarre.
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  20451.  @gb194  Oh, ok. Just assumed you were. No right-thinking non-Scot could agree with this twit? Surely.
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  20452. What, even over you? Are you sure?
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  20453. Well, depends where you live, I suppose.
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  20454. Yeah, but could he knot any politician in ties?
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  20455.  @andrewwilks5155  Oh, ok. The Oliver-Worship-Cult is a mystery to me. All I see and hear is a smug, self-appointed nobody, really. What folks see in him, I have no idea. It’s almost like you have all been hypnotised.
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  20456. ‘Heart-touched’, ‘message of hope’ etc. You do know that Oliver isn’t actually Jesus, however much he’d like us to think he is?
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  20457. Are you Oliver’s publicity feller?
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  20458. There might be no God. Think on.
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  20459. Yeah, but Sturgeon holds the cards, pal. Deal with it.
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  20460. And a humongous ego.
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  20461. Until it does. Then you can milk the f*ckers!
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  20462. All I know is that this fella thinks the sun shines outta his bahookey!
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  20463. Ah, it’s Neil. He believes in an invisible sky God. So do I. Let’s lick Neil.
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  20464. Huh? Edwards was in contact with a 17 year old. Schofield had consenting sex with an adult. Your point is?
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  20465. Huh? Last time I checked, homosexuality was just sex between 2 people. Where’s the issue? 😳
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  20466. Cry more.🥲
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  20467.  @chkldstgee2433  ‘No dodging’. Yeah, right.👍😉
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  20468.  @chkldstgee2433  Uh huh. Nice dodge. 👍
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  20469. Oh ffs! 🤦‍♂️ I’m no fan of her. She’s a royal pain the arse, but really? It’s just 2 birds and a palm tree. Commonly used. This reminds me of those pop stars who sue others for ‘stealing’ their songs. Ffs! Noel Gallagher has publicly admitted he’s stolen just about every song he’s ever written! Are they suing him? Just get over it. It’s not even the same.
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  20470.  @jamesmoyes5685  Huh?🤔
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  20471. The fact is quite simple: if Britain hadn’t ruled a third of the planet for about 200 years, the St George’s flag would be flown without guilt. Also, I have to say this (and it’s not gonna fly with GBNews viewers), but those who are overtly proud of the English flag in the UK tend to be uneducated morons. In France, they all go for the flag; educated or uneducated. Why? Well, you could argue that in France they are indoctrinated, while in the UK, it’s ok to think that an accident of birth may not be all that. 🤔
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  20472. You gotta be careful on here, m8. Don’t go spilling your colour willy-nilly, as these GB News viewers like a bit of the old ‘indigenous’ white in them. One foot wrong, m8, and your colour’ll be used against you the way it wouldn’t be if you were white. Don’t you doubt it.👍
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  20473.  @jonb4020  No. In this fella’s case, I don’t see “narcissism” and “self-indulgence”. You really do need better coping strategies to deal with those opinions you disagree with, Jonty.😉👍
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  20474.  @jonb4020  Indeed. In your opinion. Ya got it, Jonty! 👍 Took you a while, son, but you got there. Good lad.👌
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  20475.  @jonb4020  Nah, m8. My case is clearly stated. See above. 👍😊
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  20476.  @jonb4020  “Facile, irrational and childish” in your opinion, Johno. As I said, cope better now. As you were.
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  20477.  @jonb4020  I disagree. It’s “tosh” in your opinion. You need better coping strategies to deal with those opinions you disagree with, son.👍👌
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  20478.  @vincekerrigan8300  But they are paying with their own money! Stop telling other people what to do with their own money ffs.
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  20479.  @inglepropnoosegarm7801  In your opinion.
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  20480.  @jonb4020  Translation: I don’t agree with the facts I have just read and can’t cope.
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  20481.  @soviet700  God, you’re boring.
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  20482.  @soviet700  Completely missing the point. Not surprising. It’s not my consent; it’s the artist’s consent you nugget!🤣
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  20483. Eric is terrific, though! 😉
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  20484.  @djackson652  With you all the way on Wodehouse! 👍 My second fave of all time, after Shaky. Thanks for the recommendation.
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  20485.  @soviet700  Tbf, m8, they are changing far too much stuff these days. Who are ‘they’? The deeply misguided, fascistic, left-leaning philistines. If you are offended by something, there is a simple answer: look away!
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  20486.  @djackson652  Hear hear!
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  20487.  @soviet700  Uh huh. Again, that the best you got? Jesus wept.
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  20488. I’ve read most of him and I’m not offended by anything he wrote; or anything Shakespeare wrote; or anything Dahl wrote … what does offend me is people getting offended on my behalf and unilaterally deciding to bowdlerise works of art, and in Wodehouse’ case, some of the funniest, wittiest stuff ever written in the English language!
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  20489.  @soviet700  Who said I was a fan of GB News? You’re all over the f*cking shop here, sonny!🤣
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  20490. No. Next.
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  20491. No fan of Markle, but the overkill coverage of her on this Channel is way out of proportion to her importance. She is boring, irrelevant and it’s a bit of a mystery why GB News spends so much time on her. And Harry, for that matter.
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  20492.  @gazdavies5581  Huh? Wtf. Am I not allowed to suggest Simon might be a bit of a fascist, at this point? Are you shutting me down? 🤔
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  20493. Really? I never remembered her.
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  20494.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Why are you laughing at your own unfunny gags?
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  20495.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Why do you constantly upvote yourself? Cringe.
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  20496.  @DeathToZioWarPigs *Tories
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  20497. *Tel Aviv
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  20498.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Why do you upvote your every post? Cringe.
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  20499.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Why do you constantly upvote yourself? Cringe.
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  20500. *a lot
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  20501.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  *you’ve
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  20502.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  *you’ve
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  20503.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Why do you laugh at your own unfunny gags?
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  20504.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  *Tel Aviv
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  20505.  @DeathToZioWarPigs Not funny. 🤨
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  20506.  @DeathToZioWarPigs *you’re
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  20507. Cos he’s a weird, badly coiffed, gurning twat. That’s why.
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  20508.  @caroldonaldson5936  Lol.
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  20509. Never mind that. Why does he always look like he has an unwashed combover?
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  20510. K, Norm. Another beer? Cheers! 🍻
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  20511.  @dogfriendly1623  Er, I know. It was a gag! 🤷‍♂️
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  20512. If the school pronto this year were Cinderella, would you reinstate your girls?
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  20513.  @pattipride9731  Lol@‘gay curriculum’.🤣 Men fancy men, women fancy women … this has been the case since humans have existed. There is no choice in this matter so why you are getting your knickers in a twist over this is utterly futile, pointless and, frankly, idiotic. Seethe and cope.
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  20514. @2:25 If Harry Potter ever decided to go for the sex change this would be more or less the outcome. 🪄
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  20515. Yes. Next.
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  20516. As opposed to ‘wiin’?
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  20517. But if it sells cars (and it probably will as these companies make ads to explicitly sell stuff), who cares? 🤷‍♂️
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  20518.  @Loblaw_Law  So if you take your car to the mechanic’s and they “fix” a wheel, but on your next trip, this “fixed” wheel falls off and you crash and kill someone: are you liable or is the mechanic liable? I rest my case.
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  20519.  @iamintentional  I repeat: if Baldwin was handed a gun on the assumption it was “cold”, he is 100% innocent. If he’s not innocent, we are entering into Kafka territory.
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  20520. Why is it that these people like Lee, like Tommy Robinson, have piss-poor basic English? Ironic, no? I know literally dozens of immigrants who speak better English than Lee Anderson. You’d think he’d be grateful for their advice on how to speak his own language. 🤔 Just for the record, I’m pro strict controls on immigration, but Lee Anderson? Ffs. I wouldn’t trust him far as I could throw the fella.
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  20521. @palerider955 I know. That’s because they upvoted themselves and I was there to see it. Think on.😉
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  20522.  @nihilistlivesmatter  It doesn’t. But it clearly does to you as you’re continuing with this. Deal with it. He upvoted himself. Move on.
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  20523.  @nihilistlivesmatter  Nah, m8. I just popped up immediately when he did and he upvoted himself. Cope a bit more now.👍
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  20524. Y r u upvoting urself?
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  20525.  @ClactonCuun  A little defensive now, aren’t we, petal? You’ve been stung, clearly. 🐝😉
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  20526.  @El.Cid17 Indeed. Shia vs Sunni. Tbf, Christianity has that with Protestant vs Catholic. The difference is that Christianity went through a Reformation and there was an Enlightenment so the Christians (Catholic vs Protestants) tend not to kill each other anymore (unless it’s an Old Firm match!). Islam has never had a Reformation or any kind of Enlightenment, so Muslims (even the more moderate ones) still take the Quran quite literally, which for the atheist/agnostics amongst us (and everyone else, actually) is bloody terrifying!
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  20527.  @jhonngreenn8084  I disagree. The ‘problem’ very much is ‘them’. Or more specifically, their beliefs. I have nothing against Muslims as people; I just don’t trust their ideology for 1 second.
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  20528. They say you shouldn’t confuse the messenger with the message, but I beg to differ, and with this charmless wonder I know for a fact that everything he ever says will bring me out in hives. He’s one of these people (as we speak, Christmas Day, he’s doing it to the invited guests on his GB News show) who does that bitey-lip thing, that stifle-yawn manoeuvre, that arrogant @rses do when they think they’re right about everything. Christys epitomises this.
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  20529.  @LondonSteveLee  We can agree to disagree. I happen to think humans have/are contributing to the 1.2° rise we’ve seen these past 150 years. You don’t. That’s fine. I’m not demanding you agree with me.
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  20530. There was no Adam and Eve. There probably is no God. I bet your surname can get tricky for dyslexics! 🤣
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  20531.  @TheEverest72  The spitting is disgusting, I agree. Nothing else he did was offensive to me.
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  20532.  @HeySay3  Why not make a protest against something you see as primitive and stupid? If no one ever protested, no progess would ever be made on this planet. Whenever the topic of homophobia arises, I’m always a bit mystified. Why do certain people hate homosexuality with such a vehement passion? Well, religion is clearly the no.1 reason as, in my experience, when questioned the vast majority (90+%) of homosexuality-haters I encounter are holy rollers who believe in this or that unverified and unverifiable invisible sky daddy. In the case of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) with their respective books written by men (anecdotally, I find men in my orbit far more likely to be homophobic than women and, tellingly, these same men are often far more forgiving of lesbianism than they are of male-on- male homosexuality), the literalist faithful are required to believe that homosexual sex is sinful and forbidden and by the letter of the holy law actually punishable by death! ( If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ~ Leviticus 20:13). No.2 is more than likely the classic closeted queer who just can’t accept their feelings and so actively pushes them away, for it is a truth universally acknowledged that those who express irrational homophobic sentiments are quite often repressed homosexuals themselves. Homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can (and often are) expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a “reaction formation” - the angry battle against the outward symbol of feelings that are inwardly being stifled. No.3 is the simple lack of basic education. When you grow up in a culture where the most important text is some primitive book written by fallible men 1000s of years ago, you know you’re going to bump up against some stupid, risible opinions which cannot be logically maintained without the appeal to a putatively omnipotent, omniscient ‘God’. In the same book of the Old Testament which institutes death for homosexual acts it also says: Ye shall keep my statutes … neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon you. ~ Leviticus 19:19 As I said: stupid and risible. I have many petty prejudices, some rational and some irrational, but hating what someone consensually does sexually isn’t one of them. Hitherto, not one person has given me a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality. I tend to dislike people and what they do in terms of their ideas, their beliefs, their opinions, their unthinking actions which harm others, their dress-sense etc., but not something over which they have utterly no say or control, and particularly not something which causes no essential harm to another. In this debate, it’s crucial to properly distinguish between ‘offence’ and ‘harm’. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you play an active role in being offended. A potential offence is offered and you choose whether or not to take that offence. No one can be offended without their own intrinsic consent. On the other hand, you can be harmed against your will. With homosexuality, so many people utterly uninvolved with and unrelated to the given homosexuals seem to be mortally offended. I say: so what? You’re offended. Deal with it. No one is harming you here. It’s none of your business so butt-out. Ultimately, hating homosexuality is like dissing people with a different skin colour. Pointless. Not only pointless, but utterly stupid and moronic, as no one chooses their skin colour, just as no one chooses their sexuality. But here’s the clincher for me: even if we did choose our skin colour and sexuality, it still wouldn’t bother me one iota that some random individual has a different skin colour or sexuality. The sooner we can move beyond this primitive nonsense as a species, the better. To me, being homophobic is a bit like feeling resentful of someone digging Uranus because you’re not an astronomer! 🔭 I repeat: Matt Healy essentially harmed no one.
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  20533.  @HeySay3  Ok, he inconvenienced a few folk. My main point stands: kissing his bandmate harmed no one. Get over it.
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  20534.  @JaxBox1  Lol. What a primitive place Malaysia appears to be.
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  20535. @@SpookyDjinn See above.
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  20536. @@SpookyDjinn No harm was done. He hurt no one. There was no victim. I repeat: where’s the issue?
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  20537. @@SpookyDjinn So?
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  20538.  @Mary.Quantum426  Uh huh. And did you ask those who already were living there if they wanted 5 million incomers? Love how you people just float here there and everywhere, and once you’re ensconced somewhere, you draw the ladder up, conveniently forgetting you were an immigrant yourself.🤔
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  20539.  @alexedwards6509  How convenient, Alex. You don’t want any outsiders in your house but are quite happy others from your house go elsewhere to other houses. Sounds like double-standards to me, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  20540.  @lks6248  Not the point. They are foreigners in a foreign land. You can’t start bending the rules just to fit your own personal agenda. Uh huh.
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  20541.  @alexedwards6509  I’m talking about the individual, m8. Any individual calling for no immigration to the UK needs to call for no emigration from the UK. Otherwise, that’s just double-standards “rules for thee and not for me” hypocrisy.👍
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  20542.  @alexedwards6509  I agree. But my point is that those who ask for no immigration here need to ask for the immediate repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living abroad; or at the very least, an immediate stop to any British migrant immigrating to another country. This thing works both ways, as I think you realise.👍
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  20543.  @alexedwards6509  I agree. I am just hoping that if he personally doesn’t want immigrants here, he shows his consistency and in the same breath asks for the immediate repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living as emigrants abroad. S’all. 👍
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  20544.  @apebass2215  I said that in my OP, son. You need better close reading skills as yer current ones aren’t up to much, pal. 👍
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  20545. Mark Kermode was revealed to me the other day like when the curtain was pulled back on the ‘wizard’ of Oz. He bent over a bit while chuckling to himself at one of his ever so funny jokes to reveal a most surprising expanse of slapheadedness atop his bonce. I felt cheated after being tricked for so many years by that luscious Brylcreamed teddy-boy quiff he sports so winningly if you view him head-on.
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  20546. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
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  20547. 0:20 “I’ve not done anything.” Right there was the red flag. She sounded like a 4 year old. “Mummy, it wasn’t me!”
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  20548. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
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  20549. And the Oscar goes to Will Smith for Bad Day for Black Chris Rock .
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  20550. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
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  20551. Storm Eunice: named by the European Union as revenge for Brexit.😳
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  20552. Will the dueling banjo Biden kid be Ukraine’s deliverance? 🪕
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  20553.  @corsojames  Yes. But I think you’re missing my point. We should, after 300,000 odd years of Homo Sapiens, have a system in place whereby we can turf arseholes like him out. The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  20554.  @protonneutron9046  And thank you for admitting you were completely wrong. Good man.
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  20555.  @protonneutron9046  Incidentally, again for the record, I never said it was NATO’s responsibility, so kindly stop putting words in my mouth.😏
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  20556.  @protonneutron9046  I said a majority of Ukrainians want to join. Putin knows this, dummy.😜
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  20557.  @protonneutron9046  Just for the historical record, Mr Literal, is has got something to do with NATO, as in case you’re not aware a majority of Ukrainians want to join. Check the record before coming at me with your unfounded crap. Also, learn to laugh.😩
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  20558.  @protonneutron9046  It was a joke. If you’re that literal minded you can’t allow for poetic licence, then I fear for your sanity.😂
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  20559. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🧐
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  20560. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  20561. It seems our alien brethren may have a sweet tooth. They seem to model their craft after our confectionery. We have tic tacs, sherbet flying saucers 🛸 and those balls whizzing around our skies look like nothing so much as gobstoppers.😳
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  20562. Yes, Maurice, and the people that operate certain hospitals are called psychiatric nurses.
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  20563.  @dmytrogalan1005  Wtf are you on, mate. If a vote is taken and a majority vote for self-determination is the result, what fucking problem do you have with this? It’s really not that difficult.😧
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  20564.  @dmytrogalan1005  Well, it is actually changing your point as I am here to tell you that the principle of self-determination is the only way we can go here. If you have a better principle then spell it out, sunshine, or forever hold your peace.😉
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  20565.  @dmytrogalan1005  That’s not the fault of the basic principle of self-determination. That’s sound. If humans can’t actually carry it out because we are so corrupt/stupid, then so be it.😳
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  20566. @Silver Let them go. Split the country. East Ukraine/West Ukraine. It’s not that difficult.😳
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  20567.  @dmytrogalan1005  Why do we complicate things as a species? A majority vote. Therefore this vote is honoured. If you have a problem with the majority vote then you are free to leave and go and live somewhere else. If I were ruling the world there would be no such thing as ‘nationalism’ or ‘organised religion’ anyway, but until the day they vote me in to carry out these policies, then I sit and carp from the sidelines, while nearly dead old morons like Putin put my safety, and the safety of my children in mortal peril.😳
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  20568.  @KDG860  Well, it is a bit of a custody battle. Do you think you can’t have parental dictators?😳
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  20569. Vladimir Putin: that toxic ex who just couldn’t let it go.😳
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  20570. War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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  20571.  @patrickdixon7202  Says the fella with the ghey tache. 🥸😉
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  20572.  @patrickdixon7202  Quit being a Dickson.
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  20573. Yeah, but our furthest out object, Voyager 1, is ‘only’ currently 14 billion miles away from Earth having been launched in 1977, whereas Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, is 4.22 light years away, or in other words, using current technology, what would take us 6,300 years to reach. This sheer scale of the Universe, for me, makes it nigh-on impossible that we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings or crafts. However, given the 200 billion trillion stars in the known Universe, I don’t for one moment, simply on the balance of statistical probability, doubt that they are ‘out there’; just not ‘in here’.
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  20574. @@ianardo127 *What’s Get it right or not at all, petal. 🤦‍♂️
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  20575. @@ianardo127 You back for more, Ian, son? You made the egregious error here. Own it and trot on.
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  20576. @@ianardo127 Yes, Ian. Twice. Hardly ‘everywhere’, sonny. You need a better coping strategy. Uh huh.👍
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  20577. @@ianardo127 I’ve written it twice, Ian. Sounds like you’re having trouble coping. Bad luck. 👍
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  20578.  @PeterPete Er, wot? You, PeteyPete, wouldny be here withoot a wee bitty hoo’s yer faither! Think on, sonny.👍😉
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  20579.  @Facts-over-Feelings. Huh? Wtf are you on about? 🤔
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  20580. Neither should our sentences. *.
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  20581.  @sabtaingopinath9652  I have read the Koran. I found much of it staggeringly tedious and staggeringly barbaric and primitive in equal parts. It rather reminded me of the Old Testament on both counts. 👍
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  20582.  precious9157  No. I have understood it. The book, written by men, is the tool, as you say. I just happen to think it’s poppycock based on manmade fairytales. If you want to “connect to the divine”, whatever that even means, given there is zero credible for a deity in the first place, you don’t need a book for that. Just go out and touch some grass.
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  20583.  @shazadWahid-xw2np  That’s fine. O’Connor was entitled to her pov. I just happen to disagree with it.👍
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  20584.  precious9157  No. I do understand. But to live your life on something written by men based on something else unverified and unverifiable seems mighty foolish to me. I get the ‘social’ aspect of organised religion. But you don’t need religion to get together with other human beings.
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  20585.  precious9157  No. I understand it. I repeat: I consider all organised religion manmade. Doesn’t mean I’m necessarily an atheist, just means I think men wrote a bunch of books and used them to control others based on the very natural human fear of death.
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  20586.  precious9157  Oh, I understand it. I just happen to think it’s all manmade poppycock! 👍
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  20587.  @divatalk9011  If O’Connor hadn’t been so stewed in Irish Catholicism from the beginning, I’d bet my life there’d have been no Islam later on. For the life of me, I never understand why we indoctrinate our children into unverified, unverifiable stuff like God and religion before they are capable of that choice themselves. It’s one of humans’ worst forms of child abuse, in the mental sense.
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  20588.  @StratsRUs  Many thanks. 👍
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  20589.  @memetopia5130  Huh? We are all ‘ethnic’.
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  20590.  @johhny711  Ahahahaha. Ta J.👍
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  20591.  @samrowbotham8914  I don’t give a stuff about yer ‘law’, son. And stop capitalising words unnecessarily. It makes you look a bit thick.
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  20592.  @samrowbotham8914  Lol. So you’re literally saying that if Bellingham’s mother had been a white English woman and his father a black African, he wouldn’t be ‘English’, but because his dad is a white dude and his mother a black lady he qualifies?! 👍🤣 Ok, son. You keep living in your insane dark little world.
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  20593.  @MostlyLoveOfMusic  Huh? And y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  20594.  @samrowbotham8914  Ok: define it…
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  20595.  @MostlyLoveOfMusic Many thanks! 👍
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  20596.  @MostlyLoveOfMusic  I am Sir Hugh Janus-Cockburn. Read it and weep, child. 😭
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  20597.  @tednash5440  Who said anything about “atheism”? You can not be an atheist and think organised religion is all manmade baloney. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive ideas.
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  20598.  @Subject82  No. We can do something. We can stop hitching our wagons to an accident of birth and organised religion.
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  20599.  @danchokonstantinov6735  Er, wot? Did you actually read my OP? I was suggesting there might be a different, better way.
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  20600.  @jonathancharles3719  K, Jonty. And ur subliterate. 👍
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  20601.  @danchokonstantinov6735  About wot? 🤔
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  20602.  @jonathancharles3719  Yeah, I want more degenerates rooming (sic) around, Jonty. Why do u ppl always have diabolical basic English skills, eh? 🤔
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  20603.  @jonathancharles3719  You’ve been brainwashed, Jonty. 👍
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  20604.  @jonathancharles3719  Huh? Wtf are you on about, son? Organised religion is just a manmade control mechanism. I, and just about everyone else I know, get on just fine without it. The sooner you religious freaknuts (of whatever stripe) realise this, the better.
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  20605.  @tednash5440  Yes, Teddy: control mechanism!!!!!!!!!!
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  20606.  @history_repeats8201  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  20607.  @hecimbecir8482  You just proved my point. 👍
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  20608.  @XDKnoori  So it’s ethno-nationalist, then. Ty for confirmation.👍
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  20609.  @history_repeats8201  Huh? You appear to think I’m pro open borders and unrestricted immigration. You need a better researcher, son.👍
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  20610.  @fabiobeka  They’re going to war because they are contending for power/freedom. Ok. Religion, ethnicity and language have zero to do with this. You are right. 👍
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  20611. Bot.
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  20612.  @loredanatagliaferri5339  Uh huh. And why are Israeli settlers constantly encroaching on the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem territory. You think they don’t secretly want Gaza as well? 🤦‍♂️
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  20613. Thanks. I like to keep up with all the latest trends.🤓
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  20614. The bigger question is: why are you a Muslim? If you’d been born, say, in the Amazon jungle, or Australia, or Argentina etc etc, chances are you wouldn’t be a Muslim. It’s an accident of birth, m8. You need to think about this. 👍
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  20615. And the only reason Israel will ‘hit’ them is they have their paymasters, the USA, bankrolling the whole shebang to the tune of $3 billion per year. If this were an equal fight, militarily, Israel would have been far less gung-ho with innocent Palestinians lives.
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  20616.  @invernessfan3017  Oh go away you hyper-sensitive flower.
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  20617.  @invernessfan3017  I wasn’t making a joke! Someone said we were all to pray and I, rightly, asked ‘to whom’? That wasn’t a joke. I meant it. Whom are we to pray to as it isn’t obvious? Maybe you can tell me.
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  20618.  @invernessfan3017  People inventing imagined daddies in the sky I call a joke. A very bad joke.
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  20619.  @deenieteenie3934  Look ⬆️. Dragonfly.
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  20620.  @deenieteenie3934  Someone else made the Starmer joke.
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  20621. Sus. You being paid for this? 🤔
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  20622.  @Jeff-jw1rl  My first comment established I was agnostic, Jeffey. Many thanks for your condescension notwithstanding this.
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  20623.  @jeremias-serus  It’s a good enough argument for me m8, notwithstanding your rejoinder which, incidentally, has more than a whiff of ‘the lady doth protest too much methinks.’ 👍
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  20624.  @almightysosa3007  Alright, son. Rein it in at this point, bruh.
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  20625.  @Syndie702  No it’s not ‘unclear’. You stole it from Franklin Leonard. You’re a thief. 👍
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  20626.  @fluchschule  Obviously education failed you.
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  20627.  @fluchschule  Huh? I thought 52% of the Gazan population was 21 or under. Did they elect Hamas? 🤔
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  20628.  @fluchschule  You’re confusing Hamas with ordinary Palestinians. 44% voted for them in 2006. Moreover, 52% of current Palestinians are under 21. Did they vote for Hamas? 🤔
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  20629. Will Nick Ross agree, though? 🤔
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  20630.  @user-xu5vl5th9n  No. I personally wouldn’t fire him. 👍😉
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  20631. Oof!
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  20632.  @asmrpillow457  Ah, you never upvoted yourself on this one. Yet. 👍😉
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  20633.  @asmrpillow457  Why are you still upvoting yourself? 🤔
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  20634.  @asmrpillow457  Not on the lips, though. That’s the issue here. If he had done the kissy cheek thing the Continentals are so fond of, there’d be no problem here.
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  20635.  @SadBoysCollectiveCirca96  So you need to engage them, son. You strike me as one of these tarts who would write them off at birth. Really? You have no real experience of life if you’ve never seen rehabilitation in action. You just sound like a strippem an’ whippem merchant. Look it into more, son. 👍😉
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  20636.  @SadBoysCollectiveCirca96 Er, and how do you know I’ve never experienced it first hand? 🤔
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  20637. Arrested dude was an alkally.
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  20638. Yvw,Sir. That’ll be £3,564 for 30 minutes’ plumbing work. 🛀
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  20639.  @dmaifred  Lol.
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  20640. Yes, ‘DodgyDave’. Let’s face it, DodgyDave, that name hardly inspires confidence. Don’t take that wrong.👍
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  20641.  @RogerMellie-yk3gw  Oh, that. Well, I certainly don’t think of myself as ‘woke’ but that, to me, was quite clearly racist and misogynistic. However, I wouldn’t ban him (or anyone else) from expressing such a view. The other thing to note is that it wasn’t actually a joke, as such. It was just a basic, rather unfunny personal statement. I think with comedians, it’s kind of in the job description that they should be funny. What Hester said wasn’t clever or funny but he’s entitled to think it and say it, imo.
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  20642.  @1inchPunchBowl  That’s more than slightly disingenuous. Back in the day, your argument would’ve easily obtained (mainly because smoking then was as ‘cool’ as vaping is seen today and more or less everyone was doing it), but no smoker I know today smokes directly in the presence of others and if they do, they establish they can with others before they do so.
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  20643.  @RogerMellie-yk3gw  ‘Hestler’?
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  20644.  @UAM-  That’s just a non-sequitur, mate, and has utterly nothing to do with my original point. Nice try, though.👍
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  20645.  @UAM-  I said the root of this conflict, the root , is organised religion. I stand by that comment.
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  20646.  @Yaya-vv9lp  Yeah, but your ‘religious’ acknowledgment seemed like a last line afterthought. Organised religion is the prime cause of this conflict.
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  20647. Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  20648.  @elizabethpeterson455  Nah, darlin’, this is Old World stuff. I’m here to tell you that North America (with the exception of Mexico) tends to have drab, hideous-looking cities. Toledo, Spain, my love. Yvw. 👍
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  20649.  @DmitriyK12  Er, y r u upvoting urself? 🤔
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  20650.  @DmitriyK12  Where? 🤔
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  20651. Nah. Malcolm McDowell’s best film was clearly ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
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  20652.  zxcts  You have my deepest condolences for being in north Tyneside, son. 💐
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  20653.  @tjfSIM  Offence is always taken, never given. You cannot be offended against your will. If you are offended, you are complicit in taking that offence. 👍
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  20654.  @WhichDoctor1  So why do people have the thoughts? Are they all invalid? 🤔 You seem too nicey-nicey. Humanity is brutal and tribal. It’s in our DNA. History has demonstrated this. We may evolve to a higher plane, but right now we are not there.
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  20655. There’s nothing ‘fascist’ about mistrusting Islam. It’s simply looking at it squarely and calling it. Islam is an invented sky daddy tribe. Trouble is, it’s the only one that’s substantially still causing regular trouble on this planet wherever it goes. As an agnostic, I see it as my duty to call it as I see it. Nothing ‘fascist’ about this, and certainly nothing ‘racist’ as, of course, Islam isn’t a race.
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  20656.  @ZionistDeceptionExposed Er, y r u upvoting urself, doofus? 🤔
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  20657. Cringe.
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  20658. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 😳
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  20659.  @danielmori501 Were there? Time stamps? 🤔
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  20660. No there aren’t. I literally can’t see any vehicles that fell into the water. The last vehicle we saw was a car 1:18 and that was well past before the hit. If you look at the wider shot in other videos there were no vehicles on the bridge at the time of the hit. Nice try, though.👍
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  20661. Very lazy.
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  20662.  @belkentens  Oof!
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  20663. Lazy.
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  20664.  @belkentens  Yes, you are.
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  20665.  @belkentens  Oof!
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  20666.  @manmaje3596  It’s not ‘weak’ at all. You genuinely seem unaware of the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’.
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  20667.  @manmaje3596  It’s not ‘weak’ at all. You’re the weak one here. Here’s a 🪞.
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  20668.  @manmaje3596  *You’re 🤦‍♂️
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  20669.  @manmaje3596  *You’re Pot, kettle, black.
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  20670.  @manmaje3596  *You’re Pot, kettle, black.
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  20671.  @SkandalouzStyle  I repeat: *They It’s not ok to be that stupid. 👍
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  20672.  @manmaje3596  Yes, I do. I have a background in law, so don’t patronise me, sweetie. It’s my opinion that if you take a life you are locked up for life. There now, that wasn’t too difficult, was it?
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  20673.  @StrikingAlexa  I was actually more thinking about if you commit crime so premeditatedly heinous, you should have your liberty taken till your dying day.
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  20674.  @SkandalouzStyle  *They It’s not ok to be that stupid. 👍
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  20675.  @Roy_Osovsky  Indeed, it’s not black and white, but the ongoing storm everywhere online is anything but not black and white as everyone seems to be ABSOLUTELY for one side or t’other.
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  20676. @chriscuomo9334 Yeah, I think there is aid in those trucks.
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  20677.  @Bungle-UK  Nah, I’m just saying, Bungle. You are clearly pro-Union. I’m agnostic on the issue, but I can clearly see that those who want independence are more or less neck and neck with the unionists. To deny that, is to be a prat, Bungle. I’m sure you won’t, at this point.👍
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  20678.  @Bungle-UK  Yeah, but things change, Bungle. Even Rod, Jane and Freddy were swapping each other back in the day, Bungle! 👍✌️😉
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  20679. @Gazelle2802 Yes, it’s just a fact, sweetheart. You can’t seem to cope with facts. 👍
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  20680.  @Bungle-UK  Nah, for me it’s about a democratic choice (regardless of the EU implications). If you can’t vote freely, you’re not living in a free country. You seem to be focusing on ‘Indy plans’ and aw that shyte, but it’s just a democratic vote. Look at Ireland right now. They are quite literally invaded by people whose culture is not necessarily traditionally ‘Irish’. I..e. it’s Muslim. I totally get this. Not a racist here, but we seem to have in Europe right now, more or less a free-for-all if you’re willing to take the chance… with zero repercussions if you arrive illegally in another country. Europe right now seems at a crossroads: do we want to import Islam at the rate of 10,000mph or do we just want to have gentle, planned immigration without the flood?
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  20681.  @Bungle-UK  George is jealous, Bungle. 😡
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  20682.  @TashaCreatesStuff  Ok, a few nice houses. Put it this way, and once again, losing LA in a fire is, by and large, not the same as losing, say, Seville or Marrakesh, or Rome, or Dubrovnik or etc etc. My point? LA is, essentially, one of the uglier urban spots on the planet, notwithstanding one or two pretty houses.
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  20683.  @ambirat ​​⁠I think you may have missed my main point, so for the hard of observing: if LA were wiped from the map tomorrow, it wouldn’t be missed architecturally-speaking and could be rebuilt without guilt. If, say, Prague, or York, or Granada, or Florence, or Budapest etc., were wiped from the map, they very definitely would be missed. Irreplaceable. LA can be re-created because there was nothing there to lose in the first place! 👍
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  20684. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. And, of course, those who lost their lives. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  20685. *Always *.
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  20686.  @DerekDavis213  Yvw, Deek.👍
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  20687.  @AM2K2  No.
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  20688.  @SamWilkinsonn  vanishingly adverb UK /ˈvæn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ.li/ US /ˈvæn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ.li/ used to emphasize how small, rare, etc. something is, so that it almost does not exist. I did nothing of the sort, kiddo! Bad luck. 😭
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  20689. Looks like England has 1000s of Dr. Dolittles!
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  20690.  @auberginemanproductions1608  Yeah, but not if it’s done by a ‘lone wolf’.😉
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  20691.  @gerryh7895  Gerald! Man! Stop being a Gerald and look at the founding charter of Hezbollah. Do it. And then stfu. 👍 😊
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  20692.  @gerryh7895 Not ‘cherry picking’ anything. You’re lazy. Do your homework and get back to me, Gerald.👍
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  20693.  @High_Lord_Of_Terra  As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero personal threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly lambasted Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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  20694.  @High_Lord_Of_Terra  Because I don’t trust it.
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  20695.  @High_Lord_Of_Terra  I do. 😊
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  20696.  @High_Lord_Of_Terra  I agree, in principle, with strictly-controlled, legal migration; not the illegal free-for-all we’ve been seeing across the Channel for the past 6 years. Yesterday, 700+ made the trip. Imagine if the UK had better weather: 700+ would be making that trip every single day of the year! That’s well over 250,000 unregulated, undocumented people we know nothing about p/y. The other thing to point out is that almost single one of these people is Muslim. If you drop a drop of red dye into a bath full of water, it doesn’t show up. If you pour a bucket of red dye into the same bath it changes it instantly forever. There’s much to be said for gradualism.
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  20697.  @LdevArt That’s not really the point though, m8. C’mon, just wake up here. Britain currently accepts about 1% of its population in incomers every year! You can’t deny that’s high. You can be pro-immigration, but there is such a thing as having standards. The other elephant in the room here is obviously Islam. Britain is a secular liberal democracy. Islam isn’t. Be in no doubt that when Islam gets a critical mass in the UK (it’s currently about 8% and projected to be 20% by 2050) it will want the show run on its own terms and conditions. That’s the difference: my agnostic liberalism allows Islam to exist and breathe and do its thing; Islam doesn’t allow that same latitude for my liberal agnosticism. It wants, and will impose where it sees it can, its medieval nonsense based on an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy, wherever it can.
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  20698. Given how threadbare and, frankly, shitty Putin’s army seems, if he were to go on to attack NATO territory I fear that precisely because he has a creaking conventional military he’ll desperately resort to that button. Then all bets are off.
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  20699. That’s his real accent. Brand is common as muck. Much about him is affected, but the accent is real.
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  20700.  @ActuallyHoudini  Huh? Most all of us think “crime to be inappropriate”. You’re as clear as mud, m8.
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  20701.  @ActuallyHoudini  There’s inappropriate and there’s criminal. So, which is it?
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  20702. Why do we, as a species, let people like Putin near a trigger which could spark a nuclear nightmare? 😳
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  20703. If ever proof were needed, that after 300,000-odd years, that we are still a very primitive species, it’s this. One man, one fucking man plays out his whim. No one else but him wants this. So, my very basic question is this: why do we tolerate him?😳
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  20704.  @4y564 Yes.
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  20705.  @belkentens  Oh, it means a lot, Belendtens. The very fact you were pushed to reply proves that, Belendtens.👍😉
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  20706.  @HaveanOreshnik Not ‘succumbing’ to anything, son. You need to get a swift grip of yer chat faculties, sonny. You’ve been called out and yer struggling to cope. That’s fine. But own it. 👍
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  20707.  @belkentens  You make me moist, Belendtens. Moist.
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  20708. No. Nowhere looks as ugly as Detroit.
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  20709. Er, it’s a comments section, son. No one is claiming to be Jesus here. We’re just commenting on stuff. Like you. Cope harder.👍
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  20710.  @LordCaptainFather  Yvw, sweetheart. 👍❤️
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  20711.  @spudspuddy  You ain’t minimally educated.👍
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  20712.  @belkentens  You’re just jealous, Belendtens, as you still live in yer mammy’s bungalow! 🤣
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  20713. ‘Prayers’?! Lol. We live on a planet that your ‘God’ created and sustains… why would we need prayers in that case? ‘Prayers’ almost suggests you doubt your invisible sky daddy exists. 🤦‍♂️
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  20714. ,
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  20715.  @Roy_Osovsky  I don’t particularly support any side but imo Israel has been far, far too heavy-handed with the ordinary average Palestinian. There is more than a whiff of ‘collective punishment’ about the whole thing.
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  20716.  @carolyndymond4065  Er, I’m not American. 🥴
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  20717. Indeed. Basil Brush needs to be arrested for war crimes forthwith! 🦊
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  20718.  @mike.B.1  Er. A totally illegal war in Iraq with hundreds of thousands massacred and maimed? Put away your double-standards, egregious hypocrisy as it doesn’t work. There is no get-out clause of “collateral damage” in an illegal war.
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  20719.  @bobrail733  Taking after their “prophet”, who was partial to the occasional “young girl”; so much so, the durtee old perv married one! 🤣
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  20720.  @tyeinstem  👍
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  20721.  @elizabethlacky6068  He’s soulless and his “ock” smells.
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  20722. Yes. 13-19. Yvw.👍
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  20723.  @Onion_Knights  Are you? K. I was referring to Africa.
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  20724.  @Onion_Knights  Huh? 🤔
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  20725.  @I_Lemaire  And u keep upvoting urself like an insecure doofus. 👍🤣
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  20726.  @zara2gf  Well, that’s fine. Just don’t expect Israel to not be ‘embattled’ for as long as it exists. We’re witnessing that ongoing ‘embattlement’ as we speak. Asimov nailed this, Sonia, as I’m sure you’re clever enough to see. 👍😉
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  20727.  @I_Lemaire  Still upvoting urself, I see. Cringe.
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  20728.  @I_Lemaire  In your opinion. Clearly not in the opinion of millions of people for whom this matters to them more than it matters to you, son.👍😉
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  20729.  @DianeMonahan Ok, Diane. Another one-sided view. 🥱 Sick of the partiality. Of course, Israel has done absolutely nothing heavy handed and reckless since October 7th. Nothing at all. 🥱
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  20730.  @I_Lemaire  I’m not supporting Hezbollah. This lady is having a natural human reaction to her society being attacked. You don’t know she supports Hezbollah. All I know is that, yes, Israel has a right to exist and defend itself but it also has a duty to wider humanity to do it way less heavy handedly. Just my opinion. You will disagree, no doubt. That’s fine. It’s just some of us in this farrago spare more than a thought for the tens of thousands of innocents caught up in it all. Including the very first innocents back on October 7th. There is no moral black and white here for me. It’s shades of grey. Israel is not necessarily a ‘good guy’ here in the way it’s defending itself. S’all.
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  20731.  @richardallan2767  Lol.🤣
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  20732.  @Iamalemonwhy  Not in my experience. Keep on coping now.👍
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  20733. It’s actually not. Yes, these things are terrible and hideous and barbaric, but I fairly recently spent 2 months circumnavigating both India and Pakistan and the people I met were some of the kindest, friendliest I have ever encountered on this planet. Which makes this barbarity all the more perplexing. Oh, yeah. Organised religion.
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  20734.  @T.C556  You’re seriously deluded if you’re labouring under the impression that millions of Brits (and Europeans) haven’t had enough of constant mass immigration.👍
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  20735.  @louisee7339  Lol. And ‘net migration is down’ isn’t ‘waffle’? 🤣Actually, you’re right, it’s utter piffle! 👍
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  20736.  @T.C556  ‘Shame on me’? A ‘community is grieving’? Last I checked that same ‘community’ was rioting! Read about why they are rioting and get back to me. 👍
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  20737.  @cantspellrestaraunt Tbf, that’s gross. If you factor in the emigrants it comes down to about 700,000 net.
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  20738.  @belkentens  Oof!
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  20739.  @belkentens  That’s a yes, then.
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  20740. Is it cuz yer a Belendtens? 🤔
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  20741.  @belkentens  Well, you’re triggered enough to reply, Belendtens, so you canny be that bored. Hypocrites R Us. Oof!
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  20742.  @belkentens  Oof!
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  20743.  @belkentens  You’ve done the ‘have you been drinking again?’ stuff before. Boring.
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  20744.  @belkentens  Just for the record, you have literally written nothing even remotely interesting on here in your puff, son. Facts. Oof!
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  20745.  @belkentens  You just can’t handle the truth. Oof!
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  20746.  @belkentens  Just for the record, Belendtens, you’re another one of these sub-literate creatures whom I could imagine calling for ‘homogeneity’. Not on your nelly, son. I’d rather die (I mean that; no joke) than be ‘homogeneous’ with the likes of you or Jimbo. Don’t take that wrong. Oof! 👍
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  20747.  @SalemikTUBE  Bore off, son. 🥱
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  20748.  @harry.flashman  Will you? Ok, son. 🥱
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  20749.  @hyperquantum3020  Huh? My “compatriots”? Once again, you’re way off the mark, petal. Nice try again, sweetie.🤦‍♂️
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  20750.  @hyperquantum3020  I’m not in “Europa”, sonny. Nice try, though.👊
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  20751. They are all manufactured by the ‘agency’.
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  20752. There’s no evidence Jesus existed, m8. Get over it.
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  20753.  @richjacobs9736  You’re lost, m8. You think you are found, but you come across as deeply lost.
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  20754.  @patsanters2741  Fair play. You’re not keen on organised religion. I think we agree! 👍
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  20755.  @patsanters2741  Er, wot? 🤔
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  20756.  @petertwiss4215  The clue was in the name.
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  20757.  @KittenBowl1  Azov Nazis make up less than 1% of total Ukrainian forces. Funny how this is never pointed out.
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  20758.  @antonmsk3401  And? That’s a non-sequitur to my point that Russia has just spent 8 weeks massacring a city without mercy.
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  20759.  @pohanahawaii  That may be so. He’s also quite clearly a deeply, deeply creepy man. https://youtu.be/wcpX2wYUr88 https://youtu.be/Zf8sJri25kU https://youtu.be/h6GgR4GMFjM
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  20760.  @friendgray1  Ahahahahaha. 👍😉🤣
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  20761.  @friendgray1  But it wasn’t limp! It was just a regular handshake ffs.
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  20762.  @friendgray1  But it wasn’t. It was a regular handshake. As I said, did I miss something?🤓
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  20763. Didn’t see anything wrong with it myself. Did I miss something? 🥸
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  20764.  @borntobebroken  Well, it got you to reply so it can’t be that much of a ‘fail’, m8. Nice try, though. Lolz.👍🤣
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  20765.  @levbronstein-red  No. But you might be.
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  20766.  @RXM-ri9bv  How virtue signalling are you?
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  20767.  @samtopps7905  🐷
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  20768.  @stuartjohn5149  🎻
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  20769.  @belkentens  🥱
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  20770.  @belkentens ​​⁠Moreover, Belendtens, your underlying assumption is that someone ‘non-posh’ (ie. a scally like you, schweetie), can’t be educated. In your case, this is obviously true, but to make this a general rule would be a grave mistake, Belendtens. 🤪
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  20771.  @ascgazz  *enough You were saying …? 🤔
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  20772. Lol@‘posh’. You have nae idea, son. 🤣
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  20773. But they’re not moist for you, Belendtens. Bad luck, schweetie.👍
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  20774.  @belkentens  🥱
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  20775.  @belkentens Uh huh. 🥱
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  20776.  @belkentens  🥱
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  20777.  @belkentens Moist(ure) not, Belendtens. 👍😉
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  20778.  @Anti-citixen_98 Wot? It took me a nanosecond. 🥴
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  20779. Harrison Ford is filing a lawsuit as we speak.
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  20780. BELENDTENS 2023
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  20781.  @marleycannon238  Huh? 🤔
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  20782.  @marleycannon238  Huh? 🤔
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  20783. *she’s And stop upvoting yourself. You don’t deserve it.
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  20784.  @BJOHNSON1110  Yup. 👍
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  20785.  @insomniacbritgaming1632  Lol. Let’s beat the living sh*t out of another human being just cos we can. That is essentially what you’re saying. You are dangerous.
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  20786.  @hughjass7330  🤣
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  20787.  @ryand141  👍
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  20788.  @rustytinfoilhatchannel4815  Huh? Last time I checked, you were a follower of the Bible, no? Leviticus 20:13: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them . Really? You honestly believe in this stuff? No one, hitherto, has given me a single rational reason why I should hate homosexuality. It’s always holy rollers, of whichever stripe you care to mention. That’s not good enough for me. You know why? You haven’t established the existence of your “God”. 😉
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  20789.  @rustytinfoilhatchannel4815  🥱
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  20790.  @rustytinfoilhatchannel4815  Er, wooooooooooot? 🥴
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  20791. What are you on about? Jesus was a troublemaker, instigator of conflict, and a frequent disrupter of unity. He made a whip to forcefully drive moneychangers (bankers) out of the Temple, over-turning their tables (John 3:15). His disciples went out without a money belt, bag or sandals, and lacked nothing. But now, they are to bring a money belt and bag; and if they lack a sword , they are to “sell their cloak and purchase one” (Luke 22:35-36). Jesus the so-called pacifist instructing his followers to buy a sword? A pacifist? Really? It would be akin to him today advising the purchasing of a gun. This Jesus explicitly warns his disciples that he did not come to bring peace to Earth, but division (Luke 12:51). Not peace, but a sword! Because of him, son will turn against father, daughter against mother, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. Even a person’s enemy will be a member of one’s own household (Matt. 10:34-36). I fear your Jesus is a little PG in this debate. 🗡
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  20792. Lol. We have a contradictory problem, Houston. 😂 🙄Is it the native Brits or the immigrants who have a ‘deep entitlement mindset’? 🤔
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  20793.  @ScottishRoss27  You are assuming I support the Union. You need to do your research, pal.👍
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  20794.  @jk28416  Huh? That’s what I wrote. 🤔
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  20795. Yup. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
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  20796. You make a lot of good points. But when you say ‘Western Jews have zero ties to the Middle East from an ethnic point of view’, well, by that logic you could say that the millions and millions of people of Western European descent have zero ties from an ethnic point of view to the North/South America they currently inhabit.
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  20797.  @djadam21  Adam, you would do well to read and digest these words, for as someone with no skin in the game here (lapsed Catholic agnostic), for me they are pretty much spot-on: I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (Isaac Asimov)
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  20798.  eclipse-sh1qmZ3mOtcua  The Exodus may very well have ‘never happened’. However, that’s irrelevant, given that we still have religious Biblical literalists amongst us. A big part of this whole problem here stems from the religious Zionist zealots who base their claim here on what God promised them in Genesis 15:18.
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  20799.  @tharunsat  Yeah, but there’s poverty and there’s poverty . The average Brit is far more well off than the average Indian. Moreover, Britain doesn’t have thousands dying of hunger every year.
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  20800.  @mithunkundu7229  I do care for the homeless in my country. I have worked for a homeless charity for over 20 years.👍
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  20801.  @elbonia4682  I’d call thousands dying every week of avoidable hunger/malnutrition more than a “few problems”. If you want to be so flippant and insouciant about that situation then that is your prerogative. Perhaps you wouldn’t be so apparently carefree about the situation if it were you who were starving. I would be saying the same here btw. If we had people literally dying of hunger I would be calling for that to be sorted before we blast rockets into Space. In the case of India, the will clearly isn’t there in terms of feeding its whole population adequately. If it were, you wouldn’t be sending rockets to the moon, but making sure everyone was properly fed. This is surely about priorities. Life and death priorities.
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  20802.  @elbonia4682  UK.
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  20803.  @elbonia4682  Disagree. Get the basics right before you start shooting for the stars. If this were a mission to other planets or star systems, then I might be more persuaded. But to the moon? When your country is literally crawling with the result of deep poverty? Really? Is this the best use of limited resources? Strikes me as a case of running before you can walk.
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  20804. I find her shexy.
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  20805.  @Robespierre-lI  Huh? Lol. I think you have the wrong person! Agnostic anti-nationalist here.👍
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  20806.  @hrieyansh  Wow! You boys over there are changing your ethnicities faster than we’re changing our genders over here! 🤣
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  20807. What? You clearly have never been to India if you see more beggars here than there. India is, quite literally, crawling with deeply poor beggars.
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  20808. Religion. Shia vs Sunni. Saudi is Sunni. This dude was Shia.
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  20809.  @belkentens  Lol. Aye. You ok Belendtens? 👍😉
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  20810. I agree. The Boat Race is just an excuse for privileged poshos to have a jolly on the Thames. 👍 🚣‍♂️
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  20811.  @charlieboy6315  Woosh! 🌬
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  20812. Feels like a paid bot.
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  20813.  @tierneylogan5943  So put it to a vote in a referendum. It’s easy to say Palestinians oppose a 2 state solution. I’m here to tell you that if there were a referendum tomorrow on a 2 state solution, I actually reckon a majority of them would vote in favour of this. Of course, the real nitty-gritty will come down to how things are parcelled out, but if this were done justly, honouring both sides, I repeat, I think the Palestinians would accept this in a majority vote.
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  20814.  @cdean2789  You sound like you need to learn about full-stops. *.
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  20815.  @The_Funguseater  Is it? How? You saw the CCTV, didn’t you? The bike was being pursued at speed by the cops. Are you telling me these boys didn’t know this? Of course they knew this, and they should’ve stopped in that case. This ain’t rocket-science.
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  20816. *could have
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  20817.  @Macias78ful  Er, whit? 🤔
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  20818.  @Macias78ful  Er, and how does that negate the fact millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration? I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia; Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
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  20819.  @Macias78ful  My thoughts? The explanation is that many ordinary European people have had enough of uncontrolled mass immigration. 👍
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  20820.  @Tohma_Ed  Er, whit? 🤔
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  20821.  @shesh2265  You live in a world without basic punctuation.
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  20822.  @jonathanbailey1597  You’re telling me you don’t call 1.2 million immigrants in a year and on a small island of 67 million, ‘mass immigration’? Are you insane, at this point?
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  20823.  @jonathanbailey1597  It’s a fact, son. If you can’t deal with facts, then that’s not my problem.
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  20824.  @jonathanbailey1597  It’s not ‘rhetoric’, m8. 1.2 million in a year is fact. Look at it and cope.👍
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  20825.  @jonathanbailey1597  1.2 million into a country of 67 million? What do you call it?
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  20826.  @val-schaeffer1117  Empire. Their ‘Indians’ and ‘Pakistanis’ are Algerians and Moroccans.
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  20827.  @TheStarBlack  ?
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  20828.  @kushsakhu Islam.👍😉
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  20829.  @shoelessjoe428 Another big part of this is a strong antipathy towards the religion of many (most?) of these immigrants: Islam. Islam is dangerous in liberal secular societies because its values are inherently opposed to secular liberal democratic societies and if it sees any chance to impose itself, it will. There are some very interesting times ahead for Europe given that, for example, Sweden is predicted to be fully 30% Islamic in 2 decades.
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  20830. Perhaps. I once lied about sitting on a liar. Uh huh.👍
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  20831.  @davidrenton  Not necessarily. She was First Minister, doing the day job. And if it was her “hubby” or that other guy who’s in on this, they are hardly likely to tell her, are they? I stick by my gut feeling that Sturgeon herself is innocent here.
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  20832.  @stephenwalker2924  *you’re tut tut, Stephen.
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  20833.  @TheMagicJIZZ  The term Nakba (Arabic: النكبة an-Nakbah, lit. 'The Catastrophe') refers to the violent displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people, along with the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. Put away your agenda, mate.👍
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  20834.  @TheMagicJIZZ  “The Nakba doesn’t refer to land displacement.” Disingenuous in the extreme. Yes, it literally translates as ‘catastrophe’ but in this case specifically refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
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  20835. @@TOM-TOM-TOM Yes they did. 👍 They stole land and booted out hundreds of thousands. Cope with the facts, son.
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  20836. @@TOM-TOM-TOM Yes they did. 👍
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  20837. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I’m going to repeat this, Tommo, in the hope you actually read it this time: When you create an artificial state by stealing land from others and thereby dispossessing them and then proceed to oppress them for decades on end, do you really expect no blowback? It was inevitable Israel’s neighbours were going to have a problem with its 1948 creation. It’s a bit like some random pitching up in my back garden one day and then proceeding to take over the whole house! Isaac Asimov nailed this: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.
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  20838. @@TOM-TOM-TOM Yes it was. You have an agenda that can’t see this. Asimov nailed it. You can’t deal with this fact.👍
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  20839. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I’m bored at this point, m8. You seem to want a fight where there isn’t one. If you can’t see the way Israel was created was likely to cause ongoing and lasting hostility in its neighbours then that’s your issue, not mine.
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  20840. @@TOM-TOM-TOM No I don’t. You have the issue here. Your levels of projection are off the charts at this point! 👍
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  20841. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍 👈 Read this, Tommo, and cope better. You’re an embarrassment to yourself at this point.
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  20842. @@TOM-TOM-TOM And you’re still at it 2 hours after I posted my position. It seems you have an agenda, Tommo, son. Uh huh. 👍 You need to read better, sonny. 😉
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  20843. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍 👈You may have missed this bit.
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  20844. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I didn’t change any tune. Israel has a right to exist, imo. You just got trigger-sensitive when I suggested the way it was done might be problematic.
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  20845. @@TOM-TOM-TOM You may have missed this bit: I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍 I would emphasise ‘the way it was done’, here. 👍
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  20846. @@TOM-TOM-TOM You may have missed this bit: I have no intrinsic issue with the existence of Israel; the simple point I was making was that they were in for trouble after its creation, due to the way it was done and where it is. 👍 I would emphasise ‘the way it was done’, here. 👍
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  20847.  @billmoretz8718  ‘Many people have been displaced from many places.’ Indeed. That was my point. Ty for confirmation, Billy.👍
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  20848.  @freakinfrugal5268  K. Just kinda bizarre that you make this all about you. Weird.
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  20849. Lol. Meanwhile, your potential ‘relative’ freezes to death. 🥶
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  20850.  @Chrissy-uk  Huh? I think you conveniently ignored my point, which was: if I had to name 2 current politicians who are in the news recently, then for 2 self-absorbed w*nkers, I couldn’t do much better than Galloway and Anderson. In this respect, they are peas in a pod. The egos have landed.
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  20851.  @barriewilliams4526  Er, who said I voted Labour or Tory? 🤡
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  20852. *It’s *tells *you’re *?
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  20853.  @MrBeautifulmountain  Just for the record, m8, it doesn’t even have to be a different language. In the UK, people judge and discriminate on accent alone yet we all speak the same language. This judgement and discrimination is only ramped up x10 when we’re dealing not with just different accents but different languages.
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  20854.  @MrBeautifulmountain  No it’s not. Language is a key component of people’s prejudice towards others as it feeds into the they are ‘different’ narrative. Along with ethnicity and religion. If the OP was “poorly worded” that makes your original reply to it disastrously worded.👍
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  20855.  @OlafKlaus-kx3kn  It’s about religion, ethnicity and language and the human tribal mentality, bro. You yourself just gave the game away with your own phrase “ethnic cleansing”, bruh. I would never hurt another human being for ethnic or religious reasons because I’ve been educated and brought up not to think of myself in those terms and therefore not to think of others in those terms, bud. It’s primitive beyond belief, bruv. If you can’t see this, you may be one of them, brother.
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  20856.  @js1872  Huh? What ‘perversions’? It’s a fella in a frock ffs! How threatened are you by this? Really? Genuinely don’t get the issue here. There is precisely nothing to get your frilly knickers in a twist about here, dear.
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  20857.  @js1872  *Unless *he’s
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  20858.  @cockneycharm3970  🤓
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  20859.  @davidz3879  How do you know? You are assuming we all have free-will.
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  20860.  @ccutehoney  I agree.
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  20861. Lol.
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  20862. Why? Is it his politics? Is that why he has a tonne of haters.🥸
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  20863.  @angelaregan475  100,000 according to most sources I’ve just checked.
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  20864.  @ruggeddiscipline6026  A Taurus? I expect bullshit from a Taurus.
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  20865.  @Chris_Tinacan  Lol. You are aware of the party he represents? 🤦‍♂️
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  20866. Steady now, ‘Creepy Kathy’s’ a bit of an unsung sexpot.
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  20867.  @andrewgreen5892  Nope. Still don’t see them. You keep saying you’ve ‘shared’ them but you haven’t. Just direct me to the websites ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  20868.  @andrewgreen5892  ‘There are several such polls. I’ve shared two above.’ Er, where? 🤔
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  20869.  @andrewgreen5892  Just as a point of order, can you provide a link for your claim about ‘multiple polls’ as having searched, I can’t seem to find any? 🤔
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  20870.  @danponitlong  Caps lock impresses no one, love.
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  20871. The enemy is us. Look at yourself.
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  20872. Putin: often seen riding horses. Macron gifts Xi Jinping with a horse. Kim Jong Un very publicly riding a white horse in a recent North Korean propaganda film. All I’m saying is if we ever see Iran’s Supreme Leader on a horse, we may just have our 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.🤔
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  20873. Really? Saudi Arabia and Iran, ‘mortal enemies’?! And here was me thinking they believed in the same invisible sky daddy! 😢👍
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  20874. Huh? So the massacred 3,000+ children were ‘dancing in the streets’ were they? 🤦‍♂️ Jesus H Mohammed.
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  20875. Says the fella from Scotland: THE most druggie, drunk country in Europe, bar none. Hypocrites R Us. Well done you! 👍 🍺 + 💉 = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  20876. Nobody in Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, North/South America, Indonesia etc “invited” the Europeans when they colonised them.
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  20877.  @richardduplessis1090  Yeah, bruh. Chillax, m8.👍 😎
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  20878.  @richardduplessis1090  Oh ffs, Dicky, man; loosen that tie, son, it’s far too tight and cramping my style, bruh.
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  20879.  @tjmarx  I wasn’t wrong, son. I got a year wrong. 745,000 last year. Cope. 👍
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  20880.  @tjmarx  I got my years wrong, bruh. It was 2022 that we had 745,000. So, I was pretty much correct all along despite your pettifogging. 😊
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  20881.  @tjmarx  Ok, dude.
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  20882.  @tjmarx  Lol. You’re quibbling about 70,000 now are you? K, TJ.👍
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  20883.  @tompearce3610  I think we agree. We can do all that without 750,000 immigrants every single year.👍
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  20884.  @belkentens  Wtf, Belendtens. You are a lost old man. 👍🥴
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  20885.  @belkentens  What? Am I black? Why? 🤔
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  20886.  @belkentens  Me stung ya, Belendtens. Not difficult. Lol. 🤣
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  20887. Says the Belendtens. 🥱
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  20888.  @SimonWallwork  Utter bollix. The analysis shows that ‘theft from shops’ was the most frequent offence, accounting for more than a third (36%) of women’s prison sentences of less than six months in 2022. (Prison Reform Trust) Nice try though, son.👍
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  20889.  @dewiwilliams4821  More patronising stuff, eh Dewi? You stick to tending yer sheep in the valleys, son, and leave the important chit chat to the big boys. 🐑
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  20890.  @dewiwilliams4821  Keep your patronising ‘pity’ for yersel, son, as yer clearly not very good at this rather elementary stuff.👍
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  20891.  @dewiwilliams4821  Yes, in that order. You don’t go to jail without not paying the fine for not paying your tv license. Once again, do try to keep up at the back. 🤦‍♂️
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  20892.  @dewiwilliams4821  Again, you’re missing the point here. That being that you have a chance here. If you don’t pay the telly license you’re fined. You’re not thrown into jail. If you don’t pay the fine, you know you might be jailed. Do try to keep up at the back.👍
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  20893.  @Maccaboy1984  Dude was saying you’d be imprisoned for not paying tv licence. You won’t. You get a chance. You’re fined. Don’t pay the fine and then prison. Pay attention. I’ve already said I think Edwards should do time for this.
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  20894.  @dewiwilliams4821  Pay attention. I’ve already said I think Edwards should do time for this.
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  20895.  @mangostripes2335  Er, that’s not the point. Dude was saying you’d be imprisoned for not paying tv licence. You won’t. You get a chance. You’re fined. Don’t pay the fine and then prison. Pay attention. I’ve already said I think Edwards should do time for this.
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  20896.  @davidcooks2379  Er, no it’s not in terms of the original comment about prison-time. It moves it back one. Gives the opportunity to be fined and then be imprisoned if you don’t pay the fine. Nice try, though.
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  20897. Er, ‘appalling’ adjective: causing shock or dismay; horrific. I think the dictionary definition of ‘appalling’ just about sums it up…
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  20898.  @TamagoHead  To be fair he’s 5ft7. That’s about the average for men on this planet.
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  20899.  @williamturner6366  That may be a grievous insult to snakes. 🐍
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  20900.  @joshradcliffe8563  It does for me, Joshy. Bad luck! 👍
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  20901.  @joshradcliffe8563  Indeed. I have no issue with state incarceration, or ‘kidnap’ as you like to call it, but I tend to draw the line at state murder. Not sure why you’re finding this so difficult to grasp.
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  20902.  @lanatana3867  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  20903. Uh huh. And 75% of Americans aren’t ‘brainwashed’ in the name of a ‘false religion’. Gotcha! It all makes sense now.🤔
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  20904.  @Aquascape_Dreaming  Uh huh. And are you gonna ‘gloss over’ the tens of thousands massacred in cold blood these last 2 and and half weeks? 🤔
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  20905.  @Joyeusecolombe  Er, last time I checked, the last Crusade was 1291. What century are you living in, sweetheart? 😅👍✌️
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  20906.  @em2906ethis  You missed a full stop, Em. Do you not realise how deeply unattractive that is? 🤦‍♂️
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  20907.  @ayoolukoga9829  🥱
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  20908.  @ayoolukoga9829  🥱
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  20909.  @belkentens  Lol. Are you really suggesting there are only British migrants in Spain?🤣 Fool.
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  20910.  @FaceFcuk  Nowt wrong with my English language, sonny. Seethe and seethe some more. 😷🤡
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  20911.  @hitthenorth9667  It’s not a poor argument in this case. The OP is one who wants no immigration to the UK, regardless of its legality or otherwise. On that basis and in that context, I was perfectly correct to suggest the repatriation of the 5.5 million Brits currently living abroad. Nice try, though.👍
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  20912.  @user-bi8ko7kc6h  No. Jimbo is someone who wants zero immigration into the UK. Learn the facts of the specific case before you make any more embarrassing blunders. 👍😉
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  20913.  @slavbrav69  Huh? Why are you asking me this? I fear you have the wrong fella. 👍
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  20914.  @wamteng3790  Lol. 👍
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  20915.  @Stardog32  Hyperbolic descriptive terms.
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  20916.  @Stardog32 Indeed. Nonsense slogans like ‘climate emergency’ and ‘global boiling’. Alarmist poppycock!
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  20917.  @tableshaper4076  The irony of someone in a country which was established and built on immigration moaning about immigration! 🤦‍♂️ It doesn’t work like that, son. You don’t leave Europe, take over a whole landmass that wasn’t yours to begin with and then pull the drawbridge up when it suits you. That’s not how it goes. I’m sure you can see this.👍😉
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  20918.  @Doom_Slug  😉
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  20919. I know, right? If they were offering me £20k, I’d be wanting that per hour!
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  20920.  @croydonexclusivess  Get a room.
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  20921.  @IRISHSALTMINER61  In your opinion. I don’t believe it is a “scam”. You need much better coping techniques with people who happen to disagree with you.
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  20922.  @IRISHSALTMINER61  No, the past century is not “actually cooling”. There has been a 1.3°C rise in global average temperature in the past 150 years. Do keep up at the back.
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  20923.  @bigbasil1908  It could be you who is the “brainwashed cnt”. Have you thought about this with your insufferable smugness? 😉
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  20924.  @bigbasil1908  One ice cap is growing. The other isn’t. Also, before the Antarctic growth there was decades of decline and melt. You tell me? Climate is a long-term thing. I’m no eco-zealot. In fact, I can’t really stand the Greta gang. However, having looked at the evidence and given the 99% agreement of climate scientists I happen to think that the 1.3°C warming these past 150 years is largely down to human activity. Even anecdotally, I can tell the planet is warming as I have been something of an amateur meteorologist since I was a kid. Given that it’s warming, and is warming rapidly, fossil fuel emissions, for me, seem the most likely reason.
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  20925.  @bigbasil1908  No. I’m not saying “people or agencies” can’t lie. What I am saying is that I don’t believe “people or agencies” are lying about the warming of the past century. ROFL
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  20926. No. They just want men like Andrew Tate to go away. BIG f*ckin’ difference! 😉
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  20927. Pmsl.
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  20928.  @nomorenamesavailabl1668  Lol. You have no idea who or what I am, sunshine. Think on.😉🤓🤑💪💪
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  20929. Cope and seethe.
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  20930. Ah, ok, Robert. Looks like we got ourselves a Putler defender here, Jim, and it ain’t pretty. NATO is evil, ergo, Russia must be in the right for invading a sovereign, self-governing territory. Go figure.
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  20931.  @vivremaintenant841  C’est vrai! Et curieusement, je perds souvent du temps en France ! Et voilà! 🍷 🥖 🧀
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  20932. @Bao That sounds good, m8, but ultimately means f*ck-all. Nice try, though.👍
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  20933.  @aminulhussain2277  I refer you to the answer I gave you some moments ago. Stop embarrassing yourself, son.😉
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  20934.  @django3422  Stop projecting, son, and trot on. 🐴
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  20935.  @django3422  Always. Seethe and seethe again, sonny.
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  20936.  @aminulhussain2277  First bit: in your opinion. Second bit: your use of ‘moot’ means it’s exactly up for debate, therefore your point about my point is also ‘moot’. Looks like you just intellectually hobbled yourself, sonny.😂🤐 Nice try, though.👍
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  20937.  @michaelrch  Without ‘capitalist corporations’ you wouldn’t be on YouTube posting that. The hypocrisy stinks, m8. Take a look at yourself in your holier-than-thou mirror, ffs, man.
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  20938.  @gemcami7243  You keep speaking about the personal (you) and ignoring the principle. That’s fine. I don’t doubt you personally are no danger to women in their private spaces or anywhere else. That’s not the point. As it stands, a clear majority of women don’t want men in their spaces, it seems. Although a biological man, I can categorically say that if I were a biological woman, I wouldn’t be happy with trans women (biological men) in my personal spaces. If society changes in the next 100 years and the majority of biological women are fine with biological men in their restrooms and changing rooms, then we can go with that. I’m not here to persecute trans people; this is about protecting safe spaces for biological women.👍
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  20939.  @gemcami7243  Er, wot? No idea how that’s relevant to what I posted. 🤷‍♂️
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  20940. As someone once said, if liberals won’t enforce borders, fascists will. The vast majority of people I’m aware of, including myself, have no issue with controlled, legal immigration. Where the issue becomes problematic for many, again including myself, is when there appears to be absolutely no control over the influx of potentially illegal immigrants, which is what we have seen over the past 5 years with the Channel boat crossings, with 764 in 2018, 1,900 in 2019, 8,404 in 2020, 28,526 in 2021, 45,756 in 2022 and on this trajectory, we could see 70,000 this year. Of course, not all these people will be illegal economic migrants, as a proportion will be genuine refugees and asylum seekers. However, this notwithstanding, the immigration issue, as it stands, appears utterly chaotic and out of control and is categorically no different than having a random individual (illegal migrant) breaking into your house and demanding they stay, and you have no real way of evicting them. Of course, if that individual were desperate and genuinely fearing for their life and general safety (asylum seeker), most people would take pity and provide support, but even then this has to be done in a controlled manner. Whether one likes it or not, in the world as we have established it these past few centuries, borders matter. Sovereign territories, like sovereign householders, should absolutely have the right to refuse entry to illegal entrants. For example, for the life of me I cannot understand why we are accepting of so many people from an intrinsically safe European country like Albania. If you’re a genuine refugee, legality and basic humanity tells us these people should be humanely processed and if in fear of their lives, granted asylum. However, with illegal economic migrants, it’s also in their interest to claim refugee status: in other words, a key component of going some way to resolving this issue is to hire more staff to process the applications. Another component would be to go to source, that is to the gangs organising all this. There should be much greater emphasis placed on breaking up these networks . Imo, giving the French £500 million quid is throwing good money after bad. Letting migrants leave French shores is so many fewer migrants France itself has to deal with, so it’s folly to assume they are going to be on the case in this regard. Sending illegal migrants elsewhere is also invidious. Can you imagine the uproar there would be if it were the other way, and if Rwanda, for example, chose to send tens of thousands of its illegal migrants to the UK? There would be rioting in the streets. Migration is not going to go away. Given this, there should be binding agreements between European nations whereby they intake mutually-agreed quotas. The whole issue is a tangled web. One final thing: we need to scotch this fallacy that the UK takes more than its fair share of refugees. In 2021 there were 148,200 asylum applications in Germany, 103,800 applications in France, 62,100 in Spain, 43,900 in Italy and 37,562 in the UK.
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  20941. It’s men. That’s the problem here. Cocaine is a convenient scapegoat. Male morons are fuelling this violence. ‘Twas ever thus.
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  20942.  @YaNansCrustyToe  Don’t interfere, sweetheart. I and Belendtens have a mutual laugh agreement. You spoiled the party. 🤡
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  20943. But I thought you weren’t a Belendtens! 😂 👍 Just kiddin’, son. Or am I? 😮 😂
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  20944. @ Who’s tip-toeing? Ask Maggie Oliver. 👍
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  20945. Jesus, man. Are you really trotting this one out like we haven’t heard it 10,000,000,000,000,001 times before? 🤦‍♂️Have you not got any more original horses in your stable, Belendtens? 🐴
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  20946.  @ashroskell  Yes. I never questioned that. You assumed that others are doing that indiscriminately. Be more careful.
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  20947.  @shit__gamer  Neither are the global warming deniers’. On my side, all the objective evidence points to a rapidly warming planet. Cope.
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  20948. Uneducated?! Lol. Says the person who for some bizarre, pointless, uneducated reason begins every other word with a capital. 👀
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  20949. It’s not necessarily the ‘far-right’. I consider myself a liberal centrist but I have just as many concerns about unregulated, illegal immigration as the ‘far-right’ might have. If you think this is a ‘far-right’ thing, you’re seriously mistaken.
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  20950.  @dylandylantoriyama5370  Yep.
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  20951. ‘Their land’? That was an accident of birth. Why would you love that?
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  20952.  @TheTruth-id1in  You’re missing my point. The Presidents and the Prime Ministers are obligated to serve on the front line as a rule of war, no excuses.
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  20953.  @JayaByte  Thanks.
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  20954.  @YA-hm5zy Wake up, m8. By 2050 the UK is projected to be 17% Islamic. Sweden, astonishingly, is projected to be 30% Muslim. A full third of Swedes will be Muslims. Sorry, call me modern, but when I see a medieval cult based on precisely nothing dictating the terms and conditions, I kinda get antsy! 🐜
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  20955. Lester’s Pillgottengains! 🐎
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  20956.  @Jamal-jv8yc  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  20957. *people’s Imagine being afraid of the possessive apostrophe! 🤣
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  20958. It was a white fella you divvy.
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  20959.  @ffotograffydd  Aye, I do say so, son. You would do well to cope with this and stop laughing in the face of common sense, darling. Those Welsh valleys won’t save you at this point, sweetie. 👍
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  20960.  @ffotograffydd  No, but you were going recent, son. You needed a better historical back trajectory, sweetheart. S’all.😉
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  20961.  @ffotograffydd I don’t think it necessarily is an act. He’s happy to play fast and loose with non-Brits in his private life, but I’m not 100% convinced he wants them in the UK. Otherwise, why would he do all this? He’s seen as this right-wing, anti-immigrant dude. Why, if you’re not a right-wing, anti-immigrant dude, put yourself through all this? 🤔
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  20962.  @ffotograffydd Yes, perhaps most recently. But we can play that game with any name, m8. Was just pointing out its putative root origins.👍
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  20963.  @belkentens  Ahahahahaha… was that Norway’s answer to Ababababababa… 🤔
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  20964.  @belkentens  Tbf, Belendtens, you strike me as the type of c*nt who has never got out of his bed! 👍 Don’t take that wrong.
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  20965. Especially if it’s on Precinct 13. 👍
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  20966.  @belkentens Er, and what’s the issue with gays? Wtf? Are you one of those projecting tarts, Belendtens? Yer doing that projecting thing again, aren’t you, sweetheart? 👍😉
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  20967.  @belkentens  Lame. 🥱
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  20968.  @belkentens Yer dull, Belendtens. I know it, we know it, and, ultimately, you know it. And this is your tragedy. 😢
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  20969.  @belkentens ’Posh’ ~ Translation: ‘I can’t cope with another human being who has read a book cover to cover.’ (Pop-up books don’t count.) 😭
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  20970.  @belkentens Read a book, Belendtens! G’wan, Belendtens. I dare ya! Read a book! 📕👍😉
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  20971.  @belkentens  Yeah, but you’re that deadly combo of dull and thick. I may be ‘unfunny’, but you’re just terrible. The irony is that you seem to think you’re great. 😬👍
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  20972. If it was lactose-free, I do hope no real 🐄 ards were involved! 😮
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  20973. Crossed with Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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  20974.  @pjl8119  He just told us 10 miles a day. No hype in that. A body has just been found a mile away, or thereabouts. 3 full days search. Potential 10 miles a day? Something doesn’t quite add up here.
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  20975.  @qibriti3220  *.
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  20976. Don’t tempt them, Andrea… 2 consenting adults won’t stop them from impinging on your life. It’s terrifying what they will do if you let them… it’s what they do on the basis of an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. If we let them, they will. 👍
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  20977. *Putin’s Waits for better basic grammar. 😴
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  20978. Yeah, who could blame Israel for maiming and massacring thousands of innocent people? Uh huh. 🥴
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  20979. This stuff is always intriguing. On 13th January 1982 commercial aircraft crashed into the Potomac. 42/43 years later. The power of the 7. Things happen at 7. Never underestimate it. For good or bad, look for the 7 in your life.
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  20980.  @lentilsouper  Did you go to school? If you did, you appear to have missed the day when they taught basic punctuation, m8. Just write ‘we’re’ and not ‘were’ ffs. ‘Were’ is something totally different. I can’t take you seriously, son. 🤦‍♂️ You’re an embarrassment to yourself, your family and the apostrophe.
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  20981.  @KenYeo  Lol. So you’re telling me if all these people involved in this were the same race, of the same religion and spoke the same mother tongue language, we’d be here? Get real.👍
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  20982.  @KenYeo  It’s not ‘flawed’ at all. Organised religion, race and language differences are, more often than not, at the root of human conflict on the macro-scale. Yes, land and resources are involved here, of course, I was simply pointing out how human beings organise themselves and into which tribe they allocate themselves, in order to stake a claim on those land and resources. It’s all predicated on accidents of birth.
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  20983.  @lentilsouper  And yet, organised religion has been directly responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people since we had the misfortune to invent it. Interesting that.
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  20984.  @lentilsouper  Er, my ‘factual evidence’ is invented, religious texts written by men, that so many, inexplicably, still follow religiously (pun intended) to this day. Nice try, though. 👍
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  20985.  @Nigel-y3g  Lol@‘religion was not invented’.🤣 Yeah, it just, like, fell from the sky. Gotcha! 😉
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  20986.  @lentilsouper  No, correct. The root of this is land claim based on manmade religious texts written by men. Add in race/language differences, et voilà!
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  20987.  @KenYeo  So, it’s about race then. As the OP suggested. 👍
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  20988.  @CG-zi5ku  So, it’s about race then. As the OP suggested. 👍
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  20989.  @CG-zi5ku  How does any of that invalidate my OP? You’ve just confirmed a big part of this is down to race. You’re right; it is. Along with organised religion and language.👍
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  20990.  @Nigel-y3g  Organised religion is, historically, one of the greatest disasters humanity has had the misfortune to invent. If all Palestinians and all Jews followed the same religion, there would be far less trouble here, historically. A huge part of the roots of this conflict is indeed down to manmade organised religion.
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  20991.  @VoicesrilankaSinhala  Er, who says I support Israel here? 🤔 You need to fire that researcher of yours, petal, as they are clearly utter shite. Don’t forget now: next time you’re in the supermarket, buy yourself a sense of humour!😉🩲🇵🇸
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  20992.  @GhastlyCretin  Er, is it? That’s your opinion, sweetheart. Some of us have different opinions. 👍
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  20993.  @Delmar483  C’mon, get real. If you go to a place that serves drinks all day that contain dairy products and you ask a human being to make a drink without dairy, you still have to take responsibility in the sense that you need to factor in possible human error, as in this case. If I had a dairy allergy, every time I bought a coffee I would either have it black or make damn sure I actually see the barista adding soy/oat milk, not actual milk, before I drank it.
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  20994. No. It’s the first meme to have a war. Big difference.
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  20995. Well, I’m a person from a walk of life, and I don’t. The Peterson fanboy nonsense is, to me, more disturbing than the shibboleths he is attempting to question. I agree with bits, but he’s not right about everything. You wouldn’t necessarily know this from the Peterson gobble-boys, so busy are they servicing their homoerotic hero behind the bike sheds, while the likes of Sam Harris calmly demolishes Peterson’s non-existent argument for the existence of God.🤓
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  20996. yawn
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  20997.  @melanchorly7618  👍
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  20998. He looks a bit like Martin Scorsese. 🍿
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  20999. Aww, diddums. 😭
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  21000. @16:57-17:00 Lol. He’s camper than a row of tents!😂
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  21001. ‘Godsend’? ‘He’s not perfect’? Are you saying the infinite, all-powerful, benevolent Father in Heaven would deign to send us damaged goods? That’s Jeff Bezos’ job.😳
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  21002. But but that’s just demand and supply, pal. It’s not rocket science. Men’s insatiable demand for titties causes the wages of those ladies supplying those titties to skyrocket.🤓
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  21003. Her hubby’s a lucky bunny. She’s gorgeous.😎
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  21004.  @vanylaskywalker  She’s an interviewer. Her job is to probe. Peterson himself admits in the interview that she is only doing her job. Therefore a phrase like ‘so you’re saying that’ seems perfectly reasonable and normal in this doing of her job. There is massive misogyny, horrendous hate directed to virtually any woman who interviews St. Jordy. The gobble-boys are so identified with their man (dreaming of what might be perhaps, if only they could shove Tammy - Timmy? Tommy? - out of the way😳), that they seem to think he can’t be possibly be wrong about anything. This is the pathology of the fascist, as they put all their faith in one leader.🤔
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  21005. Newman actually is much better here than the publicity would have you believe.😳 Peterson on points but it was no knock-out. And the ‘so you’re saying’ thing was not nearly as many as the publicity suggests either. I counted about 7. And she’s interviewing him so that’s to be expected in a normal interview as she establishes terms. Hmm …🤔
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  21006. This fella, with his unsubstantiated, (and unable to be substantiated), unverified nothings about an invisible sky God, loses all my respect for anything else he happens to say, God-themed, or otherwise. I try to stay objective and fair, but when someone, anyone, tells me they’re at the behest of this or that deity high (pie?) in the sky, and they are unable to provide a scintilla of credible evidence to shore up the extraordinary claim (see Sagan), then why should I consider anything they happen to tell me worthy of my time? As Nietzsche posited: Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s blunders? Well?😳
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  21007. Alert: Jordan Peterson is seen with woman. Cue the misogynistic fanboys leaping to their hero’s defence. ‘Oh, Jordy, gobble, gobble, yes, Jordy, gobble gobble, three bags full, gobble, gobble, we’ll protect you from that horrid womanhood, gobble, gobble. Do you still want me, Jordy? Gobble, gobble.’🥸
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  21008.  @JohnSmith-ul7xn  As opposed to ‘left on’, one presumes.
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  21009.  @110hutch  👍
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  21010.  @110hutch  I agree, this wasn’t Newman’s finest journalistic moment, but to use that as an excuse for the ugly misogyny manifested by the mad Peterson gobble-boys is not acceptable.👀
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  21011.  @FetDiB  Er, ok.
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  21012.  @steveblade1416  👏Read me back, chummo. Imbibe the comedy glory. Let it seep into your arid system and fertilise your bleak soul such that one day you wake up with comedy genius spewing forth from your mouth and fingertips, like a rabid dog gushing buckets of infected phlegm!😉 My main advice, though? Ditch God. Stop burdening your non-existent soul with a non-existent daddy in the sky and you shall become free to realise your being as it was meant to be.😳
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  21013.  @steveblade1416  She’s told me she has accepted your profuse apology, and will be in to oversee your rectal examination in a jiffy. 👩‍⚕️
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  21014.  @steveblade1416  There probably is no God. Bye. 👋
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  21015.  @billyponsonby  Way hay! 👏 Bravo, Billy! Some sense at last. If only the Jordy gobble-boys could take a leaf out of your book then this world would be a saner place.😉
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  21016.  @confusiong758  😳
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  21017. It is a truth universally acknowledged that if someone messages you on YouTube, and the basic spelling/grammar is non-existent, then if you go to their subscribed channels PewDiePie ( yawn ) will be one of these. Moreover, there is a high to very-high probability they will be that most dratted of modern instances: the gamer.😳
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  21018.  @confusiong758  *you’re (also missing a ‘?’) Jeez, the state of human education these days, mother. 🧐
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  21019.  @AryaXVII  😉 *ThAt’Ll
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  21020.  @AryaXVII  That’ll be ‘yes’ then.
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  21021.  @joshaklese4969  Yes, Nurse Key. Whatever you say, Nurse Key. Three bags full, Nurse Key. Can you take my temperature, Nurse Key?😳
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  21022.  @AryaXVII  Projection, dear boy?🤔
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  21023.  @steveblade1416  *It’s
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  21024. @1:20 Only just, Jordy. Actually 56%/44% male/female. @2:40 Tumblr is even closer 51%/49% female/male.
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  21025.  @luxid413  Aww, c’mon hun, it’s just a bit of good ole British bants. Lighten up, sweetie! 👍
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  21026. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  21027.  @baali2057  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  21028.  @mmkt9487  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  21029.  @Humanity0101  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  21030. God has nothing to do with this. You’re deluded if you think that’s the case.👍
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  21031.  @beaufighter245  Huh? So a “deal” done by whom for whom? I don’t follow. Explain, pls.🤔
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  21032. Source?
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  21033.  @StoutProper  I know there’s been a few. I was just quoting the most famous.👍
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  21034.  @TheMagicJIZZ  *Right’s Don’t they teach something as very basic as the possessive apostrophe anymore?🤦‍♂️
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  21035. Jesus wept. Don’t bring God into this mess. He’s a big part of the reason we’re here! 🤦‍♂️
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  21036. Fox News? Frei is as left as they come. 🥴
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  21037.  @thedude2916  Some of those on the left would posit that those patriotic ones have been indoctrinated and brainwashed into basing their core identity on an accident of birth. Works both ways, matey.
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  21038. ‘Their own country’? Lol. Based on what? An accident of birth? Well, that’s just primitive. That’s like claiming the sun is yours because you weren’t born orbiting some other sun in the Galaxy. You’ve clearly been indoctrinated by whichever culture you inhabit.
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  21039. So does the sexual abuse you received at the hands of yer granny.
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  21040.  @arthurzengeler8296  Lol. 🎻😂
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  21041.  @henryprzepiorka  No it’s not. Nice try, though.👍🤡
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  21042.  @anthonymcken6050  Er, wot? 🤔
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  21043.  @Coco-uk9tv  Ok. So what are you saying? Every country must only have certain individuals living there? Chinese must never leave China and live elsewhere? Jews must only live in Israel? Africans must never leave Africa to live somewhere else? Is that it? If that’s the case, in the same breath you need to demand that every single European not currently living in Europe to leave and return to Europe. The point I was making about Muslims was they tend to cause trouble. Or a cohort of them does. Poles don’t. Jews don’t. Chinese don’t. They, by and large, go about their day bothering no one. Muslims and Islam often tend to meddle. And not in a good way.
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  21044.  @jeongbun2386 Yawn. 🥱
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  21045. Yawn. 🥱
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  21046.  @chizukinspiration613 If your next-door neighbour invaded you and massacred your family, would you be disposed to ‘choosing peace’? I’d be raging. Call me human.
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  21047.  @Masterdon159  Uh huh. And Israel has just created the next generation who will hate them.👍
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  21048. When it’s an egg in France.
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  21049. We have a ‘war on crime’, a ‘war on drugs’, a ‘war on poverty’, a ‘war on terrorism’ and a ‘‘war on ignorance’ but what we don’t have is a ‘war on war’. 💣
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  21050.  @BarmyDeer  Yeah, but to be fair, since about 1945, the USA has invaded dozens of countries.
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  21051.  @davidmurphy563  No you didn’t. You clearly suggested that Armchair General Tophat was all fact. Read yourself back, m8.
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  21052.  @davidmurphy563  Incidentally, Davey, the whole 2nd paragraph of Armchair General Tophat’s post was pure speculation and opinion; no facts at all. Just sayin’! 🎩
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  21053.  @davidmurphy563  👈Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! Incoming sense of humour bypass alert! 🚨
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  21054. @0:25 Fair play to this lady. She appears to coordinate her tattoos with her clothes. 👍
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  21055. Really? Are you online often? Racist, anti-gay stuff is rife in 2025. Wake up! 👍
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  21056. *fomenting
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  21057.  @bladerunner16  I wholly agree with your last statement. 👍
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  21058.  @bladerunner16  Ah, ok, you kinda agree. Well done. 👌
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  21059. Don’t be daft. I never peddle anywhere. I take the bus. Usually.
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  21060.  @lookate2001  I agree. Putin is an arsehole. But he’s a dictator and he invariably gets his way. I’m not for invading sovereign, self-governing nations, whether this is done by the West or by the likes of Putin. However, we cannot be surprised when Putin does this; he’s only doing what the West has done since at least 1492.
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  21061.  @lookate2001  It’s not Canada or Mexico having a loaded gun, it’s the notion that Russia has an agreement whereby it can station its missiles on their soil. That was the point. Putin, as far as I can see, is just defending his interests. Like we all do.
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  21062.  @nickbarton3191  Well said, that man.👍
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  21063.  @liveonce2102  I’m no fan of Putin. Just sad for everyone involved. However, the West needs to realise that Putin is quite simply playing the tune it has been playing since at least 1492.
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  21064.  @jimmytgoose476  Mr Meldrew’s just jealous, cos his wifey’s an A cup!🤣
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  21065.  @mrmeldrew693  I don’t believe it!
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  21066.  @johntogo8608  No I don’t. What do I know? I’ve lived in 3 African countries in my time. Seethe harder.
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  21067.  @johntogo8608  I’d also rather live in the US, for all its faults, than the brutal non-democracies littering Africa right now.
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  21068. You’re terribly thick, aren’t you.
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  21069.  @Isclachau  Seethe. And seethe again.
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  21070.  @emmap1159  Er, there has been ‘bad sh*t’ ever since humans walked the Earth.
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  21071.  @randal_gibbons  Lol. S’ok, m8. Shaky had a sense of humour. Unlike you, Randy! 😉👍
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  21072.  @Mezzystar1  In the interests of further research I just watched his ‘Hi Ren’ thing here on YouTube. He kindly writes out all the lyrics for that 10-minute ramble. He’s semi-literate. Not the worst when it comes to rappers but to this listener his lyrics are just vaguely banal tbh. Take away the psychosis background and I’m not totally sure what he’d have to say and everything he does say appears to come from that. Tbf to him, he appears to have some musical ability, but his lyrics? Nah. He strikes me as someone who would appeal to those who simply don’t read books. Which is most people under 35 these days. And quite a few over 35. Moreover, I’m willing to bet decent money he’s not much of a reader himself. Readers can spot this a mile off.
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  21073.  @Mezzystar1  I’ve never come across a rapper yet who isn’t.👍 Tbf to Ren, in his case he seems to have a bit of a middle-class indie shoe-gazing background so he may be more literate than the average rapper. However, regardless of his semi-literacy, or otherwise, my essential point here was the response to the nonsense claim that he was somehow on a level with Shakespeare.
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  21074.  @nigelstuart756  No. The ‘only difference’ is arguably the greatest poet and playwright and person, yes person , with the greatest insight into the human condition than anyone else who has ever lived. And it isn’t Ren. Just having psychosis does not a genius make you. Most of the comments in this section bore about the psychosis as if that automatically grants you some kind of unique insight into the human condition. Ren’s palette as far as I can see is severely limited. One, two colours at most. Shaky had all the colours on the spectrum and the infinite shades in between. At least you kinda know what you’re talking about as you have a working knowledge of Shakespeare. However, what I find perplexing is how you can put Ren on a par. He’s clearly not and if you were honest with yourself and the rest of us you would admit this.
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  21075.  @marissanorth85  He was not of an age, but for all time! (Ben Jonson) Typical of ‘your generation’ you people seem to think that anything that happened before you were born is pointless and worthless and irrelevant. ‘Before my time’ is the refrain of philistines who wouldn’t know a book if it came up to them on legs and slapped them in the chops!
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  21076.  @marissanorth85  For our generation, he is our Shakespeare. 🤦‍♂️ If some 2-bit, semi-literate Welsh rapper is your generation’s Shakespeare, then God help your generation!
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  21077.  @kellyt5341  I understand your point about the Shakespeare comment. Why thank you. Alleluia! 🙏 What I said about Ren was my honest opinion and it’s the opinion I still hold and isn’t likely to change anytime soon. He’s moderately interesting, but nothing special. 👍 Shakespeare is currently birling in his grave at the thought some people like Stevie had the temerity and brass neck to lump him in with an average urban songster pop thingy.
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  21078.  @kellyt5341  What? Wtf are you on about? All I was calling out was Stevie’s ridiculous claim that this Ren fella is on a par with William Shakespeare. It’s me who’s getting all the flak here! A good man making a good, valid and irrefutable point and you all come at me like a pack baying hounds keen for their quarry and ready to tear him to pieces if they get half a chance. Telling me you have a gammy leg, and thereby angling for the sympathy vote, won’t alter the facts: Ren thingumybob isn’t fit to lace Shaky’s shoes ffs! 👞
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  21079.  @steveparker8065  Ren is pub league on a wet Sunday in Swansea, Stevie. And that’s on a good Sunday! 🦢
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  21080.  @steveparker8065  “Shakespearean levels”, Stevie. That’s the elephant in the room here, bruh. 🐘
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  21081.  @steveparker8065  A bard of Shakespearean levels. 👈 Your words, Stevie, not mine. These were the only words I was responding to as they are quite possibly the most ridiculous set of words in that order I have read in quite some time. G’night, once again, bruh.👍
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  21082.  @steveparker8065  A bard of Shakespearean levels. 👈 Your words, Stevie, not mine. These were the only words I was responding to as they are quite possibly the most ridiculous set of words in that order I have read in quite some time. G’night bruh.👍
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  21083.  @steveparker8065  I’ve replied to you with wit and sound rationality all through this thread, Stevie. You’re maybe just a bit stung as you’re coming out your weird trance whereby you seemed to think this fella was on a par with Shakespeare. Nice to see you’re seeing the light here.
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  21084.  @kellyt5341  I just said he can’t touch Shakespeare with a barge pole, Kel. That has been my one and only point here all along. You’re now dragging this into something else which has nothing to do with my one and only point.
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  21085.  @steveparker8065  You seem to think you’re funny, Stevie. It’s just cringe. Seriously. But let’s not end on a soor note, boyo. I bit thee farewell with all good intentions.👍😉
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  21086.  @steveparker8065  I’m perfectly nice, Stevie. You clearly don’t know me. 😊
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  21087.  @steveparker8065  K, Stevie, son. We can agree to disagree on this one, pal. Awra best noo! 👍😉
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  21088.  @kellyt5341  To me, Ren is ‘some random guy’. I have given him a listen and he’s just some minor back street poet with a minor orbit. 👍
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  21089.  @steveparker8065  I’m not ‘hero worshipping’ anyone. You are doing that with your cringey hagiographic praise of some minor Welsh rapper tart.
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  21090.  @steveparker8065  Yes, but yer man here is not in the same league as Shakespeare ffs! You clearly haven’t read Shakespeare or you wouldn’t continue with this silly comparison. Shakespeare is at the top of the Premier League while this boy is bumbling about in the pub leagues at best. Get a grip, man!
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  21091.  @steveparker8065  I repeat: this fella isn’t (and won’t be) even a minor footnote to Billy boy when all the votes are counted.
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  21092.  @kellyt5341  Not upset at all. You’re reading too much into this, love. I was just pointing out the ridiculousness of comparing some random guy with the greatest writer of poetry and human wisdom who ever lived. S’all.👍
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  21093.  @magidmagian2408  I made that point about the ‘one God’; these religion-drunk imbeciles actually believe in the same fictitious sky daddy! Nietzsche once asked: ‘Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?’ ~ Well, while not an atheist (agnostic here), one thing I am sure of is that organised religion is one of mankind’s blunders.
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  21094.  @sandrakrys9262  Jesus is an invented character, based on the dozens of dying/resurrecting pagan gods before him. The whole thing was stolen wholesale, more or less. Because humanity is highly susceptible to what we are taught when young (“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ~ Aristotle), and to what others around them believe, we are still in thrall to the regular nightmare of organised religion. It truly is one of the greatest disasters human beings have had the deep misfortune to invent. Only an enlightened education can end the nightmare. I say all this as a non-atheist.
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  21095.  @TOTULprinHAR  Given by whom, or what? An invented man in the sky with a beard. Guess who invented him? Jewish people. Funny that! 👍
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  21096.  @Shekhinah74  The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (Richard Dawkins) The brutal irony of this situation is that both sides believe in the same manmade, invented invisible sky daddy! Once you write this stuff down, and get a critical mass to buy into it, it’s very hard for humanity to shake, alas.
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  21097.  @FromthisInstanceOn  The point I was making was that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not. We cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia, that’s all. He’s only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing west? It goes without saying, that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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  21098.  @leeetchells609  It was a joke, m8. Ty for the anally-retentive response. 👍
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  21099. The best way to ‘tackle’ the violent disorder would be to stop importing 1% of your population year on year. Truth is, what happened in Southport, Hartlepool and Downing St., Aldershot and now Sunderland was a genuine manifestation of how millions feel in the UK apropos mass immigration. The political class will ignore this at their peril. To put some figures on this, net immigration to the UK in 2023 was 685,000. The UK currently has 67 million. That’s a full 1% of the population immigrating as a proportion in 1 year! No wonder so many people feel like their home is being invaded. Literally.
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  21100. Tbf, dude wasn’t a Muslim. 👍
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  21101. Says the never ran.
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  21102. @fredpitterpatter6882 Yes, but can we have that in basic English, Freddy? 🤔
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  21103. Er, how do you deduce that, Jimbo? Muslims hate gays. Why would he be in favour of those who hate his sexual preferences? 🥴
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  21104.  @kalsoumkhan6648  I’ve genuinely got no skin in this game (lapsed Catholic agnostic), but you sound worryingly like a Hamas apologist. What they did on Oct 7th was the definition of evil. You can’t have it both ways: if you criticise the actions of the Israeli state, you need to condemn Hamas’ barbaric actions.
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  21105.  @jamesl2846  Huh? That makes no sense, given Ukraine can apparently penetrate Russia with unmanned drones, comrade . Seethe.🤣
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  21106.  @starvictory7079  Lol.
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  21107.  @kerryfry1857  👍
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  21108.  @hfredydl  Yvw.
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  21109.  Shahid Hussain  Lol. There is no God. Cope.
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  21110.  @alioptim  I get most of my help from “Allan”. At least he actually exists. Just sayin’! 🥸
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  21111.  @boulevard14  The latter.
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  21112. Scene: a stormy playground at Geopolitical Junior High School. In the distance, the sound of war drums Putin to Zelensky: “Oi! Zelensky. Give us your dinner money or else.” Zelensky to NATO: “Please can I be part of your gang? Here’s my dinner money.” NATO to USA: “It’s ok. We’ve got this but you might need to give us more dinner money.” USA to Russia: “Look, if you don’t stop this there’ll be no more dinner money for you!”🧐
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  21113. 🤦‍♂️
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  21114. 🤣
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  21115.  Roniixx  Lol. You’re using the ‘collateral damage’ trope now are you? You are aware that the deaths/injuries of Israelis to Palestinians over the past 7 decades is about 10 to 1, aren’t you? Why? Well, Israel has a massive military supporter. Were they ‘collateral damage’? This won’t get sorted until there is an independent Palestinian state just as Israel was granted an independent state in 1948.
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  21116. *.
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  21117. @GillMunchen Not posting yer usual BBC (durty scum) rant today, Gill? 🤔 Well, it is Sunday after all; ‘day of our Lord’ and all that manmade baloney. 👍😉
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  21118.  @emm_arr  Ahahahahaha. It all makes sense now. You created a channel on the basis of a ‘stalker’, and you have become the very ‘stalker’ you feared. Go away. You are creepy. I want nothing more to do with you.
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  21119.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21120.  @emm_arr  .
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  21121.  @emm_arr  You need to learn to mix it with the thoroughbreds; you’re one of the donkeys they parade for the proles on Blackpool beach. As I said: some of us have done the work, and we recognise jejune lightweights in a jiffy when we encounter them. Think on, and don’t trouble my inbox again, petal.
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  21122.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21123.  @emm_arr  *repeatedly
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  21124.  @emm_arr  You’re repeating yourself, son. Everything ok there?
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  21125.  @emm_arr  Debating you, mate, is like shooting fish in a barrel. At least throw me a curveball just to make this interesting.
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  21126.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21127.  @emm_arr  The text is there for everyone to see, chum. They’ll see that your education was so remiss in the elementary basics that you couldn’t construct a coherent argument to back your blithe assertions. You haven’t done the requisite work. You need to think about this. If you are actually able to think, that is.🤔
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  21128.  @emm_arr  Aye.😉
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  21129.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21130.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21131.  @emm_arr  Yawn
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  21132.  @emm_arr  Go away. Read some impartial history (not just the stuff that supports your agenda) and get back to me.
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  21133.  @emm_arr  And what the West has done for 250 years is also unacceptable to right-minded people. Think about this, a bit, before blundering in again.
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  21134.  @emm_arr  I agree. Where we are not agreeing is that the West is just being hypocritical: ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ If you can’t see this, can I suggest you look at a few history books.
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  21135.  @emm_arr  You are part of the problem here, pal. You need to see that. You need to look from another’s point of view. This would help.
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  21136.  @emm_arr  I don’t call that ‘wishy-washy’; I call it a direct condemnation of what he is doing. I’m apolitical, agnostic, anational. I’m calling this impartially from the sides, trying to understand what’s going on here, that’s all.
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  21137.  @emm_arr  Read the last sentence.
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  21138.  @juliam1395  Lol.
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  21139.  @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  Questions: 1. Do you see any need at all to reduce fossil fuel use? 2. Do you believe in manmade global warming?
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  21140.  @Gorbyrev  Have you ever actually lived between the Equator and the 35th parallel? You seem to be in some kind of northern ivory tower pontificating from on high with all your brave new world theories. I have lived in 5 countries in the latitudes I quoted, and let me tell you, the heat in these places is already brutal without adding another possible (very probable at this rate) 3° to this! People literally cannot live when it’s too hot. Go and live in Jacobabad for a year. It’s already unliveable in summer. 100 years down the line, it will be deserted. In fact, you don’t even have to go that far. This year, in April, I repeat in April it hit 40° in Andalusia. You seem very cosseted. Where have you lived?
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  21141.  @Gorbyrev  Lol. So your logic in this case is just let the sea levels rise and we can reclaim land all over the world where those places lie at sea level harbouring about 300,000,000 people currently? 🤣 As I said: isn’t prevention better than the cure?
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  21142. Yeah, but if we’re not careful, Helsinki could become ‘Helsunki’!
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  21143. Ty Jeremy. 👌
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  21144.  @jimthompson9370  Jesus, Jimbo, I kinda guessed that would be your level from our earlier interlocutions. You desperate, desperate man. 🤦‍♂️
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  21145. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  21146.  @Jackie-wn5hx  You still not focusing on yer work? Ffs. I hope to Christ yer not a brain surgeon! 🤦‍♂️
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  21147.  @Jackie-wn5hx  You couldn’t ‘find the point’ because you got triggered. The point was plainly and simply made. Mibbe you should focus more on yer work, sweetie. 👍
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  21148.  @Jackie-wn5hx  I lived in Israel for 3 years, m8. Nice try, though.👍
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  21149.  @Jackie-wn5hx  You are an utter hypocrite. You 👉 It sounds like you’re trying to make a case for Zionism based on the premise that the contentions between Israel and the Arabs are primarily due to religious beliefs. You also mentioned that there are more Muslim-majority countries than Jewish states. Establishing an ethno-state is not a fundamental right under international law. Prior to Mandatory Palestine and the founding of a Jewish state, the three Abrahamic faiths shared Jerusalem and peacefully coexisted for centuries. The Israel-Palestine conflict began relatively recently. The dispute isn’t complicated, nor is it solely due to Judaism versus Islam. It primarily (sic) a territorial dispute and military occupation with claims of apartheid blah blah, blah, blah, blah … Here’s a 🪞. Take a look at yourself. 👍😉
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  21150.  @Jackie-wn5hx  Lol! A ‘novel’?!?! You’ve clearly never read a novel, love! 👍🤣
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  21151.  @chestikov2011  Huh? Ya lost me at the first pass, cowboy?! 🤔
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  21152.  @chestikov2011  Kinda. Lost my interest tbh. Will look again. Gimme, er, a day?!
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  21153.  @chestikov2011  Like your energy, mate. Might not necessarily agree with everything you say, but you make a fella think. Thanks for that. 👍
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  21154.  @chestikov2011  K, mate. Will check the records.👍
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  21155.  @chestikov2011  Seriously though, are you an upholder of the ‘shapeshifting lizard rulers of the world’ theory? You hinted at some such last night. Care to elaborate?
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  21156.  @chestikov2011  All? Shirley shome mishtake, Moneypenny.
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  21157.  @CM-ed8fw  Yeah, you’re right, Ukraine invaded Russia and caused all this trouble. 👍
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  21158.  @CM-ed8fw  You’re right, it’s not ‘better’ in Iran. We finally got there.👍
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  21159.  @CM-ed8fw  Yeah, you’re right, Ukraine invaded Russia and caused all this trouble. 👍
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  21160.  @CM-ed8fw  You’re right, it’s not ‘better’ in Iran. We finally got there.👍
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  21161.  @CM-ed8fw  👈You: ‘America and Nato is a killer’. Lol. You’re in no way biased here, then! 🤣😂😅
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  21162.  @CM-ed8fw  Yeah, ‘like the West’. Are you seriously suggesting Iranian women have more freedom than western women? 😮
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  21163. Uh huh. And if you were called ‘Jesus’ I bet you would be saying something different. Accidents of birth are the biggest determiners of who we are.
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  21164.  @adeseghaolusegun3513  No. *A lot.
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  21165.  @belkentens  You bored me years ago, Belendtens. Take a look in the🪞 .👍🤡
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  21166.  @belkentens ​​⁠Still triggered, I see, Belendtens.😉👍
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  21167.  @belkentens Still triggered, I see, Belendtens.😉👍
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  21168.  @garylee12345 That’s fine, son. You clearly give not a shite about the basics. Cool. Just don’t expect some of us to consider your more barmy theories when you can’t get the basics right in your mother-tongue. Some of us are far better than that. Not Belendtens, obvs.
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  21169.  @garylee12345 Lol. So just having basic English makes me a ‘narcissist’ now?! 🤣
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  21170.  @belkentens Cleverer than you, Belendtens. Clearly. 🤪
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  21171.  @garylee12345 No. I just have a very basic education. Big difference.👍
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  21172. You can’t even capitalise or use a possessive apostrophe, Gary, so why should we believe you in anything?
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  21173. 🤦‍♂️
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  21174.  @Thatperson-kt3mu Moses. And through Moses, God. Can you not see this? 🤷‍♂️
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  21175. Cringe.
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  21176.  @gerardmackay8909  Ok, son. You have no answer. You’re happy for any self-identifying ‘woman’ to access biological women’s spaces. I’m not. We got there. 👍
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  21177. Be they? How about just ‘are’ exaggerating numbers? This ‘be they’ thing is so cringe and American. He be like, she be like, I be like, cringe.
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  21178. ‘They’? Really? Did you establish how many of the thousands of the massacred Palestinians fall into your ‘they’ category? Nah. Course you didn’t.
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  21179.  @D4Disdain  Not “bashing” anyone, sunshine. Agnostic here. Cope harder.
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  21180.  @sandrad9695  K, Sandra, we know which side of the river you stand upon.👍
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  21181.  @deblou7  Uh huh.
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  21182.  @julianshepherd2038  Yeah, but the difference is that dudes in kilts don’t generally have young boys also in kilts attending them!
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  21183. Is there a prettier man than Pharrell? 😳 I’m not saying he swings a certain way, but …
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  21184. I disagree. His every interview his perfectly disastrous!😃
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  21185.  @hiramabiff2017  Oh do be quiet you silly person. 🤦‍♂️
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  21186. Oh do be quiet you silly person.
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  21187.  @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts  Again, why are you addressing this stuff at me? You need to target your responses, otherwise you just look random and careless.👍
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  21188.  @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts  Er, why are you addressing that one at me? It’s wasn’t I who brought up the ‘woke’ thing here. 🥴
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  21189.  @jrbailey3208  Not really. Just an instinct from the age of 7, mate. Ty for the potted history.👍
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  21190. Moist.
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  21191.  @mysticcove3392  Switzerland is, arguably, the most stunning Western European country. It might be deathly dull, culturally, but it isn’t deathly dull, scenically. ⛰
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  21192.  @mysticcove3392  I don’t doubt you’re a ‘vast traveller’s’! (sic) 😁🤪
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  21193.  @mysticcove3392  Yeah, and I’ve been to Anchorage, Alaska! 👍😆
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  21194.  @mysticcove3392  That Google is doing overtime at this point, mystic. 👍😆
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  21195.  @mysticcove3392  Google is clearly your friend, mystic! 👍🤣
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  21196.  @mysticcove3392  I wouldn’t go that far. She hates gays. But I’m not gonna not admire Caravaggio’s paintings just cuz he killed a fella in a tavern brawl. 👍
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  21197.  @belkentens And you’re so crushingly boring, Belendtens. Uh huh. 👍😉
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  21198.  @mysticcove3392  Mystic. You may be all over the shop, but you have a certain charm. Happy weekend right back atcha etc etc! 👍😉
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  21199.  @mysticcove3392 Lol. You are sweet, mystic. By your logic, no one could sing about anywhere if they weren’t from there! 👍🤣
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  21200.  @oua4397  Yeah, you’re a ‘Christian’, m8. Whatever. You need to question why. You also need to question why you’re not a Muslim, or a Buddhist, or a Sikh, or a Sith etc etc. The main reason is cultural. You bought the religion that was sold to you. Not only that, you bought it without establishing if God exists in the first place! That smacks of desperation. Don’t take that wrong.
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  21201.  @mysticcove3392  Many thanks for the invitation, mystic. My only real emotional connection with Alaska is Michelle Shocked’s rather wonderful Anchorage. 🎸
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  21202. Even if I am wrong? So what? 🤷‍♂️
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  21203.  @raynarks Er, why? That’s a dangerous suggestion: you’re not allowed to question what you consider to be wholly manmade baloney, are you? Ffs. 🤦‍♂️
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  21204. Yes, you’re right, Gerard. Ukraine invaded Russia and not the other way round.
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  21205. 🇧🇷 In the great GOAT debate, just for the record, Pelé didn’t officially score 1,283 goals. Pelé did score 1,283 goals, but 526 goals came in unofficial friendlies and tour games. He even counted games he played for the Sixth Coast Guard in the military competition. He officially scored 757 goals in 812 games. Moreover, strictly speaking, Pelé didn’t really ‘win’ 3 World Cups; he won 2 and a bit. Yes, he was a member of three World Cup-winning teams, but he sat out the large majority of the 1962 World Cup. All that said, he was still a terrific player, right up there in my top 5. Picking a number 1 is always an invidious task, and always depends on where and when you were born, but if I had to, yes, I’d probably pick Pelé. Just. However, if Mbappé stays healthy and motivated, I wouldn’t be surprised to be sitting here saying he’s the GOAT in 10 years’ time! ⚽️
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  21206.  @GrandpaVince  😉
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  21207.  @Y0utubsuk Current government was democratically elected, though. Can’t say that about Iran.
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  21208.  @ShugScotland1872  Huh? How can it be an “ethnic slur” when last time I counted there were about 25 ethnicities in Scotland? Which ethnicity was I slurring, exactly? 🤔
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  21209.  @ShugScotland1872  How is it ‘racist’? Last time I checked, the Scots weren’t a homogeneous ‘race’. 🐒
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  21210.  @stephenwalker2924  Steady now. Not that old, son. Can still touch my toes and other stuff. But not at the same time, admittedly.
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  21211. Yes, but tell us what you really think?🤓
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  21212.  @Tamarlane389  I repeat: Er, can how can not trusting Islam be ‘racist’ when Islam’s an idea? 🤔 You’re really not very good at this, are you?
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  21213.  @Tamarlane389  3. You tell me. There are 1,001 competing agendas at play 24/7.
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  21214.  @isaacho8230  Lol.👍
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  21215.  @Tamarlane389  Er, can how can not trusting Islam be ‘racist’ when Islam’s an idea? 🤔
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  21216.  @Tamarlane389  1. Totally irrelevant. 2. Totally irrelevant.
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  21217.  @isaacho8230  Lol. Stop being so f*cking British and polite! 🤣
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  21218.  @isaacho8230  I was kinda joking m8. You were being patronising, but it didn’t really bother me. As you were.👍
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  21219.  @Tamarlane389  Not hiding anything. I don’t trust Islam. I don’t trust any organised religion as history has taught me this. If any modern, secular, liberal country imports masses of people following a desert tribal religion then is it not just obvious that there might very well be civil troubles down the line? I’m a liberal, free-thinking person of tolerance, but that tolerance runs out when others would (eventually) seek to impose their way of life on me once a critical mass is reached. Ask yourself why so many secular, liberal countries are quite happy to accept millions of Muslims but not so many Muslim countries are willing to accept millions of non-Muslims. 🤔
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  21220.  @Tamarlane389  Huh? How do you deduce that? I said was pro-immigration, just not pro 750,000 per year, and particularly if masses of those immigrants follow a religion which I, a rationalist agnostic, find in many ways abhorrent and incompatible with my own liberal secularism (principally because Islam seems to demand the most respect for its values but is least likely to give the same respect for others’ values, historically). This is just being realistic, dear. Did you see the news from Dublin today? 🤔
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  21221. Don’t worry too much Mr/Ms Canadian. A large part of European people’s intolerance to mass immigration revolves around one word: Islam. If you don’t count on this score, you should be ok.👌
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  21222.  @tiredgardener  Dunno. You’d have to ask those who are doing the housing.
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  21223.  @tiredgardener  I was referring to “infrastructure”; ie. access to health care. And anyway, as I understand it these people get a daily allowance so I’m sure they could catch a bus to Lincoln.
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  21224.  @django3422  Not benefitting from anything, mate. I work hard for my money. Nothing is handed to me. I repeat again, I’m not anti legal immigration in principle; all I’m saying is that every sovereign nation has the right of refusal. It’s not up to the migrant if they are accepted; it’s up to the host country. No idea why this is up for debate. 🤷‍♂️ Every country around the world more or less operates this policy, so why should the UK be any different?
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  21225.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  You forgot the eggs and chips, Jimbo! 🤣
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  21226. @dondoodat Neither do I. All I’m saying is that the host country decides for economic migrants. There is enough opportunity on this planet for many of these migrants to go to places other than Europe. If someone came to your front door and kicked it open demanding the right to stay you’d not be happy. And you’d be right not to be happy. Economic immigration should always be at the say of the host country, whichever country that may be.
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  21227.  @hypocrisyrules3768  Afghanistan territory completely different to Russian territory, as the Soviets themselves found out to their cost back in the 80s. And NATO haven’t already stopped Russia precisely because of the existence of nukes; along with the idea that it’s a bit of a proxy war at this point and it perfectly suits NATO to allow Ukraine to be used as a punchbag for Russia, whilst simultaneously weakening the Russians, so that if NATO does step in at any point, then it will be dealing with a severely weakened Russia, in the conventional military sense.
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  21228.  @默-c1r  Anyway, it’s my bedtime. G’night. 👍
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  21229.  @默-c1r  I, personally, wouldn’t have libel/slander laws applied, but hey, I’m not in charge here.
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  21230.  @默-c1r  I, personally, would let Clarkson publish what he wants and be damned. I know the world doesn’t work like that, but I, personally would publish. I know that libel/slander laws would kick in in the real world, but in principle, I would let anything be published, so I’m not having it ‘both ways’ sunshine.
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  21231.  @默-c1r  Why wouldn’t I publish it? I, personally, would publish it. Wtf are you on about?
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  21232.  @默-c1r  I have noted that point above when I talked about private citizen versus working for a commercial enterprise like a newspaper, so don’t impute things to me that are false.
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  21233.  @默-c1r  🤣Really? No one’s free-speech has been ‘violated’?! Really? I think the Sun censoring Clarkson’s diatribe kinda curtails his freedom of speech, don’t you?
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  21234.  @默-c1r  No. Let’s not start from zero again. I have laid out my position. Just give it up.
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  21235.  @默-c1r  Once more, and I’m not going to say this again: I, personally, would allow anyone to say absolutely anything. If they libel/slander me then the law will step in but I, personally, still wouldn’t ban these things from being said. Another thing: I don’t have a ‘reputation’ to be ‘ruined’.😉
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  21236.  @patrick8030  Agreed.
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  21237.  @ince55ant  As do butt-socks. 👍
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  21238.  @jeremiahrodriguez1014 *were
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  21239.  @granted3203  Didn’t know what would be ‘simple’?
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  21240.  @garyc9908  Lol.👍🤣😉
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  21241.  @granted3203  Lol. I’ve responded perfectly. I’ll put my faith in Allan. At least I know he actually exists.👍
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  21242.  @granted3203  And you’re Muslim because you were taught to be Muslim. If you’d been born and raised in a predominantly Christian family/culture you would be Christian. The vast majority of humans follow the religion they do due to a simple accident of birth and being unable to think for themselves. All organised religion is a manmade edifice quite possibly erected on the basis of nothing.
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  21243.  @granted3203  Nah, m8. Been there, done that. You’re overreaching in an embarrassing manner if you think you can “prove God”. In 300,000 years of humanity no one human has managed this hubristic feat. I fear you will get no further. Just asserting stuff doesn’t make it real, man.👍
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  21244.  @granted3203  I’ve told you what I am.
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  21245.  @granted3203  Agnostic.
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  21246.  @thisismetoday  And as Labour have a dodgy recentish record of bad fiscal management (the last time they were in Office, in fact), it’s perfectly reasonable to ask about their own fiscal credentials. Cope better.
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  21247.  @thisismetoday  I’m guessing you are either very young or have a short memory. Those of us who are old enough to remember, do remember.😉
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  21248.  @thisismetoday  That’s not the point here. You suggested the reporter was inappropriately concentrating on Labour’s fiscal irresponsibility. Given the end of Labour’s last government in 2010 she was right to do this.
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  21249.  @minnielee3399  👍😉
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  21250.  @j.j14476 Yeah, put them in jail. We have got past the deport option here.
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  21251. Deport them? They were born here. How’s that gonna work? 🤔
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  21252. Judaism is a religion, obviously. But anti-Semites of the same stripe as the Gestapo aren’t going to overlook me, an atheist Jew, in their hatred.
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  21253.  @gounch.1186 Meow!
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  21254. *hazard Why are you ppl so sh*t at basic spelling?
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  21255. What? Like you right now?😳
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  21256.  @belkentens  Projecting again, belendtens?
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  21257.  @Bungle-UK  A moaning white person moaning about a moaning black person playing the race card. Now there’s a novelty. 🤣
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  21258.  @django3422  Ok, for the hard of reading as you are clearly not up to this: On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. Now go away, as you are deeply boring.
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  21259.  @django3422  Word to the wise: stop playing those brain frying video games and sharpen up those close reading skills by opening a book now and again.😉
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  21260.  @django3422  No it’s not. It’s crystal clear. You need better close reading skills.
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  21261.  @django3422  My “answer” is clearly stated in the OP.
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  21262.  @mattbrown-mb  The world has always been on fire.
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  21263.  @mattbrown-mb  Ah ha. But that’s where they differ. On this very point. 95% say there is manmade global warming; 95% don’t say it’s necessarily 100% manmade. This is a crucial point that too many overlook.
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  21264.  israeldiegoriveragenius2th164  Wow! You’re actually real?!?! Wtf. Thought you were a bot with your non-stop “Do not comply blah blah blah…” stuff. There you go.
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  21265.  @belkentens I’ve only heard of a Belendtens.
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  21266. Well, war in the traditional sense is a bit of a male construct. There’d be far fewer physically violent wars in this world if only women existed.
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  21267. You always make me moist, Belendtens. ✌️😉
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  21268.  @jamessimmons7480  Well, you’re totally wrong there, chum. Also, I lived in your so-called ‘land of the free’ for 5 years. Think on, chum.😉
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  21269.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Well, I dig a bit of alphabetti spaghetti, Jimbo, if that’s what you mean. 🍝 🤓
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  21270.  @jamessimmons7480  P.S. You have no idea what my life has been like, chum, so you would do well to stop making random, baseless assumptions.
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  21271. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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  21272.  @helenpauls1496  Can be, but incredibly difficult given the highly polarised toxic political tribes in the US.
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  21273.  @editor4578  But to be fair, the Russian fella has a point. The West are past masters at staggering hypocrisy and double-standards. That’s just a fact.
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  21274.  @tethergobrrr The problem with Israel (and I 100% support its right to exist), is that it’s like a spoiled child. America feeds it everything (militarily-speaking) and it seems to think it thereby has a free pass. The tap won’t be turned off, no matter what it may do. In other words, if I were Israel’s paymaster, I would attach conditions. That said, we all know Hamas’ charter is to wipe Israel from the map, so all this is rather tricky. Religion has a lot to answer for here. Yes, it’s not wholly a religious battle but well over 50% of it is. If humans could just deal with the idea of God without banding into religious tribes, we might have a chance. I say that as an agnostic most days.
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  21275. Yes, but the urgent QUESTION is WHY are YOU randomly CAPITALISING every other WORD? 🤔
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  21276.  @LisaLutschwanzia  So, you support Putin’s actions then?
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  21277.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  I only have your word for that.
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  21278.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  Who is all angel or devil? We are all an admixture of the two, surely.
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  21279.  @PrimaMapleSyrup  No. I’m just saying that the affairs of humankind are rarely, if ever, black and white, that’s all. I’m against Putin. But I can totally see why he’s feeling hemmed in by an encroaching NATO. However, I also get that NATO members are not coerced into joining the way Putin is attempting to violently coerce Ukraine back into the Russian bosom. Just trying to see both sides, but my sympathies here are mainly with the victims, of either side: the civilian and military Ukrainian victims and the poor 18/19 year old conscripts in the Russian army.
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  21280.  @rollcaskett1812  Too easy, mate. He’s evil alright, but there is a certain cold, calculated reason there, too.
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  21281. Are you Eric Cantona?
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  21282.  @belkentens  😉
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  21283.  @jim-xr7vd  You can’t cope. 💥
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  21284.  Shania Van der Halen  Well, to be fair, I offered enough to trigger you ! 🤣
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  21285.  @xgx899  Lame. You’re just typing stuff at this point.
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  21286.  @xgx899  4. What about the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed and maimed who weren’t being used as human shields when they were targeted? 🤔
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  21287.  @FrankSkitfortheTruth  Er, wot?
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  21288.  @scarletsletter4466  I disagree that the majority of Palestinians want the destruction of Israel. I’m willing to bet good money if you magically created 2 states, Israel and Palestine, overnight, with guaranteed safety for each, then the vast majority of ordinary Palestinians would accept this and live peacefully side by side with Israel.
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  21289.  @jacobsaunders1092  Really? So every single one of the thousands of maimed and killed Palestinians was a ‘human shield’ were they, bud? Yeah, right.
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  21290.  @amydavis4945  I think we more or less agree here, Amy.👍
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  21291.  @Roy_Osovsky  “How successful are they?” I think they are not f*cking ‘successful’ at all. I’ll go further, I’m willing to bet good money Netanyahu doesn’t give 2 Israeli figs if he happens to take out several thousand innocent Palestinians as he continues with his ‘self-defence’ operation.
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  21292.  @chloe-historyandgames  No. In my scenario the wider family have zero to do with the actions of the father. If you read my OP, you’ll see a key word: ‘innocent’. Just think about it …
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  21293. @@user-dz3qh1ru6i So, the upwards of 1000+ Palestinian dead children ‘aided’ this? Gotcha! 👍
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  21294.  @emm_arr  Yes, the fascist invader side too, funnily enough.
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  21295.  @emm_arr  Nope. Can just see both sides here, unlike some.
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  21296.  @strangemagic5502  Agreed. Put it to the people.
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  21297.  @strangemagic5502  You’re right Putin’s wrong to invade. You may be wrong about east Ukraine wanting to ally with Russia on a majority, just as west Ukraine almost certainly allies with the west. A neutral Ukraine as a buffer state kept as it is, is surely the way to go here, though.
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  21298. To be fair, from the Russians’ point of view they are trying to liberate the Donbas. Slightly more difficult to say that about anywhere else in the Ukraine west of the Dnieper.
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  21299.  @annabellelee4535  Something stupid?
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  21300.  @Bungle-UK  Look, I’ve made my point clear. You can disagree. I honour your right to your opinion. 👍
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  21301. It’s nothing to do with the “lives of the unborn”; it’s all to do with controlling women.
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  21302. @@user-sd5qj5qb3g Having a “Botox man” and “tailor” isn’t the preserve of over-65s. As for making it “objective”? Well, that was kinda my point; doing it on a case by case basis and not just writing off the turnip-heads after they reach 65. After all, many a Worzel gets his Aunt Sally. 👍
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  21303.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  What? That’s just a non-sequitur. You never addressed my point: there are millions of people who work at full pelt over-65. 😉👌👍
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  21304. What? That makes utterly no sense. There are millions of people who work at full pelt beyond 65. Ridiculous.
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  21305.  @truthprevails5173  🥱
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  21306.  @FromFame  Huh? But last time I checked, believing in unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddies was kinda ‘metaphysical’. Derived from the Greek meta ta physika ("after the things of nature"); referring to an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside human sense perception. 👍😉
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  21307.  @Jackie-wn5hx  Huh? Why are you directing that one at me? I fear you have the wrong fella, love. 👍
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  21308.  @ssuwandi3240  Ok. 🥱
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  21309. *Can’t
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  21310.  @Theeinsom  Lol. Er, believing in an unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy. How much more ‘elaborate’ do you want me to be? 🤔
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  21311. Moist. Belendtens. Yum! 🤤
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  21312.  @robinstevenson6690  Frances!
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  21313. Yes, let McDormand live!
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  21314.  @joshsmitch5641  Are you the same Josh that called for the deportation of someone after a Wales stabbing? 🤔 You seem a bit confused, Joshie. Hypocrisy much? 😉
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  21315.  @TheJovian16 I was just pointing out the mass European immigration thing, m8. I’ll place my cards on the table right now: I don’t trust Islam. This is not an Arab thing. I just don’t trust Islam. Or any organised religion! Christianity has been defanged. Islam hasn’t. It will take you if you let it. Make no mistake about that.
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  21316.  @davidmcculloch8490  Uh huh. And your point is? You seem to be mistaking me for someone who is anti-immigration. You’re wrong. All I’m ‘anti’ in this case, is creating weird ghettos like Grasse and Bradford. This is not that difficult, m8.👍
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  21317. Well said. Dawkins saw this clearly: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. I’ve never understood what possesses thinking people to subscribe to this God. It’s utterly bizarre. It can only be put down to an industrial-level brainwashing.👀
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  21318.  @robertobrien988  He doesn’t. It was a perfectly fine, incisive interview. Stop being such a sensitive flower. 🌸
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  21319. @33:36 Look closely. 👀 Is Peter about to tell us all something? It’s a truth universally acknowledged (by me, at least) that anyone who has any kind of ‘issue’ with homosexuality has not necessarily been as ingenuous as they might be. Peter, for me, falls into this category.
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  21320. Not as odd a question as you might think. By all accounts they loathed each other for a period.👀
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  21321. He can’t be that sure of his ground if he transmogrified from an card carrying atheist, revolutionary Bolshevik into a God-bothering Conservative Christian.😳
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  21322. @36:59 It’s a truth universally acknowledged (by me, at least) that those who have ‘issues’ with multiculturalism are invariably the least tolerant people I know.😳 After all, what’s more authoritarian and intolerant than demanding others assimilate according to the whim of another? According to the rules of the game set by another? Those who demand conformity to some nebulous, undefined, non-existent prevailing ‘culture’ are deluded, precisely because there is no commonly-agreed homogeneous culture.
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  21323. Stop the hyperbole. It was a decent interview .🥸
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  21324. Lol! Krishnan Guru-Murthy an Alpha male?! Lmfaro😆
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  21325. Good Lord Krishnan. Lol.🤣
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  21326. Admirable? A man who believes in an unverified, unverifiable daddy in the sky? Admirable?🥸
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  21327.  @3-Kashmir  Oh, Jesus (religious reference intended); move on ffs!
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  21328.  @c0detearz320  🥱
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  21329.  Undivided Afghanistan  It is in my book. Think on.
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  21330.  Undivided Afghanistan  Yes, Koran.
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  21331. Because they Koran.
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  21332. Moist.
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  21333. More projection, Belendtens? 👍
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  21334. Yeah, but look on the bright side: no one gets outta here alive!😁
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  21335.  @DJB01  Ok, my friend. Context is everything, my friend. One upvote means nothing if it’s done by oneself. 😉👍
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  21336.  @DJB01  Er, why are you upvoting yourself, my friend? 🤔
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  21337.  @lawinaabraham3073  I just told you I was steering clear of Twitter!🤣
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  21338. Uh huh. Oooooookkkkkkk. By that logic, everyone will be “shipped back to Africa” as we’re all out of Africa; including you! Ta da! 🎉
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  21339. Waits for punchline. 😴
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  21340. Don’t be ridiculous, sweetheart. It’s all planned. Biden has no say in this.👍
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  21341.  @VictoriaRodriguez-by3fs  Er, whit? Y r u directing that one at me? I love my wife, ya tart! 😖
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  21342. Truth is that millions of ordinary Europeans are sick of mass immigration. I’ll give you a recent personal example: I was on holiday in Provence recently. I visited the gorgeous old perfume town of Grasse. Every single resident I saw was an Arab. It felt like Tangiers or Algiers. It certainly didn’t feel like France. If I want to visit an Arab town I go to Africa or Asia; Europe shouldn’t be creating whole towns of non-Europeans. No other continent does this stuff to this degree.
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  21343.  @pitbing Tell that to UnequalSardine, sweetie. You don’t need to tell me that one. 👍
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  21344.  @UnequalSardine I am. And here’s what I have seen and don’t believe: I cannot believe western liberal democracies are importing en masse (Islam) an ideology that is diametrically opposed to liberal democracy. Islam is political. Too many people don’t seem to realise this. It wants the reins. Once it gets the reins you can say goodbye to ordinary freedoms you enjoy today, as you’ll be living by the word of Allah, as reported by an illiterate goatherd in Arabia. Be careful what you wish for.👍
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  21345.  @belkentens  “Condescending”? You , Belendtens? Never! 😉
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  21346.  @ricardosmythe2548  No it wouldn’t. My “take” on it is that Jimbo is a moron. Get it right, Ricky.😉👍
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  21347.  @belkentens  Half five? Not here it’s not, Belendtens. It’s not hard to be “posh” in your company, m8.👍😉
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  21348.  @abdell75roussos  Jimbo has never made a “cool” comment in his puff. All he makes are foot-in-mouth gaffes. 🦶 Foot-in-mouth gaffes, I ssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy, eh Jimbo? 😉🤡
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  21349.  @ricardosmythe2548  Typos, m8. Not unknowing spelling gaffes, à la Jimbo. Big difference. Jimbo’s the fella well past 65 and English is his first language (after gibberish) and he quite literally can’t deploy a possessive apostrophe. In fact, what’s worse; he doesn’t appear to be aware they exist! Facts. He’s not the type of fella I’m going to take seriously in any subject, and this leaves aside the fact he hates quite literally everyone and everything. And don’t get me started on his invisible sky daddy bollix. 👍😊🐒
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  21350. @plurabelle5 Up until about 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean actually was a physical extension of the Sahara before the water rushed in, in the most spectacular flood in Earth's history when water from the Atlantic Ocean breached the mountain range joining Europe and Africa apparently with the force of a thousand Amazon rivers!
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  21351.  @tonyryan1574  *Joe Biden’s I take absolutely no lessons from a numpty who appears unaware of when to deploy something so basic as the possessive apostrophe. 🤦‍♂️
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  21352.  @Nick-kb6jd  You misunderstood me. I’m pretty sure we will have stopped burning fossil fuels well before then. I was using 500 years to allow for some lag time and to see if a cooling trend would follow.
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  21353.  @BCGT_Mikee_Dredd  Another tribal numpty. 🥱
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  21354.  @Wherethereisnodarkness  Debate’s too polarised, m8. Too political and tribal for my liking. The Greta gang are convinced they are right and the conservative manmade climate change deniers are equally convinced they are right. Very off-putting and I’m not enamoured of either side. As ever with these things, the truth will lie somewhere in the quiet middle and not at the noisy hectoring extremes.
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  21355.  @belkentens  *, *.
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  21356.  @belkentens  Yeah, and I think you forgot a comma, there, Belendtens, and then added a capital where it wasn’t needed.
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  21357.  @belkentens  Yeah, and I think you forgot a full-stop there, Belendtens.
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  21358.  @NinjaSquirrel30  Did you see him, though? Lank, greasy hair and a beard of questionable cleanliness … ewww!
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  21359.  @louisee7339  There’s a reason this was only upvoted by you. 👍😂
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  21360.  @belkentens  Why commenting on yourself, Princess?
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  21361. *.
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  21362.  @markfinch2016  You just got owned, Mark.😉
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  21363.  @alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361  Go away, son. Yer a deep bore. 🥱
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  21364.  @alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361  Er, it was called the British Empire, son. Get a history book. 🤦‍♂️
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  21365. Well, tbf, a third of the world was run by British foreigners for quite a while. What’s good for the goose … 👍😉
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  21366.  @valleykingvids2059  Er, yes I’m a British citizen. But so are millions of others with a completely different skin colour to me. I don’t see myself as, essentially, any more ‘British’ than them. That’s the crux here. Being British has f*ck-all to do with skin colour.
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  21367.  @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204  🥱 Sharper than you, son. That’s a sure fire bet. 👍😉
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  21368.  @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204  No explanation needed. My statement’s quite self-explanatory. If you’re too thick to understand it, that’s your issue, sweetie.
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  21369.  @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 I’ve never voted Labour in my life. Want another go, son? 🤦‍♂️
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  21370.  @V1489Cygni  Mr Klein habitually supports massacres of innocents, so what he says has to be taken with a pinch of 🧂.
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  21371. There are also plans in the pipeline to set up a beauty salon: “Waxing Moon”.
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  21372.  @Lancer498  They’re not real. They’re just random aspects of people, those people had utterly no say over. As Carlin said, unthinking moron: “Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.”
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  21373.  @martydav9475  Lol.
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  21374.  @gardenjoy5223  Putin was hardly unprovoked.
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  21375. Dear oh dear.
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  21376.  @Tamarlane389  I do castigate Israel. Why do you fools seem to think everything is binary?
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  21377.  @gerrabath  You ok there, bud? You seem awfully random tonight, sweetie. Throwing out random sh*t that makes zero sense. You still taking those pills? 💊 💊 💊
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  21378.  @Tamarlane389  My point? Well, since you so kindly ask: As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too. I suppose that’s more or less my point, petal. 🙄
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  21379.  @Tamarlane389 Jennyeq exaggerated a bit, but there is more than a grain of truth in what she said. Click on the link she gave. Government stats in black and white.
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  21380.  @gerrabath  No. What makes you think I might be from Russia, chummo? 🤔
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  21381.  @gerrabath  ‘Russia’? Er, was that one meant for me, son? 🥴
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  21382.  @dont_talk2me  Where are you from?
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  21383.  @gerrabath  But you asked as if it’s not quite common knowledge that the UK will be approaching a 25% Muslim population in the next couple of decades. It’s not as if I said “God exists, aliens are here, and my mother is a kipper”. That’s the sort of stuff I’d be expecting to be asked to provide links for. 🥴
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  21384.  @Jennyeq I’m more concerned about civil unrest, frankly. It’s already happening on an alarmingly high scale in Paris. Check out Mahyar Tousi TV.
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  21385.  @Thereishope664 You can say someone is ‘openly Jewish’ without being racist. He had a kippah on. This made him ‘openly Jewish’. In the same way a woman in a Burka is ‘openly Muslim’ or a man in a kilt is (usually) ‘openly Scottish’ or a fat bloke in shorts called Chuck with a massive camera round his neck is an ‘openly American tourist’.
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  21386. Pmsl.🤣And you have the brass neck to call me ‘protracted’?! I see a pot and a kettle.
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  21387.  @belkentens  Er, not really, m8. You’re just triggered cuz you think like our Jimbo, so you’re another boring, functionally illiterate fellow I’d rather die than be ‘homogeneous’ with.😊
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  21388.  @Hartley_Hare  Jimbo is an incredibly limited and limiting fella who sees everything through the narrowest prism. In a nutshell, all he wants near him are people who look like him, think like him and live like him. Because of this, he genuinely seems to hate everyone who doesn’t look like him, think like him and live like him. Iow, he’s a bitter, twisted, racist, sexist deluded idiot.👍
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  21389. @Gavin Gas Lol.
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  21390.  @BrokeBillionare  What is? Porn? Blimey, they blame everything on ‘climate change’ these days.
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  21391. Hey, Johnny baby, which of the following, if any, do you disavow? Liberals generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion . If you are for these eminently sensible values can I politely suggest that you are the very ‘pinko liberal’ you affect to disdain! Ta da!
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  21392. Correct. Just gevil.
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  21393.  @elanagower4261  That may be Hamas’ intent. I don’t believe 95% of Palestinians want to forcibly convert me, or anyone else, to Islam and to follow Sharia Law. Just for the record, there are many ‘Sharia Laws’ depending on who you to speak to. You seem to forget there are 2 main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shia (and many splinter branches within these 2) at odds with each other. All the vast majority of ordinary Palestinians want for themselves is a safe secure state just like what the vast majority of Israelis want for themselves.
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  21394.  @sueyourself5413  Huh? 🤔
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  21395. Projection, much?🤓
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  21396.  @cockneycharm3970  The principal is the same: weapons supplied to Ukraine. I don’t much see the difference. If these tanks were being driven by Germans, Brits and Americans, then that would radically change the terms and conditions for me, but as it is? Nah. Not really.
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  21397.  @michaelkavanagh5947  Pmsl. Genuinely can’t decide if that’s a parody comment or not!🤣
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  21398.  @robertnewell5057  Lol.
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  21399.  @stainface4980 Yep. A lot of that I agree with, but you lose a lot of Brownie points for typing ‘alot’ for ‘a lot’. Not sure why this has become a thing but it has and it’s deeply disturbing.
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  21400.  @Skygrey2943  Don’t be ridiculous. Robert Downey Jr. is clearly a Democrat.
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  21401.  @Gallowglass7  What? Wtf are you on about? You had no say where you were born; neither did Yeats. Therefore, why are you claiming anything here?
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  21402.  @pucapower2505  I never invaded anyone. You conveniently ignored my point, which was on point, and was: why is it that those who bore on about ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be indigenous with? I’ve read a few of your other posts, m8, and my 3 year old pet chimp has better basic grammar. Uh huh. 👍 🐒
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  21403.  @pucapower2505  Why is it that those people who bore on about ‘indigenousness’ are, almost without exception, the last kind of people I would want to be indigenous with? 🤔
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  21404. Oh grow up! The faux outrage is beyond cringe. 🤦‍♂️
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  21405.  @pucapower2505  Babies being stabbed never happened since YOU. Er, wot? Not sure what you’re smoking tonight puca, son, but I was not involved in stabbing babies, sweetie. You need to be careful what yer sayin’, son, as less tolerant folk than I could take you down for libel. Think on.😉
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  21406.  @emceedoctorb3022  Lol. And what are you gonna do? Are you personally gonna machine gun all the immigrants? 🤣
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  21407.  @33wanwan  Having looked at your other posts, m8, and don’t take this wrong, but I feel this point needs to be said, and said again: why are you people always subliterate? I mean that? You’ve no idea about basic grammar and spelling and you just pitch up and expect people to take you seriously? Really? Have you not heard of grammar/spellcheck?
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  21408.  @rb1062  Lol. What are you left with then? You gonna go around killing all the immigrants personally are you? 👍😉
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  21409.  @marcbabineau6001  Didn’t miss any point, m8. I exactly addressed the point. ‘Twas you who missed the point, son. Uh huh.☺️👍
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  21410. Er, wasn’t North/South America the home of the indigenous native Americans before 1492? 🤔
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  21411. Seen this comment hundreds of times.
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  21412. Projecting again, diggler? 🤓
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  21413.  @yudit4208  I just did. See OP.
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  21414.  @song4night  You keep believing that, sweetheart. The good thing about you is that if I tell you, you’re taking shite, you won’t touch me. If I said the same thing to a Muslim, I wouldn’t be here. Islam has to be the touchiest religion on this planet. Why? Because we let it.
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  21415.  @DG-ie5ip  *It’s Ponder that!
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  21416. As a young man, I also can’t do much. I’ll make the tea, though, if that counts. ☕️
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  21417.  @theoriginalsmudge4614  🐷 s might fly.
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  21418.  @theoriginalsmudge4614  Is all you do on here moan and snipe? Try laughing once in a blue moon.
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  21419.  @theoriginalsmudge4614  It was a joke, ffs.
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  21420.  @BornInUSSR12  Why do you care? You were born in an atheist state? 🤔
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  21421.  @SA-ff9uc  Yup.
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  21422.  @Brugar18  There probably is no God.
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  21423.  @marialindell9874  Let’s hope so. 🤞
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  21424.  @saberint  👌
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  21425. Jesus never existed. Choose again.
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  21426.  @saxglend9439  Lol.
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  21427.  @saxglend9439  Er, wot? 😐
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  21428. Translation: “I don’t like gays.”
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  21429.  @AahFukIt  No offence taken. I’m not American!🤣
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  21430.  @Shubel-mk4ly  Well, you are playing for one version of an invisible sky daddy and the Jews are playing for another.
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  21431.  @adamsalman6327  Huh? What’s that got to do with my OP? 🤔
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  21432. Scene: the end of term school prom. Dylan’s Masters of War provides the soundtrack. Putin to Zelensky: “Remember when we were so good together?” Zelensky to NATO: “Just think how good we could be together?” NATO to the USA: “We’ve always been so good together.” USA to Russia: “We’ve had our moments but it’s time to go our separate ways forever. 🤔
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  21433. Putin: “Good evening, Mr Zelensky, we are here to repossess your home.” Zelensky: “But why? No one is asking you to hand over your home.” Putin: “But that’s not the point.” Zelensky: “Well, it is if you’re the one about to lose your home.” 😳
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  21434.  @The1SilverShadow  You can’t cope. I mean that respectfully.
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  21435. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These words were written for the likes of Vladimir Putin. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it . I’m praying these words weren’t written for us. 🙏
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  21436. As an upholder of the consequentialist/utilitarian theory of ethics, I can’t help but feel that 1 bullet here would give us the greatest happiness of the greatest number. 😳
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  21437. Who needs aliens coming to destroy us when we seem to be able to accomplish that for ourselves? 👽
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  21438. Putin is akin to the typical school-bully whose gang no one wants to join. Ergo, he deploys that classic bully-boy tactic beloved of the rejected authoritarian the world over: submit or die.😳
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  21439.  @urbanimage  Aye.
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  21440.  @constantinvaldor3742  Er, no I’m not. 🥴
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  21441.  @GaryV-p3h  Don’t you worry, sweetie, my meds have been ‘taken’. 👍😉
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  21442.  @Daniel_leading_the_13_Plateans  Hopefully not by you, Danny boy! 👍
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  21443.  @innervisions1828  Yes: Israeli state oppression.
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  21444. @kingebin9830 Dunno.
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  21445. Can we not just lock you up instead, petal?🤓
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  21446. You stick to pipes and watches and leave the cod geopolitics to the big boys, sweetie. ;)
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  21447.  @patriot7021  Bottom line for me is rather simple: everyone is born somewhere. We have no say where. It’s random. We could have been born anywhere. To blindly commit, in a nationalistic sense, to the place we were arbitrarily born in is utterly moronic and none of this would matter if this blind commitment hadn’t caused so much internecine sanguinary human slaughter over the centuries. Nice chatting.👍
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  21448.  @patriot7021  You say “I would die for my country any day just to protect the democratic values, the culture, language and the way of life.” But you just happen to have been randomly born in whatever country that is. What if you had been born in a country without democracy? Would you have been willing to die then? “Your country” is a political construct, made by men. It’s not you, the complex, multifarious human being. As to the family thing, well, although that’s also a random thing (we don’t choose our family, obviously) it’s complicated by the love/blood ties. Human loyalty to one’s family is far more understandable than the frankly nonsensical loyalty to nation states. But even with family, my loyalty breaks when they commit horrendous crimes such as rape/murder and I would have no hesitation in handing my brother/sister over to the law in such circumstances.
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  21449.  @patriot7021  It’s specifically, in this case, to do with the war thing. The moment you ask me to die for you simply because we are from the same town/city/country, you are crossing into irrational territory and losing me right there and then. The only thing worth dying for is a good cause (so you'd better have one ready), and most of the time, wars started by nation-states are rooted in anything but good causes.
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  21450. 0:25 Ffs! Just watching this dude’s chest candy tipped me over into type 2 diabetes. 🍭 🍬
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  21451.  @kingdomfreedom8323  🤛
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  21452. What? Why bring invisible, unverified and unverifiable sky daddies into this? 🤔
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  21453.  @mike8677 Nah, the ‘too many folks’ I was referring to were the dudes like you and I who post their tuppence on here. 👍
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  21454.  @katsisaac2827  *F**k 😂😂
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  21455.  @katsisaac2827  Steady, noo! Nae need for rank lip like that, ffs! 😡
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  21456. Huh? How can Real Madrid win the Premier League? I fear you have a malfunction in your GPS. 🥴
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  21457.  @chrisj2502  Huh? Last time I checked, women officially made up 25% of Ukraine’s army. You’re telling me there are no feminists amongst that cohort? Get real ffs.
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  21458.  @pio4362  Er, what? I have no idea you’re on about and I’m not sure you do, either. The person I was responding to wasn’t talking about being Northern European in the way you are waffling on about; they were talking geographically!
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  21459. @Franky Er, and your point is, son? 🤔
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  21460. This kinda stuff just staggers me on the very basic level of lack of curiosity. It almost seems that these people just don’t have any real curiosity and if they do, it’s on an incredibly narrow bandwidth. On a wider point, this lack of curiosity in many (not all!) Americans gets even worse when we move beyond the border: if you think this lack of basic knowledge about their own country is bad, they know next to nothing about the rest of the planet!
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  21461.  @marcfalsetti9381  One other addendum, as I feel it’s important in this debate. I will say it straight: anyone who chooses to adopt any unquestioned and not able to be questioned religious text as their guide to get through this sublunary existence is, in my opinion, simply someone feeling powerless. For whatever reason(s), there has been a felt inadequacy with who and what they are. Therefore they look outward in search of an ‘authority’ they can latch on to, something that ‘empowers’ their, hitherto, weak sense of self. This doesn’t matter one iota if it’s kept private and doesn’t intrude into the lives of others. Alas, all organised religions cannot claim immunity when they are imputed as being something very inimical to a settled, peaceful human existence, and mutual coexistence with others. I would say this: organised religion, along with nationalism/patriotism/tribalism, has been the cause of most egregious blood-letting in human history. I’m willing to bet, correct me if I’m wrong, that you would be quite prepared to defend your unsubstantiated, and unable to be substantiated, theories to the death. What I see with those who pick this or that religion/God, are simply frightened, powerless individuals seeking something they can wield to correct and assert that perceived self-emasculation. Any philosophy/faith/religion of any stripe, that feels the need to threaten potential adherents with an everlasting eternal Hell, on pain of not buying the creed, is a belief system very, very unsure of itself. Moreover, it is incredibly dangerous for the peaceful coexistence of humanity.😉
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  21462. Dawkins and Hitchens were/are eminently reasonable, and a darn sight wittier and funnier than the almighty humour-free zone that is Peterson. 🙁
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  21463. Jordan Peterson‘s 12 more (God help us all!) rules for life - an appraisal. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Oh man. Come on! If I can’t slag off the mother-in-law you’ve thereby instantly removed 5% of my reason for getting up in the morning. Similarly, if I see a post-post-modern, abstract-expressionist post-impressionist painting in a gallery I reserve the right to draw a cock and balls over it. I want my artists figurative. Or at the very least, Italian. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. Hmm … I’m imagining I could be Jordan Peterson. Oh, wait. The world isn’t big enough to contain TWO identical egos that large! Do not hide unwanted things in the fog. Especially if John Carpenter is lurking somewhere in that fog. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. Ok, I think that makes sense. Are you saying that if I refuse to wash the dishes and decline to put the garbage out I’m on a blow-job promise that self same evening? Sounds good to me! Do not do what you hate. Yay! Jordan Peterson himself is telling me I don’t have to read a single thing he ever writes ever again! Thanks Jordy. 🙏 Abandon ideology. What, abandon the ‘ideology’ of condensing the incredible complexity of human life and existence into 12 cookie-cutter platitudes I once read in a bunch of fortune cookies? That ideology? Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Well, since the age of about 13 I’ve been actively fulfilling this injunction and it’s nearly fallen off.😳 Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. Can we agree on a corner of one room? A whole room just sounds extravagant and, frankly, a waste of my time when I’ve got rule 7 to be getting on with.😳 If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. Yes, they do. However, not sure writing them down will help. Can I not just do the more obvious, sensible thing and, er, like, well, forget them? Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Yes, I buy my dick flowers at least every other Friday. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Ha! Ya got me. While I resent no one but the milk-man who ran away with the wife back in 1987 (I’m still working through it), and I have deceived no one since that time I pretended I was Jesus at a convention of atheist/agnostics, the ‘arrogant’ one still niggles. Yes, I have to admit that when in an almighty pickle, I do sometimes think: ‘What would Donald Lamont do?’ Sorry. Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Well, one of my avatars kinda said this about 2,600 years before Saint Jordan palmed it off as one of his own. But hey! plagiarism never hurt anybody when you’re trying to fool most of the people most of the time!😁 Note: Jordan Peterson will publish 12 more rules for life when he’s spent all the money he got from gullible fools buying the first 24. 🤔
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  21464. So, 3 bicurious lads meet for a parley … 😳
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  21465. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  21466. Atheism, a ‘failed father’? How so? Just because one is an atheist/agnostic, this does not intrinsically determine whether one is a social/moral/political ‘failure’, as you term it. You seem to be politicising the term ‘atheism’ and assuming all of them are leftist/liberals. I’m aware of many atheist/agnostics of multifarious stripes politically, some conservative, some liberal, some socialist, some none of these. Fry’s simply making the point, as I see it, that his ‘empiricism’ has lead him to decide that there is no God. You have labelled yourself as a ‘Christian Conservative’. Any reasonably educated man (eg Fry) can see how you might have empirically/rationally come to be the Conservative part of that epithet; that same man, however, has difficulty understanding on empirical/rational grounds how you came to the ‘Christian’ part. Everything Fry said here concerning this was sound. Rather, as I watched, it was Peterson who offered next to nothing as to why he has chosen to hold a belief that there is a God.👿
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  21467.  @marcfalsetti9381  ‘The constants of God and the Bible are the reference points I personally use as my map towards the pursuit of righteousness and truth.’ Really? Have you looked closely and with any notion of a critical faculty at your God of the Old Testament recently? The God that is the ‘father’ (allegedly) of your personal saviour? Anyone, believer or non-believer, cannot, in my opinion, read the Old Testament and read about the nature of the character of God therein, and not be struck by something. This is, that that God is a quite horrendously brutal character, however way you want to cut it. I’m no particular fan of Richard Dawkins (a debate for another day), but, in my view, he was 100% spot on about his take on this Old Testament God: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Now, Fry, for example, has used his empiricism, that is read this text, and seems to have come to the conclusion that this will not do. I happen to agree with him, although I am not an atheist. Fry, no doubt, has also interrogated the traditional ‘proofs’ cited for the existence of a God (personal or otherwise) and found them wanting. These proofs (Aquinas’ 5 ways) being : the unmoved mover, first cause, necessary being, argument from degree, and the teleological argument. Also in all this, I would question why and how individuals choose to believe in a given religion. Why, for instance, are you not praying to Mecca? After all, the God of Islam is yours. Why, for instance, are you not attending the Jewish temple on a regular basis? After all, the God of Judaism is yours. Wider than this. If you believe in a God, why not the God(s) of the Hindu tradition? Why, indeed, aren’t you following the Norse gods, or the Greek gods, or the Egyptian gods? I would suggest that you opted for the barbaric deity of the Old Testament is due to an accident of birth and the tradition you were/are culturally swimming in. If you had been born in Baghdad, you would be defending, more than likely, the Islamic version of your God. If you had been born in Tokyo, this conversation would, more than likely, be centred around the Buddhist or the Shinto religious inheritance. I hope you see my point. You have, as far as I can determine, opted to put your eggs in the Christian basket (case?) and the God of the Old/New Testament. You have opted for believing, something which is wholly your prerogative, in someone for which beyond the self-contradictory gospels, there is scanty historical evidence. But, for me, a non-atheist, and empiricist, you have chosen as your ‘map towards the pursuit of righteousness and truth’, a God of the quite most repulsive nature, on any dispassionate, unbiased reading, one could possibly imagine. As I say, this is your right.☀️
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  21468.  @marcfalsetti9381  A book with about 40 authors, cobbled together over 1500 years or so, is, with the best will in the world, not a book I can put much credence in, if you expect me to believe it in toto the ‘word of God’. No, for me, I cannot get beyond the sanguinary, revolting nature of the character therein we are expected to love/fear. (<A contradiction right there if ever I heard one). I am not willing to jettison my critical faculties and be browbeaten into believing something and someone so grotesquely nasty and vicious. Jesus? Well, as I said, after extensive research throughout my life, my conclusion is that he never historically existed. As I say, beyond the terribly self-contradictory and unreliable gospels there are a couple of nebulous mentions in the Judeo-Roman historical chronicles, but that’s not enough. The bottom line for me is you earn my love and respect. The Old Testament God singularly fails in this task. You, if I may say so, simply fit the pattern I outlined in my previous post, that is, swimming in the pre-ordained religious waters you were randomly born into. This, for me, is the single biggest reason you chose the Bible as your book of choice in the market of religious texts. You chose, as a Catholic, the one you were most familiar with. I repeat, if you had been born elsewhere on this planet, somewhere where Christianity is a minority religion, I’m willing to bet very good money you would be telling me your God was A.N. Other. And I’ve never placed a bet in my entire life! Anyway, all the best.✌️
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  21469. Jordan Peterson‘s 12 more (God help us all!) rules for life - an appraisal. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Oh man. Come on! If I can’t slag off the mother-in-law you’ve thereby instantly removed 5% of my reason for getting up in the morning. Similarly, if I see a post-post-modern, abstract-expressionist post-impressionist painting in a gallery I reserve the right to draw a cock and balls over it. I want my artists figurative. Or at the very least, Italian. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. Hmm … I’m imagining I could be Jordan Peterson. Oh, wait. The world isn’t big enough to contain TWO identical egos that large! Do not hide unwanted things in the fog. Especially if John Carpenter is lurking somewhere in that fog. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. Ok, I think that makes sense. Are you saying that if I refuse to wash the dishes and decline to put the garbage out I’m on a blow-job promise that self same evening? Sounds good to me! Do not do what you hate. Yay! Jordan Peterson himself is telling me I don’t have to read a single thing he ever writes ever again! Thanks Jordy. 🙏 Abandon ideology. What, abandon the ‘ideology’ of condensing the incredible complexity of human life and existence into 12 cookie-cutter platitudes I once read in a bunch of fortune cookies? That ideology? Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Well, since the age of about 13 I’ve been actively fulfilling this injunction and it’s nearly fallen off.😳 Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. Can we agree on a corner of one room? A whole room just sounds extravagant and, frankly, a waste of my time when I’ve got rule 7 to be getting on with.😳 If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. Yes, they do. However, not sure writing them down will help. Can I not just do the more obvious, sensible thing and, er, like, well, forget them? Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Yes, I buy my dick flowers at least every other Friday. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Ha! Ya got me. While I resent no one but the milk-man who ran away with the wife back in 1987 (I’m still working through it), and I have deceived no one since that time I pretended I was Jesus at a convention of atheist/agnostics, the ‘arrogant’ one still niggles. Yes, I have to admit that when in an almighty pickle, I do sometimes think: ‘What would Donald Lamont do?’ Sorry. Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Well, one of my avatars kinda said this about 2,600 years before Saint Jordan palmed it off as one of his own. But hey! plagiarism never hurt anybody when you’re trying to fool most of the people most of the time!😁 Note: Jordan Peterson will publish 12 more rules for life when he’s spent all the money he got from gullible fools buying the first 24. 🤔
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  21470.  @marcfalsetti9381  Why is God a ‘he’? Why not a ‘she’? You want the answer? All this unhelpful balderdash was written by men, for men. Catholicism? Have you seriously and honestly looked at this? Where to begin? Racist, misogynistic, homophobic, authoritarian, anti-abortion, anti-birth control, turning a blind eye to child-abuse, mind-control with evil doctrines such as ‘hell’; etc. Defending this stuff is a fool's errand. I speak as a born and raised ‘Catholic’. Another wee note: your passionate use of !s betray you. Read on: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. 🥸
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  21471.  @marcfalsetti9381  Biden? Wtf has he got to do with the price of coffee? Why on Earth are you bringing him into this?
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  21472.  @marcfalsetti9381  I fear you’re a tad unhinged, dear fellow. I was curious. I did some due diligence. Checked out your Facebook page. As I had feared. The stereotype par excellence of the militant (‘I am right, you are all wrong, and what’s more, damned to eternal Hell for being wrong!’) It’s just boring, man. You and your rigid claptrap ain’t gettin’ me jivin’, man. I have met with your type since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and there’s no debating with you. You’re in a trance and until that spell is broken, then there is no hope for reasonable debate. Smoke on this little quotable doobie from Steven Weinberg and then I’m done: With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. Just for the record, I’m not an atheist, something you have singularly failed to establish throughout this interlocution. Think on, but stay away from anything that matters, as you’re akin to a toddler with a box of matches in a nitroglycerin factory. ☀️
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  21473.  @marcfalsetti9381  .
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  21474.  @SamOwen55  What’s your issue with being ‘liberal’, chummo? Spell it out and we can take a look. 😳
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  21475.  @SamOwen55  😳
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  21476.  @SamOwen55  It’s not about being ‘better’, mate (sigh), it’s just about looking at the evidence. That’s all. I might be wrong about many things, but to the best of my ability I look at the evidence. Jeez. Why should this be so difficult?😳
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  21477. Jordan Peterson‘s 12 more (God help us all!) rules for life - an appraisal. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. Oh man. Come on! If I can’t slag off the mother-in-law you’ve thereby instantly removed 5% of my reason for getting up in the morning. Similarly, if I see a post-post-modern, abstract-expressionist post-impressionist painting in a gallery I reserve the right to draw a cock and balls over it. I want my artists figurative. Or at the very least, Italian. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that. Hmm … I’m imagining I could be Jordan Peterson. Oh, wait. The world isn’t big enough to contain TWO identical egos that large! Do not hide unwanted things in the fog. Especially if John Carpenter is lurking somewhere in that fog. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated. Ok, I think that makes sense. Are you saying that if I refuse to wash the dishes and decline to put the garbage out I’m on a blow-job promise that self same evening? Sounds good to me! Do not do what you hate. Yay! Jordan Peterson himself is telling me I don’t have to read a single thing he ever writes ever again! Thanks Jordy. 🙏 Abandon ideology. What, abandon the ‘ideology’ of condensing the incredible complexity of human life and existence into 12 cookie-cutter platitudes I once read in a bunch of fortune cookies? That ideology? Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Well, since the age of about 13 I’ve been actively fulfilling this injunction and it’s nearly fallen off.😳 Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible. Can we agree on a corner of one room? A whole room just sounds extravagant and, frankly, a waste of my time when I’ve got rule 7 to be getting on with.😳 If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely. Yes, they do. However, not sure writing them down will help. Can I not just do the more obvious, sensible thing and, er, like, well, forget them? Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship. Yes, I buy my dick flowers at least every other Friday. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Ha! Ya got me. While I resent no one but the milk-man who ran away with the wife back in 1987 (I’m still working through it), and I have deceived no one since that time I pretended I was Jesus at a convention of atheist/agnostics, the ‘arrogant’ one still niggles. Yes, I have to admit that when in an almighty pickle, I do sometimes think: ‘What would Donald Lamont do?’ Sorry. Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Well, one of my avatars kinda said this about 2,600 years before Saint Jordan palmed it off as one of his own. But hey! plagiarism never hurt anybody when you’re trying to fool most of the people most of the time!😁 Note: Jordan Peterson will publish 12 more rules for life when he’s spent all the money he got from gullible fools buying the first 24. 🤔
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  21478. I’m not necessarily saying that the Peterson fanboy groupies are resentful their pin-up guy is heterosexual (allegedly). But I might be.😳
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  21479. Ffs. What were they putting in the water in Canada back in the ‘80s?
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  21480. My main issue is not with Peterson himself (I agree with much of what he says, leaving aside the God nonsense, which he himself almost guiltily, shamefacedly promulgates when asked about), no, my main issue is with the nauseating, sycophantic fanboys (and occasional girl) who leap to even the teeniest, tiniest criticism of him and his ideas like a pack of rabid dogs for hire. It’s hilarious and sick-inducing simultaneously; almost as if they have been hypnotised into believing Peterson cannot possibly be wrong about anything , and anyone who suggests he is, must be shot-down, silenced. Ironically, the very thing they claim ‘woke’ culture does to Peterson himself. All very bizarre.😳
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  21481. What? Are you saying that since meditating Sam Harris has been tax deductible at source?😳 He may need to hire a new tax arranger if this is the case.
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  21482. It’s not ‘straight-up nonsense’ to an empiricist.😳
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  21483.  @brandonoftroy5030  Well, it kinda does to the empiricist: If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. (D Hume). 😳
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  21484.  @brandonoftroy5030  Not sure what point you’re making. Are you saying we should be intellectually respecting the ‘rosary conversation’?🤓
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  21485.  @brandonoftroy5030  Really? You’re watching a different guy from me then, and I’m not an atheist. Harris is an empiricist, so he’s going to need some pretty good stuff for him to countenance the idea of a God, let alone a personal God. Peterson is, frankly, an embarrassment to himself, and to other theists concerning the God question. His woolly, unthought-out, pitiful ‘defence’ for the existence of a God is risible. He’s also egregiously disingenuous on this score as he attempts to have his cake and eat it, for he says he doesn’t believe in God per se, but he ‘acts as if God exists’. Well, sorry, but this nebulous, immature thinking will not do. He doesn’t even make a pretence of broaching the traditional arguments for God’s existence: he just blithely declares ‘I act as if God exists’. It’s the type of thinking worthy of a 10 year old. No wonder the likes of Harris, and countless others, have little patience with Peterson’s brand of theism.🤓
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  21486. Stones and glass houses, cjay?🥸
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  21487. Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life - an appraisal. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight. Unless you’re a peeping Tom and need to keep below that wall, otherwise that gorgeous, undressing next-door neighbour may spot you. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. In other words, pick up your own smelly socks, don’t litter, and make your own fucking bed! Befriend people who want the best for you. Well, this rests on your judgement of others’ character. If that’s shit, you’re fucked. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today. This one totally contradicts the whole idea of self-improvement, for if I’m more useless today than I was yesterday, why am I even trying to self-improve?! Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Well, this assumes that you’re such an insane parental control freak with such a fascistic sense of keeping another in order that it’s not even worth considering, if only to save your own soul. Besides, kids need to make their own mistakes, so tough-titty if the parents can’t take this. Set your house in order before criticising the world. Well, if you’re a saint, perhaps. If you’re a messy flesh and blood human being then criticising the world is what gets most of us through the day, if the drugs aren’t working. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. Yeah, but that makes the enormous, unfounded assumption that any of this means anything whatsoever. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. I’m sorry, but that time my mother caught my porn stash under the bed, I had to lie and pin it on my twin brother, Tommy. Sometimes, lying just is the best policy and those who say otherwise are just liars. Assume the person you are listening to knows something you don’t. Ok. But this one falls down when it comes to my bank PIN number. Be precise in your speech. What ‘precise’ in one’s speech like Mr Jordan ‘why use 1 word when 21 will do?’ Peterson? Give me the conciseness of a Sam Harris any day. I’m sure Adam Sandler will concur. Do not bother children while they are skateboarding. Unless, that is, they are skateboarding all over your prize flowerbeds; then you can not only ‘bother’ them, but collar them and let them feel your hot garlicky breath on their cheeks. Pet a cat when you encounter one in the street. Unless, that is, the cat is frothing alarmingly at the mouth. Now where’s my publishing deal?😳
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  21488. Oh ffs! Not this dude moaning again. He doesn’t know he’s born ffs. Does he not realise that 1 in 6 people on this planet live on less than $1 per day and a billion more on not much more? 🤦‍♂️ The stuff he’s talking about, ‘energy’ and whatnot are things he can fix by being the change he wants to see and not just boring us all to death moaning about things for clicks.
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  21489. Roger Federer + Jimmy Carr = Andrew Garfield. 🎾 🎭
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  21490. @ Nah, not triggered at all. 👍😉
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  21491.  @abcschoolofenglish6982  But Labour was democratically-elected. Yes, Starmer can be lost but, short of an insurrection, Labour can’t. At least not for 4 years. It’s called democracy! 👍😉
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  21492.  @Drya4u  Socrates? Zico? Falcao? Let’s not split hairs here.
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  21493. Yes, but is that roll pure ham? 🐷
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  21494. Don’t get too complacent, son. Just last year I was in LA and Frisco for the first time in 25 years and was utterly shocked at the levels of open vagrancy. It existed back 1996 when I was there, but not on the scale seen today.👍
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  21495. And as Barnes pointed out, it looks like the amount of refugees countries process more or less tallies with what they can cope with in terms of size and population: In 2021 there were 148,200 asylum applications in Germany, 103,800 applications in France, 62,100 in Spain, 43,900 in Italy and 37,562 in the UK. Argument not quite ended, sunshine. Nice try, though. 😉
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  21496.  @rustycherkas8229  Given that Emerson is just about the most quotable person I can think of, it’s ironic and severely disappointing that he said this.😳
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  21497. Nice use of the copy & paste there, bud.👏
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  21498. There probably is no God.
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  21499.  @apennameandthata2017  Aye.
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  21500. I don’t know about ‘Tonto’. However, all the signs were there: flabby, middle-aged man randomly rides horse topless; man divorces wife realising something ‘amiss’; man spends thousands on physical surgery to make himself look ‘younger’; yes, this is a clear case of rejection for the lead role in Brokeback Mountain .😏
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  21501. Whaddya mean? Have you never seen Uri Geller moving footballs on a penalty spot using the power of his ‘mind’? 🥄
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  21502. If Baldwin manages to survive all this, he’s a shoo-in for the upcoming biopic, Brian Clough: The Later Years.
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  21503.  @FlipflopMount222  ❤️JD❤️😘
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  21504. Suddenly, all this light-hearted badinage about dowsing for marijuana became rather dark.😳
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  21505. Yes, but Richard is a well-known committed environmentalist. Recycled jokes.🧔‍♂️
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  21506. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
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  21507. Unconfirmed reports suggest storm Eunice was named by the European Union as a subliminal way of getting revenge for Brexit.😳
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